ACM SIGMOD日本支部の皆様 日本データベース学会の会員の皆様 論文締切までひと月を切りましたので，再度アナウンスさせていただきます． 来年の4月に，中国杭州にて開催予定のAPWeb'04のCFPをお送りします． 投稿をお待ちしております． 石川佳治 筑波大学 --------------------------------------------------------------------- The Sixth Asia Pacific Web Conference (APWeb'04) 14-17 April, 2004, Hangzhou, China APWeb'04 is the sixth in a series of international conferences on WWW Technologies. It aims at brining together people from both academic and industry to exchange knowledge on WWW-related technologies and new advanced applications. Previous APWeb conferences were held in Beijing (1998), Hong Kong (1999), Xi'an (2000), Changsha (2001) and Xi'an (2003). The APWeb'2004 topics include but are not limited to the following areas: * Data warehousing and OLAP * Data cleansing * Digital libraries * Distributed and parallel processing * Information retrieval * Information visualization * Groupware/computer supported cooperative work * Peer-to-peer systems and grid computing * Spatial, temporal and stream data processing * Web and data mining * Web applications * Web community analysis * Web database * Web intelligence * Web personalization * Web query languages and interfaces * Web semantics * Web services * Web technology evaluation and benchmarking * Web technologies for process management * Workflow management systems and applications * XML and semi-structured query processing and data management PAPER SUBMISSION APWeb'04 invites full papers describing original contributions in all fields of Internet and WWW related research and applications. A submission should be no more than 25 pages double spacing (about 5000 words), including all figures. Each paper will be fully refereed by at least three program committee members and judged on its originality, significance, technical quality, relevance to APWeb'04 as well as presentation. 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. All papers should be submitted electronically in PDF format (or less preferably, PS or Microsoft Word) to the conference website. The title and abstract should be submitted first. PANELS, TUTORIALS, INDUSTRY PRESENTATIONS AND DEMOS In addition to technical contributions, APWeb'04 invites proposals for panels, tutorials, industry presentations/demos. Proposals should be sent as e-mail attachments to the corresponding chairs: Sang Kyun Cha (Seoul National University, Korea) APWeb'04 Panel Chair Email: chask@kdb.snu.ac.kr Xiaofang Zhou (University of Queensland, Australia) APWeb'04 Tutorial Chair Email: zxf@itee.uq.edu.au Mukesh Mohania (IBM India Research Lab, India) APWeb'04 Industrial Chair Email: mkmukesh@in.ibm.com Jiajin Le (Donghua University, China) APWeb'04 Exhibition/Demo Co-Chair Email: lejiajin@ctu.edu.cn Jian Chen (Netec Corp., China) APWeb'04 Exhibition/Demo Co-Chair info@apweb.org PUBLICATION The proceedings of the conference will be published by Springer in its Lecturer Notes in Computer Science series. Complete instructions for authors regarding submission and formatting procedures can be found at the APWeb'04 website. Papers will be accepted in four categories: regular papers, short papers, industry papers and demo papers. NICTA BEST PAPER AWARDS The APWeb'2004 program committee will select one winner for the NICTA Best Paper Award (all regular papers are eligible) and one winner for the NICTA Best Student Paper Award (only the regular papers whose first author is a full-time student are eligible). The winner of each award will be presented at the conference with an award certificate, a cheque and an invitation to submit an extended version of the award-winning paper for the consideration of publishing in the Journal of WWW. NICTA: http://nicta.com.au IMPORTANT DATES Abstract submission: 24 October 2003 Full paper submission: 31 October 2003 Acceptance notification: 08 January 2004 Panel/Tutorial Proposals: 15 January 2004 Industry/Demo Proposals: 15 January 2004 Author registration: 20 January 2004 Camera-ready copy: 30 January 2004 CONFERENCE ORGANIZATION General Chair: Hongjun Lu (HK University of Science and Technology, China) Program Committee Co-Chairs: Xuemin Lin (University of New South Wales, Australia), Jeffrey Xu Yu (Chinese University of Hong Kong, China) Panel Chair: Sang Kyun Cha (Seoul National