2010 IEEE / WIC / ACM International Conferences

Call for Papers

2010 IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Web Intelligence (WI-10)

August 31 - September 3, 2010, York University, Toronto, Canada

http://www.yorku.ca/wiiat10

Sponsored By:
IEEE Computer Society
Web Intelligence Consortium (WIC)
Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)

Papers Due: March 26, 2010 Accepted papers will be published in the conference proceedings by the IEEE Computer Society Press, which is indexed by EI.

WI 2010 will provide a leading international forum of scientific research and development to explore the fundamental interactionsbetween AI-engineering and Advanced Information Technology (e.g., wireless networks, ubiquitous devices, social networks, anddata/knowledge grids), and their role on the next generation of Web-empowered products, Web systems and services. AI-engineering refers to a new area, slightly beyond tradional AI, which encompasses: brain informatics, human level AI, intelligent agents, social network intelligence, knowledge engineering, representation, planning, data mining and discovery.

WI 2010 will be jointly held with the 2010 IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Intelligent Agent Technology (IAT-10). The twoconferences will have a joint opening, keynote, reception, and banquet. Attendees only need to register for one conference and canattend workshops, sessions, tutorials, panels, exhibits and demonstrations across the two conferences. We are also planning ajoint panel, joint paper sessions, and a doctoral mentoring program to discuss common problems in the two areas.

Topics of Interest

We invite submissions in all WI related areas. Papers exploring new directions or areas will receive a careful and supportive review. Areas of interest include, but are not limited to:

Wi Foundations

• Brain Informatics for WI
• Human Level WI
• New Cognitive Models and Computational Models for WI
• Granular Computing (GrC) for WI
• Soft Computing for WI
• Autonomy-Oriented Computing (AOC) for WI
• Human-Inspired WI Computing

World Wide Wisdom Web (W4)

• Meta-Knowledge Discovery and Representation
• Problem Solver Markup Language (PSML)
• Search of Best Means and Ends
• Goal-Directed Services Support
• Distributed Resources Optimization
• Service Self-Aggregation
• Web Inference Engine
• Information and Knowledge Markets
• New Social Interaction Paradigms
• Social and Psychological Contexts Regularities and Laws of W4

Web Information Retrieval and Filtering

• Web Information Retrieval in context
• Multimedia Indexing
• Personalization
• Location-based Information Retrieval
• Geographic information retrieval
• Content-based Information Filtering
• Collaborative Filtering and Recommendation
• Hybrid Recommendation
• Clustering-Based Recommender Systems
• Information Retrieval Models and Evaluations
• Web Information Categorization
• Ranking Techniques
• Proxy and Cache Techniques
• Web Prediction and Pre-fetching
• Distributed Web Search
• Specifications for Web Information Extraction Process
• Web Crawling Systems
• Search Engines and Meta-search Engines

Semantics and Ontology Engineering

• Semantic Web
• Ontology-Based Information Extraction and Retrieval
• Ontology-Based Web Mining
• Web-Based Ontology Learning
• Web Scale Reasoning
• Commonsense Knowledge Processing on the Web
• Unifying Search and Reasoning

Web Mining and Farming

• Text Mining
• Data Stream Mining
• Multimedia Data Mining
• Web Content Mining
• Web Log and Usage Mining
• Context Sensitive Web Mining
• Web Information Clustering
• Web Page Clustering and Mining
• Data Warehousing
• Web Farming and Warehousing

Social Networks and Ubiquitous Intelligence

• Social Networks Theory, Models, and Mining
• Web Site Clustering
• Web 2.0
• Link Topology and Link Analysis
• Theories of Small-World Web
• Virtual and Web Communities
• Web-Based Cooperative Work
• Knowledge Community Formation and Support
• Ubiquitous and Social Computing
• Intelligent Wireless Web
• Entertainment
• Social Media
• Human Computation and Social Games
• Opinion Mining and Sentiment Analysis
• Social Monetization and Computational Advertising

Knowledge Grids and Grid Intelligence

• Semantic Grids
• Knowledge Resources and Services Discovery
• On-Demand Planning and Routing
• Brokering and Scheduling
• Middleware Architectures and Tools

Web Agents

• Global Information Foraging
• Distributed Problem Solving
• Coordination
• Resource Intermediary and Coordination Mechanisms
• Self-Organization and Reproduction
• Agent Networks and Topologies
• Mobile Agents
• Macroscopic Behavior Modeling
• Trust Models for Web Agents

Web Services

• Service-Oriented Computing
• Matchmaking
• Web Service Reconfiguration
• Web Service Workflow Composition
• Middleware-Based Ubiquitous Services
• Grid Services

Intelligent Human-Web Interaction

• Adaptive Web Interfaces
• Context-Aware Computing
• Emotional Factor
• Learning User Profiles
• Multimedia Representation
• Personalized Interfaces
• Personalized Websites
• Remembrance Agents
• Smart Digital Media
• Cyberpsychology for HCI
• User Interests and User Modeling
• Visualization of Information and Knowledge
• Social and Psychological Issues

