-------- Weitergeleitete Nachricht -------- Betreff: PLEASE TAKE A LOOK - WIMS'18 - 8th International Conference on Web Intelligence, Mining and Semantics, June 25-27 2018, Novi Sad, Serbia Datum: Wed, 20 Dec 2017 13:37:03 +0100 (CET) Von: mira@dmi.uns.ac.rs An: Gustaf.Neumann@wu-wien.ac.at

WIMS 2018 Call for Papers (apologies for multiple copies)

Dear Colleagues,

It is our pleasure to invite you to the

WIMS 2018 - 8th International Conference on Web Intelligence, Mining and Semantics June 25-27 2018 Novi Sad, Serbia

Please consider to submit a paper at the Conference, and distribute call for your colleagues.

More details about the conference including the Call for Papers are available at the conference web site https://wims2018.pmf.uns.ac.rs/, and below in this mail.

We are also excited to announce the WIMS 2018 keynote speakers: - Sören Auer, "A knowledge graph for science" - Ngoc-Thanh Nguyen, "Collective Intelligence: An Influence Analysis of Diversity and Collective Cardinality on Collective Performance"

In addition to the regular technical program, several workshops and tutorials will be held during the conference. The confirmed ones are: - WASA 2018, 8th Workshop on Applications of Software Agents - Panagiotis Symeonidis, "Contextual-Aware Recommender Systems based on Matrix/Tensor Decompositions and Random Walks on Graphs" (tutorial) - Krisztian Buza, "Time Series Classification and its Applications" (tutorial)

Looking forward to seeing you in Novi Sad!

Best regards,

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

General Chair Mirjana Ivanovic, University of Novi Sad, Serbia

General Co-Chair Sang-Wook Kim, Hanyang University, Korea

Program Committee Co-Chairs Yannis Manolopoulos, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece Riccardo Rosati, Sapienza Universita di Roma, Italy

====================================================================================== 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/ Proceedings: ACM International Conference Proceedings Series (ICPS) ======================================================================================

*** WIMS 2018 Call For Papers Leaflet https://wims2018.pmf.uns.ac.rs/download/WIMS2018_CFP_leaflet.pdf

*** WIMS 2018 Call for Workshops, Tutorials and Demonstrations Proposals https://wims2018.pmf.uns.ac.rs/cfw.php

*** About WIMS'18 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.

*** Important Dates

January 8, 2018 Paper submission January 15, 2018 Submission of tutorial and workshop proposals January 22, 2018 Notification of acceptance for tutorials and workshops March 10, 2018 Notification of acceptance for papers/posters April 15, 2018 Camera-ready versions of accepted papers, posters, tutorial papers April 15, 2018 Author registration and registration fee payment deadline June 25-27, 2018 Conference

*** 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 WIMS traditionally hosts a small number of short tutorials on the topics related to the scope of the conference series. The role of a WIMS tutorial is to be a theme-oriented comprehensive survey. WIMS also offers its infrastructure and facilities for the organizers of satellite workshops that complement the scope of the conference. The calls for WIMS'2018 Tutorials and Workshops are published separately. Companies or individuals interested in presenting their industrial products or methodologies are invited to contact the conference chairs.

*** Chairs

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

General Chair Mirjana Ivanovic, University of Novi Sad, Serbia

General Co-Chair Sang-Wook Kim, Hanyang University, Korea

*** Best Papers

The best research paper as well as the best young research paper will be honored with a special prize. Selection of the best papers from the conference will be recommended for publication in a special issue of an international journal.

