[agents] CFP special issue of WIAS journal about "Web Intelligence and Virtual Communities"

[Laurent Vercouter]

Call for Papers

Special Issue of the International Journal on*Web Intelligence and Agent Systems*
http://www.iospress.nl/loadtop/load.php?isbn=15701263

about "Web Intelligence and Virtual Communities"

Submission Due Date: *December 15, 2010*

Guest editors
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Christo El Morr, American University of Kuwait, Kuwait
Pierre Maret, University Jean Monnet, France
Laurent Vercouter, Ecole des Mines of Saint-Etienne, France

OVERVIEW
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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.

Web Intelligence is a multidisciplinary area dealing with exploiting data and services over the Web, to create new data and services using Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) and Artificial Intelligence (AI) techniques. The link to Networking and Virtual Communities (VCs) is obvious: the web is a set of nodes, providing and consuming data and services; the permanent or temporary ties and exchanges in-between these nodes build the so-called virtual communities; and the ICT and AI techniques contribute to the process and automate (or partly automate) communication and cooperation processes.

RESEARCH QUESTIONS
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We invite scholars and professionals from a broad range of disciplines
to submit to this Special Issue. Papers may encompass any or all of
the following: foundational theoretical analyses, modelling,
simulation, and empirical studies. Special topics of interest include, but are not limited to,
the following:

* Multi-agent models and tools for VC
* Services and Grid Services for VC, Service oriented architectures
* Web information mining, filtering and retrieval within/for VC
* Web-based applications and plate-forms 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 VE, Ambient Intelligence, Pervasive computing
* Performances evaluation, experiments, user feed-back
* Surveys on WI and VC

SUBMISSION GUIDELINES
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Manuscripts submitted to the special issue should contain original material not published in nor submitted to other journals. Articles may contain around 20 pages and should respect the WIAS journal guidelines as indicated here:http://www.wi-consortium.org/wias/submissionInst.html

Latex (http://www.wi-consortium.org/wias/WIAS_LaTeX.zip) and Word (http://www.wi-consortium.org/wias/WIAS_Word.zip) templates can be downloaded.

Submissions have to be uploaded before December 15th, 2010 on the WIVE'10 special issue web site:
http://www.wi-consortium.org/wias/scripts/submitform.php?subarea=S1&re=0&PNO=-1

IMPORTANT DATES
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Full paper submission: December 15th, 2010
Author notification: April 1st, 2011
Publication: around Fall 2011

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*Laurent Vercouter* Maitre-Assistant / Assistant Professor
ISCOD/LSTI, Ecole des Mines de St-Etienne, France
Phone: +33 4 77 42 66 03    http://www.emse.fr/~vercouter