CFPFrom: Charles X. Ling ling@csd.uwo.caDate: Wed, 4 Apr 2001 11:47:42 -0400 (EDT) Subject: Second CFP: MINING THE WEB. Special Issue of IJFCS, deadline May 1, 2001 MINING THE WEB: Special Issue of INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF FOUNDATIONS OF COMPUTER SCIENCE Updates of the Special Issue of IJFCS on Mining the Web can be found at http://www.csd.uwo.ca/faculty/ling/IJFCS/index.html 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. Various data-mining techniques have been used including prediction (for direct marketing, webpage classification, spam filtering, personalization, product recommendation, pre-fetching), generalization (for knowledge extraction), clustering (web-log analysis, customer segmentation) and association learning (for cross-sale). 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. -- Final revised manuscripts due: Nov 1, 2001 -- Publication scheduled: early 2002. 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 Nick Cercone Dept of Computer Science Dept of Computer Science Univ of Western Ontario University of Waterloo London, Ontario N6A 5B7, Canada Waterloo, Ontario N2L 3G1, Canada ling@csd.uwo.ca ncercone@uwaterloo.ca Instructions for submitting papers: Papers should not exceed 30 double-spaced pages (12 pt fonts) including the title page, figures, tables, references, appendix, etc. and should not have been previously published, nor currently submitted elsewhere for publication. All submitted papers will be refereed in accordance with the usual criteria of IJFCS. |
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