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(BThe Fifth Asia Pacific Web Conference (APWeb'2003)
(B23-25 April, 2003, Xi'an, China
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(BThe Asia Pacific Web Conference is aiming at attracting professionals of 
(Bdifferent communities such as industry and academic from not only Asia 
(BPacific countries but also other continents. The objective is to share 
(Bthe experience in the area of the World Wide Web with the underlying 
(Btechnologies and applications. Previous APWeb conferences were held in 
(BBeijing (1998), Hong Kong (1999), Xi'an (2000) and Changsha (2001). 
(B
(BAPWeb$BC(B003 focuses on the following topics but other Internet and WWW 
(Brelated areas are welcome:
(B 
(B  * Data/application integration and migration
(B  * Languages and application programming interfaces
(B  * Databases and knowledge bases
(B  * Distributed and parallel processing
(B  * Component-based objects and middleware
(B  * Multimedia applications
(B  * Information retrieval
(B  * Data mining and data warehousing
(B  * Networking and communications
(B  * Peer-to-peer systems and grid computing
(B  * Workflow management systems and applications
(B  * XML and semi-structured data
(B  * Spatial, temporal and stream data
(B  * Information visualisation and web-based visulaisation
(B  * Query languages and interfaces
(B  * E-commerce and e-government
(B  * Web-based learning
(B  * Human-computer interaction
(B  * Multi-model web interfaces
(B  * Web services
(B  * Security and privacy
(B  * Ontology, semantics and agents
(B  * Digital libraries
(B  * Groupware/computer supported cooperative work
(B  * New applications
(B  * Web technologies for process management
(B  * Software development for web applications
(B
(BPAPER SUBMISSION
(B
(B  APWeb$BC(B003 invites full papers describing original contributions in
(Ball 
(B  fields of Internet and WWW related research and applications. A
(Bsubmission
(B  should be no more than 25 pages double spacing (about 6000 words), 
(B  including all figures. Each paper will be fully refereed by at least
(Bthree 
(B  program committee members and judged on its originality, significance, 
(B  technical quality, relevance to APWeb$BC(B003 as well as presentation.
(BAll 
(B  submissions should be in English. Submission of a paper should be
(Bregarded 
(B  as an undertaking that, should the paper be accepted, at least one
(Bauthor 
(B  will attend the conference to present the work.
(B
(B  All papers should be submitted electronically in PDF format (or less 
(B  preferably, PS or Microsoft Word) to the conference website. The title
(Band 
(B  abstract should be submitted first.
(B
(BWORKSHOPS, PANELS, TUTORIALS, INDUSTRY PRESENTATIONS AND DEMOS
(B
(B  In addition to technical contributions, APWeb$BC(B003 invites proposals
(Bfor 
(B  workshops, panels, tutorials, industry presentations and demos. A
(Bproposal 
(B  should indicate its area, its relationship to APWeb$BC(B003, the proposed 
(B  workshop/panel program chairs, tutorial instructors and industry
(Bpresenters 
(B  (with a brief CV), and its target audiences. Proposals should be sent
(Bas 
(B  e-mail attachments to the corresponding chairs:
(B
(B    Professor Jan Newmarch
(B    APWeb$BC(B003 Workshop and Panel Chair
(B    Email: newmarch@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx 
(B
(B    Professor Jeffrey X. Yu
(B    APWeb$BC(B003 Tutorial Chair
(B    Email: yu@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx 
(B
(B    Dr. Jian Chen
(B    APWeb$BC(B003 Industry and Demo Chair
(B    Email: jianchen@xxxxxxxxxxxx
(B
(BPUBLICATION 
(B
(B  The proceedings of the conference will be published by Springer in its 
(B  Lecturer Notes in Computer Science series (approval pending). Complete 
(B  instructions for authors regarding submission and formatting
(Bprocedures can be 
(B  found at the APWeb$BC(B003 website. Papers will be accepted in five
(Bcategories: 
(B  regular papers, short papers, posters, industry papers and demo
(Bpapers. After 
(B  the conference, authors of the best papers selected by the program
(Bcommittee 
(B  will be invited to submit an extended version for publication in a
(Bspecial 
(B  issue of the Journal of WWW. 
(B
(BBEST PAPER AWARDS
(B
(B  The program committee will select one winner for the Best Paper Award
(B(all 
(B  regular papers are eligible) and one winner for the Best Student Paper
(BAward 
(B  (only the regular papers whose first author is a full-time student are
(Beligible). 
(B  Each winner will be presented at the conference with a certificate,
(BUS$300 and 
(B  an invitation to submit an extended version of the award-winning paper
(Bfor the 
(B  consideration of publishing in the Journal of WWW special issue. 
