dbjapanの皆様 香港で6月に開催されるWAIM国際会議の併設ワークショップXWICT 2006のアナウ ンスをさせていただきます．XML, Webを中心としたコンテンツ技術に関する投稿 をお待ちしています． 以前のアナウンスと異なり，論文集がIEEEのディジタルライブラリに掲載される ことになりました．その経緯がありまして，論文投稿締切が5/1に延長されま した． ------------------------------------------------------------------------ CALL FOR PAPERS XWICT 2006 International Workshop on XML, Web, and Internet Contents Technologies June 17, 2006 Hong Kong, China http://www.cs.ust.hk/~xwict06/ in conjunction with WAIM 2006 http://www.se.cuhk.edu.hk/~waim06/ = Aims and Scope = The Web are ever-increasing in size and involving a quite broad range of technologies such as databases, XML and digital contents, data and Web mining, Web services, semantic Web and ontology, information retrieval, and others. XWICT 2006 will be held in conjunction with WAIM 2006 conference and invites original research contribution on XML, Web, and Internet contents technologies. XWICT 2006 aims at bringing together researchers in different fields related to XML and Web who have a common interest in interdisciplinary research. The workshop provides a forum where researchers and practitioners can share and exchange their knowledge and experience. Due to the recent good news of an agreement with IEEE on publishing of proceedings, we would like to extend the submission deadline to May 1st. = Topics of Interest = The XWICT 2006 topics include but are certainly not limited to the following areas: * Web contents management and organization * XML and semi-structured data management * Web information systems * Web search and information retrieval on Web * Web mining * Web services and Web applications * Semantic Web and Web ontology * Data integration on Web * Web privacy and security We strongly encourage submission of papers bridging the research in different fields and promoting mutual exchange and understanding of cross-field research results. = Publication and Submission Details = The proceedings will be published by Hong Kong Polytechnic University Press. The formal proceedings will be published by the IEEE Computer Society's Conference Publishing Services (CPS) after the workshop. All CPS conference publications are indexed by the SCI Index and EI Index. 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 workshop to present the work. Papers should not exceed 8 pages in US Letter or A4 double column format. Papers have to present original research contributions not concurrently submitted elsewhere. Papers must be submitted to xwict06@cs.ust.hk by e-mails. All manuscripts will be reviewed by members of the program committee based on originality, significance, technical soundness, and clarity of exposition. = Important Dates = * Full papers due: May 1st, 2006 * Notification to authors: May 29, 2006 * Camera-ready due: June 5, 2006 * Workshop: June 17, 2006 = Program Chairs = Yoshiharu Ishikawa, Nagoya University, Japan Lei Chen, HKUST, Hong Kong, China = Program Committee = Ilaria Bartolini, University of Bologna, Italy Yi Chen, Arizona State University, U.S.A. Reynold Cheng, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong Hyoil Han, Drexel University, U.S.A. Kenji Hatano, Doshisha University, Japan Adam Jatowt, National Institute of Information and Communications Technology (NICT), Japan Mingjing Li, Microsoft Research Asia, China Qing Li, City University of Hong Kong, China Shinsuke Nakajima, Nara Institute of Science and Technology, Japan Vincent Oria, New Jersey Institute of Technology, U.S.A. M. Tamer Ozsu, University of Waterloo, Canada Keun Ho Ryu, Chungbuk National University, Korea Keishi Tajima, Kyoto University, Japan Dan Wu, University of Windsor, Canada Hui Zhang, University of Manitoba, Canada -------------------------------------------------------------------