-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [WI] WIMS’14 : 3rd call & deadline extension (4th International Conference on Web Intelligence, Mining and Semantics) Datum: Sat, 07 Dec 2013 11:40:11 +0200 Von: Athina Vakali avakali@csd.auth.gr An: conferences@computer.org

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========================================================================== Due to a number of requests we have to decided to extend the paper submission deadlines

NEW deadline for paper submission: *** January 20th 2014 *** ==========================================================================

CALL FOR RESEARCH / APPLICATION & CASE STUDY PAPERS / POSTERS CALL FOR WORKSHOPS / TUTORIALS / DEMONSTRATIONS KEYNOTES ANNOUNCEMENT WIMS’14 4th International Conference on Web Intelligence, Mining and Semantics Thessaloniki, Greece, 2-4 June 2014 http://wims14.csd.auth.gr

About WIMS’14 Conference -------------------------------------- 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.

Objectives -------------- 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 - To give doctoral students an opportunity to present their research to a friendly and knowledgeable audience and receive valuable feedback - To provide an informal social event where Web technology researchers and practitioners can meet

Call for Research Papers/Posters -------------------------------------------- WIMS’14 is intended to foster the dissemination of state-of-the-art research in the area of Web intelligence, Web mining, Web semantics and the fundamental interaction between them. Authors are invited to submit regular (12 pages) or short (6 pages) research papers or posters (4 pages) on all related areas. Papers exploring new directions or areas will receive a thorough and encouraging review.

More details on the nature of the different submission types can be found at: http://wims14.csd.auth.gr/?page_id=23

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.

Submissions should be made electronically in PDF or DOC/DOCX (MS/Open Word) format via the electronic submission system of the WIMS’14 Conference Management system at https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=wims14

The submissions should be typeset using the templates of the ACM International Conference Proceedings Series (ICPS). The templates could be retrieved from http://www.acm.org/sigs/publications/proceedings-templates

Call for Application and Case Study Track Papers ---------------------------------------------------------------- The goal of this track is to provide opportunities for researchers, innovators, industry leaders, and practitioners to present and exchange ideas, results, and experiences in the applications of Web Intelligence, Mining, and Semantics (WIMS). The Application & Case Studies Track invites submissions describing implementations of Web Intelligence, Mining, and Semantics in industrial or government or other ‘real world’ settings. Papers must include descriptions of how the applications have been conceived, developed, and (probably) deployed.

Details about the submission types and the submission procedure of this track can be found at: http://wims14.csd.auth.gr/?page_id=154

Call for Tutorials/Demonstration Proposals ---------------------------------------------------------- WIMS’14 also welcomes Tutorial and/or Demonstration proposals. WIMS’14 will include tutorials and/or demonstrations (on new applications) providing in-depth background on subjects that are of broad interest to the Web Mining and Web Semantics community. The tutorials will be part of the main conference technical program. Proposal papers must be no less than 5 pages and no more than 12 pages, and must provide a sense of both the scope of the tutorial and depth within the scope.

Details about the submissions of the tutorial/demonstration proposals can be found at: http://wims14.csd.auth.gr/?page_id=148

Call for Workshop Proposals -------------------------------------- WIMS’14 invites proposals for workshops to be held in conjunction with the conference. Organizers may structure workshops as they see fit, possibly including invited talks, panel discussions, presentations of work in progress, peer-reviewed papers, or some combination. A workshop could be scheduled for a half a day or a full day, depending on potential interest and organizers preference.

The organizers of successful workshops will be responsible for their own reviewing process, website, and to co-ordinate the collection and delivery of camera ready material and ACM copyright transfer. Accepted papers in workshops will be published in the WIMS’14 proceedings and disseminated through the ACM Digital Library. Selected extended papers will be invited to appear in a special issue of a reputed journal in the field.

Details about the submissions of the workshop proposals can be found at: http://wims14.csd.auth.gr/?page_id=150

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 major areas are relevant:

- Scalable Web and Data Architectures and Infrastructures - Web Intelligence - Web Mining, Information and Knowledge Extraction - Web Semantics and Reasoning - WIMS Applications - Evaluation and Validation of WIMS Technologies and Applications

More details about the conference scope and topics can be found at: http://wims14.csd.auth.gr/?page_id=146

Publications ---------------- Accepted papers/tutorials/posters will be published by ACM and disseminated through the ACM Digital Library through the International Conference Proceedings Series (ICPS).

A selection of the best WIMS'14 papers will be invited to be revised and extended for the post-conference publication in the Special Issue of the International Journal on Artificial Intelligence Tools (IJAIT).

The proceedings of the previous WIMS conferences could be checked at: - WIMS’11: https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1988688 - WIMS’12: https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=2254129 - WIMS’13: https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=2479787

Keynotes ------------- WIMS’14 organizing committee is happy to announce the following significant keynote speakers for this year’s conference: - “Large-Scale Reasoning with (Semantic) Data”: Grigoris Antoniou, Professor, University of Huddersfield - “Semantic Technology for online, broadcast and print media”: Jem Rayfield, Head Architect, Financial Times - “Big Data – from Hype to Reality”: Richard Benjamins, Dr., Director of Business Intelligence, Telefonica

Important Dates --------------- 13.01.2014 submission of abstracts for Application and Case Study Track Papers ** NEW ** 20.01.2014 submission of Research Track papers & Application and Case Study Track papers & posters ** NEW ** 20.12.2013 – Workshop & Tutorial Proposals submission, review and notification 24.03.2014 notification of acceptance for (all tracks) papers/posters ** NEW ** 07.04.2014 camera ready versions of the accepted (all tracks) papers, posters, tutorial papers ** NEW ** 14.04.2014 author registration deadline ** NEW ** 02-04.06.2014 – Conference

Organization ----------------- WIMS'14 is organized under the auspices of the Dept. of Informatics at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece. (http://www.csd.auth.gr/en/)

WIMS Conferences Chair Rajendra Akerkar, Western Norway Research Institute, Norway

General Chairs Ioannis Vlahavas, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece Takahira Yamaguchi, Keio University, Japan

Program Committee Chairs Nick Bassiliades, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece Vadim Ermolayev, Zaporizhzhya National University, Ukraine

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

Workshops and Tutorials Chairs Costin Badica, University of Craiova, Romania Dimitris Vrakas, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece

Industrial Track Chair John Davies, BT Research & Innovation, UK

Publicity Chair Athena Vakali, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece

Local Organization Co-Chairs Yannis Manolopoulos, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece Athanasios Tsadiras, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece

Web Chairs Efstratios Kontopoulos, International Hellenic University, Greece Fotis Kokkoras, T.E.I. of Thessaly, Greece

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