Scope
The Web is voluminous, dynamic, information and data intensive, and varies from completely unstructured to fully structured. Despite this Web chaos, all sectors of our global society use the World-Wide Web to further such goals as electronic commerce, information acquisition, and information dissemination. How can we harness this vast mass of potential information to further these and other similar goals?

In this workshop, we propose to explore ways we can apply conceptual modeling to address these challenges. In particular, we wish to consider building conceptual data models to describe knowledge about patterns of data, about objects in our models, and about interactions among these objects and with Web users. These conceptual models should provide the basis for high-quality organization, presentation, search, information extraction, intelligent caching, electronic business processing, and Web site development and management.

Topics
We invite submissions on all topics relating to conceptual modeling and its application to the Web. Particular topics of interest include:

• data and behavioral semantics
• data caching
• data cleaning
• data extraction and information retrieval
• data integration
• data models for Web data
• knowledge discovery
• mining text and data
• semantic search
• semi-structured data
• site design and management
• standards for Web data management (XML, RDF, ...)
• view creation and maintenance
• visualizing the Web
• Web database development
• Web query languages
• Web warehousing
• Web security
• workflow modeling

We are interested in conceptual modeling applied to Web tools, such as:

• authoring tools
• browsers
• mediators
• spiders
• wrappers

Web applications that use conceptual modeling are also of interest:

• digital libraries
• e-business
• e-commerce
• Web publishing

Any other topic providing insight into opportunities for conceptual-modeling research on the Web is also welcome.

Publication
Accepted papers will appear in a workshop proceedings, published by Springer Verlag. Authors will present their work and provide an opportunity for workshop participants to discuss topics related their work. Papers not selected for publication may be invited for presentation as posters or as work in progress. Abstracts of posters and work-in-progress papers will appear in the proceedings.

Important Dates

• Electronic submission of abstracts: 15 May 1999
• Electronic submission of full papers: 22 May 1999
• Notification: 30 June 1999
• Camera-ready copies due: 31 July 1999

Submission Details
Authors are invited to submit research contributions representing original, previously unpublished work. Papers should be no more than 5,000 words in length. Referees will consider originality, significance, technical soundness, and clarity of exposition.

Please submit electronically in PostScript (PDF is also acceptable, but Word, WordPerfect, LaTeX, ASCII, and other formats are not acceptable). To submit an abstract or a paper, point your Web browser to:

http://www.cm99.byu.edu/submit.html

and follow the instructions.

Workshop CoChairs

Peter Chen Computer Science Dept. Louisiana State University Baton Rouge, LA 70803 USA         email: chen@bit.csc.lsu.edu

David W. Embley Department of Computer Science Brigham Young University Provo, UT 84602 USA email: embley@cs.byu.edu

Program Committee Chair

Stephen W. Liddle School of Accountancy and Information Systems Brigham Young University Provo, UT 84602 USA email: liddle@byu.edu

Program Committee Members
Paolo Atzeni, Universita' di Roma Tre, Italy
Wesley W. Chu, UCLA, USA
Kathi Davis, Illinois, USA
Yahiko Kambayashi, Kyoto University, Japan
Alberto Laender, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Brazil
Tok Wang Ling, National University of Singapore, Singapore
Frederick H. Lochovsky, U. of Science & Technology, Hong Kong
Stuart Madnick, MIT, USA
John Mylopoulos, University of Toronto, Canada
C.V. Ramamoorthy, University of California, Berkeley, USA
Il-Yeol Song, Drexel University, USA
Stefano Spaccapietra, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Switzerland
Bernhard Thalheim, Cottbus Technical University, Germany
Leah Wong, US Navy, USA
Philip S. Yu, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, USA