The 2006 IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Web Intelligence ~IEEE/WIC/ACM WI 2006~ December 18-22, 2006, Hong Kong http://www.comp.hkbu.edu.hk/~wii06/wi/

International Workshop on
Adaptation and Personalization
for e-Business Intelligence
Monday, December 18
Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre, Room 608

Call for Participation

Workshop Theme and Goals
The Web has been formed to be an integral part of numerous applications in which a user interacts with a service provider, product sellers, governmental organizations, friends and colleagues. Content and services are available at different sources and places. Hence, Web applications need to combine all available knowledge in order to form personalized, user-friendly, and business-optimal services.
Web Personalization can be defined as any set of actions that can tailor the Web experience to a particular user or set of users. To achieve effective personalization, organizations must rely on all available data, including the usage and click-stream data (reflecting user behavior), the site content, the site structure, domain knowledge, as well as user demographics and profiles. In addition, efficient and intelligent techniques are needed to mine this data for actionable knowledge, and to effectively use the discovered knowledge to enhance the users' Web experience. These techniques must address important challenges emanating from the size and the heterogeneous nature of the data itself, as well as the dynamic nature of user interactions with the Web. These challenges include the scalability of the personalization solutions, data integration, and successful integration of techniques from machine learning, information retrieval and filtering, databases, agent architectures, knowledge representation, data mining, text mining, statistics, user modelling and human-computer interaction. Legal issues on the web and semantic Web add more dimensions to this. The workshop will also focus on the semantic web approach to personalization and adaptation.
The aim of this workshop is to bring together researchers and practitioners in the fields of web engineering, adaptive hypermedia, semantic web technologies, knowledge management, information retrieval, user modeling, and other related disciplines which provide enabling technologies for personalization and adaptation on the World Wide Web.

Topics

• design, methodologies and architectures of adaptable and adaptive Web information systems
• user interface design for adaptive applications on the Web
• semantic web techniques for adaptation
• authoring of adaptive hypermedia for the Web
• distributed user modelling and adaptation
• semantic web mining
• personalized taxonomies or ontologies
• hybrid recommendation systems
• model integration for personalization and recommendation systems
• web usage, content, and structure mining
• automated techniques for generation and updating of user profiles
• machine learning techniques for information extraction and integration
• applications of relational data mining in personalization
• adaptive personalized web applications
• e-Business intelligence
• internet legal issues
• personalization for e-trust
• requirements for trusting information, services, users on the web
• trust in business rules and contracts
• e-contracting

Programme Committee

• Shing-Chi CHEUNG, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
• Dickson K.W. CHIU, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University.
• Ronen FELDMAN, Department of Computer Science, Bar-Ilan University, Israel.
• Peter HAASE, Institute AIFB, University of Karlsruhe, Germany.
• Patrick C. K. HUNG, Faculty of Business and Information Technology University of Ontario Institute of Technology (UOIT), Canada.
• Kamal KARLAPALEM, International Institute of Information Technology (IIIT), India.
• P. Radha KRISHNA, Institute for Development & Research in Banking Technology (IDRBT), India.
• Bamshad MOBASHER, School of Computer Science, Telecommunication, and Information Systems, DePaul University, USA.
• Olfa NASRAOUI, Dept of Computer Engineering & Computer Science, the University of Louisville, USA.
• Martin RAJMAN, Center for Global Computing, EPFL, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Switzerland.
• Maria RIGOU, Computer Engineering and Infomatics Department, University of Patras and Computer Technology Institute, Greece.
• Lars SCHMIDT-THIEME, Computer-based New Media, Institute for Computer Science, University of Freiburg, Germany
• Spiros SIRMAKESSIS, Computer Technology Institute and Technological Educational Institution of Messolongi, Greece.
• John TZIMAS, Computer Engineering and Infomatics Department, University of Patras and Computer Technology Institute, Greece.
• Michalis VAZIRGIANNIS, Department of Informatics, Athens University of Economics & Business, Greece.
• Steven WILLMOTT, Languages and Systems Department, Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya, Spain.
• Michalis XENOS, Hellenic Open University, Greece.
• Evangelos SAKKOPOULOS, Computer Engineering and Infomatics Department, University of Patras and Computer Technology Institute, Greece
• Dimitris KALLES, Hellenic Open University, Greece.

Workshop Program
Monday, December 18th
Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre, Room 608
Chair: Eleanna Kafeza

9:00 - 9:30	"An Exploratory Study of Incorporating Task-stage Identification into a Long-term Document Support Process" by I-Chin Wu and Pei-Cheng Chang
9:30 - 10:00	"Using Soft Clustering Technique in Adaptive Web Site" by Mohamed Ismail and Rasha Abdelkawy Shokry
10:00 - 11:00	Coffee Break
11:00 - 11:30	"Web-service Based Information Integration for e-Financial Planning System Matchmaking Decision Support" by Kelvin K.K. Lee, Dickson K.W. Chiu and Patrick C.K. Hung
11:30 - 12:00	"Enhanced Recommendations through Propagation of Trust and Distrust" by Patricia Victor, Chris Cornelis and Martine De Cock
12:00 - 12:30	"The Role of Content in m-Commerce and the Personalization Dimension" by Spiridoula Koukia, Maria Rigou, and Spiros Sirmakessis

Important Dates:

Registration and full payment	Available at IEEE/WIC/ACM - WI06
WI 2006	December 18-22, 2006

Location
Situated at the southeastern tip of China, Hong Kong is ideally positioned at the centre of rapidly developing East Asia. With a total area of 1 103 square kilometres, it covers Hong Kong Island, the Kowloon peninsula just opposite, and the New Territories the more rural section of Hong Kong, which also includes 262 outlying islands. More information...

Inquiries:
 

Spiros SIRMAKESSIS Assistant Professor Unit Manager R.A. Computer Technology Institute N. Kazantzaki str., Patras University 26500, Greece Tel: +302610 960 420 Fax: +302610 960322 Email: syrma@cti.gr URL: http://www.hci-course.gr/bio.htm

Eleanna KAFEZA Lecturer Athens University of Economics and Business Department of Marketing and Communication Patision 76, Athens 10434 Greece Phone +30 2 10 8203941 Email: kafeza@aueb.gr  URL:http://www.mbc.aueb.gr

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