IIWeb-2004 Workshop on Information Integration on the Web Held in conjunction with VLDB 2004   30 August 2004, Toronto   Online Proceedings   [ Overview · Logistics · People ]

 

OVERVIEW

The explosive growth and popularity of the world-wide web has resulted in a huge number of information sources on the Internet and the promise of unprecedented information-gathering capabilities to lay users. Unfortunately, the promise has not yet been transformed into reality. While there are sources relevant to virtually any user's query, the morass of sources presents a formidable hurdle to effectively accessing the information. One way of alleviating this problem is to develop web-based information integration systems or agents, which take a user's query or request (e.g., monitor a site), and access the relevant sources or services to efficiently support the request. The purpose of this workshop is to bring together researchers that are working in a variety of areas that are all related to the larger problem of integrating information on the Web. This includes research in the areas of machine learning, data mining, automatic planning, constraint reasoning, databases, view integration, information extraction, semantic web, web services, and other related areas. The proposed workshop will focus on the wide variety of research problems that relate to the problem of web-based information integration. These topics include, but are not limited to: Information extraction Information gathering Information quality/data cleaning Record linkage/object consolidation Novel integration architectures On-the-fly integration Data mining for integration Secure information integration Answering queries using views Source descriptions Source meta-data learning Source statistics learning Web-based query planning, execution and optimization Web service discovery and composition Ontologies and models for information integration Inter-schema mediation architectures Ontology mapping and merging Systems and Applications This is a one day workshop that will be held on 30 August 2004. The workshop will consist of a combination of paper presentations, posters, panels, invited talks and discussion sessions.

LOGISTICS

Submission Instructions If you would like to participate in the workshop, please submit a paper (3-6 pages) or abstract (1 page) using the standard VLDB paper formatting. Please submit papers in PDF and send them directly to iiweb-sub@asu.edu. If your paper is larger than one megabyte, please place the file on an http site and send a pointer to the file. Important Dates and Deadlines Deadline for the submission of full papers (3-6 pages) or abstracts (1 page): 21 May 2004     [too late!] Notification of acceptance/rejection: 4 July 2004 Deadline for the receipt of camera-ready papers: 12 July 2004 Workshop date: 30 August 2004 Note: All workshop participants must register for IIWeb through the VLDB site. You do not need to register for VLDB in order to participate in IIWeb.

PEOPLE

Organizing Committee Hasan Davulcu (Co-Chair) Department of Computer Science & Engineering Arizona State University Tempe, AZ 85287-8809 Email: hdavulcu - att - asu - period - edu http://www.public.asu.edu/~hdavulcu/ Nick Kushmerick (Co-Chair) Department of Computer Science University College Dublin Email: nick - att - ucd - period - ie http://www.cs.ucd.ie/staff/nick/home/ Program Committee Jose-Luis Ambite, University of Southern California Keith Decker, University of Delaware Anhai Doan, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign Tim Finin, University of Maryland-Baltimore County Avigdor Gal, Technion - Israel Institute of Technology Lise Getoor, University of Maryland, College Park Lee Giles, Pennsylvania State University Nicola Guarino, Italian National Research Council Alon Halevy, University of Washington Chun-Nan Hsu, Academia Sinica Taiwan Subbarao Kambhampati, Arizona State University Michael Kifer, University at Stony Brook Craig Knoblock, University of Southern California Vipul Kashyap, National Library of Medicine Giansalvatore Mecca, Universita della Basilicata Saikat Mukherjee, University at Stony Brook Bhanu Prasad, Florida A & M University Louiqa Raschid, University of Maryland Charles A. Shoniregun, University of East London Eleni Stroulia, University of Alberta Heiner Stuckenschmidt, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam Sheila Tejada, University of New Orleans I. Hakki Toroslu, Middle East Technical University Marie-Christine Rousset, Universite Paris-Sud Guizhen Yang, University at Buffalo

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