Call for Papers

The Sixth Asia Pacific Web Conference (APWeb'04)

14-17 April, 2004, Hangzhou, China

ApWeb'04 is the sixth in a series of international conferences on WWW Technologies. It aims at brining together people from both academic and industry to exchange knowledge on WWW-related technologies and new advanced applications. Previous APWeb conferences were held in Beijing (1998), Hong Kong (1999), Xi'an (2000), Changsha (2001) and Xi'an (2003).

The APWeb'2004 topics include but are not limited to the following areas:

* Data warehousing and OLAP

* Data cleansing

* Digital libraries

* Distributed and parallel processing

* Information retrieval

* Information visualization

* Groupware/computer supported cooperative work

* Peer-to-peer systems and grid computing

* Spatial, temporal and stream data processing

* Web and data mining

* Web applications

* Web community analysis

* Web database

* Web intelligence

* Web personalization

* Web query languages and interfaces

* Web semantics

* Web services

* Web technology evaluation and benchmarking

* Web technologies for process management

* Workflow management systems and applications

* XML and semi-structured query processing and data management

PAPER SUBMISSION

APWeb'04 invites full papers describing original contributions in all fields of Internet and WWW related research and applications. A submission should be no more than 25 pages double spacing (about 5000 words), including all figures. Each paper will be fully refereed by at least three program committee members and judged on its originality, significance, technical quality, relevance to APWeb'04 as well as presentation. 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.

All papers should be submitted electronically in PDF format (or less preferably, PS or Microsoft Word) to the conference website. The title and abstract should be submitted first.

PANELS, TUTORIALS, INDUSTRY PRESENTATIONS AND DEMOS

In addition to technical contributions, APWeb'04 invites proposals for panels, tutorials, industry presentations/demos. Proposals should be sent as e-mail attachments to the corresponding chairs:

Sang Kyun Cha (Seoul National University, Korea)

APWeb'04 Panel Chair

Email: chask@kdb.snu.ac.kr

Xiaofang Zhou (University of Queensland, Australia)

APWeb'04 Tutorial Chair

Email: zxf@itee.uq.edu.au

Mukesh Mohania (IBM India Research Lab, India)

APWeb'04 Industrial Chair

Email: mkmukesh@in.ibm.com

Jiajin Le (Donghua University, China)

APWeb'04 Exhibition/Demo Chair

Email: lejiajin@ctu.edu.cn

PUBLICATION

The proceedings of the conference will be published by Springer in its Lecturer Notes in Computer Science series. Complete instructions for authors regarding submission and formatting procedures can be found at the APWeb'04 website. Papers will be accepted in four categories: regular papers, short papers, industry papers and demo papers.

BEST PAPER AWARDS

The APWeb'2004 program committee will select one winner for the Best Paper Award (all regular papers are eligible) and one winner for the Best Student Paper Award (only the regular papers whose first author is a full-time student are eligible). The winner of each award will be presented at the conference with an award certificate, a cheque and an invitation to submit an extended version of the award-winning paper for the consideration of publishing in the Journal of WWW.

IMPORTANT DATES

Abstract submission: 24 October 2003

Full paper submission: 31 October 2003

Acceptance notification: 08 January 2004

Panel/Tutorial Proposals: 15 January 2004

Industry/Demo Proposals: 15 January 2004

Author registration: 20 January 2004

Camera-ready copy: 30 January 2004

CONFERENCE ORGANIZATION

General Chair: Hongjun Lu (HK University of Science and Technology, China)

Program Committee Co-Chairs: Xuemin Lin (University of New South

Wales, Australia), Jeffrey Xu Yu (Chinese University of Hong Kong, China)

Panel Chair: Sang Kyun Cha (Seoul National University, Korea)

Tutorial Chair: Xiaofang Zhou (University of Queensland, Australia)

Publication Chair: Yanchun Zhang (Victoria U of Technology, Australia)

Publicity Chair: Yoshiharu Ishikawa (University of Tsukuba, Japan)

Industrial Chair: Mukesh Mohania (IBM India Research Lab, India)

Exhibition/Demo Chair: Jiajin Le (Donghua University, China)

Organization Chair: Aoying Zhou (Fudan University, China)

FURTHER INFORMATION

For further information refer to the APWeb'04 web page at

http://www.se.cuhk.edu.hk/~apweb04