Call for Papers   (PDF)

The aim of this ninth edition of the conference series on Web Information Systems Engineering is to provide an international forum for researchers, professionals, and industrial practitioners to share their knowledge in the rapidly growing area of Web technologies, methodologies and applications. Previous WISE conferences were held in Hong Kong, China (2000), Kyoto, Japan (2001), Singapore (2002), Roma, Italy (2003), Brisbane, Australia (2004), New York, USA (2005), Wuhan, China (2006), and Nancy, France (2007).

Topics of Interest

WISE 2008 invites submissions on all topics related to Web information systems engineering, including but not limited to those listed below:

  • Complex Event Processing and Event-driven Systems;
  • Deep/Hidden Web;
  • e-Commerce and e-Government;
  • Grid Computing and P2P Systems;
  • Innovative Web-based Applications;
  • Location-based Services;
  • Mobile Web Information Systems;
  • Rich Web UI;
  • Semantic Web;
  • Web Agents and Web Intelligence;
  • Web Data Integration;
  • Web Data Mashup;
  • Web Data Models;
  • Web Information Retrieval;
  • Web Metrics;
  • Web Mining and Web Warehousing;
  • Web Monitoring and Management;
  • Web Performance;
  • Web Security and Trust Management;
  • Web Services;
  • Web Tools and Languages;
  • Web Transactions;
  • Web Visualisation;
  • Web-based Auction and Negotiation;
  • Web-based Business Processes;
  • Web-based Enterprise Systems;
  • Web-based Learning; and
  • XML and Semi-structured Data.

Research and Industry Tracks

There will be two independent tracks for Research and Industrial papers, each managed by a different program committee and with a different set of evaluation criteria. The authors must clearly indicate the track to which the paper is being submitted.

Research Papers:   The conference is soliciting original research papers on all aspects of Web information systems engineering. Submitted papers will be judged according to their scientific merits and evaluated on significance, originality, technical quality, and exposition.

Industrial and Application Papers:   WISE 2008 encourages submissions covering the application of Web information systems engineering in practice, including papers describing innovative implementations, novel applications, and major improvements to the state-of-practice. The papers submitted to this track can range from a few page extended abstract to a full paper. The track will also include a small number of invited visionary papers.

Workshops and Tutorials

WISE 2008 solicits the submissions of proposals for Workshops and Tutorials.

Workshop Proposal Submissions:   WISE 2008 solicits the submission of workshop proposals on any of the conference topics. Proposals should be submitted electronically to the Workshop Chairs. Workshop proceedings will be made available to the participants attending the workshops.

Tutorial Proposal Submissions:   WISE 2008 solicits the submission of high quality tutorial proposals on any of the conference topics. Proposals should be submitted electronically to the Tutorial Chairs.

Publication

The proceedings of WISE 2008 will be published in two separate volumes by Springer in its Lecturer Notes in Computer Science series, one volume for all papers accepted by the main conference, and one volume for all papers accepted by all WISE workshops. A special issue of the World Wide Web Journal is scheduled in 2009 for publishing extended versions of selected WISE 2008 papers.

Yahiko Kambayashi Best Paper Award:   The WISE Program Committee will select the best paper from all submissions for this prestigious award with US$1000.

Important Dates

Notice: WISE 2008 and VLDB 2008 have reached an agreement on being considered co-located conferences. As a result, WISE 2008 has decided to align its abstract and paper submission deadlines with those of VLDB 2008. The new and firm WISE 2008 deadlines are as follows:

Workshop proposals:

January 07, 2008 (12pm GMT)

Workshop proposer notification:

January 18, 2008

Paper abstract submission:

March 07, 2008 (5pm GMT)

Full paper submission:

March 14, 2008 (5pm GMT)

Author notification:

April 28, 2008

Tutorial proposals:

May 05, 2008 (5pm GMT)

Panel proposals:

May 19, 2008 (5pm GMT)

Tutorial notification:

May 19, 2008

Camera-ready submission (WISE 2008 conference papers):

May 26, 2008

Camera-ready submission (WISE 2008 workshop papers):

June 02, 2008

Panel notification:

June 02, 2008

Author registration:

June 06, 2008

Early registration ends:

August 03, 2008

Conference:

September 01-03, 2008
 

Conference Committee

General Conference Co-chairs

Klaus-Dieter Schewe (Information Science Research Centre, New Zealand)
Xiaoyang Sean Wang (University of Vermont, USA)

Program Committee Co-chairs

James Bailey (The University of Melbourne, Australia)
David Maier (Portland State University, USA)
Bernhard Thalheim (Christian-Albrechts-University Kiel, Germany)

Workshop and Tutorial Co-chairs

Sven Hartmann (Clausthal University of Technology, Germany)
Xiaofang Zhou (The University of Queensland, Australia)

Local Organisation Co-chairs

Dave Parry (Auckland University of Technology, New Zealand)
Russel Pears (Auckland University of Technology, New Zealand)

Panel Chair

Gustavo Rossi (National University of La Plata, Argentina)

Industrial Program Co-chairs

John Hosking (University of Auckland, New Zealand)
Oscar Pastor (Universidad Politécnica de Valencia, Spain)

Steering Committee Liaison

Yanchun Zhang (Victoria University, Australia)

Publicity Chair

Markus Kirchberg (Institute for Infocomm Research, A*STAR, Singapore)

