Call for Papers
La "Toile," or the "Web," hosts ever-increasing
volumes of diverse data and associated services that cannot be fully
exploited unless appropriate management and integration technologies
are developed. The influence of the Web has been remarkable in the
areas of databases and information retrieval, where existing data
models, query languages, and query evaluation strategies are constantly
being revisited to account for new and heterogeneous data types,
as well as for new scenarios under which the data is generated and
processed.
The WebDB workshop promotes novel research
on next-generation information systems and encourages interaction
between the database people and other Web-related research communities.
The workshop provides a forum where researchers and practitioners
can share their knowledge and opinions about problems and solutions
at the intersection of data management and the Web.
Topics of Interest
Papers that bridge across the areas of databases and information
retrieval are of special relevance to this edition of the workshop.
Specifically, the topics of interest in WebDB 2004 include but are
certainly not limited to:
- Integration of text into XML and relational databases
- XML query processing and data management
- Web search and distributed information retrieval
- Schema and data integration
- Approximate query answering
- Web mining, exploration, and visualization
- Web privacy and security
- Infrastructure for Web services
- Peer-to-peer search networks
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Paper Submissions
Authors are invited to submit original,
unpublished research papers that are not being considered for publication
in any other forum. Manuscripts should be submitted electronically
as PDF files and be formatted using the camera-ready templates available
at
http://www.acm.org/sigs/pubs/proceed/template.html. Papers cannot
exceed six pages in length. Accepted papers will be included in
the informal proceedings to be distributed at the workshop, as well
as made available on the workshop's Web site. Authors retain copyright
on their papers, and the standard ACM copyright notice should be
replaced with:
Copyright is held by the author/owner.
Seventh International Workshop on the Web and Databases (WebDB 2004),
June 17-18, 2004, Paris, France.
The
electronic submission Web site is available at
http://msrcmt.research.microsoft.com/WebDB2004/.
Camera-Ready
Instructions
Authors of accepted papers should submit
their final camera-ready papers to
http://msrcmt.research.microsoft.com/WebDB2004/ by May 10,
2004 (firm deadline). Camera-ready papers should not exceed
six pages in length, and should use the format and copyright notice
mentioned above.
Authors of accepted papers should also
submit a signed ACM Permission and Release Form, so that their papers
can be included in the ACM SIGMOD DiSC and in the ACM Digital Library.
(In addition, accepted papers will be included in the informal proceedings
to be distributed at the workshop, as well as made available on
the workshop's Web site.) This form is available as a
PDF file
at
http://webdb2004.cs.columbia.edu/DiSC05-release.pdf and as a
Word
document at
http://webdb2004.cs.columbia.edu/DiSC05-release.doc, and should
be submitted by May 10, 2004 (firm deadline) either by mail
to:
Sihem Amer-Yahia
AT&T Labs Research
Bldg.103, Room B133
180 Park Ave.
Florham Park, NJ 07932
USA
or by FAX to:
+1-973-360-8871, c/o Sihem Amer-Yahia.
Important Dates
Deadline for submissions:
March 22, 2004, 2:00pm PST
Notification to authors: April 27, 2004
Camera-ready version of accepted papers due: May
10, 2004
Registration
Registration for the workshop is via the
general
ACM SIGMOD/PODS 2004 registration Web site, at
http://www.sciences.univ-nantes.fr/irin/SIGMODPODS04/registration.php.
Workshop Co-Chairs
Sihem Amer-Yahia, AT&T Labs
Research, USA
Luis Gravano, Columbia University,
USA
Program Committee
Members
Serge Abiteboul, INRIA-Futurs,
France
Ricardo Baeza-Yates, Universidad
de Chile, Chile
Sergey Brin, Google, USA
Kevin Chang, University of Illinois
at Urbana-Champaign, USA
Junghoo Cho, University of California
at Los Angeles, USA
Juliana Freire, Oregon Health
and Science University, USA
Norbert Fuhr, University of
Duisburg-Essen, Germany
Alon Halevy, University of Washington,
USA
Taher Haveliwala, Google, USA
Rick Hull, Bell Labs, USA
Giansalvatore Mecca, Universitá
della Basilicata, Italy
Philippe Pucheral, INRIA, France
Jayavel Shanmugasundaram, Cornell
University, USA
Divesh Srivastava, AT&T Labs
Research, USA
Torsten Suel, Polytechnic University,
USA
Wang-Chiew Tan, University of
California at Santa Cruz, USA
Val Tannen, University of Pennsylvania,
USA
Andrew Tomkins, IBM Almaden,
USA
Philip Wadler, University of
Edinburgh, UK
Web Chair
Panagiotis Ipeirotis, Columbia
University, USA
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