CFP

 CALL FOR PAPERS: International Workshop on Web Dynamics
      London, UK, 3 January 2001
 (in conjunction with the 8th International Conference on Database Theory
      ICDT'2001, 4-6 January 2001)

The World-Wide-Web is being used for day-to-day work, finding information,
communicating ideas, carrying out distributed computation, and conducting
business.  The Web is continuing to grow at an exponential rate, in terms of
both the amount and diversity of the information that it encompasses, and
the size of its user base.  This growth poses a host of challenges to the
research community.

In particular, there is a need to understand and manage the dynamics of the
Web, i.e. how its information content, topology and usage change, and what
kinds of models and techniques will scale up to the rate of change.  There
is a need for mechanisms and algorithms for organising and manipulating
information on the Web in order to make the Web tractable.

This workshop aims to bring together researchers from academia and industry
who are working on novel approaches to managing and interacting with the
changing, growing Web.  Topics of interest include, but are not restricted
to, the following list:

- adaptive hypertext
- agents on the Web
- collaborative filtering and recommender systems
- communities on the Web
- consistency of the Web
- data and text mining on the Web
- discovery and sharing of information and knowledge on the Web
- economic foundations
- formal reasoning about Web dynamics
- intelligent browsing and navigation of the Web
- novel models of computation over the Web
- push technology and Web reactivity
- querying and searching the Web and query/search optimisation
- transaction processing over the Web
- views over the Web
- Web design metrics
- workflow over the Web

Invited Speakers
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Knut Magne Risvik, R&D Director Search Technology, Fast Search & Transfer ASA
Soumen Chakrabarti, Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay

Papers
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Authors are invited to submit papers of 5-10 pages in length.  We encourage
submissions presenting novel ideas and work in progress, as well as more
mature work.  Authors should explicitly highlight how their submission
relates to the Web Dynamics theme of the workshop.

Important Dates
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Paper submission deadline: 14 October 2000
Notification of acceptance: 7 November 2000
Camera-ready copy due:     21 November 2000

Workshop Web Site
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The workshop web site is
http://www.dcs.bbk.ac.uk/webDyn/
which will be updated as more information becomes available.