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<font face='Lucida Grande' size='4'><b>*** Last Mile for New Call for Papers ***<br></b><br>5th International Conference on Web Intelligence, Mining and Semantics<br><br>WIMS 2015<br><br>July 13-15, 2015, St. Raphael Resort, Limassol, Cyprus<br><br><a href="http://cyprusconferences.org/wims2015/">http://cyprusconferences.org/wims2015/</a> <br></font><font face='Lucida Grande'><br></font><font face='Lucida Grande' size='4'>*** Final Submission Deadline (firm!): 16th May 2015 ***<br></font><font face='Lucida Grande'><br><br></font><font face='Geneva'><u>(Due to continuous submissions and many requests for additional time<br>we have given a further extension to the submission deadline.<br><br>Furthermore, this updated call includes new information about financial<br>assistance to students, a special issue in a reputable journal with<br>the best papers accepted at the conference, and invited speakers.)<br><br>Conference Purpose and Scope<br></u></font><font face='Lucida Grande'><br>WIMS is a series of peer-reviewed International Computer Science<br>conferences. It is a forum for researchers and practitioners to present their<br>state-of-the-art results in building Intelligent Web, to examine performance<br>characteristics of various approaches in Web-based intelligent information<br>technology, and to cross-fertilize their ideas on the development of Web<br>-based intelligent information management solutions across different<br>domains.<br><br>The purpose of the WIMS series is to: <br><br>* Provide a forum for established researchers and practitioners to present<br>their contributions to the state of the art research and development in Web<br>technology and applications.<br><br>* Give doctoral students an opportunity to present their research to a friendly<br>and knowledgeable audience and receive valuable feedback.<br><br>* Provide an informal social event where Web technology researchers and<br>practitioners can meet.<br><br>WIMS traditionally hosts a small number of short tutorials on the topics<br>related to the scope of the conference series. The role of a WIMS tutorial is to<br>be a theme-oriented comprehensive survey. The call for WIMS 2015 tutorials<br>is published separately.<br><br>WIMS also offers its infrastructure and facilities for the organizers of satellite<br>workshops that complement the scope of the conference. The call for WIMS<br>2015 workshops is also published separately. <br><br>Companies or individuals interested in presenting their industrial products or<br>methodologies are invited to contact the conference chairs.<br><br><u>Keynote Speakers<br></u><br></font><font face='Geneva'>* Dr. Diana Mayfield, University of Sheffield, UK<br> "What you Tweet is What You Get: challenges and opportunities for social media<br> analysis in industry".<br><br>* Professor Nikolay Mehandjiev, University of Manchester, UK<br> "Understanding the Tribal Web".<br></font><font face='Lucida Grande'><br><u>Best Papers<br></u><br></font><font face='Geneva'>Selection of the best papers from the conference will be recommended for<br>publication at the Elsevier Journal of Web Semantics,<br><a href="http://www.journals.elsevier.com/journal-of-web-semantics/.">http://www.journals.elsevier.com/journal-of-web-semantics/.</a><br><br></font><font face='Lucida Grande'><u>Financial Assistance<br></u><br></font><font face='Geneva'>WIMS 2015 is offering up to $4000 as financial assistance for students whose<br>papers are accepted at the conference. </font><font face='Lucida Grande'><br><br><u>Conference Scope<br></u><br>WIMS solicits regular and work-in-progress research, discussion papers and<br>industry experience report papers in related fields. Papers exploring new<br>directions or areas are also welcome. In particular but not exclusively the<br>submissions within the following areas are relevant: <br><br><b>* Scalable Web and Data Architectures and Infrastructures<br></b> - Crawling, caching and querying Linked (Semantic) Data <br> - Dataset dynamics and synchronization<br> - Big Data computing<br> - User Interfaces and visualization for the Web of (Linked Semantic)<br>Data at scale<br> - Indexing and information extraction from the (Semantic) Deep Web<br> - 3D media and content<br> - Sensing Web and the Web of Things<br> - Web-based Health- and Bio- Information Systems <br> - Web security, integrity, privacy, and