DBSJの皆様 多数のリクエストにより，APWeb'08 の論文投稿締切が延長されました． 論文概要: 10/15 論文投稿: 10/22 奮ってご投稿下さいますようお願い申し上げます． 天笠俊之 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- APWEB'08 CALL FOR PAPERS The 10th Asia-Pacific Web Conference 26-28 April 2008, Shenyang, China http://www.neu.edu.cn/apweb08/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------- APWeb is a leading international conference on research, development and applications of Web technologies, database systems, information management and software engineering, with a focus on the Asia-Pacific region. Previous APWeb conferences were held in Beijing (1998), Hong Kong (1999), Xian (2000), Changsha (2001), Xian (2003), Hangzhou (2004), Shanghai (2005), Harbin (2006) and Huangshan (2007). APWeb'08 includes but is not limited to the following areas: o Advanced application of databases o Content management o Data caching o Data mining and knowledge discovery o Data and information quality Control o Data grid o Data migration and integration o Deep Web o Digital libraries o Distributed and parallel Processing o Grid computing o Emerging Web techniques o Interoperability and heterogeneous systems o Information retrieval o Information security o Location-based services o Mobile computing and data management o Multidimensional databases and OLAP o Multimedia information systems o Parallel and distributed database systems o Peer-to-peer systems o Performance and benchmarking o Query processing and optimization o Semantic web and web ontology o Security, privacy and trust o Sensor networks o Service-oriented computing o Spatial and temporal databases o Stream data processing o Storage management and access methods o Web-based collaboration o Web-based database integration o Web community analysis o Web mining o Web search and meta-search o Web service and information management o Workflow and E-services o XML and semi-structured query processing o XML and semi-structured data management PAPER SUBMISSION APWeb'08 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 APWeb08 Web site. 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. PUBLICATION The proceedings will be published by Springer-Verlag in the LNCS series, one volume for main conference and one volume for workshops (pending for approval). In addition to technical contributions, APWeb08 invites proposals for workshops, panels, tutorials, industry presentations. For workshops, APWeb'08 will provide administrative support for workshop room booking, registration, and publication. All papers accepted by APWeb'08 workshops will be published in a combined volume of Lecturer Notes in Computer Science series published by Springer (pending for approval). Proposals or industry papers should be sent as e-mail attachments to apweb08@vu.edu.au. IMPORTANT DATES Abstract due: October 8, 2007 -> *extended until October 15, 2007* Full paper due: October 15, 2007 -> *extended until October 22, 2007* Acceptance notification: December 15, 2007 Camera-ready copy: January 15, 2008 Workshop Proposals: September 4, 2007 Panel/Tutorial Proposals: December 5, 2007 Industry Papers: December 5, 2007 CONFERENCE ORGANIZATION Conference Co-Chairs: Hiroyuki Kitagawa (University of Tsukuba, Japan) K. F. Wong (Chinese University of Hong Kong, China) Program Committee Co-Chairs: Yanchun Zhang (Victoria University, Australia) Ge Yu (Northeastern University, China) Elisa Bertino (Purdue University, USA) Workshop Co-Chairs: Yoshiharu Ishikawa (Nagoya University, Japan) Jing He (Chinese Academy of Sciences, China) Tutorial/Panel Co-Chairs: Ling Feng (Tsinghua University, China) Keun Ho Ryu (Chungbuk National University, Korea) Industrial Chair: Haixun Wang (IBM T. J. Watson Research Center USA) Publication Chair: Guandong Xu (Victoria University, Australia) Publicity Co-Chairs: Toshiyuki Amagasa (University of Tsukuba, Japan) Hua Wang (University of Southern Queensland, Australia) Local Arrangement Co-Chairs: Guoren Wang (Northeastern University, China) Bin Zhang (Northeastern University, China) APWeb Steering Committee Liaison: Xiaofang Zhou (University of Queensland, Australia) WISE Society Liaison: Qing Li (City University of Hong Kong) ABOUT SHENYANG Shenyang is the capital of Liaoning province and China's fifth largest city. The city is located on the river basin of the Liaohe and Hunhe Rivers, with a number of historical attractions. Shenyang is considered the "hub" of Northeast China. All road and rail connections pass through Shenyang and it serves as the communication, commerce, science and culture center of Northeast China. It is 500 km away from Beijing, about 1 hour by air or 4 hours by D-train.