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*** First Call for Papers ***
5th International Conference on Web
Intelligence, Mining and Semantics
WIMS 2015
July 13-15, 2015, St. Raphael Resort,
Limassol, Cyprus
Conference
Purpose and Scope
WIMS is a series of peer-reviewed
International Computer Science
conferences. It is a forum for researchers
and practitioners to present their
state-of-the-art results in building
Intelligent Web, to examine performance
characteristics of various approaches in
Web-based intelligent information
technology, and to cross-fertilize their
ideas on the development of Web
-based intelligent information management
solutions across different
domains.
The purpose of the WIMS series is to:
* Provide a forum for established researchers
and practitioners to present
their contributions to the state of the art
research and development in Web
technology and applications.
* Give doctoral students an opportunity to
present their research to a friendly
and knowledgeable audience and receive
valuable feedback.
* Provide an informal social event where Web
technology researchers and
practitioners can meet.
WIMS traditionally hosts a small number of
short tutorials on the topics
related to the scope of the conference
series. The role of a WIMS tutorial is to
be a theme-oriented comprehensive survey. The
call for WIMS 2015 tutorials
is published separately.
WIMS also offers its infrastructure and
facilities for the organizers of satellite
workshops that complement the scope of the
conference. The call for WIMS
2015 workshops is also published separately.
Companies or individuals interested in
presenting their industrial products or
methodologies are invited to contact the
conference chairs.
Conference Scope
WIMS solicits regular and work-in-progress
research, discussion papers and
industry experience report papers in related
fields. Papers exploring new
directions or areas are also welcome. In
particular but not exclusively the
submissions within the following areas are
relevant:
* Scalable Web and Data
Architectures and Infrastructures
- Crawling, caching and querying Linked
(Semantic) Data
- Dataset dynamics and synchronization
- Big Data computing
- User Interfaces and visualization for
the Web of (Linked Semantic)
Data at scale
- Indexing and information extraction from
the (Semantic) Deep Web
- 3D media and content
- Sensing Web and the Web of Things
- Web-based Health- and Bio- Information
Systems
- Web security, integrity, privacy, and
trust
- Nature-inspired models and approaches
in Web and data processing
infrastructures
* Web Intelligence (WI)
- Semantic Agent Systems for WI
- Advanced Interaction and Communication
Paradigms with WI
- Natural Language /
Ontology-/Taxonomy-based / Hybrid Interfaces
- Intelligence for Visualizing (Linked
Semantic) Web Data at scale
- Intelligence for Big Data Analytics
- Ubiquitous Intelligence and the Internet
of Things
- WI in Social Media
- WI in Human Computation and Social Games
- Opinion Mining / Sentiment Analysis on
the Social Web
- Social Monetization and Computational
Advertising
- Visualising social network data
- WI for services, grids, and middleware
- Nature-inspired Models and approaches
for WI
* Web Mining, Information and
Knowledge Extraction
- Text, data stream, web and multimedia
content mining
- Contextualization and clustering in web
mining and information extraction
- Knowledge extraction and ontology
learning from the Web
- Linked Data mining
- Information Extraction and Knowledge
Discovery from Big Data
- Mining and Information Extraction from
the Deep Web
- Semantic Deep Web data fusion
* Web Semantics and Reasoning
- Knowledge Representation for the Web
- Ontology specification: expressivity
versus usability
- Ontologies and Linked Semantic Data
- Development and re-use of ontologies for
the Web
- Crowdsourcing for ontology engineering
and management on the Social
Web
- Lifecycle, management, and evolution of
Web ontologies
- Ontology merging and alignment
- Rule markup languages and systems
- Semantic annotation
- Reasoning: scalability, expressivity,
incompleteness, vagueness, and/or
uncertainty
* WIMS Applications
- Web applications of semantic agent
systems
- Semantics-driven information retrieval
- Semantic search
- Intelligent e-Technology and the
Semantic Web
- Intelligence and semantics for business
information management and
integration
- Intelligence and semantic technologies
in Digital Media
- Semantic technologies in e-Business,
e-Commerce, e-Finance, e-Health,
e-Science, e-Government, e-Learning
- WI for multimedia, sensors, and
situational awareness
- WI for software and systems engineering
- Quality of Life Technology for Web
Access
- Nature-inspired models and approaches in
WIMS applications
* Evaluation and Validation of
WIMS Technologies and Applications
- Evaluation and validation Methodologies
- Datasets and Benchmarks for
cross-evaluations and competitions
- Evaluation and validation
Infrastructures
- Evaluation and validation metrics (e.g.
fitness, quality, completeness,
correctness, etc.)
