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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/

(FULL PAPER SUBMISSION DEADLINE: Mar. 12, 2017)

Sponsored By:
IEEE Computer Society
Web Intelligence Consortium (WIC)
Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)

*** TURING KEYNOTE SPEAKER ***

Raj Reddy (Turing Award 1994), Carnegie Mellon University, US

Tentative title: The Ultimate Web Intelligence: Computational Social Science

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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 high-quality papers.
WI'17 is methodologically open, i.e. conceptual, empirical as well as
theoretical and technical papers are welcome.

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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

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Call for Proposals for Tutorials/Workshops/Special-Sessions
Call for Industry and PhD symposium Papers
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In addition to the research track, WI'17 comprises special sessions
and workshops as well as tutorials and a PhD mentoring
session. Moreover, industry papers and demo proposals can be submitted
to WI'17 and will be dealt with by a special PC for industrial papers
which will apply industry-compliant assessment criteria.

In all cases please refer to the individual call for papers
and please find the topics and areas of interest of WI'17
at webintelligence2017.com

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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 short paper (limited to 4 pages) in ACM 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 ACM and indexed by EI. Furthermore, selected
WI'17 papers will be invited to submit extended versions for
publication in Web Intelligence journal and other international
journals.

Papers have to be submitted via the cyberchair submission page and
according to the rules specified on this page:
https://wi-lab.com/cyberchair/2017/wi17/scripts/submit.php?subarea=Wr

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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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IMPORTANT DATES
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Workshop and Special session proposal submission: Feb. 1, 2017
Notification of Workshop/Special session acceptance: Feb. 15, 2017
Submission of full papers: Mar. 12, 2017
Submission of Workshop/Special session papers: Apr. 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
Main conference: Aug.23-26, 2017

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ORGANIZING COMMITTEE
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General Chairs (Regions)

Axel Ngonga, Leipzig University, Germany (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 Slezak, Infobright Inc. & University of Warsaw, Poland (East Europe)
Bogdan Franczyk, Leipzig University, Germany (West Europe)

PC Co-Chairs

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

Organizing Chairs

Bj «Órn Schwarzbach, Leipzig University, Germany
Rainer Unland, University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany

Workshop and Special Session 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, China
Olaf Reinhold, Leipzig University, Germany

Doctoral Consortium Chairs

Alexander Pokahr, University of Hamburg, Germany
Ren «± Schumann, University of Applied Sciences, Switzerland

Tutorial Chairs

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

Industry Track Chairs

Hanno Hildmann, UC3M Robotics Lab, Spain & NEC Research Europe, Germany
Fabrice Saffre, British Telecom & EBTIC, UK & UAE

Publicity Chairs

Guadalupe Ortiz Bellot, University of C «¡diz, 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 Steering Committee Co-chairs

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

*** Contact Information ***

raine...@uni-leipzig.de
xt...@usq.edu.au