Doctoral Consortium
On Data Engineering and Web Technology Research
(DeWeb'2008)

In conjunction with APWeb 2008, April 26-28, 2008, Shenyang, China

Aim of the event

The Doctoral Consortium on Data Engineering and Web Technology Research (DeWeb'08) aims to bring together current Ph.D. students working on the topics related to APWeb'08 conference. DeWeb'2008 provides an opportunity for doctoral students to present their research topics and early results and receive advice from research experts. The consortium will operate in a workshop format to provide guidance for each student's future progress. The selected applicants will be invited to present their work during APWeb'08, and experts will be invited to attend the presentation and discuss each student's work, which would greatly benefit their research. The consortium is co-located with the APWeb'08 conference. The consortium language is English.

Topics of interest

As a workshop of APWeb conferences, all topics from the field of Web technology are of interest for the Doctoral Consortium. These topics include (but are not limited to):

  • Advanced application of databases
  • Content management
  • Data caching
  • Data mining and knowledge discovery
  • Data and information quality Control
  • Data grid
  • Data migration and integration
  • Deep Web
  • Digital libraries
  • Distributed and parallel Processing
  • Grid computing
  • Emerging Web techniques
  • Interoperability and heterogeneous systems
  • Information retrieval
  • Information security
  • Location-based services
  • Mobile computing and data management
  • Multidimensional databases and OLAP
  • Multimedia information systems
  • Parallel and distributed database systems
  • Peer-to-peer systems
  • Performance and benchmarking
  • Query processing and optimization
  • Semantic web and web ontology
  • Security, privacy and trust
  • Sensor networks
  • Service-oriented computing
  • Spatial and temporal databases
  • Stream data processing
  • Storage management and access methods
  • Web-based collaboration
  • Web-based database integration
  • Web community analysis
  • Web mining
  • Web search and meta-search
  • Web service and information management
  • Workflow and E-services
  • XML and semi-structured query processing
  • XML and semi-structured data management

Submission

All Papers should be prepared in accordance with Springer proceedings template and submitted in PDF or PostScript format to apweb08@csm.vu.edu.au. The paper length should not exceed 10 pages.

In contrast to regular conference papers, submissions should address specifically doctoral work. Therefore, the following elements are recommended:

  • A clear formulation of the research question.
  • An identification of the significant problems in the field of research.
  • An outline of the current knowledge of the problem domain, as well as the state of existing solutions.
  • A presentation of any preliminary ideas, the proposed approach in comparison with existing approaches to the problem
  • A sketch of the applied research methodology.
  • A discussion of preliminary results.

The purpose of this workshop is to facilitate doctoral students' ongoing research efforts. Therefore, it is necessary that authors will have neither achieved their Ph.D. degree nor submitted their thesis before the Doctoral Consortium (April 25, 2008).

Publication

The accepted papers will be published in a joint proceeding via LNCS by Springer .

Important Dates

Submission deadline: 15/01/2008
Notification to authors: 15/03/2008 (extended)
Camera-ready version: 30/03/2008 (extended)
Doctoral consortium: 28/04/2008

Selection criteria

The selection will be based on the quality of the submission by the selection panel.

Organization committee

Guoren Wang, Northeastern University, China
Guandong Xu, Victoria University, Australia
Chengfei Liu, Swinburne University of Technology, Australia
Lei Chen, Hong Kong University of Science & Technology, Hong Kong