Submission Guidelines
Four types of submissions are solicited for
the main conference:
i. Regular research papers
ii. Short research papers
iii. Case Studies and Applications papers
iv. Posters
The papers in all the categories should
describe original results that have not
been accepted or submitted for publication
elsewhere. All submissions will be
evaluated by at least three members of the
international program committee.
Regular Research Papers
The papers in this category are the reports
on accomplished research work or
in-depth discussions and analysis of a
certain problem. The first type of
papers can present a novel method, technique
or analysis with appropriate
empirical or other type of evaluation as a
proof of validity. The main
evaluation criteria for this category are
originality, technical soundness, and
the soundness of evaluation. For the second
type within the genre we expect
receiving reasonable overviews placing a
problem onto the state-of-the-art
landscape and analyzing how far current
solutions fall short. We also expect
in-depth discussions and analysis of a
certain problem, with clear definitions
and argumentation in terms of qualitative or
quantitative representation of
the main characteristics of the problem.
Page limit: 12 ACM pages
Short Research Papers
The papers in this category are the short
reports of the preliminary results or
describing the work in progress. The main
evaluation criteria for this category
are originality, technical correctness, and
possible value of the planned
results in a short to mid-term perspective.
Short papers can be also presented in a form
of a poster.
Page limit: 6 ACM pages
Case Studies and Applications Papers
The papers in this category describe case
studies of deployed applications,
lessons learnt, and examples of measurable
benefits. This category also
includes papers that reports innovative
applications of WIMS in areas of
industry and government, as well as
industrial experience and
demonstrations of innovative systems.
Page limit: 12 ACM pages
Posters
WIMS poster track is a venue for
late-breaking results, ongoing research
activities, and speculative or innovative
work in progress. This track is
intended to provide authors and participants
with the ability to connect with
each other and to engage in discussions about
the work. Posters provide
authors with a unique opportunity to draw
attention to their work during the
conference.
Page limit: 4 ACM pages
Submissions should be made electronically in
PDF or DOC/DOCX (MS/Open
Word) format via the electronic submission
system of the WIMS2015
Conference Management system at:
Publication
Accepted papers/tutorials/posters will be
published by ACM and
disseminated through the ACM Digital Library
through the International
Conference Proceedings Series (ICPS).
Important Dates
24.03.2015 Submission of papers/posters
27.04.2015 Notification of acceptance for
papers/posters
11.05.2015 Camera ready versions of the
accepted papers, posters,
tutorial papers
30.05.2015 Author registration deadline
13-15.07.2015 Conference
All the above deadlines are 23:59 Hawaii
Time.
WIMS Conferences Chair
Rajendra Akerkar, Western Norway Research
Institute, Norway
General Chair
Marios D. Dikaiakos, University of Cyprus,
Cyprus
Program Committee Co-Chairs
Achilleas P. Achilleos, University of Cyprus,
Cyprus
Tope Omitola, University of Southampton,
United Kingdom
Advisory Committee
Grigoris Antoniou, University of
Huddersfield, UK
Harold Boley, Faculty of Computer Science,
University of New Brunswick, Fredericton,
Canada
James Hendler, Rensselaer Polytechnic
Institute, Troy, NY, USA
Guus Schreiber, VU University, Amsterdam, the
Netherlands
Amit Sheth, Ohio Center of Excellence on
Knowledge-enabled Computing, Ohio, USA
Industrial Track Chair
John Davies, BT Research & Innovation, UK
Publicity Chair
Christos Mettouris, University of Cyprus,
Cyprus
Local Organization Chair
George A. Papadopoulos, University of Cyprus,
Cyprus
Web Chair
Kyriakos Georgiadis, EasyConferences LTD,
Cyprus
The proceedings of the previous WIMS
conferences are available at:
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