*** The NEW DEADLINE for paper submission is February 21, 2018 ***

Extraordinary invited speakers, workshops and tutorials on contemporary research topics
with industrial applications.

Registration fees will be significantly less compared to majority of other conferences

Publication of selected papers in 3 SCI Indexed Journals

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WIMS 2018 - The 8th International Conference on Web Intelligence, Mining and Semantics
25-27 June 2018, Novi Sad, Serbia
Web site: https://wims2018.pmf.uns.ac.rs/
Proceedings: ACM International Conference Proceedings Series (ICPS)
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*** NEWS
- New deadlines (please see Important Dates)

- Invited speakers:
Sören Auer - A knowledge graph for science
Ngoc-Thanh Nguyen - Collective Intelligence: An Influence Analysis of Diversity and
Collective Cardinality on Collective Performance
Dunja Mladenic - Observing Global Social Dynamics through Event Monitoring
For more details please visit: https://wims2018.pmf.uns.ac.rs/invited.php

- Workshops:
WASA 2018 https://perun.pmf.uns.ac.rs/events/wasa2018/
BigData 2018
The FIRM DEADLINE for workshop proposals is February 15, 2018

- Tutorials:
Panagiotis Symeonidis - Contextual-Aware Recommender Systems based on
Matrix/Tensor Decompositions and Random Walks on Graphs
Krisztian Buza - Time Series Classification and its Applications
Arthur Zimek, Youcef Djenouri - Outlier Detection in Traffic Data
Milos Radovanovic - Influential Neighbors: The Why, The Where, and What Next
Milos Savic - Analysis of Annotated Social and Information Networks:
Methods and Applications
For more details please visit: https://wims2018.pmf.uns.ac.rs/tutorials.php

- The authors of the best papers may be invited to submit extended versions for
possible publication in Journals:
International Journal on Artificial Intelligence Tools, World Scientific, 2016/2017 Impact Factor : 0.778
Computer Science and Information Systems (ComSIS) journal (IF: 0.837)
Fundamenta Informaticae (IF: 0.687)


*** About WIMS'18 Conference

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.


*** Important Dates

February 21, 2018 Paper submission (NEW)
February 15, 2018 Submission workshop proposals (NEW)
February 25, 2018 Notification of acceptance for workshops
April 18, 2018 Notification of acceptance for papers/posters
May 15, 2018 Camera-ready versions of accepted papers, posters, tutorial papers
May 15, 2018 Author registration and registration fee payment deadline
June 25-27, 2018 Conference


*** Objectives

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.


*** Chairs

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

General Chair
Mirjana Ivanovic, University of Novi Sad, Serbia

General Co-Chair
Sang-Wook Kim, Hanyang University, Korea


*** Best Papers

The best research paper as well as the best young research paper will be honored with
a special prize. The best papers from the conference will be recommended for
publication in special issues of internationally recognized journals.

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:
- International Journal on Artificial Intelligence Tools, World Scientific,
IF: 2016/2017 : 0.778, http://www.worldscientific.com/worldscinet/ijait
- Computer Science and Information Systems (ComSIS)
IF: 0.837, http://www.comsis.org/
- Fundamenta Informaticae
IF: 0.687, https://www.iospress.nl/journal/fundamenta-informaticae/


*** Conference Scope

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:
### 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.)


*** Submission Guidelines

Four types of submissions are solicited for the main conference:
1. Regular research papers (12 ACM pages)
2. Short research papers (6 ACM pages)
3. Discussion, survey, or problem analysis papers (12 ACM pages)
4. Posters (4 ACM pages)

More details on the nature of the different submission types can be found at
the submission page: https://wims2018.pmf.uns.ac.rs/sub.php

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: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=wims2018

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:
http://www.acm.org/publications/proceedings-template


*** Publications

Accepted papers/tutorials/posters will be published by ACM and disseminated through the ACM
Digital Library through the International Conference Proceedings Series (ICPS). A selection of
the best WIMS'2018 papers will be invited to be revised and extended for the post-conference
publication in special issues of internationally recognized journals.
The proceedings of the previous WIMS conferences could be checked at:
- WIMS'2011: https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1988688
- WIMS'2012: https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=2254129
- WIMS'2013: https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=2479787
- WIMS'2014: https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=2611040
- WIMS'2015: https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=2797115
- WIMS'2016: https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=2912845
- WIMS'2017: https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=3102254


*** Organization

WIMS'2018 is organized under the auspices of the Department of Mathematics and Informatics
Faculty of Sciences, University of Novi Sad. (https://www.pmf.uns.ac.rs/en/)


*** Committees

Program Committee Co-Chairs
Yannis Manolopoulos, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece
Riccardo Rosati, Sapienza Universita di Roma, Italy

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

Workshop & Tutorial Chair
Costin Badica, University of Craiova, Romania
Workshop & Tutorial Co-Chairs
Milos Radovanovic, University of Novi Sad, Serbia
Milos Savic, University of Novi Sad, Serbia

Local Organising Committee
Milos Savic, University of Novi Sad, Serbia (Chair)
Jovana Vidakovic, University of Novi Sad, Serbia (Co-Chair)
Brankica Bratic, University of Novi Sad, Serbia
Jovana Ivkovic, University of Novi Sad, Serbia
Sasa Pesic, University of Novi Sad, Serbia
Djurica Salamon, University of Novi Sad, Serbia


*** Contact

Department of Mathematics and Informatics
Faculty of Sciences, University of Novi Sad
Trg Dositeja Obradovica 3, 21000 Novi Sad
wims2018@pmf.uns.ac.rs