XWICT 2006 論文募集

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

dbjapanの皆様

香港で6月に開催されるWAIM国際会議の併設ワークショップXWICT 2006のアナウ
ンスをさせていただきます．XML, Webを中心としたコンテンツ技術に関する投稿
をお待ちしています．

以前のアナウンスと異なり，論文集がIEEEのディジタルライブラリに掲載される
ことになりました．その経緯がありまして，論文投稿締切が5/1に延長されま
した．

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CALL FOR PAPERS

XWICT 2006
International Workshop on XML, Web, and Internet Contents Technologies 
June 17, 2006 
Hong Kong, China 
http://www.cs.ust.hk/~xwict06/
in conjunction with WAIM 2006 
http://www.se.cuhk.edu.hk/~waim06/ 

= Aims and Scope = 

The Web are ever-increasing in size and involving a quite broad range
of technologies such as databases, XML and digital contents, data and
Web mining, Web services, semantic Web and ontology, information
retrieval, and others. XWICT 2006 will be held in conjunction with
WAIM 2006 conference and invites original research contribution on
XML, Web, and Internet contents technologies. XWICT 2006 aims at
bringing together researchers in different fields related to XML and
Web who have a common interest in interdisciplinary research. The
workshop provides a forum where researchers and practitioners can
share and exchange their knowledge and experience. 

Due to the recent good news of an agreement with IEEE on publishing of
proceedings, we would like to extend the submission deadline to May
1st.

= Topics of Interest = 

The XWICT 2006 topics include but are certainly not limited to the
following areas: 

* Web contents management and organization 
* XML and semi-structured data management 
* Web information systems 
* Web search and information retrieval on Web 
* Web mining 
* Web services and Web applications 
* Semantic Web and Web ontology 
* Data integration on Web 
* Web privacy and security 

We strongly encourage submission of papers bridging the research in
different fields and promoting mutual exchange and understanding of
cross-field research results. 


= Publication and Submission Details = 

The proceedings will be published by Hong Kong Polytechnic University
Press. The formal proceedings will be published by the IEEE Computer
Society's Conference Publishing Services (CPS) after the workshop. All
CPS conference publications are indexed by the SCI Index and EI Index.

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 workshop to present the work. 

Papers should not exceed 8 pages in US Letter or A4 double column
format. Papers have to present original research contributions not 
concurrently submitted elsewhere. Papers must be submitted to 

 xwict06 [at] cs.ust.hk 

by e-mails. All manuscripts will be reviewed by members of the program 
committee based on originality, significance, technical soundness, and 
clarity of exposition. 


= Important Dates = 

* Full papers due: May 1st, 2006 
* Notification to authors: May 29, 2006 
* Camera-ready due: June 5, 2006 
* Workshop: June 17, 2006 

= Program Chairs = 

Yoshiharu Ishikawa, Nagoya University, Japan
Lei Chen, HKUST, Hong Kong, China


= Program Committee = 

Ilaria Bartolini, University of Bologna, Italy
Yi Chen, Arizona State University, U.S.A. 
Reynold Cheng, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong 
Hyoil Han, Drexel University, U.S.A.
Kenji Hatano, Doshisha University, Japan 
Adam Jatowt, National Institute of Information and Communications
             Technology (NICT), Japan
Mingjing Li, Microsoft Research Asia, China
Qing Li, City University of Hong Kong, China 
Shinsuke Nakajima, Nara Institute of Science and Technology, Japan 
Vincent Oria, New Jersey Institute of Technology, U.S.A. 
M. Tamer Ozsu, University of Waterloo, Canada 
Keun Ho Ryu, Chungbuk National University, Korea 
Keishi Tajima, Kyoto University, Japan 
Dan Wu, University of Windsor, Canada 
Hui Zhang, University of Manitoba, Canada
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