**** THIRD CALL FOR PAPERS *****
      11th ACM International Workshop on Web Information 
              and Data Management (WIDM 2009)                

          November 2, 2009, Hong Kong, China
	    http://widm2009.ist.psu.edu/

 	        Sponsored by ACM SIGIR and SIGWEB
	   In Conjunction with the 18th ACM CIKM 2009


	     ***** Paper due: July 10th, 2009 *****


ACM WIDM 2009 is the eleventh in a series of workshops on Web Information
and Data Management to be held in conjunction with the 18th
International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM
2009).  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
-------------------

-- 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: Data Models 
   and Meta-data, Semi-structured Data and XML, Query Languages, 
   Annotations, Ontologies

-- 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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Paper submission:           July 10th, 2009 
Notification of acceptance: August 10th, 2009 
Camera-ready copy due date: August 15th, 2009


PAPER SUBMISSION
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Electronic submission will be used.  The pdf version of the paper
should be submitted to the WIDM 2009 electronic review system no later
than July 10th, 2009. 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The paper should present innovative ideas on the topics of interest and not be
published or under consideration elsewhere.  The review process is double-blind. 
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

Chee-Yong Chan
National University of Singapore, Singapore

Prasenjit Mitra 
The Pennsylvania State University, USA

PROGRAM COMMITTEE 

Angela Bonifati 		ICAR-CNAR				Italy
Yi Chen                         Arizona State University               	USA
Zhiyuan Chen                    University of Maryland Baltimore County USA
Byron Choi 			Hong Kong Baptist University		Hong Kong
Bin Cui 			Peking University			China
Hang Cui 			Yahoo! Research                         USA
Zhicheng Dou 			Microsoft Research			China
Vuk Ercegovac 			IBM Almaden Research Lab		USA
George Fletcher			Washington State University		USA
Irini Fundulaki                 ICS Forth                               Greece
Floris Geerts                   University of Edinburgh                 UK
Bernard Jim Jansen 		The Pennsylvania State University	USA
Panagiotis Kalnis   		King Abdullah Univ. of Science & Tech.  Saudi Arabia
Daniel Kifer 			The Pennsylvania State University	USA
Georgia Koutrika                Stanford University                     USA
Sang-goo Lee 			Seoul National University		South Korea
Chengkai Li 			University of Texas at Arlington	USA
Feifei Li                       Florida State University                USA
Tao Li 				Florida International University	USA
Ee-Peng Lim 			Singapore Management University		Singapore
Bo Luo				University of Kansas			USA
Gang Luo 			IBM TJ Watson Research Lab		USA
Michael Nelson 			Old Dominion University			USA
Yuan Ni 			IBM China Research Lab			China
Neolkis Polyzotis 		University of California-Santa Cruz	USA
Oded Shmueli			Technion - Israel Institute of Tech.	Israel
Pierre Senellart                Max-Planck-Institut für Informatik      Germany
Erik Vee 			Yahoo! Research                         USA
Raymond Wong                    Hong Kong Univ. of Science & Tech.      Hong Kong
GuiRong Xue 			Shanghai Jiao Tong University		China