Program Committee

Abramowicz, Witold, The Poznan University of Economics, Poznan, Poland
Altenhofen, Michael, SAP Research, Karlsruhe, Germany
Balke, Wolf-Tilo, University of Augsburg, Germany
Baresi, Luciano, Politecnico di Milano, Italy
Beeri, Catriel, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel
Benatallah, Boualem, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
Bertossi, Leopoldo, Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada
Bidoit, Nicole, University of Paris-South, France
Bouguettaya, Athman, CSIRO ICT Centre, Canberra, Australia
Bry, Francois, Ludwig-Maximilian-University, Munich, Germany
Busse, Susanne, Berlin University of Technology, Germany
Casati, Fabio, University of Trento, Italy
Crescenzi, Valter, Roma Tre University, Rome, Italy
Cuzzocrea, Alfredo, University of Calabria, Rende, Italy
Damiani, Ernesto, University of Milan, Italy
De Antonellis, Valeria, Brescia University, Italy
De Troyer, Olga, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium
Delcambre, Lois, Portland State University, United States
Dobbie, Gill , University of Auckland, New Zealand
Dolog, Peter, Aalborg University, Denmark
Eckstein, Silke, Braunschweig University of Technology, Germany
Ehrich, Hans-Dieter, Braunschweig University of Technology, Germany
Embley, David, Brigham Young University, Provo, United States
Frasincar, Flavius, Erasmus University Rotterdam, The Netherlands
Garzotto, Franca, University of Milan, Italy
Geerts, Floris, University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom
Georgakopoulos, Dimitrios, Telcordia Technologies, Morristown, United States
Ghose, Aditya, University of Wollongong, Australia
Godart, Claude, University Henri Poincare, Nancy, France
Goh, Angela, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
Gopalkrishnan, Vivekanand, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
Gottlob, Georg, University of Oxford, United Kingdom
Gruhn, Volker, University of Leipzig, Germany
Guizzardi, Giancarlo, Federal University of Espírito Santo, Brazil
Han, Hyoil, Drexel University, Philadelphia, United States
Hartmann, Sven, Clausthal University of Technology, Germany
Hosking, John, University of Auckland, New Zealand
Houben, Geert-Jan, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium
Kanza, Yaron, Technion -- Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel
Kappel, Gerti, Technical University of Vienna, Austria
Karlapalem, Kamalakar, University of Hyderabad, India
Kirchberg, Markus, Institute for Infocomm Research, A*STAR, Singapore
Klettke, Meike, University of Rostock, Germany
Koch, Nora, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität Munich, Germany
Lepape, Cecile, Pierre & Marie Curie University, Paris, France
Li, Qing, City University of Hong Kong, China
Liddle, Stephen, Newcastle University, United Kingdom
Lim, Ee-Peng, Singapore Management University, Singapore
Lin, Xuemin, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
Ling, Tok Wang, National University of Singapore, Singapore
Link, Sebastian, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand
Liu, Chengfei, Swinburne University of Technology, Melbourne, Australia
Liu, Qing, CSIRO Tasmania ICT Centre, Hobart, Australia
Liu, Ying, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, China
Lu, Jianguo, University of Windsor, Canada
Ma, Hui, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand
Martens, Wim, Technical University of Dortmund, Germany
Medjahed, Brahim, The University of Michigan, Dearborn, United States
Meghini, Carlo, CNR ISTI Pisa, Italy
Mendes, Emilia, University of Auckland, New Zealand
Merialdo, Paolo, Roma Tre University, Rome, Italy
Moreira de Olivera, Jose Palazzo, Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil
Nejdl, Wolfgang, Leibniz University Hannover, Germany
Ng, Wilfred, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, China
Noack, Rene, Christian-Albrechts-University Kiel, Germany
Norrie, Moira, ETH Zurich, Switzerland
Pautasso, Cesare, University of Lugano, Switzerland
Peng, Zhiyong, Wuhan University, China
Pokorny, Jaroslav, Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic
Poulovassilis, Alexandra, University of London, United Kingdom
Purvis, Martin, University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand
Risch, Tore, Uppsala University, Sweden
Roantree, Mark, Dublin City University, Ireland
Röhm, Uwe, University of Sydney, Australia
Rolland, Colette, University of Paris1 -- Pantheon-Sorbonne, France
Rosemann, Michael, Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, Australia
Rossi, Gustavo, Universidad Nacional de La Plata, Argentina
Sadiq, Shazia, University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia
Sato, Shin-ya, NTT Network Innovation Laboratories, Tokyo, Japan
Schneider, Michel, Blaise Pascal University, Aubiere, France
Schwabe, Daniel, Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Shen, Heng Tao, University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia
Shui, Bill, National ICT Australia, Sydney, Australia
Spyratos, Nicolas, University of Paris-South, France
Srinivasa, Srinath, Indian Institute of Information Technology, Bangalore, India
Stumme, Gerd, University of Kassel, Germany
Sun, Aixin, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
Tanaka, Katsumi, Kyoto University, Japan
Tanaka, Yuzuru, Hokkaido University, Japan
Taniar, David, Monash University, Melbourne, Australia
Theodoratos, Dimitri, New Jersey's Science & Technology University, Newark, United States
Torlone, Riccardo, Roma Tre University, Rome, Italy
Vansummeren, Stijn, Hasselt University, Belgium
Wagner, Gerd, Cottbus University of Technology, Germany
Wang, Junhu, Griffith University, Brisbane, Australia
Wang, X. Sean, University of Vermont, Burlington, United States
Weber, Gerald, University of Auckland, New Zealand
Wong, Raymond, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
Yu Xu, Jeffrey, Chinese University of Hong Kong, China
Zhang, Yanchun, Victoria University, Melbourne, Australia
Zhou, Xiaofang, University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia