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------------------------------------------------------- FINAL CALL FOR PAPERS: WI-2001 The First Asia-Pacific Conference on Web Intelligence

SPONSORED BY ACM SIGART Maebashi Institute of Technology -------------------------------------------------------

Maebashi TERRSA, Maebashi City, Japan October 23-26, 2001 Home Page: http://kis.maebashi-it.ac.jp/wi01 Mirror Page: http://cs.uregina.ca/~wi01/

Paper Submission Deadline: March 20, 2001 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

IN COOPERATION WITH ACM SIGCHI, ACM SIGWEB Japanese Society for Artificial Intelligence (JSAI) JSAI SIGFAI, JSAI SIGKBS, IEICE SIGKBSE

CORPORATE SPONSORS Maebashi Convention Bureau Maebashi City Government Gunma Prefecture Government The Japan Research Institute, Limited US AFOSR/AOARD and US Army Research Office in Far East

WI-2001 will be jointly held with The Second Asia-Pacific Conference on Intelligent Agent Technology (IAT-2001) (One registration may attend both IAT-2001 and WI-2001) =======================================================

WI-2001 and IAT-2001 Joint Keynote Speakers: Edward A. Feigenbaum (Turing Award Winner), Stanford University Benjamin Wah (2001 IEEE CS President), U. Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

WI-2001 Invited Speakers: James Hendler (DARPA/ISO, USA) W. Lewis Johnson (University of Southern California, USA) Riichiro Mizoguchi (Osaka University, Japan) Prabhakar Raghavan (Verity Inc., USA) Patrick S. P. Wang (Northeastern University, USA)

The 21st century is the age of Internet and World Wide Web. The Web revolutionizes the way we gather, process, and use information. At the same time, it also redefines the meanings and processes of business, commerce, marketing, finance, publishing, education, research, development, as well as other aspects of our daily life. Although individual Web-based information systems are constantly being deployed, advanced issues and techniques for developing and for benefiting from Web intelligence still remain to be systematically studied.

Broadly speaking, Web Intelligence (WI) exploits AI and advanced information technology on the Web and Internet. It is the key and the most urgent research field of IT for business intelligence.

The Asia-Pacific Conference on Web Intelligence (WI) is an international forum for researchers and practitioners

(1) to present the state-of-the-art in the development of Web intelligence; (2) to examine performance characteristics of various approaches in Web-based intelligent information technology; (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-2001 is expected to stimulate the future development of new models, new methodologies, and new tools for building a variety of embodiments of Web-based intelligent information systems.

The Asia-Pacific Conference on Web Intelligence (WI) is a high-quality, high-impact biennial conference series. It will be jointly held with the Asia-Pacific Conference on Intelligent Agent Technology (IAT).

TOPICS ====== WI-2001 welcomes submissions of original papers. The technical issues to be addressed include, but not limited to:

* Web-Based Applications: - Business Intelligence - Computational Societies and Markets - Conversational Systems - Customer Relationship Management (CRM) - Direct Marketing - Electronic Commerce and Electronic Business - Electronic Library - Information Markets - Price Dynamics and Pricing Algorithms - Measuring and Analyzing Web Merchandising - Web-Based Decision Support Systems - Web-Based Distributed Information Systems - Web-Based EDI - Web-Based Learning Systems - Web Marketing - Web Publishing

* Web Human-Media Engineering: - Art of Web Page Design - Multimedia Information Representation - Multimedia Information Processing - Visualization of Web Information - Web-Based Human Computer Interface

* Web Information Management: - Data Quality Management - Information Transformation - Internet and Web-Based Data Management - Multi-Dimensional Web Databases and OLAP - Multimedia Information Management - New Data Models for the Web - Object Oriented Web Information Management - Personalized Information Management - Semi-Structured Data Management - Use and Management of Metadata - Web Knowledge Management - Web Page Automatic Generation and Updating - Web Security, Integrity, Privacy and Trust

* Web Information Retrieval: - Approximate Retrieval - Conceptual Information Extraction - Image Retrieval - Multi-Linguistic Information Retrieval - Multimedia Retrieval - New Retrieval Models - Ontology-Based Information Retrieval - Automatic Web Content Cataloging and Indexing

* Web Agents: - Dynamics of Information Sources - E-mail Filtering - E-mail Semi-Automatic Reply - Global Information Collecting - Information Filtering - Navigation Guides - Recommender Systems - Remembrance Agents - Reputation Mechanisms - Resource Intermediary and Coordination Mechanisms - Web-Based Cooperative Problem Solving

* Web Mining and Farming: - Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery - Hypertext Analysis and Transformation - Learning User Profiles - Multimedia Data Mining - Regularities in Web Surfing and Internet Congestions - Text Mining - Web-Based Ontology Engineering - Web-Based Reverse Engineering - Web Farming - Web-Log Mining - Web Warehousing

* Web Information System Environment and Foundations: - Competitive Dynamics of Web Sites - Emerging Web Technology - Network Community Formation and Support - New Web Information Description and Query Languages - The Semantic Web - Theories of Small World Web - Web Information System Development Tools - Web Protocols

PAPER SUBMISSION & PUBLICATION ============================== High quality full-length papers in all WI related areas are solicited. Papers exploring new directions are most welcome and will receive a careful and supportive review. All submitted papers will be reviewed on the basis of technical quality, relevance, significance, and clarity. Electronic submission is encouraged and preferred. Please send LaTex (MS-Words, or PDF) and PostScript versions of your paper, and an ASCII version of the cover page (in separate email), by March 20, 2001 to:

wi01@cs.uregina.ca

Or use the Submission Form at the WI-2001 webpage: http://kis.maebashi-it.ac.jp/wi01 to submit your paper.

Four (4) hardcopies of the paper by regular mail are also requested if electronic submission is not possible. Please send hardcopies of your paper by March 20, 2001 to:

Prof. Yiyu Yao (WI-2001) Department of Computer Science University of Regina Regina, Saskatchewan Canada S4S 0A2

E-mail: yyao@cs.uregina.ca Phone: (306) 585-5226 Fax: (306) 585-4745

The ASCII version of a cover page must include author(s) full address, email, paper title and a 200 word abstract, and up to 5 keywords.

Accepted papers will be published in the conference proceedings by Springer-Verlag in the Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence series (LNCS/LNAI). A selected number of WI-2001 accepted papers will be expanded and revised for inclusion in "Knowledge and Information Systems: An International Journal" by Springer-Verlag, "International Journal of Pattern Recognition and Artificial Intelligence" by World Scientific, and in an edited hardcover book to be published by Springer-Verlag.

WI best paper award will be conferred on the author(s) of the best papers at the conference.

All manuscripts (upto about 10 pages long) must be formatted using the Springer LNAI's style files. The style files can be found at: http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html#Proceedings. Please follow the instructions supplied by Springer-Verlag (http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html) when preparing your manuscript. LaTeX2e, LaTeX, TeX, and Microsoft Word Macros for preparing your manuscript are available.

DEMO SESSION ============ WI-2001 also welcomes submissions of research projects, research prototypes, experimental systems, and commercial products for demonstrations at the conference. Each submission should include a title page containing a title, a 200-300 word abstract, a list of keywords, the names, mailing addresses, and Email addresses of the presenters, and a two-page description of the demo system. Submissions should reach the WI-2001 Demos Chair:

Dr. Yiming Ye (WI-2001) IBM T.J. Watson Research Center 30 Saw Mill River Road (Route 9A) Hawthorne, N.Y. 10532 USA

Tel: (914) 784-7460 Email: yiming@watson.ibm.com

by July 2, 2001

Authors of accepted WI-2001 papers will be invited to demonstrate their systems at the conference.

It is understood that once a submission is selected for demonstration at the conference, the presenter(s) of the demo will be responsible for bringing necessary software/hardware equipment.

IMPORTANT DATES =============== March 20, 2001 Paper submission deadline May 28, 2001 Notification of paper acceptance mailed June 20, 2001 Camera-ready copies of accepted papers due July 2, 2001 Demo submission deadline August 3, 2001 Notification of demo acceptance mailed October 23-26, 2001 Conference technical sessions

CONFERENCE ORGANIZERS =====================

WI-2001 Conference Organizing Committee ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ General Chairs: Jiming Liu, Hong Kong Baptist University, Hong Kong Setsuo Ohsuga, Waseda University, Japan

Program Chairs: Ning Zhong, Maebashi Institute of Technology, Japan Yiyu Yao, University of Regina, Canada

Demos and Exhibits Chair: Yiming Ye, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, USA

Local Organizing Chair: Nobuo Otani, Maebashi Institute of Technology, Japan

International Advisory Board: ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Nick Cercone, University of Waterloo, Canada Edward A. Feigenbaum, Stanford University, USA T.Y. Lin, San Jose State University, USA Jiming Liu, Hong Kong Baptist University, Hong Kong Setsuo Ohsuga, Waseda University, Japan Ryuichi Oka, Real World Computing Partnership, Japan Nobuo Otani, Maebashi Institute of Technology, Japan Zbigniew W. Ras, University of North Carolina, USA Andrzej Skowron, Warsaw University, Poland Xindong Wu, Colorado School of Mines, USA Yiyu Yao, University of Regina, Canada Philip Yu, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, USA Ning Zhong, Maebashi Institute of Technology, Japan

