[DL] IEEE/WIC Web Intelligence '03: Call for Papers

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                   IEEE/WIC  WEB INTELLIGENCE 2003
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2003 IEEE/WIC International Conference on Web Intelligence (WI 2003)

               Sponsored by IEEE Computer Society and
                  Web Intelligence Consortium (WIC)

                       October 13-17, 2003
               Tianlun Dynasty Hotel, BEIJING, CHINA

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            Homepage:  http://www.comp.hkbu.edu.hk/WI03/
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Web Intelligence (WI) is a new direction for scientific research and
development that explores the fundamental roles as well as practical
impacts of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and advanced Information
Technology (IT) on the next generation of Web-empowered products,
systems, services, and activities. The 2003 IEEE/WIC International
Conference on Web Intelligence (WI 2003 jointly held with the 2003
IEEE/WIC International Conference on Intelligent Agent Technology
(IAT 2003  http://www.comp.hkbu.edu.hk/IAT03). The IEEE/WIC 2003
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) and by Web
Intelligence Consortium (WIC) (http://wi-consortium.org).

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

* Intelligent Web-Based Business and Grid Computing
      Business Intelligence
      Customer Relationship Management
      Direct Marketing
      Electronic Commerce and Electronic Business
      Measuring and Analyzing Web Merchandising
      Price Dynamics and Pricing Algorithms
      Web-Based EDI
      Web Marketing
      Web Publishing

* Knowledge Networks and Management
      Digital Library
      Information and Knowledge Markets
      Knowledge Community Formation and Support
      Ontology Engineering
      Semantic Web
      Visualization of Information and Knowledge
      Web-Based Decision Support
      Web Regularities and Models

* Ubiquitous Computing and Social Intelligence
      Competitive Dynamics of Web Sites
      Computational Societies and Markets
      Dynamics of Information Sources
      Reputation Mechanisms
      Theories of Small World Web
      Ubiquitous Learning Systems
      Web-Based Cooperative Work
      Web Security, Integrity, Privacy and Trust

* Intelligent Human-Web Interaction
      Adaptive Web Interfaces
      Multimedia Representation
      Multimodal Data Processing
      Science and Art of Web Design

* Web Information Management
      Data Models for the Web
      Integrated Exploration and Exploitation
      Internet and Web-Based Data Management
      Multi-Dimensional Web Databases and OLAP
      Multimedia Information Management
      Object Oriented Web Information Management
      Personalized Information Management
      Semi-Structured Data Management
      Use and Management of Metadata
      Web-Based Distributed Information Systems

o Web Information Retrieval
      Automatic Cataloging and Indexing
      Conceptual Information Extraction
      Multi-Linguistic Information Retrieval
      Multimedia Retrieval
      Multimodal Information Retrieval
      Ontology-Based Information Retrieval

o Web Agents
      Conversational Systems
      E-mail Filtering and Automatic Handling
      Global Information Foraging
      Information Filtering
      Navigation Guides
      Recommender Systems
      Remembrance Agents
      Resource Intermediary and Coordination Mechanisms
      Semantic Web Agents

o Web Mining and Farming
      Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery
      Learning User Profiles
      Multimedia Data Mining
      Text Mining
      Web-Based Ontology Learning
      Web-Based Reverse Engineering
      Web Farming
      Web-Log Mining
      Web Warehousing

o Emerging Web Technology
      New Web Information Description and Query Languages
      Web Intelligence Development Tools
      Web Protocols
      P2P Computing
      Wisdom Web

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Important Dates
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      Electronic submission of full papers:  March 20, 2003
          Notification of paper acceptance:  May 2003
        Industry track/workshop submission:  June 2003
Notification of industry track & workshops:  July 2003
           Camera-ready of accepted papers:  June 2003
                    Conference & workshops:  October 13-17, 2003

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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 2003 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 2003 also welcomes Industry Track submissions, Workshop and
Tutorial proposals.

