Dear Colleagues,

As the submission date of MIW'2001 workshop is approaching, you might be
glad to hear that we will have the opportunity to have a selected number of
MIW'2001 accepted papers for possible inclusion in "Knowledge and
Information Systems: An International Journal" by Springer-Verlag. Details
of the workshop is as follow.

Thanks.

Wendy Xinyu Wu

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Dr Wendy X Wu
School of Computing Science
Middlesex University
The Burroughs, NW4 4BT
Tel: 020 84112254
Mobile: 07947 804815
Fax: 020 83626943
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2nd International Workshop on Management of Information on the Web
(http://www.cs.mdx.ac.uk/staffpages/wwu/MIW'2001/DEXA'2001.html)
in conjunction with the Int'l Conference on Database and Expert Systems
Application (DEXA'2001) in Munich, Germany 3-7 September 2001.

THEME

Following a successful MIW'2000 workshop held in Greenwich University,
London in September, this time we will continue to explore the issue of Web
information management from various perspectives with an emphasis on Data
and Text Mining on the Web. The Web, as effectively the largest
heterogeneous data warehouse in the world, accommodates a huge amount of
information in various nature which presents an exciting challenge to
everyone. How to manage, retrieve, or even discover previously unknown
useful information from the Web have been the research interests among
researchers and practitioners from different disciplines.

The aim of MIW'2001 is to clarify the key tasks involved in the management
of information on the Web with a special focus on data and text mining. We
will try to answer questions such as: Is Web data mining any different from
traditional data mining? Is text mining simply a combination of natural
language processing and data mining? What are the differences between text
mining, natural language processing, and information retrieval? What are the
relationships among data mining, text mining and web mining? What are the
promising text mining technologies? What are the successful (as well as
unsuccessful) applications?

The relevant topics may include the following (but not limited to):
Data mining and knowledge discovery on the Web;
Text mining on the Web;
Web Information retrieval and extraction;
Web Document categorisation;
Data visualisation;
Database techniques for the Web;
Data warehousing on the Web;
High performance computing technology for very large databases;
Distributed database management techniques;
Digital library techniques.

IMPORTANT DATE

Submission deadline: 28 February 2001
Notification of acceptance: 30 March 2001
Camera ready copies: 1 May 2001


SUBMISSION DETAILS

Authors are invited to submit research contributions representing original,
previously unpublished work. Submitted papers will be carefully evaluated
based on originality, significance, and relevance to the workshop. All
papers will be refereed by at least two members of the program committee.
Accepted papers will be published by IEEE Computer Society Press as
proceedings of the DEXA 2001 workshops. A selected number of accepted papers
will be expanded and revised for possible inclusion in "Knowledge and
Information
Systems: An International Journal" by Springer-Verlag. Papers must be double
spaced and no longer than 5000 words.

The first page of the draft paper should include:
      title of the paper, name, affiliation, postal address,
      E-mail address, telephone number, and Fax number for
      each author.  The first page should also include the
      name of the author who will be presenting the paper
      (if accepted) and a maximum of 5 keywords.

Authors should submit full papers either:

Electronically by email to [log in to unmask] ,

or By conventional mail to the Workshop Co-Chair (4 copies):
Dr Wendy X Wu
School of Computing Science
Middlesex University
The Burrough, London
NW4 4BT
Telephone: +44 (0)181 3625000-2254
Fax: +44 (0)181 3626943

We encourage email submission of full paper in plain postscript file. The
title page must include the name and email address of the contact author. If
hard copy submission is chosen, please send 4 copies of your paper to the
workshop chair of the address given above.