Second CfP: 1^st Workshop on Advances in Accessing Deep Web (ADW 2008)

in conjunction with
11th International Conference on Business Information Systems (BIS 2008)

Innsbruck, Austria
May 7, 2008

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Deadline for submissions: March 16, 2008

The main way of accessing content on contemporary Web is by means of general purpose search engines.
However, for reasons such as: password protection, FORM based interfaces and usage of dynamic client-side technologies (JavaScript, AJAX and Flash), a significant portion of modern Web content remains nonindexable and thus unavailable to the majority of Web users.
In many cases this nonindexable information sources, known altogether under the names of Deep Web, Hidden Web or Invisible Web, are better structured and of better quality than indexable surface Web sources.
Started only recently, Deep Web research combines challenges from several active research areas including information retrieval, information extraction, hypertext, Web engineering, data integration, database technologies and the Semantic Web.

The goal of this workshop is to bring researchers and practitioners together to explore the issues and challenges related to domain dependent and independent Deep Web empirical studies, methodologies and techniques of accessing and processing Deep Web content as well as their real-life applications.
In the workshop we would like to present and discuss research, business cases and working prototypes / applications in areas including, but no limited to:

Topics

Modelling and Describing Deep Web
- Models of Deep Web Navigation
- Hidden Web Data and the Semantic Web
- Description of Deep Web Sources Contents
- Description of Deep Web Sources Querying Capabilities
- Addressing Content and Data in Deep Web Sources
- Semantic Annotation of Deep Web Sources
Empirical Studies of Deep Web
- Research on Deep Web Size and Topicality
- Deep Web Content and Quality Studies
- Domain-Specific Deep Web Sources Studies
- Comparative Studies of Deep Web and Surface Web Content
Working with Deep Web Sources
- Probing Deep Web Sources
- Classification and Clustering of Deep Web Sources
- Handling Client-Side Technologies (JavaScript/dHTML/AJAX) for Deep Web Access
- Extraction of Data from Deep Web
- Deep Web Sources Discovery
- Archiving and Preservation of Deep Web Content
- Methods of Deep Web Indexing
Data Integration from Deep Web Sources
- Deep Web Sources Selection
- Rewriting Queries for Deep Web Sources
- Matching and Mapping of Deep Web Sources Schemas
- Methods of Deep Web Meta-Search
Applications of Deep Web Research
- Monitoring Hidden Web Data
- Cases and Best Practices of Deep Web Data Usage
- Business Models of Deep Web Data Integration
- Legal and Ethical Aspects of Using Deep Web Content
- Detecting and Disabling Deep Web Harvesting

Submission

Long papers: max. 5000 words
Work-in-progress rep.: max. 2500 words
Position papers: max. 2500 words
Demo papers: max. 2500 words

Papers must be submitted in PDF format according to Springer LNBIP template available from http://www.springer.com/east/home/computer/lncs?SGWID=5-164-7-487211-0.

Submission system is available on-line at http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=adw2008.

The proceedings will be published jointly with proceedings of other BIS workshops as a book or CD with ISBN number, and on-line at CEUR WS.org workshop proceedings publication service (open content).
Extended version of selected papers submitted to the workshop will be published as special issue of International Journal on WWW/Internet (http://www.iadis.org/ijwi/, ISSN: 1645-7641).

Workshop format

All authors of accepted papers as well as other participants will be asked to read accepted papers abstracts before the workshop (papers will be available on-line in advance) to facilitate discussion.
The workshop will consist in two parts: first (more formal) devoted to presentation and discussion of accepted papers and second (less formal) devoted to discussion of several issues related to Deep Web resources, selected earlier by workshop Program Committee and Chairs.
Workshop participants will be also invited to take part in the BIS conference and other BIS workshops (including workshops on Social Aspects of the Web (SAW 2008) and on E-Learning for Business Needs).