More detailed instructions and the On-Line Submission Form can be
found from the WI 2003 homepage (http://www.comp.hkbu.edu.hk/WI03).

A selected number of WI 2003 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 IEEE/WIC best paper awards will be conferred on the authors of
the best papers at the conference.

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

Organizing Chairs
   Tieyong Zuo                   China
   Xiaoming Liu                  China

Conference Chair
   Ning Zhong                    Japan

Conference Co-Chairs
   Nick Cercone                 Canada
   Ruqian Lu                     China
   Toyoaki Nishida               Japan

Program Chair
   Jiming Liu                       HK

Program Co-Chairs
   Boi Faltings            Switzerland
   Matthias Klusch             Germany
   Chunnian Liu                  China

Industry Track Chairs
   Jianchang Mao                   USA
   Yiming Ye                       USA
   Lizhu Zhou                    China

Workshop Chairs
   Cory Butz                    Canada
   Zhongzhi Shi                  China
   Yiyu Yao                     Canada

Tutorial Chairs
   Jeffrey Bradshaw                USA
   Jinglong Wu                   Japan

Publicity and Web Chair
   Yiu-Ming Cheung                  HK

IEEE-CS-TCCI Chair
   Xindong Wu                      USA

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

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

***** WI 2003 Program Committee *****

Sarabjot Singh Anand (UK)
Sourav Bhattacharya (USA)
Hendrik Blockeel (Belgium)
Cory Butz (Canada)
Rajkumar Buyya (Australia)
Keith Chan (HK SAR)
Hsinchun Chen (USA)
David Cheung (HK SAR)
Yiu-ming Cheung (HK SAR)
Joongmin Choi (Korea)
Stefan Decker (USA)
Peter W. Eklund (Australia)
Fensel (The Netherlands)
Fabien Gandon (France)
Wen Gao (China)
Ali A. Ghorbani (Canada)
Xiaohua Tony Hu (USA)
Janusz Kacprzyk (Poland)
Dimitrios Kalles (Greece)
Samuel Kaski (Finland)
Yasuhiko Kitamura (Japan)
Donald H. Kraft (USA)
Rudolf Kruse (Germany)
Vipin Kumar (USA)
Yuefeng Li (Australia)
Chun-hung Li (HK SAR)
T.Y. Lin (USA)
Carles X. Ling (Canada)
Bing Liu (Singapore)
Frederick H. Lochovsky (HK SAR)
Michael Lyu (HK SAR)
Philippe Martin (Australia)
Ernestina Menasalvas (Spain)
Luc Moreau (UK)
Akira Namatame (Japan)
Jian-Yun Nie (Canada)
Henry O. Nyongesa (UK)
Sankar Kumar Pal (India)
Seog Park (Korea)
Terry R. Payne (UK)
Loris Penserini (Italy)
Omer F. Rana (UK)
Javier Segovia (Spain)
Qiang Shen (UK)
Timothy K. Shih (Taiwan)
Steffen Staab (Germany)
Yasuyuki Sumi (Japan)
Einoshin Suzuki (Japan)
Roman W. Swiniarski (USA)
Atsuhiro Takasu (Japan)
Pang-Ning Tan (USA)
Pierre Tchounikine (France)
Andrew Tomkins (USA)
Shusaku Tsumoto (Japan)
Paola Velardi (Italy)
Jose M. Vidal (USA)
Gottfried Vossen (Germany)
Lipo Wang (Singapore)
Zijun James Wang (USA)
Takashi Washio (Japan)
Graham Williams (Australia)
Zonghuan Wu (USA)
Seiji Yamada (Japan)
Qiang Yang (HK SAR)
Yoneo Yano (Japan)
Yiyu Yao (Canada)
Yiming Ye (USA)
Tetuya Yoshida (Japan)
Yaqin Zhang (China)
Lizhu Zhou (China)
Wojciech Ziarko (Canada)