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[Apologies if you receive this more than once] ============================================================== Call for Workshop Proposals 2008 IEEE/WIC/ACM International Joint Conference on Web Intelligence and Intelligent Agent Technology (WI-IAT'08) Sydney, Australia, December 9-12, 2008. http://datamining.it.uts.edu.au/wi08/html/wi/?index=about http://datamining.it.uts.edu.au/wi08/html/iat/?index=about ******************************************************************* Workshop Proposals Due: ** April 10 **, 2008 All papers accepted for workshops will be included in the Workshop Proceedings published by the IEEE Computer Society Press, which are indexed by EI. =================================================================== The Program Committees of the 2008 IEEE/WIC/ACM International Joint Conference on Web Intelligence and Intelligent Agent Technology (WI-IAT'08) invite proposals for Workshops. The Workshops will be held within the Conference, December 9-12, 2008 at Sydney, Australia. 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 20-25 regular papers, while a half-day workshop should select 10-13 regular papers, from a large number of submissions. The workshop organizers should ensure the presence of authors of accepted papers at the workshops. I. Workshop Topics 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: - Web Intelligence, Brain Informatics and Bio Technology - Intelligent E-Technology (including E-Science, E-Business, E-Learning, E-Finance, E-Government, E-Community) - Intelligent Web Interaction - Knowledge Grids and Grid Intelligence - Semantics and Ontology Engineering - Social Networks and Social Intelligence - Web Agents - Web Information Filtering and Retrieval - Web Mining and Farming - Web Personalization and Recommendations - 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 - Agents and Data Mining Interaction - Multiagent Systems in E-business II. Workshop Proposal Submission Workshop proposals should include the following elements: - Title of the workshop - The organizers name, affiliation, mailing address and e-mail address - A description of the topic 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 After the acceptance 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 the organizer(s) will also be reviewed by the Workshop Co-Chairs for final acceptance. All submitted papers will be reviewed on the basis of technical quality, relevance, significance, and clarity. We will provide an online paper submission and review system to support the workshops. Please submit your Proposals to both Workshop Co-Chairs by emails. III. Important Dates - Workshop proposal submission: April 10, 2008 - Electronic submission of full papers: July 10, 2008 - Workshop paper submission: July 30, 2008 - Notification of paper acceptance: September 3, 2008 - Camera-ready of accepted papers: September 30, 2008 - Workshops: December 9, 2008 - Conference: December 9 - 12, 2008 We look forward to your support in making 2008 IEEE/WIC/ACM WI-IAT workshops an exciting event. Workshop Co-Chairs: A/Prof. Yuefeng Li, Queensland University of Technology, Australia E-mail: y2.li@qut.edu.au Prof. Gabriella Pasi, University of Milano Bicocca, Milano, Italy E-mail: pasi@disco.unimib.it Note: we will not have a separate workshop registration fee this year (i.e., only one conference registration covers everything).
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