Workshop on Web Analytics
April 13, 2002
Crystal City at Ronald Reagan National Airport
Arlington, VA

To be Held in Conjunction with
Second SIAM International Conference on Data Mining (SDM 2002)

• Schedule
• Theme Statement
• Topics of interest
• Registration
• Submission Requirements
• Important Dates
• Panels and Invited Talks
• Program Committee
• Organizers

Theme Statement

With the explosive use of the Internet, there is an ever-increasing volume of Web data being generated and warehoused in numerous Web sites. The vastness of accessible on-line information has opened up a host of new opportunities, several of which cannot be readily addressed using existing knowledge discovery and data analysis methods. As a result, there has been a rapid growth in the field of Web Analytics, which focuses on the development of new tools and technologies for the analysis of Web data.

A one-day workshop on Web Analytics is being held in conjunction with SDM 2002 in Arlington, VA, to bring together researchers from a variety of background and disciplines to discuss their work and findings that could help extract valuable information from Web data. This workshop is a follow-on to a successful Workshop on Web Mining held at SDM'01. This time we shall concentrate usage of the web as reflected, for example, in web logs, as well as on the hyperlink structure of the web. Papers solely concerned with text analysis of web pages are referred to the Workshop on Text Mining being held concurrently at SDM'02.

Topics of interest include:

• Enabling Technologies

• Web Data Pre-processsing
• Web Metrics and mathematical models
• Web log analysis; static and dynamic visitor profiling
• Hyperlink analysis
• Personalization
• Mining XML documents
• Multimedia Web mining
• Web data visualization

• Applications

• Knowledge discovery and knowledge sharing
• User profiling and customization: both client and server side
• E-CRM: Web marketing and merchandizing
• Building adaptive web sites and web experiences
• Privacy preserving web usage analysis
• Intelligent search, querying and web navigation

Registration

Attendees are required to register for SDM 2002, but no separate registration is needed for the workshop.

Submission Requirements

Original papers are solicited on all aspects of Web analytics. Submissions can be of two types:

• Long papers (up to 5000 words -- including tables and figures) reporting on new theoretical models, software tools and experimental studies
• Short papers (up to 3000 words -- including tables and figures) reporting on ongoing research projects, case studies and lessons learned by experimentation

Submissions should be in PDF or Postscript format.
An email including the title, authors and abstract of the paper should be sent separately in plain ASCII format (no HTML-tags please). 

All submissions must be sent electronically to ghosh@ece.utexas.edu.
If you hav any problems during submission, please contact Debi Prather dprather@mail.utexas.edu; phone: (512)-232-7941; fax: 471-2893, or Joydeep Ghosh, ghosh@ece.utexas.edu

Important Dates

Papers Due: Jan 7^st, 2002
Notification of Acceptance: Jan 30^th, 2002
Camera ready: Feb 20^th, 2002
Workshop: Apr 13^th, 2002

Panels and Invited Talks

TBD

Program Committee List (to be extended)

Bamshad Mobasher, DePaul University
Ed Chi, Xerox PARC
Huan Liu, Arizona State University
Johannes Gehrke, Cornell University
Maurice Mulvenna, MINEit, Ireland
Ming-Syan Chen, NTU, Taiwan
Myra Spiliopoulou, Handelschochschule Leipzig (HHL), Denmark
Osmar R. Zaiane, University of Alberta
Raymond Kosala, Leuven, Belgium
Robert Cooley, Groupfire
Sridhar Rajagopalan, IBM
Wolfgang Gaul, Universitaet Karlsruhe (TH), Denmark
Terry J. Woodfield, SAS
Yannis Manolopoulos, Greece

Organizers