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Since your mail reader does not understand this format, some or all of this message may not be legible. ----=BOUNDARY_1181517_VYLN_YGAX_GDEP_HWHR Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable *** Second Call for Papers *** 5th International Conference on Web Intelligence, Mining and Semantics WIMS 2015 July 13-15, 2015, St. Raphael Resort, Limassol, Cyprus http://cyprusconferences.org/wims2015/ Conference Purpose and Scope WIMS is a series of peer-reviewed International Computer Science conferences. It is a forum for researchers and practitioners to present the= ir 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. The purpose of the WIMS series is to: * 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. * Give doctoral students an opportunity to present their research to a frie= ndly and knowledgeable audience and receive valuable feedback. * Provide an informal social event where Web technology researchers and practitioners can meet. 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 2015 tutorials is published separately. WIMS also offers its infrastructure and facilities for the organizers of sa= tellite workshops that complement the scope of the conference. The call for WIMS 2015 workshops is also published separately. Companies or individuals interested in presenting their industrial products= or methodologies are invited to contact the conference chairs. Conference Scope 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: * Scalable Web and Data Architectures and Infrastructures - Crawling, caching and querying Linked (Semantic) Data - Dataset dynamics and synchronization - Big Data computing - User Interfaces and visualization for the Web of (Linked Semantic) Data at scale - Indexing and information extraction from the (Semantic) Deep Web - 3D media and content - Sensing Web and the Web of Things - Web-based Health- and Bio- Information Systems - Web security, integrity, privacy, and trust - Nature-inspired models and approaches in Web and data processing infrastructures * Web Intelligence (WI) - Semantic Agent Systems for WI - Advanced Interaction and Communication Paradigms with WI - Natural Language / Ontology-/Taxonomy-based / Hybrid Interfaces - Intelligence for Visualizing (Linked Semantic) Web Data at scale - Intelligence for Big Data Analytics - Ubiquitous Intelligence and the Internet of Things - WI in Social Media - WI in Human Computation and Social Games - Opinion Mining / Sentiment Analysis on the Social Web - Social Monetization and Computational Advertising - Visualising social network data - WI for services, grids, and middleware - Nature-inspired Models and approaches for WI * Web Mining, Information and Knowledge Extraction - Text, data stream, web and multimedia content mining - Contextualization and clustering in web mining and information extract= ion - Knowledge extraction and ontology learning from the Web - Linked Data mining - Information Extraction and Knowledge Discovery from Big Data - Mining and Information Extraction from the Deep Web - Semantic Deep Web data fusion * Web Semantics and Reasoning - Knowledge Representation for the Web - Ontology specification: expressivity versus usability - Ontologies and Linked Semantic Data - Development and re-use of ontologies for the Web - Crowdsourcing for ontology engineering and management on the Social Web - Lifecycle, management, and evolution of Web ontologies - Ontology merging and alignment - Rule markup languages and systems - Semantic annotation - Reasoning: scalability, expressivity, incompleteness, vagueness, and/or uncertainty * WIMS Applications - Web applications of semantic agent systems - Semantics-driven information retrieval - Semantic search - Intelligent e-Technology and the Semantic Web - Intelligence and semantics for business information management and integration - Intelligence and semantic technologies in Digital Media - Semantic technologies in e-Business, e-Commerce, e-Finance, e-Health, e-Science, e-Government, e-Learning - WI for multimedia, sensors, and situational awareness - WI for software and systems engineering - Quality of Life Technology for Web