Web Support Systems

• Information Retrieval Support Systems
• Web Site Navigation Support Systems
• Recommender Support Systems
• Web-Based Decision Support Systems
• Soft Computing (including neural networks, fuzzy logic, evolutionary computation, rough sets, and granular computing) and Uncertainty Management for WI

Intelligent e-Technology

• Business Intelligence
• Intelligent Enterprise Portals
• Web-Based Direct Marketing and CRM
• Web-Based EDI
• Digital Libraries
• e-Publishing
• e-Business and e-Commerce
• e-Things and e-Activities
• e-Finance
• e-Learning
• e-Medicine
• e-Science
• e-Government
• e-Community Decentralized Community Communication Techniques
• Web Security, Integrity, Privacy and Trust

On-Line Submissions and Publication

High-quality papers in all WI related areas are solicited. Paper submissions should be limited to a maximum of 8 pages in the IEEE 2-column format. The same format will be used for final camera-ready papers(see the Author Guidelines at http://www.ieeeconfpublishing.org/cpir/AuthorKit.asp?Community=CPS&Facility=CPS_Dec&ERoom=WI%2DIAT+2008). All submitted papers will be reviewed by the Program Committee on the basis of technical quality, relevance, significance, and clarity.

Note that WI'10 will accept ONLY on-line submissions, containing PDF versions. Please use the Submission Form on the WI'10 website to submit your paper. Accepted papers will be published in the conference proceedings by the IEEE Computer Society Press that are indexed by EI.

Submissions accepted as regular papers will be allocated 8 pages in the proceedings and accorded oral presentation in the main conference. Submissions accepted as short papers will be allocated 4 pages in the proceedings and will have a shorter presentation time at the conference than regular papers.

All co-authors will be notified for the submission, notification, and confirmation on the attendance. Submitting a paper to the conference and workshops means that, if the paper is accepted, at least one author should attend the conference to present the paper. The acceptance list and no-show list will be openly published on-line. For no-show authors, their affiliations will receive a notification.

Authors of a selected number of WI'10 accepted papers will be invited to submit expanded and revised versions of their papers for condideration for inclusion in Web Intelligence and Agent Systems: An: An International Journal (http://wi-consortium.org/journal.html) and other related journals.

The best paper awards will be conferred at the conference on the authors of (1) the best research paper and (2) the best application paper. Application-oriented submissions will be considered for the best application paper award.

More detailed instructions and the On-Line Submission Form will be found on the WI'10 homepage: http://www.yorku.ca/wiiat10/contributors.php

Tutorials

WI'10 also welcomes Tutorial proposals. WI'10 will include tutorials providing in-depth background on subjects that are of broad interest to the Web intelligence community. Both short (2 hours) and long (half day) tutorials will be considered. The tutorials will be part of the main conference technical program. Detailed information is available at the conference homepage.

Note: we will not have a separate tutorials registration fee (i.e., only one conference registration covers everything)

Industry/Demo-Track

We solicit Industry/Demo-Track papers by the following methods:

1. Industry papers of 4 pages can be submitted on the same schedule as the research track
2. Separate 2 page demo proposals can submitted at a later schedule
3. Full regular paper submissions can include a demo option. That is, a full paper submissions will be asked to specify if they would like to give a demonstration; choice of demonstrations (while utilizing information from the regular reviewing process) will be selected based on value as a demonstration

For options (1) and (2), more detailed instructions will be found here

Important Dates

• Workshop proposal submission: January 20, 2010
• Electronic paper submission (8 pages): March 26, 2010
• Tutorial proposal submission: March 26, 2010
• Workshop paper submission: April 16, 2010
• Author notification: May 28, 2010
• Conference dates: August 31-September 3, 2010

