IIWeb 2012 - Ninth International Workshop on Information Integration on the Web (IIWeb 2012)

Ninth International Workshop on
Information Integration on the Web (IIWeb 2012)
in conjunction with ACM SIGMOD 2012
May 20, 2012, Scottsdale, Arizona, USA
http://research.ihost.com/iiweb12/index.html

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:
á Social Media
á Social Computing
á Big, Uncertain and Noisy Data Management
á Web Mining
á Data Integration
á Semantic Web
á Complex Network Analysis
á Sensor Network Management
IMPORTANT DATES
Manuscripts due: February 19, 2012
Notification of acceptance: April 2, 2012
Final revised manuscript: April 22, 2012
Workshop: May 20, 2012
SUBMISSION GUIDELINES
We welcome original, unpublished manuscripts of upto 6 pages (2 column format) inclusive of all references and figures.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: To be published electronically as an ACM ICPS volume and will be available on ACM Digital Library. We will be following ACM Copyright and plagiarism policies.
ORGANIZING COMMITTEE
Workshop Chairs
Ullas Nambiar, IBM Research - India
Zaiqing Nie, Microsoft Research Asia, China
Steering Committee
Alon Halevv, Google, USA
Craig Knoblock, Information Sciences Institute, University of Southern California, USA
Subbarao Kambhampati, Arizona State University, USA
PROGRAM COMMITTEE
Ambuj Singh, University of California at Santa Barbara
Anish Das Sarma, Google Inc
Avigdor Gal, Technion, Haifa, Israel
Eran Toch, Tel Aviv University
Kevin Chang, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Lee Mong Li, National University of Singapore
Prasad Deshpande, IBM Research ? India
Raju Balakrishnan, Arizona State University
Senjuti Basu Roy, Rutgers University
Weiyi Meng, Binghamton University