WAIM2006

TO:　DBish people ＷＡＩＭ２００６国際会議のご案内です。香港で２００６年６月に開催されま す。年明けが締め切りですので、ご検討下さい。 喜連川優 　東大　生研　情報融合センター The Seventh International Conference on Web-Age Information Management (WAIM'06) 17-19 June, 2006, Hong Kong, China. URL: http://www.se.cuhk.edu.hk/~waim06, Email:waim06@se.cuhk.edu.hk The rapid prevalence of Web applications requires new technologies for the design, implementation and management of Web-based information systems. WAIM'06 is an international forum for researchers, practitioners, developers and users to share and exchange cutting-edge ideas, results, experience, techniques and tools in connection with all aspects of Web data management. The conference invites original research and industrial papers on the theory, design and implementation of Web-based information systems, as well as proposals for demonstrations, tutorials and panels. As the 7th event in the increasingly popular series, WAIM'06 is expected to attract outstanding researchers from all over the world to Hong Kong. The WAIM'06 topics include but are not limited to the following areas: Advanced application of databases Biological and genome information systems Data mining and knowledge discovery Data and information quality Control Data grid Data migration and integration Database security Emerging Web techniques Industrial Experiences and Prototypes Interoperability and heterogeneous systems Location dependent data management Mobile data management Multidimensional databases and OLAP Multimedia information systems Parallel and distributed database systems Peer-to-peer data management Performance and benchmarking Query processing and optimization Semantic web and web ontology Spatial and temporal databases Storage management and access methods Web community analysis Web mining Web service and information management Workflow and E-services XML and semi-structured query processing and data management PUBLICATION and PAPER SUBMISSION The proceedings will be published by Springer-Verlag in the LNCS series (approval pending). WAIM'06 invites papers describing original contributions in all fields of Web Management and WWW related research and applications. All submissions should be in English. Submission of a paper should be regarded as an undertaking that, should the paper be accepted, at least one author will attend the conference to present the work. Authors are required to submit a paper title and short abstract (about 100 words) before submitting the paper. Paper submission will be electronic through the WAIM'06 Web site (http://www.se.cuhk.edu.hk/~waim06). Papers should be submitted in LNCS (Lecture Notes in Computer Science) format (style files are available at LNCS Authors Instructions) as PostScript or PDF files and may not exceed 12 pages. Papers not conforming to the above requirements concerning format and length may be rejected without further consideration. Submission guidelines for industrial papers and panel and tutorial proposals will be posted shortly at the WAIM'06 Web site. IMPORTANT DATES Abstract due 06 January 2006 Full paper submission: 06 January 2006 Acceptance notification: 06 March 2006 Panel/Tutorial Proposals: 20 March 2006 Author registration: 25 March 2006 Camera-ready copy: 25 March 2006 CONFERENCE ORGANIZATION Honorary Conference Chair: Keith Chan, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University Conference General Co-Chairs: Dik Lun Lee, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology Shan Wang, Renmin University of China Program Co-Chairs: Jeffrey Xu Yu, Chinese University of Hong Kong Masaru Kitsuregawa, University of Tokyo Tutorial Co-Chairs: Wang-Chien Lee, Pennsylvania State University Frederick H. Lochovsky, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology Panel Co-Chairs: Kamal Karlapalem, International Institute of Information Technology Qing Li, City University of Hong Kong Publication Chair: Hong-Va Leong, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University Publicity Co-Chairs: Xiaofeng Meng, Renmin University of China Huan Liu, Arizona State University Arkady Zaslavsky, Monash University Exhibition and Industrial Liaison Chair: Joseph Fong, City University of Hong Kong Research project exhibition and demo chair: Josept Ng, Hong Kong Baptist University Local Arrangement Co-Chairs: Robert Luk, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University Ben Kao, The University of Hong Kong Finance Chair: Vincent Ng, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University Steering Committee Liaison: Sean X. Wang, University of Vermont PROGRAM COMMITTEE Toshiyuki Amagasa, University of Tsukuba, Japan James Bailey, University of Melbourne, Australia Sourav S. Bhowmick, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore Stephane Bressan, National University of Singapore, Singapore Ying Cai, Iowa State University, USA Wojciech Cellary, The Poznan U. of Economics, Poland Chee Yong Chan, National University of Singapore, Singapore Kevin Chang, Univ. