The Asia Pacific Web (APWeb) and Web-Age Information Management (WAIM) Joint Conference on Web and Big Data is aiming at attracting professionals of different communities related to Web and Big Data who have common interests in interdisciplinary research to share and exchange ideas, experience and the underlying techniques and applications, including Web technologies, database systems, information management, software engineering and big data.

APWeb and WAIM are two separated leading international conferences on research, development and applications of Web technologies and database systems. Previous APWeb conferences were held in Beijing (1998), Hong Kong (1999), Xi’an (2000), Changsha (2001), Xi’an (2003), Hangzhou (2004), Shanghai (2005), Harbin (2006), Huangshan (2007), Shenyang (2008), Suzhou (2009), Busan (2010), Beijing (2011), Kunming (2012), Sydney (2013), Changsha(2014), Guangzhou (2015) and Suzhou (2016). Previous WAIM conferences were held in Shanghai (2000), Xi‘an (2001), Beijing (2002), Chendu (2003), Dalian (2004), Hangzhou (2005), Hong Kong (2006), Huang shan (2007), Zhangjiajie (2008), Suzhou (2009), Jiuzhaigou (2010), Wuhan (2011), Harbin (2012), Beidaihe (2013), Macau (2014), Qingdao (2015) and Nanchang (2016). Since 2017, the two conferences’ committees agree to launch a joint conference together. Bringing the efforts of the two committees into a new joint conference is expected to attract more professionals of different communities such as industry and academic from not only Asia Pacific countries but also other continents in the new era of Big Data. The first APWeb-WAIM joint conference on Web and Big Data 2017 will take place at Beijing,China.Beijing is a city where the old cultural traditions and the modern civilization are well integrated. It is our sincere hope that you will make best of your time here to visit more places and enjoy more scenery and we believe you will harvest a lot.

Important Dates

Abstract Deadline:
Feb 10th, 2017

Full Paper Deadline:
Feb 17th, 2017

Author Notification Deadline:
April 21st, 2017

Camera Ready Deadline:
May 1st, 2017


APWeb-WAIM Joint Conference on Web and Big Data 2017 includes but is not limited to the following areas:

Advanced database and Web applications
Big data analytics
Big data management
Caching and replication
Cloud computing
Content management
Crowdsourcing
Data and information quality
Data management for mobile and pervasive computing
Data management on new hardware
Data mining
Data provenance and workflow
Data warehousing and OLAP
Deep Web
Digital libraries
Entity resolution and entity linking
Graph data management, RDF, social networks
Information extraction
Information integration and heterogeneous systems
Information retrieval
Knowledge extraction and management
Multimedia information systems
Machine Learning
Parallel and distributed data management
Query processing and optimization
Recommender systems
Security, privacy, and trust
Semantic Web and ontology
Sensor networks
Service-oriented computing
Social media
Spatial and temporal databases
Storage and access methods
Streams, complex event processing
Text database, keyword search
Uncertain data
Web advertising and community analysis
Web information quality and fusion
Web search and meta-search
Web service management
XML and semi-structured data


General Co-Chairs
Xiaoyong Du (Renmin University of China,China)
Beng Chin Ooi (National University of Singapore, Singapore)
M. Tamer Özsu (University of Waterloo, Canada)

Program Committee Co-Chairs:
Lei Chen (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, China)
Christian S. Jensen (Aalborg University, Denmark)
Cyrus Shahabi (The University of Southern California, USA)