ACM WIDM 2002 PRELIMINARY CALL FOR PAPERS
Fourth International Workshop on
Web Information and Data Management (WIDM'02)
November 8, 2002
SAIC Headquarters, McLean, Virginia, USA
http://www.se.cuhk.edu.hk/~eplim/widm2002
Sponsored by the ACM SIGIR and ACM SIGMIS

SCOPE
WIDM'02 is the fourth in a series of workshops on Web Information and Data Management to be held in conjunction with the Eleventh International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM), (http://www.cikm.org/2002). The objectives of the workshop is to bring together researchers, industrial practitioners, and developers to study how the 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

Web Mining: Web Usage Mining, Web Classification, Web Clustering, Resource Discovery, Web Personalization, Web Data Extraction

Web Databases: Web Data Models and Meta-data, Web Query Languages, Web Data Storage Systems, Web Indexing, Web Warehousing, Web Data Integration

Web Commerce: Intelligent Agents on the Web, Web Site Modeling and Design, Advanced XML Tools, Mobile Commerce

Advanced Web Applications: Digital Libraries for Web Information, Web Portals, Intelligent Web Search Engines, Web Visualization Tools, Web Information Filters

Performance of Web Applications: Web Caching, Web Monitoring

PAPER SUBMISSION
Electronic submission will be used.  The postscript or pdf version of the paper (at most 12 double-spaced pages in fonts not smaller than 11pt, or at most 3500 words) should be submitted to the WIDM'02 electronic review system no later than July 5, 2002. To facilitate the assignment of reviewers, the abstract of the papers should be submitted electronically by June 28, 2002 to the review system. All accepted papers will appear in the Proceedings published by the ACM Press.

IMPORTANT DATES
Submission of abstract:  June 28, 2002
Submission full paper:  July 5, 2002
Notification of acceptance: August 23, 2002
Camera-ready copy due date: September 2, 2002

Program Co-Chairs:

Roger Chiang, University of Cincinnati, USA
Email: Roger.Chiang@uc.edu

Ee-Peng Lim, The Chinese University of Hong Kong
Email: eplim@se.cuhk.edu.hk

James French, University of Virginia, USA
Manfred Hauswirth, EPFL-LSIR, Switzerland
San-Yih Hwang, National Sun Yat-Sen Univ., Taiwan
Wolfgang Klas,Universitat Wien, Austria
Wai Lam, Chinese Univ. of Kong Kong, China
Alberto Laender, Federal Univ. of Minas Gerais, Brazil
Wang-Chien Lee, Pennsylvania State Univ., USA
Qing Li, City Univ. of Hong Kong, China
Mengchi Liu, Carleton Univ., Canada
Giansalvatore Mecca, Univ. of Basilicata, Italy
Weiyi Meng, SUNY Binghamton, USA
Paolo Merialdo, Universita’ Roma Tre, Italy
Rokia Missaoui, Univ. of Quebec, Canada
Shamkant Navathe, Georgia Inst. of Tech., USA
Wee-Keong Ng, Nanyang Tech. Univ., Singapore
Arnaud Sahuguet, Bell Laboratories, USA
Kyuseok Shim, Seoul National Univ., Korea
Keng Siau, Univ. of Nebraska-Lincoln, USA
Il-Yeol Song, Drexel Univ., USA
Jaideep Srivastava, Univ. of Minnesota, USA
Vasilis Vassalos, New York University, USA
Kam-Fai Wong, Chinese Univ. of Hong Kong, China
Kun-Lung Wu, IBM Research, USA
Clement Yu, Univ. of Illinois at Chicago, USA
Yanchun Zhang, Univ. of Southern Queensland, Australia