---------- Forwarded Message ---------- Subject: ACM WIDM 2001 - Call for Participation & Preliminary Programme Date: Fri, 21 Sep 2001 08:40:24 +0800 From: "Lim Ee Peng (Assoc Prof)" ASEPLIM@NTU.EDU.SG To: ISWORLD@LISTSERV.HEANET.IE

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CALL FOR PARTICIPATION / PRELIMINARY PROGRAMME

ACM CIKM'01 3rd Workshop on Web Information and Data Management(WIDM'01) (to be held in conjunction of ACM CIKM 2001, 5 to 9 November 2001)

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November 9, 2001, Atlanta, Georgia, USA

Sponsored by the E-Book Systems, ACM SIGIR and ACM SIGMIS

Web site: http://www.cais.ntu.edu.sg:8000/widm01

About WIDM'01

WIDM'01 is the third in a series of workshops on Web Information and Data Management to be held in conjunction with the 10th International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM). The objectives of the workshop is to bring together researchers, industrial practitioners, and developers to study how the web information can be extracted, stored, analysed and processed to provide useful knowledge to the end users for various advanced database applications.

Registration

• ACM Member($225.00 before 1 Oct, $275 otherwise)
• Non-Member($275.00 before 1 Oct, $325 otherwise)
• Student($150.00)
• CIKM Participants will receive $100 discount for registering WIDM

Invited Speaker

• Professor Jaideep Srivastava University of Minnesota

  "Web Intelligence - Mining the Web for Relevant Information Concepts & Applications"

Preliminary Workshop Programme

This year, WIDM'01 has received 34 paper submissions and accepted 11 regular research papers. The preliminary programme is as follows:

0830 hrs Opening Address

0900-1000 hrs Keynote Address

1000-1030 hrs Break

1030-1145 hrs Session 1: Web Information Integration

             Automatically Combining Ranking Heuristics for HTML
             Documents
             Joaquin Rapela

             Automating the Transformation of XML Documents
             Hong Su, Harumi Kuno, Elke Rundensteiner

             Automatically Editing Book Reviews on the Web
             Koji Eguchi, Shigeki Sugita

1145-1300 hrs Sponsored Workshop Lunch (sponsored by E-Book Systems)

1300-1430 hrs Session 2: Web Performance Optimization

             Better Client OFF Time Prediction to Improve Performance
             in Web Information Systems
             Alan Berfield, Bill Simons, Panos K. Chrysanthis, Kirk
             Pruhs

             Cluster-based Online Monitoring System of Web Traffic
             Yun Mao, Kang Chen, Dongsheng Wang, Weimin Zheng

             Superimposing Codes Representing Hierarchical Information
             in Web Directories
             Fidel Cacheda, Angel Viña

             A Performance Evaluation of Storing XML Data in
             Relational DBMS
             Latifur Khan, Yan Rao

1430-1500 hrs Break

1500-1630 hrs Session 3: Web Information Management and Discovery

             Keeping coherence among Web Sources
             Franco Arcieri, Giovanna Melideo, Enrico Nardelli,
             Maurizio Talamo

             Automatic Repairing of Web Wrappers
             Boris Chidlovskii

             Mining Source Coverage Statistics for Data Integration
             Zaiqing Nie, Subbarao Kambhampati, Ullas Nambiar,
             Sreelakshmi Vaddi

             Effective Personalization Based on Association Rule
             Discovery from Web Usage Data
             Bamshad Mobasher, Honghua Dai, Tao Luo, Miki Nakagawa

1630 hrs Closing Discussions

ORGANIZING COMMITTEE

Program Co-Chairs:

Ee-Peng Lim, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (aseplim@ntu.edu.sg)

Roger Chiang, University of Cincinnati, USA (Roger.Chiang@uc.edu)

Program Committee:

Karl Aberer, EPFL-DSC, Switzerland James French, University of Virginia, USA San-Yih Hwang, National Sun Yat-Sen Univ., Taiwan Manfred Jeusfeld, Tilburg University, Netherlands Wolfgang Klas, University of Vienna, Austria Wang-Chien Lee, Verizon Laboratories, USA Weiyi Meng, SUNY Binghamton, USA Rokia Missaoui, Univ. of Quebec, Canada Shamkant B. Navathe, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA Wee-Keong Ng, Nanyang Technological Univ., Singapore Yiu-Kai Ng, Brigham Young Univ., USA Maria Orlowska, University of Queensland, Australia Il-Yeol Song, Drexel Univ., USA Jaideep Srivastava, Univ. of Minnesota, USA Vassilios Verykios, Drexel Univ., USA Suk-Chung Yoon, Widener Univ., USA Yanchun Zhang, Univ. of Southern Queensland, Australia

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