ACM WIDM 2002 PRELIMINARY CALL FOR PAPERS
Fourth International Workshop on
Web Information and Data Management (WIDM'02)
November 8, 2002
SAIC Headquarters, McLean, Virginia, USA
http://www.se.cuhk.edu.hk/~eplim/widm2002
Sponsored by the ACM SIGIR and ACM SIGMIS

WIDM'02 is the fourth in a series of workshops on Web Information and Data Management to be held in conjunction with the Eleventh International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM), http://www.cikm.org/2002. The objectives of the workshop is to bring together researchers, industrial 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 Databases: Web Data Models and Meta-data, Web Query Languages, Web Data Storage Systems, Web Indexing, Web Warehousing, Web Data Integration

Web Commerce: Intelligent Agents on the Web, Web Site Modeling and Design, Advanced XML Tools, Mobile Commerce

Advanced Web Applications: Digital Libraries for Web Information, Web Portals, Intelligent Web Search Engines, Web Visualization Tools, Web Information Filters

Performance of Web Applications: Web Caching, Web Monitoring

PAPER SUBMISSION

Electronic submission will be used.  The postscript or pdf version of the paper (at most 12 double-spaced pages in fonts not smaller than 11pt, or at most 3500 words) should be submitted to the WIDM'02 electronic review system no later than July 5, 2002. To facilitate the assignment of reviewers, the abstract of the papers should be submitted electronically by June 28, 2002 to the review system. All accepted papers will appear in the Proceedings published by the ACM Press.

IMPORTANT DATES
Submission of abstract:  June 28, 2002
Submission full paper:  July 5, 2002
Notification of acceptance: August 23, 2002
Camera-ready copy due date: September 2, 2002

Program Co-Chairs:

Roger Chiang, University of Cincinnati, USA

Email: roger.chiang@uc.edu

Ee-Peng Lim, The Chinese University of Hong Kong
Email: eplim@se.cuhk.edu.hk

Program Committee:

James French, University of Virginia, USA
Manfred Hauswirth, EPFL-LSIR, Switzerland
San-Yih Hwang, National Sun Yat-Sen University, Taiwan
Wolfgang Klas, Universitat Wien, Austria
Wai Lam, Chinese University of Hong Kong, China
Alberto Laender, Federal University of Minas Gerais, Brazil
Wang-Chien Lee, Pennsylvania State University, USA
Qing Li, City University of Hong Kong, China
Giansalvatore Mecca, University of Basilicata, Italy
Weiyi Meng, SUNY Binghamton, USA
Paolo Merialdo, Universita' Roma Tre, Italy
Rokia Missaoui, University of Quebec, Canada
Shamkant Navathe, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA
Wee-Keong Ng, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
Arnaud Sahuguet, Bell Laboratories, USA
Kyuseok Shim, Seoul National University, Korea
Keng Siau, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, USA
Il-Yeol Song, Drexel University, USA
Jaideep Srivastava, University of Minnesota, USA
Vasilis Vassalos, New York University, USA
Kam-Fai Wong, Chinese University of Hong Kong, China
Kun-Lung Wu, IBM Research, USA
Clement Yu, University of Illinois at Chicago, USA
Yanchun Zhang, University of Southern Queensland, Australia