CALL FOR PAPERS

The 14th Asia-Pacific Web Conference (APWeb 2012)
April 11-13, 2012, Kunming, China

http://e-research.csm.vu.edu.au/files/apweb2012


APWeb is a leading international conference on research,  development 
and applications of Web technologies, database systems, information 
management and software engineering, with a focus on the Asia-Pacific 
region. Previous APWeb conferences were held in Beijing (1998), Hong 
Kong (1999), Xian (2000), Changsha (2001), Xian (2003), Hangzhou (2004), 
Shanghai (2005), Harbin (2006) Huangshan (2007), Shenyang (2008), Suzhou 
(2009), Busan (2010), Beijing (2011).

APWeb 2012 includes but is not limited to the following areas:

o Web-based collaboration
o Web search and meta-search
o Web-based database integration
o Web community analysis
o Web mining
o Web engineering
o Web services and information management
o Deep Web
o Emerging Web techniques
o Advanced application of databases
o Semantic web and web ontology
o Internet of Things
o Content management
o Social networks
o Data caching
o Service-oriented computing
o Data mining and knowledge discovery
o Data and information quality Control
o Data grid
o Data migration and integration
o Digital libraries
o Distributed and parallel Processing
o Grid computing
o Cloud computing
o Interoperability and heterogeneous systems
o Information retrieval
o Information security
o Location-based services
o Mobile computing and data management
o Multidimensional databases and OLAP
o Multimedia information systems
o Parallel and distributed database systems
o Peer-to-peer systems
o Performance and benchmarking
o Query processing and optimization
o Security, privacy and trust
o Sensor networks
o Spatial and temporal databases
o Stream data processing
o Storage management and access methods
o Workflow and E-services
o XML and semi-structured query processing


***PAPER SUBMISSION***

APWeb 2012 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 APWeb12 Web site 
(https://cmt.research.microsoft.com/APWEB2012).

Papers should be submitted in LNCS (Lecture Notes in Computer Science) 
format (style files are available at LNCS Authors Instructions) as PDF 
files and should not exceed 12 pages.

Abstract due: Oct 7, 2011
Full paper due: Oct 14, 2011
Acceptance notification: Dec 20, 2011
Camera-ready copy: Jan 15, 2012


***CONFERENCE ORGANIZATION***

Honorary General Chair
Yaoxue Zhang, Tsinghua University, China

General Co-Chairs
Yanchun Zhang, Victoria University, Australia
Masaru KITSUREGAWA, Tokyo University, Japan

Program Co-Chairs
Michael Sheng, The University of Adelaide, Australia
Guoren Wang, Northeastern University, China
Christian S. Jensen, Aarhus University, Denmark

Industry Co-Chairs
Gary Morgan, CSIRO, Australia
Qingzhong Li, Shandong University, China

Workshop Co-chairs
Hua Wang, University of Southern Queensland, Australia
Lei Zou, Peking University, China

Local arrangement chairs
Jianfeng HE,  Kunming University of Science & Technology, China
Guangyan Huang, Victoria University, Australia

Financial Chair
Jing He, Victoria University, Australia

Publication Chair
Guandong Xu, Victoria University, Australia

Demo Chair
Chaoyi Pang, Australia e-Health Research Centre, Australia

Publicity Chairs
Haolan Zhang, NIT, Zhejiang University, China
Jiangang Ma, The University of Adelaide, Australia

APWeb Steering Committee Liaison
Xuemin Lin, The University of New South Wales, Australia

WISE Steering Committee Liaison
Qing Li, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China

KEYNOTE LECTURES

Prof. Patrick McDaniel, Pennsylvania State University, USA
Prof. Z. Meral Özsoyoglu, Case Western Reserve University, USA
Prof. Vijay Varadharajan, Macquarie University, Australia

PUBLICATION
The proceedings will be published by Springer-Verlag in the LNCS series, 
one volume for main conference and one volume for workshops (pending for 
approval).

One special issue on the World Wide Web Journal will be organized based 
on the accepted paper of APweb2012. 
(http://www.springer.com/computer/database+management+%26+information+retrieval/journal/11280)

WORKSHOP, PANELS, TUTORIALS, INDUSTRY PRESENTATIONS
In addition to technical contributions, APWeb12 invites proposals for 
workshops, panels, tutorials, industry presentations. For workshops, 
APWeb 2012 will provide administrative support for workshop room 
booking, registration, and publication.

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