Call for papers
IEEE/WIC/ACM Intelligent Agent Technology 2008
CALL FOR PAPERS
December 9-12, 2008, Sydney, Australia
Sponsored By
IEEE Computer Society
Web Intelligence Consortium (WIC)
Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
(Papers Due: *** 20 July 2008 ***
Accepted papers will be published in the conference proceedings
by the IEEE Computer Society Press, which are indexed by EI.
Introduction
IAT 2008 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 2008 will foster the development of novel paradigms and advanced solutions in agent-based computing.
IAT 2008 will be jointly held with the 2008 IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Web Intelligence (WI-08). The two conferences will have a joint opening, keynote, reception, and banquet. Attendees only need to register for one conference and can attend workshops, sessions, tutorials, panels, exhibits and demonstrations across the two conferences. We are also planning a joint panel, joint paper sessions, and doctor symposium that discuss common problems in the two areas.
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.
The upcoming meeting in this conference series follows the great success of IAT-99 held in Hong Kong in 1999, IAT-01 held in Maebashi City, Japan in 2001, IAT-03 held in Halifax, Canada, IAT-04 held in Beijing, China and IAT-05 held in Compiegne University of Technology, France. IAT-06 held in Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre, China. IAT-07 held in Silicon Valley, California, USA.
Topics of Interest
We invite submissions in all IAT related areas. Papers exploring new directions or areas will receive a careful and supportive review. Areas of interest include, but are 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
- Nature-Inspired Paradigms
- Self-Organized Criticality
- Self-Organized Intelligence
- Swarm Intelligence
* 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
- Cognitive Architectures
- Cognitive Modeling of Agents
- Emotional Modeling
- 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
- Distributed Search
- Dynamics of Agent Groups and Populations
- Efficiency and Complexity Issues
- Market-Based Computing
- Problem-Solving in Dynamic Environments
* 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
- Perceptive Animated Interfaces
- Scalability
- Social Simulation
- Socially Situated Planning
- Software and Pervasive Agents
- Tools and Standards
- Ubiquitous Systems and E-Technology Agents
- Ubiquitous Software Services
- Virtual Humans
- XML-Based Agent Systems
On-Line Submissions and Publication
High-quality papers in all IAT related areas are solicited. Paper submissions should be limited to a maximum of 7 pages in the IEEE 2-column format, the same as the camera-ready format (see the Author Guidelines of last year at http://www.ieeeconfpublishing.org/cpir/AuthorKit.asp?Community=CPS&Facility=CPS_Nov&ERoom=IAT+2007).
All submitted papers will be reviewed by the Program Committee on the basis of technical quality, relevance, significance, and clarity.
Note that IAT’08 will accept ONLY on-line submissions, containing PDF versions. Please use the Submission Form on the IAT’08 website to submit your paper. Accepted papers will be published in the conference proceedings by the IEEE Computer Society Press that are indexed by EI.
Submissions accepted as regular papers will be allocated 7 pages in the proceedings and accorded oral presentation times in the main conference. Submissions accepted as short papers will be allocated 4 pages in the proceedings and will have a shorter presentation time at the conference than regular papers.
All co-authors will be notified at all time, for the submission, notification, and confirmation on the attendance. Submitting a paper to the conference and workshops means that, if the paper is accepted,
at least one author should attend the conference to present the paper. The acceptance list and no-show list will be openly published on-line. For no-show authors, their affiliations will receive a notification.
A selected number of IAT’08 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 awards will be conferred at the conference on the authors of (1) the best research paper and (2) the best application paper. Application-oriented submissions will be considered for the best application paper award.
More detailed instructions and the On-Line Submission Form can be found from the IAT’08 homepage: http://datamining.it.uts.edu.au/wi08/html/iat/.
Workshops
As an important part of the conference, the workshop program will focus on new research challenges and initiatives. All papers accepted for workshops will be included in the Workshop Proceedings published
by the IEEE Computer Society Press that are indexed by EI, and will be available at the workshops. Detailed information is available at the conference homepage.
Accepted Workshops:
Workshop on Collective Intelligence in Semantic Web and Social Networks
Workshop on Web Information Retrieval Support Systems
Workshop on Web Personalization, Reputation and Recommender Systems
Workshop on Intelligent Web Interaction
Workshop on Intelligent e-government
Workshop on Web Intelligence meets Brain Informatics
Workshop on Fuzzy Logic On the Web
Workshop on Natural Language Processing and Ontology Engineering
Workshop on Web Intelligence & Intelligent Agent Technology in e-Learning
Workshop on Computational Social Networks
Workshop on Optimization-based Data Mining and Web Intelligence
Workshop on Human Aspects in Ambient Intelligence:
Agent Technology, Human-Oriented Knowledge and Applications
Workshop on e-Commerce, Business, and Services
Workshop on P2P Computing and Autonomous Agents
Workshop on Logics for Intelligent Agents and Multi-Agent Systems
Workshop on Data Mining in Bioinformatics
2008 WI-IAT Doctoral Workshop
Note: we will not have a separate workshop registration fee
(i.e., conference registration covers everything).
