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                     MINING  THE  WEB
                     Special Issue of 
     INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF FOUNDATIONS OF COMPUTER SCIENCE
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             >>>>> First Call For Papers <<<<<

As the Internet evolves and expands at an explosive rate, it provides 
both great opportunities and grand challenges (and perhaps killer
applications) for data mining. In most major Internet application domains,
such as information presentations and exchanges, e-commerce, and search 
engines, data mining has been applied and successful cases have been 
reported. Various data-mining techniques have been used including 
prediction (for direct marketing, webpage classification, spam filtering, 
personalization, product recommendation, pre-fetching), generalization 
(for knowledge extraction), clustering (web-log analysis, customer 
segmentation) and association learning (for cross-sale). 

However, data mining application to the web is still in the process 
of "crossing the chasm". Many difficult problems need to be solved, 
such as huge sizes of data with mixed and rich types, lack of standard 
procedures for various business problems, integrating data mining with 
existing web application systems, and the privacy issue. If Internet is 
to become a killer application for data mining, those issues must be 
resolved effectively so the benefits (e.g., return of investment) of 
data mining becomes obvious to Internet companies.
 
It is, therefore, of special interest and urgency to expand our knowledge
on data mining applications to Internet, which is this special issue of 
IJFCS planned for.

We urge authors to submit papers on any topics of data mining applications 
to the Internet, including but not limited to:
-- Data mining for e-commerce (product recommendation, direct marketing, 
   customer retention, etc.)
-- Data mining for information presentation (webpage classification, 
   knowledge extraction from webpages or for search engines)
-- Data mining for personalization (fre-fetching, adaptation, etc.)
-- Mining web logs 

Schedule for the Special Issue of IJFCS on Mining the Web:
-- Submission deadline: May 1, 2001
-- Decision on acceptance: Sept 1, 2001. 
-- Final revised manuscripts due: Nov 1, 2001
-- Publication scheduled: early 2002.

Please submit electronic copy in Postscript, PDF, or MS Word (strongly 
encouraged), or five copies of your manuscript, to one of the guest editors:
  Charles Ling                      Nick Cercone
  Dept of Computer Science          Dept of Computer Science
  Univ of Western Ontario           University of Waterloo 
  London, Ontario N6A 5B7, Canada   Waterloo, Ontario N2L 3G1, Canada 
  ling@csd.uwo.ca                   ncercone@uwaterloo.ca

Instructions for submitting papers:
Papers should not exceed 30 double-spaced pages (12 pt fonts) including 
the title page, figures, tables, references, appendix, etc. and should 
not have been previously published, nor currently submitted elsewhere 
for publication. All submitted papers will be refereed in accordance with 
the usual criteria of IJFCS.

Updates of the Special Issue of IJFCS on Mining the Web can be found at
  http://www.csd.uwo.ca/faculty/ling/IJFCS/cfp.html

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