International Conference on Web Intelligence, Mining and Semantics

WIMS'12 is intended to foster the dissemination of state-of-the-art research in the area of Web intelligence, Web mining, Web semantics and the fundamental interaction between them.

Authors are invited to submit full papers on all related areas. Papers exploring new directions or areas will receive a thorough and encouraging review. Areas of interest include, but not limited to: Semantics-driven Information Retrieval

Expressive Document Models Knowledge Extraction for Building Expressive Document Representation Matching and Ranking based on Expressive Document Representation Infrastructure for Semantics-driven Information Retrieval

Committees

 * General Co-Chairs
 * Dumitru Dan Burdescu, University of Craiova, Romania


 * PC Co-Chairs
 * Rajendra Akerkar, Western Norway Research Institute, Norway
 * Costin Badica, University of Craiova, Romania


 * Workshop Chair
 * Adrian Giurca, BTU Cottbus, Germany
 * Veselka Boeva, Technical University of Sofia-branch Plovdiv, Bulgaria


 * Program Committee Members
 * Patrick Albert, IBM, France
 * Sören Auer, University of Leipzig, Germany
 * Aliaksandr Autayeu, University of Trento, Italy
 * Reinhold Behringer, Leeds Metropolitan University, UK
 * Nick Bassiliades, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece
 * Andreas Blumauer, Semantic Web Company GmbH, Vienna, Austria
 * Francois Bry, Ludwig-Maximilian University of Munich, Germany
 * Jacques Calmet, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany
 * David Camacho Fernández, Universidad Autonoma de Madrid, Spain
 * Andre Ponce de Leon F. de Carvalho, University of Sao Paulo at Sao Carlos, Brazil
 * Keith Chan, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong
 * Paulo Cortez, University of Minho, Portugal
 * Dan Cristea, Alexandru Ioan Cuza University of Iasi, Romania
 * Zhihua Cui, Taiyuan University of Science and Technology, Taiyuan, China
 * Ken Currie, CAPDM Ltd., Edinburgh, UK
 * Martine De Cock, Ghent University, Belgium
 * Paola Di Maio, University of Strathclyde, UK
 * Tommaso Di Noia, Technical University of Bari, Italy
 * Gaël Dias, University of Beira Interior, Portugal
 * John Elliott, Leeds Metropolitan University, UK
 * Robert Engels, ESIS, Norway
 * Vadim A. Ermolayev, Zaporozhye National University, Ukraine
 * Aimeur Esma, University of Montreal, Canada
 * Nicola Fanizzi, University of Bari, Italy
 * Anna Fensel, FTW and STI Innsbruck, Austria
 * Giacomo Fiumara, University of Messina, Italy
 * Adina Magda Florea, University "Politehnica" of Bucharest, Romania
 * Tim Furche, Oxford University Computing Laboratories, UK
 * Roberto García, Universitat de Lleida, Spain
 * Dragan Gasevic, Canada Research Chair in Semantic Technologies, Athabasca University, Canada
 * Adrian Giurca, BTU Cottbus, Germany
 * Birte Glimm, University of Ulm, Germany
 * Dorian Gorgan, Technical University of Cluj-Napoca, Romania
 * Florin Gorunescu, University of Medicine and Pharmacy of Craiova, Romania
 * Marko Grobelnic, Jozef Stefan Institute, Slovenia
 * Paul Grot, VU University Amsterdam, The Netherlands
 * Rodrigo Capobianco Guido, University of São Paulo, Brazil
 * Sang Yong Han, Chung-Ang University, Seoul, Korea
 * Michael Hausenblas, Digital Enterprise Research Institute (DERI), NUI Galway, Ireland
 * Henry Hexmoor, Southern Illinois University at Carbondale, USA
 * Tzung-Pei Hong, National University of Kaohsiung, Taiwan
 * Yuh-Jong Hu, National Chengchi University, Taiwan
 * Mirjana Ivanovic, University of Novi Sad, Serbia
 * Ivan Jelínek, Czech Technical University, Prague
 * Jason J. Jung, Yeungnam University, Republic of Korea
 * Randi Karlsen, University of Tromsø, Norway
 * Jung-jae Kim, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
 * Yiannis Kompatsiaris, Informatics and Telematics Institute, Greece
 * Christoph Lange, Jacobs University Bremen, Germany, and University of Bremen, Germany
 * Daniel Lemire, Université du Québec à Montréal, Canada
 * Pawan Lingras, Saint Mary's University, Canada
 * Sandra Lovrenčić, University of Zagreb, Croatia
 * Pierre Maret, University of Lyon, France
 * Manfred Meyer, Fachhochschule Gelsenkirchen, Germany
 * Alexander Mädche, University of Mannheim, Germany
 * Eetu Mäkelä, Aalto University, Finland
 * Grzegorz J. Nalepa, AGH University of Science and Technology, Poland
 * José Palazzo M. de Oliveira, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil
 * Pinar Öztürk, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway
 * Elvira Popescu, University of Craiova, Romania
 * Viorel Negru, West University of Timisoara, Romania
 * Marek Obitko, Czech Technical University & Rockwell Automation Research Center, Prague
 * Jong C. Park, KAIST, Korea
 * Heiko Paulheim, Technische Universität Darmstadt, Germany
 * Tassilo Pellegrini, Semantic Web Company GmbH, Vienna, Austria
 * Michel Plantié, Centre de recherche LGI2P, France
 * Alessandro Provetti, Università degli Studi di Messina, Italy
 * Vijay Raghavan, University of Louisiana, USA
 * Kanagasabai Rajaraman, Institute for Infocomm Research, Singapore
 * Ashwin Ram, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA
 * Anand Ranganathan, IBM TJ Watson Research Center, USA
 * Christian Schallhart, Oxford University Computing Laboratory, UK
 * Yamada Seiji, National Institute of Informatics, Tokyo, Japan
 * Miguel-Angel Sicilia, University of Alcalá, Spain
 * Roman Słowiński, Poznań University of Technology, Poland
 * Eriks Sneiders, Stockholm University, Sweden
 * Panagiotis Symeonidis, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece
 * Yasufumi Takama, Tokyo Metropolitan University, Japan
 * Stefan Trausan-Matu, University "Politehnica" of Bucharest, Romania
 * Anni-Yasmin Turhan, Dresden University of Technology, Germany
 * Athena Vakali, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece
 * Csaba Veres, University of Bergen, Norway
 * Arild Waaler, University of Oslo, Norway
 * Yorick Wilks, University of Sheffield, UK
 * Sule Yildirim Yayilgan, Gjøvik University College, Norway
 * Sławomir Zadrożny, Systems Research Institute, Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland
 * Jie Zhang, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore