As the Web has become a major source of information, techniques and methodologies to extract quality information is of paramount importance for many Web applications and users. Data mining and knowledge discovery play key roles in many of today’s prominent Web applications such as e-commerce and computer security.

Following the success of MAW08 in Okinawa Japan, MAW09 in Bradford UK, MAW10 in Perth Australia, MAW11 in Singapore, MAW12 in Fukuoka Japan, MAW13 in Barcelona Spain, and MAW14 in Victoria Canada, the 8th MAW aims to bring together scientists, engineers, and practitioners to discuss, exchange ideas, and present their research on mining the Web.

Topics of interest that MAW15 covers include general mining techniques and methodologies, as well as their application to the Web (but are not limited to):

    Text, Data, and Media Mining
    Natural Language Processing
    Information Retrieval and Knowledge Discovery
    Ubiquitous and Portable Web Mining
    Social Networks and On-Line Communities
    Information Categorisation, Clustering, and Fusion
    Web Search, Ranking and Optimisation
    Collaborative Filtering, Personalisation and Recommender Systems
    Semantic Web and Ontology
    Cyber Security, Privacy, and Trust
    e-Technology, e-Government, and e-Learning
    Wikis and Blogs Mining
    Web and Business Intelligence
    Web Evolution and Analytics

Accepted papers will be published by the IEEE Conference Publishing Services (CPS) and archived in the Digital Library.

Extended version of selected papers will be considered for publication in several journals.