WIMS 2018

''WIMS is a series of peer-reviewed International Computer Science conferences. It is a forum for researchers and practitioners to present their state-of-the-art results in building Intelligent Web, to examine performance characteristics of various approaches in Web-based intelligent information technology, and to cross-fertilize their ideas on the development of Web-based intelligent information management solutions across different domains. The purpose of the WIMS series is:
 * To provide a forum for established researchers and practitioners to present their contributions to the state of the art research and development in Web technology and applications
 * To give doctoral students an opportunity to present their research to a friendly and knowledgeable audience and receive valuable feedback
 * To provide an informal social event where Web technology researchers and practitioners can meet

WIMS traditionally hosts a small number of short tutorials on the topics related to the scope of the conference series. The role of a WIMS tutorial is to be a theme-oriented comprehensive survey. WIMS also offers its infrastructure and facilities for the organizers of satellite workshops that complement the scope of the conference. The calls for WIMS’2018 Tutorials and Workshops are published separately. Companies or individuals interested in presenting their industrial products or methodologies are invited to contact the conference chairs. ''

Scalable Web and Data Architectures and Infrastructures

 * Crawling, Caching and Querying Linked (Semantic) Data
 * Dataset Dynamics and Synchronization
 * Big Data Computing
 * User Interfaces and Visualization for the Web of (Linked Semantic) Data at Scale
 * Indexing and Information Extraction from the (Semantic) Deep Web
 * 3D Media and Content
 * Sensing Web and the Web of Things
 * Web-Based Health- and Bio- Information Systems
 * Web Security, Integrity, Privacy, and Trust
 * Nature-Inspired Models and Approaches in Web and Data *Processing Infrastructures

Web Intelligence (WI)

 * Semantic Agent Systems for WI
 * Advanced Interaction and Communication Paradigms with WI
 * Natural Language / Ontology-/Taxonomy-based / Hybrid Interfaces
 * Intelligence for Visualizing (Linked Semantic) Web Data at scale
 * Intelligence for Big Data Analytics
 * Ubiquitous Intelligence and the Internet of Things
 * WI in Social Media
 * WI in Human Computation and Social Games
 * Opinion Mining / Sentiment Analysis on the Social Web
 * Social Monetization and Computational Advertising
 * Visualizing Social Network Data
 * WI for Services, Grids, and Middleware
 * Nature-Inspired Models and Approaches for WI
 * Web Mining, Information and Knowledge Extraction
 * Text, Data Stream, Web and Multimedia Content Mining
 * Contextualization and Clustering in Web Mining and *Information Extraction
 * Knowledge Extraction and Ontology Learning from the Web
 * Linked Data Mining
 * Information Extraction and Knowledge Discovery from Big Data
 * Mining and Information Extraction from the Deep Web
 * Semantic Deep Web Data Fusion

Web Semantics and Reasoning

 * Knowledge Representation for the Web
 * Ontology Specification: Expressivity Versus Usability
 * Ontologies and Linked Semantic Data
 * Development and Re-Use of Ontologies for the Web
 * Crowdsourcing for Ontology Engineering and Management on the Social Web
 * Lifecycle, Management, and Evolution of Web Ontologies
 * Ontology Merging and Alignment
 * Rule Markup Languages and Systems
 * Semantic Annotation
 * Reasoning: Scalability, Expressivity, Incompleteness, *Vagueness, and/or Uncertainty

WIMS Applications

 * Web Applications of Semantic Agent Systems
 * Semantics-Driven Information Retrieval
 * Semantic Search
 * Intelligent E-Technology and the Semantic Web
 * Intelligence and Semantics for Business Information *Management and Integration
 * Intelligence and Semantic Technologies in Digital Media
 * Semantic Technologies in E-Business, E-Commerce, E-Finance, *E-Health, E-Science, **E-Government, E-Learning
 * WI for Multimedia, Sensors, and Situational Awareness
 * WI for Software and Systems Engineering
 * Quality of Life Technology for Web Access
 * Nature-Inspired Models and Approaches in WIMS Applications
 * Evaluation and Validation of WIMS Technologies and Applications
 * Evaluation and Validation Methodologies
 * Datasets and Benchmarks for Cross-Evaluations and Competitions
 * Evaluation and Validation Infrastructures
 * Evaluation and Validation Metrics (e.g., Fitness, Quality, Completeness, Correctness, etc.)

