##################################################################### IEEE/WIC/ACM WEB INTELLIGENCE 2006 CALL FOR PAPERS ##################################################################### 2006 IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Web Intelligence (WI'06) Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre, Hong Kong, China, 18-22 December 2006. Sponsored By IEEE Computer Society Web Intelligence Consortium (WIC) Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) http://www.comp.hkbu.edu.hk/iwi06/ (Papers Due: 5 July 2006) ********************************************************************** Web Intelligence (WI) has been recognized as a new direction for scientific research and development to explore the fundamental roles as well as practical impacts of Artificial Intelligence (AI) (e.g., knowledge representation, planning, knowledge discovery and data mining, intelligent agents, and social network intelligence) and advanced Information Technology (IT) (e.g., wireless networks, ubiquitous devices, social networks, and data/knowledge grids) on the next generation of Web-empowered products, systems, services, and activities. It is one of the most important as well as promising IT research fields in the era of Web and agent intelligence. The 2006 IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Web Intelligence (WI'06) will be jointly held with the 2006 IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Intelligent Agent Technology (IAT'06) and the 6th IEEE International Conference on Data Mining (ICDM'06) for providing synergism among the three research areas. It will provide opportunities for technical collaboration beyond that of previous conferences. The three conferences will have a joint opening, keynote, reception, and banquet. Attendees only need to register for one conference and can attend workshops, sessions and tutorials across the three conferences. We are also planning a joint panel and joint paper sessions that discuss common problems in the three areas. +++++++++++++++++++ Topics of Interest +++++++++++++++++++ The topics and areas include, but not limited to: * World Wide Wisdom Web (W4) - Meta-Knowledge Discovery and Representation - Problem Solver Markup Language (PSML) - Search of Best Means and Ends - Goal-Directed Services Support - Distributed Resources Optimization - Service Self-Aggregation - Web Inference Engine - Information and Knowledge Markets * New Social Interaction Paradigms - Social and Psychological Contexts - Regularities and Laws of W4 - Social Networks and Social Intelligence - Social Networks Mining - Web Site Clustering - Link Topology and Site Hierarchy - Theories of Small-World Web - Virtual and Web Communities - Web-Based Cooperative Work * Knowledge Community Formation and Support - Ubiquitous Computing - Intelligent Wireless Web - Ubiquitous Learning Systems - Entertainment * Knowledge Grids and Grid Intelligence - Semantic Grids - Knowledge Resources and Services Discovery - On-Demand Planning and Routing - Brokering and Scheduling - Middleware Architectures and Tools * Web Mining and Farming - Text Mining - Data Stream Mining - Multimedia Data Mining - Web Content Mining - Web Log and Usage Mining - Learning User Profiles - Context Sensitive Web Mining - Web Information Clustering - Web Page Clustering and Mining - E-Mail Classification - Web Site Classification - Web Information Indexing - Data Warehousing - Web Farming and Warehousing * Semantics and Ontology Engineering - Ontology-Based Information Extraction and Retrieval - Ontology-Based Web Mining - Web-Based Ontology Learning - Semantic Web * Web Agents - Global Information Foraging - Distributed Problem Solving - Coordination - Resource Intermediary and Coordination Mechanisms - Self-Organization and Reproduction - Agent Networks and Topologies - Mobile Agents - Macroscopic Behavior Modeling - Trust Models for Web Agents * Web Services - Service-Oriented Computing - Matchmaking - Web Service Reconfiguration - Web Service Workflow Composition - Middleware-Based Ubiquitous Services - Grid Services * Web Information Filtering and Retrieval - Automatic Cataloging and Indexing - Clustering-Based Recommender Systems - Collaborative Filtering and Recommendation - Hybrid Recommendation - Information Retrieval Criteria and Evaluations - Web Information Categorization and Ranking - Proxy and Cache Techniques - Web Prediction and Prefetching - Distributed Web Search - Specifications for Web Information Extraction Process - Web Crawling Systems - Search Engines and Meta-search Engines * Intelligent Human-Web Interaction - Adaptive Web Interfaces - Context-Aware Computing - Learning User Profiles - Personalized Interfaces - Personalized Web Sites - Remembrance Agents - Multimedia Representation - Visualization of Information and Knowledge - Social and Psychological Issues * Web Support Systems - Information Retrieval Support Systems - Web Site Navigation Support Systems - Recommender Support Systems - Web-Based Decision Support Systems - Soft Computing (including neural networks, fuzzy logic, evolutionary computation, rough sets, and granular computing) and Uncertainty Management for WI * Intelligent e-Technology - Business Intelligence - Intelligent Enterprise Portals - Web-Based Direct Marketing and CRM - Web-Based EDI - e-Publishing - e-Business and e-Commerce - e-Finance - e-Community - Decentralized Community Communication Techniques - e-Learning - Digital Library - e-Science - e-Government - Web Security, Integrity, Privacy and Trust ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ On-Line Submissions and Publication ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ High-quality papers in all WI related areas are solicited. Papers exploring new directions or areas will receive a careful and supportive review. All submitted papers will be reviewed on the basis of technical quality, relevance, significance, and clarity. Note that WI'06 will accept ONLY on-line submissions, containing PDF versions. Paper submissions should be limited to a maximum of 8 pages in the IEEE 2-column format (see the IEEE Computer Society Press Proceedings