Call for Papers

                 Workshop on Information Integration on the Web

                                       to be held at the

 Eighteenth International Joint Conference On Artificial Intelligence

                                        Acapulco, Mexico

                                       August 9-10, 2003


The explosive growth and popularity of the world-wide web has resulted
in a huge number of information sources on the Internet and the
promise of unprecedented information-gathering capabilities to lay
users. Unfortunately, the promise has not yet been transformed into
reality. While there are sources relevant to virtually any user's
query, the morass of sources presents a formidable hurdle to
effectively accessing the information. One way of alleviating this
problem is to develop web-based information integration systems or
agents, which take a user's query or request (e.g., monitor a site),
and access the relevant sources or services to efficiently support the
request.

The purpose of this workshop is to bring together researchers that are
working in a variety of areas that are all related to the larger
problem of integrating information on the Web. This includes research
in the areas of machine learning, data mining, automatic planning,
constraint reasoning, databases, view integration, information
extraction, semantic web, web services, and other related areas.

The proposed workshop will focus on the wide variety of research
problems that relate to the problem of web-based information
integration. These topics include, but are not limited to:

    * Information extraction
    * Wrapper learning
    * Automatic wrapper generation
    * Information gathering
    * Source descriptions
    * Source meta-data learning
    * Source statistics learning
    * Web service composition
    * Record linkage/object consolidation
    * Ontology matching
    * Novel integration architectures
    * Answering queries using views
    * Inter-schema mediation architectures
    * Data mining for integration
    * Web-based query planning and optimization
    * Query execution
    * Applications

This is a 2-day workshop that will be held on August 9-10, 2003. The
workshop will consist of a combination of paper presentations,
posters, panels, invited talks and discussion sessions.

Submission Instructions

If you would like to participate in the workshop, please submit a
paper (3-6 pages) or abstract (1 page) using the standard AAAI/IJCAI
paper formatting. Please submit papers in PDF and send them directly
to iiweb-sub@isi.edu. If your paper is larger than one megabyte,
please place the file on an http site and send a pointer to the file.

Note: Participants are expected to register for the main IJCAI
conference in addition to the workshop.

Important Dates and Deadlines

    * Deadline for the submission of full papers (3-6 pages) or
      abstracts (1 page): March 7, 2003.

    * Notification of acceptance/rejection: March 28, 2003.

    * Deadline for the receipt of camera-ready papers: May 23, 2003.

Organizing Committee

Craig Knoblock (Co-Chair), University of Southern California
Subbarao Kambhampati (Co-Chair), Arizona State University
Lise Getoor, University of Maryland
Alon Halevy, University of Washington
Sheila McIlraith, Stanford University

Program Committee

William Cohen, Carnegie Mellon University
Hasan Davulcu, Arizona State University
Anhai Doan, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
Juliana Freire, Oregon Graduate Institute
C. Lee Giles, Pennsylvania State University
Joseph M. Hellerstein, University of California, Berkeley
Nick Kushmerick, University College Dublin
Andrew McCallum, University of Massachusetts Amherst
Giansalvatore Mecca, Università della Basilicata
Renee Miller, University of Toronto
Jeffrey Naughton, University of Wisconsin
Louiqa Raschid, University of Maryland
Sheila Tejada, University of New Orleans