皆様 11 月にブレーメン(ドイツ)で開催されます，ACM WIDM 2005 の投 稿締切が近付いております．重要な日程は以下の通りです． アブストラクト投稿: 7/ 4 フルペーパ投稿: 7/11 採択通知: 8/15 ぜひ投稿をご検討ください．よろしくお願いいたします． -- 天笠 俊之 (amagasa@cs.tsukuba.ac.jp) 筑波大学大学院システム情報工学研究科コンピュータサイエンス専攻 (兼)計算科学研究センター計算情報学研究部門 〒305-8573 茨城県つくば市天王台 1-1-1 Tel/Fax: 029-853-2330 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Call for Papers ACM 7th International Workshop on Web Information and Data Management (WIDM 2005) ********************************************************** Submission site is NOW opened: http://nike.psu.edu/widm05/submission.html ********************************************************** November 5, 2005 Bremen, Germany http://nike.psu.edu/widm05/ Sponsored by (approval pending) the ACM SIGIR and ACM SIGMIS WIDM 2005 is the seventh in a series of workshops on Web Information and Data Management to be held in conjunction with the 14th International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management - CIKM 2005 (http://www.tzi.de/CIKM2005/). The objective of the workshop is to bring together researchers, practitioners, and developers to study how the web information can be extracted, stored, analyzed, and processed to provide useful knowledge to the end users for various advanced database and Web applications. TOPICS OF INTEREST Web Mining: Web Usage Mining, Web Classification, Web Clustering, Resource Discovery, Web Personalization, Web Data Extraction, Web Structure Mining. Web XML Data Management: Web Data Models and Meta-data, XML Query Languages, XML Data Storage Systems, XML Indexing, XML Warehousing, XML Data Integration. Semantic Web: Web Annotations, Ontologies, Semantic Web Services. Web Commerce: Web Services, Intelligent Agents on the Web, Web Site Modeling and Design, Advanced XML Tools, Mobile Commerce. Advanced Web Applications: Digital Libraries, Web Portals, Web Visualization Tools, Web Information Filtering. Web Exploration: Web Crawling, Intelligent Web Search Engines. Performance of Web Applications: Web Caching, Web Monitoring. PAPER SUBMISSION Electronic submission will be used. Manuscripts should be submitted electronically as PDF files and be formatted using the camera-ready templates available at ACM site (http://www.acm.org/sigs/pubs/proceed/template.html). Papers must have 6 to 8 pages in length using the ACM style. All accepted papers will appear in the Proceedings published by the ACM Press. The best workshop papers will be invited to be submitted to a special journal issue. For 2002, 2003 and 2004 editions of WIDM, Data & Knowledge Engineering was the journal selected for publication of this special issue. We intend to use this prestigious journal again for the WIDM 2005 special issue. Starting from this year, the workshop one-day schedule let accommodate regular papers along with a few short papers (whenever applicable). IMPORTANT DATES **SUBMISSION OF ABSTRACT**: July 4, 2005 *Submission of full paper*: July 11, 2005 Notification of acceptance: August 15, 2005 Camera-ready copy due: August 29, 2005 SUBMISSION SITE Submission site for WIDM 2005 is: http://nike.psu.edu/widm05/submission.html PROGRAM COMMITTEE CO-CHAIRS Angela Bonifati Icar CNR (Italy) bonifati [at] icar.cnr.it Dongwon Lee Penn State University (USA) dongwon [at] psu.edu PROGRAM COMMITTEE MEMBERS Ashraf Aboulnaga University of Waterloo Canada Toshiyuki Amagasa University of Tsukuba Japan Marcelo Arenas University of Toronto Canada Johan Bollen Old Dominion University USA Omar Boucelma University of Aix-Marseille 3 France Chee Yong Chan National Univ. of Singapore Singapore Sudarshan S. Chawathe University of Maryland USA Cindy Chen University of Massachussetts USA Chin-Wan Chung KAIST Korea Alex Dekhtyar University of Kentucky USA Sergio Flesca University of Calabria Italy Irini Fundulaki Bell Labs USA Fabio Grandi University of Bologna Italy Manfred Hauswirth EPFL-LSIR Switzerland Min-Yen Kan National Univ. of Singapore Singapore Jaewoo Kang North Carolina State Univ. USA Rinat Khoussainov University College Dublin Ireland Christoph Koch Saarland University Germany Alberto Laender Federal Univ. of Minas Gerais Brazil SangKeun Lee Korea University Korea Chen Li Univ. of California at Irvine USA Ioana Manolescu INRIA France Marta Mattoso Federal Univ. of Rio de Janeiro Brazil Giansalvatore Mecca University of Basilicata Italy Paolo Merialdo Universit Roma Tre Italy Evangelos Milios Dalhousie University Canada Prasenjit Mitra Penn State University USA Felix Naumann Humboldt University Germany Michael Nelson Old Dominion University USA Stefano Paraboschi University of Bergamo Italy Altigran S. da Silva Federal University of Amazonas Brazil Il-Yeol Song Drexel University USA Jeffrey D. Ullman Stanford University USA Maria-Esther Vidal Simon Bolivar University Venezuela Vasilis Vassalos Athens U. of Econ. & Business Greece Stratis Viglas University of Edinburgh UK Raymond Wong University of New South Wales Australia Kun-Lung Wu IBM Research USA Jun Yang Duke University USA