WI-IAT'05: Call for Participation

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CALL FOR PARTICIPATION
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IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Web Intelligence (WI'05)
IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Intelligent Agent Technology
(IAT'05)

September 19-22, 2005
Compiegne University of Technology, France

http://www.comp.hkbu.edu.hk/WI05/
http://www.comp.hkbu.edu.hk/IAT05/
http://www.hds.utc.fr/WI05/
http://www.hds.utc.fr/IAT05/

Sponsored and Organized by
IEEE Computer Society
Web Intelligence Consortium (WIC)
Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)

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!!!================= HIGHLIGHTS =========================!!!
September 19: 7 Workshops and 5 Tutorials.
September 20-22: The main conference of the WI-IAT'05
that contains 7 keynote talks, research track papers presentations,
industry and demo track presentations.
All the papers were selected from 633 submissions
received from over 56 countries and regions.
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!!! Advance Registration by 19 August 2005 !!!
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On-line registration (and more information) at
http://www.comp.hkbu.edu.hk/WI05/
http://www.comp.hkbu.edu.hk/IAT05/
http://www.hds.utc.fr/WI05/
http://www.hds.utc.fr/IAT05/
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Following the great success of previous WI and IAT conferences, WI'05
and IAT'05 will provide a leading international forum for researchers
and practitioners (1) to present the state-of-the-art WI and agent
technologies, (2) to cross-fertilize ideas on the development of
Web-based intelligent information systems as well as new models, new
methodologies, and new tools for building a variety of embodiments of
agent-based systems.

KEYNOTE TALKS
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Keynote Speakers at Research-Track
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Opportunities from Open Source Search
Professor Wray Buntine
Helsinki Institute for Information Technology, Finland
Wray.Buntine@hiit.fi
http://www.hiit.fi/u/buntine/

Knowledge Representation and Unmanned Aerial Vehicles
Professor Patrick Doherty
Department of Computer and Information Science
Linkoping University, Sweden
pdy@ida.liu.se
http://www.ida.liu.se/%7Epatdo/patdosite1/index.html

An Adaptive Architecture for Physical Agents
Professor Pat Langley
Stanford University, USA
langley@isle.org
http://www.isle.org/~langley/

Providing Expert Advice by Analogy for On-Line Help
Professor Henry Lieberman
MIT Media Laboratory, USA
lieber@media.mit.edu
http://web.media.mit.edu/~lieber/

Agreement Technologies
Professor Nick Jennings
University of Southampton, UK
nrj@ecs.soton.ac.uk
http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~nrj/

Evolution in Simple Systems and the Emergence of Complexity
Professor Peter Schuster
University of Vienna, Austria
pks@tbi.univie.ac.at
http://www.tbi.univie.ac.at/~pks/

Keynote Speaker at Industry/Demo-Track
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Robert Milne
Managing Director, Sermatech Intelligent Applications, UK
www.intapp.co.uk

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The Tutorial and Workshop programs of WI'05 and IAT'05 include:

T1: An Introduction to Auctions
    Maria Fasli, University of Essex, UK

T2: A Methodology for Designing an Intelligent Agent System
    Lin Padgham, RMIT University, Australia
    Leon Sterling, Melbourne University, Australia

T3: Programming Complex Adaptive Systems
    Salima Hassas, Universite Claude Bernard - Lyon 1, France

T4: Rough Set Approach to Learning in MAS
    Nguyen Hong Son, Warsaw University, Poland

T5: Roles for Agent Technology
    Guido Boella, Universita degli studi di Torino, Italy

W1: First International Workshop on Incentive Based Computing (IBC'05)
    http://ibc05.cs.wayne.edu/

W2: First International Workshop on Teaching Web Intelligence
    http://eurise.univ-st-etienne.fr/TWI05/

W3: Open Source Web Information Retrieval (OSWIR)
    http://www.emse.fr/OSWIR05/

W4: Rough Sets and Soft Computing in Intelligent Agent and Web Technology
    http://www2.cs.uregina.ca/~slezak/wiiat2005.html

W5: Semantics and Orchestration of eGovernment Processes

http://www.egovinterop.net/SHWebClass.ASP?WCI=ShowDoc&DocID=1556&LangID=1

W6: The Second International Workshop on Advanced Technologies for
    e-Learning and e-Science
    http://io.acad.athabascau.ca/~harris/atels05/

W7: WWW Service Composition with Semantic Web Services (wscomps05)
    http://www.deri.at/events/workshops/wi2005/


MAIN CONFERENCE (Sept 20-22)
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The main conference of the WI'05 and IAT'05 contains 7 keynote talks,
research track papers presentations, industry and demo track
presentations.
All the papers were selected from 633 submissions
received from over 56 countries and regions.

Technical Sessions include:

World Wide Wisdom Web (W4)
Social Networks and Social Intelligence
Knowledge Grids and Grid Intelligence
Web Mining and Farming
Semantics and Ontology Engineering
Web Agents
Web Services
Web Information Filtering and Retrieval
Intelligent Human-Web Interaction
Web Support Systems
Intelligent e-Technology
Autonomy-Oriented Computing (AOC)
Autonomous Knowledge and Information Agents
Agent Systems Modeling and Methodology
Distributed Problem Solving
Autonomous Auctions and Negotiation
Agent-Based Applications

(NOTE: WI'05 acceptance rates are: 18% for Regular Papers and 31%
for Short Papers. IAT'05 acceptance rates are: 18% and 25%, respectively.)

SOCIAL PROGRAM
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The WI'05 and IAT'05 joint conference offers an exciting social
program.  The conference welcome reception on Sept 20 and the
conference banquet on Sept 21.

The conference banquet will be held in the Pierrefond Middle Ages
castle, one of the most beautiful and oldest monuments in France
(http://www.casteland.com/puk/castle/picardie/oise/pierrefonds/pierrefonds.h
tm).
You can also enjoy the city of Compiegne with its
historical buildings dating from the Middle Ages and Napoleon's period
(http://www.musee-chateau-compiegne.fr/).

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Co-Organized and In Cooperation With

French National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS)
University of Technology of Compiegne
Heuristique et Diagnostic des Systemes Complexes
Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
Hong Kong Baptist University
Maebashi Institute of Technology
Warsaw University

Corporate Sponsor
AgentLink

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Announcement to Provide Students with
the Grant from the AgentLink coordination
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The 2005 IEEE/WIC/ACM WI-IAT International Conference organization
committee is happy to announce that, thanks to a grant provided by the
European AgentLink Co-ordination Action for Agent Based Computing, we
will be able to support some students who will attend the WI-IAT 2005
International conference.

This grant will be offered to one, two or three selected students who
meet the following conditions:

- the student must be a citizen of one of the new member countries of
  the European Union (Chypre, Estonie, Hongrie, Lettonie, Lituanie,
  Malte, Pologne, Republique tcheque, Slovenie, Slovaquie)

- the student must be registered as a regular research student
  (PdD student) in a laboratory and/or university of one of
  the new member countries of the European Union (Chypre, Estonie, Hongrie,
  Lettonie, Lituanie, Malte, Pologne, Republique tcheque, Slovenie,
Slovaquie)

- the student has a paper accepted as a regular paper in the IAT track of
the
  IEEE/WIC/ACM WI-IAT 2005 International Conference,

- the student has already paid the registration fee,

- the student advisor writes a recommendation letter.

Depending on the number of supported students, the grant will range from
250 EUR to 375 EUR.

Please send your submission to Pierre Morizet-Mahoudeaux
(pmorizet@hds.utc.fr)
before September 3

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