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CALL FOR PAPERS
WebCBR: Reasoning from Experiences on the Web
http://www.comp.rgu.ac.uk/docs/webcbr/
Workshop at the 8th International Conference on Case Based Reasoning
21st July 2009, Seattle, Washington, USA
http://www.iccbr.org/iccbr09/
Paper Submission Deadline: 17th April 2009
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Advances in web technology have led to vast amounts of user generated
experiential web content in the form of blogs, emails, reviews and
opinions. Proliferation of web content invariably also means
significant increases in web usage. Typically many users will have
similar searching and browsing needs and should ideally benefit from
this commonality.
The WebCBR workshop will explore ways in which Case-Based Reasoning
(CBR) can advance web technology in two ways. Firstly by enabling
better analysis, retrieval and reuse of experiential knowledge
residing on the web. Secondly by harnessing web usage experiences to
improve browsing and searching.
Submission Topics
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We are keen to showcase research on novel indexing and reasoning
schemes that go beyond link analysis and exploit folksonomies as well
as ontologies, search and browsing that exploits novel evidence
combination techniques from text, multimedia, user content and user
interactions. This calls for hybrid approaches that draw from, and
extend, research in related areas (e.g. Information Retrieval,
Machine Learning, Computational Linguistics, Information Extraction,
Text Mining and adaptive user interfaces).
Topics will include, but not be limited to, the following:
- How to express experiences
- How to analyze and use people's web content
- How to develop and use folksonomies
- How to integrate ontologies and domain knowledge
- How to capture & exploit user interaction for search and browsing
- How to express a user's needs for other people's experiences
- How to capture and exploit content in social software technologies
Format and Submission
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Workshop papers should be submitted in Springer LNCS format, which is
the format required for the final camera-ready copy, with a maximum
of 10 pages for full papers and 5 pages for short (position) papers.
Authors' instructions along with LaTeX and Word macro files are
available on the web www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html.
Full papers in PDF format should be submitted using the ICCBR-09
EasyChair Conference Site:
https://www.easychair.org/login.cgi?conf=iccbr09
Here you should use the WebCBR (Workshop 2) track
submission facility.
Important Dates
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April 17th, 2009: Deadline for workshop paper submission
May 8th, 2009: Notification of acceptance for workshop papers
June 5th, 2009: Final camera ready copies
July 21st, 2009:Workshop
Organising Committee
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Derek Bridge, University College Cork, Ireland
Enric Plaza, IIIA-CSIC, Catalonia, Spain
Nirmalie Wiratunga, Robert Gordon University, Scotland, UK
Program Committee
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Klaus-Dieter Althoff, University of Hildesheim, Germany
Ralph Bergmann, University of Trier, Germany
Sutanu Chakraborti, Indian Institute of Technology Chennai, India
Paulo Gomes, University of Coimbra, Portugal
David Leake, Indiana University, USA
Ashwin Ram, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA
Barry Smith, University College Dublin, Ireland
The Robert Gordon University is the best modern university in the UK (The Times Good University Guide 2009)
The Robert Gordon University, a Scottish charity registered under charity number SCO 13781.
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