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eXtensible Markup Language (XML) has become a standard language for
data representation and exchange. With the continuous growth in XML
data sources, the ability to manage collections of XML documents and
discover knowledge from them for decision support becomes
increasingly important.
Mining of XML documents significantly differs from structured data
mining and text mining. XML allows the representation of
semi-structured and hierarchal data containing not only the values of
individual items but also the relationships between data items. Element
tags and their nesting therein dictate the structure of an XML
document. Due to the inherent flexibility of XML, in both structure
and semantics, discovering knowledge from XML data is faced with new
challenges as well as benefits. Mining of structure along with
content provides new insights and means into the process of knowledge
discovery.
Recognising the
increasing interest in XML mining, this workshop aims to provide a
stimulating forum for researchers in Pacific Asia and other regions
of the world to discuss new and interesting algorithms, applications
and issues of XML mining. The workshop will provide the opportunity
to debate new issues and directions for research and development work
in the future.
We solicit papers
with important new insights and experiences of mining XML or
semistructured data. Topics of interest include, but are not limited
to:
a) a) XML or
semistructured algorithms and techniques
 classification,
clustering, association
schema
matching/discovery and tree mining
data
change detection, approximate querying
b) XML or
semistructured data mining applications
Bioinformatics,
sensor and networking data
e-commerce,
Web services and others
Semantic
Web, Ontology and Information Retrieval
c) XML or semistructured data mining emerging issues and challenges
Security
and privacy
Distributed
mining
d) Use of XML in data mining
e) Benchmarks and mining performance using XML databases
IMPORTANT DATES:
Paper Submission Deadline: 25th Nov, 2005
Notification of Acceptance: 3rd Jan, 2006
Camera-ready Copy Due: 10th January, 2006
Workshop Date: 9th April, 2006
PAPER
SUBMISSION:
All accepted papers will be published in the Springer Lecture Notes
in Computer (LNCS) series. Papers will be reviewed by at least 2
program committee members for their technical merit, originality,
significance, and relevance to the workshop. The papers must be in
English and should be formatted according to the Springer-Verlag
Lecture Notes in Computer Science guidelines. Author instructions and
style files can be downloaded at http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html.
The maximum length of papers is 10 pages. There will be an
opportunity to publish the extended versions of selected papers
elsewhere (pending).
WORKSHOP ORGANIZERS:
Richi Nayak; Queensland University of Technology, Australia; r.nayak@qut.edu.au
Mohammed J. Zaki; Rensselaer
Polytechnic Institute, USA;
zaki@cs.rpi.edu
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