1st European Web Mining Forum

1st European Web Mining Forum
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Workshop at ECML/PKDD-2003,
22 September 2003, Cavtat-Dubrovnik, Croatia

http://km.aifb.uni-karlsruhe.de/ws/ewmf03/

Important Dates
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Deadline for paper submission: June 13, 2003
Notification of acceptance: July 4, 2003
Deadline for final contributions July 11, 2003

Workshop Goals
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The Web presents a key driving force for a large spectrum of
applications in which a user interacts with a company, a
governmental authority, a non-governmental organization, or
another non-profit institution. The application providers should
combine knowledge about user expectations and Web semantics, in
order to form personalised, user-friendly, and business-optimal
services. Enabling methodologies include data mining, text mining,
and ontology learning. Recipient technologies include user
profiling, usage analysis, ontology extraction for the Semantic
Web, intelligent search and recommendation systems based on user
preferences, page content, and site semantics.

The EWMF'03 workshop is organised by the KDNet interest group Web
Mining Forum on knowledge discovery from and about the Web. 
It aims to bring together various perspectives on Web mining and
stress the synergy effects between Web usage mining, Web content
mining and Web intelligence, and of Semantic Web Mining, which
is the subject of a workshop series in the ECML/PKDD conference
since 2001.

To ensure an interactive atmosphere, we plan to complement the
presentations of workshop contributions by a panel discussion. 
This panel will identify the most important common and
complementary research subjects of the researchers in
the Web mining subdomains and will promote mutual
understanding and cross-fertilisation among research groups.

Topics of interest
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EWMF'03 calls for international contributions related to Web content 
analysis, ontology learning for Web content and for the Semantic Web,
Web usage mining, mining the Semantic Web, and the exploitation 
of the mining results in e-applications. We invite contributions 
that advance the state-of-the-art in topics related to the purpose 
of the workshop. Topics of interest include, but are not limited 
to:

     Enabling methodologies
     - Data warehousing for Web data
     - Ontology and instance learning
     - Text and hypertext classification
     - Web usage mining taking content/structure into account
     - Web content and structure mining
     - Information extraction Using the syntactic, vocabulary and
       logical layer of the Semantic Web for mining
     - Incorporation of background knowledge in the mining process

     Technologies for Web applications
     - Ontology extraction for the Semantic Web
     - User profiling
     - Intelligent search
     - Recommendation systems
      -Permission marketing

     Applications of these methodologies and technologies

Persons interested in participating should submit a paper (less
than 6000 words) addressing new research issues. In addition, we
solicit proposals for panel discussions. Submit before June 13,
2003 in electronic form (strongly preferred!) in postscript or pdf
to: 
           ewmf03-38cWrvCrWb9y80wz8M7Kho8CBCJUcmCp@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx 

Although not required for the initial submission, we recommend 
to use the Springer LNCS format, as this will be the required 
format for accepted papers.

Alternatively, printed copies can be sent to:
Andreas Hotho
Institute AIFB University of Karlsruhe
76128 Karlsruhe, Germany

People who want to attend the workshop have to register to
the main conference ECML/PKDD-2003. 

Publication of the workshop proceedings
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The workshop notes will be distributed during the workshop and
published online. We are currently negotiating the publication 
of the workshop proceedings in a post-workshop volume.


Organizing Committee
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Bettina Berendt 
  Institute of Information Systems, Humboldt University Berlin,
  email: berendt-P/COQof/Go5MYopoZt5u/LNAH6kLmebB@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Andreas Hotho
  Institute AIFB, University of Karlsruhe, Germany 
  email: hotho-38cWrvCrWb9y80wz8M7KhqmYAUrVh0xC@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Dunja Mladenic 
  J. Stefan Institute, Department for Intelligent Systems, Ljubljana, Slovenia 
  email: Dunja.Mladenic-NtGbt2tK5Yw@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Maarten van Someren 
  SWI, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands 
  email: maarten-hLzbzWYHKqNX9el/+yt6TA@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Myra Spiliopoulou
  Institute of Technical and Business Information Systems, Otto-von-Guericke
  University Magdeburg 
  email: myra-VMPVNdsplf5n7m6ktlqEslAmK9iY6Jt1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx 
Gerd Stumme 
  Institute AIFB, University of Karlsruhe, Germany 
  email: stumme-38cWrvCrWb9y80wz8M7KhqmYAUrVh0xC@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

Program Committee
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- Ed Chi (Xerox Parc, Palo Alto, USA) 
- Ronen Feldman (Bar-Ilan University, Ramat Gan, Israel) 
- Marko Grobelnik (J. Stefan Institute, Ljubljana, Slovenia) 
- Oliver Guenther (Humboldt University Berlin, Germany) 
- Stefan Haustein (University of Dortmund, Germany) 
- Joerg-Uwe Kietz (Swiss Life, Zuerich, Switzerland) 
- Ee-Peng Lim (Chinese University of Hong Kong, China)
- Alexander Maedche (Robert Bosch GmbH, Stuttgart, Germany) 
- Brij Masand (Data Miners, Boston, USA) 
- Yannis Manolopoulos (Aristotle University, Greece) 
- Bamshad Mobasher (DePaul University, Chicago, USA) 
- Claire Nedellec (University Paris Sud, France) 
- George Paliouras (Demokritos National Centre for Scientific Research, 
  Athens, Greece) 
- Jian Pei (Simon Fraser University, Canada) 
- John R. Punin (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, N.Y., USA) 
- Jaideep Srivastava (University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, USA) 
- Rudi Studer (University of Karlsruhe, Germany) 
- Stefan Wrobel (Fraunhofer Institute for Autonomous Intelligent Systems,
  Sankt Augustin, Germany) 
- Mohammed Zaki (Rensellaer Polytechnic Institute, USA)
- Osmar Zaiane (University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada) 
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