Nowadays the research topics of science and technology are diversified and segmented into more and more categories. The number of interdisciplinary research topics has also increased. With increasingly sophisticated research on science and technology, there is a growing need for interdisciplinary and international availability, distribution and exchange of the latest research results, in organic forms, including not only research papers and multimedia documents, but also various tools developed for measurement, analysis, inference, design, planning, simulation, and production as well as the related large data sets. Similar needs are also growing for the interdisciplinary and international availability, distribution and exchange of ideas and works among artists, musicians, designers, architects, directors, and producers. These contents including multimedia documents, application tools, and services are being accumulated on the Web, as well as in local and global databases, in a remarkable speed that we have never experienced with other kinds of publishing media. Large amounts of contents are now already on the Web, waiting for their advanced personal and/or public reuse. We need new theories and technologies for the advanced information search, integration through interoperation, and personalization of Web content as well as database content.
This workshop will focus on new theories and technologies for the information search, integration, and personalization of Web content and database content. The workshop will invite 10 to 12 leading researchers from each of the two countries France and Japan, and promote their intensive discussion and exchange of ideas to lead to new future collaborations between two countries in this research field.