$B3F0L(B $B@>0B$G3+:E$5$l$^$99q:]2q5D$N(BCFP$B$r$*Aw$j$7$^$9!#(B $B4nO"@nM%!!(Bacm sigmod japan chapter chair The Fifth Asia Pacific Web Conference (APWeb'2003) 23-25 April, 2003, Xi'an, China The Asia Pacific Web Conference is aiming at attracting professionals of different communities such as industry and academic from not only Asia Pacific countries but also other continents. The objective is to share the experience in the area of the World Wide Web with the underlying technologies and applications. Previous APWeb conferences were held in Beijing (1998), Hong Kong (1999), Xi'an (2000) and Changsha (2001). APWeb$BC(B003 focuses on the following topics but other Internet and WWW related areas are welcome: * Data/application integration and migration * Languages and application programming interfaces * Databases and knowledge bases * Distributed and parallel processing * Component-based objects and middleware * Multimedia applications * Information retrieval * Data mining and data warehousing * Networking and communications * Peer-to-peer systems and grid computing * Workflow management systems and applications * XML and semi-structured data * Spatial, temporal and stream data * Information visualisation and web-based visulaisation * Query languages and interfaces * E-commerce and e-government * Web-based learning * Human-computer interaction * Multi-model web interfaces * Web services * Security and privacy * Ontology, semantics and agents * Digital libraries * Groupware/computer supported cooperative work * New applications * Web technologies for process management * Software development for web applications PAPER SUBMISSION APWeb$BC(B003 invites full papers describing original contributions in all fields of Internet and WWW related research and applications. A submission should be no more than 25 pages double spacing (about 6000 words), including all figures. Each paper will be fully refereed by at least three program committee members and judged on its originality, significance, technical quality, relevance to APWeb$BC(B003 as well as presentation. 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. All papers should be submitted electronically in PDF format (or less preferably, PS or Microsoft Word) to the conference website. The title and abstract should be submitted first. WORKSHOPS, PANELS, TUTORIALS, INDUSTRY PRESENTATIONS AND DEMOS In addition to technical contributions, APWeb$BC(B003 invites proposals for workshops, panels, tutorials, industry presentations and demos. A proposal should indicate its area, its relationship to APWeb$BC(B003, the proposed workshop/panel program chairs, tutorial instructors and industry presenters (with a brief CV), and its target audiences. Proposals should be sent as e-mail attachments to the corresponding chairs: Professor Jan Newmarch APWeb$BC(B003 Workshop and Panel Chair Email: newmarch@infotech.monash.edu.au Professor Jeffrey X. Yu APWeb$BC(B003 Tutorial Chair Email: yu@se.cuhk.edu.hk Dr. Jian Chen APWeb$BC(B003 Industry and Demo Chair Email: jianchen@netecweb.com PUBLICATION The proceedings of the conference will be published by Springer in its Lecturer Notes in Computer Science series (approval pending). Complete instructions for authors regarding submission and formatting procedures can be found at the APWeb$BC(B003 website. Papers will be accepted in five categories: regular papers, short papers, posters, industry papers and demo papers. After the conference, authors of the best papers selected by the program committee will be invited to submit an extended version for publication in a special issue of the Journal of WWW. BEST PAPER AWARDS The program committee will select one winner for the Best Paper Award (all regular papers are eligible) and one winner for the Best Student Paper Award (only the regular papers whose first author is a full-time student are eligible). Each winner will be presented at the conference with a certificate, US$300 and an invitation to submit an extended version of the award-winning paper for the consideration of publishing in the Journal of WWW special issue. IMPORTANT DATES Workshop proposals: 15 November 2002 Abstract submission: 25 November 2002 Full paper submission (all categories): 1 December 2002 Proposals for panels, tutorial, demos and industry presentations: 15 January 2003 Acceptance notification: 25 January 2003 Author registration: 5 February 2003 Camera-ready copy: 10 February 2003 CONFERENCE ORGANISATION Honaorary General Chair: Nanning Zeng (Xi$BCB(Bn Jiaotong University, China) General Chair: Maria Orlowska (University of Queensland, Australia) Program Committee Chair: Xiaofang Zhou (University of Queensland, Australia) Tutorial Chair: Jeffrey X. Yu (Chinese University of Hong Kong, China) Publication Chair: Yanchun Zhang (University of Southern Queensland, Australia) Publicity Chair: Xuemin Lin (University of New South Wales, Australia) Workshop and Panel Chair: Jan Newmarch (Monash University, Australia) Industry and Demo Chair: Jian Chen (Netec Corp., China) Local Organisation Chair: Yong Qi (Xi$BCB(Bn Jiaotong University, China) Treasurer: Jian Chen (Netec Corp., China) PROGRAM COMMITTEE Woojciech Cellary (Poznan University of Economics, Poland) Shama Chakravarthy (University of Texas at Arlington, USA) Guihai Chen (Nanjing University, China) Hanxiong Chen (Tsukuba University, Japan) Phoebe Chen (Queensland University of Technology, Australia) Ping Chen (Xidian University, China) Gillian Dobbie (University of Auckland, New Zealand) Guozhu Dong (Wright University, USA) Jin Song Dong (National University of Singapore) Xiaoyong Du (Renmin University of China, China) Wendy Feng (Tom Sawyer Software, USA) Le Gruenwald (The University of Oklahoma, USA) Ryu Keun Ho (Chungbuk National University, Korea) Joshua Z. Huang (University of Hong Kong, China) Zhiyong Huang (National University of Singapore, Singapore) Xiaohua Jia (City University of Hong Kong, China) Markus Kirchberg (Massey University, New Zealand) Masaru Kitsuregawa (University of Tokyo, Japan) Ee Peng Lin (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore) Mingshu Li (Institute of Software, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China) Qing Li (City University of Hong Kong, China) Xue Li (University of Queensland, Australia) Tao Lin (SAP, USA) Chengfei Liu (South Australia University, Australia) Sanjia Madria (University of Missouri-Rolla, USA) Xiaofeng Meng (Renmin University of China, China) Mukesh Mohania (IBM India Research Lab, India) Jan Newmarch (Monash University, Australia) Wee Keong Ng (Nanyang Tech. University, Singapore) Beng Chin Ooi (Nantional University of Singapore, Singapore) Zhiyong Peng (Wuhan University, China) Pearl Pu (EPFL, Switzerland) Shazia Sadiq (University of Queensland, Australia) Wasim Sadiq (SAP Research, Australia) Junyi Shen (Xi$BCB(Bn Jiaoting University, China) Timothy K. Shih (Tamkang University, Taiwan) Kian Lee Tan (National University of Sinagpore, Singapore) Katsumi Tanaka (Kyoto University, Japan) Li Xie (Nanjing University, China) Cheng-Zhong Xu (Wayne State University, USA) Hongji Yang (De Montfort University, UK) Qiang Yang (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, China) Yun Yang (Swinburne University of Technology, Australia) HongJiang Zhang (Microsoft Research, China) Aoying Zhou (Fudan University, China) Wanlei Zhou (Deakin University, Australia) FURTHER INFORMATION For further information refer to the APWeb$BC(B003 web page at www.apweb.org.