Ninth International Workshop on
Information Integration on the Web (IIWeb 2012)
co-located with SIGMOD 2012
May 20, 2012, Scottsdale, Arizona, USA
Accepted
Papers | Important Dates | Submission
Guidelines | Workshop
Committee | Program Committee | Past Workshops | Related Workshop –
STIR 2012 at ICDE 2012
********************************* Keynote Talk
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Speaker: Anhai
Doan, Chief Scientist at @WalmartLabs
& Assoc. Prof at University of Wisconsin, Madison
http://pages.cs.wisc.edu/~anhai/bio.html
Workshop Program is here
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Focus: Social and Web Data Integration
This workshop, 9th in the IIWeb series, is focused on identifying challenges to be overcome for effectively extracting and integrating knowledge from the Web, enterprise data, and social media. The purpose of this workshop is to bring together researchers working in a variety of areas that are all related to the larger problem of integrating information. This includes research on information extraction, data integration, semantic web, web services, data mining, query execution, and other related areas.
Topics of interest,
include, but are not restricted to:
· Systems dealing with large scale data processing, integration and management
- Challenges with
managing and integrating social, web, enterprise, real-time and historical
data
- Issues in extracting information such as product
reviews, opinions, interests from large data networks such as Twitter,
Facebook, MySpace
- Case Studies, successes, lessons learnt
- Sharing of data – policy needs, security concerns, incentives
We invite researchers working in any of the
following areas to participate:
· Social
Media
· Social
Computing
· Big,
Uncertain and Noisy Data Management
· Web
Mining
· Data
Integration
· Semantic
Web
· Complex
Network Analysis
· Sensor
Network Management
Important Dates
Manuscripts due: March 18, 2012
Notification of acceptance: April 15, 2012
Final revised manuscript: April 29, 2012
Workshop: May 20, 2012
We welcome original, unpublished manuscripts of upto 6 pages (2 column format) inclusive of all references and figures. Vision papers and descriptions of work-in-progress are welcomed as short paper submissions (4 pages). Papers must be written in English, and formatted according to ACM SIG proceedings templates.
Submission Site: Papers are to be submitted online at https://cmt.research.microsoft.com/IIWeb2012/.
We request interested authors to create a login on CMT as an expression of interest.
Proceedings: IIWeb’12 proceedings will be available as ACM ICPS volume (ISBN: 978-1-4503-1239-4) and will be available on ACM Digital Library.
We
will be following ACM Copyright and plagiarism policies.
Workshop Chairs
Ullas Nambiar, IBM Research -
Zaiqing Nie, Microsoft Research
Asia, China
Steering Committee
Alon Halevy, Google, USA
Craig
Knoblock,
Information Sciences Institute,
Subbarao Kambhampati, Arizona State University, USA
Ambuj
Singh, University of California at Santa Barbara
Anish Das
Sarma, Google Inc
Avigdor
Gal, Technion, Haifa, Israel
Bart Kuijpers,
Eran
Toch, Tel Aviv University
Jose Luis Ambite, Information
Sciences Institute, USA
Kevin Chang, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Mong
Li Lee, National University of Singapore
Prasad Deshpande, IBM Research
– India
Raju
Balakrishnan, Arizona State University
Senjuti
Basu Roy, Rutgers University
Weiyi
Meng, Binghamton
University
IIWeb 2012 will follow the tradition
established by the following eight workshops, each having a different focus
theme each time and held at premier venues across related communities.
1. IIWeb
2011, held
at WWW 2011.
Co-chairs: Ullas Nambiar and L Venkata Subramaniam
2. IIWeb 2009, held at IJCAI 2009.
Co-chairs: Biplav Srivastava,
Ullas Nambiar and Craig Knoblock
3. IIWeb 2007, held at AAAI 2007.
Co-chairs:
Ullas Nambiar and Zaiqing Nie
4. IIWeb 2006, held at
WWW 2006.
Co-chairs: Kevin Chang and Avigdor Gal
5. IIWeb 2004, held at VLDB 2004.
Co-chairs: Hasan Davulcu
and Nick Kushmerick.
6. IIWeb 2003, held at IJCAI 2003.
Co-chairs: Craig Knoblock and Subbarao Kambhampati,
7. Intelligent Information Integration (III 99), held at IJCAI 1999
Co-chairs:
D.
8. AI and Information Integration, held at AAAI 1998
Co-chairs:
Craig Knoblock and Alon Levy