Synopses & Reviews
This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 7th Asia-Pacific Web Conference, APWeb 2005, held in Shanghai, China in March/April 2005. The 71 revised full papers and 22 revised short papers presented together with 6 keynote papers and 22 invited demo papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 420 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on classification and clustering, topic and concept discovery, text search and document generation, Web search, mobile computing and P2P, XML, integration and collaboration, data mining and analysis, Web browsing and navigation, spatial data, stream data processing, Web services, ontologies, change management, personalization, performance and optimization, Web caching, data grid, multimedia, object recognition and information extraction, visualization and user interfaces, and delivery and networks.
Synopsis
This volume contains papers selected for presentation at the 7th Asia Pacific Conference on Web Technology (APWeb 2005), which was held in Shanghai, China during March 29-April 1, 2005. APWeb is an international conference series on WWW technologies and is the primary forum for researchers and practitioners from both academia and industry to exchange knowledge on WWW-related technologies and new advanced applications. APWeb 2005 received 420 submissions from 21 countries and regions worldwide, including China, Korea, Australia, Japan, Taiwan, France, UK, Canada, USA, India, Hong Kong, Brazil, Germany, Thailand, Singapore, Turkey, Spain, Greece, Belgium, New Zealand, and UAE. After a thorough review process for each submission by the Program Committee members and expert reviewers recommended by PC members, APWeb 2005 accepted 71 regular research papers (acceptance ratio 16.9%) and 22 short papers (acceptance ratio 5.2%). This volume also includes 6 keynote papers and 11 invited demo papers. The keynote lectures were given by six leading experts: Prof. Ah Chung Tsoi (Australia Research Council), Prof. Zhiyong Liu (National Nature Science Foundation of China), Prof. John Mylopoulos (University of Toronto), Prof. Ramamohanarao (Rao) Kotagiri (University of Melbourne), Prof. Calton Pu (Georgia Tech), and Prof. Zhiwei Xu (Chinese Academy of Sciences).