7th ACM International Conference on Web
Intelligence, Mining and Semantics
June 19-22, 2017, Amantea, Italy
in collaboration
with:
[Aim and Scope | Conference
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Dates | Registration | Venue | Accommodation | Program
Committee]
Best Papers of WIMS
2017 will be Invited for Extended Submissions to Top-Quality Journals
Invited Speakers
Maurizio Lenzerini,
Sapienza University of Rome, Italy
Semantic
Technology for Open Data Publishing
Oscar Pastor,
Universitat Politècnica de València, Spain
A WIMS
Perspective for Understanding the Human Genome: The Role of Conceptual Modeling
Tutorials
Andrea Calì, Birkbeck
University of London, UK
Querying and
Searching the Deep Web
Andrea Tagarelli,
University of Calabria, Italy
Exploring
Lurking Behaviors in Online Social Networks
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.
The
purpose of the WIMS series is:
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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.
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To give doctoral students an opportunity to present their research to a
friendly and knowledgeable audience and receive valuable feedback.
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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’17 Tutorials and Workshops are published
separately.
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
- Crawling, Caching and Querying Linked
(Semantic) Data
- Dataset Dynamics and
Synchronization
- Big Data Computing
- User Interfaces and
Visualization for the Web of (Linked Semantic) Data at Scale
- Indexing and Information
Extraction from the (Semantic) Deep Web
- 3D Media and Content
- Sensing Web and the Web of
Things
- Web-Based Health- and Bio-
Information Systems
- Web Security, Integrity,
Privacy, and Trust
- Nature-Inspired Models and
Approaches in Web and Data Processing Infrastructures
•Web Intelligence (WI)
- Semantic Agent Systems for WI
- Advanced Interaction and
Communication Paradigms with WI
- Natural Language / Ontology-/Taxonomy-based
/ Hybrid Interfaces
- Intelligence for Visualizing
(Linked Semantic) Web Data at scale
- Intelligence for Big Data
Analytics
- Ubiquitous Intelligence and
the Internet of Things
- WI in Social Media
- WI in Human Computation and
Social Games
- Opinion Mining / Sentiment
Analysis on the Social Web
- Social Monetization and
Computational Advertising
- Visualizing Social Network
Data
- WI for Services, Grids, and
Middleware
- Nature-Inspired Models and
Approaches for WI
•Web Mining, Information and Knowledge
Extraction
- Text, Data Stream, Web and Multimedia
Content Mining
- Contextualization and
Clustering in Web Mining and Information Extraction
- Knowledge Extraction and
Ontology Learning from the Web
- Linked Data Mining
- Information Extraction and
Knowledge Discovery from Big Data
- Mining and Information
Extraction from the Deep Web
- Semantic Deep Web Data Fusion
•Web Semantics and Reasoning
- Knowledge Representation for the Web
- Ontology Specification:
Expressivity Versus Usability
- Ontologies and Linked Semantic
Data
- Development and Re-Use of
Ontologies for the Web
- Crowdsourcing for Ontology
Engineering and Management on the Social Web
- Lifecycle, Management, and
Evolution of Web Ontologies
- Ontology Merging and Alignment
- Rule Markup Languages and
Systems
- Semantic Annotation
- Reasoning: Scalability,
Expressivity, Incompleteness, Vagueness, and/or Uncertainty
•WIMS Applications
- Web Applications of Semantic Agent Systems
- Semantics-Driven Information
Retrieval
- Semantic Search
- Intelligent E-Technology and
the Semantic Web
- Intelligence and Semantics for
Business Information Management and Integration
- Intelligence and Semantic
Technologies in Digital Media
- Semantic Technologies in
E-Business, E-Commerce, E-Finance, E-Health, E-Science, E-Government,
E-Learning
- WI for Multimedia, Sensors,
and Situational Awareness
- WI for Software and Systems
Engineering
- Quality of Life Technology for
Web Access
- Nature-Inspired Models and
Approaches in WIMS Applications
•Evaluation and Validation of WIMS
Technologies and Applications
- Evaluation and Validation
Methodologies
- Datasets and Benchmarks for
Cross-Evaluations and Competitions
- Evaluation and Validation
Infrastructures
- Evaluation and Validation Metrics
(e.g., Fitness, Quality, Completeness, Correctness, etc.)
Hotel Village La
Principessa, Amantea, Italy
Submission Guidelines and Instructions
Five types of
submissions are solicited for the main conference:
· Regular
Research Papers
· Short
Research Papers
· Discussion,
Survey, or Problem Analysis Papers
· Posters
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.
Regular Research Papers The papers in
this category are the reports on the accomplished research work. They present a
novel method, technique or analysis with appropriate empirical or other type of
evaluation as a proof of validity. The main evaluation criteria for this
category are originality, technical soundness, and the soundness of evaluation.
