CFP

Also See http://www.acs.brockport.edu/~ascime/WebMining/CFP.htm for details on the conference and submission.

Accepted papers will also be considered for expansion and publication as a chapter in Web Mining: Applications and Techniques to be published in early 2004. For details, see the book Web site at http://www.acs.brockport.edu/~ascime/WebMining/CFC.htm.

Special Session on Web Mining

International Conference on Internet Computing 2003 (IC'03) June 23 - 26, 2003 Monte Carlo Resort, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA

The 2003 International Conference in Internet Computing (IC'02) will be held in Las Vegas, Nevada, June 23-26, 2003. This conference will be held simultaneously with a number of other international conferences (PDPTA'2003, CISST'2003, IC-AI'2003, ...) - for a complete list, refer to: http://www.ashland.edu/~iajwa/conferences/

THE WEB MINING SESSION: Web mining refers to the discovery and analysis of data, documents, and multimedia from the World Wide Web. This includes the content, hyperlink structure, and access statistics. However, the explosion of information available on the Web has increased the need for tools and technologies for efficient document and multimedia concept storage, extraction, and management.

The Web provides multi-dimensionality to information availability. However, search engines work in a linear manner. A search engine is basically an index, a collection of keywords and locations of documents represented by these keywords can be found on the Web. The search engines in the future will add multi-dimensionality similar to the multi-dimensionality of Web documents.

Among the reasons why web searches do not work well are: (1) the users are not good at expressing their information need; (2) interfaces are not good at representing the need; (3) the indexes and spiders are poor at translating the document concepts into representational keywords; (4) there is not full exploitation of the data available about the documents on the Web.

The Web itself and the search engine indices contain information about the documents. Documents have different types of relationships among themselves. Hyperlinks add depth to documents, providing the multi-dimensionality, which characterizes the Web. Documents have an address, a URL, which represents a logical location on a server, which may provide information about the relationship of this document to other on the server. Also, there is a relationship to other documents on the Web unknown to the document, the search engine index may discover such relationships. Web mining is interdisciplinary in nature, spanning across such fields as information retrieval, natural language processing, information extraction, machine learning, database, data mining, data warehousing, knowledge management, user interface design, and visualization.

IMPORTANT DATES:
January 31, 2003 (Friday): Draft papers (about 4 to 5 pages) due
February 28, 2003 (Friday): Notification of acceptance
April 22, 2003 (Tuesday): Camera-Ready papers & Prereg. due
June 23-26, 2003: IC'03 International Conference

All accepted papers are expected to be presented at the conference.

SESSION CONTACT:
Anthony Scime
Computer Science Department
State University of New York College at Brockport
350 New Campus Drive
Brockport, NY 14420-2933
U.S.A.

Tel: (716) 395-2323
Fax: (716) 395-2304
E-mail: ascime@brockport.edu

For additional information, see www.ashland.edu/~iajwa/conferences/