WIMS 2018

WIMS 2018
8th International Conference on Web Intelligence, Mining and Semantics
Event in series	WIMS
Dates	2018/06/25 (iCal) - 2018/06/27
Homepage:	wims2018.pmf.uns.ac.rs/cfp.php
Submitting link:	easychair.org/conferences/?conf=wims2018
Location
Location:	Novi Sad, Serbia
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Important dates
Workshops:	2018/01/20
Submissions:	2018/01/25
Notification:	2018/03/20
Camera ready due:	2018/04/25
Committees
General chairs:	Mirjana Ivanovic
Workshop chairs:	Costin Bădică
Seminars Chair:	Costin Bădică
Table of Contents

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:

• 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
• To give doctoral students an opportunity to present their research to a friendly and knowledgeable audience and receive valuable feedback
• 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’2018 Tutorials and Workshops are published separately. Companies or individuals interested in presenting their industrial products or methodologies are invited to contact the conference chairs.

Topics

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.)

Submissions

The authors of the best papers presented at WIMS'2018 may be invited to submit extended versions (more than 30% of new content) for possible publication in Computer Science and Information Systems - ComSIS (two-year impact factor 2016: 0.837) and Fundamenta Informaticae (impact factor 2017: 0.687) journals.

Four types of submissions are solicited for the main conference:

• Regular research papers (12 ACM pages)
• Short research papers (6 ACM pages)
• Discussion, survey, or problem analysis papers (12 ACM pages)
• Posters (4 ACM pages)

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.

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.

Submissions should be made electronically in PDF or DOC/DOCX (MS/Open Word) format via the electronic submission system of the WIMS’2018 Conference Management system at WIMS’18 Easychair page.

The submissions should be typeset using the templates of the ACM International Conference Proceedings Series (ICPS). The templates could be retrieved from the ACM website.

Important Dates

• Paper submission - January 25, 2018
• Submission of tutorial and workshop proposals - January 20, 2018
• Notification of acceptance for tutorials and workshops - January 30, 2018
• Notification of acceptance for papers/posters - March 20, 2018
• Camera-ready versions of accepted papers, posters, tutorial papers - April 25, 2018
• Author registration and registration fee payment deadline - April 25, 2018

Committees

• General Chair
  • Mirjana Ivanovic, University of Novi Sad, Serbia

• General Co-Chairs
  • Sang-Wook Kim, Hanyang University, Korea

• PC Co-Chairs
  • Yannis Manolopoulos, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece
  • Riccardo Rosati, Sapienza Università di Roma, 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
  • Takahira Yamaguchi, Keio University, Japan
  • Rajendra Akerkar, Western Norway Research Institute, Norway (WIMS Conferences Chair)

• Workshop Chair
  • Costin Bădică, University of Craiova, Romania

• Tutorial Chair
  • Costin Bădică, University of Craiova, Romania

• Workshop Co-Chairs
  • Miloš Radovanović, University of Novi Sad, Serbia
  • Miloš Savić, University of Novi Sad, Serbia

• Tutorial Co-Chair
  • Miloš Radovanović, University of Novi Sad, Serbia
  • Miloš Savić, University of Novi Sad, Serbia

• Local Organizing Co-Chairs
  • Miloš Savić, University of Novi Sad, Serbia (Chair)
  • Jovana Vidaković, University of Novi Sad, Serbia (Co-Chair)
  • Brankica Bratić, University of Novi Sad, Serbia
  • Jovana Ivković, University of Novi Sad, Serbia
  • Saša Pešić, University of Novi Sad, Serbia
  • Đurica Salamon, University of Novi Sad, Serbia

• Program Committee Members
  • Alberto Abelló, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Spain
  • Achilleas Achilleos, University of Cyprus, Cyprys
  • Avi Arampatzis, Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering, Democritus University of Thrace, Greece
  • Costin Badica, University of Craiova, Romania
  • Nick Bassiliades, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece
  • Zoran Bosnić, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia
  • Lars Braubach, University of Hamburg, Germany
  • Drazen Brdjanin, University of Banja Luka, Bosnia and Hercegovina
  • David Camacho, Universidad Autonoma de Madrid, Spain
  • Barbara Catania, University Genoa, Italy
  • Keith C.C. Chan, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong
  • Liming Chen, Montfort University, Leicester, UK
  • Michael Cochez, University of Jyväskylä, Finland
  • Paulo Cortez, University of Minho, Portugal
  • Alfredo Cuzzocrea, University of Trieste, Italy
  • Stamatia Dasiopoulou, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Spain
  • Maxim Davidovsky, Zaporozhye National University, Ukraine
  • John Davies, BT, UK
  • Martine De Cock, Ghent University, Belgium
  • José Palazzo M. De Oliveira, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil
  • Boris Delibašić, University of Belgrade, Serbia
  • Tommaso Di Noia, Politecnico di Bari, Italy
  • Vadim Ermolayev, Zaporozhye National University, Ukraine
  • Vladimir Filipovic, University of Belgrade, Serbia
  • Giacomo Fiumara, Department of Physics, University of Messina, Italy
  • Paul Fodor, Stony Brook University, USA
  • Dusan Gajic, University of Novi Sad, Serbia
  • Alexander Gelbukh, Centro de Investigación en Computación, Mexico
  • Christos Georgiadis, University of Macedonia, FYR Macedonia
  • Adrian Giurca, Brandenburg University of Technology Cottbus-Senftenberg, Germany
  • Vladimir Gorodetsky, St. Petersburg Institute for Informatics and Automation of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Russia
  • Anastasios Gounaris, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece
  • Paul Groth, VU University Amsterdam, Netherlands
  • Tzung-Pei Hong, National Univesity of Kaohsiung, Taiwan
  • Yuh-Jong Hu, National Chengchi University, Taiwan
  • Wei Hu, Nanjing University, China
  • Prateek Jain, IBM TJ Watson Research Center, USA
  • Ivan Jelinek, Czech Technical University in Prague, Czech Republic
  • Jelena Jovanovic, University of Belgrade, Serbia
  • Petar Jovanovic, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Spain
  • Jason Jung, Chung-Ang University, Korea
  • Yannis Kalfoglou, RICOH Europe plc, England
  • Rajaraman Kanagasabai, Institute for Infocomm Research, Agency for Science, Technology and Research, Singapore
  • Michael Kifer, Stony Brook University, USA
  • Sang-Wook Kim, Hanyang University, Korea
  • Aleksandra Klasnja Milicevic, University of Novi Sad, Serbia
  • Fotis Kokkoras, Technological Educational Institute of Thessaly, Greece
  • Efstratios Kontopoulos, Center for Research and Technology Hellas, Greece
  • Vladimir Kurbalija, University of Novi Sad, Serbia
  • Christoph Lange, University of Birmingham, England
  • Marin Lujak, Ecole des Mines de Douai, France
  • Ivan Lukovic, University of Novi Sad, Serbia
  • Eetu Mäkelä, Aalto University, Finland
  • Pierre Maret, LHC Université de Saint Etienne, France
  • Corrado Mencar, Department of Informatics, University of Bari "A. Moro", Italy
  • Manfred Meyer, Westfälische Hochschule - University of Applied Sciences, Germany
  • Grzegorz J. Nalepa, AGH University of Science and Technology, Poland
  • Andriy Nikolov, fluid Operations AG, Germany
  • Paulo Novais, University of Minho, Portugal
  • Tope Omitola, Unversity of Southampton, England
  • Yassine Ouhammou, ISAE-ENSMA, France
  • George Papadopoulos, University of Cyprus, Cyprus
  • Jong C. Park, KAIST, South Korea
  • Heiko Paulheim, University of Mannheim, Germany
  • Tassilo Pellegrini, University of Applied Sciences St. Pölten, Austria
  • Michel Plantié, Ecole des Mines d'Ales, France
  • Elvira Popescu, University of Craiova, Romania
  • Alessandro Provetti, University of Messina, Italy
  • Milos Radovanovic, University of Novi Sad, Serbia
  • Dimitrios Rafailidis, University of Mons, Belgium
  • Giuseppe Rizzo, University of Bari Aldo Moro, Italy
  • Dumitru Roman, SINTEF, Norway
  • Oscar Romero, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Spain
  • Michail Salampasis, Vienna University of Technology, Austria
  • Milos Savic, University of Novi Sad, Serbia
  • Domenico Fabio Savo, Sapienza University of Rome, Italy
  • Miguel-Angel Sicilia, University of Alcalá, Spain
  • Giorgos Stamou, National Technical University of Athens, Greece
  • Bela Stantic, Griffith University, Gold Cost, Australia
  • Giorgos Stoilos, National Technical University of Athens, Greece
  • Yu Suzuki, Nara Institute of Science and Technology, Japan
  • Panagiotis Symeonidis, Department of Informatics, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece
  • Yasufumi Takama, Tokyo Metropolitan University, Japan
  • Antonio Tallón-Ballesteros, University of Seville, Spain
  • Eleftherios Tiakas, Department of Informatics Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece
  • Goce Trajcevski, Northwestern University, USA
  • Theodora Tsikrika, Informatics and Telematics Institute Centre for Research and Technology Hellas, Greece
  • Athena Vakali, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki 54124, Greece
  • Goran Velinov, University Ss. Cyril and Methodius Skopje, FYR Macedonia
  • Laurent Vercouter, Laboratory of Computer Science, Information Processing and Systems (LITIS), France
  • Csaba Veres, University of Bergen, Norway
  • Boban Vesin, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway
  • George Vouros, University of Piraeus, Greece
  • Paul Warren, BT, UK
  • Yiyu Yao, University of Regina, Canada
  • Slawomir Zadrozny, Systems Research Institute, Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland