CALL FOR CHAPTER PROPOSALS
Proposal Submission Deadline: July 15, 2010
Quantitative Semantics and Soft Computing Methods for the Web:
Perspectives and Applications
A book edited by Dr. Ramon F. Brena and Dr. Adolfo Guzman-Arenas
Tecnologico de Monterrey and CIC-IPN
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To be published by IGI Global: http://www.igi-global.com

Introduction
The Internet has been acknowledged as one of the recent technological
revolutions due to its large impact on the whole society.
Nevertheless, precisely due to its impact, limitations of the Internet
have become apparent; in particular, the inability to take into
account in an automatic way the meaning of online documents. Proposals
for taking meaning into account began to appear, mainly the so-called
“Semantic Web” which includes a set of technologies like RDF, based on
new markup languages. Though these technologies could be technically
sound, practical limitations, such as the high training level required
to construct semantic web pages, and the small proportion of current
semantic web pages – which, circularly produces low commercial
interest in RDF, end up making the semantic web marginal today and
also in the foreseeable future.

Other options for automatic semantic processing of today’s internet
were proposed. From “latent” semantics to fuzzy techniques to many
others, they have in common their interest in modeling in an
approximate way the meaning of online documents, at least for
identifying their subject or topic. Through extensive use of counting,
statistical methods can uncover many semantic “hidden” regularities of
the web.

Objective of the Book
This book aims at providing relevant theoretical frameworks and the
latest empirical research findings related to quantitative,
soft-computing, and approximate methods for dealing with Internet
semantics.

Target Audience
The target audience of this book will be composed of professionals and
researchers working in the fields of information and knowledge related
technologies, computer science, web science, and artificial
intelligence. The book will be written for professionals (but not
necessarily leading specialists) who want to improve their
understanding of this novel area.


Recommended topics include, but are not limited to, the following:
• Semantic similarity measures
• Automatic topic discovery
• Semantic-related clustering
• Approximate use of hyperlinks
• Semantic algorithms scalability
• Semantics-leveraged search algorithms
• Applications of approximate semantics

Submission Procedure
Researchers and practitioners are invited to submit on or before July
15, 2010, a title and extended abstract of a chapter (from 1 to 3
pages), at the email address given below, giving a high-level
description of the research. After a first screening by the editors,
some of the contributors will be asked to submit a full chapter of
7,000-10,000 word as a MS Word document (LaTeX formatting is not
acceptable to the publisher), not including formulas and figures. Full
chapter drafts are expected to be submitted by August 31st for
double-blind revision, using the email given below. Contributors may
also be requested to serve as reviewers for this project.

Publisher
This book is scheduled to be published by IGI Global (formerly Idea
Group Inc.). For additional information regarding the publisher,
please visit www.igi-global.com. This publication is anticipated to be
released in 2011.

Important Dates:
July 15, 2010: Extended abstracts submission
July 30, 2010: Preliminary acceptance notification
August 31, 2010 Full chapter submission
September 30, 2010: Notification of Acceptance
October 30, 2010: Revised Chapter Submission
November 15, 2010: Final Acceptance Notifications
November 30, 2010: Submission of Final Chapters


Editorial Advisory Board members:
Ernesto Damiani U. of Milan, Italy
Randy Goebel U. of Alberta, Canada
Fakhri Karray U. of Waterloo, Canada
Trevor Martin U. of Bristol, England
Vasile Rus U. of Memphis, USA
Manuel Vilares Ferro University of Vigo, Spain
Yorick Wilks, University of Sheffield, UK
Ricardo Baeza-Yates, Yahoo Research, Spain

Inquiries and submissions can be forwarded electronically (Word document) to:
Dr. Ramon F. Brena
Department of Computer Science, Tecnologico de Monterrey
Tel.: +52 (81) 8358 2000 ext 5246 • Fax: +52 (81) 8328 4189 •
Google Voice: +1 (956) 887 0224
E-mail: ramon.brena@itesm.mx