DBSJの皆様，SIGMOD-Jの皆様 WAIM 2006のCall for Paperです．2006年6月に香港での開催で，投稿締切は 来年の1月6日となっています． よろしくお願いいたします． 石川＠筑波大 --------------------------------------------------------------------- The Seventh International Conference on Web-Age Information Management (WAIM'06) 17-19 June, 2006, Hong Kong, China. URL: http://www.se.cuhk.edu.hk/~waim06, Email:waim06@se.cuhk.edu.hk The rapid prevalent of Web applications requests new technologies for design, implementation and management of Web-based information systems. WAIM'06 is an international forum for researchers, practitioners, developers and users to share and exchange cutting-edge ideas, results, experience, techniques and tools in connection with all aspects of Web data management. The conference invites original research and industrial papers on the theory, design and implementation of Web-based information systems, as well as proposals for demonstrations, tutorials and panels. As the 7th event in the increasingly popular series, WAIM'06 expects to attract outstanding researchers from all over the world to Hong Kong. The WAIM'06 topics include but are not limited to the following areas: Advanced application of databases Biological and genome information systems Data mining and knowledge discovery Data and information quality Control Data grid Data migration and integration Database security Emerging Web techniques Interoperability and heterogeneous systems Location dependent data management Mobile data management Multidimensional databases and OLAP Multimedia information systems Parallel and distributed database systems Peer-to-peer data management Performance and benchmarking Query processing and optimization Semantic web and web ontology Spatial and temporal databases Storage management and access methods Web community analysis Web mining Web service and information management Workflow and E-services XML and semi-structured query processing and data management PUBLICATION and PAPER SUBMISSION The proceedings will be published by Springer-Verlag in the LNCS series (pending). WAIM'06 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. Paper submission will be electronic through the WAIM'06 Web site (http://www.se.cuhk.edu.hk/~waim06). 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. Papers not conforming to the above requirements concerning format and length may be rejected without further consideration. Submission guidelines for industrial papers and panel and tutorial proposals will be posted shortly at the WAIM'06 Web site. IMPORTANT DATES Full paper submission: 06 January 2006 Industry papers: 06 January 2006 Acceptance notification: 06 March 2006 Panel/Tutorial Proposals: 20 March 2006 Author registration: 25 March 2006 Camera-ready copy: 25 March 2006 CONFERENCE ORGANIZATION Conference General Co-Chairs: Dik L. Lee, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology Shan Wang, Renmin University of China Program Committee Co-Chairs: Jeffrey Xu Yu, Chinese University of Hong Kong Masaru Kitsuregawa, University of Tokyo FURTHER INFORMATION For further information refer to the WAIM'06 web page at http://www.se.cuhk.edu.hk/~waim06