WAIM 2014 Call for Papers (Abstract Due: Jan 14, 2014)

The 15th International Conference on Web-Age Information Management
(WAIM2014)

http://www.cis.umac.mo/waim2014/
June 16-18, 2014, Macau, China

WAIM is a leading international conference for researchers, practitioners,
developers, and users to share and exchange ideas, results, experience,
techniques, and tools in connection with all aspects of Web data
management. As the 15th event in the increasingly popular series, WAIM2014
expects to attract participants from all over the world to Macau, a famous
city in China, and continues to establish WAIM as one of the major
conferences on Web-based information systems.

The WAIM2014 organization committee invites submissions of research papers,
industry papers and demo papers for WAIM2014, to be held in Macau, China,
June 16-18, 2014. Submissions are invited on all aspects related to Web-age
information management. Each paper will be fully refereed by the program
committee and judged on its originality, significance, technical quality,
and relevance to WAIM2014 as well as presentation. 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.

Important Dates
Abstract due: Jan 14 2014
Full paper due: Jan 21, 2014
Author notification: March 21, 2014
Camera-Ready deadline: April 2, 2014
Author registration: April 2, 2014

Conference Scope
WAIM2014 includes but is not limited to the following topics:
* Advanced database and Web applications
* Big data management and analysis
 * Caching and replication
* Cloud data mining
* Cloud computing
 * Content management
* Crowdsourcing
* Data and information quality
 * Data management on new hardware
* Data mining
* Data management for mobile and pervasive computing
 * Data warehousing and OLAP
* Deep Web
* Digital libraries
 * Information retrieval
* Information extraction
* Information integration and heterogeneous systems
 * Multimedia information systems
* Mobile Internet
* P2P systems performance and benchmarking
 * Parallel and distributed database systems
* Query processing and optimization
* Recommender systems
 * Semantic Web and ontology
* Security, privacy, and trust
* Sensor networks
 * Service-oriented computing
* Spatial and temporal databases
* Stream data processing
 * Storage and access methods
* Uncertain Data
* Web advertising and community analysis
 * Web-based collaboration
* Web search and meta-search
* Web service and information management
 * Workflow systems
* XML and semi-structured data
* Wireless Sensor Network

Paper Publication
The proceedings of WAIM2014 will be published by Springer-Verlag in the
Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) series, one volume for the main
conference and one volume for the workshops. Both will be indexed by EI.
Selected accepted papers will be invited to submit expanded versions for
possible publication in the FCS (Frontier of Computer Science) journal
(indexed by SCI).

Paper Submission
All submissions should be in English. Every research paper submitted to
WAIM 2014 will undergo a "double-blind" reviewing process.  A submission
should be no more than 12 pages double spacing, including all figures.
 Submission website: https://cmt.research.microsoft.com/WAIM2014/

Workshops, Demos, Panels, and Industry Presentations
In addition to regular papers, WAIM2014 invites proposals for workshops,
demos, panels, and industry presentations. For workshops and demos,
WAIM2014 will provide administrative support for room booking,
registration, and paper publication.

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