[Web4lib] 2nd CFP: WI-2007 (DL: June 1) Silicon Valley, USA

[Jia Hu]

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         IEEE/WIC/ACM WEB INTELLIGENCE 2007
                  CALL FOR PAPERS
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2007 IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on
Web Intelligence (WI'07)

Silicon Valley, USA, November 2-5, 2007
Official: http://www.cs.sjsu.edu/wi07/wi/
Mirror:   http://www.maebashi-it.org/wi07/wi/
(to be collocated with IAT'07, BIBM'07 and GrC'07)

Sponsored By
IEEE Computer Society
Web Intelligence Consortium (WIC)
Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)

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# Conference Chair
#    Andrei Broder, VP, Yahoo Fellow, Yahoo! Research
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# Program Chair and Co-Chairs	
#    T.Y. Lin,        Professor, SJSU, BISC Fellow, UC-Berkeley
#    Laura Haas,      Director, IBM Almaden Research Center
#    Janusz Kacprzyk, Professor, Polish Academy of Science
#    Rajeev Motwani,  Professor, Stanford University
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# Organizing Chair	
#    Howard Ho, Manager, IBM Almaden Research Center 
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# WI-IAT Joint Keynote Speakers (Tentative)
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# Vinton G. Cerf, Turing Award Winner, 
#                 VP and Chief Internet Evangelist, Google 
# Richard M. Karp, Turing Award Winner,
#                 University of California Berkeley
# Anant Jhingran, VP and CTO, IBM Silicon Valley Laboratory 
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# WI Invited Speakers:
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# Dieter A. Fensel, University of Innsbruck, Austria
# Toyoaki Nishida,  Kyoto University, Japan
# (More WI Invited Speakers will be announced)
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# (Papers Due: ** June 1 **, 2007)
# Accepted papers will be published in the conference proceedings
# by the IEEE Computer Society Press, which are indexed by EI.
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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 2007 IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Web Intelligence
(WI'07) will be jointly held with the 2007 IEEE/WIC/ACM International
Conference on Intelligent Agent Technology (IAT'07), the 2007 IEEE
International Conference on Bioinformatics and Biomedicine (BIBM'07),
and the 2007 IEEE International Conference on Granular Computing
(GrC'07) for providing synergism among the four research areas.  It
will provide opportunities for technical collaboration beyond that of
previous conferences. The four 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 four conferences. We are also planning a joint panel and joint
paper sessions that discuss common problems in the four areas.

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Highlights
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The conference will be held in Silicon Valley, California. Many
high-tech companies and three distinguished universities (Stanford, 
UC Berkely and UCSC) are just around the corner. The highlight of the
conference is that a unique forum consisting of a half-day industry/
demo track and free discussion will be organized to link industries
and academics. Leading IT companies like IBM, Google, and Yahoo etc
will present at the conference.

The area now known as Silicon Valley has been a center of
technological development since the 1950's. The name Silicon Valley
stems from the early 1970's, when the area had become the center for
many semiconductor companies. While still hosting semiconductor and
microprocessor companies, the region now hosts the headquarters of
high tech companies of every kind, including many of the best known
and most prestigious names in personal computers, Web search, Internet
auctions, networking, storage, databases, etc.

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Topics of Interest
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The topics and areas include, but not limited to:

* WI Foundations
  - Brain Informatics for WI
  - Human level WI
  - New cognitive models and computational models for WI
  - Granular Computing (GrC) for WI
  - Autonomy-Oriented Computing (AOC) for WI

* 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 Network 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
  - Digital Library
  - Decentralized Community Communication Techniques
  - e-Community
  - e-Business and e-Commerce
  - e-Finance
  - e-Government
  - e-Learning
  - e-Publishing
  - e-Science
  - Intelligent Enterprise Portals
  - Web-Based Direct Marketing and CRM
  - Web-Based EDI
  - Web Security, Integrity, Privacy and Trust

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On-Line Submissions and Publication
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High-quality papers in all WI related areas are solicited. 
Paper submissions should be limited to a maximum of 7 pages in the
IEEE 2-column format, the same as the camera-ready format (see the
Author Guidelines of last year at
http://www.computer.org/portal/pages/cscps/cps/final/wi06.xml).  
All submitted papers will be reviewed by the Program Committee 
on the basis of technical quality, relevance, significance, and clarity. 

