[AISWorld] CfP Web Intelligence 2017 (WI'17)

[Alt, Rainer]

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                      CALL FOR PAPERS

IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Web Intelligence 2017 (WI'17)
August 23-27, 2017, Leipzig, Germany

Conference Website: http://webintelligence2017.com/

Sponsored By:
IEEE Computer Society
Web Intelligence Consortium (WIC)
Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
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The topics of Web Intelligence (WI) have received increasing interest in the past years. They comprise many fields, such as collective intelligence, data science, human-centric computing, knowledge management, and network science. WI'17 aims to cover leading research that both deepens the understanding of computational, logical, cognitive, physical as well as business and social foundations of the future Web, and enables the development and application of intelligent technologies.

The research track of WI'17 invites original as well as high-quality papers and is methodologically open, i.e. conceptual, empirical as well as theoretical and technical papers are welcome. All papers will be reviewed on the basis of technical quality, relevance, significance and clarity. Accepted full papers will be included in the proceedings published by IEEE Computer Society Press.

In addition to the research track, WI'17 comprises a special sessions and workshops as well as tutorials and a PhD mentoring session. This also enables industry/demo-track papers as well as emerging research to be submitted to WI'17. Please refer to the individual call for papers on webintelligence2017.com.

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TOPICS AND AREAS
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Track-1: Collective Intelligence
Track-2: Data Science
Track-3: Human-Centric Computing
Track-4: Knowledge Management
Track-5: Network Science

Please find the topics and areas of interest of WI'17 at http://webintelligence2017.com/XXXXXX

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IMPORTANT DATES
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Workshop and Special session proposal submission:           February 1, 2017
Notification of Workshop/Special session acceptance:        February 15, 2017
Submission of full papers:                                  March 12, 2017
Submission of Workshop/Special session papers:              April 16, 2017
Notification of paper acceptance:                           May 1, 2017
Notification of Workshop/Special session paper acceptance:  May 15, 2017
Tutorial proposal submission:                               May 1, 2017
Notification of Tutorial acceptance:                        May 15, 2017
WI'17 conference:                                           August 23-26, 2017

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PAPER SUBMISSION AND PUBLICATION
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WI'17 solicits original work submitted as a regular paper (limited to 6-8 pages) or as short paper (limited to 4 pages) in IEEE 2-column format. Each paper will be peer-reviewed by at least three PC members on the basis of technical quality, relevance, originality, significance and clarity. Accepted papers will be published in the conference proceedings by the IEEE Computer Society Press and indexed by EI. Selected WI'17 papers will be further invited for expansion and publication in Web Intelligence journal and other international journals.

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CALL FOR TUTORIALS/WORKSHOPS/SPECIAL-SESSIONS
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WI'17 solicits proposals for tutorials, workshops, and special sessions on specific topics of interests, which will form an integral part of the conference program. Inquiries and submission of proposals should be addressed to the respective chairs.

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AWARDS
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Best Paper awards will be conferred at the conference on the authors of (1) the best research paper, (2) the best student paper. Application-oriented submissions will be considered for the best application paper award.

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ORGANIZING COMMITTEE
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*WI'17 General Chairs (Regions)

Axel Ngonga, Leipzig University (Africa)
Amit Sheth, Wright State University, US (North-America)
Guoyin Wang, Chongqing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China (Asia)
Elizabeth Chang, The University of New South Wales, Australia (Australia)
Dominik Ślęzak, Infobright Inc. & University of Warsaw, Poland (East Europe)
Bogdan Franczyk, Leipzig University, Germany (West Europe)

*WI'17 PC Co-Chairs

Rainer Alt, Leipzig University, Germany
Xiaohui Tao, University of Southern Queensland, Australia

*WI'17 Organizing Chairs

Björn Schwarzbach, Leipzig University, Germany
Rainer Unland, University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany

*WI'17 Steering Committee Co-chairs

Ning Zhong, Maebashi Institute of Technology, Japan
Jiming Liu, Hong Kong Baptist University, HK SAR, China

*WI'17 Workshop/Special-session/Tutorial Chairs

Agata Filipowska, Poznan University of Economics, Poland
Omar Hussain, UNSW Canberra, Australia
Juan D. Velasquez, University of Chile, Chile
Yiqiang Chen, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing
Olaf Reinhold, Leipzig University, Germany

*WI'17 Doctoral Consortium Chair

Alexander Pokahr, University of Hamburg, Germany

*WI'17 Tutorial Chairs

Christian Derksen, University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany
Jacek Kucharski, Lodz University of Technology, Poland

*WI'17 Industry Track & Demo/Poster Session Chair

Hanno Hildmann, NEC, Germany
Fabrice Saffre, British Telecom & EBTIC, UK & UAE

*WI'17 Publicity Chairs

Guadalupe Ortiz Bellot, University of Cádiz, Spain
Haoran Xie, The Education University of Hong Kong, China
Yue Xu, Queensland University of Technology, Australia
Roland Fassauer, Institute of Applied Informatics, Germany

*WI'17 Organizing Committee

Wilfried Röder, Leipzig University, Germany
Sandra Bartsch, Institute of Applied Informatics, Germany


*** Contact Information ***
rainer.alt at uni-leipzig.de
xtao at usq.edu.au



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Rainer Alt, Prof. Dr.
Leipzig University
Information Systems Institute
http://iwi.wifa.uni-leipzig.de/en/as