Call for Workshop and Special Session Proposals

The 2023 IEEE/WIC International Joint Conference on Web Intelligence and Intelligent Agent Technology (WI-IAT'23) will be held in Venice, Italy, from 27th to 29th October 2023. Its organizing committee invites proposals for workshops/special sessions to be held in conjunction with the conference. The goals of the workshops/special sessions are to explore emerging research topics and to provide a forum for authors to present early research results on these topics. We would like to have a number of workshops/special sessions, with a high quality program dominated by contributed papers. We expect that workshops/special sessions will run a rigorous review process, to make sure programs will be of high-quality. Organizers may structure workshops/special sessions as they see fit, possibly including invited talks, panel discussions, presentations of work in progress, peer-reviewed papers, demonstrations, or some combination.

The topic falls in the general scope of WI-IAT 2023. There is a clear focus on a specific technology, problem or application. There should be a greater impact to the society. In particular, we encourage the submission of workshop/special-session proposals on:

  • Fairness in Web
  • Deep Learning/ML in the Web
  • Web for Social Good
  • Web for Smart cities
  • Web in/for IoT
  • Misinformation handling in the Web
  • Recommendation Systems for the Web
  • Big Data on the Web
  • User behaviour modelling in the Web
  • NLP in the Web
  • Mobile data mining in the Web
  • Social intelligence
  • Web/text mining


  • Important Dates (AoE)

  • Workshop Proposal Submission: April 16, 2023
  • Workshop Proposal Acceptance notification: April 30, 2023
  • Workshops/Special Sessions Paper Submission: August 7, 2023
  • Workshop Paper Acceptance Notification: August 15, 2023
  • Workshop Fast Track - Submission (For Main Conf's Rejected Papers): August 22, 2023
  • Workshop Fast Track - Notification (For Main Conf's Rejected Papers): August 29, 2023
  • Workshops and Special Sessions: October 26, 2023

  • Submission Instruction

    The workshop/special session proposal, in PDF, should provide the following information, following the format specified in this TEMPLATE. Please send a whole copy of your proposal in PDF format to the workshop/special session co-chairs with subject “Submission of WI-IAT 2023 workshop/special session proposal: XXX”, where XXX should be replaced by the acronym of your workshop/special session.

    The decision about acceptance or rejection of workshop/special session proposals will be made by the Workshop/special session co-Chairs in consultation with the General and Program Committee Chairs, taking into account several factors including overall quality, the topic fit with respect to WI-IAT 2023, the coverage of the topic in other tracks of the conference, the estimated number of attendees for the workshop/special session, etc.


    Contact (To Workshop Chairs)

    wi.iat.2023+workshops@unive.it


    Organisation Duties

  • Announce the calls for papers
  • Create and maintain the workshop/special-session website
  • Publicize workshop/special-session in the relevant communities
  • Create the Program Committee
  • Conduct the review process
  • Schedule the workshop/special-session program

  • Workshop/Special Session Chairs:

  • Marco Viviani, University of Milano Bicocca, Italy
  • Xujuan Zhou, University of Southern Queensland, Australia
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