University, Korea) Tutorial Chair: Xiaofang Zhou (University of Queensland, Australia) Publication Chair: Yanchun Zhang (Victoria U of Technology, Australia) Publicity Chair: Yoshiharu Ishikawa (University of Tsukuba, Japan) Industrial Chair: Mukesh Mohania (IBM India Research Lab, India) Exhibition/Demo Co-Chairs: Jiajin Le (Donghua University, China), Jian Chen (Netec Corp., China) Organization Chair: Aoying Zhou (Fudan University, China) PROGRAM COMMITTEE Toshiyuki AMAGASA, Nara Institute of Science and Technology, Japan Boualem Benatallah, UNSW, Australia Sourav S. Bhowmick, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore Ulrik Brandes, University Passau, Germany Stephane Bressan, National University of Sinagpore, Singapore Jinli Cao, La Trobe University, Australia Wojciech Cellary, The Poznan U. of Economics, Poland Ji-Woong Chang, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Korea Akmal Chaudhri, City University London, UK Arbee L.P. Chen, National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan Hanxiong Chen, University of Tsukuba, Japan Jian Chen, Netec Network Technology, China Ming-Syan Chen, National Taiwan University, Taiwan Kai Cheng, Kyushu Sangyo University, Japan David Cheung, Hong Kong University, China Guozhu Dong, Wright State University, USA Xiaoyong Du, Renmin University of China, China Wenfei Fan, Bell Laboratories, Lucent Technologies, USA Marie-Christine Fauvet, Universite' Joseph Fourier, France Ling Feng, University Twente, Netherlands, David Hawking, CSIRO, Australia Jingyu Hou, Deaken University, Australia Hui Hsiao, IBM Almaden Research Center, USA Joshua Huang, E-Business Technology Institute, Hong Kong University, China Pei Jan, University at Buffalo, The State University of New York, USA Yahiko Kambayashi, Kyoto University, Japan Kamal Karlapalem, IIIT, Hyderabad, India Markus Kirchberg, Massey University, New Zealand Hiroyuki Kitagawa, University of Tsukuba, Japan Masaru Kitsuregawa, University of Tokyo, Japan Yasushi KIYOKI, Keio University, Japan Zoe Lacroix, Arizona State University, USA Chiang Lee, National Cheng Kung University, Taiwan Dik Lee, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, China Thomas Lee, University of Pennsylvania, USA Chen Li, University of California (Irvine), USA Jianzhong Li, Harbin University of Technology, China Qing Li, City University of Hong Kong, China Weifa Liang Australian National University, Australia Bing Liu, University of Illinois at Chicago, USA Chengfei Liu, South Australia University, Australia Huan Liu, Arizona State University, USA Jiming Liu, Baptist University of Hong Kong, China Ee Peng Lim, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore Qiong Luo, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, China Wei-Ying MA, Microsoft Research Asia, China Sanjay Madria, University of Missouri-Rolla, USA Weiyi Meng, Binghamton University, USA Xiaofeng Meng, Renmin University of China, China Wee Keong Ng, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore Beng Chin Ooi, National University of Sinagpore, Singapore Maria Orlowska, University of Queensland, Australia Pearl Pu, EPFL, Switzerland Gitesh Raikundalia, Victoria University, Australia Keun Ho Ryu, Chungbuk National University, Korea Timothy K. Shih, Tamkang University, Taiwan Myra Spiliopoulou, University of Magdeburg, Germany Jianwen Su, University of California, Santa Barbara, USA Kian Lee Tan, National University of Sinagpore, Singapore Changjie Tang, Sichuan University, China, Alexei Tretiakov, Massey University, New Zealand Guoren Wang, Northeastern University, China Ke Wang, Simon Fraser University, Canada Min Wang, IBM T. J. Watson Research Center, USA Wei Wang, University of North Carolina, USA X. Sean Wang, University of Vermont, USA Raymond Wong, University of NSW, Australia Wanlei Zhou, Deaken U, Australia, Australia Jian Yang, Tilburg University, Netherlands Yun Yang, Swinburne University of Technology, Australia Ge Yu, Northeastern University, China Shuigeng Zhou, Fudan University, China Qiang Zhu, The University of Michigan, USA FURTHER INFORMATION For further information refer to the APWeb'04 web page at http://www.se.cuhk.edu.hk/~apweb04 ---------------------------------------------------------------------