[DL] IEEE/WIC Web Intelligence 2003: 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/%7Exwu/tfvi/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
       Wisdom Web

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Important Dates
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        Electronic submission of full papers:  March 20, 2003
          (Research track and industry track)

            Notification of paper acceptance:  May 2003
          (Research track and industry track)

   Workshop and tutorial proposal submission:  June 1, 2003

             Camera-ready of accepted papers:  June 2003

     Notification of workshops and tutorials:  July 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)
Nadia Bianchi-Berthouze (Japan)
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)
Milan Simunek (Czech)
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)