Page Limit: 12 ACM pages.
Short Research Papers The papers in this category are
the short reports of the preliminary results or describing the work in
progress. The main evaluation criteria for this category are originality,
technical correctness, and possible value of the planned results in a short to
mid-term perspective. Short papers can be also presented in a form of a poster.
Page Limit: 6 ACM pages.
Discussion, Survey, or Problem Analysis Papers
The papers solicited in this category will not present any novel method,
technique or approach to solving a problem, but help understand the problem
itself. Within the genre, we expect receiving reasonable overviews placing a
problem onto the state-of-the-art landscape and analyzing how far current
solutions fall short. We also expect in-depth discussions and analysis of a
certain problem, with clear definitions and argumentation in terms of
qualitative or quantitative representation of the main characteristics of the
problem. Page Limit: 12 ACM pages.
Posters WIMS poster track is a venue for
late-breaking results, ongoing research activities, and speculative or
innovative work in progress. This track is intended to provide authors and
participants with the ability to connect with each other and to engage in
discussions about the work. Posters provide authors with a unique opportunity
to draw attention to their work during the conference. Page Limit: 4 ACM pages.
Submissions
should be made electronically in PDF or DOC/DOCX (MS/Open Word) format via the
electronic submission system of the WIMS’17 Conference Management system at: https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=wims2017
Accepted
papers/tutorials/posters will be published by ACM and disseminated through the
ACM Digital Library (DL) through the International Conference Proceedings
Series (ICPS). A selection of the best WIMS'17 papers will be invited to be
revised and extended for the post-conference publication in several special
issues of top-quality journals. Special issues announced are on Semantic
Web Journal, IOS Press and Journal of Ambient Intelligence and Humanized Computing,
Springer.
Previous
proceedings of WIMS editions are accessible on ACM DL as follows:
- 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
- WIMS’14: https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=2611040
- WIMS’15: https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=2797115
- WIMS’16: https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=2912845
Paper
submission: April 24, 2017
Submission of tutorial and workshop proposals: January
31, 2017
Notification of acceptance for tutorials and workshops: February 4, 2017
Notification of acceptance for papers/posters: May
24, 2017
Camera-ready versions of accepted papers, posters, tutorial papers: May 26, 2017
Author registration deadline: May 30, 2017
Conference: June 19-22, 2017
Authors of
accepted papers must register on or before May 30, 2017, by filling one of the
following registration forms: WIMS
2017 Registration Form by Credit Card or WIMS
2017 Registration Form by Bank Transfer and send it
to info@hotellaprincipessa.it
The venue of
WIMS 2017 Conference is the wonderful Amantea, on the Tyrrhenian Coast of
Calabria, the most sunny region of the Italian Peninsula in the South Italy,
usually called the “Toe of the Boot”.
In particular,
the conference venue will be at Hotel Village “La Principessa”, not far from “Lamezia Terme” International
Airport and “Lamezia Centrale” train station (see Trenitalia).
“Lamezia Terme”
International Airport provides international flights to/from:
-
Charleroi-Bruxelles (Ryanair);
- Cologne
(Tuifly, Germanwings);
- Düsseldorf
(Ryanair, Tuifly, Germanwings);
- Frankfurt
(Ryanair);
- Hanover
(Tuifly, Germanwings);
-
London-Stansted (Ryanair);
- Munich
(Tuifly);
- Stuttgart
(Tuifly, Germanwings).
With regards
to internal flights, the Lamezia Terme Airport is well-connected with:
- Rome Fiumicino (Alitalia, Ryanair);
- Milan Malpensa (Alitalia, Easyjet);
- Milan Linate (Alitalia);
- Bergamo/Milan Orio Al Serio (Ryanair).
For
international travelers, the best hub to change the flight for Lamezia Terme is
usually Rome Fiumicino.
“Lamezia
Terme” International Airport is about 25 Km far away from the Hotel Village “La
Principessa” conference venue (see the map below).
The “Lamezia
Centrale” train station is well-connected to “Rome Termini” train station
(several trains per day).
Travelling by
car, the trip to the Hotel Village “La Principessa” can be planned using the
Google maps service.
Hotel Village La
Principessa will offer special rates for WIMS 2017 conference participants:
- Half-board:
70,00 € per person / per day;
- Full-board:
80,00 € per person / per day;
- Bed &
Breakfast: 60,00 € per person / per day;
- Extra charge
for single room: 15,00 € per person / per day;
- Extra meal
(lunch or dinner) per person € 25,00;
- Transfer
from /to the airport /railway-station: per person € 10,00.
