[UAI] Final CFP (deadline: March 3): IIWeb @ WWW2006: Information Integration on the Web                C A L L    F O R    P A P E R S

                         IIWeb 2006
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                        Workshop on
              Information Integration on the Web
                 in conjunction with WWW 2006

                 http://iiweb2006.cs.uiuc.edu
                     http://www2006.org/

              May 22nd 2006, Edinburgh Scotland 

The explosive growth of the Web has amassed a huge number of
information sources on the Internet with unprecedented potential for
accessibility. In particular, in recent years, the Web has
been rapidly deepened with the prevalence of databases and enriched
with structured (or semi-structured) data online. While there are Web
sources relevant to virtually any user's query, the morass of sources
presents a formidable hurdle to effectively finding such sources,
querying them, and aggregating across sources.

The purpose of this workshop is to bring together researchers in a
variety of areas that are all related to the larger problem of
information integration on the Web. We aim to promote the awareness of
large scale integration on the Web, discuss research directions and
agenda, share experience and insights, and build a joint community
across disciplines for data and application benchmarks.

The workshop will discuss research problems for Web-based information
integration, with a focus on dynamic and large scale
integration. These topics include, but are not limited to:

      * Novel integration architectures 
      * Data and application benchmarks
      * Information extraction 
      * Schema matching
      * Wrapper learning and generation 
      * Information gathering 
      * View integration
      * Source discovery
      * Source descriptions and meta-data learning
      * Source statistics learning
      * Web-based query execution and optimization 
      * Web service composition
      * Record linkage and object consolidation 
      * Resolving inconsistency across sources 
      * Data mining for integration.

The workshop will consist of a combination of paper presentations,
posters, panels, invited talks and discussion sessions.

*** Submission Instructions

We encourage participants to submit a paper (3-6 pages) or position
abstract (1 page) using the standard WWW paper formatting. Please
submit papers in PDF and send them directly to
iiweb-sub@cs.uiuc.edu. If your paper is larger than one megabyte,
please place it on an http site and send a pointer to the file.

*** Important Dates and Deadlines

  Paper submission:          March 3, 2006
  Acceptance Notification:   March 31, 2006
  Camera-ready copy:         April 10, 2006
  Workshop:                  May 22, 2006

*** Workshop Organizers

  Kevin C. Chang                           
  University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
  http://www-faculty.cs.uiuc.edu/~kcchang/
                         
  Avigdor Gal
  Technion - Israel Institute of Technology
  http://ie.technion.ac.il/~avigal/

  Web Chair: Bin He, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

*** Program Committee

Karl Aberer, EPFL, Switzerland
Hasan Davulcu, Arizona State University, USA
Anhai Doan, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA
David Embley, Brigham Young University, USA
Lee Giles, Pennsylvania State University, USA
Fausto Giunchiglia, University of Trento, Italy
Chun-Nan Hsu, Academia Sinica, Taiwan
Subbarao Kambhampati, Arizona State University, USA
Craig Knoblock, University of Southern California, USA
Nicholas Kushmerick, University College Dublin, Ireland
Chen Li, U.C. Irvine, USA
Bing Liu, University of Illinois at Chicago, USA
Frederick H. Lochovsky, University of Science and Technology Hong Kong, China
Giansalvatore Mecca, Universita della Basilicata, Italy
Felix Naumann, Humboldt University, Germany
Zaiqing Nie, Microsoft Reserach Asia, China
Louiqa Raschid, University of Maryland College Park, USA
Marie-Christine Rousset, INRIA, French
Sunita Sarawagi, IIT Bombay, India
Domenico Ursino, Universita' degli Studi di Reggio Calabria, Italy
Ji-Rong Wen, Microsoft Reserach Asia, China
Clement Yu, University of Illinois at Chicago, USA

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Avigdor Gal, D.Sc.
Senior Lecturer
Faculty of Industrial Engineering & Management
Technion - Israel Institute of Technology
Technion City, Haifa 32000
Israel

Tel: +972-4-8294425        Fax: +972-4-8295688
Email: vomewx@ie.technion.ac.il
URL: http://ie.technion.ac.il/~avigal

(An Affiliate Assistant Professor at the 
University of Maryland, College Park)

On Wednesday, when the sky is blue,
And I have nothing else to do,
I sometimes wonder if it's true
That who is what and what is who.

>>From "Lines Written by a Bear of Very Little Brain"
Winnie-the-Pooh, by A. A. Milne
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