Conference Organization

Conference Chair;	Nick Cercone, York University, Toronto, Canada
Program Chair:	Jimmy Huang, York University, Toronto, Canada
WI Program Co-Chairs:	Vijay Raghavan, University of Louisiana, USA Irwin King, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong Stefan Rueger, The Open University, United Kingdom
IAT Program Co-Chairs:	Takahira Yamaguchi, Keio University, Japan Ali A. Ghorbani, University of New Brunswick, Canada Mohand-Said Hacid, Universite Claude Bernard Lyon 1, France
Organizing Co-Chairs:	Aijun An, York University, Toronto, Canada Thomas Lynam, York University, Toronto, Canada Marshall Walker, York University, Toronto, Canada
Workshop Co-Chairs:	Orland Hoeber, Memorial University of Newfoundland, Canada Yuefeng Li, Queensland University of Technology, Australia
Tutorial Co-Chairs:	Sourav Saha Bhowmick, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore Mounia Lalmas, University of Glasgow, UK
Publicity Co-Chairs:	Vlado Keselj, Dalhousie University, Canada Markus Kirchberg, Institute for Infocomm Research, A*STAR, Singapore Jianhan Zhu, University College London, UK
Industry-Demo Co-Chairs:	Dominik Slezak, Infobright Inc., Canada Tony Abou-Assaleh, GenieKnows.com, Canada
IEEE-CS-TCII Chair:	Ning Zhong, Maebashi Institute of Technology, Japan
ACM SIGART Chair:	Maria Gini, University of Minnesota, USA
WIC Co-Chairs/Directors:	Ning Zhong, Maebashi Institute of Technology, Japan Jiming Liu, Hong Kong Baptist University, Hong Kong
WIC Advisory Board:	Edward A. Feigenbaum, Stanford University, USA Setsuo Ohsuga, University of Tokyo, Japan Benjamin Wah, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, USA Philip Yu, University of Illinois, Chicago, USA L.A. Zadeh, University of California, Berkeley, USA
WIC Tech. Committee & WI/IAT Steering Committee:	Jeffrey Bradshaw, UWF/Institute for Human and Machine Cognition, USA Nick Cercone, York University, Canada Dieter Fensel, University of Innsbruck, Austria Georg Gottlob, Oxford University, UK Lakhmi Jain, University of South Australia, Australia Jianchang Mao, Yahoo! Inc., USA Pierre Morizet-Mahoudeaux, Compiegne University of Technology, France Hiroshi Motoda, Osaka University, Japan Toyoaki Nishida, Kyoto University, Japan Andrzej Skowron, Warsaw University, Poland Jinglong Wu, Okayama University, Japan Xindong Wu, University of Vermont, USA Yiyu Yao, University of Regina, Canada

Contact Information

Professor Jimmy Huang (Conference General Program Chair)
Email: wiiat10@yorku.ca

The WIC Office

Email: wiiat10@yorku.ca

Call for Papers

2010 IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Intelligent Agent Technology (IAT-10)

August 31 - September 3, 2010, York University, Toronto, Canada

http://www.yorku.ca/wiiat10

Sponsored By
IEEE Computer Society
Web Intelligence Consortium (WIC)
Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)

Papers Due: March 26, 2010
Accepted papers will be published in the conference proceedings by the IEEE Computer Society Press, which is indexed by EI.

IAT 2010 will provide a leading international forum to bring together researchers and practitioners from diverse fields, such as computer science, information technology, business, education, systems engineering, and robotics, to (1) examine the design principles and performance characteristics of various approaches in intelligent agent technology, and (2) increase the cross-fertilization of ideas on the development of autonomous agents and multi-agent systems among different domains. By encouraging idea-sharing and discussions on the underlying logical, cognitive, physical, and sociological foundations as well as the enabling technologies of intelligent agents, IAT 2010 will foster the development of novel paradigms and advanced solutions in agent-based computing.

IAT 2010 will be jointly held with the 2010 IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Web Intelligence (WI-10). The two conferences will have a joint opening, keynote, reception, and banquet. Attendees only need to register for one conference and can attend workshops, sessions, tutorials, panels, exhibits and demonstrations across the two conferences. We are also planning a joint panel, joint paper sessions, and a doctoral mentoring program to discuss common problems in the two areas.

Topics of Interest

We invite submissions in all WI related areas. Papers exploring new directions or areas will receive a careful and supportive review. Areas of interest include, but are not limited to:

Autonomy-Oriented Computing (AOC)

• Autonomy-Oriented Modeling and Computing Methods
• Complex Behavior Characterization
• Complex Systems Modeling and Simulation
• Emergent Behavior
• Hard Computational Problem Solving
• Large-Scale Systems Applications (e.g., Social, Policy, Sustainability, Brain Informatics (BI), and Web Intelligence (WI) Applications)
• Nature-Inspired Computing
• Regularities and Models of AOC
• Self-Organization in Multi-Agent Systems
• Self-Organized Complex Networks
• Swarm or Collective Intelligence
• Unconventional, Self-Organized Computing Paradigms

Autonomous Knowledge and Information Agents

• Agent-Based Knowledge Discovery and Sharing
• Autonomous Information Services
• Distributed Data Mining
• Distributed Knowledge Systems
• Evolution of Topics, Trends, Knowledge Networks and Communities
• Human-Agent Interaction
• Information Filtering Agents
• Knowledge Aggregation
• Ontology-Based Services
• Recommender Systems

Agent Systems Modeling and Methodology

• Agent Interaction Protocols
• Cognitive Architectures
• Cognitive Modeling of Agents
• Emotional Modeling
• Fault-Tolerance in Multi-Agent Systems
• Formal Framework for Multi-Agent Systems
• Information Exchanges in Multi-Agent Systems
• Learning and Self-Adaptation in Multi-Agent Systems
• Mobile Agent Languages and Protocols
• Multi-Agent Autonomic Architectures
• Multi-Agent Coordination Techniques
• Multi-Agent Planning
• Neuroeconomics
• Peer-to-Peer Models for Multi-Agent Systems
• Social Interactions in Multi-Agent Systems
• Task-Based Agent Context
• Task-Oriented Agents

Distributed Problem Solving

• Agent-Based Cloud Computing
• Agent Networks in Distributed Problem Solving
• Collective Group Behavior
• Coordination and Cooperation
• Distributed Intelligence
• Distributed Search
• Dynamics of Agent Groups and Populations
• Efficiency and Complexity Issues
• Market-Based Computing
• Problem-Solving in Dynamic Environments

Autonomous Auctions and Negotiation

• Agent-Based Marketplaces
• Auction Markets
• Combinatorial Auctions
• Hybrid Negotiation
• Integrative Negotiation
• Mediating Agents
• Pricing Agents

Applications

• Agent-Based Assistants
• Agent-Based Virtual Enterprise
• Embodied Agents and Agent-Based Systems Applications
• Games
• Interface Agents
• Knowledge and Data Intensive Systems
• Perceptive Animated Interfaces
• Scalability
• Social Simulation (e.g., Social Behavior, Social Inference, Social Networks, and Social Norms)
• Socially Situated Planning
• Software and Pervasive Agents
• Tools and Standards
• Ubiquitous Systems and e-Technology Agents
• Virtual Humans
• XML-Based Agent Systems

On-Line Submissions and Publication

High-quality papers in all IAT related areas are solicited. Paper submissions should be limited to a maximum of 8 pages in the IEEE 2-column format. The same format will be used for final camera-ready papers (see the Author Guidelines at http://www.ieeeconfpublishing.org/cpir/AuthorKit.asp?Community=CPS&Facility=CPS_Dec&ERoom=WI%2DIAT+2008). All submitted papers will be reviewed by the Program Committee on the basis of technical quality, relevance, significance, and clarity.

Note that IAT'10 will accept ONLY on-line submissions in PDF format. Please use the Submission Form on the WT'10 website to submit your paper. Accepted papers will be published in the conference proceedings by the IEEE Computer Society Press that is indexed by EI.

Submissions accepted as regular papers will be allocated 8 pages in the proceedings and accorded oral presentation in the main conference . Submissions accepted as short papers will be allocated 4 pages in the proceedings and will have a shorter presentation time at the conference than regular papers.

All co-authors will be notified for the submission, notification, and confirmation on the attendance. Submitting a paper to the conference and workshops means that, if the paper is accepted, at least one author should attend the conference to present the paper. The acceptance list and no-show list will be openly published on-line. For no-show authors, their affiliations will receive a notification.

Authors of a selected number of IAT'10 accepted papers will be invited to submit expanded and revised versions of their papers for condideration for inclusion in Web Intelligence and Agent Systems: An International Journal (http://wi-consortium.org/journal.html) and other related journals.

The best paper awards will be conferred at the conference on the authors of (1) the best research paper and (2) the best application paper. Application-oriented submissions will be considered for the best application paper award.

More detailed instructions and the On-Line Submission Form will be found on the IAT'10 homepage: http://www.yorku.ca/wiiat10/contributors.php

Tutorials

IAT'10 also welcomes Tutorial proposals. IAT'10 will include tutorials providing in-depth background on subjects that are of broad interest to the Web intelligence community. Both short (2 hours) and long (half day) tutorials will be considered. The tutorials will be part of the main conference technical program. Detailed information is available at the conference homepage.

Note: we will not have a separate tutorials registration fee (i.e., only one conference registration covers everything).

Industry / Demo-Track

We solicit Industry/Demo-Track papers by the following methods:

1. Industry papers of 4 pages can be submitted on the same schedule as the research track
2. Separate 2 page demo proposals can submitted at a later schedule
3. Full regular paper submissions can include a demo option. That is, a full paper submissions will be asked to specify if they would like to give a demonstration; choice of demonstrations (while utilizing information from the regular reviewing process) will be selected based on value as a demonstration

For options (1) and (2), more detailed instructions will be found here

Important Dates

• Workshop proposal submission: January 20, 2010
• Electronic paper submission (8 pages): March 26, 2010
• Tutorial proposal submission: March 26, 2010
• Workshop paper submission: April 16, 2010
• Author notification: May 28, 2010
• Conference dates: August 31-September 3, 2010

