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CALL FOR PAPERS
19th International Workshop on the Web and Databases (WebDB) 2016

In conjunction with ACM SIGMOD 2016

June 26, 2016, San Francisco, USA

Website: http://webdb2016.technion.ac.il
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** Aims of the Workshop **

WebDB has traditionally been providing the forum for seminal research on data management in the context of the Web. We aim to bring together researchers from academia and industry, and we solicit papers that span a broad range of methodologies in computer science, such as applications, tools, systems, user experience, and theoretical foundations/analysis.

** Topics of Interest **
Examples of topics relevant to the workshop include the following:
-? Cloud/distributed computing over Web data
-? Collaborative data management on the Web
-? Data and query models for Web information
-? Data-centric applications on the Web
-? Data integration over the Web
-? Data quality on the Web
-? Database support for social networking
-? Geography-based Web data and applications
-? Human computation in Web databases
-? Information extraction on the Web
-? Knowledge search over the Web
-? Modeling and analyzing user-generated content
-? Personalization in information management
-? Semantic Web and linked data
- Web privacy and security
-? Web-service architectures and applications

** Important Dates **

- Submission: March 18th, 2016
- Notification: April 22nd, 2016
- Workshop: June 26th, 2016

** Workshop Chairs **

- Benny Kimelfeld (Technion)
- Wendy Hui Wang (Stevens Institute of Technology)

** Program Committee **
- Yael Amsterdamer (Tel Aviv University)
- Ziv Bar-Yossef (Google)
- Laure Berti (Qatar Computing Research Institute)
- Leopoldo Bertossi (Carleton University)
- Christian Bizer (University of Mannheim)
- Angela Bonifati (Univ. of Lille 1 and Inria)
- Bogdan Cautis (University of Paris-Sud)
- Fei Chiang (McMaster University)
- Sara Cohen (The Hebrew University)
- Ronald Fagin (IBM Research - Almaden)
- Irini Fundulaki (ICS-FORTH)
- Floris Geerts (University of Antwerp)
- Liang Gou (IBM Research - Almaden)
- Oktie Hassanzadeh (IBM Research)
- Aidan Hogan (Universidad de Chile)
- Yaron Kanza (Cornell Tech)
- Hongrae Lee (Google)
- Wei Lu (University of British Columbia)
- Amelie Marian (Rutgers University)
- Yosi Mass (IBM Haifa Research Lab)
- Gerome Miklau (University of Massachusetts)
- Meenakshi Nagarajan (IBM Research)
- Dan Olteanu (Oxford)
- Heiko Paulheim (University of Mannheim)
- Reinhard Pichler (Vienna University of Technology)
- Nicoleta Preda (University of Versailles)
- Sudeepa Roy (Duke University)
- Danai Symeonidou (INRIA)
- Arash Termehchy (Oregon State University)
- Dimitri Theodoratos (New Jersey Institute of Technology)
- Hossein Vahabi (Yahoo! Lab)
- Stijn Vansummeren (Université Libre de Bruxelles)
- Li Xiong (Emory University)