Call for papers: AI Review, Special Issue on Datamining the Internet

[Mark Plutowski/Almaden/IBM]

                Artificial Intelligence Review:
         Special Issue on Data Mining on the Internet


The advent of the World Wide Web has caused a dramatic increase in usage
of the Internet.  The resulting growth in on-line information combined
with the almost chaotic nature of the web necessitates the development
of powerful yet computationally efficient algorithms to track and tame
this constantly evolving complex system.

While traditionally the data mining community has dealt with
structured databases, web mining poses problems not only due to the
lack of structure, but also due to the intrinsic distributed nature of
the data. Furthermore, mining on the Internet involves also dealing
with multi-media content consisting of not only natural language
documents but also images, audio and video streams. Several
interesting and potentially useful applications have already been
developed by academic researchers and industry practitioners to address
these challenges.  It is important to learn from these initial endeavors,
if we are to develop new algorithms and interesting applications.

The purpose of this special issue is to provide a comprehensive
state-of-the-art overview of the technical challenges and successes
in mining of the Internet. Of particular interest are papers
describing both the development of novel algorithms and applications.
Topics of interest could include but are not limited to:

* Resource Discovery
* Collaborative Filtering
* Information Filtering
* Content Mining (text, images, video, etc.)
* Information Extraction
* User Profiling
* Applications, e.g., one-to-one marketing

In addition to the call for full-length papers, we request that any
researchers working in this area submit abstracts and/or pointers to
recently published applications for the purposes of compiling a
comprehensive survey of the current state-of-the-art.

The mission of Artificial Intelligence Review: The Artificial
Intelligence Review serves as a forum for the work of researchers and
application developers from Artificial Intelligence, Cognitive Science
and related disciplines. The Review publishes state-of-the-art
research and applications and critical evaluations of techniques and
algorithms from the field.  The Review also presents refereed survey
and tutorial articles, as well as reviews and commentary on topics
from these applications.

**** Instructions for submitting papers ***

Papers should be no more than 30 printed pages (approximately 15,000
words) with a 12-point font and 18-point spacing, including figures
and tables. Papers must not have appeared in, nor be under
consideration by other journals. Include a separate page specifying
the paper's title and providing the address of the contact author for
correspondence (including postal, telephone number, fax number, and
e-mail address).  Send FOUR copies of each submission to the guest
editor listed below. Papers in ascii or postscript form may be
submitted electronically. Instructions for on-line submission are
given below.

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Information For on-line submission
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Kluwer Academic Publishers allows on-line submission
of scientific articles via ftp and e-mail. We will make
this system more user-friendly by incorporating it into our
KAPIS WWW server and use Netscape as the user-interface.
This is currently being prepared and will be implemented by
the end of this year. Below, please find the procedure that
should be used until then.

- an author sends an e-mail message to "submit at wkap.nl" containing the
  following line
                REQUEST SUBMISSIONFORM AIRE

  AIRE = Artificial Intelligence Review (the 4-letter code that is used
         at Kluwer)

- the author receives the electronic submission form (see attachment)
  via e-mail with a dedicated file name filled in (and also the
  information that is given at point 4: the journal's four-letter code plus
  the full journal title)

- the author fills in the submission form and send it back to:
  "submit at wkap.nl"

- at the same time, the author submits his/her article via anonymous ftp
  at the following address: "ftp.wkap.nl" in the subdirectory
  INCOMING/SUBMIT, using the dedicated file name with an appropriate
  extension

- at Kluwer, the article is registrated and taken into production in the
  usual way

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** Important Dates **

Papers Due: December 15, 1997
Acceptance Notification: March 1, 1998
Final Manuscript due: June 1, 1998
Guest Editor: Shivakumar Vaithyanathan, net.Mining, IBM Almaden Research Center,
              650 Harry Road, San Jose, CA 95120
(408)927-2465 (Phone)
(408)927-2240 (Fax)
e-mail: shiv at almaden.ibm.com