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Since your mail reader does not understand this format, some or all of this message may not be legible. ----=BOUNDARY_3291659_CBGG_LELY_SONJ_RIQV Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable *** Last Mile *** 5th International Conference on Web Intelligence, Mining and Semantics WIMS 2015 July 13-15, 2015, St. Raphael Resort, Limassol, Cyprus http://cyprusconferences.org/wims2015/ *** Final Submission Deadline: 7th April 2015 *** 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 07.04.2015 Submission of papers/posters (final) 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_3291659_CBGG_LELY_SONJ_RIQV Content-Type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable HTML Message
*** Last Mile ***

5th= International Conference on Web Intelligence, Mining and Semantics

= WIMS 2015

July 13-15, 2015, St. Raphael Resort, Limassol, Cyprus
=
http://cyprusconfere= nces.org/wims2015/

<= font face=3D'Lucida Grande' size=3D'4'>*** Final Submission Deadline: 7th A= pril 2015 ***


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 their
state-of-the-art results in building Intelligent Web, to = examine performance
characteristics of various approaches in Web-based i= ntelligent information
technology, and to cross-fertilize their ideas on= the development of Web
-based intelligent information management soluti= ons across different
domains.

The purpose of the WIMS series is t= o:

* Provide a forum for established researchers and practitioners = to present
their contributions to the state of the art research and deve= lopment in Web
technology and applications.

* Give doctoral stude= nts an opportunity to present their research to a friendly
and knowledge= able audience and receive valuable feedback.

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

WIMS traditionally hosts a small number of short tutorials on the t= opics
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 WI= MS 2015 tutorials
is published separately.

WIMS also offers its i= nfrastructure and facilities for the organizers of satellite
workshops t= hat complement the scope of the conference. The call for WIMS
2015 works= hops is also published separately.

Companies or individuals intere= sted in presenting their industrial products or
methodologies are invite= d to contact the conference chairs.

Conference Scope

= WIMS solicits regular and work-in-progress research, discussion papers and<= br>industry experience report papers in related fields. Papers exploring ne= w
directions or areas are also welcome. In particular but not exclusivel= y the
submissions within the following areas are relevant:

* = Scalable Web and Data Architectures and Infrastructures
 - Crawlin= g, caching and querying Linked (Semantic) Data
- Dataset dynamics an= d synchronization
- Big Data computing
- User Interfaces and vi= sualization for the Web of (Linked Semantic)
Data at scale
- Index= ing and information extraction from the (Semantic) Deep Web
- 3D medi= a and content
- Sensing Web and the Web of Things
- Web-based H= ealth- and Bio- Information Systems
- Web security, integrity, priv= acy, and trust
- Nature-inspired models and approaches in Web and da= ta processing
infrastructures

* Web Intelligence (WI)
= - Semantic Agent Systems for WI
- Advanced Interaction and Communi= cation Paradigms with WI
- Natural Language / Ontology-/Taxonomy-base= d / Hybrid Interfaces
- Intelligence for Visualizing (Linked Semanti= c) Web Data at scale
- Intelligence for Big Data Analytics
- Ub= iquitous 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 Comput= ational Advertising
- Visualising social network data
- WI for = services, grids, and middleware
- Nature-inspired Models and approach= es for WI

* Web Mining, Information and Knowledge Extraction
= - Text, data stream, web and multimedia content mining
- Cont= extualization and clustering in web mining and information extraction
= - Knowledge extraction and ontology learning from the Web
- Linked D= ata mining
- Information Extraction and Knowledge Discovery from Big = Data
- Mining and Information Extraction from the Deep Web
- Se= mantic Deep Web data fusion

* Web Semantics and Reasoning
= - Knowledge Representation for the Web
- Ontology specification: e= xpressivity versus usability
- Ontologies and Linked Semantic Data - Development and re-use of ontologies for the Web
- Crowdsourc= ing for ontology engineering and management on the Social
Web
- L= ifecycle, management, and evolution of Web ontologies
- Ontology merg= ing and alignment
- Rule markup languages and systems
- Semant= ic annotation
- Reasoning: scalability, expressivity, incompleteness,= vagueness, and/or
uncertainty