trust<br> - Nature-inspired models and approaches in Web and data processing<br> infrastructures<br><br><b>* Web Intelligence (WI)<br></b> - Semantic Agent Systems for WI<br> - Advanced Interaction and Communication Paradigms with WI<br> - Natural Language / Ontology-/Taxonomy-based / Hybrid Interfaces <br> - Intelligence for Visualizing (Linked Semantic) Web Data at scale<br> - Intelligence for Big Data Analytics<br> - Ubiquitous Intelligence and the Internet of Things<br> - WI in Social Media<br> - WI in Human Computation and Social Games<br> - Opinion Mining / Sentiment Analysis on the Social Web<br> - Social Monetization and Computational Advertising<br> - Visualising social network data<br> - WI for services, grids, and middleware<br> - Nature-inspired Models and approaches for WI <br><br><b>* Web Mining, Information and Knowledge Extraction<br></b> - Text, data stream, web and multimedia content mining <br> - Contextualization and clustering in web mining and information extraction<br> - Knowledge extraction and ontology learning from the Web<br> - Linked Data mining<br> - Information Extraction and Knowledge Discovery from Big Data<br> - Mining and Information Extraction from the Deep Web<br> - Semantic Deep Web data fusion<br><br><b>* Web Semantics and Reasoning<br></b> - Knowledge Representation for the Web<br> - Ontology specification: expressivity versus usability<br> - Ontologies and Linked Semantic Data<br> - Development and re-use of ontologies for the Web <br> - Crowdsourcing for ontology engineering and management on the Social<br> Web<br> - Lifecycle, management, and evolution of Web ontologies<br> - Ontology merging and alignment <br> - Rule markup languages and systems<br> - Semantic annotation<br> - Reasoning: scalability, expressivity, incompleteness, vagueness, and/or<br> uncertainty <br><br><b>* WIMS Applications<br></b> - Web applications of semantic agent systems <br> - Semantics-driven information retrieval <br> - Semantic search <br> - Intelligent e-Technology and the Semantic Web <br> - Intelligence and semantics for business information management and<br> integration <br> - Intelligence and semantic technologies in Digital Media<br> - Semantic technologies in e-Business, e-Commerce, e-Finance, e-Health,<br> e-Science, e-Government, e-Learning<br> - WI for multimedia, sensors, and situational awareness<br> - WI for software and systems engineering<br> - Quality of Life Technology for Web Access <br> - Nature-inspired models and approaches in WIMS applications<br><br><b>* Evaluation and Validation of WIMS Technologies and Applications<br></b> - Evaluation and validation Methodologies <br> - Datasets and Benchmarks for cross-evaluations and competitions<br> - Evaluation and validation Infrastructures <br> - Evaluation and validation metrics (e.g. fitness, quality, completeness,<br> correctness, etc.)<br><br><u>Submission Guidelines<br><br></u>Four types of submissions are solicited for the main conference:<br>i. Regular research papers<br>ii. Short research papers<br>iii. Case Studies and Applications papers<br>iv. Posters<br><br>The papers in all the categories should describe original results that have not<br>been accepted or submitted for publication elsewhere. All submissions will be<br>evaluated by at least three members of the international program committee.<br><br><u>Regular Research Papers<br></u><br>The papers in this category are the reports on accomplished research work or<br>in-depth discussions and analysis of a certain problem. The first type of<br>papers can present a novel method, technique or analysis with appropriate<br>empirical or other type of evaluation as a proof of validity. The main<br>evaluation criteria for this category are originality, technical soundness, and<br>the soundness of evaluation. For the second type within the genre we expect<br>receiving reasonable overviews placing a problem onto the state-of-the-art<br>landscape and analyzing how far current solutions fall short. We also expect<br>in-depth discussions and analysis of a certain problem, with clear definitions<br>and argumentation in terms of qualitative or quantitative representation of<br>the main characteristics of the problem.<br><br>Page limit: 12 ACM pages<br><br><br><u>Short Research Papers<br></u><br>The papers in this category are the short reports of the preliminary results or<br>describing the work in progress. The main evaluation criteria for this category<br>are originality, technical correctness, and possible value of the planned<br>results in a short to mid-term perspective. <br><br>Short papers can be also presented in a form of a poster.