Call for Papers Seventh International Workshop on the Web and Databases WebDB 2004 June 17-18, 2004 Maison de la Chimie, Paris, France (collocated with ACM SIGMOD/PODS 2004, pending final approval from ACM) La "Toile," or the "Web," hosts ever-increasing volumes of diverse data and associated services that cannot be fully exploited unless appropriate management and integration technologies are developed. The influence of the Web has been remarkable in the areas of databases and information retrieval, where existing data models, query languages, and query evaluation strategies are constantly being revisited to account for new and heterogeneous data types, as well as for new scenarios under which the data is generated and processed. The WebDB workshop promotes novel research on next-generation information systems and encourages interaction between the database people and other Web-related research communities. The workshop provides a forum where researchers and practitioners can share their knowledge and opinions about problems and solutions at the intersection of data management and the Web. * Topics of Interest Papers that bridge across the areas of databases and information retrieval are of special relevance to this edition of the workshop. Specifically, the topics of interest in WebDB 2004 include but are certainly not limited to: - Integration of text into XML and relational databases - XML query processing and data management - Web search and distributed information retrieval - Schema and data integration - Approximate query answering - Web mining, exploration, and visualization - Web privacy and security - Infrastructure for Web services - Peer-to-peer search networks * Paper Submissions Authors are invited to submit original, unpublished research papers that are not being considered for publication in any other forum. Manuscripts should be submitted electronically as PDF files and be formatted using the camera-ready templates available at http://www.acm.org/sigs/pubs/proceed/template.html. Papers cannot exceed six pages in length. Detailed submission instructions will be available at the electronic submission Web site. * Important Dates Deadline for submissions March 22, 2004 Notification to authors April 27, 2004 Camera-ready version of accepted papers due May 10, 2004 * Workshop Co-Chairs Sihem Amer-Yahia, AT&T Labs Research, USA Luis Gravano, Columbia University, USA * Program Committee Members Serge Abiteboul, INRIA, France Ricardo Baeza-Yates, Universidad de Chile, Chile Sergey Brin, Google, USA Kevin Chang, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA Junghoo Cho, University of California at Los Angeles, USA Juliana Freire, Oregon Health and Science University, USA Norbert Fuhr, University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany Alon Halevy, University of Washington, USA Taher Haveliwala, Google, USA Rick Hull, Bell Labs, USA Giansalvatore Mecca, Universita' della Basilicata, Italy Philippe Pucheral, INRIA, France Jayavel Shanmugasundaram, Cornell University, USA Divesh Srivastava, AT&T Labs Research, USA Torsten Suel, Polytechnic University, USA Wang-Chiew Tan, University of California at Santa Cruz, USA Val Tannen, University of Pennsylvania, USA Andrew Tomkins, IBM Almaden, USA Phil Wadler, University of Edinburgh, UK * Web Chair Panagiotis Ipeirotis, Columbia University, USA