CALL FOR PAPERS

               ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE AND THE WEB

        a special track of technical conference papers at 

 AAAI-07: THE 22ND NATIONAL CONFERENCE ON ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
      22-26 July 2007, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
                   http://cs.umbc.edu/aaai07/

Co-Chairs:
  Tim Finin, University of Maryland, Baltimore County
  Peter Norvig, Google

Dates:
  1 February 2007 = Abstracts due
  6 February 2007 = Full papers due
  22-26 July 2007 = AAAI 2007 in Vancouver

The Web has evolved from a simple hypertext standard into a
ubiquitous, global information system including virtually all of
human knowledge. Today's Web provides ready access to not only
text, images and audio files, but also to structured and
semi-structured information, sensor data, composable services and
communities of people. It offers an open and decentralized
environment in which anyone can publish information and services
coupled with powerful search engines and agents to discover them.
All of this is ubiquitously available from wired, wireless and
mobile devices. The result is an environment enormously useful to
people for research, learning, commerce, socializing,
communication and entertainment. We have just begun to explore
how this vast amount of machine accessible knowledge can be
exploited and used by machines to better serve human needs as
well as to discover new knowledge.

The special track invites research papers on AI techniques,
systems and concepts involving or applied to the Web. Papers
should either describe Web related research or clearly explain
how the work addresses problems, opportunities or issues
underlying the Web or Web-based systems. Relevant topics include:

  * AI for Web services: semantic descriptions, planning,
    matching and coordination
  * AI for Web-based collaboration and cooperation
  * Agents and multiagent systems on the Web
  * Enhancing Web search and information retrieval
  * Human language technologies for Web systems, including
    information extraction, question answering, text
    summarization, machine translation and NLP.
  * Information integration on the Web
  * Intelligent user interfaces for Web systems
  * Knowledge acquisition from the Web
  * Languages, tools and methodologies for representing,
    managing and visualizing Semantic Web data
  * Link-analysis and graph mining on the Web 
  * Machine learning and the Web
  * Mining web logs, query logs, blogs
  *  Ontologies and the Web: creation, extraction, evolution,
    mapping, merging, and alignment; tags and folksonomies
  * Recognizing Web spam such as link farms and splogs
  * Representing, reasoning and using provenance, trust,
    privacy, and security on the Web
  * Searching, querying, visualizing and interpreting the
    Semantic Web
  * Social networking and community identification
  * Web personalization and user modeling
  * Web-based opinion extraction and trend spotting
  * Web-based recommendation systems

Prepare and submit papers following the guidelines for general
technical conference papers. Papers will be reviewed by qualified
reviewers drawn from a special track committee as well as the
general program committee. Submissions to this special track
deemed not to be relevant may be considered for review for the
general technical papers track at the discretion of the track and
conference co-chairs.