2007 IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on
Intelligent Agent Technology (IAT'07)

Silicon Valley, USA, November 2-5, 2007
Official: http://www.cs.sjsu.edu/wi07/iat/
Mirror:   http://www.maebashi-it.org/wi07/iat/
(to be collocated with WI'07, BIBM'07 and GrC'07)

Sponsored By
IEEE Computer Society
Web Intelligence Consortium (WIC)
Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)

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# Conference Chair
#    Andrei Broder, VP, Yahoo Fellow, Yahoo! Research
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# Program Chair and Co-Chairs 
#    T.Y. Lin,            San Jose State University/UC Berkeley, USA
#    Jeffrey M. Bradshaw, UWF/Institute for Human and Machine Cognition, USA
#    Matthias Klusch,     German Research Center for AI, Germany
#    Chengqi Zhang,       University of Technology, Sydney, Australia
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# Organizing Chair 
#    Howard Ho, Manager, IBM Almaden Research Center
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# IAT-WI Joint Keynote Speakers (Tentative)
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# Vinton G. Cerf, Turing Award Winner,
#                 VP and Chief Internet Evangelist, Google
# Anant Jhingran, VP and CTO, IBM Silicon Valley Laboratory
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# (More IAT Invited Speakers will be announced)
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# (Papers Due: ** June 1 **, 2007)
# Accepted papers will be published in the conference proceedings
# by the IEEE Computer Society Press, which are indexed by EI.
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The 2007 IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Intelligent Agent
Technology (IAT'07) will be jointly held with the 2007 IEEE/WIC/ACM
International Conference on Web Intelligence (WI'07), the 2007 IEEE
International Conference on Bioinformatics and Biomedicine (BIBM'07),
and the 2007 IEEE International Conference on Granular Computing
(GrC'07) for providing synergism among the four research areas.  It
will provide opportunities for technical collaboration beyond that of
previous conferences. The four conferences will have a joint opening,
keynote, reception, and banquet. Attendees only need to register for
one conference and can attend workshops, sessions and tutorials across
the four conferences.  We are also planning a joint panel and joint
paper sessions that discuss common problems in the four areas.

IAT 2007 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 2007 will foster the development of novel
paradigms and advanced solutions in agent-based computing.

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Highlights
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The conference will be held in Silicon Valley, California. Many
high-tech companies and three distinguished universities (Stanford, UC
Berkely and UCSC) are just around the corner. The highlight of the
conference is that a unique forum consisting of a half-day demo
session and free discussion will be organized to link industries and
academics. Leading IT companies like IBM, Google, and Yahoo etc will
present at the conference.

The area now known as Silicon Valley has been a center of
technological development since the 1950's. The name Silicon Valley
stems from the early 1970's, when the area had become the center for
many semiconductor companies. While still hosting semiconductor and
microprocessor companies, the region now hosts the headquarters of
high tech companies of every kind, including many of the best known
and most prestigious names in personal computers, Web search, Internet
auctions, networking, storage, databases, etc.

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Topics of Interest
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The topics and areas 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
  - 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

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On-Line Submissions and Publication
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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.computer.org/portal/pages/cscps/cps/final/iat06.xml).
All submitted papers will be reviewed by the Program Committee on
the basis of technical quality,  relevance, significance, and clarity.

Note that IAT'07 will accept ONLY on-line submissions, containing
PDF versions. Please use the Submission Form on the IAT'07
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'07 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)

More detailed instructions and the On-Line Submission Form can be
found from the IAT'07 homepage: http://www.cs.sjsu.edu/wi07/iat/.

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IAT'07 Best Paper Awards
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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.

The full author list and paper title will be announced on the
Web Intelligence Consortium homepage:
http://wi-consortium.org/html/wicawards.html

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Industry/Demo-Track
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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://www.cs.sjsu.edu/wi07/wi/

We are planning to arrange the Industry/Demo track in the afternoon of
November 3 (before and during the conference reception), jointly with
the IAT'07 Demo sessions. Leading IT companies in Silicon Valley
will be invited to attend this track.

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Workshops
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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.

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

For more information, please visit the conference website at
http://www.maebashi-it.org/wi07/iat/?index=workshop.

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Tutorials
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IAT'07 also welcomes Tutorial proposals. IAT'07 will include
tutorials providing in-depth background on subjects that are of broad
interest to the intelligent agent 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).

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Important Dates
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Workshop proposal submission:           March 20, 2007
Electronic submission of full papers:   ** June 1, 2007 **
Tutorial proposal submission:           June 15, 2007
Notification of paper acceptance:       July 22, 2007
Camera-ready copies of accepted papers: August 17, 2007
Conference:                             November 2-5, 2007

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Conference Organization
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Conference Chair:
  * Andrei Broder, Yahoo! Research, USA

Program Chair:
  * Tsau Young (T.Y.) Lin, San Jose State University/UC Berkeley, USA

IAT Program Co-Chairs:
  * Jeffrey M. Bradshaw, UWF/Institute for Human and Machine Cognition, USA
  * Matthias Klusch, German Research Center for AI, Germany
  * Chengqi Zhang, University of Technology, Sydney, Australia

WI Program Co-Chairs:
  * Laura Haas, IBM Almaden Research Center, USA
  * Janusz Kacprzyk, Polish Academy of Science, Poland
  * Rajeev Motwani, Stanford University, USA

Organizing Chair:
  * Howard Ho, IBM Almaden Research Center, USA

Workshop Co-Chairs:
  * Vijay Raghavan, University of Louisiana, USA
  * Yuefeng Li, Queensland University of Technology, Australia

Tutorial Chair:
  * Pawan Lingras, Saint Mary's University, Canada

Industry/Demo-Track Chair:
  * Jianchang Mao, Yahoo! Inc., USA

Local Accommodations Co-Chairs:
  * David Scot Taylor, San Jose State University, USA
  * Tom Qi Zhang, Google, USA

Publicity Chair:
  * James Wang, Clemson University, USA (chair)
Publicity Co-Chairs:
  * Martine De Cock, Ghent University, Belgium
  * Jia Hu, International WIC Institute, China
  * Debajyoti Mukhopadhyay, West Bengal University of Technology, India

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, IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center, 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, Dalhousie University, Canada
* Dieter Fensel, National University of Ireland, Ireland
* 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

Webmaster:
* Albert Sutojo, San Jose State University, USA

*** Contact Information ***

Jia Hu
International WIC Institute, China
E-mail: hujia@kis-lab.com