WIMS'12 is intended to foster the dissemination of state-of-the-art research in the area of Web intelligence, Web mining, Web semantics and the fundamental interaction between them.

Authors are invited to submit full papers on all related areas. Papers exploring new directions or areas will receive a thorough and encouraging review. Areas of interest include, but not limited to: Semantics-driven Information Retrieval

Expressive Document Models
Knowledge Extraction for Building Expressive Document Representation
Matching and Ranking based on Expressive Document Representation
Infrastructure for Semantics-driven Information Retrieval

Semantic Agent Systems

Web-based frameworks and environments for semantic agent systems
Ontology management for agent systems
Semantic agent systems for collaborations
Semantic agent systems for social networks, e-Government, e -Health, and enterprise information systems

Semantic Data Search

Crawling, Storage and Indexing of Semantic Data
Semantic Data Search and Ranking
Data Web Search: Search in Multi-Data-Source, Multi-Repository Scenarios
Dealing with Vague, Incomplete and Dirty Semantic Data
Infrastructure for Searching Semantic Data on the Web

Interaction Paradigms for Semantic Search

Natural Language Interfaces
Keyword-based Query Interfaces
Hybrid Query Interfaces
Visualization of Semantic Data

Evaluation of Semantic Search

Evaluation Methodologies for Semantic Search
Standard Datasets and Benchmarks for Semantic Search
Infrastructure for Semantic Search Evaluation

Linked Data Application Architectures

Crawling, caching and querying Linked Data
Dataset dynamics and synchronization
Linked Data mining

User Interfaces for the Web of Data

Approaches to visualizing and interacting with distributed Web data
Linked Data browsers and search engines

Web Mining

Text Mining
Data Stream Mining
Multimedia Data Mining
Web Content Mining
Web Log and Usage Mining
Context Sensitive Web Mining
Web Information Clustering
Web Page Clustering and Mining

Uncertainty Reasoning

Fuzzy Semantics
Ontology Learning and Reasoning
Paraconsistent Reasoning
Nature-inspired Models and Semantic Web
Statistical Reasoning

Ubiquitous Intelligence

Ubiquitous and Social Computing
Search in Social Media
Human Computation and Social Games
Opinion Mining and Sentiment Analysis
Social Monetization and Computational Advertising
Visualising social network data

Semantic Deep Web

Ontology plug-in search
Information extraction from the Deep Web
Semantic Deep Web annotation and indexing
Deep Web-based ontology
Semantic Deep Web crawlers
Semantic Deep Web data fusion
Semiautomatic ontology generation
Metrics for quality of ontology
Similarity measures for ontology alignment

Intelligent e-Technology and Semantic Web

Semantics for managing Business data
Intelligent Enterprise Portals
Semantics in Digital Libraries
Semantics driven tutoring systems
Semantic processing in e-Finance
Semantic processing in e-Health
Semantic processing in e-Science
Semantic processing in e-Government
e-Community Decentralized Community Communication Techniques
Web Security, Integrity, Privacy and Trust

Quality of Life Technology for Web Document Access

Web document access for the physically challenged
Web document access for the visually challenged
Web document access for the aurally challenged

Representation techniques for Web-based knowledge
Rule markup languages and systems
Semantic 3D media and content
Scalability vs. expressivity of reasoning on the Web