IEEE/WIC/ACM IAT'04 (Call for Papers)

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           IEEE/WIC/ACM  Intelligent Agent Technology 2004
 
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            2004 IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on
                Intelligent Agent Technology (IAT'04)
 
                        September 20-24, 2004
             King Wing Hot Spring Hotel, Beijing, China
 
             Homepages: http://www.maebashi-it.org/IAT04
                        http://www.comp.hkbu.edu.hk/IAT04
 
                             Sponsored By 
                        IEEE Computer Society
                    Web Intelligence Consortium (WIC)
                Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
 
               Co-Organized and In Cooperation With  
                  Beijing University of Technology
                  China Computer Federation (CCF) 
                  Hong Kong Baptist University (HKBU)
                  Tsinghua University
 
                          Corporate Sponsors  
                    Beijing University of Technology
 			Microsoft Research Asia
                    National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC) 
 
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  - Paper submission due: April 4, 2004
  - Submission websites:  http://www.maebashi-it.org/IAT04
                          http://www.comp.hkbu.edu.hk/IAT04
  - Electronic submissions are required in the form of PDF or PS files
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 The 2004 IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Intelligent Agent
 Technology (IAT'04) will be jointly held with the 2004 IEEE/WIC/ACM
 International Conference on Web Intelligence (WI'04
 http://www.maebashi-it.org/WI04/).  The IEEE/WIC/ACM 2004 joint
 conferences are sponsored and organized by IEEE Computer Society
 Technical Committee on Computational Intelligence (TCCI)
 (http://www.cs.uvm.edu/~xwu/tcci/index.shtml), Web Intelligence
 Consortium (WIC) (http://wi-consortium.org), and ACM-SIGART
 (http://www.acm.org/sigart/).  The upcoming meeting in this conference
 series follows the great successes of IAT-99 held in Hong Kong, IAT-01
 held in Maebashi City, Japan, and IAT-03 held in Halifax, Canada.
 
 IAT 2004 provides a leading international forum to bring together
 researchers and practitioners from diverse fields, such as computer
 science, information technology, business, education, human factors,
 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 2004 will foster the development of 
 novel paradigms and advanced solutions in agent-based computing.
 
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 Topics
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 The topics and areas to be addressed include, but not limited to:
 
 * Autonomy-Oriented Computing (AOC)
 
   Agent-Based Complex Systems Modeling and Development 
   Agent-Based Simulation 
   Autonomy-Oriented Modeling and Computation Methods 
   Behavioral Self-Organization 
   Complex Behavior Characterization and Engineering
   Emergent Behavior 
   Hard Computational Problem Solving 
   Self-Organized Criticality 
   Self-Organized Intelligence  
   Swarm Intelligence 
   Nature-Inspired Paradigms
 
 * Autonomous Knowledge and Information Agents
 
   Agent-Based Distributed Data Mining
   Agent-Based Knowledge Discovery And Sharing
   Autonomous Information Services
   Distributed Knowledge Systems 
   Emergent Natural Law Discovery in Multi-Agent Systems 
   Evolution of Knowledge Networks 
   Human-Agent Interaction 
   Information Filtering Agents 
   Knowledge Aggregation 
   Knowledge Discovery 
   Ontology-Based Information Services
 
 * Agent Systems Modeling and Methodology
 
   Agent Interaction Protocols 
   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 and Re-Planning
   Peer-to-Peer Models for Multi-Agent Systems
   Reinforcement Learning 
   Social Interactions in Multi-Agent Systems
   Task-Based Agent Context
   Task-Oriented Agents
 
 * Distributed Problem Solving
 
   Agent-Based Grid Computing
   Agent Networks in Distributed Problem Solving
   Collective Group Behavior 
   Coordination and Cooperation 
   Distributed Intelligence 
   Dynamics of Agent Groups and Populations 
   Efficiency and Complexity Issues
   Market-Based Computing 
   Problem-Solving in Dynamic Environments
   Distributed Search
 
 * Autonomous Auctions and Negotiation
 
   Agent-Based Marketplaces
   Auction Markets 
   Combinatorial Auctions
   Hybrid Negotiation
   Integrative Negotiation
   Mediating Agents
   Pricing Agents
   Thin Double Auctions 
 
