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C A L L F O R P A P E R S

International Workshop on

WEB INTELLIGENCE & VIRTUAL ENTERPRISES

http://www.emse.fr/wive09

to be held at the
10th IFIP Working Conference on Virtual Enterprises (PRO-VE'09)
Thessaloniki, Greece, October 7-9, 2009


Important Dates:

Paper submission deadline: May 4th
Paper notification : June 26th
Camera ready paper : July 15th
Workshop : October 7th-9th


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*SCOPE OF THE WORKSHOP*

Internet is a medium allowing services and information exchange in an open and decentralized environment, notably with numerous applications for virtual enterprises. It concerns enterprise information systems, local, regional and governmental organizations but it also involves more and more common users in the so-called web 2.0. The main stake is to use Internet as a technological support to communication, information exchange, service composition personalisation and access by all and anywhere. In this perspective, some work has been done these last years to combine classical techniques of information management with artificial intelligence technologies thus creating a new research domain called Web Intelligence. Research in Web Intelligence contributes to the development of algorithms, models and tools to handle the social and economic impact of the web usages.

The workshop will provide presentation and discussion opportunities for researchers working on web intelligence applied to collaborative networks, such as virtual enterprises and organizations. The possibilities and consequences of the web usage for collaborative networks are tremendous and new tools are required to satisfy users and service providers. Thus, Web Intelligence brings new research problems related to information and service access, quality of service, personalization, privacy preserving, trust as well as other issues.

The workshop Web Intelligence and Virtual Enterprises (VE) expects contributions on topics such as:

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

*SUBMISSIONS*

The Web Intelligence and Virtual Enterprises workshop welcomes the submission of theoretical, experimental, methodological as well as application papers. Papers may report on completed work, descriptions of work in progress or discussion papers.

Submitted papers will undergo a thorough review process. Paper will be published into the CD-Rom of the conference. In addition, a selection of the workshop papers will be published as post-proceedings in a special issue of the International Journal of Networking & Virtual Organizations.

Submitted papers should be 12 pages maximum in length, including figures and references. The paper must be formatted according to the style guidelines for A4 papers available here: http://www.inderscience.com/mapper.php?id=64

All papers should be prepared in pdf format and submitted on the web site
http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=wive2009

*CO-CHAIRS*

Christo El Morr, York University, Toronto, Canada
Pierre Maret, Universit? Jean Monnet, Saint-Etienne, France
Laurent Vercouter, Ecole des Mines de Saint-Etienne, France

*PROGRAM COMMITTEE* (in formation)

Bataille Fabien, Alcatel-Lucent Bell Labs France
Boissier Olivier, G2I/EMSE, France
Calmet Jacques, Universit?t Karlsruhe, Germany
Castelfranchi Cristiano, ISTC Rome, Italy
Fischer Klaus, DFKI, Germany
Ihara Masayuki, NTT Comware Corporation, Japan
Jacquenet Fran?ois, LHC/UJM, France
Jalal Kawash, University of Calgary, Canada
Kristoffersen Steinar, ?stfold University College, Norway
Lopez Guillaume, University of Tokyo, Japan
Marik Vladimir, University of Prague, Czech Republic
Occello Michel, University Pierre Mendes France, France
Oliveira Eugenio, University of Porto, Portugal
Pawar Pravin, University of Twente, The Netherlands
Petit Jean-Marc, LIRIS, France
Rousset Marie-Christine, LIG, France
Sabater-Mir Jordi, IIIA, Spain
Staab Steffen, Universit?t Koblenz, Germany
Tarkkanen Kimmo, University of Turku, Finland
vanBeijnum Bert-Jan, University of Twente, Netherlands
(to be completed?)