CFP

         FINAL CALL FOR PAPERS: WI-2001
 The First Asia-Pacific Conference on Web Intelligence

                SPONSORED BY
                 ACM SIGART
        Maebashi Institute of Technology
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      Maebashi TERRSA, Maebashi City, Japan
              October 23-26, 2001
Home Page: http://kis.maebashi-it.ac.jp/wi01
Mirror Page: http://cs.uregina.ca/~wi01/

     Paper Submission Deadline: March 20, 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 CS President), U. Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

               WI-2001 Invited Speakers:
       James Hendler (DARPA/ISO, USA)
       W. Lewis Johnson (University of Southern California, USA)
       Riichiro Mizoguchi (Osaka University, Japan)
       Prabhakar Raghavan (Verity Inc., USA)
       Patrick S. P. Wang (Northeastern University, USA)

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

* 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

* 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
  - The Semantic Web
  - Theories of Small World Web
  - Web Information System Development Tools
  - Web Protocols

See Submission Form at the WI-2001 webpage:
http://kis.maebashi-it.ac.jp/wi01
to submit your paper.

IMPORTANT DATES
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     March 20, 2001   Paper submission deadline
       May 28, 2001   Notification of paper acceptance mailed
      June 20, 2001   Camera-ready copies of accepted papers due
       July 2, 2001   Demo submission deadline
     August 3, 2001   Notification of demo acceptance mailed
October 23-26, 2001   Conference technical sessions

(This CFP was shortened. See more at the conference website. GPS)