WIMS'12 calls

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CALL FOR PAPERS/PROPOSALS

International Conference on Web Intelligence, Mining and Semantics (WIMS'12)

June 13-15, 2012

Craiova, Romania

http://software.ucv.ro/Wims12/

About WIMS'12:

The 2nd International Conference on Web Intelligence, Mining and Semantics
(WIMS'12) will be organised under the auspices of University of Craiova,
Romania. The WIMS series of conferences concerned with intelligent
approaches to
transform the World Wide Web into a global reasoning and semantics-driven
computing machine. The conference will provide an excellent international
forum
for sharing knowledge and results in theory, methodology and applications of
Web
intelligence, Web mining and Web semantics.

The purpose of the WIMS'12 is:

- To provide a forum for established researchers and practitioners to
present
past and current research contributing to the state of the art of Web
technology
research and applications.
- To give doctoral students an opportunity to present their research to a
friendly and knowledgeable audience and receive valuable feedback.
- To provide an informal social event where Web technology researchers and
practitioners can meet.

Conference Venue:

This year WIMS conference will be hosted by University of Craiova, Craiova,
Romania (http://www.ucv.ro/).

Call for Papers/Tutorials/Posters/Workshop:

Authors are invited to submit full papers, tutorial proposals, posters on
all
related areas. Papers exploring new directions or areas will receive a
thorough
and encouraging review. Areas of interest include, but not limited to:

Semantics-driven information retrieval
Semantic agent systems
Semantic data search
Collective Intelligence
Social Networking and Semantic Technologies
Interaction paradigms for semantic search
Evaluation of semantic search
User interfaces
Web mining
Ubiquitous computing
Semantic deep Web and intelligent e-Technology
Representation techniques for Web-based knowledge
Quality of Life Technology for Web Document Access
Rule markup languages and systems
Semantic 3D media and content
Scalability vs. expressivity of reasoning on the Web

The detailed call for contributed papers, industrial track,
tutorial/workshop
proposals, and posters can be found at:
http://software.ucv.ro/Wims12/cfp.html

How to submit:

The maximum length of

- research papers is at most 12 pages in ACM format
- tutorial/demonstration papers is 3 to 12 pages in ACM format
- poster is at most 2 pages in ACM format

Please note that the submission format is MS Word or PDF. The papers must be
written in English and formatted according to the ACM guidelines. Author
instructions and style files can be downloaded at
http://www.acm.org/sigs/publications/proceedings-templates

Authors of accepted papers are expected to attend the conference and present
their work.

Tutorial proposals, poster papers and full research paper
submissions must be made electronically in MS Word or PDF format through the
EasyChair submission system at
http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=wims12

This year WIMS will have new Industrial Track. To see Call for Industrial
Track
Papers, visit http://software.ucv.ro/Wims12/cfp-i.html

Publication:

Accepted papers/tutorials/posters will be published by ACM and disseminated
through the ACM Digital Library.
Selected extended papers will be invited to appear in a special issues of
reputed journals in the field and also in a book published by Elsevier.

Important Dates:

Electronic submission of research papers/proposals: November 5, 2011
Notifications: December 15, 2011
Submission of application & prototype papers (Industrial Track): March 2,
2011
Registration opens: January 20, 2012
Camera-ready of accepted papers/tutorials: February 20, 2012
Conference: 13 - 15 June 2012

Organisation: http://software.ucv.ro/Wims12/organization.html

Contact:

Software Engineering Department
University of Craiova
Bvd.Decebal 107, 200440, Craiova, Romania
Tel/Fax: +40251438198
E-mail: cbadica@software.ucv.ro