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IEEE/WIC/ACM WEB INTELLIGENCE 2004 ----------------------------------- C A L L F O R P A P E R S
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2004 IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Web Intelligence (WI'04)
September 20-24, 2004 King Wing Hot Spring Hotel, Beijing, China
Homepages: http://www.maebashi-it.org/WI04 http://www.comp.hkbu.edu.hk/WI04
Sponsored By IEEE Computer Society Web Intelligence Consortium (WIC) Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
Co-Organized and In Cooperation With Beijing University of Technology China Computer Federation (CCF) Hong Kong Baptist University (HKBU) Maebashi Institute of Technology Tsinghua University
Corporate Sponsors Beijing University of Technology National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC)
********************************************************************** - Paper submission due: April 4, 2004 - Submission websites: http://www.maebashi-it.org/WI04 http://www.comp.hkbu.edu.hk/WI04 - Electronic submissions are required in the form of PDF or PS files **********************************************************************
Web Intelligence (WI) has been recognized as a new direction for scientific research and development to explore the fundamental roles as well as practical impacts of Artificial Intelligence (AI) (e.g., knowledge representation, planning, knowledge discovery and data mining, intelligent agents, and social network intelligence) and advanced Information Technology (IT) (e.g., wireless networks, ubiquitous devices, social networks, wisdom Web, and data/knowledge grids) on the next generation of Web-empowered products, systems, services, and activities. It is one of the most important as well as promising IT research fields in the era of Web and agent intelligence.
The 2004 IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Web Intelligence (WI'04) will be jointly held with the 2004 IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Intelligent Agent Technology (IAT'04 http://www.maebashi-it.org/IAT04). The IEEE/WIC/ACM 2004 joint conferences are sponsored and organized by IEEE Computer Society Technical Committee on Computational Intelligence (TCCI) (http://www.cs.uvm.edu/~xwu/tcci/index.shtml), Web Intelligence Consortium (WIC) (http://wi-consortium.org), and ACM-SIGART (http://www.acm.org/sigart/).
Following the great successes of WI'01 held in Maebashi City, Japan and WI'03 held in Halifax, Canada, WI 2004 provides a leading international forum for researchers and practitioners (1) to present the state-of-the-art of WI technologies; (2) to examine performance characteristics of various approaches in Web-based intelligent information technology; and (3) to cross-fertilize ideas on the development of Web-based intelligent information systems among different domains. By idea-sharing and discussions on the underlying foundations and the enabling technologies of Web intelligence, WI 2004 will capture current important developments of new models, new methodologies and new tools for building a variety of embodiments of Web-based intelligent information systems.
++++++++ Topics ++++++++
The topics and areas include, but not limited to:
* World Wide Wisdom Web (W4)
Distributed Resources Optimization Goal-Directed Services Support Information and Knowledge Markets Knowledge Community Formation and Support Meta-Knowledge Discovery and Representation New Social Interaction Paradigms Problem Solver Markup Language (PSML) Regularities and Laws of W4 Search of Best Means and Ends Service Self-Aggregation Social and Psychological Contexts Web Inference Engine
* Social Networks and Social Intelligence
Entertainment Knowledge Community Formation and Support Link Topology and Site Hierarchy Intelligent Wireless Web Social Networks Mining Theories of Small-World Web Ubiquitous Computing Ubiquitous Learning Systems Virtual and Web Communities Web-Based Cooperative Work Web Site Clustering
* Knowledge Grids and Grid Intelligence
Brokering and Scheduling Knowledge Resources and Services Discovery Middleware Architectures and Tools On-Demand Planning and Routing Semantic Grids
* Web Mining and Farming
Context Sensitive Web Mining E-Mail Classification Data Warehousing Learning User Profiles Multimedia Data Mining Mining Data Streams Text Mining Web Farming and Warehousing Web Content Mining Web Information Clustering Web Information Indexing Web Log and Usage Mining Web Page Clustering and Mining Web Site Classification
* Semantics and Ontology Engineering
Ontology-Based Information Extraction and Retrieval Ontology-Based Web Mining Web-Based Ontology Learning Semantic Web
* Web Agents
Agent Networks and Topologies Coordination Distributed Problem Solving Global Information Foraging Macroscopic Behavior Modeling Mobile Agents Remembrance Agents Resource Intermediary and Coordination Mechanisms Self-Organization and Reproduction Trust Models for Web Agents
* Web Services
