APWEB'12 CALL FOR PAPERS

http://e-research.csm.vu.edu.au/files/apweb2012/apweb.html

The 14th Asia-Pacific Web Conference
11th-13th, April, Kunming, China

APWeb is a leading international conference on research, development and applications of Web technologies, database systems, information management and software engineering, with a focus on the Asia-Pacific region. Previous APWeb conferences were held in Beijing (1998), Hong Kong (1999), Xian (2000), Changsha (2001), Xian (2003), Hangzhou (2004), Shanghai (2005), Harbin (2006) Huangshan (2007), Shenyang (2008), Suzhou (2009), Busan (2010), Beijing (2011).
APWeb'12 includes but is not limited to the following areas:
o Advanced application of databases
o Content management
o Data caching
o Data mining and knowledge discovery
o Data and information quality Control
o Data grid
o Data migration and integration
o Deep Web
o Digital libraries
o Distributed and parallel Processing
o Grid computing
o Emerging Web techniques
o Interoperability and heterogeneous systems
o Information retrieval
o Information security
o Location-based services
o Mobile computing and data management
o Multidimensional databases and OLAP
o Multimedia information systems
o Parallel and distributed database systems
o Peer-to-peer systems
o Performance and benchmarking
o Query processing and optimization
o Semantic web and web ontology
o Security, privacy and trust
o Sensor networks
o Service-oriented computing
o Spatial and temporal databases
o Stream data processing
o Storage management and access methods
o Web-based collaboration
o Web-based database integration
o Web community analysis
o Web mining
o Web search and meta-search
o Web service and information management
o Workflow and E-services
o XML and semi-structured query processing

PAPER SUBMISSION

https://cmt.research.microsoft.com/APWEB2012
APWeb??12 invites papers describing original contributions in all fields of Web Management and WWW related research and applications. All submissions should be in English. Submission of a paper should be regarded as an undertaking that, should the paper be accepted, at least one author will attend the conference to present the work. Paper submission will be electronic through the APWeb12 Web site. Papers should be submitted in LNCS (Lecture Notes in Computer Science) format (style files are available at LNCS Authors Instructions) as PostScript or PDF files and may not exceed 12 pages.

Full paper due: Nov. 15, 2011
Acceptance notification: December 15, 2011
Camera-ready copy: January 15, 2012
Workshop Proposals: Aug.30, 2011
Panel/Tutorial Proposals: December 5, 2011

Conference Organization

Honorary General Chair

Yaoxue Zhang, Tsinghua University

General Co-Chairs
Yanchun Zhang, Victoria University
Masaru KITSUREGAWA, Tokyo University

Program Co-Chairs
Michael Sheng, The University of Adelaide
Guoren Wang, Northeastern University
Christian S. Jensen, Aarhus University

Workshop and Tutorial chairs
Hua Wang, University of Southern Queensland
Guangyan Huang, Victoria University

Local arrangement chairs
Jianfeng HE, Kunming Univ. of Sci. & Technology

Financial Chair:
Jing He, Victoria University

Publication Chair
Guandong Xu, Victoria University

Publicity Chairs
Haolan Zhang, NIT, Zhejiang University

Keynote Speech
* Professor Vijay Varadharajan ?C Macquarie University, Australia
* Prof. Z. Meral ?zsoyo?lu, Case Western Reserve University, U. S. A
PUBLICATION
The proceedings will be published by Springer-Verlag in the LNCS series, one volume for main conference and one volume for workshops (pending for approval).

One special issue on World Wide Web Journal will be organized based on the accepted paper of APweb2012. (http://www.springer.com/computer/database+management+%26+information+retrieval/journal/11280)

WORKSHOP, PANELS, TUTORIALS, INDUSTRY PRESENTATIONS
In addition to technical contributions, APWeb12 invites proposals for workshops, panels, tutorials, industry presentations. For workshops, APWeb'12 will provide administrative support for workshop room booking, registration, and publication. All papers accepted by APWeb??12 workshops will be published in a combined volume of Lecturer Notes in Computer Science series published by Springer (pending for approval). Proposals or industry papers should be sent as e-mail attachments to apweb2012@gmail.com.