-------- Forwarded Message -------- Subject: Call for participation at WIMS'2018 - 8th International Conference on Web Intelligence, Mining and Semantics Date: Thu, 7 Jun 2018 09:48:37 +0200 (CEST) From: mira@dmi.uns.ac.rs To: Gustaf.Neumann@wu-wien.ac.at

====================================================================================== WIMS'2018 - The 8th International Conference on Web Intelligence, Mining and Semantics 25–27 June 2018, Novi Sad, Serbia Web site: https://wims2018.pmf.uns.ac.rs/ ======================================================================================

Dear Colleagues,

It is our pleasure to invite you to participate at the 8th International Conference on Web Intelligence, Mining and Semantics (WIMS'2018) June 25–27 2018, Novi Sad, Serbia

WIMS'2018 offers plenary lectures by extraordinary invited speakers and tutorials on contemporary research topics with industrial applications.

*** Invited Speakers Sören Auer - A knowledge graph for science Ngoc-Thanh Nguyen - Collective Intelligence: An Influence Analysis of Diversity and Collective Cardinality on Collective Performance Dunja Mladenic - Observing Global Social Dynamics through Event Monitoring

*** Tutorials Panagiotis Symeonidis - Contextual-Aware Recommender Systems based on Matrix/Tensor Decompositions and Random Walks on Graphs Krisztian Buza - Time Series Classification and its Applications Arthur Zimek, Youcef Djenouri - Outlier Detection in Traffic Data Milos Radovanovic - Influential Neighbors: The Why, The Where, and What Next Milos Savic - Analysis of Annotated Social and Information Networks: Methods and Applications

Additionally, the program of the conference (https://wims2018.pmf.uns.ac.rs/prog.php) consists of 45 high quality research papers in 7 thematic sessions and 2 workshops (BigData 2018 and WASA 2018 - 8th Workshop on Applications of Software Agents).

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.

*** Conference Venue

Novi Sad is a city located in northern Serbia. It lies on the banks of the Danube river in the province of Vojvodina. Novi Sad is located on the water route Rhine – Main – Danube which connects nine countries and six capitals. It is also on the main route from the central Europe (through Hungary) to south-eastern Europe (Greece, Bulgaria, Turkey). Novi Sad lies 300 km south of Budapest (Hungary), 70 km north of Belgrade, 360 km east of Zagreb (Croatia) and 160 km west of Timisoara (Romania).

Its name means "New Planting" (noun) in Serbian and is also known as Neoplanta (in Latin), Neusatz (in German), and Uj Videk (in Hungarian).

For more information about Novi Sad, please visit https://perun.pmf.uns.ac.rs/novisad/

*** Registration

The conference registration fee for participants without papers is 300€. It includes - full admission to scientific conference, all plenary sessions and tutorials - social events (welcome reception, city tour, conference dinner) - lunches and coffee breaks at the conference venue

The registration form is available at the conference website: https://wims2018.pmf.uns.ac.rs/register.php

Looking forward to seeing you in Novi Sad.

Mirjana Ivanovic, University of Novi Sad, Serbia General Chair

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