The International Conference on Web Intelligence, Mining & Semantics (WIMS)has travelled from Seoul, Korea (2019), Novi Sad, Serbia (2018), Anantea, Italy (2017), Nimes, France (2016), Larnaca, Cyprus (2015), Thessaloniki, Greece (2014), Madrid, Spain (2013), Craiova, Romania (2012) to Sogndal, Norway (2011). The 10th WIMS will take place at Biarritz, a luxurious seaside tourist destination on the Bay of Biscay in the French Basque Country.
WIMS is a forum to present 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 ideas on the development of Web-based intelligent information management solutions across different domains. 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?2020 Tutorials and Workshops are published separately.

Topics
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WIMS solicits regular and work-in-progress research, discussion papers and industry experience report papers in related fields. Papers exploring new directions or areas are also welcome. In particular but not exclusively, the submissions within the following major areas are relevant:

Web Intelligence (WI)
* Semantic Agent Systems for WI
* Interaction and Communication Paradigms
* Intelligence for Visualizing Web Data at scale
* Intelligence for Big Data Analytics
* Ubiquitous Intelligence and IoT
* WI in Social Media
* WI in Human Computation and Social Games
* Opinion Mining / Sentiment Analysis
* 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, Multimedia Mining
* Contextualization and Clustering in Web Mining and Information Extraction
* Knowledge Extraction from the Web
* Linked Data Mining
* Information Extraction and Knowledge Discovery
* Mining from 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
* Lifecycle, Management, and Evolution of Web Ontologies
* Ontology Merging and Alignment
* Rule Markup Languages and Systems
* Semantic Annotation
WIMS Applications
* Web Applications of Semantic Agent Systems
* Semantics-Driven Information Retrieval
* Semantic Search
* Intelligent E-Technology and the Semantic Web
* Intelligence and Semantic Technologies in Digital Media
* WI for Multimedia, Sensors, and Situational Awareness
* Quality of Life Technology for Web Access
Evaluation and Validation Methodologies
* Datasets and Benchmarks for Competitions
* Evaluation and Validation Infrastructures
* Evaluation and Validation Metrics

Submission, proceedings
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Papers must be submitted online through EasyChair. All accepted papers will appear in the conference proceedings published by ACM. Author instructions along with LaTex2e (preferred) and Word macro files are available at (https://www.acm.org/publications/proceedings-template). Submitted papers should not exceed 10 pages (long papers) and 4 pages (short ones), including figures, tables and references. Authors of accepted papers are required to transfer their copyrights to ACM. For a paper to appear in the proceedings, at least one of the authors MUST register for the conference by the camera-ready submission deadline with a full registration.

Venue
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The venue is: Casino, Biarritz, https://www.casinosbarriere.com/en/biarritz.html

Important Dates
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Full papers submission: 16th of March 2020
Notification: 18th of May 2020
Camera ready and registration: 1st of June 2020

Committees
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WIMS Conferences Chair
* Rajendra Akerkar, Western Norway Research Institute

General Chair
* Yannis Manolopoulos, Open University of Cyprus

Program Chair
* Richard Chbeir, Universite de Pau et des Pays de l'Adour, France

Invited Speakers (tentative)
* Lionel Brunie, INSA de Lyon
* Michalis Vazirgiannis, Ecole Polytechnique (LIX)

Workshop Chair, Special Issues
* Mirjana Ivanovic, University of Novi Sad, Serbia

Industrial Chair
* Philippe Arnould, Univ. Pau & Pays Adour, France

Organizing Chair
* Khouloud Salameh, American University of Ras Al Khaimah, UAE

Publicity Chair
* Theodoros Tzouramanis, University of Thessaly, Greece

Webmaster
* Elio Mansour, Universite de Pau et des Pays de l'Adour, France