<br><br>Page limit: 6 ACM pages<br><br><u>Case Studies and Applications Papers<br></u><br>The papers in this category describe case studies of deployed applications,<br>lessons learnt, and examples of measurable benefits. This category also<br>includes papers that reports innovative applications of WIMS in areas of<br>industry and government, as well as industrial experience and<br>demonstrations of innovative systems.<br><br>Page limit: 12 ACM pages<br><br><u>Posters</u><br><br>WIMS poster track is a venue for late-breaking results, ongoing research<br>activities, and speculative or innovative work in progress. This track is<br>intended to provide authors and participants with the ability to connect with<br>each other and to engage in discussions about the work. Posters provide<br>authors with a unique opportunity to draw attention to their work during the<br>conference. <br><br>Page limit: 4 ACM pages <br><br>Submissions should be made electronically in PDF or DOC/DOCX (MS/Open<br>Word) format via the electronic submission system of the WIMS2015<br>Conference Management system at:<br><br><a href="https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=wims15">https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=wims15</a><br><br><u>Publication</u><br><br>Accepted papers/tutorials/posters will be published by ACM and<br>disseminated through the ACM Digital Library through the International<br>Conference Proceedings Series (ICPS).<br><br><u>Important Dates</u><br><br>16.05.2015 Submission of papers/posters (final and firm submission deadline)<br><br>06.06.2015 Notification of acceptance for papers/posters (new date)<br><br>13.06.2015 Camera ready versions of the accepted papers and posters (new date)<br><br>16.06.2015 Author registration deadline (new date)<br><br>13-15.07.2015 Conference<br><br>All the above deadlines are 23:59 Hawaii Time.<br><br><u>WIMS Conferences Chair<br></u><br>Rajendra Akerkar, Western Norway Research Institute, Norway<br><br><u>General Chair<br></u><br>Marios D. Dikaiakos, University of Cyprus, Cyprus<br><br><u>Program Committee Co-Chairs<br></u><br>Achilleas P. Achilleos, University of Cyprus, Cyprus<br>Tope Omitola, University of Southampton, United Kingdom<br><br><u>Advisory Committee<br></u><br>Grigoris Antoniou, University of Huddersfield, UK<br>Harold Boley, Faculty of Computer Science,<br>University of New Brunswick, Fredericton, Canada<br>James Hendler, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY, USA<br>Guus Schreiber, VU University, Amsterdam, the Netherlands<br>Amit Sheth, Ohio Center of Excellence on Knowledge-enabled Computing, Ohio, USA<br><br><u>Industrial Track Chair<br></u><br>John Davies, BT Research & Innovation, UK<br><br><u>Publicity Chair<br></u><br>Christos Mettouris, University of Cyprus, Cyprus<br><br><u>Local Organization Chair<br></u><br>George A. Papadopoulos, University of Cyprus, Cyprus<br><br><u>Web Chair<br></u><br>Kyriakos Georgiadis, EasyConferences LTD, Cyprus<br><br>The proceedings of the previous WIMS conferences are available at:<br>- WIMS2011: <a href="https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1988688">https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1988688</a><br>- WIMS?2012: <a href="https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=2254129">https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=2254129</a><br>- WIMS?2013: <a href="https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=2479787">https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=2479787</a><br>- WIMS?2014: <a href="https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=2611040">https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=2611040</a> <br><br>Look for updates and more details at:<br><a href="http://cyprusconferences.org/wims2015/">http://cyprusconferences.org/wims2015/</a> <br><a href="http://www.linkedin.com/groups?gid=3933343">http://www.linkedin.com/groups?gid=3933343</a><br><a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/WIMSCon/">https://www.facebook.com/groups/WIMSCon/</a><br><a href="https://twitter.com/wims2015">https://twitter.com/wims2015</a> <br><br><br></font>
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