2009 IEEE/WIC/ACM International
Conference on
Web Intelligence (WI-09)
Tutorials due: *** 30th April 2009 ***NEW
DEADLINE***
CALL FOR PAPERS
September 15-18, 2009, Milan, Italy
http://www.wi-iat09.disco.unimib.it
(Papers Due: *** 10 April 2009 ***
20th April 2009 EXPIRED
Accepted papers will be published in the conference
proceedings
by the IEEE Computer Society Press, which are indexed by EI.)
WI 2009 will provide a leading international forum of
scientific research and development to explore the
fundamental interactions between AI-engineering and Advanced
Information Technology (e.g., wireless networks, ubiquitous
devices, social networks, and data/knowledge grids), and
their role on the next generation of Web-empowered products,
Web systems and services. AI-engineering refers to a new
area, slightly beyond traditional AI, which encompasses:
brain informatics, human level AI, intelligent agents,
social network intelligence, knowledge engineering,
representation, planning, data mining and discovery.
WI 2009 will be jointly held with the 2009 IEEE/WIC/ACM
International Conference on Intelligent Agent Technology
(IAT-09). The two conferences will have a joint opening,
keynote, reception, and banquet. Attendees only need to
register for one conference and can attend workshops,
sessions, tutorials, panels, exhibits and demonstrations
across the two conferences. We are also planning a joint
panel, joint paper sessions, and a doctoral mentoring
program to discuss common problems in the two areas.
Topics of Interest
We invite submissions in all WI related areas. Papers exploring new directions or areas will receive a careful and supportive review. Areas of interest include, but are not limited to:
* WI Foundations
- Brain Informatics for WI
- Human-Level WI
- New Cognitively Inspired Models for WI
- Granular Computing (GrC) for WI
- Soft Computing for WI
- Autonomy-Oriented Computing (AOC) for WI
- Human-Inspired WI Computing
* 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
* Web Information Retrieval and Filtering
- Web Information Retrieval in context
- Multimedia Indexing
- Personalization
- Location-based Information Retrieval
- Geographic information retrieval
- Content-based Information Filtering
- Collaborative Filtering and Recommendation
- Hybrid Recommendation
- Clustering-Based Recommender Systems
- Information Retrieval Models and Evaluations
- Web Information Categorization
- Ranking Techniques
- Proxy and Cache Techniques
- Web Prediction and Pre-fetching
- Distributed Web Search
- Specifications for Web Information Extraction Process
- Web Crawling Systems
- Search Engines and Meta-search Engines
* Semantics and Ontology Engineering
- Semantic Web
- Ontology-Based Information Extraction and Retrieval
- Ontology-Based Web Mining
- Web-Based Ontology Learning
* Web Mining and Farming
- Text Mining
- Data Stream Mining
- Multimedia Data Mining
- Web Content Mining
- Web Log and Usage Mining
- Context Sensitive Web Mining
- Web Information Clustering
- Web Page Clustering and Mining
- Data Warehousing
- Web Farming and Warehousing
* Social Networks and Social Intelligence
- Social Network Mining
- Web Site Clustering
- Web 2.0
- 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 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
* Intelligent Human-Web Interaction
- Adaptive Web Interfaces
- Context-Aware Computing
- Emotional Factor
- 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
- Digital Libraries
- Decentralized Community Communication Techniques
- e-Publishing
- e-Business and e-Commerce
- e-Finance
- e-Government
- e-Learning
- e-Medicine
- e-Market
- e-Service
- Web Security, Integrity, Privacy and Trust
On-Line Submissions and Publication
High-quality papers in all WI related areas are
solicited. Paper submissions should be limited to a maximum
of 8 pages in the IEEE 2-column format, the same as the
camera-ready format (see the
Author Guidelines at the submission
page).
All submitted papers will be reviewed by the Program
Committee on the basis of technical quality, relevance,
significance, and clarity.
Note that WI’09 will accept ONLY on-line submissions, containing PDF versions. Please use the Submission Form on the WI’09 website to submit your paper. Accepted papers will be published in the conference proceedings by the IEEE Computer Society Press that are indexed by EI.
Submissions accepted as regular papers will be allocated 8 pages in the proceedings and accorded oral presentation times in the main conference. Submissions accepted as short papers will be allocated 4 pages in the proceedings and will have a shorter presentation time at the conference than regular papers.
