1st call for papers WIMS’14 (4th International Conference on Web Intelligence, Mining and Semantics)

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CALL FOR PAPERS

WIMS’14

4th International Conference on Web Intelligence, Mining and Semantics

Thessaloniki, Greece, 2-4 June 2014

http://wims14.csd.auth.gr

About WIMS’14 Conference

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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 
intelligent information technology, and to cross-fertilize their ideas 
on the development of Web-based intelligent information management 
solutions across different domains.

Objectives

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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

- 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

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. WIMS also 
offers its infrastructure and facilities for the organizers of satellite 
workshops that complement the scope of the conference. The calls for 
WIMS’14 Tutorials and Workshops are published separately.

Conference Scope

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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 major areas are 
relevant:

- Scalable Web and Data Architectures and Infrastructures

- Web Intelligence

- Web Mining, Information and Knowledge Extraction

- Web Semantics and Reasoning

- WIMS Applications

- Evaluation and Validation of WIMS Technologies and Applications

More details about the conference scope and topics can be found at:

http://wims14.csd.auth.gr/?page_id=146

Submission Guidelines

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Five types of submissions are solicited for the main conference:

i.Regular research papers (12 ACM pages)

ii.Short research papers (6 ACM pages)

iii.Discussion, survey, or problem analysis papers (12 ACM pages)

iv.Posters (4 ACM pages)

More details on the nature of the different submission types can be 
found at:

http://wims14.csd.auth.gr/?page_id=23

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.

Submissions should be made electronically in PDF or DOC/DOCX (MS/Open 
Word) format via the electronic submission system of the WIMS’14 
Conference Management system at

https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=wims14

The submissions should be typeset using the templates of the ACM 
International Conference Proceedings Series (ICPS). The templates could 
be retrieved from http://www.acm.org/sigs/publications/proceedings-templates

Publications

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Accepted papers/tutorials/posters will be published by ACM and 
disseminated through the ACM Digital Library through the International 
Conference Proceedings Series (ICPS). A selection of the best WIMS'14 
papers will be invited to be revised and extended for the 
post-conference publication in the Special Issue of the International 
Journal on Artificial Intelligence Tools (IJAIT).

The proceedings of the previous WIMS conferences could be checked at:

- WIMS’11: https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1988688

- WIMS’12: https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=2254129

- WIMS’13: https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=2479787

Important Dates

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09.12.2013 – submission of papers

13.12.2013 – submission of tutorial and workshop proposals

20.12.2013 – notification of acceptance for tutorials & workshops

24.01.2014 – notification of acceptance for papers/posters

24.02.2014 – camera ready versions of the accepted papers,posters, 
tutorial papers

07.04.2014 – author registration deadline

02-04.06.2014 – Conference

Organization

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WIMS'14 is organized under the auspices of the Dept. of Informatics at 
the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece. 
(http://www.csd.auth.gr/en/)

WIMS Conferences Chair

Rajendra Akerkar, Western Norway Research Institute, Norway

General Chairs

Ioannis Vlahavas, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece

Takahira Yamaguchi, Keio University, Japan

Program Committee Chairs

Nick Bassiliades, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece

Vadim Ermolayev, Zaporizhzhya National University, Ukraine

Advisory Committee

Grigoris Antoniou, University of Huddersfield, UK

Harold Boley, Semantic Web Laboratory, Institute for Information 
Technology, NRC, 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

Workshops and Tutorials Chairs

Costin Badica, University of Craiova, Romania

Dimitris Vrakas, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece

Industrial Track Chair

John Davies, BT Research & Innovation, UK

Publicity Chair

Athena Vakali, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece

Local Organization Chair

Yannis Manolopoulos, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece

Web Chairs

Efstratios Kontopoulos, International Hellenic University, Greece

Fotis Kokkoras, T.E.I. of Thessaly, Greece