IEEE MAW-08

The 2008 IEEE International Symposium on Mining And Web (IEEE MAW-08)

(formerly Mining the Asian Web)

in conjunction with

The IEEE 22nd International Conference on Advanced Information Networking and Applications (AINA 2008)

March 25-28, 2008

GinoWan, Okinawa, Japan

***Advanced Program***

Call for Papers (PDF)

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.

This symposium aims to bring together scientists, engineers and practitioners to discuss and exchange ideas, and present their research work. Although the primary focus of the symposium is on the Asian Web, submissions addressing general web/text/data mining are also welcome. 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

Paper Submission: Original full paper of at most 6 (six) pages including figures and references in PDF (IEEE Computer Society Proceedings Style: two columns, single-spaced, 10 font; check IEEE CS Author Guidelines); submission of a paper should be regarded as a commitment that, if the paper is accepted, at least one of the authors will register and attend the conference. Accepted papers will be published by the IEEE Computer Society Press.

Please Submit Your Paper On-Line: MAW08 Submission Site

Important Dates:

• Submission Deadline: Extended to November 4, 2007
• Author Notification on: November 27, 2007
• Author Registration by: Extended to December 17, 2007 at AINA web site
• Final Manuscript: December 21, 2007

General Chairs:

• Takahiro Hara, Osaka University, Japan
• Yanchun Zhang, Victoria University, Australia

Program Chairs:

• William K. Cheung, Hong Kong Baptist University, China
• Shengrui Wang, Université 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 University of Engineering and Technology, Bangladesh
• Hanxiong Chen, Tsukuba University, Japan
• Korris Chung, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, China
• Benoit Dumoulin, Yahoo, Canada
• Sumio Fujita, Yahoo! Japan Research, Japan
• 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, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology, Japan
• Kazuhiro Kazama, NTT Network Innovation Laboratories, Japan
• Paul W.H. Kwan, University of New England, Australia
• Chun Hung 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-Yun Nie, Université de Montréal, 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, Shantou 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
• Qiuyu, Zhu, Shanghai University, China

Contact: MAW8(at)googlegroups(dot)com

Updated: February 8, 2008