The 3rd International Conference on Web-Age Information Management (WAIM'2002)
Beijing, China
August 11-13, 2002
Conference Web site:
http://www.cs.ucsb.edu/~waim02
http://www.cs.ust.hk/waim/
With advances in the Internet and, in particular, various technologies around
the World-Wide Web, research on design, implementation, and management of Internet
and Web-based information systems has become increasingly important. As more
and more information of diverse types becomes available on the Internet and
Web, query and retrieval as well
as the management of information over the Internet become more complex and extremely
difficult. Novel approaches to develop and manage Internet and Web information
systems are in high demand. These issues have been the focus of discussions
during the previous WAIM conferences in Shanghai, China, June 2000 and in Xi'an,
China, July 2001. Both conferences were successful and each attracted more than
100 participants from all over the world. WAIM '02 will undoubtedly continue
to provide a forum for researchers, professionals, and industrial practitioners
from around the world to share their rapidly
evolving knowledge and to report on new advances in Web-based information systems.
You are invited to submit original 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.
In WAIM '02, proposals for demonstrations of novel and innovative systems are also welcome. The Demos program is an important part of the technical program. Proposals for demos should clearly describe what will be demonstrated and should emphasize the most novel and interesting aspects of the system to be shown.
Beijing is the capital of China and has been a political, economic, and cultural
center for the last few hundred of years.
The city is an enormous treasure house of cultural and historical relics, stocked
with various collections of palaces, temples, parks and above all, one of the
seven wonders of the world, the Great Wall.
We expect that the WAIM technical programs will continue to be exciting. We encourage you to join us in Beijing, China, and take part in this exciting and enriching event.
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
· Biological and genome information systems
· Cooperative information systems
· Data and information quality
· Data migration and integration
· Data mining and knowledge discovery
· Data and Web warehousing
· Data Security
· Database languages and semantics
· Databases and electronic commerce
· Design of databases and data warehouses
· Emerging Web techniques
· Financial and engineering databases
· Internet and web-based data management
· Interoperability and heterogeneous systems
· Location dependent data management
· Metadata use and management
· Multidimensional databases and OLAP
· Multimedia information systems
· Parallel and distributed database systems
· Performance and benchmarking
· Query processing and optimization
· Storage management and access methods
· Spatial and temporal databases
· Text database and information retrieval
· Transaction management
· Visualizing the structure and content of databases
· Web and database technology
· Workflow
· XML and Semi-structured data
IMPORTANT DATES:
Paper abstract deadline: February 22, 2002
Paper submission deadline: March 1, 2002
Demo submission deadline: March 1, 2002
Acceptance notice: April 15, 2002
Camera-ready copies due: May 20, 2002
Conference dates: August 11-13, 2002
(Please visit the conference Web site for further instructions)
PUBLICATION:
WAIM '02 conference proceedings is expected to be published in the
Lecture Notes of Computer Science series by Springer-Verlag.
CONFERENCE ORGANIZATION:
General Chair:
Wei Li (Beijing Univ of Aero/Astro, China)
Conference Co-chairs:
Masaru Kitsuregawa (University of Tokyo, Japan)
Lizhu Zhou (Tsinghua Univeristy, China)
Program Committee Co-chairs:
Xiaofeng Meng (Renmin University of China, China)
Jianwen Su (University of California at Santa Barbara, USA)
Publicity Chair:
Xiong Wang (California State University at Fullerton, USA)
Proceedings Chair:
Yujun Wang (University of California at Santa Barbara, USA
and Fudan University, China)
Tutorial/Panel Chair:
Guozhu Dong (Wright State University, USA)
Demo/Industry Chair:
Chen Li (University of California at Irvine, USA)
Local Organization Chair:
Jianhua Feng (Tsinghua University, China)
Steering Committee:
Jianzhong Li (Harbin Institute of Technology, China)
Hongjun Lu (Hong Kong Univ. of Sci. & Tech., China)
Baile Shi (Fudan University, China)
Shan Wang (Renmin University, China)
Jianwen Su (U C Santa Barbara, USA)
X. Sean Wang (George Mason University, USA)
Ge Yu (Northeastern University, China)
Aoying Zhou (Fudan University, China)
Organized by:
Renmin University
Tsing Hua University
In Cooperation with:
Database Society of China Computer Federation
ACM SIGMOD
Sponsored By:
National Natural Science Foundation of China