<div dir="ltr"><p style="margin:3.75pt 0cm 0cm;font-size:18pt;font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif;font-weight:bold"><span style="color:rgb(131,60,11)">Web Intelligence Journal</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0.1pt 0cm 0cm;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><b><span style="font-size:14pt">Special Issue: 20 Years of Web Intelligence</span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0.1pt 0cm 0cm;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><a href="https://www.iospress.com/catalog/journals/web-intelligence" target="_blank">https://www.iospress.com/catalog/journals/web-intelligence</a><b><span style="font-size:14pt"><br></span></b></p><p style="margin:0.5pt 0cm 0cm;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><br></p><p style="margin:0cm 5.7pt 0cm 0cm;text-align:justify;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small">The Web Intelligence (WI) journal celebrates its 20th anniversary (2022) and </span></p><p style="margin:0cm 5.7pt 0cm 0cm;text-align:justify;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small">the Web Intelligence and Intelligence Agent Technology (WI-IAT) conference celebrates its 20th anniversary as well (2021).</span></p><p style="margin:0cm 5.7pt 0cm 0cm;text-align:justify;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:11pt">We will recognize the anniversary year of Web Intelligence journal with a special issue aimed at an in-depth review of our research field and a visionary exploration of its future prospects.</span></p><p style="margin:0cm;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:11pt;text-align:justify"><br></span></p><p style="margin:0cm;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:11pt;text-align:justify">WI is a dynamic field with flourishment over the past 20 years. WI has always been closely entwined with, and contributed to, all the latest developments in AI, especially for the future of the highly connected world, which makes use of the power of human ingenuity and man-made networks to create a better world. We continually promote the key theme: </span><b style="font-size:11pt;text-align:justify">WI = AI in the Connected World</b><span style="font-size:11pt;text-align:justify">, </span><span style="font-size:11pt;text-align:justify;letter-spacing:-0.15pt">the </span><span style="font-size:11pt;text-align:justify">field</span><span style="font-size:11pt;text-align:justify;letter-spacing:-0.2pt"> </span><span style="font-size:11pt;text-align:justify">of</span><span style="font-size:11pt;text-align:justify;letter-spacing:-0.3pt"> </span><span style="font-size:11pt;text-align:justify">exploring</span><span style="font-size:11pt;text-align:justify;letter-spacing:-0.2pt"> </span><span style="font-size:11pt;text-align:justify">how</span><span style="font-size:11pt;text-align:justify;letter-spacing:-0.15pt"> </span><span style="font-size:11pt;text-align:justify">advanced</span><span style="font-size:11pt;text-align:justify;letter-spacing:-0.2pt"> </span><span style="font-size:11pt;text-align:justify">intelligence</span><span style="font-size:11pt;text-align:justify;letter-spacing:-0.15pt"> </span><span style="font-size:11pt;text-align:justify">impacts</span><span style="font-size:11pt;text-align:justify;letter-spacing:-0.3pt"> </span><span style="font-size:11pt;text-align:justify">the</span><span style="font-size:11pt;text-align:justify;letter-spacing:-0.15pt"> </span><span style="font-size:11pt;text-align:justify">Web</span><span style="font-size:11pt;text-align:justify;letter-spacing:-0.3pt"> </span><span style="font-size:11pt;text-align:justify">of</span><span style="font-size:11pt;text-align:justify;letter-spacing:-0.3pt"> </span><span style="font-size:11pt;text-align:justify">People,</span><span style="font-size:11pt;text-align:justify;letter-spacing:-0.15pt"> </span><span style="font-size:11pt;text-align:justify">Web</span><span style="font-size:11pt;text-align:justify;letter-spacing:-0.3pt"> </span><span style="font-size:11pt;text-align:justify">of</span><span style="font-size:11pt;text-align:justify;letter-spacing:-0.3pt"> </span><span style="font-size:11pt;text-align:justify">Trust,</span><span style="font-size:11pt;text-align:justify;letter-spacing:-0.25pt"> </span><span style="font-size:11pt;text-align:justify">Web</span><span style="font-size:11pt;text-align:justify;letter-spacing:-0.3pt"> </span><span style="font-size:11pt;text-align:justify">of</span><span style="font-size:11pt;text-align:justify;letter-spacing:-0.15pt"> </span><span style="font-size:11pt;text-align:justify">Things, Web of Data, Web of Agents, and emerging Web in health and smart living in the 5G</span><span style="font-size:11pt;text-align:justify;letter-spacing:-1.25pt"> </span><span style="font-size:11pt;text-align:justify">Era.