Access - Nature-inspired models and approaches in WIMS applications * Evaluation and Validation of WIMS Technologies and Applications - Evaluation and validation Methodologies - Datasets and Benchmarks for cross-evaluations and competitions - Evaluation and validation Infrastructures - Evaluation and validation metrics (e.g. fitness, quality, completeness, correctness, etc.) Submission Guidelines Four types of submissions are solicited for the main conference: i. Regular research papers ii. Short research papers iii. Case Studies and Applications papers iv. Posters 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. Regular Research Papers 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 definiti= ons and argumentation in terms of qualitative or quantitative representation of the main characteristics of the problem. Page limit: 12 ACM pages Short Research Papers The papers in this category are the short reports of the preliminary result= s or describing the work in progress. The main evaluation criteria for this cate= gory are originality, technical correctness, and possible value of the planned results in a short to mid-term perspective. Short papers can be also presented in a form of a poster. Page limit: 6 ACM pages Case Studies and Applications Papers 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. Page limit: 12 ACM pages Posters 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 wi= th 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. Page limit: 4 ACM pages Submissions should be made electronically in PDF or DOC/DOCX (MS/Open Word) format via the electronic submission system of the WIMS2015 Conference Management system at: https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=3Dwims15 Publication Accepted papers/tutorials/posters will be published by ACM and disseminated through the ACM Digital Library through the International Conference Proceedings Series (ICPS). Important Dates 24.03.2015 Submission of papers/posters 27.04.2015 Notification of acceptance for papers/posters 11.05.2015 Camera ready versions of the accepted papers, posters, tutorial papers 30.05.2015 Author registration deadline 13-15.07.2015 Conference All the above deadlines are 23:59 Hawaii Time. WIMS Conferences Chair Rajendra Akerkar, Western Norway Research Institute, Norway General Chair Marios D. Dikaiakos, University of Cyprus, Cyprus Program Committee Co-Chairs Achilleas P. Achilleos, University of Cyprus, Cyprus Tope Omitola, University of Southampton, United Kingdom Advisory Committee Grigoris Antoniou, University of Huddersfield, UK Harold Boley, Faculty of Computer Science, University of New Brunswick, Fredericton, Canada James Hendler, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY, USA Guus Schreiber, VU University, Amsterdam, the Netherlands Amit Sheth, Ohio Center of Excellence on Knowledge-enabled Computing, Ohio,= USA Industrial Track Chair John Davies, BT Research & Innovation, UK Publicity Chair Christos Mettouris, University of Cyprus, Cyprus Local Organization Chair George A. Papadopoulos, University of Cyprus, Cyprus Web Chair Kyriakos Georgiadis, EasyConferences LTD, Cyprus The proceedings of the previous WIMS conferences are available at: - WIMS2011: https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=3D1988688 - WIMS?2012: https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=3D2254129 - WIMS?2013: https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=3D2479787 - WIMS?2014: https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=3D2611040 Look for updates and more details at: http://cyprusconferences.org/wims2015/ http://www.linkedin.com/groups?gid=3D3933343 https://www.facebook.com/groups/WIMSCon/ https://twitter.com/wims2015 -------------------------------------------------------------------- This is not SPAM. If you want to be removed from this list, please send an email to [announce@cs.ucy.ac.cy] with the single word 'remove' in the subject of the email. ----=BOUNDARY_1181517_VYLN_YGAX_GDEP_HWHR Content-Type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable HTML Message
*** Second Call for Papers ***
5th International Conference on Web Intelligence, Mining and Sema= ntics

WIMS 2015

July 13-15, 2015, St. Raphael Resort, Limasso= l, Cyprus

http://= cyprusconferences.org/wims2015/

Conference Purpose and Scope

WIMS is a series of peer-reviewed= International Computer Science
conferences. It is a forum for researche= rs and practitioners to present their
state-of-the-art results in buildi= ng Intelligent Web, to examine performance
characteristics of various ap= proaches in Web-based intelligent information
technology, and to cross-f= ertilize their ideas on the development of Web
-based intelligent inform= ation management solutions across different
domains.

The purpose = of the WIMS series is to:

* Provide a forum for established researc= hers and practitioners to present
their contributions to the state of th= e art research and development in Web
technology and applications.
* Give doctoral students an opportunity to present their research to a fr= iendly
and knowledgeable audience and receive valuable feedback.

= * Provide an informal social event where Web technology researchers and
= practitioners can meet.

WIMS traditionally hosts a small number of s= hort tutorials on the topics
related to the scope of the conference seri= es. The role of a WIMS tutorial is to
be a theme-oriented comprehensive = survey. The call for WIMS 2015 tutorials
is published separately.
WIMS also offers its infrastructure and facilities for the organizers of s= atellite
workshops that complement the scope of the conference. The call= for WIMS
2015 workshops is also published separately.

Companie= s or individuals interested in presenting their industrial products or
m= ethodologies are invited to contact the conference chairs.

Confe= rence Scope

WIMS solicits regular and work-in-progress research,= discussion papers and
industry experience report papers in related fiel= ds. Papers exploring new
directions or areas are also welcome. In partic= ular but not exclusively the
submissions within the following areas are = relevant:

* Scalable Web and Data Architectures and Infrastructu= res
 - Crawling, caching and querying Linked (Semantic) Data
= - Dataset dynamics and synchronization
- Big Data computing
-= User Interfaces and visualization for the Web of (Linked Semantic)
Data= at scale
- Indexing and information extraction from the (Semantic) D= eep Web
- 3D media and content
- Sensing Web and the Web of Thi= ngs
- Web-based Health- and Bio- Information Systems
- Web se= curity, integrity, privacy, and trust
- Nature-inspired models and a= pproaches in Web and data processing
infrastructures

* Web In= telligence (WI)
 - Semantic Agent Systems for WI
- Advanced = Interaction and Communication Paradigms with WI
- Natural Language / = Ontology-/Taxonomy-based / Hybrid Interfaces
- Intelligence for Visu= alizing (Linked Semantic) Web Data at scale
- Intelligence for Big Da= ta Analytics
- Ubiquitous Intelligence and the Internet of Things
= - WI in Social Media
- WI in Human Computation and Social Games - Opinion Mining / Sentiment Analysis on the Social Web
- Social = Monetization and Computational Advertising
- Visualising social netwo= rk data
- WI for services, grids, and middleware
- Nature-inspi= red Models and approaches for WI

* Web Mining, Information and K= nowledge Extraction
 - Text, data stream, web and multimedia conte= nt mining
- Contextualization and clustering in web mining and infor= mation extraction
- Knowledge extraction and ontology learning from t= he Web
- Linked Data mining
- Information Extraction and Knowle= dge Discovery from Big Data
- Mining and Information Extraction from = the Deep Web
- Semantic Deep Web data fusion

* Web Semantic= s and Reasoning
 - Knowledge Representation for the Web
- On= tology specification: expressivity versus usability
- Ontologies and = Linked Semantic Data
- Development and re-use of ontologies for the W= eb
- Crowdsourcing for ontology engineering and management on the S= ocial
Web
- Lifecycle, management, and evolution of Web ontologie= s
- Ontology merging and alignment
- Rule markup languages and= systems
- Semantic annotation
- Reasoning: scalability, expres= sivity, incompleteness, vagueness, and/or
uncertainty

* WIMS= Applications
 - Web applications of semantic agent systems
= - Semantics-driven information retrieval
- Semantic search
= - Intelligent e-Technology and the Semantic Web
- Intelligence and s= emantics for business information management and
integration
- I= ntelligence and semantic technologies in Digital Media
- Semantic tec= hnologies in e-Business, e-Commerce, e-Finance, e-Health,
e-Science, e-= Government, e-Learning
- WI for multimedia, sensors, and situational = awareness
- WI for software and systems engineering
- Quality o= f Life Technology for Web Access
- Nature-inspired models and approa= ches in WIMS applications

* Evaluation and Validation of WIMS Tec= hnologies and Applications
 - Evaluation and validation Methodolog= ies
- Datasets and Benchmarks for cross-evaluations and competitions=
- Evaluation and validation Infrastructures
- Evaluation and = validation metrics (e.g. fitness, quality, completeness,
correctness, e= tc.)

Submission Guidelines

Four types of submissions a= re solicited for the main conference:
i. Regular research papers
ii= . Short research papers
iii. Case Studies and Applications papers
iv= . Posters

The papers in all the categories should describe original= results that have not
been accepted or submitted for publication elsewh= ere. All submissions will be
evaluated by at least three members of the = international program committee.

