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Special Issue: Springer WWW Journal: Human Centered WEB SCIENCE
Internet and Web Information Systems
Editors-in-Chief: M. Rusinkiewicz; Y. Zhang
ISSN: 1386-145X (print version)
ISSN: 1573-1413 (electronic version)
Journal no. 11280
Springer US
http://www.springer.com/computer/database+management+%26+information+retrieval/journal/11280
Special Issue: Springer WWW Journal: Human Centered WEB SCIENCE
Special Issue Call for Papers
Human-Centered Web Science
Ernesto Damiani, University of Milano, Italy
Email: damiani@dti.unimi.it
bio available from http://olaf.crema.unimi.it/
Miltiadis Lytras, University of Patras, Greece
Email: Lytras@ceid.upatras.gr
bio available from http://www.miltiadislytras.net/
Philippe Cudre-Mauroux, CSAIL, MIT, US,
Email: pcm@csail.mit.edu
bio available from http://people.csail.mit.edu/pcm/
Traditionally, representing the behavior of human users and processing this
representation has been the bailiwick of usability and human computer interaction research. Today, however, the users' individual and collective behavior is a source of emergent semantics playing a fundamental role in the correct operation of large scale Web-based and service-oriented systems. For instance, the timehonored problem of mapping huge amounts of heterogenous and distributed data items to concepts from a shared conceptualization can be tackled by taking into account the user behavior when accessing the information as a crucial complement to the similarity between the data items themselves. Human-centered approaches are being experimented with in many domains. To name but a few, community-based data integration, large scale privacy/identity management, collaborative information classification, and location-aware systems and services increasingly rely on formal representations of user purpose and
interactions. This special issue will focus on techniques for exploiting the representation of human behavior as a fundamental resource in the operation of large scale Webbased and service-oriented systems.
Topics include, but are not limited to, the following:
1. Applications of the Human Centered approach to large scale systems:
• Large-scale information platforms (e.g., personal knowledge management
systems, semantic desktops, knowledge portals)
• Emergent Semantics in peer-to-peer, grid, and multimedia systems
• Mediation, negotiation, and conflict resolution
2. Human-in-the-loop in Semantic Web data and services:
• Languages, tools, methodologies, and rules Integration, analysis, and visualization
• Human behavior in service discovery and classification
• The human role in semantic interoperability of workflows and processes Human- driven mash-ups
• Personalization and user modeling
• Semantic matching of user needs and web resources
3. Human-driven evolution of information and ontologies:
• Formal representation of the human impact on information evolution
• Ontology alignment (mapping, matching, merging, mediation, and reconciliation)
• Ontology learning and metadata generation
• Use of human feedback for searching and ranking ontologies
4. Social Semantic Web:
• Social networks and processes on the Semantic Web
• Semantic Web technology for collaboration and cooperation
• Representing and reasoning about trust, privacy, security, and intellectual property rights
• Tools and processes for sense-making, analysis, and decision- making
5. User Interfaces:
• Interacting with Web data and services
• Web content creation and annotation
• Interfaces for mashing-up Web data and processes
REVIEWING and ACCEPTANCE
All manuscripts must be submitted in English. Submitted manuscripts that do not conform to the World Wide
Web Journal will be returned to authors for correction.
Manuscripts submitted for publication will be reviewed by three peer reviewers, according to the usual policies
of the WWW Journal.
Paper Submission
Authors are encouraged to submit high-quality, original work that has
neither appeared in, nor is under consideration by, other journals.
Springer offers authors, editors and reviewers of World Wide
Web a web-enabled online manuscript submission and review
system. Our online system offers authors the ability to track the
review process of their manuscript.
Manuscripts should be submitted
Authors should choose article type: S.I.: Human-Centered Web
Science when submitting their paper. This online system offers
easy and straightforward log-in and submission procedures, and
supports a wide range of submission file formats.
Important Dates
• Paper submission deadline:
February 28, 2009
• First round notification:
May 15, 2009
• Revised versions due:
June 15, 2009
• Camera ready papers:
September 15, 2009