Call for Papers of the Special Session on Web Data Matching - WDM 2012

Under the framework of the 8th International Conference on Next Generation Web Services Practices (NWeSP 2012), 21-23 November 2012 in São Carlos, Brazil

Objectives
In recent years, research in area of web mining and web searching grows rapidly, mainly thanks to growing complexity of digital data and the huge quantity of new data available every day. A Web user wishing to find information on a particular subject must usually guess the keywords under which that information might be classified by a standard search engine. There are also new approaches such as the various methods of the classification of web data based an analysis of unstructured and structured web data and use of human and social factors. WDM workshop focuses mainly (but not only) on methods of analysis of web data leading to their classification and use to improve user orientation at Web.

Specific topics of interest
To address the aforementioned aspects of evolution of social networks, the preferred topics for this special session are (but not limited to):
• Web pattern recognition and matching
• Web information extraction
• Web content mining
• Web genre detection
• Deep web analysis
• Relevance and ranking of web data
• Web search systems and applications
• Mapping structured and unstructured web data

Submission
Special Session paper submission will be done through NWeSP 2012 submission system and been evaluated with the same standard as the regular conference paper. All accepted papers will be included in the NWeSP 2012 conference proceedings.
Papers must be submitted within the stipulated time and electronic submission in PDF is required. A full paper (6 pages, A4 size) for oral presentation should in the IEEE 8.5 two-column format. Papers should contain up to 5 keywords. Papers will be evaluated for originality, significance, clarity, and soundness, and will be reviewed by at least three independent reviewers.

Details are available at the conference website http://www.mirlabs.net/nwesp12/ and special session website http://www.mirlabs.net/nwesp12/ss1.html. Submit your paper at the submission site https://www.easychair.org/account/signin.cgi?conf=nwesp12.

Program Chair
Vaclav Snášel, Department of Computer Science, VSB - Technical University of Ostrava, vaclav.snasel@vsb.cz
Miloš Kudělka, Department of Computer Science, VSB - Technical University of Ostrava, milos.kudelka@vsb.cz

Session Coordinators
Miloš Kudělka, milos.kudelka@vsb.cz
Eliška Ochodková, eliska.ochodkova@vsb.cz