[Apologies if you receive this more than once] Dear Colleague, In response to many requests for an extension, we are pleased to extend the paper submission deadline for WI 2005 to ** April 18 **. Submission can be done online at: http://www.comp.hkbu.edu.hk/WI05/ http://www.hds.utc.fr/WI05/ We look forward to receiving your submissions soon. With best regards, Andrzej Skowron PC chair of WI-IAT'05 ##################################################################### IEEE/WIC/ACM WEB INTELLIGENCE 2005 FINAL CALL FOR PAPERS ##################################################################### 2005 IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Web Intelligence (WI'05) September 19-22, 2005 Compiegne University of Technology, France http://www.comp.hkbu.edu.hk/WI05/ http://www.hds.utc.fr/WI05/ Sponsored By IEEE Computer Society Web Intelligence Consortium (WIC) Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) ********************************************************************** - Paper submission NEW due: April 18, 2005 - Submission websites: http://www.comp.hkbu.edu.hk/WI05/ http://www.hds.utc.fr/WI05/ - Electronic submissions are required in the form of PDF or PS files ********************************************************************** 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, 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 2005 IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Web Intelligence (WI'05) will be jointly held with the 2005 IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Intelligent Agent Technology (IAT'05 http://www.comp.hkbu.edu.hk/IAT05/, http://www.hds.utc.fr/IAT05). The IEEE/WIC/ACM 2005 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/). +++++++ Topics +++++++ The topics and areas include, but not limited to: WI Topics * 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 E-Service Intelligent Enterprise Portals Web-Based Direct Marketing and CRM Web-Based EDI Web Security, Integrity, Privacy and Trust ++++++++++++++++ Important Dates ++++++++++++++++ Electronic submission of full papers: ** April 3, 2005 ** Notification of paper acceptance: June 9, 2005 Workshop and tutorial proposals: June 9, 2005 Camera-ready of accepted papers: July 4, 2005 Workshops/Tutorials: September 19, 2005 Conference: September 20-22, 2005 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ On-Line Submissions and Publication ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 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'05 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'05 also welcomes Industry Track and Demo submissions, Workshop and Tutorial proposals. More detailed instructions and the On-Line Submission Form can be found from the WI'05 homepages: http://www.comp.hkbu.edu.hk/WI05/ or http://www.hds.utc.fr/WI05. A selected number of WI'05 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 awards will be conferred on the authors of the best papers at the conference. ++++++++++++++++++++++++ Conference Organization ++++++++++++++++++++++++ Conference Chairs: Pierre Morizet, University of Technology of Compiegne, France Jiming Liu, Hong Kong Baptist University, Hong Kong Program Chair: Andrzej Skowron, Warsaw University, Poland Steering Committee Chair: Ning Zhong, Maebashi Institute of Technology, Japan WI-Track Program Co-chairs: Rakesh Agrawal, IBM Almaden Research Center, USA Mike Luck, University of Southampton, UK Takahira Yamaguchi, Shizuoka University, Japan IAT-Track Program Co-chairs: Jean-Paul Barthes, University of Technology of Compiegne, France Lakhmi Jain, University of South Australia, Australia Ron Sun, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, USA WI-Track Program Vice Chairs: Matthias Klusch, German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence, Germany Joost Kok, Leiden University, The Netherlands Steve Willmott, Universitat Politccnica de Catalunya, Spain Ubbo Visser, Universitat Bremen, Germany Mario Cannataro, University "Magna Grecia" of Catanzaro, Italy Nick Cercone, Dalhousie University, Canada W. Lewis Johnson, University of Southern California, USA Lina Zhou, University of Maryland, Baltimore County, USA Massimo Marchiori, MIT Lab for Computer Science, USA Sankar K. Pal, Indian Statistical Institute, India Toyoaki Nishida, Kyoto University, Japan Einoshin Suzuki, Yokohama National University, Japan Chengqi Zhang, University of Technology, Sydney, Australia IAT-Track Program Vice Chairs: Barbara Dunin-Keplicz, Warsaw University, Poland Amal El Fallah-Segrougchni, University of Paris 6, France Eugenio Oliveira, University of Porto, Portugl Marek Sergot, Imperial College, UK Jeffrey M. Bradshaw, UWF/Institute for Human and Machine Cognition, USA Katia Sycara, Carnegie Mellon University, USA Maria Gini, University of Minnesota, USA Churn-Jung Liau, Academia Sinica, Taiwan Zhongzhi Shi, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China Liz Sonenberg, The University of Melbourne, Australia Industry/Demo-Track Chairs: Jianchang Mao, Yahoo! Inc., USA Toshiharu Sugawara, NTT Communication Science Laboratories, Japan Workshop Chair: Pawan Lingras, Saint Mary's University, Canada Tutorial Chair: Rineke Verbrugge, University of Groningen, NL Publicity Chairs: Jim Peters, University of Manitoba, Canada James Wang, Clemson University, USA Organizing Chair: Francois Peccoud, University of Technology of Compiegne, France Local Arrangement Chairs: Marie-Helene Abel, University of Technology of Compiegne, France Claude Moulin, University of Technology of Compiegne, France *** Contact Information *** wi-iat05@maebashi-it.org