##################################################################### IEEE/WIC WEB INTELLIGENCE 2003 ------------------------------- C A L L F O R P A P E R S ##################################################################### 2003 IEEE/WIC International Conference on Web Intelligence (WI 2003) Sponsored by IEEE Computer Society and Web Intelligence Consortium (WIC) October 13-17, 2003 Tianlun Dynasty Hotel, BEIJING, CHINA ******************************************** Homepage: http://www.comp.hkbu.edu.hk/WI03/ ******************************************** Web Intelligence (WI) is a new direction for scientific research and development that explores the fundamental roles as well as practical impacts of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and advanced Information Technology (IT) on the next generation of Web-empowered products, systems, services, and activities. The 2003 IEEE/WIC International Conference on Web Intelligence (WI 2003 jointly held with the 2003 IEEE/WIC International Conference on Intelligent Agent Technology (IAT 2003 http://www.comp.hkbu.edu.hk/IAT03). The IEEE/WIC 2003 joint conferences are sponsored and organized by IEEE Computer Society Technical Committee on Computational Intelligence (TCCI) (http://www.cs.uvm.edu/%7Exwu/tfvi/index.shtml) and by Web Intelligence Consortium (WIC) (http://wi-consortium.org). ++++++++ Topics ++++++++ The topics and areas include, but not limited to: * Intelligent Web-Based Business and Grid Computing Business Intelligence Customer Relationship Management Direct Marketing Electronic Commerce and Electronic Business Measuring and Analyzing Web Merchandising Price Dynamics and Pricing Algorithms Web-Based EDI Web Marketing Web Publishing * Knowledge Networks and Management Digital Library Information and Knowledge Markets Knowledge Community Formation and Support Ontology Engineering Semantic Web Visualization of Information and Knowledge Web-Based Decision Support Web Regularities and Models * Ubiquitous Computing and Social Intelligence Competitive Dynamics of Web Sites Computational Societies and Markets Dynamics of Information Sources Reputation Mechanisms Theories of Small World Web Ubiquitous Learning Systems Web-Based Cooperative Work Web Security, Integrity, Privacy and Trust * Intelligent Human-Web Interaction Adaptive Web Interfaces Multimedia Representation Multimodal Data Processing Science and Art of Web Design * Web Information Management Data Models for the Web Integrated Exploration and Exploitation Internet and Web-Based Data Management Multi-Dimensional Web Databases and OLAP Multimedia Information Management Object Oriented Web Information Management Personalized Information Management Semi-Structured Data Management Use and Management of Metadata Web-Based Distributed Information Systems o Web Information Retrieval Automatic Cataloging and Indexing Conceptual Information Extraction Multi-Linguistic Information Retrieval Multimedia Retrieval Multimodal Information Retrieval Ontology-Based Information Retrieval o Web Agents Conversational Systems E-mail Filtering and Automatic Handling Global Information Foraging Information Filtering Navigation Guides Recommender Systems Remembrance Agents Resource Intermediary and Coordination Mechanisms Semantic Web Agents o Web Mining and Farming Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery Learning User Profiles Multimedia Data Mining Text Mining Web-Based Ontology Learning Web-Based Reverse Engineering Web Farming Web-Log Mining Web Warehousing o Emerging Web Technology New Web Information Description and Query Languages Web Intelligence Development Tools Web Protocols P2P Computing Wisdom Web +++++++++++++++++ Important Dates +++++++++++++++++ Electronic submission of full papers: March 20, 2003 Notification of paper acceptance: May 2003 Industry track/workshop submission: June 2003 Notification of industry track & workshops: July 2003 Camera-ready of accepted papers: June 2003 Conference & workshops: October 13-17, 2003 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 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 2003 will accept ONLY on-line submissions, containing PDF (PostScript or MS-Word) versions. The conference proceedings will be published by the IEEE Computer Society Press. WI 2003 also welcomes Industry Track submissions, Workshop and Tutorial proposals. More detailed instructions and the On-Line Submission Form can be found from the WI 2003 homepage (http://www.comp.hkbu.edu.hk/WI03). A selected number of WI 2003 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 IEEE/WIC best paper awards will be conferred on the authors of the best papers at the conference. +++++++++++++++++++++++++ Conference Organization +++++++++++++++++++++++++ ***** Organizing Committee ***** Organizing Chairs Tieyong Zuo China Xiaoming Liu China Conference Chair Ning Zhong Japan Conference Co-Chairs Nick Cercone Canada Ruqian Lu China Toyoaki Nishida Japan Program Chair Jiming Liu HK Program Co-Chairs Boi Faltings Switzerland Matthias Klusch Germany Chunnian Liu China Industry Track Chairs Jianchang Mao USA Yiming Ye USA Lizhu Zhou China Workshop Chairs Cory Butz Canada Zhongzhi Shi China Yiyu Yao Canada Tutorial Chairs Jeffrey Bradshaw USA Jinglong Wu Japan Publicity and Web Chair Yiu-Ming Cheung HK IEEE-CS-TCCI Chair Xindong Wu USA WIC Co-Chairs/Directors Ning Zhong Japan Jiming Liu HK WIC Advisory Board Edward A. Feigenbaum USA Setsuo Ohsuga Japan Benjamin Wah USA Philip Yu USA L.A. Zadeh USA WIC Technical Committee & WI/IAT Steering Committee Nick Cercone Canada Dieter Fensel The Netherlands Georg Gottlob Austria Lakhmi Jain Australia W. Lewis Johnson USA Jianchang Mao USA Toyoaki Nishida Japan Xindong Wu USA Yiyu Yao Canada ***** WI 2003 Program Committee ***** Sarabjot Singh Anand (UK) Sourav Bhattacharya (USA) Hendrik Blockeel (Belgium) Cory Butz (Canada) Rajkumar Buyya (Australia) Keith Chan (HK SAR) Hsinchun Chen (USA) David Cheung (HK SAR) Yiu-ming Cheung (HK SAR) Joongmin Choi (Korea) Stefan Decker (USA) Peter W. Eklund (Australia) Fensel (The Netherlands) Fabien Gandon (France) Wen Gao (China) Ali A. Ghorbani (Canada) Xiaohua Tony Hu (USA) Janusz Kacprzyk (Poland) Dimitrios Kalles (Greece) Samuel Kaski (Finland) Yasuhiko Kitamura (Japan) Donald H. Kraft (USA) Rudolf Kruse (Germany) Vipin Kumar (USA) Yuefeng Li (Australia) Chun-hung Li (HK SAR) T.Y. Lin (USA) Carles X. Ling (Canada) Bing Liu (Singapore) Frederick H. Lochovsky (HK SAR) Michael Lyu (HK SAR) Philippe Martin (Australia) Ernestina Menasalvas (Spain) Luc Moreau (UK) Akira Namatame (Japan) Jian-Yun Nie (Canada) Henry O. Nyongesa (UK) Sankar Kumar Pal (India) Seog Park (Korea) Terry R. Payne (UK) Loris Penserini (Italy) Omer F. Rana (UK) Javier Segovia (Spain) Qiang Shen (UK) Timothy K. Shih (Taiwan) Steffen Staab (Germany) Yasuyuki Sumi (Japan) Einoshin Suzuki (Japan) Roman W. Swiniarski (USA) Atsuhiro Takasu (Japan) Pang-Ning Tan (USA) Pierre Tchounikine (France) Andrew Tomkins (USA) Shusaku Tsumoto (Japan) Paola Velardi (Italy) Jose M. Vidal (USA) Gottfried Vossen (Germany) Lipo Wang (Singapore) Zijun James Wang (USA) Takashi Washio (Japan) Graham Williams (Australia) Zonghuan Wu (USA) Seiji Yamada (Japan) Qiang Yang (HK SAR) Yoneo Yano (Japan) Yiyu Yao (Canada) Yiming Ye (USA) Tetuya Yoshida (Japan) Yaqin Zhang (China) Lizhu Zhou (China) Wojciech Ziarko (Canada)