All co-authors will be notified at all time, for the submission, notification, and confirmation on the attendance. Submitting a paper to the conference and workshops means that, if the paper is accepted, at least one author should attend the conference to present the paper. The acceptance list and no-show list will be openly published on-line. For no-show authors, their affiliations will receive a notification.
A selected number of WI'09 accepted papers will be expanded and revised for inclusion in Web Intelligence and Agent Systems: An International Journal” (http://wi-consortium.org/html/journal.php) and in the Annual Review of Intelligent Informatics (http://www.worldscibooks.com/series/arii_series.shtml).
Workshops
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 published by the IEEE Computer Society Press that are indexed by EI, and will be available at the workshops. Detailed information is available at Workshops page.
Note: we will not have a separate workshop registration fee (i.e., conference registration covers everything).
Tutorials
WI’09 also welcomes Tutorial proposals. WI’09 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 (i.e., only one conference registration covers everything).
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 Industry/Demo page.
Important Dates
·
Workshop proposal submission: January
31,
2009 EXPIRED
·
Electronic submission of
full papers: April 20, 2009 EXPIRED
· Tutorial proposal submission: April 30, 2009 EXTENDED
· Workshop paper submission: April 30, 2009
· Notification of paper acceptance: June 3, 2009
· Conference: September 15-18, 2009
Conference Organization
Conference Chair: Gabriella Pasi, University of Milano Bicocca, Milan, Italy.
Organizing Co-Chairs:
Gloria Bordogna, National Council of Research, Bergamo, Italy
Giancarlo Mauri, University of Milano Bicocca, Milano, Italy
Program Chair:
Ricardo Baeza Yates, Yahoo! Inc., Barcelona, Spain
WI Program Co-Chairs:
Bettina Berendt, K.U.Leuven, Leuven Belgium.
Elisa Bertino, Purdue University, West Lafayette, USA.
Lim Ee Peng, Singapore Management University, Singapore.
IAT Program Co-Chairs:
Jérôme Lang, CNRS, LAMSADE, Paris, France.
Sushmita Mitra, Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata, India
Simon Parsons, Brooklyn College, City Univ of NY
Workshop Co-Chairs:
Paolo Boldi, University of Milan, Italy.
Giuseppe Vizzari, University of Milano - Bicocca, Italy
Tutorial Co-Chairs:
Mohand Boughanem, University Paul Sabatier, Toulouse, France
Fabrizio Sebastiani, National Council of Research, Pisa, Italy
Publicity Co-Chairs:
Jia Hu, The International WIC Institute/BJUT, China
Mounia Lalmas, University of Glasgow, UK
IEEE-CS-TCII Chair:
Ning Zhong, Maebashi Institute of Technology, Japan
ACM SIGART Chair:
Maria Gini, University of Minnesota, USA
WIC Co-Chairs/Directors:
Ning Zhong, Maebashi Institute of Technology, Japan
Jiming Liu, University of Windsor, Canada
WIC Advisory Board:
Edward A. Feigenbaum, Stanford University, USA
Setsuo Ohsuga, University of Tokyo, Japan
Benjamin Wah, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, USA
Philip Yu, University of Illinois, Chicago, USA
L.A. Zadeh, University of California, Berkeley, USA
WIC Tech. Committee & WI/IAT Steering Committee:
Jeffrey Bradshaw, UWF/Institute for Human and Machine Cognition, USA
Nick Cercone, York University, Canada
Dieter Fensel, University of Innsbruck, Austria
Georg Gottlob, Oxford University, UK
Lakhmi Jain, University of South Australia, Australia
Jianchang Mao, Yahoo! Inc., USA
Pierre Morizet-Mahoudeaux, Compiegne University of Technology, France
Hiroshi Motoda, Osaka University, Japan
Toyoaki Nishida, Kyoto University, Japan
Andrzej Skowron, Warsaw University, Poland
Jinglong Wu, Okayama University, Japan
Xindong Wu, University of Vermont, USA
Yiyu Yao, University of Regina, Canada
*** Contact Information ***
Gabriella Pasi (Conference General Chair)
email: WI-IAT09@disco.unimib.itThe WIC Office
email: wi09@wi-consortium.org