Connectionists: CFP - IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Web Intelligence 2017 (WI'17)

[Yue Xu]

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                            CALL FOR PAPERS 
IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Web Intelligence 2017 (WI'17)
                   August 23-26, 2017, Leipzig, Germany
            Conference Website: http://webintelligence2017.com/
             (Extended FULL PAPER SUBMISSION DEADLINE: Apr. 02, 2017)

                  *** CONFIRMED KEYNOTE SPEAKERS ***
   Raj Reddy (Turing Award Winner 1994): The Ultimate Web Intelligence: Computational Social Science
   Amit Sheth: Semantic, Cognitive, and Perceptual Computing – three intertwined strands of a golden braid of intelligent computing
   Cristiano Castelfranchi: Cognition & Self-Organization in a Hybrid Society & Coupled Reality: The role of AI
   Frank Leymann: Loose Coupling and Architectural Implications

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SPONSORS
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  Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
  IEEE Computer Society
  Web Intelligence Consortium (WIC)

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AIMS AND SCOPE
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The topics of Web Intelligence (WI) have received increasing interest in the past years. They comprise many fields, such as collective intelligence, data science, human-centric computing, knowledge management, and network science. WI'17 aims to cover leading research that both deepens the understanding of computational, logical, cognitive, physical as well as business and social foundations of the future Web, and enables the development and application of intelligent technologies. 
The research track of WI'17 invites original high-quality papers. WI'17 is methodologically open, i.e. conceptual, empirical as well as theoretical and technical papers are welcome. 

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TOPICS AND AREAS RESEARCH PAPERS
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  Track-1: Collective Intelligence
  Track-2: Data Science
  Track-3: Human-Centric Computing
  Track-4: Knowledge Management
  Track-5: Network Science 

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CALL FOR Proposals for TUTORIALS/WORKSHOPS/SPECIAL-SESSIONS
Call for Industry and PhD symposium Papers 
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In addition to the research track, WI'17 comprises special sessions and workshops as well as tutorials and a PhD mentoring session. Moreover, industry papers and demo proposals can be submitted to WI'17 and will be dealt with by a special PC for industrial papers which will apply industry-compliant assessment criteria.  In all cases please refer to the individual call for papers on 
  webintelligence2017.com

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PAPER SUBMISSION AND PUBLICATION
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WI'17 solicits original work limited to 6-8 pages in ACM 2-column format. Each paper will be peer-reviewed by at least three PC members on the basis of technical quality, relevance, originality, significance and clarity. Accepted papers will be published in the conference proceedings by ACM and indexed by EI. Furthermore, selected WI'17 papers will be invited to submit extended versions for publication in Web Intelligence journal and other international journals.  Papers have to be submitted via the Cyberchair submission page and according to the rules specified on this page:
..https://wi-lab.com/cyberchair/2017/wi17/scripts/submit.php?subarea=Wr

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AWARDS
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Best Paper awards will be conferred at the conference on the authors of (1) the best research paper, (2) the best student paper. Application-oriented submissions will be considered for the best application paper award. 

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IMPORTANT DATES
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Submission of regular papers:                              Apr. 02, 2017
Notification of regular paper acceptance:                  May  15, 2017
Camera-Ready regular papers (Main Conference)              Jun  05, 2017
Submission of Industry track papers:                       Apr. 23, 2017
Notification of Industry track paper acceptance:           May  15, 2017
Camera-Ready Papers (Industry Track)                       Jun  05, 2017
Workshop and Special session proposal submission:          Mar. 12, 2017
Notification of Workshop/Special session acceptance:       Mar. 19, 2017
Submission of Workshop/Special session papers:             May. 01, 2017
Notification of Workshop/Special session paper acceptance: May  22, 2017
Camera-Ready Papers (Workshops and Special sessions)       Jun  12, 2017
Tutorial proposal submission:                              May  01, 2017
Notification of Tutorial acceptance:                       May  15, 2017
Submission of PhD Mentoring Papers:                        May  14, 2017
Notification of PhD Mentoring Papers acceptance:           Jun. 02, 2017
Camera-Ready Papers (PhD Mentoring):                       Jun. 18, 2017
Author Registration (Main Conference)                      May  29, 2017
Main conference:                                         Aug. 23-26, 2017

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ORGANIZING COMMITTEE
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General Chairs (Regions):
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  Axel Ngonga, currently Leipzig University, Germany (Africa)
  Amit Sheth, Wright State University, US (North-America)
  Guoyin Wang, Chongqing Univ. of Posts and Telecommunications, China (Asia)
  Elizabeth Chang, The University of New South Wales, Australia (Australia)
  Dominik Slezak, Infobright Inc. & Univ. of Warsaw, Poland (East Europe)
  Bogdan Franczyk, Leipzig University, Germany (West Europe)

PC Co-Chairs:
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  Rainer Alt (Leipzig University, Germany)
  Xiaohui Tao (University of Southern Queensland, Australia)

Organizing Chairs:
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  Bjoern Schwarzbach, Leipzig University, Germany
  Rainer Unland, University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany

Steering Committee Co-chairs:
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  Ning Zhong (Maebashi Institute of Technology, Japan)
  Jiming Liu (Hong Kong Baptist University, HK SAR, China)

Organizing Committee
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  Wilfried Röder, Leipzig University, Germany
  Sandra Bartsch, Institute of Applied Informatics, Germany

Publicity Chairs:
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  Guadalupe Ortiz Bellot, University of Cádiz, Spain
  Haoran Xie, The Education University of Hong Kong, China
  Yue Xu, Queensland University of Technology, Australia
  Roland Fassauer, Institute of Applied Informatics, Germany

Workshop and Special Session Chairs: 
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  Agata Filipowska, Poznan University of Economics, Poland
  Omar Hussain, UNSW Canberra, Australia
  Juan D. Velasquez, University of Chile, Chile
  Yiqiang Chen, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
  Olaf Reinhold, Leipzig University, Germany

Doctoral Consortium Chairs:
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  Alexander Pokahr, University of Hamburg, Germany
  René Schumann, University of Applied Sciences, Switzerland

Tutorial Chairs:
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  Christian Derksen, University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany
  Jacek Kucharski, Lodz University of Technology, Poland

Industry Track Chairs:
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  Hanno Hildmann, UC3M Robotics Lab, Spain & NEC Research Europe, Germany
  Fabrice Saffre, British Telecom & EBTIC, UK & UAE

Webmaster:
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  Christian Franck, Leipzig University, Germany

Registrations, enquiries & special requests:
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  Sandra Bartsch, Institute of Applied Informatics, Germany

Finance Chair and CyberChair-Master:
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  Sebastian Fuß, Institute of Applied Informatics, Germany

Industry and Sponsorship Chairs:
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  Wilfried Röder, Leipzig University, Germany
  Roland Fassauer, Institute of Applied Informatics, Germany

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Contact Information:
rainer.alt at uni-leipzig.de
xtao at usq.edu.au
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