<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 18px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';" class=""><b class="">*** Last Call for Tutorials, Demos and Workshops ***</b></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 18px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; min-height: 21px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 18px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';" class="">5th International Conference on Web Intelligence, Mining and Semantics</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 18px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; min-height: 21px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 18px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';" class="">WIMS 2015</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 18px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; min-height: 21px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 18px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';" class="">July 13-15, 2015, St. Raphael Resort, Limassol, Cyprus</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 18px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; min-height: 21px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 18px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';" class=""><a href="http://cyprusconferences.org/wims2015/" class="">http://cyprusconferences.org/wims2015/</a> </div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; min-height: 18px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; min-height: 18px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';" class="">The 5th International Conference on Web Intelligence, Mining and Semantics</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';" class="">(WIMS 2015) organization committee invites proposals for tutorials,</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';" class="">demonstrations (on new applications) and workshops providing in-depth</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';" class="">background on subjects that are of broad interest to the Web Mining and Web</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';" class="">Semantics community. The overall purpose of tutorials and workshops is to</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';" class="">provide participants with the opportunity to present and discuss novel</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';" class="">research ideas in areas of Web intelligence, Web mining and Web semantics,</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';" class="">with a particular emphasis on the fundamental interaction between these</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';" class="">vibrant fields of research and development. The purpose of demonstrations</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';" class="">is to provide developers with a place to showcase new practical and innovative</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';" class="">implementations of state-of-the-art systems in the areas of interest to the</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';" class="">Web Intelligence and Semantics community.</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; min-height: 18px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';" class="">Tutorials and workshops provide a forum for an intensive and focused</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';" class="">scientific exchange amongst researchers and practitioners interested in a</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';" class="">particular topic and a meeting venue for the community. Organizers may</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';" class="">structure tutorials/workshops as they see fit, possibly including invited talks,</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';" class="">panel discussions, presentations of work in progress, peer-reviewed papers,</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';" class="">demonstrations or some combination. A tutorial/workshop could be</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';" class="">scheduled for a half a day or a full day, depending on potential interest and</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';" class="">organizers preference.</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; min-height: 18px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';" class="">The proposals should address topics that satisfy the following criteria:</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; min-height: 18px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';" class="">* The topic falls in the general scope of WIMS 2015</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';" class=""> (<a href="http://Cyprusconferences.org/wims2015" class="">http://Cyprusconferences.org/wims2015</a>).</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';" class="">* There is a clear focus on a specific theme, technology, problem, or</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';" class=""> application.</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';" class="">* There is a sufficiently large audience interested in the topic.</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; min-height: 18px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';" class="">The organizers of successful workshops will be responsible for their own</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';" class="">reviewing process, website, arranging invited speakers and coordinate the</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';" class="">collection and delivery of camera ready material. There is an opportunity for</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';" class="">papers accepted in workshops to be published in the WIMS 2015 proceedings</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';" class="">and disseminated through the ACM Digital Library, provided they follow the</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';" class="">ACM submission guidelines and template and adhere to camera-ready</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';" class="">submission and registration deadlines as those set for the main conference.</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';" class="">Selected extended papers will be invited to appear in a special issue of a</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';" class="">reputed journal in the field.</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; min-height: 18px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';" class=""><span style="text-decoration: underline" class="">Important Dates</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; min-height: 18px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';" class="">15.12.2014 Submission of proposals</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; min-height: 18px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';" class="">12.01.2015 Notification of acceptance</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; min-height: 18px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';" class=""><span style="text-decoration: underline" class="">Proposal Details</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; min-height: 18px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';" class="">A proposal should be not more than 4 pages in length and should be in PDF</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';" class="">format. It should contain the following information:</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; min-height: 18px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';" class="">* A title of the tutorial/demonstration/workshop</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';" class="">* Name, affiliation, postal address and email of contact person</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';" class="">* Names and affiliations of organisers</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';" class="">* A 150 word abstract</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';" class="">* Aims and scope</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';" class="">* Important dates (for tutorials/workshops)</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';" class="">* Description of the proposed tutorial/workshop</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';" class="">* Estimated duration of the tutorial/workshop (half day, full day, etc.)</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; min-height: 18px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';" class="">Proposals should be submitted via email to the tutorial and</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';" class="">workshop chairs.</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; min-height: 18px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';" class=""><span style="text-decoration: underline" class="">Submission Procedure – EasyChair</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; min-height: 18px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';" class="">Submissions should be made electronically in PDF format via the electronic</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';" class="">submission system of the WIMS 2015 Conference Management system at:</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; min-height: 18px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';" class=""><a href="https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=wims15" class="">https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=wims15</a></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; min-height: 18px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';" class="">If you do not have an EasyChair account, then register and once you get the</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';" class="">log-in information by mail, log into the system as an author. Enter all the</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';" class="">required data about your submission and finally upload your contributed</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';" class="">paper in PDF format. </div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; min-height: 18px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';" class=""><span style="text-decoration: underline" class="">WIMS 2015 Tutorial and Workshop Chairs</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; min-height: 18px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';" class="">Monika Solanki, Aston University, United Kingdom</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';" class="">Freddy Lecue, IBM Research, Ireland</div><div class=""><br class=""></div></body></html>