4th International Workshop on WEB INTELLIGENCE & COMMUNITIES (WI&C'12)
http://wic.litislab.fr

to be held at the 2012 World Wide Web International Conferences (WWW'12)
Lyon, France, April 16-20, 2012

*Important Dates:*
Paper submission deadline: January 27th, 2012
Acceptance notification : February 27th, 2012
Camera ready paper : March 23rd, 2012
Workshop : April 16th, 2012

*INVITED SPEAKER*
We are honored to have a invited talk from Ashwin Ram (PARC & Georgia Tech).
Title: Health & Wellness 2.0 with social networks for healthcare

*SCOPE OF THE WORKSHOP*
Web Intelligence consists of a multidisciplinary area dealing with exploiting data and services over the Web, to create new data and services using both Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) and Artificial Intelligence (AI) techniques. Communities appear as a first-class object in the areas of web intelligence and agent technologies, as well as a crucial crossroads of several sub-domains (i.e. user modelling, protocols, data management, data mining, content modelling, etc.). These sub-domains impact the nature of the communities and the applications which are related to them. These applications are numerous, and the success of well-known Social Network Sites for entertainment should not be allowed to over-shadow the other application domains, for instance in education, health, design, knowledge management, and so forth.

The workshop will provide presentation and discussion opportunities for researchers working on web intelligence applied to collaborative networks, such as virtual communities. The possibilities and consequences of the web usage for collaborative networks are tremendous and new tools are required to satisfy users and service providers.

The workshop Web Intelligence and Communities expects contributions on topics such as:
? Multi-agent models and tools for Virtual Communities (VC)
? Services and Grid Services for VC, Service oriented architectures
? Web information mining, filtering and retrieval within/for VC
? Web-based applications and platforms for VC
? Intelligent web interaction, querying, diffusion
? Semantics and ontology engineering for VC
? Self-* models and techniques for VC
? Social networks modelling, virtual communities, social intelligence
? Context-based approach, profile management, personalization and recommendations for/through VC
? Privacy preserving, security, trust-based computing & reputation systems
? Applications: E-* (market, procurement, technologies, health, government, etc.) and VC
? VC and content and knowledge repositories, behaviour modelling and exchange
? Web intelligence, mobility and VC, Ambient Intelligence, Pervasive computing
? Performances evaluation, experiments, user feed-back
? Surveys on WI and VC
? Semantic Web technologies for Social Data integration and fusion
? Human-based behaviour patterns and modelling

*SUBMISSIONS*
The Web Intelligence and Communities workshop welcomes the submission of theoretical, experimental, methodological as well as application papers.
Discussion papers and demonstration papers (for presentation during the workshop) are also welcome.

Submitted papers should be 10 pages maximum in length (4 pages for the discussion and demonstration papers), including figures and references. The paper must be formatted in pdf according to style guidelines of ACM SIG Proceedings Template available here: http://www.acm.org/sigs/publications/proceedings-templates

All submissions should be done online on the workshop submission web site: https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=wic2012

*CO-CHAIRS*
* Rajendra Akerkar, Western Norway Research Institute, Norway
* Pierre Maret, Universit? Jean Monnet, Saint-Etienne, France
* Laurent Vercouter, INSA de Rouen, France

*PROGRAM COMMITTEE*
(under construction...)