WI/IAT 2008 - Call for Tutorials

--  Call for Tutorials  --

2008 IEEE/WIC/ACM International Joint Conference on Web Intelligence
and Intelligent Agent Technology (WI-IAT'08)

http://datamining.it.uts.edu.au/wi08/html/

The 2008 IEEE/WIC/ACM International Joint Conference on Web
Intelligence (WI'08) and Intelligent Agent Technology (IAT'08) takes
place on December 9-12, 2008, in Sydney,Australia. The IEEE/WIC/ACM
2008 joint conferences are organized by University of Technology
Sydney, Australia, and sponsored by IEEE Computer Society Technical
Committee on Intelligent Informatics (TCII), Web Intelligence
Consortium (WIC), and ACM-SIGART.

WI 2008 and IAT 2008 will include tutorials providing in-depth
background on subjects that are of broad interest to both the Web
intelligence community and the intelligent agent community. Both short
(2 hours) and long (half day) tutorials will be considered. Tutorial
topics will be determined later.

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

Tutorial Topics

The following is a non-exclusive list of preferred topic areas for
tutorial proposals:

Web Intelligence
− Intelligent/Semantic Web Services
− Intelligent Wireless Web and Ubiquitous Computing
− Rules and Inference Engines for the Web
− Semantic Web Concepts and Techniques for Security and Trust
− Service-Oriented Computing
− Social Networks and Social Intelligence
− e-learning and e-science
− Web Intelligence and Education

Intelligent Agent Technology
− Agent-Based Modeling and Simulation
− Agent Technologies in e-Business Systems
− Agent-Mediated Knowledge Management
− Peer-to-Peer Models for Multi-Agent Systems
− Agent-Based Grid Computing

Proposals related to these areas will receive special consideration.

Submission Details
Proposals for tutorials should consist of an outline and background
information on the presenter(s). The tutorial outline should be
limited to 2 pages and contain the following information:

Title and abstract of the tutorial
Proposed duration: 2 hours or half-day
Intended audience: to whom is the tutorial of interest
Prerequisite knowledge: what the attendees should already know
Detailed outline
The background information on the presenter(s) should be limited to
1-2 pages and contain:

Names, affiliations, homepages and contact details
Short biographies
Information about previous tutorials given by the same presenters
(title, location, number of attendees, etc.)
Tutorial materials such as handouts and slides should be included if
already available, but are not required for submission.

Please send your proposal to the tutorial chair, Ajith Abraham -->>
ajith.abraham@ieee.org.

Important Dates

Tutorial submissions: July 15, 2008
Acceptance notices: July 30, 2008
Camera-ready copy of tutorial handouts: November 10, 2008
WI-IAT'08 Conference December 9-12, 2008

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