Call for Papers: APWeb-WAIM 2025

The 9th APWeb-WAIM Joint International Conference on Web and Big Data (APWeb-WAIM 2025) will be held in Shenyang, China, from August 28-30, 2025. This premier annual event aims to attract professionals from various communities related to Web and Big Data to share and exchange ideas, experience, and techniques in areas including Web technologies, database systems, information management, software engineering, and big data.

Topics of Interest

• 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

All deadlines are 23:59 Anywhere on Pacific time.

Research Papers

1st Round:

• Full paper submission: March 2, 2025 → March 9, 2025
• Acceptance Notification: April 21, 2025
• Camera Ready: May 18, 2025

2nd Round:

• Full paper submission: May 4, 2025 → May 18, 2025
• Acceptance Notification: June 23, 2025
• Camera Ready: July 6, 2025

Industry Papers and Demo Papers

• Full paper submission: May 11, 2025 → May 18, 2025
• Acceptance Notification: June 23, 2025
• Camera Ready: July 6, 2025

Workshop Proposals

• Proposal submission: April 11, 2025
• Acceptance Notification: April 21, 2025

Workshop Papers

• Full paper submission: Please see the workshop webpage
• Acceptance Notification: Please see the workshop webpage
• Camera Ready: Please see the workshop webpage
• Workshop Date: August 28, 2025

Submission Guidelines

• All submissions must be in English and conform to the Springer LNCS proceedings format.
• Page Limits: 15 pages for regular papers (including references). A maximum of 4 extra pages are allowed at an additional cost.
• Review Process: Submitted papers will undergo a "double-blind" review process. Authors must ensure anonymity, with no author names, affiliations, funding, or other identifying information appearing on the title page or elsewhere in the paper.
• Resubmission: Submissions rejected in the 1st round cannot be resubmitted for the 2nd round.
• Authorship: Authors must provide the complete and final list of authors at the submission stage. No addition, removal, or change in the order of authors is allowed after submission.

Submission Website

https://cmt3.research.microsoft.com/APWebWAIM2025

Formatting Template

Please use the Springer LNCS (Lecture Notes in Computer Science) format templates available at: https://www.springer.com/gp/computer-science/lncs/conference-proceedings-guidelines

Publication

• The proceedings of the main conference and workshops will be published by Springer in Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) and Communications in Computer and Information Science (CCIS) respectively.
• Authors of selected excellent papers will be recommended to SCI indexed journals, including World Wide Web Journal (IF 3.7, JCR Q2), ARRAY (IF 2.7, JCR Q2), and Data Science Engineering (IF 5.1, JCR Q1), for fast-track publication in special issues.

Contact Us

APWeb 2025 office: apwebwaim2025@sau.edu.cn