Call for Papers

International Workshop on the
World-Wide Web and Conceptual Modeling
(WWWCM'99)

November 15 - 18, 1999

to be held in conjunction with the
18th International Conference on Conceptual Modeling (ER'99)
Paris, France

http://www.cm99.byu.edu


Scope
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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
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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
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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
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* 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
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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
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Peter Chen                             David W. Embley
Computer Science Dept.                 Department of Computer Science
Louisiana State University             Brigham Young University
Baton Rouge, LA 70803 USA              Provo, UT 84602 USA
email: chen@bit.csc.lsu.edu            email: embley@cs.byu.edu


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


Program Committee Members
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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
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