FLOW 2008

FLOW 2008
First International Workshop on Fuzzy Logic On the Web
Dates	Dec 9, 2008 (iCal) - Dec 9, 2008
Homepage:	www.cwi.ugent.be/flow2008
Location
Location:	Sydney, Australia
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Important dates
Submissions:	Jul 30, 2008
Notification:	Sep 3, 2008
Table of Contents

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

Organization:
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Stijn Heymans
Knowledge Based Systems Group
Institute of Information Systems
Technische Universitaet Wien
and
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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