CFP: APWeb'04

[Ishikawa Yoshiharu <ishikawa@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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石川佳治
筑波大学		  

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The Sixth Asia Pacific Web Conference (APWeb'04)
14-17 April, 2004, Hangzhou, China
http://www.se.cuhk.edu.hk/~apweb04

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.

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. 

IMPORTANT DATES

  Abstract submission:     24 October 2003
  Full paper submission:   31 October 2003 
  Tutorial Proposals:      15 January 2004
  Acceptance notification: 08 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)

  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)

  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