IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Web Intelligence 2016 (WI'16)

October 13-16, 2016, Hilton Omaha, USA

CALL FOR PAPERS

Homepage: http://wibih.unomaha.edu/wi

(FULL PAPER SUBMISSION DEADLINE: April 1, 2016)

Sponsored By:
IEEE Computer Society
Web Intelligence Consortium (WIC)
Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)

*** KEYNOTE SPEAKERS (Confirmed) ***

Leslie Valiant (Turing Award 2010), Harvard University
Butler Lampson (Turing Award 1992), Microsoft Corporation

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Web Intelligence (WI) aims to achieve a multi-disciplinary balance
between research advances in theories and methods usually associated
with collective intelligence, data science, human-centric computing,
knowledge management, and network science. It is committed to
addressing research that both deepen the understanding of
computational, logical, cognitive, physical, and social foundations of
the future Web, and enable the development and application of
technologies based on Web intelligence.

The IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Web Intelligence (WI) has
been held jointly with the IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on
Intelligent Agent Technology (IAT) since 2001 in Europe, North
America, and Asia Pacific. Starting from 2016, the IAT conference as
well as its themes and topics will be embedded inside WI. WI°«16
features high-quality, original research papers and real-world
applications in all theoretical and technology areas that make up the
field of WI.

WI'16 will be co-located with the 2016 International Conference on
Brain Informatics and Health (BIH'16) (http://wi-bih.herokuapp.com/).
Under our theme Connecting Network and Brain with Big Data, WI'16 and
BIH'16 will provide a broad forum that academia, professionals and
industry people can use to exchange their ideas, findings and
strategies in utilizing the power of human brains and man-made
networks to create a better world.  The attendees only need to
register for one of the 2 conferences, but they can attend all
sessions and social events of the 2 conferences.

WI'16 welcomes both research and application papers submissions.  
All submitted papers will be reviewed on the basis of technical quality,
relevance, significance and clarity.  Accepted full papers will be
included in the proceedings published by IEEE Computer Society Press.

Tutorial, Workshop and Special-Session proposals and
Industry/Demo-Track papers are also welcome.

*** Topics and Areas ***

Track-1: Collective Intelligence
Track-2: Data Science    
Track-3: Human-Centric Computing
Track-4: Knowledge Management
Track-5: Network Science

Please find the topics and areas of interest of WI'16
at http://wibih.unomaha.edu/wi

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IMPORTANT DATES
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Workshop and Special-Session proposals submission: March 20, 2016
Notification of Workshop and Special-Session acceptance: April 3, 2016
Submission of full papers: April 1, 2016
Submission of Workshop/Special-Session full papers: June 1, 2016
Notification of full paper acceptance: June 10, 2016
Notification of Workshop/Special-Session full paper acceptance: June 25, 2016
Tutorial proposal submission: July 10, 2016
Tutorials, Workshop and Special-Sessions: October 13, 2016
Main conference: October 14-16, 2016

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PAPER SUBMISSION AND PUBLICATION
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WI'16 solicits original work submitted as a regular paper (limited to
8 pages) or as short paper (limited to 4 pages) in IEEE 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 the IEEE Computer Society Press and indexed
by EI. Selected WI'16 papers will be further invited for expansion
and publication in Web Intelligence journal and other international journals.

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CALL FOR TUTORIALS/WORKSHOPS/SPECIAL-SESSIONS
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WI'16 solicits proposals for tutorials, workshops, and special
sessions on specific topics of interests, which will form an integral
part of the conference program.  Inquiries and submission of proposals
should be addressed to the respective chairs.

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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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ORGANIZING COMMITTEE
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General Chairs

Hesham Ali (University of Nebraska at Omaha, USA)
Deepak Khazanchi (University of Nebraska at Omaha, USA)
Yong Shi (University of Nebraska at Omaha/Chinese Academy of Sciences)

WI'16 PC Chairs

Zbigniew W. Ras (University of North Carolina at Charlotte, USA)
Yuefeng Li (Queensland University of Technology, Australia)
Matthias Klusch (German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence, Germany)

WI'16 Workshop/Special-session/Tutorial Chairs

Saeid Belkasim (Georgia State University, USA)
Stefano Ferilli (University of Bari, Italy)
Marek Reformat (University of Alberta, Canada)

WI'16 Publicity Chairs

Kate Cooper (University of Nebraska at Omaha, USA)
Daniel Tao (University of Southern Queensland, Australia)
Lars Braubach (University of Hamburg, Germany)

Local Organizing Committee

Prithviraj (Raj) Dasgupta
Zhengxin Chen
Peter Wolcott
Haifeng Guo
Mark Pauley
Wikil Kwak
Kerry Ward
Dhundy (Kiran) Bastola
Kate Cooper (publicity)
Bettina Lechner (webmaster)

WI Steering Committee Co-chairs

Ning Zhong (Maebashi Institute of Technology, Japan)
Jiming Liu (Hong Kong Baptist University, HK SAR, China)

*** Contact Information ***

kdempsey@unomaha.edu
y2.li@qut.edu.au
ras@uncc.edu