---------- Forwarded Message ---------- Subject: CFP: DSS Special Issue on Web Retrieval and Mining Date: Sat, 31 Mar 2001 12:00:49 -0700 From: Michael Chau mchau@BPA.ARIZONA.EDU To: ISWORLD@LISTSERV.HEANET.IE

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****************************** Call for Papers Special Issue of Decision Support Systems (DSS) "Web Retrieval and Mining"

Deadline for submission: July 13, 2001 http://ai.bpa.arizona.edu/~mgrayson/cfp/CFP-DSS-web-2001-Jul.html ******************************

The next Special Issue of Decision Support Systems (DSS), scheduled to come out in 2002, will focus on "Web Retrieval and Mining." The guest editor for this special issue will be Hsinchun Chen of The University of Arizona.

Information retrieval and data mining are two research areas that have experienced significant progress over the past few years. Overwhelming acceptance of the Internet as a primary means for content delivery and business transactions has created unique opportunities and challenges for researchers. The richness of the webs multimedia content, the reach and timeliness of web-based publication, the proliferation of eCommerce activities, and the potential for wireless web delivery have generated many interesting research problems. Technical, system, organizational, and social research approaches are all needed to address these research problems.

Articles describing novel techniques, systems, applications, and case studies are sought for inclusion in this special issue. Specific topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following:

- Text and data mining on the web - Web visualization - Web intelligence and agents - Web-based decision support and knowledge management - Wireless web retrieval and visualization - Web-based usability methodology - Web-based analysis for eCommerce applications

Inquiries can be made to the guest editor at hchen@bpa.arizona.edu. Manuscript submissions (four copies of full articles) should be addressed to:

Professor Hsinchun Chen Director, Artificial Intelligence Lab and Hoffman eCommerce Lab Management Information Systems Department, MCCL 430Z The University of Arizona Tucson, AZ 85721 TEL: (520) 621-2748; FAX: (520) 621-2433 http://ai.bpa.arizona.edu/hchen, hchen@bpa.arizona.edu

The deadline for accepting manuscripts for consideration for publication in this special issue is July 13, 2001.

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