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    The 11th International Conference on Web Information Systems Engineering (WISE 2010)

                 http://conference.cs.cityu.edu.hk/wise2010/

                           December 12-14, 2010
                             Hong Kong, China

                                 Hosted by:
             Department of Computer Science, City University of Hong Kong
                             and the International WISE Society

                            CALL FOR PARTICIPATION


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The aim of this eleventh edition of the conference series on Web Information Systems Engineering
is to provide an international forum for researchers, professionals, and industrial practitioners
to share their knowledge in the rapidly growing area of Web technologies, methodologies and
applications. Previous WISE conferences were held in Hong Kong, China (2000), Kyoto, Japan (2001),
Singapore (2002), Roma, Italy (2003), Brisbane, Australia (2004), New York, USA (2005), Wuhan,
China (2006), Nancy, France (2007), Auckland, New Zealand (2008), and Poznan, Poland (2009).

Highlights:

- 4 keynote speeches
  - Beng Chin Ooi (the National University of Singapore)
  - Edward Chang (Google Research China)
  - Christian S. Jensen (Aarhus University)
  - Kyu-Young Whang (KAIST)
- 51 selected papers (32 full papers and 19 short papers)
- 4 WISE co-located Symposium and Workshops


Registration
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Registration (http://conference.cs.cityu.edu.hk/wise2010/wise2010_reg_form.pdf) has opened.
The early bird registration deadline is 12 Nov, 2010.

The conference venue is Kowloon Shangri-La Hotel. More information can be found at:
http://conference.cs.cityu.edu.hk/wise2010/hotel.pdf

It is advisable to make a hotel reservation as soon as possible.
For more details on this, please visit at
http://conference.cs.cityu.edu.hk/wise2010/Acommendation.pdf

Keynote Speeches
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  Title: Providing Scalable Database Services on the Cloud
  Speaker: Beng Chin Ooi
           Professor of Computer Science at School of Computing,
           the National University of Singapore (NUS)

  Title: Search and Social Integration
  Speaker: Edward Chang
           Google Research China

  Title: Elements of a Spatial Web
  Speaker: Christian S. Jensen
           Professor of Computer Science,
           Aarhus University, Denmark

  Title: The Ubiquitous DBMS
  Speaker: Kyu-Young Whang
           Distinguished Professor and Professor of Computer Science,
           KAIST


WISE co-located Symposium and Workshops
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  The 1st International Symposium on Web Intelligent Systems & Services (WISS 2010)
  http://www.cse.cuhk.edu.hk/~kwchiu/WISS2010.html

  The 2nd International Workshop on Mobile Business Collaboration (MBC 2010)
  http://ww2.cs.mu.oz.au/~jsh/mbc10/index.htm

  The 1st International Workshop on Cloud Information System Engineering(CISE 2010)
  http://www.cse.cuhk.edu.hk/~kwchiu/CISE2010.html

  The 1st International Workshop on Web-Supported Concurrent Collaborative Work (WSCCW 2010)
  http://appsrv.cse.cuhk.edu.hk/~kwchiu/WSCCW2010.html


WISE Program
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The WISE 2010 conference offers a full social program, including the conference welcome
reception and the conference banquet.
It provides the following sessions
(http://conference.cs.cityu.edu.hk/wise2010/program.pdf).

Session 1a: Web Service
Session 1b: Social Networks

Session 2a: Web Data Mining
Session 2b: Keyword Search

Session 3a: Web Search (I)
Session 3b: Web Data Modeling

Session 4a: Recommender Systems
Session 4b: RDF and Web Data

Session 5a: XML and Query Languages
Session 5b: Web Search (II)

Session 6a: Web Information Systems
Session 6b: Information Retrieval and Extraction



Organizers
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Conference Co-chairs
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  Qing Li, City U of Hong Kong
  Karl Aberer, EPFL, Switzerland
  Dennis McLeod, USC, USA

PC Co-chairs
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  Lei Chen, HKUST, Hong Kong
  Peter Triantafillou, U of Patras, Greece
  Torsten Suel, NYU Poly, USA

Organization Chair
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  Hong Va Leong, PolyU, Hong Kong

Workshop Co-chairs
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  Dickson Chiu, Dickson Computer Sys., Hong Kong
  Ladjel Bellatreche, ENSMA-Poitiers U, France

Publicity Co-chairs
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  Hua Wang, U Southern Queesland, Australia
  Raymong Wong, HKUST, Hong Kong
  Stephane Jean, Poitiers U, France
  Feifei Li,  Florida State U., USA

Finance Chair
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  Xiaohua Jia, City U of Hong Kong

Steering Committee Representatives
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  Yanchun Zhang, Victoria U, Australia
  Xiaohua Jia, City U of Hong Kong




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