WAIM06 CFP

[Ishikawa Yoshiharu <ishikawa [at] cs.tsukuba.ac.jp>]

DBSJの皆様，SIGMOD-Jの皆様

WAIM 2006のCall for Paperです．2006年6月に香港での開催で，投稿締切は
来年の1月6日となっています．

よろしくお願いいたします．

石川＠筑波大

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The Seventh International Conference on Web-Age Information Management
(WAIM'06) 17-19 June, 2006, Hong Kong, China.
URL: http://www.se.cuhk.edu.hk/~waim06, Email:waim06 [at] se.cuhk.edu.hk 

The rapid prevalent of Web applications requests new technologies for
design, implementation and management of Web-based information
systems. WAIM'06 is an international forum for researchers,
practitioners, developers and users to share and exchange cutting-edge
ideas, results, experience, techniques and tools in connection with
all aspects of Web data management. The conference invites original
research and industrial papers on the theory, design and
implementation of Web-based information systems, as well as proposals
for demonstrations, tutorials and panels. As the 7th event in the
increasingly popular series, WAIM'06 expects to attract outstanding
researchers from all over the world to Hong Kong.

The WAIM'06 topics include but are not limited to the following areas:

Advanced application of databases	 	
Biological and genome information systems	 	
Data mining and knowledge discovery	 	
Data and information quality Control	 	
Data grid	 	
Data migration and integration	 	
Database security	 	
Emerging Web techniques	 	
Interoperability and heterogeneous systems	 	
Location dependent data management	 	
Mobile data management
Multidimensional databases and OLAP
Multimedia information systems
Parallel and distributed database systems
Peer-to-peer data management
Performance and benchmarking
Query processing and optimization
Semantic web and web ontology
Spatial and temporal databases
Storage management and access methods
Web community analysis
Web mining
Web service and information management
Workflow and E-services
XML and semi-structured query processing and data management


PUBLICATION and PAPER SUBMISSION

The proceedings will be published by Springer-Verlag in the LNCS
series (pending).

WAIM'06 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 WAIM'06 Web site
(http://www.se.cuhk.edu.hk/~waim06). Papers should be submitted in
LNCS (Lecture Notes in Computer Science) format (style files are
available at LNCS Authors Instructions) as PostScript or PDF files and
may not exceed 12 pages. Papers not conforming to the above
requirements concerning format and length may be rejected without
further consideration. Submission guidelines for industrial papers and
panel and tutorial proposals will be posted shortly at the WAIM'06 Web
site.

IMPORTANT DATES

  Full paper submission:    06 January 2006
  Industry papers:          06 January 2006
  Acceptance notification:  06 March   2006
  Panel/Tutorial Proposals: 20 March   2006
  Author registration:      25 March   2006
  Camera-ready copy:        25 March   2006

CONFERENCE ORGANIZATION	

   Conference General Co-Chairs: 

       Dik L. Lee, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology 
       Shan Wang, Renmin University of China

   Program Committee Co-Chairs:

       Jeffrey Xu Yu, Chinese University of Hong Kong
       Masaru Kitsuregawa,  University of Tokyo
	
FURTHER INFORMATION 

  For further information refer to the WAIM'06 web page at 
  http://www.se.cuhk.edu.hk/~waim06