dbjapan 各位 国立情報学研究所の安達です。本年4月のICDE2005東京での併設WS WIRI2006を次回のアトランタのICDE2006でも開催致します。 Web関係の検索やマイニングに関する広い分野を対象としています。 CFPは以下の通りで、投稿締切りが11月23日です。ぜひご投稿をご検 討下さい。よろしくお願い致します。 ----------------------------------------------------------------- *** CALL FOR PAPERS *** WIRI 2006 2nd International Workshop on Challenges in Web Information Retrieval and Integration April, 2006, Atlanta, Georgia (in conjunction with ICDE 2006, Atlanta, Georgia) http://research.nii.ac.jp/WIRI/ ----------------------------------------------------------------- Important Dates: ================ * Paper Submission: November 23, 2005 * Notification: December 22, 2005 * Camera ready copy: January 10, 2006 Scope: ====== Web information utilization has become a critical emerging research area due to the exponential increase in the information circulation and dissemination over the Web. Many challenging problems must be addressed towards utilizing and exploiting the vast Web information, which is highly heterogeneous and dynamic. This workshop focuses on the technology for analyzing, integrating and retrieving information on the Web. The primary aim of this workshop is to discuss and exchange ideas on utilizing heterogeneous Web information, towards * increasing Web information accessibility, * decreasing lengths in Web navigation pathways, * improving Web users requests servicing, * integrating various data representation standards, and * extending current Web information organization practices. New research ideas or practices in the above areas are of crucial importance due to the difficulties raised by the diversity of Web data structure and representation, information distribution, communication and accessing costs. Overall, this workshop aims to host work in some of the most breaking topics, such as Web data accessing, Web querying, Web services, Web user personalization, clustering over Web graphs structures, Web metrics and performance issues, Web data prefetching and caching. Moreover, it aims to be of interest to both academics and industrial representatives due to the importance of Web information retrieval and integration. Topics of Interest: =================== The papers sought for this workshop should include innovative and original research work focusing on models, methodologies, implementations and empirical studies in relation to Web data access. The topics of interests include, but are not limited to: * Web Models and Meta-data Management * Large Scale Web Information Integration * Web Query Languages * Web-based Query Planning and Optimization * Automatic Wrapper Generation * Web Indexing, Caching and Data Storage Systems * Clustering/Classification on the Web * Web Data Extraction * Web Log/Navigational Path Analysis * Web Service Composition * Context Sensitive Web IR * Crosslingual, Multimedia Retrieval * Semantic Web * Summarization and Text Transformation * Web Community and Cybersociety * Information Visualization * User Modeling and Personalization * Web User Interface Integration * Web Information Integration applications Submission Guidelines: ====================== Authors are invited to submit original and unpublished work. Paper should be in English and must not exceed 10 pages (IEEE format). Only electronic submission in Postscript, Word, or PDF file will be accepted. Papers will be reviewed by program committee members (and/or external reviewers) for their quality, technical merit, originality, significance, and relevance to the workshop. Research papers must be submitted via WIRI paper submission system at the Web site. The accepted papers will be presented at the workshop and included in the workshop proceedings. The workshop proceedings will be published by the IEEE Computer Society Press, and also be archived in the IEEE Computer Society's digital libraries. Workshop Co-Chairs: =================== Jun Adachi National Institute of Informatics, Japan Kevin C. Chang University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, USA Shan Wang Renmin University of China, China Athena Vakali Aristotle University, Greece Program Committee: ================== Kenro Aihara National Institute of Informatics, Japan Eleftherios Angelis Aristotle University, Greece Boualem Benatallah University of New South Wales in Sydney, Australia Barbara Catania University of Genova, Italy W. Bruce Croft University of Massachusetts - Amherst, USA AnHai Doan University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, USA Elena Ferrari University of Insubria, Italy Juliana Freire University of Utah, USA Mohand-Said Hacid University of Lyon 1, France Panos Ipeirotis New York University, USA Yoshiharu Ishikawa Tsukuba University, Japan Zachary G. Ives University of Pennsylvania, USA Fang Li Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China Weiyi Meng Binghamton University, USA Hiroshi Nakagawa University of Tokyo, Japan Jaroslav Pokorny Charles University, Czech Republic Erhard Rahm University of Leipzig, Germany Yucel Saygin Sabanci University, Turkey Atsuhiro Takasu National Institute of Informatics, Japan Yannis Velegrakis AT&T Research, USA Gerhard Weikum Max-Planck Institute of Computer Science, Germany Ji-Rong Wen Microsoft Research Asia, China Masaharu Yoshioka Hokkaido University, Japan Clement T. Yu University of Illinois at Chicago, USA Philip Yu IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, USA