**** FIRST CALL FOR PAPERS *****
9th ACM International Workshop on Web Information and Data Management
(WIDM 2007)
                    November 9, 2007, Lisbon, Portugal
                  http://workshops.inf.ed.ac.uk/WIDM2007

                   Sponsored by ACM SIGIR and SIGWEB
                In Conjunction with the 16th ACM CIKM 2007

ACM WIDM 2007 is the ninth in a series of workshops on Web Information
and Data Management to be held in conjunction with the 16th
International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM
2007).  The objective of the workshop is to bring together
researchers, industrial practitioners, and developers to study how Web
information can be extracted, stored, analyzed, and processed to
provide useful knowledge to the end users for various advanced
database and Web applications.

TOPICS OF INTEREST
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-- Web Mining: Web Usage Mining, Web Classification, Web Clustering,
     Resource Discovery, Web Personalization, Web Data Extraction, Web
     Structure Mining

-- Formal Models for Web Data and Knowledge Management: Ontologies,
     Data Models and Metadata, Query Languages, Annotations

-- System Issues for Web Applications: Performance of Web
     Applications, System Design, Caching and Indexing of Web data, P2P

-- Methodologies for Web Data Management: Data Integration, Archiving,
     Security, Personalization

-- Tools and Infrastructure for Web Data Management: Web Site Modeling
     and Design, Web Visualization Tools, Intelligent Agents on the Web,
     Web Services

-- Web Applications: Digital Libraries, Web Portals, Warehousing, Web
     Information Filtering, Web Commerce, Web Monitoring

-- Web Exploration: Web Crawling, Web Search Engines

IMPORTANT DATES
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Submission of abstract: June 26th, 2007
Submission of full paper:  July 3rd, 2007
Notification of acceptance: August 17th, 2007
Camera-ready copy due date: August 31st, 2007

PAPER SUBMISSION
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Electronic submission will be used.  The pdf version of the paper
should be submitted to the WIDM 2007 electronic review system no later
than July 3rd, 2007. The paper should be formatted in the camera ready
ACM format and should be at most 8 pages long.  The paper should
present innovative ideas on the topics of interest and not be
published or under consideration elsewhere. More detailed information
about the paper submission procedure will be available at the workshop
website. All accepted papers will appear in the Proceedings published
by ACM Press.

PROGRAM COMMITTEE CHAIRS

Irini Fundulaki
School of Informatics, University of Edinburgh, UK
Irini.Fundul...@ed.ac.uk

Neoklis Polyzotis
Department of Computer Science,  University of California-Santa Cruz,
USA
al...@cs.ucsc.edu

PROGRAM COMMITTEE
See website for details