The Web hosts ever-increasing volumes of diverse data and associated services that cannot be fully exploited unless appropriate management and integration technologies are developed. The influence of the Web has been remarkable in the areas of databases, AI, and IR, where existing data models, data retrieval and extraction techniques, query languages and evaluation strategies, and semantic integration methods are constantly being revisited to account for new and heterogeneous data types, as well as for new scenarios under which the data is generated and processed.

The WebDB workshop promotes novel research on next-generation information systems and encourages interaction between the database and other Web-related research communities. The workshop provides a forum where researchers and practitioners can share their knowledge and opinions about problems and solutions at the intersection of data management and the Web.

Topics of Interest

Of special relevance to this edition of the workshop are papers that address fundamental issues in large scale data integration on the Web, that bring in new perspectives from the AI and IR fields, and that propose novel integration paradigms. Specifically, the topics of interest for WebDB 2005 include but are certainly not limited to:

• Data and schema integration
• Approximate and trustworthy query answering
• Integration of text into XML and relational databases
• XML query processing and data management
• Web search and distributed information retrieval
• Web mining, exploration, and visualization
• Web privacy and security
• The Semantic Web
• Infrastructure for Web services
• Peer-to-peer search networks
• Foundations of XML

Organization of the Workshop

The workshop will consist of 1-2 invited talks, paper presentations, a panel, and poster/demo sessions. To stimulate interaction and discussion, in addition to oral presentations, authors of the accepted papers also have the option of presenting posters.

Paper submissions

Authors are invited to submit original, unpublished research papers that are not being considered for publication in any other forum. Papers should be submitted electronically as PDF files and be formatted using the camera-ready templates available at http://www.acm.org/sigs/pubs/proceed/template.html.

Papers submitted cannot exceed six pages in length, including reference and appendix. Please register and submit your paper at https://msrcmt.research.microsoft.com/WebDB2005/.

In addition, authors are invited to submit demo proposals as PDF files to either of the co-chairs ( frank.neven@luc.ac.be or anhai@cs.uiuc.edu). The demo proposals must not exceed three pages in length, using the same format as that of research papers.

Program Committee

Workshop co-chairs

Proceedings chair

Web chair

Workshop Program

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