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA Arbee L.P.Chen, National Tshing Hua University, Taiwan Lei Chen, Hong Kong Univ. of Sci. & Tech., Hong Kong Reynold Cheng, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong K.W. Chiu, Dickson Computer Systems, Hong Kong Ching-Wan Chung, KAIST, Korea Gao Cong, University of Edinburgh, UK Gill Dobbie, University of Auckland, New Zealand Ling Feng, University Twente, Netherlands Ada Fu, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong Xiang Fu, Georgia Southwestern State University, USA Stephane Grumbach, LIAMA, The Sino-French IT Lab Inst. of Automation, China Takahiro Hara, Osaka University, Japan Haibo Hu, Hong Kong Univ. of Sci. & Tech., Hong Kong Joshua Huang, Hong Kong University, Hong Kong Edward Hung, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong Haifeng Jiang, IBM Almaden Research Center, USA Hyunchul Kang, Chung-Ang University, Korea Ben CM Kao, Hong Kong University, Hong Kong Hiroyuki Kitagawa, University of Tsukuba, Japan Yasushi Kiyoki, Keio University, Japan Flip Korn, AT&T, USA Chiang Lee, National Cheng-Kung University, Taiwan Wookey Lee, Sungkyul University, Korea YoonJoon Lee, KAIST, Korea Chen Li, University of California, Irvine, USA Ee Peng Lim, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore Xuemin Lin, University of New South Wales, Australia Chengfei Liu, Swinburne University of Technology, Australia Guimei Liu, National University of Singapore, Singapore Mengchi Liu, Carleton University, Canada Tieyan Liu, Microsoft Research Asia, China Fred H. Lochovsky, Hong Kong Univ. of Sci. & Tech., Hong Kong Nikos Mamoulis, Hong Kong University, Hong Kong Weiyi Meng, Binghamton University, USA Xiaofeng Meng, Renmin University of China, China Mukesh K Mohania, IBM India Rearch Lab, India Miyuki Nakano, University of Tokyo, Japan Wilfred Ng, Hong Kong Univ. of Sci. & Tech., Hong Kong Beng Chin Ooi, National University of Singapore, Singapore Jian Pei, Simon Fraser University, Canada Zhiyong Peng, Wuhan University, China Keun Ho Ryu, Chungbuk National University, Korea Klaus-Dieter Schewe, Massey University, New Zealand Heng Tao Shen, University of Queesland, Australia Timothy K. Shih, Tamkang University, Taiwan Dawei Song, Open University, UK Kazutoshi Sumiya, University of Hyogo, Japan Keishi Tajima, Kyoto University, Japan Kian-Lee Tan, National University of Singapore, Singapore Katsumi Tanaka, Kyoto University, Japan, ktanaka@i.kyoto-u.ac.jp Changjie Tang, Sichuan University, China David Taniar, Monash University, Australia Yufei Tao, City Univ. of Hong Kong, Hong Kong Masashi Toyoda, University of Tokyo, Japan Anthony Tung, National University of Singapore, Singapore Guoren Wang, Northeastern University, China Haixun Wang, IBM T. J. Watson Research Center, USA Ke Wang, Simon Fraser University, Canada Min Wang, IBM T. J. Watson Research Center, USA Wei Wang, Fudan University, China Wei Wang, University of New South Wales, Australia X. Sean Wang, University of Vermont, USA Jirong Wen, Microsoft Research Asia, China Raymond Wong, University of New South Wales, Australia Jianliang Xu, Hong Kong Baptist University, Hong Kong Chris Yang, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong Dongqing Yang, Peking University, China Jun Yang, Duke University, USA Yun Yang, Swinburne University of Technology, Australia Masatoshi Yoshikawa, Nagoya University, Japan Cui Yu, Monmouth University, USA Ge Yu, Northeastern University, China Arkady Zaslavsky, Monash University, Australia Chengqi Zhang, University of Technology, Sydney, Australia Yanchun Zhang, Victoria University, Australia Baihua Zheng, Singapore Management University, Singapore Aoying Zhou, Fudan University, China Lizhu Zhou, Tsinghua University, China Shuigeng Zhou, Fudan University, China Xiaofang Zhou, University of Queesland, Australia Manli Zhu, Institute for Infocomm Research, Singapore FURTHER INFORMATION For further information refer to the WAIM'06 web page at http://www.se.cuhk.edu.hk/~waim06