Changjie Tang – författare

The Fourth International Conference on Advanced Data Mining and Applications (ADMA 2008) will be held in Chengdu, China, followed by the last three successful ADMA conferences (2005 in Wu Han, 2006 in Xi'an, and 2007 Harbin). Our major goal of ADMA is to bring together the experts on data mining in the world, and to provide a leading international forum for the dissemination of original research results in data mining, including applications, algorithms, software and systems, and different disciplines with potential applications of data mining. This goal has been partially achieved in a very short time despite the young age of the conference, thanks to the rigorous review process insisted upon, the outstanding list of internationally renowned keynote speakers and the excellent program each year. ADMA is ranked higher than, or very similar to, other data mining conferences (such as PAKDD, PKDD, and SDM) in early 2008 by an independent source: cs-conference-ranking. org. This year we had the pleasure and honor to host illustrious keynote speakers. Our distinguished keynote speakers are Prof. Qiang Yang and Prof. Jiming Liu. Prof. Yang is a tenured Professor and postgraduate studies coordinator at Computer Science and Engineering Department of Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. He is also a member of AAAI, ACM, a senior member of the IEEE, and he is also an as- ciate editor for the IEEE TKDE and IEEE Intelligent Systems, KAIS and WI Journals.

The Fourth International Conference on Advanced Data Mining and Applications (ADMA 2008) will be held in Chengdu, China, followed by the last three successful ADMA conferences (2005 in Wu Han, 2006 in Xi''an, and 2007 Harbin). Our major goal of ADMA is to bring together the experts on data mining in the world, and to provide a leading international forum for the dissemination of original research results in data mining, including applications, algorithms, software and systems, and different disciplines with potential applications of data mining. This goal has been partially achieved in a very short time despite the young age of the conference, thanks to the rigorous review process insisted upon, the outstanding list of internationally renowned keynote speakers and the excellent program each year. ADMA is ranked higher than, or very similar to, other data mining conferences (such as PAKDD, PKDD, and SDM) in early 2008 by an independent source: cs-conference-ranking. org. This year we had the pleasure and honor to host illustrious keynote speakers. Our distinguished keynote speakers are Prof. Qiang Yang and Prof. Jiming Liu. Prof. Yang is a tenured Professor and postgraduate studies coordinator at Computer Science and Engineering Department of Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. He is also a member of AAAI, ACM, a senior member of the IEEE, and he is also an as- ciate editor for the IEEE TKDE and IEEE Intelligent Systems, KAIS and WI Journals.

WAIM is a leading international conference on research, development, and appli- tions of Web technologies, database systems, and information management. Tra- tionally, WAIM has drawn the strongest participation from the Asia-Pacific region. The previous WAIM conferences were held in Shanghai (2000), Xi'an (2001), Beijing (2002), Chengdu (2003), Dalian (2004), Hangzhou (2005), Hong Kong (2006), Huangshan (2007), Zhangjiajie (2008), and Suzhou (2009). In 2010, WAIM was held in Jiuzhaigou, Sichuan, China. This high-quality program would not have been possible without the authors who chose WAIM for disseminating their contributions. Out of 205 submissions from 16 countries and regions, including Australia, Canada, France, Germany, Hong Kong, Japan, Korea, Macau, Malaysia, Mainland China, Saudi Arabia, Singapore, Taiwan, Thailand, UK, and USA, we selected 58 full papers and 11 short papers for publi- tion. The acceptance rate for regular full papers was 28%.The contributed papers addressed a wide range of topics such as Web, XML, and multimedia data, data pr- essing in the cloud or on new hardware, data mining and knowledge discovery, inf- mation integration and extraction, networked data and social networks, graph and stream processing, similarity search, etc. We are also grateful to our distinguished keynote speakers Prof. Jianzhong Li, Dr. Divesh Srivastava, Prof. Katsumi Tanaka, and Prof. Xiaofang Zhou. A conference like WAIM can only succeed as a team effort. We want to thank the Program Committee members and the reviewers for their invaluable efforts.