*********************************************************************** !!! Due to many requests the deadlines for submissions !!! !!! have been extended. The new submission deadline is !!! !!! FEBRUARY 1, 2001 !!! !!! for both abstracts and papers !!! *********************************************************************** =============== Call for Papers =============== The Second International Conference on Web-Age Information Management (WAIM'01) Xi'an, China July 9-11, 2001 Conference Web site: http://www.engin.umd.umich.edu/waim01 SCOPE ----- In this Web-age, international collaboration and exchange are even more important and interesting for data management research and development. In June 2000, the first WAIM conference was held in Shanghai, China, to promote such collaboration and exchange. It was a success and attracted more than 100 participants from 16 countries. (See WAIM'00 Web site http://www.ise.gmu.edu/waim00 for more details.) WAIM'01 will continue this tradition, providing researchers and practitioners with a forum to share their experiences in tackling problems in managing and using data, information and knowledge in the age of the Internet and Web and to identify new issues and directions for research and development work in the new millennium. You are invited to submit technical papers in English reporting recent results in database and related fields. Both research papers and experience and application papers are welcome. While research papers should report original research work, experience and application papers should describe the development and operations of challenging database related systems and applications. We promise that the WAIM technical programs will continue to be exciting. We encourage you to join us in Xi'an, China, and take part in this exciting and enriching event. TOPICS OF INTEREST ------------------ The topics of interest within the scope of the conference include, but are not restricted to: * Advanced applications of databases * Agent technology and information management * Cooperative information systems * Data and information quality * Data migration and integration * Data mining and knowledge discovery * Data and Web warehousing * Database languages and semantics * Databases and electronic commerce * Design of databases and data warehouses * Emerging Web techniques * Financial and engineering databases * Information systems with emerging standards (XML, etc) * Internet and web-based data management * Interoperability and heterogeneous systems * Metadata use and management * Multidimensional databases and OLAP * Multimedia information systems * Parallel and distributed database systems * Performance and benchmarking * Query processing and optimization * Semi-structured data * Storage management and access methods * Spatial and temporal database systems * Text database and information retrieval * Transaction management * Visualizing the structure and content of databases * Web and database technology * Workflow management IMPORTANT DATES --------------- Paper abstract deadline: February 1, 2001 Paper submission deadline: February 1, 2001 Acceptance notice: March 15, 2001 Camera-ready copies due: April 15, 2001 Conference dates: July 9-11, 2001 SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS ----------------------- All submissions should be in English. Paper length must not exceed 20 double-spaced pages in not smaller than 11pt font. Authors should submit their abstracts and full papers electronically at the conference submission Web site: http://databases.gmu.edu by the deadlines. The files for paper submissions should be in the Portable Document Format (PDF). For those authors who CANNOT submit abstracts/papers at the Web site, you may send your abstract and paper submissions to: waim01@mail.neu.edu.cn by the deadlines. The email body should contain information about the paper title and author(s), as well as the contact information about the contacting author, including both the postal and email addresses. For a paper submission, the paper itself should be sent as an attachment of the email. If you have any submission problems, please contact one of the program committee co-chairs (Prof. X. Sean WANG at xywang@gmu.edu or Prof. Ge YU at yuge@mail.neu.edu.cn). PUBLICATION ----------- WAIM'01 conference proceedings will be published as a volumn in the Lecture Notes of Computer Science series by Springer-Verlag. LOCATION -------- Xi'an is the capital of Shaanxi Province, China, and also the political, economic and cultural center of the Northwest China. With the development of travel industry, it has become one of the nation's key tourist cities. It was the starting point of the world-famous Silk Road. It boasts the eighth wonder of the world, Qin Shihuang's terra-cotta warriors and horses, and various famous ancient buildings of the past 2000 years. The city provides an ideal locale to discuss modern technology ideas against the backdrop of ancient relics. CONFERENCE ORGANIZATION ----------------------- General Chair: Deyuan GAO Northwest Polytechnic Univ., China Conference Co-chairs: Hongjun LU Univ. of Science and Technology, Hong Kong Akifumi MAKINOUCHI Kyushu Univ., Japan Program Committee Co-chairs: X. Sean WANG George Mason Univ., USA (xywang@gmu.edu) Ge YU Northeastern Univ., China (yuge@mail.neu.edu.cn) Organization Chair: Zhanhuai LI Northwest Polytechnic Univ., China Publicity Chair: Qiang ZHU Univ. of Michigan, USA Tutorial/Panel Chair: Min WANG IBM T. J. Watson Research Center, USA Program Committee: Vijay ATLURI Rutgers Univ., USA Daniel BARBARA George Mason Univ., USA Claudio BETTINI Univ. of Milan, Italy Sang K. CHA Seoul National Univ., Korea Arbee L.P. CHEN National Tshing Hua Univ., Taiwan Wan-Sup CHO Chungbuk National Univ., Korea Carlo COMBI Univ. of Udine, Italy Alex DELIS Polytechnic, USA Guozhu DONG Univ. of South Australia, Australia Susan GAUCH Univ. of Kansas, USA Stephane GRUMBACH INRIA, France Jiawei HAN Simon Fraser Univ., Canada Xingui HE Beijing Institute of System Eng., China Larry KERSCHBERG George Mason Univ., USA Hiroyuki KITAGAWA Univ. of Tsukuba, Japan Yasushi KIYOKI Keio Univ., Japan Jiajin LE Donghua Univ., China Hans-J. LENZ Freie Univ. Berlin, Germany Jianzhong LI Harbin Institute of Tech., China Tianzhu LI Hebei Univ., China Zhanhuai LI Northwest Polytech. Univ., China Huan LIU Arizona State Univ., USA Ling LIU Georgia Tech, USA Weiyi MENG State Univ. of New York at Binghamton, USA Xiaofeng MENG Remin Univ., China William PERRIZO North Dakota State Univ., USA Niki PISSINOU Univ. of Louisiana (UL) at Lafayette, USA Peter REVESZ Univ. of Nebraska-Lincoln, USA Baile SHI Fudan Univ., China Kyuseok SHIM KAIST, Korea Dan SUCIU Univ. of Washington, USA Chanjie TANG Sihuan Univ., China Shiwei TANG Peking Univ., China Fu TONG Shanghai Univ., China Vassilis TSOTRAS Univ. of California, Riverside, USA Shunsuke UEMURA NAIST, Japan Victor VIANU UC San Diego, USA Guoren WANG Northeastern Univ., China Haiyang WANG Shandong Univ., China Jason WANG New Jersey Institute of Tech., USA Min WANG IBM T. J. Watson Research Center, USA Nengbin WANG Southeast Univ., China Shan WANG Remin Univ., China Kyu-Young WHANG Korea Advanced Institute of Sci. and Tech., Korea Jef WIJSEN Univ. de Mons-Hainaut (UMH), Belgium Jiepan XU Nanjing Univ., China Dongqing YANG Peking Univ., China Masatoshi YOSHIKAWA NAIST, Japan Jeffrey X. YU Chinese Univ. of Hong Kong, China Aidong ZHANG SUNY Buffalo, USA Aoying ZHOU Fudan Univ., China Lizhu ZHOU Tsinghua Univ. China Longxiang ZHOU Institute of Mathematics, China Qiang ZHU Univ. of Michigan, USA Steering Committee: Jianzhong LI Hongjun LU (CHAIR) Baile SHI Shan WANG Jianwen SU X. Sean WANG Ge YU Aoying ZHOU CONFERENCE WEB MIRROR SITES --------------------------- http://www.neu.edu.cn/waim01 http://www.cs.ust.hk/waim