 * Applications
 
   Agent-Based Assistants
   Agent-Based Virtual Enterprise
   Embodied Agents and Agent-Based Systems Applications
   Interface Agents 
   Knowledge and Data Intensive Systems
   Scalability 
   Software and Pervasive Agents 
   Tools and Standards 
   Ubiquitous Systems and E-Technology Agents 
   Ubiquitous Software Services 
   XML-Based Agent Systems
 
 
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 Important Dates
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       Electronic submission of full papers:  April 4, 2004
           Notification of paper acceptance:  June 10, 2004
  Workshop and tutorial proposal submission:  June 10, 2004
            Camera-ready of accepted papers:  July  5, 2004
                        Workshops/Tutorials:  September 20, 2004
                                 Conference:  September 21-24, 2004
 
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 Submissions and Publication
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 High-quality papers in all IAT related areas are solicited. Papers
 exploring new directions or areas will receive a careful and
 supportive review.  All submitted papers will be reviewed on the
 basis of technical quality, relevance, significance, and clarity.
 Note that IAT'04 will accept ONLY on-line submissions, containing
 PDF (PostScript or MS-Word) versions.
 
 The conference proceedings will be published by the IEEE Computer
 Society Press.
 
 IAT'04 also welcomes Industry/Demo-Track submissions, Workshop and
 Tutorial proposals.
 
 All paper submissions will be handled electronically.  More detailed
 instructions and the On-Line Submission Form can be found from the
 IAT'04 homepages: http://www.maebashi-it.org/IAT04 and
 http://www.comp.hkbu.edu.hk/IAT04.
 
 A selected number of IAT'04 accepted papers will be expanded and
 revised for inclusion in Web Intelligence and Agent Systems:
 An International Journal (http://wi-consortium.org/journal.html)
 and in Annual Review of Intelligent Informatics
 (http://www.wi-consortium.org/annual.html).
 
 The best paper award and the best demo award will be conferred on the
 authors of the best papers and the best demos at the conference.
 
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 Conference Organization
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 ***** Conference Committee *****
 
 Conference Chairs:
   Jiming Liu, Hong Kong Baptist University, HK 
   Nick Cercone, University of Dalhousie, Canada
 
 Program Chair:
   Ning Zhong, Maebashi Institute of Technology, Japan
 
 Program Co-Chairs:
 
 IAT-Track:
   Jeffrey Bradshaw, UWF/Institute for Human and Machine Cognition, USA
   Sankar K. Pal, Indian Statistical Institute, Inida
   Domenico Talia, University of Calabria, Italy
 
 WI-Track:
   Henry Tirri, University of Helsinki, Finland 
   Yiyu Yao, University of Regina, Canada
   Lizhu Zhou, Tsinghua University, China
  
 Industry/Demo-Track Chairs:
   Qiang Yang, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, HK
   Wei-Ying Ma, Microsoft Research Asia, China
 
 Workshop Chair: 
   Pawan Lingras, Saint Mary's University, Canada
 
 Tutorial Chair: 
   Gerd Wagner, Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands
 
 Publicity Chair:
   Yuefeng Li, Queensland University of Technology, Australia
 
 Organizing Chairs:
   Tieyoung Zuo, Beijing University of Technology, China
   Chunnian Liu, Beijing University of Technology, China
 
 Local Arrangement Chair:
   Baocai Yin, Beijing University of Technology, China
 
 
 IEEE-CS-TCCI Chair
   Xindong Wu                      USA
 
 WIC Co-Chairs/Directors
   Ning Zhong                    Japan
   Jiming Liu                       HK
 
 ACM-SIGART Chair 
   Maria Gini                      USA
 
 WIC Advisory Board
   Edward A. Feigenbaum            USA
   Setsuo Ohsuga                 Japan
   Benjamin Wah                    USA
   Philip Yu                       USA
   L.A. Zadeh                      USA
 
 WIC Technical Committee & WI/IAT Steering Committee
   Nick Cercone                 Canada
   Dieter Fensel               Austria
   Georg Gottlob               Austria
   Lakhmi Jain               Australia
   W. Lewis Johnson                USA
   Jianchang Mao                   USA
   Hiroshi Motoda                Japan
   Toyoaki Nishida               Japan
   Xindong Wu                      USA
   Yiyu Yao                     Canada
 
 
 ***** IAT'04 Program Committee *****
 
 (to be announced)
 
 *** Contact Information ***
 
 WI'04 and IAT'04 Conference Secretariat
 wi-iat@maebashi-it.org 
 
 

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