Conference Organization

Conference Chair;	Nick Cercone, York University, Toronto, Canada
Program Chair:	Jimmy Huang, York University, Toronto, Canada
WI Program Co-Chairs:	Vijay Raghavan, University of Louisiana, USA Irwin King, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong Stefan Rueger, The Open University, United Kingdom
IAT Program Co-Chairs:	Takahira Yamaguchi, Keio University, Japan Ali A. Ghorbani, University of New Brunswick, Canada Mohand-Said Hacid, Universite Claude Bernard Lyon 1, France
Organizing Co-Chairs:	Aijun An, York University, Toronto, Canada Thomas Lynam, York University, Toronto, Canada Marshall Walker, York University, Toronto, Canada
Workshop Co-Chairs:	Orland Hoeber, Memorial University of Newfoundland, Canada Yuefeng Li, Queensland University of Technology, Australia
Tutorial Co-Chairs:	Sourav Saha Bhowmick, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore Mounia Lalmas, University of Glasgow, UK
Publicity Co-Chairs:	Vlado Keselj, Dalhousie University, Canada Markus Kirchberg, Institute for Infocomm Research, A*STAR, Singapore Jianhan Zhu, University College London, UK
Industry-Demo Co-Chairs:	Dominik Slezak, Infobright Inc., Canada Tony Abou-Assaleh, GenieKnows.com, Canada
IEEE-CS-TCII Chair:	Ning Zhong, Maebashi Institute of Technology, Japan
ACM SIGART Chair:	Maria Gini, University of Minnesota, USA
WIC Co-Chairs/Directors:	Ning Zhong, Maebashi Institute of Technology, Japan Jiming Liu, Hong Kong Baptist University, Hong Kong
WIC Advisory Board:	Edward A. Feigenbaum, Stanford University, USA Setsuo Ohsuga, University of Tokyo, Japan Benjamin Wah, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, USA Philip Yu, University of Illinois, Chicago, USA L.A. Zadeh, University of California, Berkeley, USA
WIC Tech. Committee & WI/IAT Steering Committee:	Jeffrey Bradshaw, UWF/Institute for Human and Machine Cognition, USA Nick Cercone, York University, Canada Dieter Fensel, University of Innsbruck, Austria Georg Gottlob, Oxford University, UK Lakhmi Jain, University of South Australia, Australia Jianchang Mao, Yahoo! Inc., USA Pierre Morizet-Mahoudeaux, Compiegne University of Technology, France Hiroshi Motoda, Osaka University, Japan Toyoaki Nishida, Kyoto University, Japan Andrzej Skowron, Warsaw University, Poland Jinglong Wu, Okayama University, Japan Xindong Wu, University of Vermont, USA Yiyu Yao, University of Regina, Canada

Contact Information

Professor Jimmy Huang (Conference General Program Chair)
Email: wiiat10@yorku.ca

The WIC Office

Email: wiiat10@yorku.ca

Call for Papers

The 2010 IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conferences on Web Intelligence (WI-10) and Intelligent Agent Technology (IAT-10).

York University, Toronto Canada, August 31 - September 3, 2010 URL: http://www.yorku.ca/wiiat10/

Sponsored By
IEEE Computer Society Technical Committee on Intelligent Informatics (TCII)
Web Intelligence Consortium (WIC), and
ACM-SIGART

Workshop Chairs

Workshops Chairs Orland Hoeber, Memorial University of Newfoundland, Canada

Email: hoeber@mun.ca

Yuefeng Li, Queensland University of Technology, Australia

Email: y2.li@qut.edu.au

Proposals Due: January 20, 2010
Workshop Papers Due: April 16, 2010
Accepted workshop papers will be published in the workshops proceedings by the IEEE Computer Society Press, which are indexed by EI. High-quality workshops will be recommended to pursue special issues in WI/IAT related journals

As the Web continues to grow and evolve, many new problems and challenges are being introduced. The WI-IAT workshops aim to provide researchers who share similar research interests to meet and address new research challenges and initiatives that concern Web Intelligence (WI) and Intelligent Agent Technology (IAT). The Workshops provide a venue and forum for contributions in specialized sub-areas of Web Intelligence and Intelligent Agent Technology, and allowing authors to present new and emerging trends in methods and technologies to dedicated audiences.

Following the great success of WI-IAT'01 held in Maebashi City, Japan, WI-IAT'03 held in Halifax, Canada, WI-IAT'04 held in Beijing, China, WI-IAT'05 in Compiegne, France, WI-IAT'06 held in Hong Kong, WI-IAT'07 held in Silicon Valley USA, WI-IAT'08 held in Sydney, Australia, and WI-IAT'09 held in Milano, Italy.

WI-IAT'10 will provide a leading international forum for researchers and practitioners to present the state-of-the-art WI-IAT technologies; examine performance characteristics of various approaches in WI and IAT; and cross-fertilize ideas on the development of WI and IAT.

By idea-sharing and discussions on the underlying foundations and the enabling technologies of WI and IAT, 2010 WI-IAT Workshops will capture current important developments of new models, new methodologies and new tools for building a variety of embodiments of WI or IAT systems. As an important part of the conference, the workshop program will focus on new research challenges and initiatives. All papers accepted for workshops will be included in the Workshop Proceedings published by the IEEE Computer Society Press that are indexed by EI, and will be available at the workshops. Detailed information is available at the conference homepage.

Workshop Proposal Submission

Workshop organizers should submit their proposals (PDF or Word files) directly to both Workshop Chairs via e-mail.