Note that WI'07 will accept ONLY on-line submissions, containing 
PDF versions. Please use the Submission Form on the WI'07
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 7 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'07 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).

More detailed instructions and the On-Line Submission Form can be
found from the WI'07 homepage: http://www.cs.sjsu.edu/wi07/wi/.

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WI'07 Best Paper Awards 
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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. 

The full author list and paper title will be announced on the 
Web Intelligence Consortium homepage:
http://wi-consortium.org/html/wicawards.html

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Industry/Demo-Track
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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 homepage: http://www.cs.sjsu.edu/wi07/wi/

We are planning to arrange the Industry/Demo track in the afternoon of
November 3 (before and during the conference reception), jointly with
the IAT'07 Demo sessions. Leading IT companies in Silicon Valley 
will be invited to attend this track.

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Workshops
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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 the
conference homepage.

Note: we will not have a separate workshop registration fee
(i.e., conference registration covers everything).

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WI-IAT 2007 Workshops:
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Title: Educating the Web-Generation (Edu4WebGen 2007)
Organisers: Elisabeth Heinemann
Email: elisabeth.heinemann at googlemail.com 
Web page: http://www.effactory.com/Edu4WebGen/

Title: Collective Intelligence on Semantic Web (CISW 2007)
Organisers: Geun Sik Jo; Jason J. Jung; Ngoc Thanh Nguyen
Email: gsjo at inha.ac.kr; j2jung at intelligent.pe.kr; thanh at pwr.wroc.pl
Web page: http://intelligent.pe.kr/CISW07/

Title: New Computing Paradigms for Web Intelligence and Brain Informatics (WImBI 2007)
Organisers: Dr. Yuefeng Li; Dr. Yulin Qin, Prof. Dieter Fensel
Email: y2.li at qut.edu.au; dieter.fensel at deri.org
Web page: http://www.maebashi-it.org/wimbi07/WImBI2007.htm

Title: Web Personalization and Recommender Systems (WPRS 2007)
Organisers: Yue Xu
Email: yue.xu at qut.edu.au 
Web page: http://www.wprs07.fit.qut.edu.au/

Title: Service Composition & SWS Challenge (SerComp & SWS Challenge 2007)
Organisers: M. Brian Blake; Dumitru Roman; Charles Petrie
Email: blakeb at cs.georgetown.edu; dumitru.roman at deri.org
Web page: http://events.deri.at/sercomp2007/

Title: Biomedicine Applications of Web technologies (BMWT 2007)
Organisers: Chun-Nan Hsu; Vincent Shin-Mu Tseng; Wen-Hsiang Lu
Email: chunnan at iis.sinica.edu.tw; tsengsm at mail.ncku.edu.tw; 
whlu at mail.ncku.edu.tw
Web page: http://chunnan.iis.sinica.edu.tw/BMWT2007.html

Title: Intelligent Web Interaction (IWI 2007)
1st Organiser: Prof. Seiji YAMADA
Email: seiji at nii.ac.jp
Web site: http://ymd.ex.nii.ac.jp/ws/iwi/07/

Title: Cyberinfrastucture for e-Science (CyIneS 2007)
Organisers: Prof. Vasant Honavar; A/prof. Kei Cheung
Email: honavar at cs.iastate.edu; kei.cheung at yale.edu 
Web page: http://www.cild.iastate.edu/events/CyIneS2007/

Title: Social Media Analysis (SMA 2007)
Organisers: Chun-hung Li, William K. Cheung, Quoping Qiu
Email: sma at comp.hkbu.edu.hk
Web page: http://www.comp.hkbu.edu.hk/~sma/

Title: Web Security, Integrity, Privacy and Trust (WSIPT 2007)
Organisers: Dr. Yiuming Cheung, Prof. Michael Chau, and Prof. Yong Zhang
Email: ymc at Comp.HKBU.Edu.HK; mchau at business.hku.hk; zhangyong076 at gmail.com
Web page: http://isec.hitsz.edu.cn/wsipt07/

