Subject: CFP: IEEE/WIC/ACM Web Intelligence 2004

From: "WI/IAT Conference Secretariat" <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 26 Dec 2003 18:7:19 +0900

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                IEEE/WIC/ACM  WEB INTELLIGENCE 2004
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                   C A L L   F O R   P A P E R S

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2004 IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Web Intelligence (WI'04)

                      September 20-24, 2004
            King Wing Hot Spring Hotel, Beijing, China

            Homepages: http://www.maebashi-it.org/WI04
                       http://www.comp.hkbu.edu.hk/WI04

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

                Co-Organized and In Cooperation With  
                  Beijing University of Technology
                  China Computer Federation (CCF) 
                  Hong Kong Baptist University (HKBU)
                  Maebashi Institute of Technology
                  Tsinghua University

                        Corporate Sponsors  
                  Beijing University of Technology
		  Microsoft Research Asia
                  National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC) 

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 - Paper submission due: April 4, 2004
 - Submission websites: http://www.maebashi-it.org/WI04
                        http://www.comp.hkbu.edu.hk/WI04
 - Electronic submissions are required in the form of PDF or PS files
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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, wisdom Web, 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 2004 IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Web Intelligence
(WI'04) will be jointly held with the 2004 IEEE/WIC/ACM International
Conference on Intelligent Agent Technology (IAT'04
http://www.maebashi-it.org/IAT04).  The IEEE/WIC/ACM 2004 joint
conferences are sponsored and organized by IEEE Computer Society
Technical Committee on Computational Intelligence (TCCI)
(http://www.cs.uvm.edu/~xwu/tcci/index.shtml), Web Intelligence
Consortium (WIC) (http://wi-consortium.org), and ACM-SIGART
(http://www.acm.org/sigart/).

Following the great successes of WI'01 held in Maebashi City, Japan
and WI'03 held in Halifax, Canada, WI 2004 provides a leading
international forum for researchers and practitioners (1) to present
the state-of-the-art of WI technologies; (2) to examine performance
characteristics of various approaches in Web-based intelligent
information technology; and (3) to cross-fertilize ideas on the
development of Web-based intelligent information systems among
different domains.  By idea-sharing and discussions on the underlying
foundations and the enabling technologies of Web intelligence, WI 2004
will capture current important developments of new models, new
methodologies and new tools for building a variety of embodiments of
Web-based intelligent information systems.

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

* World Wide Wisdom Web (W4) 

  Distributed Resources Optimization
  Goal-Directed Services Support 
  Information and Knowledge Markets 
  Knowledge Community Formation and Support
  Meta-Knowledge Discovery and Representation
  New Social Interaction Paradigms
  Problem Solver Markup Language (PSML)
  Regularities and Laws of W4
  Search of Best Means and Ends
  Service Self-Aggregation
  Social and Psychological Contexts
  Web Inference Engine 

* Social Networks and Social Intelligence

  Entertainment
  Knowledge Community Formation and Support
  Link Topology and Site Hierarchy
  Intelligent Wireless Web
  Social Networks Mining
  Theories of Small-World Web
  Ubiquitous Computing 
  Ubiquitous Learning Systems
  Virtual and Web Communities
  Web-Based Cooperative Work
  Web Site Clustering

* Knowledge Grids and Grid Intelligence

  Brokering and Scheduling
  Knowledge Resources and Services Discovery
  Middleware Architectures and Tools
  On-Demand Planning and Routing
  Semantic Grids

* Web Mining and Farming

  Context Sensitive Web Mining
  E-Mail Classification
  Data Warehousing 
  Learning User Profiles
  Multimedia Data Mining 
  Mining Data Streams
  Text Mining 
  Web Farming and Warehousing
  Web Content Mining 
  Web Information Clustering
  Web Information Indexing
  Web Log and Usage Mining
  Web Page Clustering and Mining
  Web Site Classification

* Semantics and Ontology Engineering

  Ontology-Based Information Extraction and Retrieval
  Ontology-Based Web Mining
  Web-Based Ontology Learning 
  Semantic Web

* Web Agents

  Agent Networks and Topologies
  Coordination
  Distributed Problem Solving
  Global Information Foraging
  Macroscopic Behavior Modeling
  Mobile Agents
  Remembrance Agents 
  Resource Intermediary and Coordination Mechanisms 
  Self-Organization and Reproduction
  Trust Models for Web Agents 

