Connectionists: Call for Workshops - IEEE/WIC/ACM Web Intelligence conf 2019

[KATSAROS Dimitrios]

CALL FOR WORKSHOP/SPECIAL-SESSION PROPOSALS
Web Intelligence 2019
18th IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Web Intelligence
Thessaloniki, Greece, 14th - 17th October 2019
https://webintelligence2019.com/

DEADLINE: MARCH 5, 2019

You are invited to submit a workshop/special-session proposal as part of 
the WI ‘19 conference

ABOUT WI ‘19 WORKSHOPS
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The 18th Web Intelligence conference (WI’19) will be held in 
Thessaloniki (Greece)
during 14th to 17th of October. Its organizing committee invites 
proposals for
workshops/special sessions to be held in conjunction with the 
conference. The goals
of the workshops are to explore emerging research topics and to provide 
a forum for
authors to present early research results on these topics. We would like 
to have a
number of workshops, with a high quality program dominated by 
contributed papers.
We expect that workshops will run a rigorous review process, to make 
sure programs
will be of high-quality. Organizers may structure workshops/tutorials as 
they see fit,
possibly including invited talks, panel discussions, presentations of 
work in progress,
peer-reviewed papers, demonstrations, or some combination.

WI ‘19 WORKSHOP CO-CHAIRS
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Dimitrios Katsaros, ECE, University of Thessaly, Greece 
(dkatsar at e-ce.uth.gr)
Rahul Pandey, IST, George Mason University, USA (rpandey4 at gmu.edu)

TOPICS OF INTEREST
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* the topic falls in the general scope of Web Intelligence 2019
* As the theme for this year’s conference is “Web Intelligence = AI in 
the Connected World”,
    workshops/special-sessions under this theme is encouraged
* there is a clear focus on a specific technology, problem or application
* there should be a greater impact to the society

In particular, we encourage the submission of workshop/special-session 
proposals on:
* Fairness in Web
* Deep Learning/ML in the Web
* Web for Social Good
* Web for Smart cities
* Web in/for IoT
* Misinformation handling in the Web
* Recommendation Systems for the Web
* Big Data on the Web
* User behavior modeling in the Web
* NLP in the Web
* Mobile data mining in the Web
* Social intelligence
* Web/text mining

IMPORTANT DATES
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Workshop/Special-Session Proposal Submission Deadline          5th 
March, 2019
Workshop/Special-Session Proposal Notification of Acceptance  25th 
March, 2019
All Workshops/Special-Sessions Day 
      14th October, 2019

SUBMISSION INSTRUCTION
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The workshop proposal, in PDF, should provide the following information, 
in the following format:

HEADING:
1. Title of the workshop/special-session and acronym
2. Proposed duration (half-day or full-day)
3. Workshop (co-)chair(s) name, affiliation. mailing address, and e-mail 
address
4. Short CV of (co-)chair(s) including past experience in organizing 
workshops and/or related events
INTRODUCTION:
1. Abstract: One paragraph describing the workshop/special-session 
purpose (max. 200 words)
2. Scope and topics of the workshop
RATIONALE:
1. Motivation and rationale
    1. Why the workshop is related to WI 2019;
    2. Why the topic is timely and important;
    3. Why the workshop may attract a significant number of submissions 
of good quality;
    4. Why the workshop may attract a large number of attendees, in 
addition to the authors;
    5. Why the workshop differs from others;
    6. Related workshops and conferences of similar topics;
WORKSHOP DETAILS:
1. Tentative committee lists (organizers, program committee, etc.)
2. Expected number of participants and the expected number of submissions
3. A short list of potential authors that are expected to submit papers 
to the workshop
4. A draft call for papers (max 1 page)
5. A description of the publicity and promotion plan
6. Workshop tentative internal and external schedule (expect adjustments 
by the workshops
       chairs to align all workshop schedules)
    1. Submission deadline;
    2. Review deadline;
    3. Acceptance deadline;
    4. Camera ready;
    5. Program ready;
1. Workshop format planned (keynote, expected number of presented 
papers, invited talks,
      panels, demonstrations, etc.)

Please send a whole copy of your proposal in PDF format to workshop 
co-chairs with
subject "Submission of WI 2019 workshop proposal: XXX", where XXX should 
be replaced
by the acronym of your workshop

REVIEW PROCESS
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The decision about acceptance or rejection of workshop proposals will be 
made by the
Workshop co-Chairs in consultation with the General and Program 
Committee Chairs, taking
into account several factors including overall quality, the topic fit 
with respect to The
Web Intelligence Conference 2019, the coverage of the topic in other 
tracks of the conference,
the estimated number of attendees for the workshop, etc.

ORGANIZATION DUTIES
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* Announce the calls for papers
* Create and maintain the workshop/special-session website
* Publicize workshop/special-session in the relevant communities
* Create the Program Committee
* Conduct the review process
* Schedule the workshop/special-session program

REGISTRATION
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Workshop/special session paper registration fees are the same as regular 
conference fees.
All registered participants are entitled to attend all keynotes, 
sessions, workshops, panels,
tutorials and social events.

PUBLICATION
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Full day workshops should have 10-14 regular papers (max 8 pages), while 
half day should
have 5-7 regular papers. On the other hand, special-session should have 
4-6 regular papers.
The papers must be submitted electronically via Cyberchair in standard 
ACM Conference Proceedings
format (max 8 pages). The workshop’s organizers will have the 
responsibility to ensure the
presence of authors of the accepted papers at the workshops.

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