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WEBKDD'08 - 10 Years of Knowledge Discovery on the Web
August 24, 2008
CALL FOR PAPERS
URL: http://webmining.spd.louisville.edu/webkdd08/
At the 14th ACM SIGKDD International Conference on
Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD 2008)
August 24-27, 2008, Las Vegas, USA
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Important dates
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o May 16, 2008: Submission of full papers
o June 13, 2008: Author notification
o June 20, 2008: Submission of Camera-ready papers (hard deadline)
o August 24, 2008: Workshop at ACM SIGKDD, Las Vegas, USA
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Yahoo! Best Paper Award for Web Mining:
Through a peer-review process that includes the workshop organizing
and program committees, a best paper will be selected based technical
quality, innovativeness, and contribution to the field. The authors of
the best paper will receive a $500 USD prize supported by Yahoo! Research.
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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 other
non-profit institution or other users. User preferences and expectations, together with usage
patterns, form the basis for personalized, user-friendly and optimal services. Key metrics
enabled by proper data capture and processing are essential to run an effective business or
service. Enabling technologies include data mining, scalable warehousing and preprocessing,
sequence discovery, real time processing, document classification, user modeling and quality
evaluation models for them. Recipient technologies that demand for user profiling and usage
patterns include recommendation systems, Web analytics applications, application servers
coupled with content management systems and fraud detectors.
Research advances associated with knowledge discovery on the Web observe the Web as a social
medium for exchange and cooperation, as a semantic network where people find information and
contribute information (by means of documents, annotations and comments) and as a place for
doing business, launching business and promoting business.
WEBKDD 2008 will bring together researchers and practitioners on these aspects of the Web.
The emphasis is on lessons learned, recent advances and open issues for the next decade.
WEBKDD 2008 will be the 10th anniversary workshop on knowledge discovery on the Web, taking
place at the KDD since 1999. WebKDD presentations have historically been of high quality and
influence, and workshops have in the past attracted not only audience from academia, but also
a significant audience from industry and government agencies. Altogether, the papers at the
past WEBKDD workshops have accumulated about 940 citations, including 7 patent citations that
cite the workshop as the premier reference on the topic of Web usage analysis.
(The citations are from Google Scholar, accessed between Feb. 10 and Feb. 12, 2008.)
In WEBKDD 2008, we anticipate a wrap-up and lessons-learned from 10 years of research on
mining the Web, the Semantic Web(s) and the social Web and a research agenda for the years to
come.
Workshop Topics
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The WEBKDD 2008 workshop will invite contributions on mining of all aspects of users' activities
in the Web, in particular:
- Mining server log (clickstream) data
- Web analytics
- Web content and structure mining
- Modeling users and their interaction with the Web
- Mining query log data and web search result mining
- Mining users' activities in social venues, ranging from chat fora with emphasis on interaction,
to recommendation networks with emphasis on spread of influence
- Mining users' activities in venues that foster the capturing of data semantics, e.g. for
building the Semantic Web or for the building of folksonomies
- web community mining and social network analysis
- Enabling technologies for Web mining, including technologies for Web warehousing, data
preparation, management of multi-relational data and streams, visualization, and evaluation
- Application areas, including recommendation engines, Web communities, Web marketplaces, Web
search, Web security and misuse and abuse of the Web and its services.
Paper Submission
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All submissions must be made electronically following the submission
information on the Workshop Web site:
http://webmining.spd.louisville.edu/webkdd08/
Please use the prescribed formatting guidelines of Springer LNCS
which can be found at:
http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-7-72376-0
Papers should be no longer than 12 pages (or 5,000 words) inclusive of
all references and figures. All papers must be submitted in either PDF
(preferred) or postscript. Please ensure that any special fonts used
are included in the submitted documents. All papers must be original,
and have not been published elsewhere. Exceptionally, paper submitted
to KDD 2008 can also be submitted to WebKDD2008 but must be withdrawn
if accepted at KDD 2008.
The workshop proceedings will be published in the Springer-Verlag Lecture
Note Series (LNCS) with the title "Advances in Web Mining and Web Usage
Analysis" (under negotiation). It will be distributed during the workshop.
Authors of accepted papers will be invited to submit an extended version of
their papers to the Journal “Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery” for a
special issue that serve as a wrap up of the most recent developments in
Web Mining (under negotiation).
Organizing Committee of WebKDD'08:
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Bamshad Mobasher, DePaul University, USA
Olfa Nasraoui, University of Louisville, USA
Myra Spiliopoulou, Otto-von-Guericke-University Magdeburg, Germany
Jaideep Srivastava, University of Minnesota, USA
Osmar R. Zaiane, University of Alberta, Canada
Program Committee of WebKDD'08:
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