SPECIAL SESSION:
Fuzzy Logic and Intelligent Web
ORGANIZERS:
Sabrina Senatore (ssenatore@unisa.it)
Università degli Studi di Salerno, Salerno, Italy
University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada
IMPORTANT DATES:
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SCOPE:
In complex and dynamic environments such as Internet, the exigency of tools supporting human desiderata is a granted feature. Web applications, as well as web services, are developed using enhanced techniques capable of intelligent processing of information. They offer features based on data patterns and relationships that could be hard to discover manually.
The Web is an open network that lends itself to applications enabling extensive and multi-level collaboration. At the same time, the web represents a global repository of information, or in general knowledge, stored in different languages, formats and locations. This knowledge is available but not always directly usable. Intelligent web solutions that manage complex and distributed data need to be developed. They should understand intended semantics of the data use intelligent techniques and mechanisms to process it, and make it accessible. Applications of standards and protocols should reduce ambiguity and allow for application of automated reasoning techniques. Yet, intelligent web applications are often not designed to express and deal with uncertainties and vagueness – the unquestionable components of the real world knowledge representation.
Fuzzy logic represents a flexible infrastructure that is able to deal with the semantics of data and handle the intrinsic ambiguity in data model-theoretic representations. It provides an intelligent computing layer for enhanced data elaboration and reasoning, and fills the gap between soft human-understanding and hard machine-processing. Intelligent Web systems can benefit from these abilities by modeling ambiguity using methods and techniques more suitable for handling uncertainty and representing continuous data, as well as reasoning techniques that mimic human-like thinking processes.
This Special Session aims at providing contributions about approaches, methodologies,
and tools that lead to a seamless integration of fuzzy techniques and web applications in order to achieve a truly intelligent systems. We invite original contributions that provide novel solutions to challenging problems and addressing theoretical or practical aspects of developing web intelligent systems by means of fuzzy logic–based techniques and methods.
Topics of interest includes but are not limited to:
- Knowledge Discovery & Management on the Web - Intelligent Fuzzy-based Systems for the Web - Semantic Web applications - Fuzzy Rule-based Systems - Recommendation Systems - Context and Social Awareness - Intelligent Human-Web Interaction - Question Answering - Search Engines and Meta-search Engines - Social Networks Modeling and Mining - Opinion Mining and Sentiment Analysis - Text Mining and Web Content Mining - Content-based Web Information Filtering - Ontology-Based Information Extraction and Retrieval - Web Information Clustering, Extraction, and Retrieval -