**** FIRST CALL FOR PAPERS *****
10th ACM International Workshop on Web Information
and Data Management (WIDM 2008)

October 30, 2008, Napa Valley, California
http://widm2008.comp.nus.edu.sg/

Sponsored by ACM SIGIR and SIGWEB
In Conjunction with the 17th ACM CIKM 2008


ACM WIDM 2008 is the tenth in a series of workshops on Web Information
and Data Management to be held in conjunction with the 17th
International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM
2008). The objective of the workshop is to bring together
researchers, industrial practitioners, and developers to study how Web
information can be extracted, stored, analyzed, and processed to
provide useful knowledge to the end users for various advanced
database and Web applications.


TOPICS OF INTEREST
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-- Web Mining: Web Usage Mining, Web Classification, Web Clustering,
Resource Discovery, Web Personalization, Web Data Extraction, Web
Structure Mining

-- Formal Models for Web Data and Knowledge Management: Data Models
and Meta-data, Semi-structured Data and XML, Query Languages,
Annotations, Ontologies

-- System Issues for Web Applications: Performance of Web
Applications, System Design, Caching and Indexing of Web data, P2P

-- Methodologies for Web Data Management: Data Integration, Archiving,
Security, Personalization

-- Tools and Infrastructure for Web Data Management: Web Site Modeling
and Design, Web Visualization Tools, Intelligent Agents on the Web,
Web Services

-- Web Applications: Digital Libraries, Web Portals, Warehousing, Web
Information Filtering, Web Commerce, Web Monitoring

-- Web Exploration: Web Crawling, Web Search Engines

IMPORTANT DATES
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Paper submission: July 15th, 2008
Notification of acceptance: August 10th, 2008
Camera-ready copy due date: August 15th, 2008


PAPER SUBMISSION
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Electronic submission will be used. The pdf version of the paper
should be submitted to the WIDM 2008 electronic review system no later
than July 15th, 2008. The paper should be formatted in the camera ready
ACM format and should be at most 8 pages long. The paper should
present innovative ideas on the topics of interest and not be
published or under consideration elsewhere. More detailed information
about the paper submission procedure will be available at the workshop
website. All accepted papers will appear in the Proceedings published
by ACM Press.


PROGRAM COMMITTEE CHAIRS

Chee-Yong Chan
National University of Singapore

Neoklis Polyzotis
Department of Computer Science, University of California-Santa Cruz,
USA

PROGRAM COMMITTEE

See website for details.