******************************************************************************** Atlantic Web Intelligence Conference May 13-19, 2004 CANCUN, Mexico http://www.fismat.umich.mx/awic04 ******************************************************************************** SUMMARY PUBLICATION: Springer LNCS IMPORTANT DATES: Submission Deadline: December 05, 2003 Acceptance Notification: February 05, 2004 Camera-Ready Papers: February 28, 2004 INVITED SPEAKERS: Social Network Analysis and the Web Prabhakar Raghavan Verity Inc. & Stanford Title to be announced Lee Giles The Pennsylvania State University ******************************************************************************** The 2004 Atlantic Web Intelligence Conference brings together scientists, engineers, computer users, and students to exchange and share their experiences, new ideas and research results about all aspects (theory, applications and tools) of Artificial Intelligence Techniques applied to Web Based Systems, and to discuss the practical challenges encountered and the solutions adopted. The conference will cover a broad set of Artificial Intelligence Techniques, such as (but not restricted to): -Agents -Case Based Reasoning -Fuzzy Logic -Genetic Algorithms -Genetic Programming -Knowledge Management -Multivalued Logic -Neural Networks -Ontologies -Reinforcement Learning -Rough Sets -Semantic Networks Applied to the problems associated with Web Based System such as (but not restricted to): -Web Design -Conversational Systems -Electronic Commerce -Information Retrieval -Recommender Systems -Browsing and Exploration -Adaptive Web -User Profiling/Clustering -E-mail/SMS filtering -Negotiation Systems -Security, Privacy, and Trust -Web-log Mining ******************************************************************************** SUBMISSION GUIDELINES We solicit research and experience papers as well as research-in-progress and practitioner reports applying Artificial Intelligence techniques to a Web Based System problem in any of the areas listed above. The AWIC'04 papers will be published by Springer as part of their Lecture Notes in Computer Science series. Electronic submissions are due on December 5, 2003. Papers should have a length of up to 10 pages following the Springer LNCS format. http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/index.html We will use a double-blind reviewing process. Please, do not include the author's name and affiliation or any indication, which may disclose the paper authorship, in the submitted paper itself. ******************************************************************************** ORGANIZATION HONORARY CHAIR Lofti A. Zadeh University of Californa, USA CONFERENCE CHAIRS Jesus Favela CICESE, Mexico Ernestina Manasalvas UPM, Spain STEERING COMMITTEE Janusz Kacprzyk Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland Jiming Liu Hong Kong Baptist University Javier Segovia UPM, Spain Piotr Szczepaniak Technical Univ. of Lodz, Poland Ning Zhong Maebashi Institute of Technology Japan ORGANIZING COMMITTE Edgar Ch vez Universidad Michoacana, M,xico PUBLICITY Manuel Montes INAOE, M,xico ******************************************************************************** PROGRAM COMMITTE Ricardo Baeza-Yates - University of Chile, Chile Tu Bao Ho - Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Japan Patrick Brezillon - Universite Paris 6, France Alex Buchner - University of Ulster, Northern Ireland, UK Edgar Chavez - Universidad Michoacana, Mexico Pedro A. da Costa Sousa - Uninova, Portugal Carmen Costilla - UPM, Spain Dominique Decouchant - IMAG, France Lipika Dey - Indian Institute of Technology, India Jesus Favela (co-chair) - CICESE, Mexico Ali Ghorbani - University of New Brunswick, Canada Joydeep Ghosh - University of Texas, USA Jorge Gonzalez - SAP AG, Germany Ernestina Manasalvas (co-chair) - UPM, Spain Michael Hadjimichael - Naval Resarch Laboratory, USA Enrique Herrera Viedma - Universidad de Granada, Spain Esther Hochzstain - ORT, Uruguay Andreas Hotho - University of Karlsruhe, Germany Janusz Kacprzyk - Systems Research Institute, Poland Samuel Kaski - Helsinki University of Technology, Finland Rudolf Kruse - Otto-von-Guericke University of Magdeburg, Germany Jiming Liu - Hong Kong Baptist University, Hong Kong Aurelio Lopez - INAOE, Mexico Oscar Marban - UPM, Spain Ana M. Martinez - CINVESTAV, Mexico Oscar Mayora - ITESM-Morelos, Mexico Daniel Memmi - IMAG, France Socorro Millan - Universidad del Valle de Cali, Colombia Bamshad Mobasher - DePaul University, USA Manuel Montes-y-Gomez - INAOE, Mexico Alex Nanolopoulos - Aristotle University, Greece Maria Perez - UPM, Spain Mario Piattini - Universidad Castilla-La Mancha, Spain Paulo Quaresma - Universidade de Evora, Portugal Rajeev Rastogi - Bell Labs/Lucent, USA Victor Robles - UPM, Spain Gustavo Rossi - Universidad Nacional de la Plata, Argentina Eugenio Santos - UPM, Spain Andrzej Skowron - University of Warsaw, Poland Myra Spiliopoulou - University of Magdeburg, Germany R.Tadeusiewicz - AGH University of Science and Technology, Poland Maria Amparo Vila - University of Granada, Spain Anita Wasilewska - Stony Brook New York University, USA Xindong Wu - University of Vermont, USA Ronald Yager - Iona College, USA Yiyu Yao - University of Regina, Canada Philip S. Yu - IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center, USA S. Zadrozny - Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw, Poland Mohammed Zaki - Rensellaer Polytechnic Institute, USA Wojciech Ziarko - University of Regina, Canada