Workshop proposals should include the following elements:

• Title of the workshop
• Names of workshop organizers, affiliation, mailing address and e-mail address
• A description of the topics of the workshop (not exceeding 200 words)
• Type of the workshop (full-day or half-day)
• A description of how the workshop will contribute to the field of Web Intelligence and/or Intelligent Agent Technology
• A short description on how the workshop will be advertised so as to ensure a sufficiently wide range of authors and high quality papers

Topics of Interest

Each workshop subject will focus on new research challenges and initiatives in Web Intelligence (WI) and Intelligent Agent Technology (IAT). The workshops should provide an informal and vibrant forum for researchers and industry practitioners to share their research results and practical development experiences in these two fields. Suggested, but not limited to, workshop topics include:

• Intelligent e-Technology (including e-Science, e-Business, e-Things and e-Activities, e-Learning, e-Finance, e-Medicine, e-Government, e-Community)
• Intelligent Human-Web Interaction
• Knowledge Grids and Grid Intelligence
• Semantics and Ontology Engineering
• Sensing Web and Smart World
• Social Networks and Ubiquitous Intelligence
• Ubiquitous Computing
• Web Agents
• Web Information Filtering and Retrieval
• Web Mining and Farming
• Web Scale Commonsense Knowledge Processing
• Web Security, Integrity, Privacy and Trust
• Web Services and Grid ervices
• Web Support Systems
• World Wide Wisdom Web (W4)
• Agent Systems Modeling and Methodology
• Autonomous Knowledge and Information Agents
• Autonomous Auctions and Negotiation
• Autonomy-Oriented Computing (AOC)
• Learning and Self-Adapting Agents
• Distributed Intelligence

Important Dates

• Workshop proposal submission: January 20, 2010
• Electronic submission of workshop papers: April 16, 2010
• Notification of paper acceptance: May 28, 2010
• Camera-ready copies of accepted papers: June 21, 2010
• Workshops: August 31, 2010
• Conference: September 1-3, 2010

Workshop Organizers

The workshop organizers will be responsible for advertising the workshop, forming the program committees, reviewing and selecting the papers, and guaranteeing a high quality worthy of the prestige and range of the Conference. All papers accepted for workshops will be included in the Workshop Proceedings published by the IEEE Computer Society Press and will be available at the workshops.

The workshop organizers will also have the discretion of editing selected papers (after their expansion and revision) into books or special journal issues. Workshops may be full-day or half-day. A full-day workshop should select 12-18 regular papers, while a half-day workshop should select 8-11 regular papers, from a large number of submissions. The workshop organizers should ensure the presence of authors of accepted papers at the workshops.

After the acceptation of a workshop proposal the organizer(s) should:

• Create a "Call for papers/participation" for the workshop
• Create a Web page for the workshop, the link of which will be published on the Conference Web site
• Create a Board of Reviewers (Program Committee)
• Review and select papers
• Schedule the workshop activities

Those papers selected by a workshop organizer will also be reviewed by the Workshop Chairs for final acceptance.

All submitted papers will be reviewed on the basis of technical quality, relevance, significance, and clarity.

The conference will provide an online paper submission and review system to support the workshops.

Contact Information

Professor Yuefeng Li
School of Information Technology
Queensland University of Technology, Australia

Email: y2.li@qut.edu.au
Phone: 61 7 31385212

Professor Orland Hoeber
Department of Computer Science
Memorial University, Canada

Email: hoeber@cs.mun.ca
Phone: 709-740-6434

Call for Industry papers / demo

WI/IAT 2010 will expand on the success of the industry track in WI/IAT 2009 into Industry Day with a novel format and program. The Industry Day aims to foster interaction and collaboration among participating practitioners and academics, and to provide practitioners with a venue to showcase practical implementations of state-of-the-art systems in the areas of interest to the WI/IAT community. The Industry Day program will consist of invited speakers, demo presentations, and a panel discussion. Demonstration submissions are welcomed in any of the areas identified in the main call for papers. Demo papers must be submitted in camera-ready format and are limited to 4 pages. They should describe the demonstrated system, indicate what is going to be demonstrated, and state the significance of the contribution to the field of Web Intelligence and Intelligent Agent Technology. Proposals must not be published or under consideration for publication elsewhere.

The submission will undergo peer review. The review process is not double blind. Accepted industry demo papers will be published in the main conference proceedings. At least one author must be affiliated with a company.

Industry Paper Requirement

All areas of the WI/IAT conference are of interest to the industry papers. The paper should be about industrial or other real-world applications of WI/IAT. A description of how the application has been conceived, developed and deployed must be provided. Note that authors who submit papers to the Industry-Track are requested to supply a demo in the demo session. The authors are also required to show the demo in the demo session.

The industry papers will be 4 pages in length including the bibliography, and must be submitted online at the conference websites. The submission must satisfy the style requirement as specified in the call for papers in the main conference. At least one author of each Industry-Track paper should be from an industrial company or organization.

