IIWeb'09

The IJCAI 2009 Workshop on Information Integration on the Web

This workshop, seventh in the IIWeb series, is focused on making the research in information integration on the web more relevant to the challenges in services. The workshop will continue its traditional themes of interest, namely integration architectures, information extraction, web object extraction, record linkage, named entity extraction, source meta-data learning, query execution and optimization. However, we will give special emphasis to how this can be applied to services and service integration. After information is extracted and integrated, how should it be organized? How can we build or exploit models. taxonomies or ontologies; trust models for information on the web, service specification in multi-model environment, searching for services, impact of data changes on composition and runtime adaptation, scale-up of methods to web levels.

The workshop will provide a platform to discuss research directions and share experience and insights from both academia and industry. The anticipated outcome of the workshop is to assess the state of the art in the area, as well as to identify critical next steps to pursue in this topic. As information integration and services is interdisciplinary in nature, its researchers have spanned the related areas of data mining, machine learning, databases, information retrieval, semantic Web, Web services, and others.