Submissions
The authors of the best papers presented at WIMS'2018 may be invited to submit extended versions (more than 30% of new content) for possible publication in Computer Science and Information Systems - ComSIS (two-year impact factor 2016: 0.837) and Fundamenta Informaticae (impact factor 2017: 0.687) journals.

Four types of submissions are solicited for the main conference:


 * Regular research papers (12 ACM pages)
 * Short research papers (6 ACM pages)
 * Discussion, survey, or problem analysis papers (12 ACM pages)
 * Posters (4 ACM pages)

Regular Research Papers. The papers in this category are the reports on the accomplished research work. They present a novel method, technique or analysis with appropriate empirical or other type of evaluation as a proof of validity. The main evaluation criteria for this category are originality, technical soundness, and the soundness of evaluation. Page Limit: 12 ACM pages.

Short Research Papers. The papers in this category are the short reports of the preliminary results or describing the work in progress. The main evaluation criteria for this category are originality, technical correctness, and possible value of the planned results in a short to mid-term perspective. Short papers can be also presented in a form of a poster. Page Limit: 6 ACM pages.

Discussion, Survey, or Problem Analysis Papers. The papers solicited in this category will not present any novel method, technique or approach to solving a problem, but help understand the problem itself. Within the genre, we expect receiving reasonable overviews placing a problem onto the state-of-the-art landscape and analyzing how far current solutions fall short. We also expect in-depth discussions and analysis of a certain problem, with clear definitions and argumentation in terms of qualitative or quantitative representation of the main characteristics of the problem. Page Limit: 12 ACM pages.

Posters. WIMS poster track is a venue for late-breaking results, ongoing research activities, and speculative or innovative work in progress. This track is intended to provide authors and participants with the ability to connect with each other and to engage in discussions about the work. Posters provide authors with a unique opportunity to draw attention to their work during the conference. Page Limit: 4 ACM pages.

The papers in all the categories should describe original results that have not been accepted or submitted for publication elsewhere. All submissions will be evaluated by at least three members of the international program committee.

Submissions should be made electronically in PDF or DOC/DOCX (MS/Open Word) format via the electronic submission system of the WIMS’2018 Conference Management system at WIMS’18 Easychair page.

The submissions should be typeset using the templates of the ACM International Conference Proceedings Series (ICPS). The templates could be retrieved from the ACM website.

Important Dates

 * Paper submission - January 25, 2018
 * Submission of tutorial and workshop proposals - January 20, 2018
 * Notification of acceptance for tutorials and workshops - January 30, 2018
 * Notification of acceptance for papers/posters - March 20, 2018
 * Camera-ready versions of accepted papers, posters, tutorial papers - April 25, 2018
 * Author registration and registration fee payment deadline - April 25, 2018

Committees

 * General Chair
 * has general chair::Mirjana Ivanovic, University of Novi Sad, Serbia


 * General Co-Chairs
 * has general co-chair::Sang-Wook Kim, Hanyang University, Korea


 * PC Co-Chairs
 * has program co-chair::Yannis Manolopoulos, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece
 * has program co-chair::Riccardo Rosati, Sapienza Università di Roma, Italy


 * Advisory Committee
 * has Advisory Committee member::Grigoris Antoniou, University of Huddersfield, UK
 * has Advisory Committee member::Harold Boley, University of New Brunswick, Canada
 * has Advisory Committee member::James Hendler, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, NY, USA
 * has Advisory Committee member::Guus Schreiber, VU University, The Netherlands
 * has Advisory Committee member::Takahira Yamaguchi, Keio University, Japan
 * has Advisory Committee member::Rajendra Akerkar, Western Norway Research Institute, Norway (WIMS Conferences Chair)


 * Workshop Chair
 * has workshop chair::Costin Bădică, University of Craiova, Romania


 * Tutorial Chair
 * has tutorial chair::Costin Bădică, University of Craiova, Romania


