WIMS'14 ​Call for Participation

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CALL FOR PARTICIPATION

                                WIMS'14
      4th International Conference on Web Intelligence, Mining and Semantics
            ACM International Conference Proceedings Series
                     Thessaloniki, Greece, 2-4 June 2014
                       http://wims14.csd.auth.gr

        Venue: Porto Palace Hotel (http://www.portopalace.gr/en)


  ***   The on-line registration is until 27th May 2014 ***

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We invite you to attend the 4th International Conference on Web
Intelligence,
Mining and Semantics (WIMS'14) to be held during June 2-4, 2014 in
Thessaloniki,
Greece. As this is a relatively new event, being in its 4th year, our
participants can contribute in
shaping the future direction and structure of the field, supporting their
own approaches.

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.

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Technical Program
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The conference will feature a strong technical program consisting of:

* Keynote speakers:
    - "Large-Scale Reasoning with (Semantic) Data": Grigoris Antoniou,
Professor, University of Huddersfield
    - "Semantic Technology for online, broadcast and print media": Jem
Rayfield, Head Architect, Financial Times
    - "Big Data – from Hype to Reality": Richard Benjamins, Dr., Director
of Business Intelligence, Telefonica

* Tutorial: "Knowledge Sanitization on the Web": Vasileios Verykios,
Hellenic Open University

* 10 sessions of Research Track papers and 2 sessions of Application and
Case Study Track papers,
   covering several topics of the WIMS scope (
http://wims14.csd.auth.gr/?page_id=146)

* 2 workshops (scheduled in 4 sessions):
   - WASA 2014: 4th Workshop on Applications of Software Agents
      (http://wims14.csd.auth.gr/?page_id=574)
   - 3M4city : Modelling, Mining, Managing smart city data flows
      (http://wims14.csd.auth.gr/?page_id=601)

* The proceedings are being published by the ACM International Conference
Proceedings Series.
   A post-conference Special Issue of the International Journal on
Artificial Intelligence Tools (IJAIT)
   is scheduled.
* Social events are planned to to promote networking among the conference
delegates in an informal setting.

The summary of the program is avaliable at:
http://wims14.csd.auth.gr/?page_id=27
The full conference program is available at:
http://wims14.csd.auth.gr/wp-content/uploads/wims14-program.pdf

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WIMS'14 Registration
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Early Registration Deadline:   May 26, 2014
Late/On-site Registration Deadline:  after May 26, 2014
WIMS'14 Symposium:        June 2-4, 2014

The registration page is available at:
http://wims14.csd.auth.gr/?page_id=25

The conference will be held at the Porto Palace Hotel (
http://www.portopalace.gr/en),
a luxurious five-star hotel in the city of Thessaloniki.
Significant discounts have been secured for the WIMS 2014 attendees
(75€/single, 85€/double).

Information about the conference venue as well as information about
traveling to Thessaloniki
are available here:
http://wims14.csd.auth.gr/?page_id=31

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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, 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

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 Co-Chairs
Yannis Manolopoulos, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece
Athanasios Tsadiras, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece

Web Chairs
Efstratios Kontopoulos, International Hellenic University, Greece
Fotis Kokkoras, T.E.I. of Thessaly, Greece

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Sponsors:
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Research Committee of the A.U.Th.
Faculty of Sciences the A.U.Th.
OTS (Open Technology Services) S.A.

Sponsoring opportunities: http://wims14.csd.auth.gr/?page_id=499

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Supporters:
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Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (A.U.Th.), Greece
Department of Informatics (A.U.Th.)
Logic Programming & Intelligent Systems (LPIS) research group (A.U.Th.)
Vestlandsforsking, Norway
Department of Information Technologies of Zaporizhzhya National University
(Z.N.U.), Ukraine
British Telecommunications Plc.

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