FQAS 2017 - 2nd CFP

[Hélène Jaudoin]

				FQAS 2017 - SECOND CALL FOR PAPER


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***     12th International Conference on Flexible Query Answering Systems  
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***                                    21st - 23rd June, 2017 
***                          University of Westminster, London, UK 
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***                                   http://fqas-2017.org 
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*** organized back-to-back with ISMIS 2017 http://ismis2017.ii.pw.edu.pl  in Warsaw, June 26-29

FQAS is the premier conference focusing on the key issue in the information society of providing easy, flexible, and intuitive access to information to everybody. In targeting this issue, the conference draws on several research areas, such as information retrieval, database management, data science, information filtering, knowledge representation, knowledge discovery, analytics, soft computing, management of multimedia information, and human-computer interaction. The guiding topic of the FQAS conferences are innovative query systems aimed at providing easy, flexible and human-friendly access to information. Such systems are becoming increasingly important also due to the huge and always growing number of users as well as the growing amount of available information. Thus, the works related to the concepts of data science, data streams querying etc. are very welcome

Since 1994, the conference has provided a unique and multidisciplinary forum for researchers, developers and practitioners to explore and exchange new ideas and approaches in all mentioned research areas.

We invite submission of original research contributions, and proposals for invited sessions, panels, and tutorials. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following in the context of intelligent information access and/or flexible query answering systems:

·       Flexible question answering systems
·       Context-awareness in query interpretation
·       Multimodal, Spoken and Multimedia query answering
·       Mobile information access systems
·       Ambient information access systems
·       Semantic Web
·       Data science and big data
·       Knowledge Discovery
·       Multimedia information Management
·       Business Analytics
·       Information Retrieval, Extraction and Fusion
·       Text and data mining
·       Knowledge representation
·       Ontologies
·       Ontology based query answering
·       Database management
·       Cross language querying and retrieval
·       Semantic query expansion
·       Domain and User Context Modelling
·       Privacy preserving Querying Answering
·       Human-Computer Interaction
·       User interfaces and data visualization
·       Search engines
·       Summarization of search results
·       Social media
·       Cloud Computing and Cloud Information Access
·       Collaborative information management
·       Approximate reasoning models
·       Soft Computing
·       Fuzzy sets, Logic and Probabilistic models
·       Imperfection/uncertainty management
·       Belief/trust management
·       Description Logics
·       Knowledge fusion from multilingual sources
·       Multilingual information extraction and QA systems


Instructions for authors
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All accepted papers will be published by Springer-Verlag in their Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence (LNAI) series. Authors are invited to submit original previously unpublished research papers written in English, of up to 12 pages, strictly following the LNCS/LNAI format guidelines. Authors can download the Latex (recommended) or Word templates available at Springer's web site (www.springer.com/lncs). Submissions not following the format guidelines will be rejected without review. At least one author of each published paper must register for the conference and present the paper at the conference.

Important dates
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Paper Submission:  January 25, 2017
Notification: March 1, 2017
Final Paper Due: April 1, 2017
Conference Dates: June 21-23, 2017

General Co-chairs
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Henning Christiansen, Denmark
Panagiotis Chountas, United Kingdom

Program Co-chairs
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Henning Christiansen, Denmark
Hélène Jaudoin, France

Steering Committee
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Troels Andreasen, Denmark
Henning Christiansen, Denmark
Henrik Legind Larsen, Denmark