Call for Papers

The Asia Pacific Web (APWeb) and Web-Age Information Management (WAIM) Joint International Conference on Web and Big Data (APWeb-WAIM) is aiming at attracting professionals of different communities related to Web and Big Data who have common interests in interdisciplinary research to share and exchange ideas, experience and the underlying techniques and applications, including Web technologies, database systems, information management, software engineering and big data. The 9th APWeb-WAIM joint international conference on Web and Big Data 2025 will be held in Shenyang, China, August 28-30, 2025. It is our great pleasure to invite you to contribute papers and participate in this premier annual event. With the increased focus on Big Data, the new joint conference is expected to attract more professionals from different industrial and academic communities, not only from the Asia Pacific countries but also from other continents.

Topics of Interest, but not limited to

• Advanced database and Web applications
• Big data management and analytics
• Block chain and distributed systems
• Cloud computing and Crowd sourcing
• Content management
• Data and information quality
• Data management on new hardware
• Data mining
• Data warehousing and OLAP
• Data security and privacy
• E-learning analytics
• Graph data management, RDF, social networks
• Information retrieval
• Information security
• Knowledge extraction and managements
• LLM for data management
• Machine Learning and security
• Multimedia information systems
• Parallel and distributed data management
• Query processing and optimization
• Semantic Web and ontology
• Sensing data management
• Sensor networks
• Spatial and temporal databases
• Streams, complex event processing
• Text database, keyword search
• Trusted and interpretable AI
• Uncertain data
• Web advertising and community analysis
• Web information quality and fusion
• Web security
• Web search and meta-search
• Web service management
• XML and semi - structured data

Important Dates

The 1st Round.

The 2nd Round.

*All deadlines are 23:59 Anywhere on Pacific time.

Submission Guidelines

All submissions must be written in English and conform to the Springer LNCS proceedings format with the following page limits: 15 pages for regular papers including references. Submitted papers will undergo a "double-blind" review process, coordinated by the Program Committee. To ensure anonymity of authorship, authors must ensure that authors' names, affiliations, funding, and any other identifying information of authorship do not appear on the title page or elsewhere in the paper.The submissions rejected in the 1st round cannot be resubmitted for the 2nd round.

Recommendation to Journal

A number of best papers accepted at APWeb-WAIM 2025 will be recommended to a set of SCI indexed journals, including World Wide Web Journal (IF 3.7, JCR Q2), ARRAY (IF 2.7, JCR Q2) and journal Data Science Engineering (IF 5.1, JCR Q1), for fast-track publication in special issues in these journals.

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