For reservations,
please send an e-mail reservation to info@hotellaprincipessa.it
Sergio Greco,
University of Calabria, Italy
Domenico Saccà,
University of Calabria, Italy
WIMS Conferences Chair
Rajendra
Akerkar, Western Norway Research Institute, Norway
General Chair
Alfredo Cuzzocrea,
University of Trieste & ICAR-CNR, Italy
Program Chairs
Jannong
Cao, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong
Mohand-Said Hacid, University of Claude Bernard Lyon
1, France
Publicity Chairs
Ladjel
Bellatreche, ENSMA, France
Wookey
Lee, Inha University, South Korea
Carson Leung,
University of Manitoba, Canada
Local Organization Chairs
Cristian
Molinaro, University of Calabria, Italy
Clara Pizzuti,
ICAR-CNR, Italy
Irina Trubitsyna,
University of Calabria, Italy
Danilo Amendola,
IRCCS “Bonino-Pulejo”, Italy
Industrial Track Chairs
Luciano Mallamaci, ICT-SUD, Italy
Enzo Mumolo, University
of Trieste, Italy
Giorgio Mario Grasso,
University of Messina, Italy
Advisory Committee
Grigoris
Antoniou, University of Huddersfield, UK
Harold Boley, University of New Brunswick, Canada
James Hendler, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, NY, USA
Guus Schreiber, VU University, The Netherlands
Amit Sheth, Ohio Center of Excellence on Knowledge-enabled Computing, OH, USA
Program Committee
Achilleas
Achilleos, University of Cyprus, Cyprus
Jesus Almendros Jimenez, Universidad de Almeria, Spain
Danilo Amendola, IRCCS “Bonino-Pulejo”, Italy
Pasquale Ardimento, University of Bari, Italy
Costin Badica, University of Craiova, Romania
Nick Bassiliades, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece
Patrice Bellot, LSIS, Aix-Marseille University‚ France
Mario Luca Bernardi, “Giustino Fortunato” University, Italy
David Camacho, Universidad Autonoma de Madrid, Spain
Marta Cimitile, “Unitelma” Sapienza University, Italy
Michael Cochez, University of Jyväskylä, Finland
Paulo Cortez, University of Minho, Portugal
Stamatia Dasiopoulou, CERTH – ITI, Thessaloniki, Greece
Maxim Davidovsky Zaporozhye National University, Ukraine
Martine De Cock, Ghent University, Belgium
José Palazzo Moreira de Oliveira, Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul,
Portugal
Vadim Ermolayev, Zaporizhzhya National University, Ukraine
Rim Faiz IHEC, University of Carthage, Tunisia
Anna Fensel, University of Innsbruck, Austria
Alexander Gelbukh, CIC-IPN, Mexico
Christos Georgiadis, University of Macedonia, Greece
Osvaldo Gervasi, University of Perugia, Italy
Florin Gorunescu, University of Craiova, Romania
Anastasios Gounaris, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece
Paul Groth, VU University, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Sébastien Harispe, LGI2P - EMA, France
Tzung-Pei Hong, National Univesity of Kaohsiung, Taiwan
Yuh-Jong Hu, National Chengchi University, Taiwan
Ivan Jelinek, Czech Technical University, Czech Republic
Jelena Jovanovic, University of Belgrade, Serbia
Jason Jung, Chung-Ang University, South Korea
Rajaraman Kanagasabai, Institute for Infocomm Research, Singapore
Randi Karlsen, University of Tromsoe, Norway
Yiannis Kompatsiaris, CERTH – ITI, Thessaloniki, Greece
Efstratios Kontopoulos, CERTH – ITI, Thessaloniki, Greece
Christoph Lange, University of Bonn, Germany
Anne Laurent, LIRMM, Montpellier University, France
Vincenzo Loia, University of Salerno, Italy
Eetu Mäkelä, Aalto University, Finland
Athanasios Mavropoulos, CERTH, Greece
Eric Medvet, University of Trieste, Italy
Manfred Meyer, Westfälische Hochschule Gelsenkirchen, Bocholt, Recklinghausen,
Germany
Enzo Mumolo, University of Trieste, Italy
Grzegorz J. Nalepa, AGH University of Science and Technology, Poland
Jong C. Park, KAIST, South Korea
Tassilo Pellegrini, University of Applied Sciences St. Pölten, Austria
Giovanni Pilato, ICAR-CNR, Italy
Michel Plantié‚ LGI2P - EMA, France
Elvira Popescu, University of Craiova, Romania
Sylvie Ranwez, LGI2P - EMA, France
Giuseppe Rizzo, University of Bari, Italy
Giorgos Stoilos, National Technical University of Athens, Greece
Athena Vakali, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece
Csaba Veres, Universitetet i Bergen, Norway
Paul Warren, KMI, Open University, United Kingdom
For more information and any inquire, please contact Alfredo Cuzzocrea