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International Journal of Knowledge and Web Intelligence

 

Special Issue on: "Web for All"

Guest Editor: Prof Cecilia Sik Lanyi, University of Pannonia, Hungary

The number of the handicapped people is growing worldwide. One of the reasons is that in most industrialised countries the demographic, structural and social trends tend towards an increasing number of elderly people in single households, which definitely has effects on healthcare, emergency medical services and of course on the individuals themselves.

Older people and new technologies are one of the important research and development areas, where accessibility, usability and life-long learning play a major role. Older people live sometimes alone and their goal is to live independently for as longer as possible. To assist them in this, it is often necessary - and certainly advantageous - to use ICT, including the internet. People with disabilities can gain a great benefit from the convenience offered by web services, but only if the service is accessible to and usable by them. Barrier-free accessibility has been considered an important issue not only for the organisation of people with disabilities, but for all industry.

Design of products and services for everybody (including disabled people) is not only a philosophical question or humanitarian effort, but also a financial one too. If a product is usable for a handicapped person, it is easy to use for everybody. We read nowadays about design for all, universal design, inclusive design, barrier-free design. Instead of disability and age, design for all fosters diversity, and instead of special social action it fosters mainstreaming.

Recently, increasing research efforts have been dedicated to the aforementioned challenges and opportunities. This special issue aims to introduce novel techniques, algorithms and systems regarding social products on the Web.

Subject Coverage
Topics of interest include but not limited to:

• Intelligent searching and navigating the Web
• Personalised access to the Web and recommender systems
• Innovations, applications and issues in the domain of intelligent technologies (artificial intelligence, data mining and machine learning) for the Web
• XML data mining, querying and management
• Ontology generation, learning and reasoning
• Semantic Web and Web 2.0
• Web usage, content and structure mining
• Web-based decision support systems
• Intelligent human-web interaction
• Social network analysis and Web blog mining

Notes for Prospective Authors

Submitted papers should not have been previously published nor be currently under consideration for publication elsewhere. (N.B. Conference papers may only be submitted if the paper was not originally copyrighted and if it has been completely re-written).

All papers are refereed through a peer review process. A guide for authors, sample copies and other relevant information for submitting papers are available on the Author Guidelines page

Important Dates

Paper submission: 30 November 2009

First round acceptance notification: 28 February, 2010

Revision: 30 April, 2010

Final decision: 31 May, 2010

Publication data: Summer or Fall 2010