Proceedings of the 6th annual ACM international workshop on Web information and data management

The 2004 International Workshop on Web Information and Data Management (WIDM 2004) is the sixth in a series of workshops on Web Information and Data Management held in conjunction with the International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM). The objective of the workshop is to bring together researchers, industrial practitioners, and developers to study how Web information can be extracted, stored, analyzed, and processed to provide useful knowledge to the end users for various advanced database applications. WIDM 2004 has received the sponsorship from ACM SIGIR. The call for papers resulted in the submission of 61 papers from 20 countries around the world. All papers were thoroughly reviewed by the program committee and external reviewers. The program committee accepted 20 papers for the two-days' program. The authors of these papers are from 10 countries. The 20 accepted papers were divided into 7 sessions: "Web Crawling and Exploration", "XML Processing", "XML and Semistructured Data Querying", "Web Personalization", "Web Searching", "Web Mining and Clustering", and "User Interfaces and Services". In addition, the WIDM 2004 program also includes an invited talk on "Next Generation CiteSeer" by Dr. C. Lee Giles from the Pennsylvania State University.