The papers must indicate which track (WI or IAT) the authors would like to include their papers. All papers submitted to the Industry/Demo-Track will also be reviewed by the Program Committee and included in the conference proceedings by the IEEE Computer Society Press.

Demonstration Paper Requirement

Participants who are interested in presenting a demo in the conference can submit a demonstration paper to the Demonstration-Track. The paper can be authored by people from either industry or academia.

The demonstration papers will be 4 pages in length including the bibliography, and must be submitted online at the conference website.

The submission must satisfy the style requirement as specified in the call for papers in the main conference. The submission will be included in the proceedings. Note that authors of industry papers (also research-track papers) do not need to submit a separate demonstration proposal because it will be included as stated previously. Authors who submit papers to the Demonstration-Track are requested to supply a demo and join the demo session.

Important Dates

• April 16, 2010 Demonstration papers due
• May 28, 2010 Notifications sent
• June 21, 2010 Camera-ready due
• August 31 - September 3, 2010 Conference in Toronto, Canada

Contact Information

Dr. Tony Abou-Assaleh

Email: taa@genieknows.com

Dr.Dominik Slezak

Email: dominik.slezak@infobright.com

The topics and areas include, but not limited to:

WI Foundations

• Brain Informatics for WI
• Human Level WI
• New Cognitive Models and Computational Models for WI
• Granular Computing (GrC) for WI
• Soft Computing for WI
• Autonomy-Oriented Computing (AOC) for WI
• Human-Inspired WI Computing

World Wide Wisdom Web (W4)

• Meta-Knowledge Discovery and Representation
• Problem Solver Markup Language (PSML)
• Search of Best Means and Ends
• Goal-Directed Services Support
• Distributed Resources Optimization
• Service Self-Aggregation
• Web Inference Engine
• Information and Knowledge Markets
• New Social Interaction Paradigms
• Social and Psychological Contexts Regularities and Laws of W4

Web Information Retrieval and Filtering

• Web Information Retrieval in context
• Multimedia Indexing
• Personalization
• Location-based Information Retrieval
• Geographic information retrieval
• Content-based Information Filtering
• Collaborative Filtering and Recommendation
• Hybrid Recommendation
• Clustering-Based Recommender Systems
• Information Retrieval Models and Evaluations
• Web Information Categorization
• Ranking Techniques
• Proxy and Cache Techniques
• Web Prediction and Pre-fetching
• Distributed Web Search
• Specifications for Web Information Extraction Process
• Web Crawling Systems
• Search Engines and Meta-search Engines

Semantics and Ontology Engineering

• Semantic Web
• Ontology-Based Information Extraction and Retrieval
• Ontology-Based Web Mining
• Web-Based Ontology Learning
• Web Scale Reasoning
• Commonsense Knowledge Processing on the Web
• Unifying Search and Reasoning

Web Mining and Farming

• Text Mining
• Data Stream Mining
• Multimedia Data Mining
• Web Content Mining
• Web Log and Usage Mining
• Context Sensitive Web Mining
• Web Information Clustering
• Web Page Clustering and Mining
• Data Warehousing
• Web Farming and Warehousing

Social Networks and Ubiquitous Intelligence

• Social Networks Theory, Models, and Mining
• Web Site Clustering
• Web 2.0
• Link Topology and Link Analysis
• Theories of Small-World Web
• Virtual and Web Communities
• Web-Based Cooperative Work
• Knowledge Community Formation and Support
• Ubiquitous and Social Computing
• Intelligent Wireless Web
• Entertainment
• Social Media
• Human Computation and Social Games
• Opinion Mining and Sentiment Analysis
• Social Monetization and Computational Advertising

Knowledge Grids and Grid Intelligence

• Semantic Grids
• Knowledge Resources and Services Discovery
• On-Demand Planning and Routing
• Brokering and Scheduling
• Middleware Architectures and Tools

Web Agents

• Global Information Foraging
• Distributed Problem Solving
• Coordination
• Resource Intermediary and Coordination Mechanisms
• Self-Organization and Reproduction
• Agent Networks and Topologies
• Mobile Agents
• Macroscopic Behavior Modeling
• Trust Models for Web Agents

Web Services

• Service-Oriented Computing
• Matchmaking
• Web Service Reconfiguration
• Web Service Workflow Composition
• Middleware-Based Ubiquitous Services
• Grid Services

Intelligent Human-Web Interaction

• Adaptive Web Interfaces
• Context-Aware Computing
• Emotional Factor
• Learning User Profiles
• Multimedia Representation
• Personalized Interfaces
• Personalized Websites
• Remembrance Agents
• Smart Digital Media
• Cyberpsychology for HCI
• User Interests and User Modeling
• Visualization of Information and Knowledge
• Social and Psychological Issues

