CALL FOR PAPERS
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16th International Workshop on the Web and Databases (WebDB 2013)
Co-located with ACM SIGMOD 2013
Sunday, June 23, 2013 * New York, NY, USA
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The WebDB workshop provides a forum for researchers, theoreticians, and 
practitioners to share their insights and experiences on problems and
solutions at the intersection of data management and the Web.  WebDB is 
a high-impact forum in which a number of influential papers have been 
presented.

Web site: http://webdb2013.lille.inria.fr/

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Sponsorship
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This year's edition is sponsored by Google and ACM SIGMOD.

We encourage doctoral students to register for the workshop. For registered 
students, we will select a few for Google sponsorship and their registrations 
will be reimbursed. In addition, a Google travel award might be given to a 
student with a first-author accepted submission.  Please feel free to contact 
us for details.

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Topics of Interest
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The theme of WebDb this year will be 'Knowledge and Heterogeneity of the Web'
which aims at focusing on the knowledge that is being created with the current
heterogeneous Web. Of particular interest are the construction of new knowledge 
from novel Web formats and heterogeneous applications and the exploration of 
those knowledge to improve user experiences on the Web. However, papers on all 
aspects of the Web and Databases will be solicited.

Topics of interest include (but are not limited to):

Cloud computing and distributed computing over the Web 
Collaborative data management on the Web 
Data integration over the Web 
Data models and query languages for Web information 
Data-intensive applications on the Web 
Database support for social network and Web 2.0 applications 
Human computation in Web databases 
Information retrieval in semi-structured data and the Web
Knowledge search over the Web
Filtering and recommendation systems 
Location-aware Web applications 
Modeling, mining and querying user generated content 
Personal information management systems 
Quality of user generated content and other web data 
Semantic search on the Web 
Semi-structured data management 
Social and tagged data management 
The Semantic Web and reasoning on Web data 
Web community data management systems 
Web information extraction 
Web privacy and security 
Web services-based architecture and applications 
Web source discovery, analysis, and retrieval 
Web-based distributed data management


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Important Dates
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Submission deadline: March 22, 2013 (11:59pm EST)
Notification: May 3, 2013 (11:59pm EST)
Camera-ready: May 24, 2013

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Submission Instructions
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Authors are invited to submit original, unpublished research papers that
are not being considered for publication in any other forum.  Papers must
follow the ACM Proceedings Format, using one of the templates provided at
http://www.acm.org/sigs/pubs/proceed/template.html for Word and LaTeX
(version 2e). (For LaTeX, both Option 1 and Option 2 are acceptable.) 
The font size, margins, inter-column spacing, and line spacing in the 
templates must be kept unchanged. 

Papers submitted cannot exceed six pages in length, including reference
and appendix. Submissions should be uploaded through Microsofts CMT
submission site at: https://cmt.research.microsoft.com/WEBDB2013/

All submissions will be handled electronically. Each submission will be
reviewed by at least three members of the program committee.


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Invited Speaker
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Anhai Doan
University of Wisconsin, USA

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Conference Organizers
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* Workshop Co-Chairs:

Angela Bonifati ({first}.{last}_AT_inria_DOT_fr)
Lille 1 University and INRIA, France

Cong Yu ({first}{last}_AT_google_DOT_com)
Google Research NYC, USA 	

* Program Committee:
Sihem Amer-Yahia (CNRS, France)
Denilson Barbosa (University of Alberta, Canada)
Senjuti Basu Roy (University of Washington, Tacoma, USA)
Michael Benedikt (University of Oxford, UK)
Mike Cafarella (University of Michigan, USA)
Lei Chen (HKUST, Hong Kong, China)
Laura Chiticariu (IBM Almaden, USA)
George Fletcher	(Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands)
Marcus Fontoura	(Google, USA)
Piero Fraternali (Politecnico di Milano, Italy)
Laks Lakshmanan	(University of British Columbia, Canada)
Feifei Li  (University of Utah, USA)
Guoliang Li  (Tsinghua University, China)
Ioana Manolescu	(INRIA, France)
Arnab Nandi	(Ohio State University, USA)
Felix Naumann	(University of Potsdam, Germany)
Kim Nguyen	(University of Paris Sud, France)
Jignesh Patel	(University of Wisconsin Madison, USA)
Reinhard Pichler (TU Wien, Austria)
Erhard Rahm	(University of Leipzig, Germany)
Pierre Senellart (Telecom ParisTech, France)
Slawek Staworko	(Lille 3 University, France)
Fabian Suchanek	(Max Planck Institute, Germany)
Yannis Velegrakis (University of Trento, Italy)
Yinghui Wu  (UC Santa Barbara, USA)
Xiaokui Xiao (NTU, Singapore)
Bo Zhao	(MSR Silicon Valley, USA)
Xuan Zhou (Renmin University, China)