CALL FOR CHAPTERS 2010 - Quantitative Semantics and Soft Computing Methods for the Web: Perspectives and Applications

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Category CALL FOR CHAPTERS 2010

Deadline: July 15, 2010 | Date: November 30, 2010

Venue/Country: Call for Chapters, Albania

Updated: 2010-07-01 14:10:16 (GMT+9)

Call For Papers - CFP

Editors:

Ramon F. Brena and Adolfo Guzman-Arenas

Tecnológico de Monterrey, México

Call for Chapters:

Introduction

The Internet has been acknowledged as one of the recent technological revolutions, due to its large impact in the whole society. Nevertheless, precisely due to its impact, limitations of the current internet are becoming apparent; in particular, its inability to take into account in an automatic way the meaning of online documents. Some proposals for taking meaning into account began to appear, mainly the so-called “Semantic Web”, which includes a set of technologies like RDF, based on new markup languages. Though these technologies could be technically sound, practical limitations, such as the high training level required to construct semantic web pages, and the small proportion of current semantic web pages ?which, circularly produces low commercial interest in RDF, end up making the semantic web marginal today and also in the near foreseeable future.

So, other options for taking into account semantics of today’s internet were proposed. From “latent” semantics to fuzzy techniques and many others, they have in common their interest in modeling in an approximate way the meaning of online documents, at least for identifying their subject or topic. Extensive use of counting, statistical methods can bring to front many semantic “hidden” regularities of the web.

Objective of the Book

This book will aim to provide relevant theoretical frameworks and the latest empirical research findings related to quantitative, soft-computing and approximate methods for dealing with internet semantics.

Target Audience

The target audience of this book will be composed of professionals and researchers working in the fields of information and knowledge related technologies, e.g. information sciences and technology, computer science, web science, and artificial intelligence. The book will be written for professionals (but not necessarily leading specialists) who want to improve their understanding of this novel area.

Recommended topics include, but are not limited to, the following:

? Semantic similarity measures

? Automatic topic discovery

? Semantic-related clustering

? Approximate use of hyperlinks

? Semantic algorithms scalability

? Semantics-leveraged search algorithms

? Applications of approximate semantics

Submission Procedure

Researchers and practitioners are invited to submit on or before July 15, 2010, a 2-3 page proposal clearly explaining the mission and concerns of his or her proposed chapter. Authors of accepted proposals will be notified by July 30, 2010 about the status of their proposals and sent chapter guidelines. Full chapter drafts are expected to be submitted by August 31, 2010 for double-blind revision, using the email given below. Contributions will be 7,000-10,000 word MS Word documents (LaTeX formatting is not acceptable to the publisher), not including formulas and figures. Contributors may also be requested to serve as reviewers for this project.

Publisher

This book is scheduled to be published by IGI Global (formerly Idea Group Inc.). For additional information regarding the publisher, please visit www.igi-global.com. This publication is anticipated to be released in 2011.

Important Dates:

July 15, 2010: Extended abstracts submission

July 30, 2010: Preliminary acceptance notification

August 31, 2010: Full Chapter submission

October 30, 2010: Revised Chapter Submission

November 15, 2010: Final Acceptance Notifications

November 30, 2010: Submission of Final Chapters

Editorial Advisory Board members:

Ernesto Damiani U. of Milan, Italy

Randy Goebel U. of Alberta, Canada

Fakhri Karray U. of Waterloo, Canada

Trevor Martin U. of Bristol, England

Vasile Rus U. of Memphis, USA

Manuel Vilares Ferro University of Vigo, Spain

Yorick Wilks, University of Sheffield, UK

Ricardo Baeza-Yates, Yahoo Research, Spain

Inquiries and submissions can be forwarded electronically (Word document):

Dr. Ramon F. Brena

Department of Computer Science, Tecnologico de Monterrey

Tel.: +52 (81) 8358 2000 ext 5246 ? Fax: +52 (81) 8328 4189 ? Google Voice: +1 (956) 887 0224

E-mail: ramon.brenaitesm.mx