CfP: Workshop on Collaborative Knowledge Management for Web Information Systems

CALL FOR PAPERS 
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International Workshop on Collaborative Knowledge Management
for Web Information Systems (WE.KNOW 2007)

December 3, 2007, Nancy, France
affiliated with WISE 2007

 http://isweb.uni-koblenz.de/weknow2007


OVERVIEW

Collaborative data/knowledge management methods aim to achieve
improved result quality through combination or merging of results and
models obtained from multiple users and sites. Typical application
scenarios in the domain of Web information systems include
collaborative methods and meta methods for information acquisition
(e.g. collaborative Web crawling and search, tagging), organization of
document collections (e.g. collaborative classification and
clustering), and knowledge sharing (e.g. alignment and sharing of
personal ontologies). These areas have received increasing attention
in the Web Information Systems community; however, connections and
relationships between them have largely been neglected. The workshop
aims at closing this gap by bringing together researchers and
practitioners dealing with collaborative methods in distinct contexts,
and discovering synergies between their research fields. We solicit
submissions of high quality papers on all themes of collaborative
knowledge management.

TOPICS OF INTEREST

Main topics of interest include but are not limited to: 

 - ensemble-based meta methods for categorization and clustering 
 - ontology alignment and sharing, collaborative ontology learning 
 - sharing of personal information, privacy aspects in collaborative 
systems 
 - evidence combination in text/multimedia retrieval and question
answering 
 - collaborative Web exploration methods 
 - model and result combination in distributed/P2P environments 
 - collaborative methods for Web 2.0 applications such as
content/knowledge sharing systems (Flickr, YouTube, Bibsonomy,
del.icio.us, etc.)

SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS

Authors are invited to submit original, unpublished research papers
that are not being considered for publication in any other forum.
Manuscripts should be submitted via electronic submission Web site in
PDF format and formatted using the Springer Lecture Notes in Computer
Science (LNCS) format. 

 http://isweb.uni-koblenz.de/weknow2007

Papers cannot exceed 12 pages in length. Submissions will be judged
according to their scientific merits and evaluated on significance,
originality, technical quality, and exposition. One author per paper
is required to register for WISE 2007 and attend the workshop to
present the paper if accepted for publication.

IMPORTANT DATES

 - Paper submissions: July 15, 2007 
 - Notification to authors: August 22, 2007 
 - Camera-ready version due: September 10, 2007 
 - Workshop date: December 3, 2007 

WORKSHOP ORGANIZATION

Program Chairs:

 - Sergej Sizov, University of Koblenz, Germany
 - Stefan Siersdorfer, University of Sheffield, UK

Program Committee:

 - Paulo Barthelmess, Adapx Natural Interaction Systems, USA 
 - AnHai Doan, University of Wisconsin, USA 
 - Andreas Nuernberger, University of Magdeburg, Germany 
 - Daniela Petrelli, University of Sheffield, UK 
 - Jun Wang, Delft University of Technology, Netherlands 
 - Yi Zhang, University of California at Santa Cruz, USA 

Workshop Web site:

 http://isweb.uni-koblenz.de/weknow2007