WAIM is a leading international conference for researchers, practitioners, developers, and users to share and exchange ideas, results, experience, techniques, and tools in connection with all aspects of Web data management. As the 17th event in the increasingly popular series, WAIM2016 expects to attract participants from all over the world to Nanchang, and continues to establish WAIM as one of the major conferences on Web-based information systems.The WAIM2016 organization committee invites submissions of research papers, industry papers and demo papers for WAIM2016, to be held in Nanchang, China, June 3-5, 2016. Submissions are invited on all aspects related to Web-age information management. Each paper will be fully refereed by the program committee and judged on its originality, significance, technical quality, and relevance to WAIM2016 as well as presentation. Submission of a paper should be regarded as an undertaking that, should the paper be accepted, at least one author will attend the conference to present the work.Conference Scope    Advanced database and Web applications    Big data analytics    Big data management    Caching and replication    Cloud computing    Content management    Crowdsourcing    Data and information quality    Data management for mobile and pervasive computing    Data management on new hardware    Data mining    Data provenance and workflow    Data warehousing and OLAP    Deep Web    Digital libraries    Entity resolution and entity linking    Graph data management, RDF, social networks    Information extraction    Information integration and heterogeneous systems    Information retrieval    Knowledge extraction and management    Multimedia information systems    P2P-system performance    Parallel and distributed data management    Query processing and optimization    Recommender systems    Security, privacy, and trust    Semantic Web and ontology    Sensor networks    Service-oriented computing    Social media    Spatial and temporal databases    Storage and access methods    Streams, complex event processing    Text database, keyword search    Uncertain data    Web advertising and community analysis    Web information quality and fusion    Web search and meta-search    Web service management    XML and semi-structured dataPaper PublicationThe proceedings of WAIM2016 will be published by Springer-Verlag in the Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) series, one volume for the main conference and one volume for the workshops. Both will be indexed by EI. Selected accepted papers will be invited to submit expanded versions for possible publication in the FCS (Frontier of Computer Science) journal (indexed by SCI).Paper SubmissionAll submissions should be in English. Every research paper submitted to WAIM2016 will undergo a "double-blind" reviewing process. A submission should be no more than 12 pages single spacing, including all figures.Submission website: https://cmt.research.microsoft.com/WAIM2016/Workshops, Demos, Panels, and Industry PresentationsIn addition to regular papers, WAIM2016 invites proposals for workshops, demos, panels, and industry presentations. For workshops and demos, WAIM2016 will provide administrative support for room booking, registration, and paper publication.