Web Support Systems

• Information Retrieval Support Systems
• Web Site Navigation Support Systems
• Recommender Support Systems
• Web-Based Decision Support Systems
• Soft Computing (including neural networks, fuzzy logic, evolutionary computation, rough sets, and granular computing) and Uncertainty Management for WI

Intelligent e-Technology

• Business Intelligence
• Intelligent Enterprise Portals
• Web-Based Direct Marketing and CRM
• Web-Based EDI
• Digital Libraries
• e-Publishing
• e-Business and e-Commerce
• e-Things and e-Activities
• e-Finance
• e-Learning
• e-Medicine
• e-Science
• e-Government
• e-Community Decentralized Community Communication Techniques
• Web Security, Integrity, Privacy and Trust

The topics and areas addressed by IAT 2010, include, but are not limited to:

Autonomy-Oriented Computing (AOC)

• Autonomy-Oriented Modeling and Computing Methods
• Complex Behavior Characterization
• Complex Systems Modeling and Simulation
• Emergent Behavior
• Hard Computational Problem Solving
• Large-Scale Systems Applications (e.g., Social, Policy, Sustainability, Brain Informatics (BI), and Web Intelligence (WI) Applications)
• Nature-Inspired Computing
• Regularities and Models of AOC
• Self-Organization in Multi-Agent Systems
• Self-Organized Complex Networks
• Swarm or Collective Intelligence
• Unconventional, Self-Organized Computing Paradigms

Autonomous Knowledge and Information Agents

• Agent-Based Knowledge Discovery and Sharing
• Autonomous Information Services
• Distributed Data Mining
• Distributed Knowledge Systems
• Evolution of Topics, Trends, Knowledge Networks and Communities
• Human-Agent Interaction
• Information Filtering Agents
• Knowledge Aggregation
• Ontology-Based Services
• Recommender Systems

Agent Systems Modeling and Methodology

• Agent Interaction Protocols
• Cognitive Architectures
• Cognitive Modeling of Agents
• Emotional Modeling
• Fault-Tolerance in Multi-Agent Systems
• Formal Framework for Multi-Agent Systems
• Information Exchanges in Multi-Agent Systems
• Learning and Self-Adaptation in Multi-Agent Systems
• Mobile Agent Languages and Protocols
• Multi-Agent Autonomic Architectures
• Multi-Agent Coordination Techniques
• Multi-Agent Planning
• Neuroeconomics
• Peer-to-Peer Models for Multi-Agent Systems
• Social Interactions in Multi-Agent Systems
• Task-Based Agent Context
• Task-Oriented Agents

Distributed Problem Solving

• Agent-Based Cloud Computing
• Agent Networks in Distributed Problem Solving
• Collective Group Behavior
• Coordination and Cooperation
• Distributed Intelligence
• Distributed Search
• Dynamics of Agent Groups and Populations
• Efficiency and Complexity Issues
• Market-Based Computing
• Problem-Solving in Dynamic Environments

Autonomous Auctions and Negotiation

• Agent-Based Marketplaces
• Auction Markets
• Combinatorial Auctions
• Hybrid Negotiation
• Integrative Negotiation
• Mediating Agents
• Pricing Agents

Applications

• Agent-Based Assistants
• Agent-Based Virtual Enterprise
• Embodied Agents and Agent-Based Systems Applications
• Games
• Interface Agents
• Knowledge and Data Intensive Systems
• Perceptive Animated Interfaces
• Scalability
• Social Simulation (e.g., Social Behavior, Social Inference, Social Networks, and Social Norms)
• Socially Situated Planning
• Software and Pervasive Agents
• Tools and Standards
• Ubiquitous Systems and e-Technology Agents
• Virtual Humans
• XML-Based Agent Systems

Each workshop subject will focus on new research challenges and initiatives in Web Intelligence (WI) and Intelligent Agent Technology (IAT). The workshops should provide an informal and vibrant forum for researchers and industry practitioners to share their research results and practical development experiences in these two fields. Suggested, but not limited to, workshop topics include

• Intelligent e-Technology (including e-Science, e-Business, e-Things and e-Activities, e-Learning, e-Finance, e-Medicine, e-Government, e-Community)
• Intelligent Human-Web Interaction
• Knowledge Grids and Grid Intelligence
• Semantics and Ontology Engineering
• Sensing Web and Smart World
• Social Networks and Ubiquitous Intelligence
• Ubiquitous Computing
• Web Agents
• Web Information Filtering and Retrieval
• Web Mining and Farming
• Web Scale Commonsense Knowledge Processing
• Web Security, Integrity, Privacy and Trust
• Web Services and Grid Services
• Web Support Systems
• World Wide Wisdom Web (W4)
• Agent Systems Modeling and Methodology
• Autonomous Knowledge and Information Agents
• Autonomous Auctions and Negotiation
• Autonomy-Oriented Computing (AOC)
• Learning and Self-Adapting Agents
• Distributed Intelligence