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             CALL FOR WORKSHOP PROPOSALS

       2012 IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conferences on
       Web Intelligence and Intelligent Agent Technology

 December 4-7, 2012, Macau SAR, China
 Conference Website:  http://www.fst.umac.mo/wic2012
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The submission deadline is extended to April 28, 2012.

The WI-IAT 2012 joint conferences (WI-IAT'12) will co-locate with AMT'12,
BI'12, and ISMIS'12 as a Congress, a Special Event of the Alan Turing Year
(Centenary of Alan Turing's birth). The Congress will have a joint opening,
keynotes, reception and banquet.

Sponsored By
IEEE Computer Society Technical Committee on Intelligent Informatics (TCII)
Web Intelligence Consortium (WIC), and ACM-SIGART

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# Workshops Chairs
# Prof. Yuefeng Li, Queensland University of Technology, Australia
#   Email: y2.li@qut.edu.au
# Prof. Yanqing Zhang, Georgia State University, USA
#   Email: yzhang@cs.gsu.edu
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# (Workshop Proposals Due: April 28, 2012)
# (Workshop Papers Due: July 25, 2012)
# (Workshops Date: December 4, 2012)
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# Accepted workshop papers will be published in the workshops proceedings
# by the IEEE Computer Society Press, which are indexed by EI.
# High-quality workshops will be recommended to pursue special issues in
# WI/IAT related journals.
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As the Web continues to grow and evolve, many new problems and
challenges are being introduced. The WI-IAT workshops aim to provide
researchers who share similar research interests to meet and address
new research challenges and initiatives that concern Web Intelligence (WI)
and Intelligent Agent Technology (IAT). The Workshops provide a venue and
forum for contributions in specialized sub-areas of Web Intelligence and
Intelligent Agent Technology, and allowing authors to present new and
emerging trends in methods and technologies to dedicated audiences.

Following the great successes of WI-IAT'01 held in Maebashi City, Japan,
WI-IAT'03 held in Halifax, Canada, WI-IAT'04 held in Beijing, China,
WI-IAT'05 in Compiegne, France, WI-IAT'06 held in Hong Kong, WI-IAT'07 held in
Silicon Valley USA, WI-IAT'08 held in Sydney, Australia,
WI-IAT'09 held in Milano, Italy, WI-IAT'10 Canada and WI-IAT'11 France.

WI-IAT'12 will provide a leading international forum for researchers and
practitioners to present the state-of-the-art WI-IAT technologies;
examine performance characteristics of various approaches in WI and IAT;
and cross-fertilize ideas on the development of WI and IAT.

By idea-sharing, brain-storming and discussions on the underlying foundations
and the enabling technologies of WI and IAT, 2012 WI-IAT Workshops will
capture current important developments of new models, new methodologies and
new tools for building a variety of embodiments of WI or IAT systems.  
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.

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Workshop Proposal Submission
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Workshop organizers should submit their proposals (PDF or Word files)
directly to both Workshop Chairs via e-mail.

Workshop proposals should include the following elements:

- Title of the workshop
- Names of workshop organizers, affiliation, mailing address and e-mail address
- A description of the topics 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

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Workshop Organizers
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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 16-20 regular papers, while a half-day workshop should select 8-10
regular papers, from a large number of submissions. The workshop organizers
should ensure the presence of authors of accepted papers at the workshops.

After the acceptation 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 a workshop organizer will also be reviewed by
the Workshop Chairs for final acceptance.

All submitted papers will be reviewed on the basis of technical quality,
relevance, significance, and clarity.

The conference will provide an online paper submission and review system
to support the workshops.

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Topics of Interest
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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:

- Intelligent e-Technology (including e-Science, e-Business,
             e-Things and e-Activities, e-Learning, e-Finance,
             e-Medicine, e-Government, e-Community)
- Intelligent Human-Web Interaction
- Knowledge Grids and Grid Intelligence
- Semantics and Ontology Engineering
- Sensing Web and Smart World
- Social Networks and Ubiquitous Intelligence
- Ubiquitous Computing
- Web Agents
- Web Information Filtering and Retrieval
- Web Mining and Farming
- Web Scale Commonsense Knowledge Processing
- 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
- Distributed Intelligence

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Important Dates
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Workshop proposal submission (extended):        April 28, 2012
Electronic submission of workshop papers:       June 01, 2012
Workshop paper submission:                      July 25, 2012
Notification of paper acceptance:               August 05, 2012
Camera-ready copies of accepted papers:         August 31, 2012
Workshops:                                      December 4, 2012
Conference:                                     December 5-7, 2012

*** Contact Information ***

Professor Yuefeng Li
School of Information Technology
Queensland University of Technology, Australia
Email: y2.li@qut.edu.au
Phone: 61-7-31385212

Professor Yanqing Zhang
Department of Computer Science
Georgia State University
Email: yzhang@cs.gsu.edu
Phone: 404-413-5733