CfP: Workshop on Advances in Accessing Deep Web (ADW 2008) - EXTENDED DEADLINE!

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                              CALL FOR PAPERS
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        1st Workshop on Advances in Accessing Deep Web  (ADW 2008)
                            in conjunction with
 11th International Conference on Business Information Systems (BIS 2008)

                            Innsbruck, Austria
                            May 5, 6 or 7, 2008

         http://bis.kie.ae.poznan.pl/11th_bis/wscfp.php?ws=adw2008

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            Extended deadline for submissions: February 3, 2008

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The main way of accessing content on contemporary Web is by means of
general purpose search engines.
However, for reasons such as: password protection, FORM based interfaces
and usage of dynamic client-side technologies (JavaScript, AJAX and
Flash), a huge portion of modern Web content remains unindexable and thus
unavailable to the majority of Web users.
In many cases this unindexable information sources, known altogether under
the names of Deep Web, Hidden Web or Invisible Web, are better structured
and of better quality than indexable surface Web sources.
Both size and high value of Deep Web information make Deep Web research
new Holy Grail for information retrieval, information extraction and
related technologies.

The goal of this workshop is to bring researchers and practitioners
together to explore the issues and challenges related to domain dependant
and independent Deep Web empirical studies, methodologies and techniques
of data extraction and integration form Deep Web sources as well as
applications of technologies processing information embedded in Deep Web.
In the workshop we would like to present and discuss research, business
cases and working prototypes / applications in areas including, but no
limited to:


TOPICS OF INTEREST

* Modelling and Describing Deep Web
    * Models of Deep Web Navigation
    * Description of Deep Web Sources Contents
    * Description of Deep Web Sources Querying Capabilities
    * Addressing Content and Data in Deep Web Sources
    * Semantic Annotation of Deep Web Sources
* Empirical Studies of Deep Web
    * Research on Deep Web Size and Topicality
    * Deep Web Content and Quality Studies
    * Domain-Specific Deep Web Sources Studies
    * Comparative Studies of Deep Web and Surface Web Content
* Working with Deep Web Sources
    * Probing Deep Web Sources
    * Classification and Clustering of Deep Web Sources
    * Handling Client-Side Technologies (JavaScript/dHTML/AJAX) for Deep
      Web Access
    * Extraction of Data from Deep Web
    * Deep Web Sources Discovery
    * Methods of Deep Web Indexing
* Data Integration from Deep Web Sources
    * Deep Web Sources Selection
    * Rewriting Queries for Deep Web Sources
    * Matching and Mapping of Deep Web Sources Schemas
    * Methods of Deep Web Meta-Search
* Applications of Deep Web Research
    * Monitoring of Deep Web Sources
    * Cases and Best Practices of Deep Web Data Usage
    * Business Models of Deep Web Data Integration
    * Legal and Ethical Aspects of Using Deep Web Content
    * Detecting and Disabling Deep Web Harvesting

SUBMISSION

* Long papers: max. 5000 words
* Work-in-progress rep.: max. 2500 words
* Position papers: max. 2500 words
* Demo papers: max. 2500 words


Papers must be submitted in PDF format according to Springer LNBIP
template available from
http://www.springer.com/east/home/computer/lncs?SGWID=5-164-7-487211-0.

Submission system is available on-line at
http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=adw2008.

The proceedings will be published jointly with proceedings of other BIS
workshops as a book or CD with ISBN number, and on-line at CEUR WS.org
workshop proceedings publication service (open content).
Extended version of selected papers submitted to the workshop will be
published as special issue of International Journal on WWW/Internet
(http://www.iadis.org/ijwi/, ISSN: 1645-7641).

WORKSHOP FORMAT

All authors of accepted papers as well as other participants will be asked
to read accepted papers abstracts before the workshop (papers will be
available on-line in advance) to facilitate discussion.
The workshop will consist in two parts: first (more formal) devoted to
presentation and discussion of accepted papers and second (less formal)
devoted to discussion of several issues related to Deep Web resources,
selected earlier by workshop Program Committee and Chairs.
Workshop participants will be also invited to take part in the BIS
conference and other BIS workshops (including workshops on Social Aspects
of the Web (SAW 2008) and on E-Learning for Business Needs).

IMPORTANT DATES

* February 3, 2008 - submission deadline for papers (extended)
* March 19, 2008 - notification of acceptance/rejection (new date)
* April 6, 2008 - submission of final papers (new date)
* May 5, 6 or 7, 2008 - the workshop

ORGANIZERS

* Poznan University of Economics, Department of Information Systems
  (http://kie.ae.poznan.pl/)

CHAIRS

* Dominik Flejter
* Tomasz Kaczmarek
* Marek Kowalkiewicz

PROGRAM COMMITTEE

* Manuel Alvarez, University of A Coruna, Spain
* Irene Celino, CEFRIEL - Politecnico di Milano, Italy
* Terence Critchlow, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, the USA
* Emanuele Della Valle, CEFRIEL - Politecnico di Milano, Italy
* Dominik Flejter, Poznan University of Economics, Poland
* Francesco Guerra, University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Italy
* Tomasz Kaczmarek, Poznan University of Economics, Poland
* Marek Kowalkiewicz, SAP Research Brisbane, Australia
* Denis Shestakov, University of Turku, Finland
* Altigran Soares da Silva, Universidade Federal do Amazonas, Brazil

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Irene Celino
CEFRIEL Politecnico di Milano
Via Fucini, 2 - 20133 Milano (Italy)
phone: +39 0223954266
fax:   +39 0223954466
email: Irene.Celino@cefriel.it
web:   http://swa.cefriel.it

Received on Wednesday, 16 January 2008 17:01:23 UTC