</span></p><p style="margin:0.55pt 0cm 0cm;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:11pt">While WI further evolves, many new ideas, methodologies, and techniques will continue to emerge with the contributions of all the researchers in the field.</span></p><p style="margin:0.55pt 0cm 0cm;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:11pt">We therefore launch an open call for:</span></p><p style="margin:0.55pt 0cm 0cm;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:11pt;letter-spacing:-0.05pt">A)<span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman"">        </span></span><span style="font-size:11pt">In-depth state-of-the-art papers focusing on current progress and challenges on AI in the connected</span><span style="font-size:11pt;letter-spacing:-0.1pt"> </span><span style="font-size:11pt">world;</span></p><p style="margin:0.55pt 0cm 0cm;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:11pt;letter-spacing:-0.05pt">B)<span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman"">        </span></span><span style="font-size:11pt">Broad survey papers focusing on important applications of WI, aimed at assessing the effectiveness of WI-based techniques and/or</span><span style="font-size:11pt;letter-spacing:-0.3pt"> </span><span style="font-size:11pt">methodologies;</span></p><p style="margin:0.55pt 0cm 0cm;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:11pt;letter-spacing:-0.05pt">C)<span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman"">        </span></span><span style="font-size:11pt">Visionary papers addressing the future of WI-based systems and the impact of WI on technology and</span><span style="font-size:11pt;letter-spacing:-0.1pt"> </span><span style="font-size:11pt">society;</span></p><p style="margin:0.55pt 0cm 0cm;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:11pt;letter-spacing:-0.05pt">D)<span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman"">        </span></span><span style="font-size:11pt">Short position papers on matters in general interest of the broad WI</span><span style="font-size:11pt;letter-spacing:-1.05pt"> </span><span style="font-size:11pt">community.</span></p><p style="margin:0.55pt 0cm 0cm;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:11pt;text-align:justify"><br></span></p><p style="margin:0.55pt 0cm 0cm;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:11pt;text-align:justify">All papers will undergo a fast-track peer-review process, adhering to our usual quality standards. </span><span style="font-size:11pt;text-align:justify;letter-spacing:-0.15pt">The </span><span style="font-size:11pt;text-align:justify">five</span><span style="font-size:11pt;text-align:justify;letter-spacing:-0.4pt"> </span><span style="font-size:11pt;text-align:justify">best</span><span style="font-size:11pt;text-align:justify;letter-spacing:-0.35pt"> </span><span style="font-size:11pt;text-align:justify">papers</span><span style="font-size:11pt;text-align:justify;letter-spacing:-0.4pt"> </span><span style="font-size:11pt;text-align:justify">falling</span><span style="font-size:11pt;text-align:justify;letter-spacing:-0.45pt"> </span><span style="font-size:11pt;text-align:justify">into</span><span style="font-size:11pt;text-align:justify;letter-spacing:-0.5pt"> </span><span style="font-size:11pt;text-align:justify">Categories</span><span style="font-size:11pt;text-align:justify;letter-spacing:-0.45pt"> </span><span style="font-size:11pt;text-align:justify">A,</span><span style="font-size:11pt;text-align:justify;letter-spacing:-0.4pt"> </span><span style="font-size:11pt;text-align:justify">B,</span><span style="font-size:11pt;text-align:justify;letter-spacing:-0.4pt"> </span><span style="font-size:11pt;text-align:justify">and</span><span style="font-size:11pt;text-align:justify;letter-spacing:-0.45pt"> </span><span style="font-size:11pt;text-align:justify">C</span><span style="font-size:11pt;text-align:justify;letter-spacing:-0.4pt"> </span><span style="font-size:11pt;text-align:justify">above</span><span style="font-size:11pt;text-align:justify;letter-spacing:-0.4pt"> </span><span style="font-size:11pt;text-align:justify">will</span><span