Web Intelligence (WI) is a new paradigm for scientific and research and technological development to explore the fundamental interactions between AI-engineering and advanced Information Technology (AIT) on the next generation of Web systems, services, and etc. Here AI-engineering is a general term that refers to a new area, slightly beyond traditional AI: brain informatics, human level AI, intelligent agents, social network intelligence and classical areas, such as knowledge engineering, representation, planning, and discovery and data mining are examples. AIT includes wireless networks, ubiquitous devices, social networks, and data/knowledge grids. WI research seeks to explore the most critical technology and engineering to bring in the next generation Web systems.

Following the great successes of WI'01, WI'03, WI'04 , WI'05 and WI'06 , we are excited to propose Silicon Valley as the site for the 2007 IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Web Intelligence (WI 2007) to be jointly held with the 2007 IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Intelligent Agent Technology, and we are confident that this high tech hub will be able to host WI 2007 with great success. WI 2007 is sponsored by the IEEE Computer Society Technical Committee on Intelligent Informatics (TCII), the Web Intelligence Consortium (WIC), and ACM-SIGART. Holding WI 2007 in the heart of the high tech world will provide special opportunities for collaboration between research scientists and engineers.

WI 2007 is planned to provide a leading international forum for researchers and practitioners (1) to present the state-of-the-art of WI technologies; (2) to examine performance characteristics of various approaches in Web-based intelligent information technology; and (3) to cross-fertilize ideas on the development of Web-based intelligent information systems among different domains. By idea-sharing and discussions on the underlying foundations and the enabling technologies of Web intelligence, WI 2007 will capture current important developments of new models, new methodologies and new tools for building a variety of embodiments of Web-based intelligent information systems.

Highlights

WI'07 will be co-located with the 2007 IEEE/ACM/WIC International Conference on Intelligent Agent Technology (IAT'07), the 2007 IEEE International Conference on Granular Computing (GrC'07) and the 2007 IEEE International Conference on Bioinformatics and Biomedicine (BIBM'07 ) The conference will take place in Silicon Valley, the center of high tech and web technology. Attendance will be open, although attendance is expected to be primarily authors of papers accepted at the conference or co-located workshops. We do expect significant attendance from high tech industry workers, given that Silicon Valley is such an important center for web development. We will consider both whole and partial registration fees to meet the needs of different participants. On November 3, 2007 , there will be joint keynote session and industry session. Parallel track meeting sessions, with no more than four parallel sessions. Each day, either in the morning (before parallel meeting sessions begin) or during the lunch hour, there will be a keynote presentation (plenary session) to all in attendance. Some keynote presentations will be held jointly with the IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Intelligent Agent Technology (IAT 2007). All papers will be included in proceedings published by IEEE press, as well as publication in the IEEE digital library.