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{{Event
 | Acronym = FLOW 2008
 | Title = First International Workshop on Fuzzy Logic On the Web
 | Type = Workshop
 | Series = 
 | Field = World wide web
 | Homepage = www.cwi.ugent.be/flow2008
 | Start date = Dec 9, 2008 
 | End date =  Dec 9, 2008
 | City= Sydney
 | State = 
 | Country =  Australia
 | Abstract deadline = 
 | Submission deadline = Jul 30, 2008
 | Notification = Sep 3, 2008
 | Camera ready = 
}}

A lot of research on how to make the Web Intelligent is centered
around the question of how to introduce a form of automated reasoning
in Web-related activities.� For example, an intelligent search would
amount to posing queries that use deduction to obtain results instead
of queries that return results based on the keywords of the query.� An
important subgoal of establishing this kind of automated reasoning is
to make knowledge on the Web understandable by machines.

As witnessed by approaches like the Semantic Web the traditional
choice of establishing machine-understandability was obtained by
formalizing knowledge using two-valued logics like Description Logics
or Logic Programming. However, fuzzy logic is inherently better
suited for expressing knowledge on the Web, i.e., knowledge that is
uncertain, imprecise, and potentially inconsistent.� Nonetheless, the
take-up of fuzzy logic for making the Web more intelligent is a slow
one, and a major issue is the lack of cross-fertilization between the
world of fuzzy logic researchers and the world of Web researchers.
Hence, the workhop's main goal will be to bring these two worlds
closer together, and thus stimulate cross-over research between two
different areas that are trying to make the Web more intelligent.

The workshop will be an important part of events of the IEEE/WIC/ACM
�International Conferences on Web Intelligence and �Intelligent Agent
Technology which has been ranked at top 15 from 620 Artificial
Intelligence / Machine Learning �conferences in the following popular
rankings: �http://www.cs-conference-ranking.org/home.html

==Topics==

Applications of fuzzy logic to Web areas such as 

* Ontology languages 
* Intelligent Search
* Knowledge management and reasoning
* Ontology mapping, merging, and alignment
* Web Service Description, Discovery, Composition
* Information extraction / Multimedia retrieval
* Collaborating agents 
* Social Network Analysis
* Web-based recommender systems
* Question answering systems
* Geographic Information Retrieval 
* ...


==Sumbission Details==

All submitted papers will be reviewed on the basis of technical
quality, relevance, significance, and clarity. All workshops are
required to use the WI-IAT 2008 Cyberchair system for on-line paper
submission and review process (link will be added soon).

The length of accepted papers should NOT exceed 4 pages (IEEE-CS
format, extra payment is only available for one more extra page).
Accepted workshop papers will be published in the Proceedings of
WI-IAT08 Workshops by IEEE-CS Press. 

==Important Dates==

* Deadline for Submissions: July 30, 2008 
* Notification of acceptance: September 3, 2008 
* Camera-ready versions: September 30, 2008
* Workshop: December 9, 2008
* WI-IAT 2008 Conference: December 9 - 12, 2008

==Program Committee==

* [[has PC member::Paulo Cesar G. da Costa]], George Mason University, USA 
* [[has PC member::Ernesto Damiani]], Universita degli Studi di Milano, Italy 
* [[has PC member::Jos de Bruijn]], Free University of Bolzano, Italy 
* [[has PC member::Cristina Feier]], TU Vienna, Austria 
* [[has PC member::Martin Hepp]], STI Innsbruck, Austria 
* [[has PC member::Mustafa Jarrar]], University of Cyprus, Cyprus 
* [[has PC member::Janusz Kacprzyk]], Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland 
* [[has PC member::Anne Laurent]], LIRMM, France 
* [[has PC member::Jie Lu]], University of Technology Sydney, Australia 
* [[has PC member::Thomas Lukasiewicz]], Oxford University / TU Vienna, U.K. / Austria 
* [[has PC member::Trevor Martin]], University of Bristol, UK 
* [[has PC member::Jose Angel Olivas Varela]], Universidad Castilla-La Mancha, Spain 
* [[has PC member::Gabriella Pasi]], University of Milano, Italy 
* [[has PC member::Axel Polleres]], DERI Galway, Ireland 
* [[has PC member::Giorgos Stamou]], National Technical University of Athens, Greece 
* [[has PC member::Umberto Straccia]], IST-C.N.R, Italy 
* [[has PC member::Ankur Teredesai]], University of Washington, USA 
* [[has PC member::Peter Vojtas]], Charles University Prague, Czech Republic 

==Organization==

* Stijn Heymans
** Knowledge Based Systems Group, Institute of Information Systems, Technische Universitaet Wien 
** Computational Web Intelligence, Dept. of Applied Mathematics and Computer Science, Ghent University

* Martine De Cock
** Computational Web Intelligence, Dept. of Applied Mathematics and Computer Science, Ghent University

* Dirk Vermeir
** Theoretical Computer Science Lab, Dept. of Computer Science, Vrije Universiteit Brussel

* Elie Sanchez
** Laboratoire d'Informatique Fondamentale, Biomathematiques et Informatique Medicale, Faculte de Medecine (Universite Aix-Marseille II)

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Acronym	FLOW 2008 +
End date	December 9, 2008 +
Event type	Workshop +
Has PC member	Paulo Cesar G. da Costa +, Ernesto Damiani +, Jos de Bruijn +, Cristina Feier +, Martin Hepp +, Mustafa Jarrar +, Janusz Kacprzyk +, Anne Laurent +, Jie Lu +, Thomas Lukasiewicz +, Trevor Martin +, Jose Angel Olivas Varela +, Gabriella Pasi +, Axel Polleres +, Giorgos Stamou +, Umberto Straccia +, Ankur Teredesai + and Peter Vojtas +
Has coordinates	-33° 51' 17", 151° 12' 59"Latitude: -33.854816666667 Longitude: 151.21645277778 +
Has location city	Sydney +
Has location country	Category:Australia +
Homepage	http://www.cwi.ugent.be/flow2008 +
IsA	Event +
Notification	September 3, 2008 +
Start date	December 9, 2008 +
Submission deadline	July 30, 2008 +
Title	First International Workshop on Fuzzy Logic On the Web +