style="font-size:11pt;text-align:justify;letter-spacing:-0.4pt"> </span><span style="font-size:11pt;text-align:justify">be</span><span style="font-size:11pt;text-align:justify;letter-spacing:-0.35pt"> </span><span style="font-size:11pt;text-align:justify">published</span><span style="font-size:11pt;text-align:justify;letter-spacing:-0.45pt"> </span><span style="font-size:11pt;text-align:justify">in</span><span style="font-size:11pt;text-align:justify;letter-spacing:-0.45pt"> </span><span style="font-size:11pt;text-align:justify">volume</span><span style="font-size:11pt;text-align:justify;letter-spacing:-0.5pt"> </span><span style="font-size:11pt;text-align:justify">20,</span><span style="font-size:11pt;text-align:justify;letter-spacing:-0.45pt"> </span><span style="font-size:11pt;text-align:justify">issue</span><span style="font-size:11pt;text-align:justify;letter-spacing:-0.35pt"> </span><span style="font-size:11pt;text-align:justify">4</span><span style="font-size:11pt;text-align:justify;letter-spacing:-0.5pt"> </span><span style="font-size:11pt;text-align:justify">of</span><span style="font-size:11pt;text-align:justify;letter-spacing:-0.4pt"> </span><span style="font-size:11pt;text-align:justify">Web Intelligence, together with the most relevant position papers in Category D. Space will be reserved in subsequent issues of the journal for any remaining papers considered to be suitable for publication. The best papers will be awarded with “Best Article in WI 20Y Anniversary” and the authors will be invited to deliver keynote talks on the work in the WI-IAT 2022 conference (</span><a href="https://www.wi-iat.com/wi-iat2022/" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank" style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small;text-align:justify">https://www.wi-iat.com/wi-iat2022/</a><span style="font-size:11pt;text-align:justify">). Only </span><b style="font-size:11pt;text-align:justify">Categories A-B-C </b><span style="font-size:11pt;text-align:justify">papers submitted by </span><b style="font-size:11pt;text-align:justify">August 1st, 2022 </b><span style="font-size:11pt;text-align:justify">will be considered for the award (papers received after this deadline may still be considered for the special issue or for the subsequent issues, but not for the award). Category D </span><b style="font-size:11pt;text-align:justify">position papers </b><span style="font-size:11pt;text-align:justify">should be submitted by </span><b style="font-size:11pt;text-align:justify">October 1st,<span style="letter-spacing:-0.55pt"> </span>2022.</b></p><p style="margin:0.55pt 0cm 0cm;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:11pt;text-align:justify"><br></span></p><p style="margin:0.55pt 0cm 0cm;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:11pt;text-align:justify">Submission Instructions:</span></p><p style="margin:0.55pt 0cm 0cm;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:11pt;text-align:justify">Authors are requested to submit their articles electronically following the instructions on <a href="https://www.editorialmanager.com/wi/default1.aspx" target="_blank">https://www.editorialmanager.com/wi/default1.aspx</a>. Authors should clearly specify in the cover letter that their paper is submitted to the anniversary issue, as well as the category (A, B, C, or D) to which it belongs to. The maximum length for papers in Categories A-B-C is 35 pages, while the maximum length for position papers is 10 pages, both in double space.</span></p><p style="margin:0.55pt 0cm 0cm;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:11pt;text-align:justify"><br></span></p><p style="margin:0.5pt 0cm 0cm;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:11pt">Guest Editors</span></p><p style="margin:0.5pt 0cm 0cm;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:11pt">* Yuefeng Li, Queensland University of Technology, Australia</span></p><p style="margin:0.5pt 0cm 0cm;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:11pt">* Jiming Liu, Hong Kong Baptist University, HK, China</span></p><p style="margin:0.5pt 0cm 0cm;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:11pt">* Gabriella Pasi, University of Milano-Bicocca, Italy</span></p><p style="margin:0.5pt 0cm 0cm;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:11pt">* Xiaohui Tao, University of Southern Queensland, Australia</span></p><p style="margin:0.5pt 0cm 0cm;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:11pt">* Ning Zhong, Maebashi Institute of Technology, Japan</span></p></div>