 * Workshop Co-Chairs
 * has workshop co-chair::Miloš Radovanović, University of Novi Sad, Serbia
 * has workshop co-chair::Miloš Savić, University of Novi Sad, Serbia


 * Tutorial Co-Chair
 * has tutorial co-chair::Miloš Radovanović, University of Novi Sad, Serbia
 * has tutorial co-chair::Miloš Savić, University of Novi Sad, Serbia


 * Local Organizing Co-Chairs
 * has local chair::Miloš Savić, University of Novi Sad, Serbia (Chair)
 * has local chair::Jovana Vidaković, University of Novi Sad, Serbia (Co-Chair)
 * has local chair::Brankica Bratić, University of Novi Sad, Serbia
 * has local chair::Jovana Ivković, University of Novi Sad, Serbia
 * has local chair::Saša Pešić, University of Novi Sad, Serbia
 * has local chair::Đurica Salamon, University of Novi Sad, Serbia


 * Program Committee Members
 * has PC member::Alberto Abelló, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Spain
 * has PC member::Achilleas Achilleos, University of Cyprus, Cyprys
 * has PC member::Avi Arampatzis, Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering, Democritus University of Thrace, Greece
 * has PC member::Costin Badica, University of Craiova, Romania
 * has PC member::Nick Bassiliades, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece
 * has PC member::Zoran Bosnić, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia
 * has PC member::Lars Braubach, University of Hamburg, Germany
 * has PC member::Drazen Brdjanin, University of Banja Luka, Bosnia and Hercegovina
 * has PC member::David Camacho, Universidad Autonoma de Madrid, Spain
 * has PC member::Barbara Catania, University Genoa, Italy
 * has PC member::Keith C.C. Chan, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong
 * has PC member::Liming Chen, Montfort University, Leicester, UK
 * has PC member::Michael Cochez, University of Jyväskylä, Finland
 * has PC member::Paulo Cortez, University of Minho, Portugal
 * has PC member::Alfredo Cuzzocrea, University of Trieste, Italy
 * has PC member::Stamatia Dasiopoulou, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Spain
 * has PC member::Maxim Davidovsky, Zaporozhye National University, Ukraine
 * has PC member::John Davies, BT, UK
 * has PC member::Martine De Cock, Ghent University, Belgium
 * has PC member::José Palazzo M. De Oliveira, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil
 * has PC member::Boris Delibašić, University of Belgrade, Serbia
 * has PC member::Tommaso Di Noia, Politecnico di Bari, Italy
 * has PC member::Vadim Ermolayev, Zaporozhye National University, Ukraine
 * has PC member::Vladimir Filipovic, University of Belgrade, Serbia
 * has PC member::Giacomo Fiumara, Department of Physics, University of Messina, Italy
 * has PC member::Paul Fodor, Stony Brook University, USA
 * has PC member::Dusan Gajic, University of Novi Sad, Serbia
 * has PC member::Alexander Gelbukh, Centro de Investigación en Computación, Mexico
 * has PC member::Christos Georgiadis, University of Macedonia, FYR Macedonia
 * has PC member::Adrian Giurca, Brandenburg University of Technology Cottbus-Senftenberg, Germany
 * has PC member::Vladimir Gorodetsky, St. Petersburg Institute for Informatics and Automation of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Russia
 * has PC member::Anastasios Gounaris, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece
 * has PC member::Paul Groth, VU University Amsterdam, Netherlands
 * has PC member::Tzung-Pei Hong, National Univesity of Kaohsiung, Taiwan
 * has PC member::Yuh-Jong Hu, National Chengchi University, Taiwan
 * has PC member::Wei Hu, Nanjing University, China
 * has PC member::Prateek Jain, IBM TJ Watson Research Center, USA
 * has PC member::Ivan Jelinek, Czech Technical University in Prague, Czech Republic
 * has PC member::Jelena Jovanovic, University of Belgrade, Serbia
 * has PC member::Petar Jovanovic, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Spain
 * has PC member::Jason Jung, Chung-Ang University, Korea
 * has PC member::Yannis Kalfoglou, RICOH Europe plc, England
