Soft Computing in Database Management and Information Retrieval

2009 IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Web Intelligence (WI-09)
Milan, Italy, September 15-18, 2009

Organizers:

Guy De Tré, Ghent University, Belgium, Guy.DeTre@UGent.be
Enrique Herrera-Viedma, Granada University, Spain, viedma@decsai.ugr.es
Jose Angel Olivas, University of Castilla La Mancha, Spain, JoseAngel.Olivas@uclm.es
Slawomir Zadrozny, Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland, zadrozny@ibspan.waw.pl

Supported by the EUSFLAT Working Group on Soft Computing in Database Management and Information Retrieval (http://www.eusflat.org/research/scdbmir.htm)

Call for Papers:
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Scope and Motivation:

The Web has become the largest available repository of multimedia information. The huge growth and the fast rate of change of the Web make it really hard to retrieve information relevant to specific users' needs. Web data are typically unlabelled, distributed, heterogeneous and time varying. Hence, many interesting research topics have emerged recently to improve the information access on the Web, e.g., identifying and removing malicious content and linking, identifying content of good quality, exploiting user feedback, and improving the query language.

Subjectivity, vagueness, and imprecision are typical properties of any information access activity on the Web. The fuzzy logic and soft computing based tools are very appropriate to deal with imprecision, vagueness, partial truth, and approximation. With such tools it is possible to define flexible approaches to improve personalized information access processes on the Web. The use of both fuzzy and soft computing tools can contribute satisfactorily to solve the various problems that have recently been identified in Web access.

The objective of the workshop is to provide an opportunity to exchange ideas on the application of fuzzy logic and soft computing in the design of flexible approaches to information access on the Web. The workshop aims at providing a forum for the discussion of recent advances in this research field and to offer an opportunity for researchers and practitioners to identify new promising research directions.

The organizers welcome contributions that report on the application of fuzzy and soft computing tools within the fields of (but not limited to)

where the information retrieval and information access processes are modelled and/or managed using fuzzy and soft computing techniques and their hybridizations.

Program Committee
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Important Dates:

Instructions for Authors:

For authors who submit their papers to this workshop, please submit through the WI / IAT-2009 Workshop Paper Submission page.

Submitted papers should be limited to a maximum of 4 pages in the IEEE 2-column format (extra payment is only available for one more extra page), and will have a peer review by the Program Committee on the basis of technical quality, relevance to the conference topics, originality, significance, and clarity. Accepted workshop papers will be published in the Proceedings of WI-IAT09 Workshops, IEEE-CS Press.
The corresponding-authors will be notified at all time, for the submission, notification, and confirmation on the attendance. Submitting a paper to the conference and workshops means that, if the paper is accepted, at least one author should attend the conference to present the paper and should then register to the conference with a regular fee.

Each paper will be reviewed by at least 2 workshop program committee members and will require a final acceptance of the conference organizers. Original papers exploring new directions are most welcome and will receive especially supportive reviews. Papers that have already been accepted or are currently under review at other conferences or journals will not be considered for publication.

The authors of a selected number of accepted papers will be invited to submit an extended and revised version of their work to be included in in a post-workshop special issue of an ISI-listed journal.

Style Files for Paper Submission:

Computer Society Proceedings Manuscript Formatting Guidelines: 8.5″ x 11″