CALL FOR PAPERS
          THE EIGHTH INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP ON THE WEB AND DATABASES
                              WebDB 2005
                       http://webdb2005.luc.ac.be

                      June 17, 2005; Baltimore, USA
                        (sponsored by ACM SIGMOD)

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, AI, and IR, where
existing data models, data retrieval and extraction techniques, query
languages and evaluation strategies, and semantic integration methods
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
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

Of special relevance to this edition of the workshop are papers that
address fundamental issues in large scale data integration on the Web,
that bring in new perspectives from the AI and IR fields, and that
propose novel integration paradigms.  Specifically, the topics of
interest for WebDB 2005 include but are certainly not limited to:

- Data and schema integration
- Approximate and trustworthy query answering
- Integration of text into XML and relational databases
- XML query processing and data management
- Web search and distributed information retrieval
- Web mining, exploration, and visualization
- Web privacy and security
- The Semantic Web
- Infrastructure for Web services
- Peer-to-peer search networks
- Foundations of XML

* Organization of the Workshop

The workshop will consist of 1-2 invited talks, paper presentations, a
panel, and poster/demo sessions.  To stimulate interaction and
discussion, in addition to oral presentations, authors of the accepted
papers also have the option of presenting posters.

* Paper Submission

Authors are invited to submit original, unpublished research papers
that are not being considered for publication in any other forum.
Papers 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 submitted cannot exceed six pages in length, including
reference and appendix. Detailed submission instructions will be
available at the workshop homepage http://webdb2005.luc.ac.be .
Submitted research papers will also be automatically considered for
the poster-only option.

In addition, authors are invited to submit demo proposals as PDF files
to either of the co-chairs (frank.neven@luc.ac.be or anhai@cs.uiuc.edu).
The demo proposals must not exceed three pages in
length, using the same format as that of research papers.

* Important Dates

  Submission deadline (papers & demos)      Wed, March 23, 2005, 9:00PM PST
  Notification to authors                   Sat, April 30, 2005
  Camera-ready due                          Tue, May 17, 2005
  Workshop                                     Fri, June 17, 2005

* Workshop Co-Chairs

  AnHai Doan, Univ of Illinois, USA, anhai@cs.uiuc.edu
  Frank Neven, Limburgs Universitair Centrum, Belgium,
frank.neven@luc.ac.be

* Program Committee

   Bruce Croft, Univ of Massachusetts at Amherst, USA
   Kevin Chang, Univ of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA
   Junghoo Cho, Univ of California at Los Angeles, USA
   Wenfei Fan, Bells Lab and Univ of Edinburgh, UK
   Juliana Freire, Univ of Utah and OGI/OHSU, USA
   Zack Ives, Univ of Pennsylvania, USA
   H. V. Jagadish, Univ of Michigan, USA
   Christoph Koch, Technische Universitaet Wien, Austria
   Nick Koudas, Univ of Toronto, Canada
   Chen Li, Univ of California at Irvine, USA
   Bertram Ludaescher, Univ of California at Davis, USA
   Maarten Marx, Univ of Amsterdam, The Netherlands
   Ioana Manolescu, INRIA, France
   Sergey Melnik, Microsoft Research, USA
   Christopher Olston, Carnegie Mellon Univ, USA
   Erhard Rahm, Univ of Leipzig, Germany
   Arnaud Sahuguet, Bell Labs Research, USA
   Jayavel Shanmugasundaram, Cornell Univ, USA
   Gerhard Weikum, Max-Planck-Institut fuer Informatik, Saarbruecken,
Germany
   Clement Yu, Univ of Illinois at Chicago, USA

* Web Chair

  Geert Jan Bex, Limburgs Universitair Centrum, Belgium

* Proceedings Chair

  Robert McCann, Univ of Illinois, USA