* WIMS Applications
 = - Web applications of semantic agent systems
- Semantics-driven in= formation retrieval
- Semantic search
- Intelligent e-Technol= ogy and the Semantic Web
- Intelligence and semantics for business i= nformation management and
integration
- Intelligence and semanti= c technologies in Digital Media
- 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
- WI fo= r software and systems engineering
- Quality of Life Technology for W= eb Access
- Nature-inspired models and approaches in WIMS applicatio= ns

* Evaluation and Validation of WIMS Technologies and Applicati= ons
 - Evaluation and validation Methodologies
- Datasets a= nd Benchmarks for cross-evaluations and competitions
- Evaluation and= validation Infrastructures
- Evaluation and validation metrics (e.g= . fitness, quality, completeness,
correctness, etc.)

Submissi= on Guidelines

Four types of submissions are solicited for the ma= in conference:
i. Regular research papers
ii. Short research paper= s
iii. Case Studies and Applications papers
iv. Posters

The p= apers in all the categories should describe original results that have not<= br>been accepted or submitted for publication elsewhere. All submissions wi= ll be
evaluated by at least three members of the international program c= ommittee.

Regular Research Papers

The papers in this c= ategory are the reports on accomplished research work or
in-depth discus= sions and analysis of a certain problem. The first type of
papers can pr= esent a novel method, technique or analysis with appropriate
empirical o= r other type of evaluation as a proof of validity. The main
evaluation c= riteria 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<= br>landscape and analyzing how far current solutions fall short. We also ex= pect
in-depth discussions and analysis of a certain problem, with clear = definitions
and argumentation in terms of qualitative or quantitative re= presentation of
the main characteristics of the problem.

Page lim= it: 12 ACM pages


Short Research Papers

The papers = in this category are the short reports of the preliminary results or
des= cribing the work in progress. The main evaluation criteria for this categor= y
are originality, technical correctness, and possible value of the plan= ned
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 g= overnment, as well as industrial experience and
demonstrations of innova= tive systems.

Page limit: 12 ACM pages

Posters

= WIMS poster track is a venue for late-breaking results, ongoing researchactivities, and speculative or innovative work in progress. This track is<= br>intended to provide authors and participants with the ability to connect= with
each other and to engage in discussions about the work. Posters pr= ovide
authors with a unique opportunity to draw attention to their work = during the
conference.

Page limit: 4 ACM pages

Submissio= ns should be made electronically in PDF or DOC/DOCX (MS/Open
Word) forma= t via the electronic submission system of the WIMS2015
Conference Manage= ment system at:

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

Accepted papers/tutorials/posters will be publi= shed by ACM and
disseminated through the ACM Digital Library through the= International
Conference Proceedings Series (ICPS).

Important= Dates

07.04.2015 Submission of papers/posters (final)
27.04.2015 Notification of acceptance for papers/posters

11.05= .2015 Camera ready versions of the accepted papers, posters,
tutoria= l papers

30.05.2015 Author registration deadline

13-15.07= .2015 Conference

All the above deadlines are 23:59 Hawaii Time.<= br>
WIMS Conferences Chair

Rajendra Akerkar, Western Norwa= y Research Institute, Norway

General Chair

Marios D. D= ikaiakos, University of Cyprus, Cyprus

Program Committee Co-Chair= s

Achilleas P. Achilleos, University of Cyprus, Cyprus
Tope O= mitola, University of Southampton, United Kingdom

Advisory Commit= tee

Grigoris Antoniou, University of Huddersfield, UK
Harold = Boley, Faculty of Computer Science,
University of New Brunswick, Frederi= cton, Canada
James Hendler, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY, = USA
Guus Schreiber, VU University, Amsterdam, the Netherlands
Amit Sh= eth, Ohio Center of Excellence on Knowledge-enabled Computing, Ohio, USA
Industrial Track Chair

John Davies, BT Research & In= novation, UK

Publicity Chair

Christos Mettouris, Unive= rsity of Cyprus, Cyprus

Local Organization Chair

Georg= e 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/citati= on.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/wims20= 15/
http:/= /www.linkedin.com/groups?gid=3D3933343
https://www.facebook.com/groups/WIMSCon/
https://twitter.com/wims2015
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