Call for papers for a special issue of

INFORMATION FUSION

The International Journal on Multi-Sensor, Multi-Source Information Fusion

An Elsevier Publication

On

Web Information Fusion

Editor-in-Chief: Dr. Belur V. Dasarathy

d.belur@elsevier.com   http://belur.no-ip.com

 

The Information Fusion Journal is planning a special issue devoted to Web Information Fusion. The World Wide Web provides a new medium for information storage, sharing, processing and distribution. The availability, accessibility and flexibility of information and tools to access information lead to new opportunities. However, there are many challenges, i.e., we have to deal with more complex tasks, and more demands for quality and productivity. The challenges of seeking the right information and learning to effectively use the existing tools are greater due to the rate of growth and diversity of information. The aim of this special issue is to provide a forum for presentation on recent advances in Web Information Fusion. It is meant to cover foundations, methodology and applications of Web information fusion, including information fusion with the Web technology and fusion of Web-based information. Soft computing approach, for instance, with its tolerant of imprecision, uncertainty, partial truth, and approximation, is highly promising for the integration of diverse sources and types of Web information.

 

Manuscripts (which should be original and not previously published or presented in a more or less similar any form under any other forum) covering novel methods and applications of Web information fusion especially with soft computing approaches are invited. Topics appropriate for this special issue include, but are not limited to:

 

·         Web Information Fusion

·         Novel Web Information Fusion Methods

·         Web Information Fusion With Soft Computing Approaches

·         Web Information Fusion with Classification Techniques

·         Web Information Fusion with Clustering Techniques

·         Web Mining for multi-source Data

·         Web-based Support Systems for Information Fusion

·         Information Fusion with Metasearch Engines

·         Fusion of Web Search Engines

·         Multimedia Web Data Fusion

·         Information Fusion on Web-Based Remote Sensing

·         Intelligent Agents For Multi-Source Web Information Fusion

 

Manuscripts should be submitted electronically online at http://www.elsubmit.com/esubmit/inffus. (The corresponding author will have to create a user profile if one has not been established before at Elsevier) Simultaneously, please also send without fail an electronic copy (PDF format preferred), to the Guest Editors listed below.

 

Guest Editors

 


JingTao Yao

Department of Computer Science

University of Regina

Regina, SK, S4S 0A2, Canada

jtyao@cs.uregina.ca

 

Vijay V. Raghavan

Center for Advanced Computer Studies University of Louisiana at Lafayette

Lafayette, LA 70504-4330, USA

raghavan@cacs.louisiana.edu  


 

 

Deadline for Submission: June 20, 2005