Tutorials
IAT’08 also welcomes Tutorial proposals. IAT’08 will include tutorials providing in-depth background on subjects that are of broad interest to the Web intelligence community. Both short (2 hours) and long (half day) tutorials will be considered. The tutorials will be part of the main conference technical program. Detailed information is available at the conference homepage.
Note: we will not have a separate tutorials registration fee
(i.e., only one conference registration covers everything).
Industry/Demo-Track
We solicit Industry/Demo-Track papers by the following methods.
(1) Industry papers of 4 pages can be submitted on the same schedule as
the research track.
(2) Separate 2 page demo proposals can submitted at a later schedule.
(3) Full regular paper submissions can include a demo option.
That is, a full paper submissions will be asked to
specify if they would like to give a demonstration; choice of
demonstrations (while utilizing information from the regular reviewing
process) will be selected based on value as a demonstration.
For options (1) and (2), please find more detailed instructions at the homepage: http://datamining.it.uts.edu.au/wi08/html/iat/
Important Dates
* Workshop proposal submission: April 10, 2008
* Electronic paper submission (7 pages): July 20, 2008
* Tutorial proposal submission: July 20, 2008
* Workshop paper submission: July 30, 2008
* Author notification: September 3, 2008
* Conference dates: December 9-12, 2008
Conference Organization
Conference General Chairs:
* Chengqi Zhang, University of Technology, Sydney, Australia
* Nick Cercone, York University, Canada
Program Chair:
* Lakhmi Jain, University of South Australia, Australia
IAT Program Co-Chairs:
* Maria Gini, University of Minnesoda, USA
* Boi B. Faltings, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Swiss
* Takao Terano, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan
WI Program Co-Chairs:
* Pawan Lingras, Saint Mary’s University, USA
* Matthias Klusch, German Research Center for AI, Germany
* Jie Lu, University of Technology, Sydney, Australia
Organizing Chair:
* Longbing Cao, University of Technology, Sydney, Australia
Workshop Co-Chairs:
* Yuefeng Li, Queensland University of Technology, Australia
* Gabriella Pasi, University of Milano, Italy
Tutorial Chair:
* Ajith Abraham, Norwegian University of science and Technology, Norway
Industry/Demo-Track Chair:
* Ngoc Thanh Nguyen, Wroclaw University of Technology, Poland
Publicity Co-Chairs:
* Ioannis E. Anagnostopoulos, University of the Aegean, Greece
* Jia Hu, International WIC Institute/BJUT, China
* Richi Nayak, Queensland University of Technology, Australia
IEEE-CS-TCII Chair:
* Ning Zhong, Maebashi Institute of Technology, Japan
ACM-SIGART Chair:
* Maria Gini, University of Minnesota, USA
WIC Co-Chairs/Directors:
* Ning Zhong, Maebashi Institute of Technology, Japan
* Jiming Liu, University of Windsor, Canada
WIC Advisory Board:
* Edward A. Feigenbaum, Stanford University, USA
* Setsuo Ohsuga, Waseda University, Japan
* Benjamin Wah, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, USA
* Philip Yu, University of Illinois, Chicago, USA
* L.A. Zadeh, University of California, Berkeley, USA
WIC Tech. Committee & WI/IAT Steering Committee:
* Jeffrey Bradshaw, UWF/Institute for Human and Machine Cognition, USA
* Nick Cercone, York University, Canada
* Dieter Fensel, University of Innsbruck, Austria
* Georg Gottlob, Oxford University, UK
* Lakhmi Jain, University of South Australia, Australia
* Jianchang Mao, Yahoo! Inc., USA
* Pierre Morizet-Mahoudeaux, Compiegne University of Technology, France
* Hiroshi Motoda, Osaka University, Japan
* Toyoaki Nishida, Kyoto University, Japan
* Andrzej Skowron, Warsaw University, Poland
* Jinglong Wu, Kagawa University, Japan
* Xindong Wu, University of Vermont, USA
* Yiyu Yao, University of Regina, Canada
*** Contact Information ***
The WIC Office
Email: wi08@wi-consortium.org