[WI 2017] Call For Papers

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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/
Facebook Page: https://www.facebook.com/WI-2017-1275428249181548/

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

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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ORGANIZING COMMITTEE
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General Chairs (Regions)

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


WI'17 PC Co-Chairs

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


WI'17 Organizing Chairs

Björn Schwarzbach, Leipzig University, Germany
Rainer Unland, University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany


WI Steering Committee Co-chairs

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


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