CALL FOR PAPERS IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering (TKDE) Special Issue on Mining and Searching the Web http://www.comp.nus.edu.sg/~liub/tkdeWeb.html With the phenomenon growth of the Web, there is an ever-increasing volume of information being published in numerous Web sites. This vast amount of accessible information has opened up a host of new opportunities, some of which can be addressed using existing techniques, while others require new tools and technologies. Research in Web mining and searching aims to develop such new tools and techniques that can be employed to effectively find useful knowledge /information from Web sources. Due to the heterogeneity and the lack of structure of Web information sources, automated discovery of targeted or unexpected knowledge/information is a challenging problem. It calls for novel methods that draw from a wide range of fields spanning data mining/machine learning, statistics, databases, information retrieval, Artificial Intelligence, and natural language processing. In recent years, there was already a rapid expansion of activities in the Web mining and searching area. For this special issue, we invite original and high quality submissions addressing all aspects of Web mining and searching. Topics that are of interest include but are not limited to: * Web information extraction * Web resource discovery, and topic distillation * Web search * Web structure/linkage mining * Web site comparison * Semi-structured data (XML/OEM) mining * Interestingness evaluation of Web information * Information filtering/categorization/clustering * Database approaches to Web mining and searching * Exploiting prior knowledge in Web mining and searching * Formal models of the Web, its evolution, and user behavior * Web mining for searching, querying, and crawling * Personalization of Web contents * Visualization of Web contents and mining/searching results * Applications of Web mining and searching Special Issue Guest Editors --------------------------- Soumen Chakrabarti, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay Bing Liu, National University of Singapore Submission Guidelines --------------------- Prospective authors are requested to submit PDF or PS versions of their papers to: Bing Liu, liub@comp.nus.edu.sg Manuscripts should be no longer than 35 double-spaced pages and should conform to the guidelines for the authors printed inside the back cover of the issues of IEEE TKDE. Deadlines for the special issue: -------------------------------- Paper submission deadline: July 1, 2002 Acceptance notification: Oct. 20, 2002 Final versions of papers: Dec. 20, 2002 Publication: Summer or fall 2003