Regular Research Papers
<= br>The papers in this category are the reports on accomplished research wor= k or
in-depth discussions and analysis of a certain problem. The first t= ype of
papers can present a novel method, technique or analysis with app= ropriate
empirical or other type of evaluation as a proof of validity. T= he 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 ont= o the state-of-the-art
landscape and analyzing how far current solutions= fall short. We also expect
in-depth discussions and analysis of a certa= in problem, with clear definitions
and argumentation in terms of qualita= tive or quantitative representation of
the main characteristics of the p= roblem.

Page limit: 12 ACM pages


Short Research Papers=

The papers in this category are the short reports of the prelim= inary results or
describing the work in progress. The main evaluation cr= iteria for this category
are originality, technical correctness, and pos= sible 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.

Pag= e limit: 6 ACM pages

Case Studies and Applications Papers
=
The papers in this category describe case studies of deployed applicati= ons,
lessons learnt, and examples of measurable benefits. This category = also
includes papers that reports innovative applications of WIMS in are= as of
industry and government, as well as industrial experience and
d= emonstrations of innovative systems.

Page limit: 12 ACM pages
Posters

WIMS poster track is a venue for late-breaking resul= ts, ongoing research
activities, and speculative or innovative work in p= rogress. This track is
intended to provide authors and participants with= the ability to connect with
each other and to engage in discussions abo= ut the work. Posters provide
authors with a unique opportunity to draw a= ttention to their work during the
conference.

Page limit: 4 ACM = pages

Submissions should be made electronically in PDF or DOC/DOCX = (MS/Open
Word) format via the electronic submission system of the WIMS20= 15
Conference Management system at:

https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?= conf=3Dwims15

Publication

Accepted papers/tutorial= s/posters will be published by ACM and
disseminated through the ACM Digi= tal Library through the International
Conference Proceedings Series (ICP= S).

Important Dates

24.03.2015 Submission of paper= s/posters

27.04.2015 Notification of acceptance for papers/poste= rs

11.05.2015 Camera ready versions of the accepted papers, post= ers,
tutorial papers

30.05.2015 Author registration deadline<= br>
13-15.07.2015 Conference

All the above deadlines are 23:5= 9 Hawaii Time.

WIMS Conferences Chair

Rajendra Akerkar= , Western Norway Research Institute, Norway

General Chair
=
Marios D. Dikaiakos, University of Cyprus, Cyprus

Program Com= mittee Co-Chairs

Achilleas P. Achilleos, University of Cyprus, C= yprus
Tope Omitola, University of Southampton, United Kingdom

= Advisory Committee

Grigoris Antoniou, University of Huddersfield= , UK
Harold Boley, Faculty of Computer Science,
University of New Bru= nswick, Fredericton, Canada
James Hendler, Rensselaer Polytechnic Instit= ute, Troy, NY, USA
Guus Schreiber, VU University, Amsterdam, the Netherl= ands
Amit Sheth, Ohio Center of Excellence on Knowledge-enabled Computin= g, Ohio, USA

Industrial Track Chair

John Davies, BT Re= search & Innovation, UK

Publicity Chair

Christos M= ettouris, University of Cyprus, Cyprus

Local Organization Chair
George A. Papadopoulos, University of Cyprus, Cyprus

We= b Chair

Kyriakos Georgiadis, EasyConferences LTD, Cyprus

= The proceedings of the previous WIMS conferences are available at:
- WIM= S2011: https://dl.= acm.org/citation.cfm?id=3D1988688
- WIMS?2012: https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=3D22= 54129
- WIMS?2013: https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=3D2479787
- WIMS?2014: https://dl.acm.org/c= itation.cfm?id=3D2611040

Look for updates and more details at:<= br>http://cyprusconferen= ces.org/wims2015/
http://www.linkedin.com/groups?gid=3D3933343
https://www.facebook.com/groups/WIMSC= on/
https://twitter.com/wim= s2015



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