A DECADE OF MINING THE WEB
A Special Issue in the Journal of Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery  
(DMKD 2010)



Call for Papers



The Web has changed our way of living, doing business, exchanging  
information, establishing and maintaining social contacts. Scientists  
are investigating the phenomenon of the Web from different  
perspectives. Scholars in knowledge discovery and data mining have  
turned their attention towards the Web, almost as soon as people  
started using the Web for a variety of private and business  
activities. The analysis of human behavior in the Web and the support  
of knowledge extraction and information acquisition have been the  
topic of conferences and workshops for over a decade. Among them the  
WEBKDD workshop, organized since 1999 under the auspices of the ACM  
SIGKDD international conference on knowledge discovery and data  
mining, has served in establishing a community of Web miners,  
identifying the challenges of the practitioners and promoting  
innovative research solutions. About 10 years after this first  
workshop on mining the Web, we take a fresh look on research  
achievements and challenges ahead: we invite contributions that  
combine a retrospection of the achievements in the last decade with an  
in-depth discussion of current trends and new open problems for the  
next decade. We solicit both surveys with a strong visionary portion,  
and visionary works that build upon a solid methodological groundwork.  
Topics include but are not limited to:

   * web analytics
   * web search
   * recommender systems
   * personalization user modeling
   * online communities social web mining
   * Semantic Web
   * computational social science
   * mining from virtual worlds and games



Submission procedure:


The submission takes place in two phases. In the first phase, an  
extended abstract PROPOSAL of up to 6 pages should be submitted for  
evaluation. It should contain adequate information for the reviewers  
to assess the importance of the topic addressed, the width and depth  
of the research associated with it and the solidity of the vision  
promoted. Authors of accepted proposals will be invited to submit full  
papers.

Manuscripts should be submitted to:
http://DAMI.edmgr.com. This online system offers easy and  
straightforward log-in and submission procedures, and supports a wide  
range of submission file formats. The article type 'SI: 10 Years of  
Mining the Web' should be chosen when submitting to this special issue.



Deadlines:

Proposal submission:  Jan 8, 2010

Proposal notification: Jan 25, 2010

Paper submission: May 14, 2010

Paper notification, First Review: Jul 30, 2010

Revised Papers Due: Oct 22, 2010

Final Paper Notification: Dec 17, 2010



Special Issue Editors:

Myra Spiliopoulou (Otto-von-Guericke-University Magdeburg, GERMANY)

Bamshad Mobasher (De Paul University Chicago, USA)

Olfa Nasraoui (University of Louisville, USA)

Jaideep Srivastava (University of Minnesotta, USA)

Osmar Zaiane (University of Alberta, CANADA)


Full Call for Papers here: http://www.springer.com/cda/content/document/cda_downloaddocument/CFP-10618-20091209.pdf?SGWID=0-0-45-844199-p35596293

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Prof. Dr. Myra Spiliopoulou
Workgroup KMD: "Knowledge Management & Discovery"
Faculty of Computer Science
Otto-von-Guericke-Universitaet Magdeburg
PO Box 4120, D-39016 Magdeburg
Germany

Phone: ++49.391.67 18967
Fax:   ++49.391.67 18110
Email: myra@iti.cs.uni-magdeburg.de
Webpage: http://omen.cs.uni-magdeburg.de/itikmd/





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