Matchmaking Middleware-Based Ubiquitous Services Web Service Reconfiguration Web Service Workflow Composition Grid Services
* Web Information Filtering and Retrieval
Automatic Cataloging and Indexing Clustering-Based Recommender Systems Collaborative Filtering Digital Library Distributed Web Search Hybrid Recommendation Information Retrieval Criteria and Evaluations Proxy and Cache Techniques Search Engines and Meta-search Engines Specifications for Web Information Extraction Process Web Crawling Systems Web Information Categorization and Ranking Web Prediction and Prefetching
* Intelligent Human-Web Interaction
Adaptive Web Interfaces Context-Aware Computing Learning User Profiles Multimedia Representation Personalized Interfaces Personalized Web Sites Social and Psychological Issues Visualization of Information and Knowledge
* Web Support Systems
Information Retrieval Support Systems Web Site Navigation Support Systems Recommender Support Systems Soft Computing (including neural networks, fuzzy logic, evolutionary computation, rough sets, and granular computing) and Uncertainty Management for WI Web-Based Decision Support Systems
* Intelligent E-Technology Collaborative Filtering and Recommendation Business Intelligence Decentralized Community Communication Techniques E-Business and E-Commerce E-Community E-Finance E-Government E-Learning E-Publishing E-Science Intelligent Enterprise Portals Web-Based Direct Marketing and CRM Web-Based EDI Web Security, Integrity, Privacy and Trust
+++++++++++++++++ Important Dates +++++++++++++++++
Electronic submission of full papers: April 4, 2004 Notification of paper acceptance: June 10, 2004 Workshop and tutorial proposal submission: June 10, 2004 Camera-ready of accepted papers: July 5, 2004 Workshops/Tutorials: September 20, 2004 Conference: September 21-24, 2004
+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ On-Line Submissions and Publication +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
High-quality papers in all WI related areas are solicited. Papers exploring new directions or areas will receive a careful and supportive review. All submitted papers will be reviewed on the basis of technical quality, relevance, significance, and clarity. Note that WI'04 will accept ONLY on-line submissions, containing PDF (PostScript or MS-Word) versions.
The conference proceedings will be published by the IEEE Computer Society Press.
WI'04 also welcomes Industry/Demo-Track submissions, Workshop and Tutorial proposals.
All paper submissions will be handled electronically. More detailed instructions and the On-Line Submission Form can be found from the WI'04 homepages: http://www.maebashi-it.org/WI04 and http://www.comp.hkbu.edu.hk/WI04.
A selected number of WI'04 accepted papers will be expanded and revised for inclusion in Web Intelligence and Agent Systems: An International Journal (http://wi-consortium.org/journal.html) and in Annual Review of Intelligent Informatics (http://www.wi-consortium.org/annual.html)
The best paper award and the best demo award will be conferred on the authors of the best papers and the best demos at the conference.
+++++++++++++++++++++++++ Conference Organization +++++++++++++++++++++++++
***** Conference Committee *****
Conference Chairs: Jiming Liu, Hong Kong Baptist University, HK Nick Cercone, University of Dalhousie, Canada
Program Chair: Ning Zhong, Maebashi Institute of Technology, Japan
Program Co-Chairs:
WI-Track: Henry Tirri, University of Helsinki, Finland Yiyu Yao, University of Regina, Canada Lizhu Zhou, Tsinghua University, China
IAT-Track: Jeffrey Bradshaw, UWF/Institute for Human and Machine Cognition, USA Sankar K. Pal, Indian Statistical Institute, Inida Domenico Talia, University of Calabria, Italy
Industry/Demo-Track Chairs: Qiang Yang, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, HK Wei-Ying Ma, Microsoft Research Asia, China
Workshop Chair: Pawan Lingras, Saint Mary's University, Canada
Tutorial Chair: Gerd Wagner, Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands
Publicity Chair: Yuefeng Li, Queensland University of Technology, Australia
Organizing Chairs: Tieyoung Zuo, Beijing University of Technology, China Chunnian Liu, Beijing University of Technology, China
Local Arrangement Chair: Baocai Yin, Beijing University of Technology, China
IEEE-CS-TCCI Chair Xindong Wu USA
WIC Co-Chairs/Directors Ning Zhong Japan Jiming Liu HK
ACM-SIGART Chair Maria Gini USA
WIC Advisory Board Edward A. Feigenbaum USA Setsuo Ohsuga Japan Benjamin Wah USA Philip Yu USA L.A. Zadeh USA
WIC Technical Committee & WI/IAT Steering Committee Nick Cercone Canada Dieter Fensel Austria Georg Gottlob Austria Lakhmi Jain Australia W. Lewis Johnson USA Jianchang Mao USA Hiroshi Motoda Japan Toyoaki Nishida Japan Xindong Wu USA Yiyu Yao Canada
***** WI'04 Program Committee *****
(to be announced)
*** Contact Information ***
WI'04 and IAT'04 Conference Secretariat wi-iat@maebashi-it.org
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