CFP

CALL FOR PAPERS: The First Asia-Pacific Conference on Web Intelligence (WI-2001),
         *     Maebashi TERRSA, Maebashi City, Japan    *
         *             October 23-26, 2001              *
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Home Page: http://kis.maebashi-it.ac.jp/wi01

            Paper Submission Deadline: March 20, 2001
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               WI-2001 will be jointly held with
              The Second Asia-Pacific Conference on
              Intelligent Agent Technology (IAT-2001)
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           WI-2001 and IAT-2001 Joint Keynote Speakers:
    Edward A. Feigenbaum (Turing Award Winner), Stanford University
    Benjamin Wah (2001 IEEE Computer Society President), University of Illinois

                     WI-2001 Invited Speakers:
        W. Lewis Johson (University of Southern California, USA)
        Riichiro Mizoguchi (Osaka University, Japan)
        Patrick S. P. Wang (Northeastern University, USA)

The 21st century is the age of Internet and World Wide Web. The Web
revolutionizes the way we gather, process, and use information. At the
same time, it also redefines the meanings and processes of business,
commerce, marketing, finance, publishing, education, research,
development, as well as other aspects of our daily life.  Although
individual Web-based information systems are constantly being
deployed, advanced issues and techniques for developing and for
benefiting from Web intelligence still remain to be systematically
studied.

Broadly speaking, Web Intelligence (WI) exploits AI and advanced
information technology on the Web and Internet.  It is the key and the
most urgent research field of IT for business intelligence.

The Asia-Pacific Conference on Web Intelligence (WI) is an
international forum for researchers and practitioners

(1) to present the state-of-the-art in the development of Web intelligence;
(2) to examine performance characteristics of various approaches in
     Web-based intelligent information technology;
(3) to cross-fertilize ideas on the development of
     Web-based intelligent information systems among different domains.

By idea-sharing and discussions on the underlying foundations and the
enabling technologies of Web intelligence, WI-2001 is expected to
stimulate the future development of new models, new methodologies, and
new tools for building a variety of embodiments of Web-based
intelligent information systems.

The Asia-Pacific Conference on Web Intelligence (WI) is
a high-quality, high-impact biennial conference series.
It will be jointly held with the Asia-Pacific Conference on
Intelligent Agent Technology (IAT).

TOPICS
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WI-2001 welcomes submissions of original papers. The technical issues to
be addressed include, but not limited to:

* Web Human-Media Engineering:

   - Art of Web Page Design
   - Multimedia Information Representation
   - Multimedia Information Processing
   - Visualization of Web Information
   - Web-Based Human Computer Interface

* Web Information Management:

   - Data Quality Management
   - Information Transformation
   - Internet and Web-Based Data Management
   - Multi-Dimensional Web Databases and OLAP
   - Multimedia Information Management
   - New Data Models for the Web
   - Object Oriented Web Information Management
   - Personalized Information Management
   - Semi-Structured Data Management
   - Use and Management of Metadata
   - Web Knowledge Management
   - Web Page Automatic Generation and Updating
   - Web Security, Integrity, Privacy and Trust

* Web Information Retrieval:

   - Approximate Retrieval
   - Conceptual Information Extraction
   - Image Retrieval
   - Multi-Linguistic Information Retrieval
   - Multimedia Retrieval
   - New Retrieval Models
   - Ontology-Based Information Retrieval
   - Automatic Web Content Cataloging and Indexing

* Web Agents:

   - Dynamics of Information Sources
   - E-mail Filtering
   - E-mail Semi-Automatic Reply
   - Global Information Collecting
   - Information Filtering
   - Navigation Guides
   - Recommender Systems
   - Remembrance Agents
   - Reputation Mechanisms
   - Resource Intermediary and Coordination Mechanisms
   - Web-Based Cooperative Problem Solving

* Web Mining and Farming:

   - Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery
   - Hypertext Analysis and Transformation
   - Learning User Profiles
   - Multimedia Data Mining
   - Regularities in Web Surfing and Internet Congestions
   - Text Mining
   - Web-Based Ontology Engineering
   - Web-Based Reverse Engineering
   - Web Farming
   - Web-Log Mining
   - Web Warehousing

* Web Information System Environment and Foundations:

   - Competitive Dynamics of Web Sites
   - Emerging Web Technology
   - Network Community Formation and Support
   - New Web Information Description and Query Languages
   - Theories of Small World Web
   - Web Information System Development Tools
   - Web Protocols

* Web-Based Applications:

   - Business Intelligence
   - Computational Societies and Markets
   - Conversational Systems
   - Customer Relationship Management (CRM)
   - Direct Marketing
   - Electronic Commerce and Electronic Business
   - Electronic Library
   - Information Markets
   - Price Dynamics and Pricing Algorithms
   - Measuring and Analyzing Web Merchandising
   - Web-Based Decision Support Systems
   - Web-Based Distributed Information Systems
   - Web-Based EDI
   - Web-Based Learning Systems
   - Web Marketing
   - Web Publishing

For paper Submission and full details, see the website above.
(edited).