Program Committee: ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Sarabjot Singh Anand (MINEit Software Limited, USA) Hendrik Blockeel (Katholieke U. Leuven, Belgium) Peter Bollmann-Sdorra (Technischen U. Berlin, Germany) Cory Butz (U. Ottawa, Canada) Keith Chan (Hong Kong Polytechnic U.) Hsinchun Chen (U. Arizona, USA) Ming-Syan Chen (National Taiwan U.) Jingde Cheng (Saitama U., Japan) David Cheung (Hong Kong U.) Robert Cooley (U. Minnesota, USA) Stefan Decker (Stanford U., USA) Liya Ding (National U. Singapore) Dieter Fensel (Vrije U. Amsterdam, The Netherlands) Benjamin Grosof (MIT, USA) Jiawei Han (Simon Fraser U., Canada) James Hendler (DARPA/ISO, USA) Bernardo A. Huberman (Xerox Palo Alto Research Center) W. Lewis Johnson (U. South California, USA) Tomonari Kamba (NEC Human Media Research Labs., Japan) Yasuhiko Kitamura (Osaka City U., Japan) Ramamohanarao Kotagiri (U. Melbourne, Australia) Bing Liu (National U. Singapore) Chunnian Liu (Beijing Poly. U., China) Jiming Liu (Hong Kong Baptist U.) Brien R. Maguire (U. Regina, Canada) Akira Namatame (National Defense Academy, Japan) Jian-Yun Nie (U. Montrial, Canada) H-O Nyongesa (Sheffield Hallam U., UK) Yukio Ohsawa (U. Tsukuba, Japan) Terry R. Payne (Carnegie Mellon U., USA) Gregory Piatetsky-Shapiro (Kowlegde Stream, USA) Mohamed Quafafou (U. Nantes, France) Vijay V. Raghavan (U. Louisiana at Lafayette, USA) Qiang Shen (U. Edinburgh, UK) Timothy K. Shih (Tamkang U., Taiwan) Myra Spiliopoulou (U. Magdeburg, Germany) Jaideep Srivastava (U. Minnesota, USA) Yasuyuki Sumi (ATR Lab. Japan) Einoshin Suzuki (Yokohama National U., Japan) Roman W. Swiniarski (San Diego State U., USA) Atsuhiro Takasu (National Inst. Informatics, Japan) Pierre Tchounikine (U. Maine, France) Hiroshi Tsukimoto (Toshiba Corp., Japan) Shusaku Tsumoto (Shimane Medical U., Japan) Gottfried Vossen (U. Munster, Germany) Lipo Wang (Nanyang Tech. U., Singapore) Takashi Washio (Osaka U., Japan) Michael S.K. Wong (U. Regina, Canada) Graham Williams (CSIRO, Australia) Seiji Yamada (Tokyo Inst. Tech., Japan) Yoneo Yano (Tokushima U., Japan) Yiyu Yao (U. Regina, Canada) Yiming Ye (IBM T. J. Watson Research Center, USA) Tetuya Yoshida (Osaka U., Japan) Ning Zhong (Maebashi Inst. Tech., Japan) Lizhu Zhou (Tsinghua U., China) Wojciech Ziarko (U. Regina, Canada)

Local Organizing Committee: ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Masahiko Satori (Maebashi Institute of Technology, Japan) Tadaomi Miyazaki (Maebashi Institute of Technology, Japan) Nobuo Otani (Maebashi Institute of Technology, Japan) Sean M. Reedy (Maebashi Institute of Technology, Japan) Ning Zhong (Maebashi Institute of Technology, Japan) Yukio Kanazawa (Maebashi Convention Bureau, Japan) Seiji Murai (Maebashi Convention Bureau, Japan) Kanehisa Sekine (Maebashi Convention Bureau, Japan) Midori Asaka (Information Technology Agency (IPA), Japan) Yoshitsugu Kakemoto (Japan Research Institute, Limited, Japan)

CONFERENCE SITE =============== The WI-2001 and IAT-2001 will take place in Maebashi. Maebashi, the capital of Gumma Prefecture, is called the `City of water, greenery, and poetry'. Maebashi is an `International Convention City' designated by the Ministry of Transportation.

Maebashi and the neighboring areas in Gunma is a land of greenery blessed with the wonders of natural beauty and more than a hundred hot springs offering relaxation and peace of mind. WI-2001 and IAT-2001 will organize a tour during the conference to a resort hotel with hot spring in Ikaho that is one of the most famous hot springs areas in Japan.

Maebashi is positioned nearly in the center of the Japan Archipelago. Only a hundred kilometers from Japan's capital city of Tokyo and reachable in an hour by bullet train or high-speed expressway, a variety of favorable land conditions lead to flourishing economic activity. Maebashi City and the neighboring areas in Gunma are expected to further develop into an IT conurbation with highly advanced information technology.

FURTHER INFORMATION =================== Please send suggestions and inquiries regarding WI-2001 to:

Prof. Ning Zhong (WI-2001) Department of Information Engineering Maebashi Institute of Technology 460-1, Kamisadori-Cho, Maebashi-City, 371-0816 Japan

TEL&FAX: +81-27-265-7366 E-mail: zhong@maebashi-it.ac.jp ------------------------------------------------------------

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