CFP

                     MINING  THE  WEB
                     Special Issue of
     INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF FOUNDATIONS OF COMPUTER SCIENCE

             >>>>> First Call For Papers <<<<<

As the Internet evolves and expands at an explosive rate, it provides
both great opportunities and grand challenges (and perhaps killer
applications) for data mining. In most major Internet application domains,
such as information presentations and exchanges, e-commerce, and search
engines, data mining has been applied and successful cases have been
reported.

However, data mining application to the web is still in the process
of "crossing the chasm". Many difficult problems need to be solved,
such as huge sizes of data with mixed and rich types, lack of standard
procedures for various business problems, integrating data mining with
existing web application systems, and the privacy issue. If Internet is
to become a killer application for data mining, those issues must be
resolved effectively so the benefits (e.g., return of investment) of
data mining becomes obvious to Internet companies.

It is, therefore, of special interest and urgency to expand our knowledge
on data mining applications to Internet, which is this special issue of
IJFCS planned for.

We urge authors to submit papers on any topics of data mining applications
to the Internet, including but not limited to:
-- Data mining for e-commerce (product recommendation, direct marketing,
   customer retention, etc.)
-- Data mining for information presentation (webpage classification,
   knowledge extraction from webpages or for search engines)
-- Data mining for personalization (fre-fetching, adaptation, etc.)
-- Mining web logs

Schedule for the Special Issue of IJFCS on Mining the Web:
-- Submission deadline: May 1, 2001
-- Decision on acceptance: Sept 1, 2001.

Please submit electronic copy in Postscript, PDF, or MS Word (strongly
encouraged), or five copies of your manuscript, to one of the guest editors:
Charles Ling, Univ of Western Ontario, ling@csd.uwo.ca
Nick Cercone, University of Waterloo, ncercone@uwaterloo.ca

Updates of the Special Issue of IJFCS on Mining the Web can be found at
http://www.csd.uwo.ca/faculty/ling/IJFCS/cfp.html