日本データベース学会会員の皆様、 阪大の原です。 3月末に沖縄において、アジア圏におけるWebマイニングに関する国 際シンポジウムが開催されます。 本シンポジウムは、情報ネットワーク分野の国際会議として著名な AINAの併設シンポジウムという位置づけです。 ご投稿をご検討頂けましたら幸いです。 （投稿締切は10月1日です。） 原 隆浩 =================================================== | 原 隆浩 (Takahiro HARA), 工学博士 | | 大阪大学大学院情報科学研究科 | | マルチメディア工学専攻 准教授 | | 〒565-0871 大阪府吹田市山田丘1-5 | | E-mail: hara@ist.osaka-u.ac.jp | | URL: http://www-nishio.ist.osaka-u.ac.jp/~hara/ | | Tel: 06-6879-4511, Fax: 06-6879-4514 | =================================================== ====================================================================== Call for Papers The 2008 IEEE International Symposium on Mining the Asian Web (IEEE MAW-08) Conference URL: http://www.ece.uvic.ca/MAW08/ In conjunction with AINA 2008 Okinawa, Japan, March 25-28, 2008 ====================================================================== In the early days of the World Wide Web, web pages were predominantly written in English. As the web has become an indispensable resource to find information, nowadays many web documents can be found in other languages, notably in an Asian language such as Chinese, Japanese or Korean. Furthermore, meta-multilingual search is deemed to be a promising vehicle to increase the scope and the performance of web search. These advances naturally lead to wider research areas, venues, and issues. Since most commonly used web search and mining algorithms were originally developed for English web documents, these algorithms may need to be fine-tuned and modified for other languages. Data mining, artificial intelligence and information retrieval techniques used in web mining must now consider the linguistic aspects, national culture, and the business practices of the respective countries. ====================================================================== IMPORTANT DATES: - Full Paper submission deadline: October 1, 2007 - Author Notification: November 15, 2007 - Final camera-ready manuscript: December 21, 2007 (to be published by the IEEE Computer Society Press) ====================================================================== This symposium aims to bring together scientists, engineers and practitioners to discuss and exchange ideas, and present their research work in the three categories of web mining: structure, content, and usage, with a focus on the Asian Web. Topics of interest that MAW-08 covers include (but are not limited to): * Data mining and information retrieval techniques * Natural language processing * Knowledge discovery * Information fusion in meta-search * Text categorization and clustering * Multilingual web search * Collaborative filtering * Email and blog mining * Web search optimization * Web site ranking ====================================================================== General Chairs: Takahiro Hara, Osaka University, Japan Yanchun Zhang, Victoria University, Australia Program Chairs: William K. Cheung, Hong Kong Baptist University, China Shengrui Wang, Universite de Sherbrooke, Canada Hayato Yamana, Waseda University, Japan Steering Chairs: Kin Fun Li, University of Victoria, Canada Laurence T. Yang, St. Francis Xavier University, Canada Program Committee: Mostofa Akbar, Bangladesh Univ. of Eng. and Technology, Bangladesh Hanxiong Chen, Tsukuba University, Japan Korris Chung, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, China Benoit Dumoulin, Yahoo, Canada Tomohiro Fukuhara, University of Tokyo, Japan Yoshinori Hijikata, Osaka University, Japan Sachio Hirokawa, Kyushu University, Japan Tao Hong, Baidu.com, Inc., China Jingyu Hou, Deakin University, Australia Xiaohua (Tony) Hu, Drexel University, USA Yoshiharu Ishikawa, Nagoya University, Japan Young-Sik Jeong, Wonkwang University, Korea Qingshan Jiang, Xiamen University, China Toshihiro Kamishima, Natiaonal Institute of Advanced Industrial Sceinec and Technology, Japan Kazuhiro Kazama, NTT Network Innovation Laboratories, Japan Paul W.H. Kwan, University of New England, Australia C.H. Li, Hong Kong Baptist University, China Wei Li, Orange-France Telecom, USA Yuefeng Li, Queensland University of Technology, Australia Yuanning Liu, Jilin University, China Zhen Liu, Nagasaki Institute of Applied Science, Japan Jianguo Lu, University of Windsor, Canada Muhammad Nadzir Marsono, Universiti Teknologi Malaysia, Malaysia Tsuyoshi Murata, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan Kotaro Nakayama, Osaka University, Japan Michael Ng, Hong Kong Baptist University, China Jian-Yn Nie, Universite de Montreal, Canada Josiah Poon, University of Sydney, Australia Weining Qian, East China Normal University, China Keun Ho Ryu, Chungbuk National University, Korea David Taniar, Monash University, Australia Taro Tezuka, Kyoto University, Japan Masashi Toyoda, University of Tokyo, Japan Junhu Wang, Griffith University, Australia Martine Wedlake, IBM, USA Hongji Yang, De Montfort University, UK Jianwu Yang, Peking University, China Jinmin Yang, Hunan University, China Hwan-Seung Yong, Ewha Womans University, Korea Gordon Sun, Yahoo! Inc., USA Haojun Sun, Hebei University, China Yi Zhang, University of Electronic Science and Technology, China Koji Zettsu, NICT, Japan Aoying Zhou, Fudan University, China Shuigeng Zhou, Fudan University, China ====================================================================== Contact: MAW8@googlegroups.com