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26-28 April, 2008, Shenyang, China
http://www.neu.edu.cn/apweb08 http://e-research.csm.vu.edu.au/apweb08
APWeb is a leading international conference on research, development and applications
Conference Co-Chairs
Hiroyuki Kitagawa
University of Tsukuba, Japan
K.F.Wong
Chinese University of
Hongkong
Program Committee Co-Chairs
Yanchun Zhang
Victoria University, Australia of Web technologies, database systems, information management and software engineering, with a focus on the Asia-Pacific region. Previous APWeb conferences were held in Beijing (1998), Hong Kong (1999), Xian (2000), Changsha (2001), Xian (2003),
Ge Yu
Northeastern University, China
Elisa Bertino
Purdue University, USA
Workshop Co-Chairs
Yoshiharu Ishikawa
Nagoya University, Japan
Jing He
Chinese Academy of Sciences,
China
Tutorial/Panel Co-Chairs
Ling Feng
Tsinghua University, China
Keun Ho Ryu
Chungbuk National University,
Korea
Industrial Chair
Haixun Wang
IBM T. J. Watson Research
Center USA
Publication Chair
Guandong Xu
Victoria University, Australia
Publicity Co-Chairs
Toshiyuki Amagasa
University of Tsukuba, Japan
Hua Wang
University of Southern
Queensland, Australia
Local Arrangement Co-Chairs
Guoren Wang
Northeastern University, China
Bin Zhang
Northeastern University, China
APWeb Steering Committee
Liaison
Xiaofang Zhou
University of Queensland,
Australia
WISE Society Liaison
Qing Li
City University of Hong Kong
Hangzhou (2004), Shanghai (2005), Harbin (2006) and Huangshan (2007).
APWeb'08 includes but is not limited to the following areas: o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o
Advanced application of databases
Content management
Data caching
Data mining and knowledge discovery
Data and information quality Control
Data grid
Data migration and integration
Deep Web
Digital libraries
Distributed and parallel Processing
Grid computing
Emerging Web techniques
Interoperability and heterogeneous systems
Information retrieval
Information security
Location-based services
Mobile computing and data management
Multidimensional databases and OLAP
Multimedia information systems o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o
Peer-to-peer systems
Performance and benchmarking
Query processing and optimization
Semantic web and web ontology
Security, privacy and trust
Sensor networks
Service-oriented computing
Spatial and temporal databases
Stream data processing
Storage management and access methods
Web-based collaboration
Web-based database integration
Web community analysis
Web mining
Web search and meta-search
Web service and information management
Workflow and E-services
XML and semi-structured query processing
XML and semi-structured data management o Parallel and distributed database systems
PAPER SUBMISSION
APWeb’08 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. Authors are required to submit a paper title and short abstract (about 100 words) before submitting the paper. Paper submission will be electronic through the APWeb08 Web site. 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.
PUBLICATION
The proceedings will be published by Springer-Verlag in the LNCS series, one volume for main conference and one volume for workshops (pending for approval).
WORKSHOP, PANELS, TUTORIALS, INDUSTRY PRESENTATIONS
In addition to technical contributions, APWeb08 invites proposals for workshops, panels, tutorials, industry presentations. For workshops, APWeb'08 will provide administrative support for workshop room booking, registration, and publication. All papers accepted by
APWeb’08 workshops will be published in a combined volume of Lecturer Notes in
Computer Science series published by Springer (pending for approval). Proposals or industry papers should be sent as e-mail attachments to apweb08@csm.vu.edu.au.
WORKSHOP, PANELS, TUTORIALS, INDUSTRY PRESENTATIONS
Abstract due: October 8, 2007
Full paper due: October 15, 2007
Acceptance notification: December 15, 2007
Camera-ready copy: January 15, 2008
Workshop Proposals: September 4, 2007
Panel/Tutorial Proposals: December 5, 2007

Program Committee
James Bailey, University of Melbourne, Australia
Rafae Bhatti, IBM Almaden Research Center, USA
Sourav Bhowmick, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
Haiyun Bian, Wright State University, USA
Klemens Boehm, University of Karlsruhe, Germany
Athman Bouguettaya, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, USA
Stephane Bressan, National University of Singapore, Singapore
Ji-Won Byun, ORACLE, USA
Akmal Chaudhri, IBM DeveloperWorks, USA
Lei Chen, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
Reynold Cheng, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong
Byron Choi, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
Gao Cong, University of Edinburgh, UK
Bin Cui, Peking University, China
Alfredo Cuzzocrea, University of Calabria, Italy
Xiaoyong Du, Renmin University of China, China
Ela Hunt, ETH Zurich, Switzerland
Yaokai Feng, Kyushu University, Japan
Ling Feng, Tsinghua University, China
Jianhua Feng, Tsinghua University, China
Eduardo Fernandez, Florida Atlantic University, USA
Gabriel Fung, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
Hong Gao, Harbin Institute of Technology, China
Zhiguo Gong, University of Macau
Guido Governatori, The University of Queensland, Australia
Stephane Grumbach, INRIA, France
Giovanna Guerrini, University of Genova, Italy
Jingfeng Guo, Yanshan University, China
Mohand-Said Hacid, Universite Claude Bernard Lyon 1, France
Michael Houle, National Institute of Informatics, Japan
Renato Iannella, National ICT Australia (NICTA), Australia
Yoshiharu Ishikawa, Nagoya University, Japan
Yan Jia, National University of Defence Technology, China
Panagiotis Kalnis, National University of Singapore, Singapor
Murat Kantarcioglu, UT Dallas, USA
Markus Kirchberg, Massey University, New Zealand
Flip Korn, AT&T Labs Research, USA
Manolis Koubarakis, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece
Chiang Lee, National Cheng Kung University, Taiwan
Chen Li, University of California, Irvine, USA
Qing Li, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
Zhanhuai Li, Northeastern Polytechnical University, China
Xuemin Lin, University of New South Wales, Australia
Hongyan Liu, Tsinghua University, China
Mengchi Liu, Carleton University, Canada
Qing Liu, The University of Queensland, Australia
Tieyan Liu, Microsoft Research Asia, China
Weiyi Liu, Yunnan University, China
Jiaheng Lu, University of California, Irvine, USA
Emil Lupu, Imperial College, UK
Liping Ma, Ballarat University, Australia
Lorenzo Martino, Purdue University, USA
Weiyi Meng, University of Illinois at Chicago, USA
Xiaofeng Meng, Renmin University of China, China
Mukesh Mohania, IBM India Research Laborator, India
Miyuki Nakano, University of Tokyo, Japan
Federica Paci, University of Milano, Italy
Vasile Palade, Oxford University, UK
Chaoyi Pang, CSIRO, Australia
Jian Pei, Simon Fraser University, Canada
Zhiyong Peng, Wuhan University, China
Evaggelia Pitoura, University of Ioannina, Greece
Weining Qian, East China Normal University, China
Wenyu Qu, Tokyo University, Japan
Cartic Ramakrishnan, Wright State University, USA
KeunHo Ryu, Chungbuk National University, Cheongju, Korea
Monica Scannapieco, ISTAT, Italy
Albrecht Schmidt, Aalborg University, Denmark
Markus Schneider, University of Florida, USA
HengTao Shen, The University of Queensland, Australia
Jialie Shen, Singapore Management University, Singapore
Derong Shen, Northeastern University, China
Timothy Shih, Tamkang University, Taiwan
Anna Squicciarini, Purdue University, USA
Peter Stanchev, Kettering University, USA
Kian-Lee Tan, National University of Singapore, Singapore
Nan Tang, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
Changjie Tang, Sichuan University, China
David Taniar, Monash University, Australia
Hua Wang, University of Southern Queensland, Australia
Jianyong Wang, Tsinghua University, China
Tengjiao Wang, Peking University, China
Guoren Wang, Northeastern University, China
Junhu Wang, Griffith University, Australia
Lizhen Wang, Yunnan University, China
Wei Wang, University of New South Wales, Australia
Daling Wang, Northeastern University, China
Haixun Wang, IBM T. J. Watson Research Center, USA
Min Wang, IBM T. J. Watson Research Center, USA
Wei Wang, Fudan University, China
Jitian Xiao, Edith Cowan University, Australia
Jianliang Xu, Hong Kong Baptist University, Hong Kong
Jun Yan, University of Wollongong, Australia
Dongqing Yang, Peking University, China
Jian Yang, Macquarie University, Australia
Xiaochun Yang, Northeastern University, China
Jian Yin, Sun Yat-Sen University, China
Cui Yu, Monmouth University, USA
Jeffrey Xu Yu, Chinese University of Hong Kong
Lihua Yue, Science and Technology University of China, China
Rui Zhang, University of Melbourne , Australia
Xiuzhen Zhang, RMIT University, Australia
Qing Zhang, CSIRO, Australia
Peixiang Zhao, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
Aoying Zhou, Fudan University, China
Qiang Zhu, University of Michigan - Dearborn, USA