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                     IEEE/WIC  WEB INTELLIGENCE 2003
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2003 IEEE/WIC International Conference on Web Intelligence (WI 2003)

                 Sponsored by IEEE Computer Society and
                    Web Intelligence Consortium (WIC)

                         October 13-17, 2003
                 Tianlun Dynasty Hotel, BEIJING, CHINA

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              Homepage:  http://www.comp.hkbu.edu.hk/WI03/
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Web Intelligence (WI) is a new direction for scientific research and
development that explores the fundamental roles as well as practical
impacts of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and advanced Information
Technology (IT) on the next generation of Web-empowered products,
systems, services, and activities. The 2003 IEEE/WIC International
Conference on Web Intelligence (WI 2003 jointly held with the 2003
IEEE/WIC International Conference on Intelligent Agent Technology
(IAT 2003  http://www.comp.hkbu.edu.hk/IAT03). The IEEE/WIC 2003
joint conferences are sponsored and organized by IEEE Computer
Society Technical Committee on Computational Intelligence (TCCI)
(http://www.cs.uvm.edu/%7Exwu/tfvi/index.shtml) and by Web
Intelligence Consortium (WIC) (http://wi-consortium.org).

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Topics
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The topics and areas include, but not limited to:

* Intelligent Web-Based Business and Grid Computing
        Business Intelligence
        Customer Relationship Management
        Direct Marketing
        Electronic Commerce and Electronic Business
        Measuring and Analyzing Web Merchandising
        Price Dynamics and Pricing Algorithms
        Web-Based EDI
        Web Marketing
        Web Publishing

* Knowledge Networks and Management
        Digital Library
        Information and Knowledge Markets
        Knowledge Community Formation and Support
        Ontology Engineering
        Semantic Web
        Visualization of Information and Knowledge
        Web-Based Decision Support
        Web Regularities and Models

* Ubiquitous Computing and Social Intelligence
        Competitive Dynamics of Web Sites
        Computational Societies and Markets
        Dynamics of Information Sources
        Reputation Mechanisms
        Theories of Small World Web
        Ubiquitous Learning Systems
        Web-Based Cooperative Work
        Web Security, Integrity, Privacy and Trust

* Intelligent Human-Web Interaction
        Adaptive Web Interfaces
        Multimedia Representation
        Multimodal Data Processing
        Science and Art of Web Design

* Web Information Management
        Data Models for the Web
        Integrated Exploration and Exploitation
        Internet and Web-Based Data Management
        Multi-Dimensional Web Databases and OLAP
        Multimedia Information Management
        Object Oriented Web Information Management
        Personalized Information Management
        Semi-Structured Data Management
        Use and Management of Metadata
        Web-Based Distributed Information Systems

o Web Information Retrieval
        Automatic Cataloging and Indexing
        Conceptual Information Extraction
        Multi-Linguistic Information Retrieval
        Multimedia Retrieval
        Multimodal Information Retrieval
        Ontology-Based Information Retrieval

o Web Agents
        Conversational Systems
        E-mail Filtering and Automatic Handling
        Global Information Foraging
        Information Filtering
        Navigation Guides
        Recommender Systems
        Remembrance Agents
        Resource Intermediary and Coordination Mechanisms
        Semantic Web Agents

o Web Mining and Farming
        Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery
        Learning User Profiles
        Multimedia Data Mining
        Text Mining
        Web-Based Ontology Learning
        Web-Based Reverse Engineering
        Web Farming
        Web-Log Mining
        Web Warehousing

o Emerging Web Technology
        New Web Information Description and Query Languages
        Web Intelligence Development Tools
        Web Protocols
        Wisdom Web

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Important Dates
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         Electronic submission of full papers:  March 20, 2003
           (Research track and industry track)

             Notification of paper acceptance:  May 2003
           (Research track and industry track)

    Workshop and tutorial proposal submission:  June 1, 2003

              Camera-ready of accepted papers:  June 2003

      Notification of workshops and tutorials:  July 2003

                       Conference & workshops:  October 13-17, 2003

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On-Line Submissions and Publication
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High-quality papers in all WI related areas are solicited. Papers
exploring new directions or areas will receive a careful and
supportive review.  All submitted papers will be reviewed on the
basis of technical quality, relevance, significance, and clarity.
Note that WI 2003 will accept ONLY on-line submissions, containing
PDF (PostScript or MS-Word) versions.

The conference proceedings will be published by the IEEE Computer
Society Press.

WI 2003 also welcomes Industry Track submissions, Workshop and
Tutorial proposals.

More detailed instructions and the On-Line Submission Form can be
found from the WI 2003 homepage (http://www.comp.hkbu.edu.hk/WI03).

