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<font size="4"
face="Lucida Grande"><b>Call for Papers <br>
</b></font>6th International Conference on Web
Intelligence, Mining and Semantics<br>
WIMS 2016 : <a moz-do-not-send="true"
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June 13-15, 2016, LGI2P, Ecole des Mines d’Alès, Parc G
Besse, Nîmes, France<br>
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Proceedings: ACM International Conference Proceedings Series
(ICPS)<br>
Selected papers published in a special Issue of a Rank A
International Journal
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<br>
WIMS is a series of peer-reviewed International Computer
Science conferences. It is a forum for researchers and
practitioners to present their state-of-the-art results in
building Intelligent Web, to examine performance
characteristics of various approaches in Web-based
intelligent information technology, and to cross-fertilize
their ideas on the development of Web-based intelligent
information management solutions across different domains.<br>
The purpose of the WIMS series is to:<br>
* Provide a forum for established researchers and
practitioners to present their contributions to the state of
the art research and development in Web technology and
applications.<br>
* Give doctoral students an opportunity to present their
research to a friendly and knowledgeable audience and
receive valuable feedback.<br>
* Provide an informal social event where Web technology
researchers and practitioners can meet.<br>
WIMS traditionally hosts a small number of short tutorials
on the topics related to the scope of the conference series.
The role of a WIMS tutorial is to be a theme-oriented
comprehensive survey. The call for WIMS 2016 tutorials will
be published separately.<br>
WIMS also offers its infrastructure and facilities for the
organizers of satellite workshops that complement the scope
of the conference. The call for WIMS 2016 workshops will
also be published separately.<br>
Companies or individuals interested in presenting their
industrial products or methodologies are invited to contact
the conference chairs.<br>
<br>
Best Papers<br>
==========<br>
The best research paper as well as the best young research
paper will be honored with a special prize.<br>
Selection of the best papers from the conference will be
recommended for publication in an international journal.<br>
<br>
Conference Scope<br>
===============<br>
WIMS solicits regular and work-in-progress research,
discussion papers and industry experience report papers in
related fields. Papers exploring new directions or areas are
also welcome. In particular but not exclusively the
submissions within the following areas are relevant:<br>
Scalable Web and Data Architectures and Infrastructures<br>
* 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) 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 infrastructures<br>
<br>
Web Intelligence (WI)<br>
* 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>
* Web Analytics<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>
Web Mining, Information and Knowledge Extraction<br>
* 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>
Web Semantics and Reasoning<br>
* 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 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 uncertainty<br>
<br>
WIMS Applications<br>
* 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 integration<br>
* Intelligence and semantic technologies in Digital Media<br>
* Semantic technologies in e-Business, e-Commerce,
e-Finance, e-Health, 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>
Evaluation and Validation of WIMS Technologies and
Applications<br>
* 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, correctness, etc.)<br>
<br>
Submission Guidelines<br>
====================<br>
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>
The papers in all the categories should describe original
results that have not been accepted or submitted for
publication elsewhere. All submissions will be evaluated by
at least three members of the international program
committee.<br>
<br>
Regular Research Papers<br>
=====================<br>
The papers in this category are the reports on accomplished
research work or in-depth discussions and analysis of a
certain problem. The first type of papers can present a
novel method, technique or analysis with appropriate
empirical or other type of evaluation as a proof of
validity. The main evaluation criteria for this category are
originality, technical soundness, and the soundness of
evaluation. For the second type within the genre we expect
receiving reasonable overviews placing a problem onto the
state-of-the-art landscape and analyzing how far current
solutions fall short. We also expect in-depth discussions
and analysis of a certain problem, with clear definitions
and argumentation in terms of qualitative or quantitative
representation of the main characteristics of the problem.<br>
Page limit: 12 ACM pages<br>
Short Research Papers<br>
===================<br>
The papers in this category are the short reports of the
preliminary results or describing the work in progress. The
main evaluation criteria for this category are originality,
technical correctness, and possible value of the planned
results in a short to mid-term perspective.<br>
Short papers can be also presented in a form of a poster.<br>
Page limit: 6 ACM pages<br>
Case Studies and Applications Papers<br>
The papers in this category describe case studies of
deployed applications, lessons learnt, and examples of
measurable benefits. This category also includes papers that
reports innovative applications of WIMS in areas of industry
and government, as well as industrial experience and
demonstrations of innovative systems.<br>
Page limit: 12 ACM pages<br>
Posters<br>
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WIMS poster track is a venue for late-breaking results,
ongoing research activities, and speculative or innovative
work in progress. This track is intended to provide authors
and participants with the ability to connect with each other
and to engage in discussions about the work. Posters provide
authors with a unique opportunity to draw attention to their
work during the conference.<br>
Page limit: 4 ACM pages<br>
Submissions should be made electronically in PDF or DOC/DOCX
(MS/Open Word) format via the electronic submission system
of the WIMS2016 Conference Management system at:<br>
<a moz-do-not-send="true" class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=wims16">https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=wims16</a><br>
Publication<br>
Accepted papers/tutorials/posters will be published by ACM
and disseminated through the ACM Digital Library through the
International Conference Proceedings Series (ICPS).<br>
Authors selected best papers from the conference will be
invited to submit an expanded version for publication in an
rank A international journal.<br>
The proceedings of the previous WIMS conferences are
available at:<br>
* WIMS 2011: <a moz-do-not-send="true"
class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1988688">https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1988688</a><br>
* WIMS 2012: <a moz-do-not-send="true"
class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=2254129">https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=2254129</a><br>
* WIMS 2013: <a moz-do-not-send="true"
class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=2479787">https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=2479787</a><br>
* WIMS 2014: <a moz-do-not-send="true"
class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=2611040">https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=2611040</a><br>
* WIMS 2015: <a moz-do-not-send="true"
class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=2797115">http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=2797115</a><br>
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Important dates<br>
==============<br>
Conference Papers & Posters<br>
20.12.2015 Submission of papers/posters<br>
22.01.2016 Notification of acceptance for papers/posters<br>
29.04.2016 Camera ready versions of the accepted papers,
posters, tutorial papers<br>
15.05.2016 Early registration deadline<br>
13-15.06.2016 Conference </div>
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