*** 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 - Crawling, Caching and Querying Linked (Semantic) Data - Dataset Dynamics and Synchronization - Big Data Computing - User Interfaces and Visualization for the Web of (Linked Semantic) Data at Scale - Indexing and Information Extraction from the (Semantic) Deep Web - 3D Media and Content - Sensing Web and the Web of Things - Web-Based Health- and Bio- Information Systems - Web Security, Integrity, Privacy, and Trust - Nature-Inspired Models and Approaches in Web and Data Processing Infrastructures ### Web Intelligence (WI) - Semantic Agent Systems for WI - Advanced Interaction and Communication Paradigms with WI - Natural Language / Ontology-/Taxonomy-based / Hybrid Interfaces - Intelligence for Visualizing (Linked Semantic) Web Data at scale - Intelligence for Big Data Analytics - Ubiquitous Intelligence and the Internet of Things - WI in Social Media - WI in Human Computation and Social Games - Opinion Mining / Sentiment Analysis on the Social Web - Social Monetization and Computational Advertising - Visualizing Social Network Data - WI for Services, Grids, and Middleware - Nature-Inspired Models and Approaches for WI ### Web Mining, Information and Knowledge Extraction - Text, Data Stream, Web and Multimedia Content Mining - Contextualization and Clustering in Web Mining and Information Extraction - Knowledge Extraction and Ontology Learning from the Web - Linked Data Mining - Information Extraction and Knowledge Discovery from Big Data - Mining and Information Extraction from the Deep Web - Semantic Deep Web Data Fusion ### Web Semantics and Reasoning - Knowledge Representation for the Web - Ontology Specification: Expressivity Versus Usability - Ontologies and Linked Semantic Data - Development and Re-Use of Ontologies for the Web - Crowdsourcing for Ontology Engineering and Management on the Social Web - Lifecycle, Management, and Evolution of Web Ontologies - Ontology Merging and Alignment - Rule Markup Languages and Systems - Semantic Annotation - Reasoning: Scalability, Expressivity, Incompleteness, Vagueness, and/or Uncertainty ### WIMS Applications - Web Applications of Semantic Agent Systems - Semantics-Driven Information Retrieval - Semantic Search - Intelligent E-Technology and the Semantic Web - Intelligence and Semantics for Business Information Management and Integration - Intelligence and Semantic Technologies in Digital Media - Semantic Technologies in E-Business, E-Commerce, E-Finance, E-Health, E-Science, - E-Government, E-Learning - WI for Multimedia, Sensors, and Situational Awareness - WI for Software and Systems Engineering - Quality of Life Technology for Web Access - Nature-Inspired Models and Approaches in WIMS Applications ### Evaluation and Validation of WIMS Technologies and Applications - Evaluation and Validation Methodologies - Datasets and Benchmarks for Cross-Evaluations and Competitions - Evaluation and Validation Infrastructures - Evaluation and Validation Metrics (e.g., Fitness, Quality, Completeness, Correctness, etc.)

*** Submission Guidelines

Four types of submissions are solicited for the main conference: 1. Regular research papers (12 ACM pages) 2. Short research papers (6 ACM pages) 3. Discussion, survey, or problem analysis papers (12 ACM pages) 4. Posters (4 ACM pages)

More details on the nature of the different submission types can be found at the submission page: https://wims2018.pmf.uns.ac.rs/sub.php

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'2018 Conference Management system at WIMS'18 Easychair page: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=wims2018

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

*** 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'2018 papers will be invited to be revised and extended for the post-conference publication in special issues of internationally recognized journals. The proceedings of the previous WIMS conferences could be checked at: - WIMS'2011: https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1988688 - WIMS'2012: https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=2254129 - WIMS'2013: https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=2479787 - WIMS'2014: https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=2611040 - WIMS'2015: https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=2797115 - WIMS'2016: https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=2912845 - WIMS'2017: http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=3102254

*** Organization

WIMS'2018 is organized under the auspices of the Department of Mathematics and Informatics Faculty of Sciences, University of Novi Sad. (https://www.pmf.uns.ac.rs/en/)

*** Committees

Program Committee Co-Chairs Yannis Manolopoulos, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece Riccardo Rosati, Sapienza Universita di Roma, Italy

Advisory Committee Grigoris Antoniou, University of Huddersfield, UK Harold Boley, University of New brunswick, Canada James Hendler, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, NY, USA Guus Schreiber, VU University, The Netherlands Takahira Yamaguchi, Keio University, Japan Rajendra Akerkar, Western Norway Research Institute, Norway (WIMS Conferences Chair)

Workshop & Tutorial Chair Costin Badica, University of Craiova, Romania Workshop & Tutorial Co-Chairs Milos Radovanovic, University of Novi Sad, Serbia Milos Savic, University of Novi Sad, Serbia

Local Organising Committee Milos Savic, University of Novi Sad, Serbia (Chair) Jovana Vidakovic, University of Novi Sad, Serbia (Co-Chair) Brankica Bratic, University of Novi Sad, Serbia Jovana Ivkovic, University of Novi Sad, Serbia Sasa Pesic, University of Novi Sad, Serbia Djurica Salamon, University of Novi Sad, Serbia

*** Contact

Department of Mathematics and Informatics Faculty of Sciences, University of Novi Sad Trg Dositeja Obradovica 3, 21000 Novi Sad wims2018@pmf.uns.ac.rs