A selected number of WI 2003 accepted papers will be expanded and
revised for inclusion in Web Intelligence and Agent Systems:
An International Journal (http://wi-consortium.org/journal.html)
and in Annual Review of Intelligent Informatics
(http://www.wi-consortium.org/annual.html)

The IEEE/WIC best paper awards will be conferred on the authors of
the best papers at the conference.

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Conference Organization
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***** Organizing Committee *****

Organizing Chairs
     Tieyong Zuo                   China
     Xiaoming Liu                  China

Conference Chair
     Ning Zhong                    Japan

Conference Co-Chairs
     Nick Cercone                 Canada
     Ruqian Lu                     China
     Toyoaki Nishida               Japan

Program Chair
     Jiming Liu                       HK

Program Co-Chairs
     Boi Faltings            Switzerland
     Matthias Klusch             Germany
     Chunnian Liu                  China

Industry Track Chairs
     Jianchang Mao                   USA
     Yiming Ye                       USA
     Lizhu Zhou                    China

Workshop Chairs
     Cory Butz                    Canada
     Zhongzhi Shi                  China
     Yiyu Yao                     Canada

Tutorial Chairs
     Jeffrey Bradshaw                USA
     Jinglong Wu                   Japan

Publicity and Web Chair
     Yiu-Ming Cheung                  HK

IEEE-CS-TCCI Chair
     Xindong Wu                      USA

WIC Co-Chairs/Directors
     Ning Zhong                    Japan
     Jiming Liu                       HK

WIC Advisory Board
     Edward A. Feigenbaum            USA
     Setsuo Ohsuga                 Japan
     Benjamin Wah                    USA
     Philip Yu                       USA
     L.A. Zadeh                      USA

WIC Technical Committee & WI/IAT Steering Committee
     Nick Cercone                 Canada
     Dieter Fensel       The Netherlands
     Georg Gottlob               Austria
     Lakhmi Jain               Australia
     W. Lewis Johnson                USA
     Jianchang Mao                   USA
     Toyoaki Nishida               Japan
     Xindong Wu                      USA
     Yiyu Yao                     Canada

***** WI 2003 Program Committee *****

Sarabjot Singh Anand (UK)
Sourav Bhattacharya (USA)
Nadia Bianchi-Berthouze (Japan)
Hendrik Blockeel (Belgium)
Cory Butz (Canada)
Rajkumar Buyya (Australia)
Keith Chan (HK SAR)
Hsinchun Chen (USA)
David Cheung (HK SAR)
Yiu-ming Cheung (HK SAR)
Joongmin Choi (Korea)
Stefan Decker (USA)
Peter W. Eklund (Australia)
Fensel (The Netherlands)
Fabien Gandon (France)
Wen Gao (China)
Ali A. Ghorbani (Canada)
Xiaohua Tony Hu (USA)
Janusz Kacprzyk (Poland)
Dimitrios Kalles (Greece)
Samuel Kaski (Finland)
Yasuhiko Kitamura (Japan)
Donald H. Kraft (USA)
Rudolf Kruse (Germany)
Vipin Kumar (USA)
Yuefeng Li (Australia)
Chun-hung Li (HK SAR)
T.Y. Lin (USA)
Carles X. Ling (Canada)
Bing Liu (Singapore)
Frederick H. Lochovsky (HK SAR)
Michael Lyu (HK SAR)
Philippe Martin (Australia)
Ernestina Menasalvas (Spain)
Luc Moreau (UK)
Akira Namatame (Japan)
Jian-Yun Nie (Canada)
Henry O. Nyongesa (UK)
Sankar Kumar Pal (India)
Seog Park (Korea)
Terry R. Payne (UK)
Loris Penserini (Italy)
Omer F. Rana (UK)
Javier Segovia (Spain)
Qiang Shen (UK)
Timothy K. Shih (Taiwan)
Milan Simunek (Czech)
Steffen Staab (Germany)
Yasuyuki Sumi (Japan)
Einoshin Suzuki (Japan)
Roman W. Swiniarski (USA)
Atsuhiro Takasu (Japan)
Pang-Ning Tan (USA)
Pierre Tchounikine (France)
Andrew Tomkins (USA)
Shusaku Tsumoto (Japan)
Paola Velardi (Italy)
Jose M. Vidal (USA)
Gottfried Vossen (Germany)
Lipo Wang (Singapore)
Zijun James Wang (USA)
Takashi Washio (Japan)
Graham Williams (Australia)
Zonghuan Wu (USA)
Seiji Yamada (Japan)
Qiang Yang (HK SAR)
Yoneo Yano (Japan)
Yiyu Yao (Canada)
Yiming Ye (USA)
Tetuya Yoshida (Japan)
Yaqin Zhang (China)
Lizhu Zhou (China)
Wojciech Ziarko (Canada)

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