[Apologies if you receive this more than once] ====================== CALL FOR PARTICIPATION ====================== IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Web Intelligence (WI'08) IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Intelligent Agent Technology (IAT'08) December 9-12, 2008 Building 5, Haymarket Campus, University of Technology, Sydney, Australia http://www.lido.com.au/online/default.aspx?id=657fj3g91907# (see the map) Official: http://datamining.it.uts.edu.au/conferences/wi08/ http://datamining.it.uts.edu.au/conferences/iat08/ Sponsored and Organized by IEEE Computer Society Web Intelligence Consortium (WIC) Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) University of Technology, Sydney ================= HIGHLIGHTS ========================= 6 WI'08/IAT'08 Invited Speeches by Professor Edmund H. Durfee Professor Toru Ishida Professor Tsau Young Lin Professor Nigel Shadbolt Professor Yanchun Zhang Dr. Michael Witbrock 1 WIC Feature Talk by Professor Jiming Liu 4 Tutorials 16 WI-IAT Workshops Including the first WI-IAT Doctoral Workshop Presentations of Accepted Research Track Papers. The research track papers were selected from 651 submissions received from over 52 countries and regions. All main conference and workshop proceedings will be published in the conference proceedings by the IEEE Computer Society Press, indexed by EI. REGISTRATRION +++++++++++++ ********************************************** !!! Early-bird Registration by Nov 8, 2008 !!! ********************************************** On-line registration (and more information) at http://datamining.it.uts.edu.au/conferences/iat08/?page_id=45 Regular registration covers all the events of WI-IAT'08 during the four conference days including keynotes, tutorials, accepted paper presentations, and workshops, as well as includes proceedings for one of the conferences or its associated workshops. As usual, WI'08 and IAT'08 will be co-located, providing synergism among Web Intelligence and Intelligent Agent Technology. The two conferences will have a joint opening, invited talks, reception, and banquet. Attendees only need to register for one conference and can attend workshops, sessions, invited talks, panels and tutorials across the two conferences. INVITED TALKS +++++++++++++ WI'08/IAT'08 Joint Invited Talks include: Planning for Coordination and Coordination for Planning Professor Edmund H. Durfee EECS Department, University of Michigan, USA The Language Grid: Service-Oriented Collective Intelligence for Intercultural Collaboration Professor Toru Ishida Department of Social Informatics, Kyoto University, Japan The Emergence of Web Science Professor Nigel Shadbolt School of Electronics and Computer Science, University of Southampton, UK Knowledge Based Search Engine: Granular Computing on the Web Professor Tsau Young Lin Department of Computer Science, San Jose State University, USA Using Web Clustering for Web Community Mining and Analysis Professor Yanchun Zhang Centre for Applied Informatics Research, Victoria University, Australia Thinking Big - AI at Web Scale Dr. Michael Witbrock Vice President for Research at Cycorp, Inc., CEO of Cycorp Europe WIC FEATURE TALK ++++++++++++++++ Professor Jiming Liu Professor and Head of Computer Science Department, Hong Kong Baptist University TUTORIALS +++++++++ T1: Web Content Mining Vaclav Snasel Technical University of Ostrava, Czech Republic T2: Matching Words and Pictures: Problems, and Applications in the Web Latifur Khan University of Texas at Dallas, USA T3: Utilizing Federated Knowledge in Semantic Web Applications Jans Aasman Franz Inc. USA T4: Modeling Agent Organizations Virginia Dignum and Frank Dignum Utrecht University, The Netherlands WORKSHOPS +++++++++ W1: The 2nd Workshop on Collective Intelligence in Semantic Web and Social Networks (CISWSN 2008) W2: International Workshop on Web Information Retrieval Support Systems (WIRSS 2008) W3: International Workshop on Web Personalization, Reputation and Recommender Systems (WPRRS 2008) W4: International Workshop on Intelligent Web Interaction (IWI 2008) W5: Workshop on Intelligent e-Government (IEG 2008) W6: International Workshop on Fuzzy Logic On the Web (FLOW 2008) W7: Workshop on Natural Language Processing and Ontology Engineering (NLPOE 2008) W8: Workshop on Web Intelligence & Intelligent Agent Technology in eLearning (TUMAS-A 2008) W9: International Workshop on Computational Social Networks (IWCSN 2008) W10: Workshop on Optimization-based Data Mining and Web Intelligence (ODM 2008) W11: The Second International Workshop on Human Aspects in Ambient Intelligence: Agent Technology, Human-Oriented Knowledge and Applications (HAAI 2008) W12: International Workshop on E-Commerce, Business, and Services (ECBS 2008) W13: Workshop on P2P Computing and Autonomous Agents (P2P 2008) W14: International Workshop on Agents and Data Mining Interaction (ADMI 2008) W15: Workshop on Logics for Intelligent Agents and Multi-Agent Systems (WLIAMAS 2008) W16: 2008 WI-IAT Doctoral Workshop SOCIAL PROGRAM +++++++++++++++ The WI'08 and IAT'08 joint conference offers an exciting social programs, including the conference welcome reception on Dec. 10 and the conference banquet on Dec. 11. You can also enjoy the city of Sydney, including Darling Harbour and Opera House. You can get more information about the conference hotel and local information from the conference homepage: http://datamining.it.uts.edu.au/conferences/wi08/ CONTACT INFORMATION +++++++++++++++++++ A/Prof Longbing Cao Data Sciences & Knowledge Discovery Lab (the Smart Lab) Research Centre for Quantum Computation and Intelligent Systems University of Technology Sydney, Australia Office: +61-2-9514 4477 Fax: +61-2-9514 4517 E-mail: lbcao@it.uts.edu.au Homepage: www-staff.it.uts.edu.au/~lbcao The Smart Lab: datamining.it.uts.edu.au