Call for Papers

Scope:

Web information utilization has become a critical emerging research area due to the exponential increase in the information circulation and dissemination over the Web. Many challenging problems must be addressed towards utilizing and exploiting the vast Web information, which is highly heterogeneous and dynamic. This workshop focuses on the technology for analyzing, integrating and retrieving information on the Web. The primary aim of this workshop is to discuss and exchange ideas on utilizing heterogeneous Web information, towards

• increasing Web information accessibility,
• decreasing lengths in Web navigation pathways,
• improving Web users requests servicing,
• integrating various data representation standards, and
• extending current Web information organization practices.

New research ideas or practices in the above areas are of crucial importance due to the difficulties raised by the diversity of Web data structure and representation, information distribution, communication and accessing costs. Overall, this workshop aims to host work in some of the most breaking topics, such as Web data accessing, Web querying, Web services, Web user personalization, clustering over Web graphs structures, Web metrics and performance issues, Web data prefetching and caching. Moreover, it aims to be of interest to both academics and industrial representatives due to the importance of Web information retrieval and integration.

Topics of Interest:

The papers sought for this workshop should include innovative and original research work focusing on models, methodologies, implementations and empirical studies in relation to Web data access. The topics of interests include, but are not limited to:

Web Models and Meta-data Management Large Scale Web Information Integration Web Query Languages Web-based Query Planning and Optimization Automatic Wrapper Generation Web Indexing, Caching and Data Storage Systems Clustering/Classification on the Web Web Data Extraction Web Log/Navigational Path Analysis Web Service Composition

Context Sensitive Web IR Crosslingual, Multimedia Retrieval Semantic Web Summarization and Text Transformation Web Community and Cybersociety Information Visualization User Modeling and Personalization Web User Interface Integration Web Information Integration applications

Submission Guidelines:

Authors are invited to submit original and unpublished work. Paper should be in English and must not exceed 10 pages (IEEE format). Only electronic submission in Postscript, Word, or PDF file will be accepted. Papers will be reviewed by program committee members (and/or external reviewers) for their quality, technical merit, originality, significance, and relevance to the workshop.

Research papers must be submitted via WIRI paper submission system (Unlink).

The accepted papers will be presented at the workshop and included in the workshop proceedings. The workshop proceedings will be published by the IEEE Computer Society Press, and also be archived in the IEEE Computer Society's digital libraries.

Important Dates:

Paper Submission (extended):	December 1, 2005
Notification Date (delayed):	December 26, 2005 VERY SOON (We are so sorry.)
Camera ready copy due:	January 10, 2006
Workshop:	April 3, 2006