WAIM is a leading international conference for researchers, practitioners, developers, and users to share and exchange ideas, results, experience, techniques, and tools in connection with all aspects of Web data management. As the 17th event in the increasingly popular series, WAIM2016 expects to attract participants from all over the world to Nanchang, and continues to establish WAIM as one of the major conferences on Web-based information systems.

The WAIM2016 organization committee invites submissions of research papers, industry papers and demo papers for WAIM2016, to be held in Nanchang, China, June 3-5, 2016. Submissions are invited on all aspects related to Web-age information management. Each paper will be fully refereed by the program committee and judged on its originality, significance, technical quality, and relevance to WAIM2016 as well as presentation. Submission of a paper should be regarded as an undertaking that, should the paper be accepted, at least one author will attend the conference to present the work.

Conference Scope

    Advanced database and Web applications
    Big data analytics
    Big data management
    Caching and replication
    Cloud computing
    Content management
    Crowdsourcing
    Data and information quality
    Data management for mobile and pervasive computing
    Data management on new hardware
    Data mining
    Data provenance and workflow
    Data warehousing and OLAP
    Deep Web
    Digital libraries
    Entity resolution and entity linking
    Graph data management, RDF, social networks
    Information extraction
    Information integration and heterogeneous systems
    Information retrieval
    Knowledge extraction and management
    Multimedia information systems
    P2P-system performance
    Parallel and distributed data management
    Query processing and optimization
    Recommender systems
    Security, privacy, and trust
    Semantic Web and ontology
    Sensor networks
    Service-oriented computing
    Social media
    Spatial and temporal databases
    Storage and access methods
    Streams, complex event processing
    Text database, keyword search
    Uncertain data
    Web advertising and community analysis
    Web information quality and fusion
    Web search and meta-search
    Web service management
    XML and semi-structured data

Paper Publication

The proceedings of WAIM2016 will be published by Springer-Verlag in the Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) series, one volume for the main conference and one volume for the workshops. Both will be indexed by EI. Selected accepted papers will be invited to submit expanded versions for possible publication in the FCS (Frontier of Computer Science) journal (indexed by SCI).

Paper Submission

All submissions should be in English. Every research paper submitted to WAIM2016 will undergo a "double-blind" reviewing process. A submission should be no more than 12 pages single spacing, including all figures.

Submission website: https://cmt.research.microsoft.com/WAIM2016/

Workshops, Demos, Panels, and Industry Presentations

In addition to regular papers, WAIM2016 invites proposals for workshops, demos, panels, and industry presentations. For workshops and demos, WAIM2016 will provide administrative support for room booking, registration, and paper publication.