WAIM is a leading international conference for researchers, practitioners, developers, and users to share and exchange ideas, results, experience, techniques, and tools in connection with all aspects of Web data management. As the 12th event in the increasingly popular series, WAIM 2011 expects to attract participants from all over the world to Wuhan, China, and continues to establish WAIM as one of the major conferences on Web-based information systems.
The WAIM-11 organization committee invites submissions of technical papers for WAIM-11, to be held in Wuhan, China, Sep. 14-16, 2011. Submissions are invited on all aspects related to Web-age information management. 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.

Conference Scope

Advanced database and Web applications
Content management
Cloud computing
Caching and replication
Data and information quality control
Data management on new hardware
Data mining and knowledge discovery
Data management for mobile and pervasive computing
Data warehousing and OLAP
Deep Web
Digital libraries
Fuzzy, Probabilistic, and Uncertain Data
Grid computing
Information extraction
Information integration and heterogeneous systems
Information retrieval
Multimedia information systems
P2P systems performance and benchmarking
Parallel and distributed database systems
Processing of noisy informal web data
Query processing and optimization
Semantic Web and ontology
Security, privacy, and trust
Sensor networks
Service-oriented computing
Spatial and temporal databases
Stream data processing
Storage and access methods
Web-based collaboration
Web advertising and community analysis
Web mining
Web search and meta-search
Web service and information management
Workflow systems
XML and semi-structured data

Important Dates
Abstract due: April 3, 2011
Full paper due: April 10, 2011
Author notification: May 22, 2011
Camera-Ready deadline: May 31, 2011

Paper Publication
The proceedings of WAIM 2011 will be published by Springer-Verlag in the Lecturer Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) series, one volume for the main conference and one volume for the workshops. Both will be indexed by SCI and EI. A selected number of the accepted papers will be expanded and revised for possible publications in major international journals.

Workshops, Panels, Tutorials, and Industry Presentations
In addition to regular papers, WAIM 2011 invites proposals for workshops, panels, tutorials, and industry presentations. For workshops, WAIM 2011 will provide administrative support for room booking, registration, and paper publication.