* Web Services

  Matchmaking
  Middleware-Based Ubiquitous Services
  Service-Oriented Computing
  Web Service Reconfiguration
  Web Service Workflow Composition
  Grid Services

* Web Information Filtering and Retrieval

  Automatic Cataloging and Indexing 
  Clustering-Based Recommender Systems
  Collaborative Filtering
  Digital Library
  Distributed Web Search
  Hybrid Recommendation
  Information Retrieval Criteria and Evaluations
  Proxy and Cache Techniques
  Search Engines and Meta-search Engines
  Specifications for Web Information Extraction Process
  Web Crawling Systems
  Web Information Categorization and Ranking
  Web Prediction and Prefetching

* Intelligent Human-Web Interaction

  Adaptive Web Interfaces
  Context-Aware Computing
  Learning User Profiles 
  Multimedia Representation
  Personalized Interfaces
  Personalized Web Sites
  Social and Psychological Issues 
  Visualization of Information and Knowledge

* Web Support Systems 

  Information Retrieval Support Systems
  Web Site Navigation Support Systems
  Recommender Support Systems
  Soft Computing (including neural networks, fuzzy logic, 
       evolutionary computation, rough sets, and granular
       computing) and Uncertainty Management for WI 
  Web-Based Decision Support Systems 

* Intelligent E-Technology
  Collaborative Filtering and Recommendation
  Business Intelligence 
  Decentralized Community Communication Techniques
  E-Business and E-Commerce 
  E-Community 
  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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Important Dates
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      Electronic submission of full papers:  April 4, 2004
          Notification of paper acceptance:  June 10, 2004
 Workshop and tutorial proposal submission:  June 10, 2004
           Camera-ready of accepted papers:  July  5, 2004
                       Workshops/Tutorials:  September 20, 2004
                                Conference:  September 21-24, 2004

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On-Line Submissions and Publication
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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'04 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'04 also welcomes Industry/Demo-Track submissions, Workshop and
Tutorial proposals.

All paper submissions will be handled electronically.  More detailed
instructions and the On-Line Submission Form can be found from the
WI'04 homepages: http://www.maebashi-it.org/WI04 and
http://www.comp.hkbu.edu.hk/WI04.

A selected number of WI'04 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 award and the best demo award will be conferred on the
authors of the best papers and the best demos at the conference.

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Conference Organization
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***** Conference Committee *****

Conference Chairs:
  Jiming Liu, Hong Kong Baptist University, HK 
  Nick Cercone, University of Dalhousie, Canada

Program Chair:
  Ning Zhong, Maebashi Institute of Technology, Japan

Program Co-Chairs:

WI-Track:
  Henry Tirri, University of Helsinki, Finland 
  Yiyu Yao, University of Regina, Canada
  Lizhu Zhou, Tsinghua University, China
 
IAT-Track:
  Jeffrey Bradshaw, UWF/Institute for Human and Machine Cognition, USA
  Sankar K. Pal, Indian Statistical Institute, Inida
  Domenico Talia, University of Calabria, Italy

Industry/Demo-Track Chairs:
  Qiang Yang, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, HK
  Wei-Ying Ma, Microsoft Research Asia, China
 
Workshop Chair: 
  Pawan Lingras, Saint Mary's University, Canada

Tutorial Chair: 
  Gerd Wagner, Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands

Publicity Chair:
  Yuefeng Li, Queensland University of Technology, Australia

Organizing Chairs:
  Tieyong Zuo, Beijing University of Technology, China
  Chunnian Liu, Beijing University of Technology, China

Local Arrangement Chair:
  Baocai Yin, Beijing University of Technology, China

IEEE-CS-TCCI Chair
  Xindong Wu                      USA

WIC Co-Chairs/Directors
  Ning Zhong                    Japan
  Jiming Liu                       HK

ACM-SIGART Chair 
  Maria Gini                      USA

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               Austria
  Georg Gottlob               Austria
  Lakhmi Jain               Australia
  W. Lewis Johnson                USA
  Jianchang Mao                   USA
  Hiroshi Motoda                Japan
  Toyoaki Nishida               Japan
  Xindong Wu                      USA
  Yiyu Yao                     Canada

***** WI'04 Program Committee *****

(to be announced)

*** Contact Information ***

WI'04 and IAT'04 Conference Secretariat
[email-masked] 

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WI/IAT Conference Secretariat
[email-masked]

WI'04:  http://www.maebashi-it.org/WI04/
IAT'04: http://www.maebashi-it.org/IAT04/
　　　　　　　　　　　　　
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