Author Guidelines at http://www.computer.org/portal/pages/ieeecs/publications), and will be reviewed by the Program Committee on the basis of technical quality, relevance to data mining, originality, significance, and clarity. Please use the Submission Form on the WI'06 website to submit your paper. Accepted papers will be published in the conference proceedings by the IEEE Computer Society Press. A selected number of WI'06 accepted papers will be expanded and revised for inclusion in Web Intelligence and Agent Systems: An International Journal (http://wi-consortium.org/journal.html ) and in Annual Review of Intelligent Informatics (http://www.wi-consortium.org/annual.html) The best paper awards will be conferred at the conference on the authors of (1) the best research paper and (2) the best application paper. Application-oriented submissions will be considered for the best application paper award. More detailed instructions and the On-Line Submission Form can be found from the WI'06 homepage: http://www.comp.hkbu.edu.hk/~wii06/. ++++++++++++++++++++ Industry/Demo-Track ++++++++++++++++++++ We solicit Industry/Demo-Track papers by the following methods. (1) Industry papers of 4 pages can be submitted on the same schedule as the research track. (2) Separate 2 page demo proposals can submitted at a later schedule. (3) Full regular paper submissions can include a demo option. That is, a full paper submissions will be asked to specify if they would like to give a demonstration; choice of demonstrations (while utilizing information from the regular reviewing process) will be selected based on value as a demonstration. For options (1) and (2), please find more detailed instructions at the homepages: http://www.comp.hkbu.edu.hk/iwi06/wi/?index=demo We are planning to arrange the Demo session in the afternoon of Dec 19 (before and during the conference reception), jointly with the IAT'06 and ICDM'06 Demo sessions. +++++++++ Workshops +++++++++ WI'06 welcomes Workshop proposals. As an important part of the conference, the workshop program will focus on new research challenges and initiatives. All papers accepted for workshops will be included in the Workshop Proceedings, which are expected to be published by IEEE Computer Society Press and will be available at the workshops. Detailed information is available at the conference homepage. Note: we will not have a separate workshop registration fee this year (i.e., conference registration covers everything). ++++++++++ Tutorials ++++++++++ WI'06 also welcomes Tutorial proposals. WI'06 will include tutorials providing in-depth background on subjects that are of broad interest to the Web intelligence community. Both short (2 hours) and long (half day) tutorials will be considered. The tutorials will be part of the main conference technical program. Detailed information is available at the conference homepage. Note: we will not have a separate tutorials registration fee this year (i.e., only one conference registration covers everything). ++++++++++++++++ Important Dates ++++++++++++++++ Workshop proposal submission: April 10, 2006 Electronic submission of full papers: ** July 5, 2006 ** Tutorial proposal submission: July 15, 2006 Notification of paper acceptance: September 4, 2006 Camera-ready copies of accepted papers: October 4, 2006 Workshops: December 18, 2006 Conference: December 19-22, 2006 ++++++++++++++++++++++++ Conference Organization ++++++++++++++++++++++++ Conference Chairs: * Jiming Liu, Hong Kong Baptist University, HK * Benjamin Wah, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA Organizing Chair: * Yiu-Ming Cheung, Hong Kong Baptist University, HK Program Chair: * Toyoaki Nishida, Kyoto University, Japan Program Co-chairs: * Zhongzhi Shi, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China * Ubbo Visser, Science Universitat Bremen, Germany * Xindong Wu, University of Vermont, USA Industry/Demo-Track Co-Chairs: * Wray Buntine, Helsinki Institute for Information Technology, Finland * Kazuhiro Kuwabara, ATR, Japan * Jianchang Mao, Yahoo! Inc., USA Workshop Co-Chairs: * Cory J. Butz, University of Regina, Canada * Ngoc Thanh Nguyen, Wroclaw University of Technology, Poland * Yasufumi Takama, Tokyo Metropolitan University, Japan Tutorial Co-Chairs: * Yuefeng Li, Queensland University of Technology, Australia * Pawan Lingras, Saint Mary's University, Canada * Hideaki Takeda, National Institute of Informatics/University of Tokyo, Japan Publicity Chairs: * Marcin Szczuka, Warsaw University, Poland * Guoyin Wang, Chongqing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China * Hui Xiong, Rutgers University, USA Sponsorship Chairs: * Man-chung Chan, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, HK * Einoshin Suzuki, Yokohama National University, Japan * Zhaohui Tang, Micorsoft Corp., USA * Hongjin Yang, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China Program Vice Co-chairs: * Mario Cannataro, University "Magna Greia" of Catanzaro, Italy * Meng Chang Chen, Academia Sinica, Taiwan * Joost Kok, Leiden Institute of Advanced Computer Science, The Netherlands * Tsau Young Lin, San Jose State University, USA * Massimo Marchiori, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA and University of Venice, Italy * Ralf Moeller, Hamburg University of Technology, Germany * Sankar Pal, Machine Intelligence Unit Indian Statistical Institute, India * Steve Willmott, Technical University of Catalonia, Spain * Chengqi Zhang, Faculty of Information Technology, Australia * Lina Zhou, University of Maryland, USA *** Contact Information *** Yiuming Cheung Hong Kong Baptist University, HK E-mail: ymc@Comp.HKBU.Edu.HK -- ------------------------------------------------------------- Dr. Hui Xiong, Assistant Professor MSIS Department The CIMIC Research Center Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey Co-Editor-in-Chief, "Encyclopedia of GIS" http://refworks.springer-sbm.com/geograph/ Office: Room 200K, Ackerson Hall 180 University Avenue Newark, NJ 07102 Tel: 973-353-5261 Email: hui@rbs.rutgers.edu Homepage: http://cimic.rutgers.edu/~hui -------------------------------------------------------------