The Seventh International Conference on Web-Age Information Management
(WAIM''''''''06) 17-19 June, 2006, Hong Kong, China.
URL: http://www.se.cuhk.edu.hk/~waim06
Email:waim06@se.cuhk.edu.hk

The rapid prevalent of Web applications requests new technologies for
design, implementation and management of Web-based information
systems. WAIM''''''''06 is an international forum for researchers,
practitioners, developers and users to share and exchange cutting-edge
ideas, results, experience, techniques and tools in connection with
all aspects of Web data management. The conference invites original
research and industrial papers on the theory, design and
implementation of Web-based information systems, as well as proposals
for demonstrations, tutorials and panels. As the 7th event in the
increasingly popular series, WAIM''''''''06 expects to attract outstanding
researchers from all over the world to Hong Kong.

The WAIM''''''''06 topics include but are not limited to the following areas:

Advanced application of databases   
Biological and genome information systems   
Data mining and knowledge discovery   
Data and information quality Control   
Data grid   
Data migration and integration   
Database security   
Emerging Web techniques   
Interoperability and heterogeneous systems   
Location dependent data management   
Mobile data management
Multidimensional databases and OLAP
Multimedia information systems
Parallel and distributed database systems
Peer-to-peer data management
Performance and benchmarking
Query processing and optimization
Semantic web and web ontology
Spatial and temporal databases
Storage management and access methods
Web community analysis
Web mining
Web service and information management
Workflow and E-services
XML and semi-structured query processing and data management

PUBLICATION and PAPER SUBMISSION

The proceedings will be published by Springer-Verlag in the LNCS
series (pending).

WAIM''''''''06 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 WAIM''''''''06 Web site
(http://www.se.cuhk.edu.hk/~waim06). 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. Papers not conforming to the above
requirements concerning format and length may be rejected without
further consideration. Submission guidelines for industrial papers and
panel and tutorial proposals will be posted shortly at the WAIM''''''''06 Web
site.

IMPORTANT DATES

  Full paper submission:    06 January 2006
  Industry papers:          06 January 2006
  Acceptance notification:  06 March   2006
  Panel/Tutorial Proposals: 20 March   2006
  Author registration:      25 March   2006
  Camera-ready copy:        25 March   2006

CONFERENCE ORGANIZATION 

   Conference General Co-Chairs:

       Dik L. Lee, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
       Shan Wang, Renmin University of China

   Program Committee Co-Chairs:

       Jeffrey Xu Yu, Chinese University of Hong Kong
       Masaru Kitsuregawa,  University of Tokyo

PROGRAM COMMITTEE

James Bailey,         University of Melbourne,               Australia
Sourav S. Bhowmick,   Nanyang Technological University,      Singapore
Stephane Bressan,     National University of Singapore,      Singapore
Ying Cai,             Iowa State University,                 USA    
Chee Yong Chan,       National University of Singapore,      Singapore
Kevin Chang,          Univ. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA
Arbee L.P.Chen,       National Tshing Hua University,        Taiwan
Lei Chen,             Hong Kong Univ. of Sci. & Tech.,       Hong Kong
Reynold Cheng,        Hong Kong Polytechnic University,      Hong Kong
K.W. Chiu,            Dickson Computer Systems,              Hong Kong
Ching-Wan Chung,      KAIST,                                 Korea
Gao Cong,             University of Edinburgh,               UK
Gill Dobbie,          University of Auckland,                New Zealand
Ling Feng,            University Twente,                     Netherlands
Ada Fu,               Chinese University of Hong Kong,       Hong Kong
Haifeng Jiang,        IBM Almaden Research Center,           USA
Takahiro Hara,        Osaka University,                      Japan
Joshua Huang,         Hong Kong University,                  Hong Kong
Edward Hung,          Hong Kong Polytechnic University,      Hong Kong
Hyunchul Kang,        Chung-Ang University,                  Korea
Ben CM Kao,           Hong Kong University,                  Hong Kong
Hiroyuki Kitagawa,    University of Tsukuba,                 Japan
Yasushi Kiyoki,       Keio University,                       Japan
Flip Korn,            AT&T,                                  USA
Chiang Lee,           National Cheng-Kung University,        Taiwan
Wookey Lee,           Sungkyul University,                   Korea
YoonJoon Lee,         KAIST,                                 Korea
Chen  Li,             University of California, Irvine,      USA
Xuemin Lin,           University of New South Wales,         Australia
Ee Peng Lim,          Nanyang Technological University,      Singapore
Guimei Liu,           National University of Singapore,      Singapore
Mengchi Liu,          Carleton University,                   Canada
Tieyan Liu,           Microsoft Research Asia,               China
Nikos Mamoulis,       Hong Kong University,                  Hong Kong
Weiyi Meng,           Binghamton University,                 USA
Xiaofeng Meng,        Renmin University of China,            China
Mukesh K Mohania,     IBM,                                   India
Wilfred Ng,           Hong Kong Univ. of Sci. & Tech.,       Hong Kong
Beng Chin Ooi,        National University of Singapore,      Singapore
Jian Pei,             Simon Fraser University,               Canada
Zhiyong Peng,         Wuhan University,                      China
Keun Ho Ryu,       Chungbuk National University,          Korea
Klaus-Dieter Schewe,  Massey University,                     New Zealand
Heng Tao Shen,        University of Queesland,               Australia
Timothy K. Shih,      Tamkang University,                    Taiwan
Dawei Song,           Open University,                       UK
Kazutoshi Sumiya,     University of Hyogo,                   Japan
Keishi Tajima,        KAIST,                                 Japan
Kian-Lee Tan,         National University of Singapore,      Singapore
Changjie Tang,        Sichuan University,                    China
David Taniar,         Monash University,                     Australia
Yufei Tao,            City Univ. of Hong Kong,               Hong Kong
Anthony Tung,         National University of Singapore,      Singapore
Guoren Wang,          Northeastern University,               China
Haixun Wang,          IBM T. J. Watson Research Center,      USA
Ke Wang,              Simon Fraser University,               Canada
Min Wang,             IBM T. J. Watson Research Center,      USA
Wei Wang,             Fudan University,                      China
Wei Wang,             University of New South Wales,         Australia
X. Sean Wang,         University of Vermont,                 USA
Jirong Wen,           Microsoft Research Asia,               China
Raymond Wong,         University of New South Wales,         Australia
Jianliang Xu,         Hong Kong Baptist University,          Hong Kong
Chris Yang,           Chinese University of Hong Kong,       Hong Kong
Dongqing Yang,        Peking University,                     China
Jun Yang,             Duke University,                       USA
Yun Yang,             Swinburne University of Technology,    Australia
Masatoshi Yoshikawa,  Nagoya University,                     Japan
Ge Yu,                Northeastern University,               China
Chengqi Zhang,        University of Technology, Sydney,      Australia
Yanchun Zhang,        Victoria University,                   Australia
Aoying Zhou,          Fudan University,                      China
Lizhu Zhou,           Tsinghua University,                   China
Shuigeng Zhou,        Fudan University,                      China
Xiaofang Zhou,        University of Queesland,               Australia

 
FURTHER INFORMATION

  For further information refer to the WAIM''''''''06 web page at
  http://www.se.cuhk.edu.hk/~waim06