(B
(BIMPORTANT DATES
(B
(B  Workshop proposals: 15 November 2002
(B  Abstract submission: 25 November 2002
(B  Full paper submission (all categories): 1 December 2002 
(B  Proposals for panels, tutorial, demos and industry presentations: 15
(BJanuary 2003
(B  Acceptance notification: 25 January 2003
(B  Author registration: 5 February 2003
(B  Camera-ready copy:  10 February 2003
(B
(BCONFERENCE ORGANISATION 
(B
(B  Honaorary General Chair: Nanning Zeng (Xi$BCB(Bn Jiaotong University,
(BChina)
(B
(B  General Chair: Maria Orlowska (University of Queensland, Australia)
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(B  Program Committee Chair: Xiaofang Zhou (University of Queensland,
(BAustralia)
(B
(B  Tutorial Chair: Jeffrey X. Yu (Chinese University of Hong Kong, China)
(B  Publication Chair: Yanchun Zhang (University of Southern Queensland,
(BAustralia)
(B  Publicity Chair: Xuemin Lin (University of New South Wales, Australia)
(B  Workshop and Panel Chair: Jan Newmarch (Monash University, Australia)
(B  Industry and Demo Chair: Jian Chen (Netec Corp., China)
(B
(B  Local Organisation Chair: Yong Qi (Xi$BCB(Bn Jiaotong University, China)
(B  Treasurer: Jian Chen (Netec Corp., China)
(B
(BPROGRAM COMMITTEE
(B
(B  Woojciech Cellary (Poznan University of Economics, Poland)
(B  Shama Chakravarthy (University of Texas at Arlington, USA)
(B  Guihai Chen (Nanjing University, China)
(B  Hanxiong Chen (Tsukuba University, Japan)
(B  Phoebe Chen (Queensland University of Technology, Australia)
(B  Ping Chen (Xidian University, China)
(B  Gillian Dobbie (University of Auckland, New Zealand)
(B  Guozhu Dong (Wright University, USA)
(B  Jin Song Dong (National University of Singapore)
(B  Xiaoyong Du (Renmin University of China, China)
(B  Wendy Feng (Tom Sawyer Software, USA)
(B  Le Gruenwald (The University of Oklahoma, USA)
(B  Ryu Keun Ho (Chungbuk National University, Korea)
(B  Joshua Z. Huang (University of Hong Kong, China)
(B  Zhiyong Huang (National University of Singapore, Singapore)
(B  Xiaohua Jia (City University of Hong Kong, China)
(B  Markus Kirchberg (Massey University, New Zealand)
(B  Masaru Kitsuregawa (University of Tokyo, Japan)
(B  Ee Peng Lin (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore)     
(B  Mingshu Li (Institute of Software, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China)
(B  Qing Li (City University of Hong Kong, China)
(B  Xue Li (University of Queensland, Australia)
(B  Tao Lin (SAP, USA)            
(B  Chengfei Liu (South Australia University, Australia)
(B  Sanjia Madria (University of Missouri-Rolla, USA)
(B  Xiaofeng Meng (Renmin University of China, China)
(B  Mukesh Mohania (IBM India Research Lab, India)
(B  Jan Newmarch (Monash University, Australia)   
(B  Wee Keong Ng (Nanyang Tech. University, Singapore)
(B  Beng Chin Ooi (Nantional University of Singapore, Singapore)
(B  Zhiyong Peng (Wuhan University, China)
(B  Pearl Pu (EPFL, Switzerland)
(B  Shazia Sadiq (University of Queensland, Australia)
(B  Wasim Sadiq (SAP Research, Australia)
(B  Junyi Shen (Xi$BCB(Bn Jiaoting University, China)
(B  Timothy K. Shih (Tamkang University, Taiwan)
(B  Kian Lee Tan (National University of Sinagpore, Singapore)
(B  Katsumi Tanaka (Kyoto University, Japan)
(B  Li Xie (Nanjing University, China)    
(B  Cheng-Zhong Xu (Wayne State University, USA)
(B  Hongji Yang (De Montfort University, UK)
(B  Qiang Yang (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, China)    
(B  Yun Yang (Swinburne University of Technology, Australia)
(B  HongJiang Zhang (Microsoft Research, China)
(B  Aoying Zhou (Fudan University, China)
(B  Wanlei Zhou (Deakin University, Australia)
(B        
(BFURTHER INFORMATION 
(B
(B  For further information refer to the APWeb$BC(B003 web page at
(Bwww.apweb.org.