 * has PC member::Rajaraman Kanagasabai, Institute for Infocomm Research, Agency for Science, Technology and Research, Singapore
 * has PC member::Michael Kifer, Stony Brook University, USA
 * has PC member::Sang-Wook Kim, Hanyang University, Korea
 * has PC member::Aleksandra Klasnja Milicevic, University of Novi Sad, Serbia
 * has PC member::Fotis Kokkoras, Technological Educational Institute of Thessaly, Greece
 * has PC member::Efstratios Kontopoulos, Center for Research and Technology Hellas, Greece
 * has PC member::Vladimir Kurbalija, University of Novi Sad, Serbia
 * has PC member::Christoph Lange, University of Birmingham, England
 * has PC member::Marin Lujak, Ecole des Mines de Douai, France
 * has PC member::Ivan Lukovic, University of Novi Sad, Serbia
 * has PC member::Eetu Mäkelä, Aalto University, Finland
 * has PC member::Pierre Maret, LHC Université de Saint Etienne, France
 * has PC member::Corrado Mencar, Department of Informatics, University of Bari "A. Moro", Italy
 * has PC member::Manfred Meyer, Westfälische Hochschule - University of Applied Sciences, Germany
 * has PC member::Grzegorz J. Nalepa, AGH University of Science and Technology, Poland
 * has PC member::Andriy Nikolov, fluid Operations AG, Germany
 * has PC member::Paulo Novais, University of Minho, Portugal
 * has PC member::Tope Omitola, Unversity of Southampton, England
 * has PC member::Yassine Ouhammou, ISAE-ENSMA, France
 * has PC member::George Papadopoulos, University of Cyprus, Cyprus
 * has PC member::Jong C. Park, KAIST, South Korea
 * has PC member::Heiko Paulheim, University of Mannheim, Germany
 * has PC member::Tassilo Pellegrini, University of Applied Sciences St. Pölten, Austria
 * has PC member::Michel Plantié, Ecole des Mines d'Ales, France
 * has PC member::Elvira Popescu, University of Craiova, Romania
 * has PC member::Alessandro Provetti, University of Messina, Italy
 * has PC member::Milos Radovanovic, University of Novi Sad, Serbia
 * has PC member::Dimitrios Rafailidis, University of Mons, Belgium
 * has PC member::Giuseppe Rizzo, University of Bari Aldo Moro, Italy
 * has PC member::Dumitru Roman, SINTEF, Norway
 * has PC member::Oscar Romero, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Spain
 * has PC member::Michail Salampasis, Vienna University of Technology, Austria
 * has PC member::Milos Savic, University of Novi Sad, Serbia
 * has PC member::Domenico Fabio Savo, Sapienza University of Rome, Italy
 * has PC member::Miguel-Angel Sicilia, University of Alcalá, Spain
 * has PC member::Giorgos Stamou, National Technical University of Athens, Greece
 * has PC member::Bela Stantic, Griffith University, Gold Cost, Australia
 * has PC member::Giorgos Stoilos, National Technical University of Athens, Greece
 * has PC member::Yu Suzuki, Nara Institute of Science and Technology, Japan
 * has PC member::Panagiotis Symeonidis, Department of Informatics, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece
 * has PC member::Yasufumi Takama, Tokyo Metropolitan University, Japan
 * has PC member::Antonio Tallón-Ballesteros, University of Seville, Spain
 * has PC member::Eleftherios Tiakas, Department of Informatics Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece
 * has PC member::Goce Trajcevski, Northwestern University, USA
 * has PC member::Theodora Tsikrika, Informatics and Telematics Institute Centre for Research and Technology Hellas, Greece
 * has PC member::Athena Vakali, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki 54124, Greece
 * has PC member::Goran Velinov, University Ss. Cyril and Methodius Skopje, FYR Macedonia
 * has PC member::Laurent Vercouter, Laboratory of Computer Science, Information Processing and Systems (LITIS), France
 * has PC member::Csaba Veres, University of Bergen, Norway
 * has PC member::Boban Vesin, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway
 * has PC member::George Vouros, University of Piraeus, Greece
 * has PC member::Paul Warren, BT, UK
 * has PC member::Yiyu Yao, University of Regina, Canada
 * has PC member::Slawomir Zadrozny, Systems Research Institute, Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland