APWeb (The 14th Asia-Pacific Web Conference 11th-13th, April, Kunming, China) is a leading international conference on research, development and applications of Web technologies, database systems, information management and software engineering, with a focus on the Asia-Pacific region. Previous APWeb conferences were held in Beijing (1998), Hong Kong (1999), Xian (2000), Changsha (2001), Xian (2003), Hangzhou (2004), Shanghai (2005), Harbin (2006) Huangshan (2007), Shenyang (2008), Suzhou (2009), Busan (2010), Beijing (2011). APWeb'12 includes but is not limited to the following areas: o Advanced application of databases o Content management o Data caching o Data mining and knowledge discovery o Data and information quality Control o Data grid o Data migration and integration o Deep Web o Digital libraries o Distributed and parallel Processing o Grid computing o Emerging Web techniques o Interoperability and heterogeneous systems o Information retrieval o Information security o Location-based services o Mobile computing and data management o Multidimensional databases and OLAP o Multimedia information systems o Parallel and distributed database systems o Peer-to-peer systems o Performance and benchmarking o Query processing and optimization o Semantic web and web ontology o Security, privacy and trust o Sensor networks o Service-oriented computing o Spatial and temporal databases o Stream data processing o Storage management and access methods o Web-based collaboration o Web-based database integration o Web community analysis o Web mining o Web search and meta-search o Web service and information management o Workflow and E-services o XML and semi-structured query processing PAPER SUBMISSION https://cmt.research.microsoft.com/APWEB2012 APWeb’12 invites papers describing original contributions in all fields of Web Management and WWW related research and applications. All submissions should be in English. Submission of a paper should be regarded as an undertaking that, should the paper be accepted, at least one author will attend the conference to present the work. Paper submission will be electronic through the APWeb12 Web site. Papers should be submitted in LNCS (Lecture Notes in Computer Science) format (style files are available at LNCS Authors Instructions) as PostScript or PDF files and may not exceed 12 pages. Abstract due: October 7, 2011 Full paper due: October 14, 2011 Acceptance notification: December 20, 2011 Camera-ready copy: January 15, 2012 Workshop Proposals: Aug.30, 2011 Panel/Tutorial Proposals: December 5, 2011 Conference Organization Honorary General Chair Yaoxue Zhang, Tsinghua University General Co-Chairs Yanchun Zhang, Victoria University Masaru KITSUREGAWA, Tokyo University Program Co-Chairs Michael Sheng, The University of Adelaide Guoren Wang, Northeastern University Christian S. Jensen, Aarhus University Workshop and Tutorial chair Hua Wang, University of Southern Queensland Local arrangement chair Jianfeng HE, Kunming Univ. of Sci. & Technology Financial Chair: Jing He, Victoria University Publication Chair Guandong Xu, Victoria University Publicity Co-Chairs Haolan Zhang, NIT, Zhejiang University Jiangang Ma, Adelaide University Keynote Speech •Professor Vijay Varadharajan, Macquarie University, Australia •Professor Z. Meral Özsoyoğlu, Case Western Reserve University, U. S. A •Professor Patrick McDaniel, Pennsylvania State University, U. S. A PUBLICATION The proceedings will be published by Springer-Verlag in the LNCS series, one volume for main conference and one volume for workshops (pending for approval). One special issue on World Wide Web Journal will be organized based on the accepted paper of APweb2012. (http://www.springer.com/computer/database+management+%26+information+retrieval/journal/11280) WORKSHOP, PANELS, TUTORIALS, INDUSTRY PRESENTATIONS In addition to technical contributions, APWeb12 invites proposals for workshops, panels, tutorials, industry presentations. For workshops, APWeb'12 will provide administrative support for workshop room booking, registration, and publication. All papers accepted by APWeb’12 workshops will be published in a combined volume of Lecturer Notes in Computer Science series published by Springer (pending for approval). Proposals or industry papers should be sent as e-mail attachments to apweb2012@gmail.com. Website: http://e-research.csm.vu.edu.au/files/apweb2012/apweb.html