Title: Communication between Human and Artificial Agents (CHAA 2007)
Organisers: Christel Kemke
Email: ckemke at cs.umanitoba.ca
Web page: http://www.cs.umanitoba.ca/~ckemke/CHAA-07/

Title: Rational, Robust, and Secure Negotiations in Multi-Agent Systems (RRS 2007)
Organisers: Takayuki Ito
Email: ito.takayuki at nitech.ac.jp
Web page:  http://www-itolab.mta.nitech.ac.jp/RRS2007/

Title: P2P Computing and Autonomous Agents (P2PAA 2007)
Organisers: Tarek Helmy, Khaled Ragab
Email: helmy at ccse.kfupm.edu.sa; helmy at kfupm.edu.sa
Web Page: http://www.ccse.kfupm.edu.sa/~helmy/P2PAA2007_WI.html

Title: Multiagent Systems in E-Business: Concepts, Technologies and Applications (MASeB 2007)
Organisers: Costin Badica; Maria Ganzha; Marcin Paprzycki
Email: badica_costin at software.ucv.ro; ganzha at euh-e.edu.pl; 
marcin.parzycki at swps.edu.pl
Web page: http://software.ucv.ro/~badica_costin/maseb2007/

Title: Agent & Data Mining Interaction (ADMI 2007)
Organisers: Pericles A. Mitkas, Longbing Cao, Vladimir Gorodetsky, Justin Zhan
Email: mitkas at eng.auth.gr; lbcao at it.uts.edu.au
Web page: http://issel.ee.auth.gr/ADMI 

For more information, please visit the conference website at
http://www.cs.sjsu.edu/wi07/wi/?index=workshop.

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Tutorials
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WI'07 also welcomes Tutorial proposals. WI'07 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).

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Important Dates
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Workshop proposal submission:           March 20, 2007
Electronic submission of full papers:   ** June 1, 2007 **
Tutorial proposal submission:           June 15, 2007
Notification of paper acceptance:       July 22, 2007
Camera-ready copies of accepted papers: August 17, 2007
Conference:                             November 2-5, 2007

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Conference Organization
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Conference Chair:
  * Andrei Broder, Yahoo! Research, USA

Program Chair:
  * Tsau Young (T.Y.) Lin, San Jose State University/UC Berkeley, USA

WI Program Co-Chairs:
  * Laura Haas, IBM Almaden Research Center, USA
  * Janusz Kacprzyk, Polish Academy of Science, Poland
  * Rajeev Motwani, Stanford University, USA

IAT Program Co-Chairs:
  * Jeffrey M. Bradshaw, UWF/Institute for Human and Machine Cognition, USA
  * Matthias Klusch, German Research Center for AI, Germany
  * Chengqi Zhang, University of Technology, Sydney, Australia

Organizing Chair:
  * Howard Ho, IBM Almaden Research Center, USA

Workshop Co-Chairs:
  * Vijay Raghavan, University of Louisiana, USA
  * Yuefeng Li, Queensland University of Technology, Australia

Tutorial Chair:
  * Pawan Lingras, Saint Mary's University, Canada

Industry/Demo-Track Chair:
  * Jianchang Mao, Yahoo! Inc., USA

Local Accommodations Co-Chairs:
  * David Scot Taylor, San Jose State University, USA
  * Tom Qi Zhang, Google, USA

Publicity Chair: 
  * James Wang, Clemson University, USA (chair)
Publicity Co-Chairs: 
  * Martine De Cock, Ghent University, Belgium 
  * Jia Hu, International WIC Institute, China
  * Debajyoti Mukhopadhyay, West Bengal University of Technology, India

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, Waseda University, Japan
 * Benjamin Wah, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, USA
 * Philip Yu, IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center, 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, Kagawa University, Japan
 * Xindong Wu, University of Vermont, USA
 * Yiyu Yao, University of Regina, Canada

Webmaster:
 * Albert Sutojo, San Jose State University, USA

*** Contact Information ***

Jia Hu
International WIC Institute, China 
E-mail: hujia at kis-lab.com