From wic-office at wi-consortium.org Tue Aug 4 09:03:02 2009 From: wic-office at wi-consortium.org (wic-office@wi-consortium.org) Date: 5 Aug 2009 01:03:02 +0900 Subject: [Ai-grid] WI-IAT 2009 Call for Participation Message-ID: <20090804160302.4204.qmail@earth.azu.com> [Apologies if you receive this more than once] ====================== CALL FOR PARTICIPATION ====================== IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Web Intelligence (WI'09) IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Intelligent Agent Technology (IAT'09) September 15-18, 2009 University of Milano - Bicocca, Milano, Italy (Building U6, Bicocca University Campus, Piazzale dell'Ateneo Nuovo 1) http://www.unimib.it/go/Home/English (map of Bicocca Campus) Official websites: http://www.wi-iat09.disco.unimib.it/WI09 http://www.wi-iat09.disco.unimib.it/IAT09 Sponsored and Organized by IEEE Computer Society Web Intelligence Consortium (WIC) Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) University of Milano - Bicocca Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE) University/Corporate Sponsors: University of Milano - Bicocca Yahoo! Research Comune di Milano DocFlow Italia S.p.A. Banca Popolare di Sondrio ================= HIGHLIGHTS ========================= 6 WI'09/IAT'09 Invited Speeches by Stefano Ceri Marco Dorigo Katia P. Sycara Bhavani Thuraisingham Ronald R. Yager Chengqi Zhang 1 WIC Feature Talk by Yulin Qin 2 Tutorials 18 WI-IAT Workshops (Including a Doctoral Workshop) Presentations of Accepted Research Track Papers. The research track papers were selected from 587 submissions received from over 50 countries and regions, out of which 98 were accepted as regular papers and 122 papers were accepted as short papers. All main conference and workshop proceedings will be published in the conference proceedings by the IEEE Computer Society Press, indexed by EI. REGISTRATRION +++++++++++++ On-line registration at www.wiiat2009registration.promoest.com Regular registration covers all the events of WI-IAT'09 during the four conference days including keynotes, tutorials, accepted paper presentations, and workshops, as well as includes proceedings, coffee breaks and two lunches, conference reception and banquet. As usual, WI'09 and IAT'09 will be co-located, providing synergism among Web Intelligence and Intelligent Agent Technology. The two conferences will have a joint opening, invited talks, reception, and banquet. Attendees only need to register for one conference and can attend workshops, sessions, invited talks, and tutorials across the two conferences. INVITED TALKS +++++++++++++ WI'09/IAT'09 Joint Invited Talks include: Search Computing by Stefano Ceri (Politecnico di Milano, Italy) Swarm-bots and Swarmanoid: Two experiments in embodied swarm intelligence by Marco Dorigo (University Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium) Agent Based Aiding of Human Teams by Katia P. Sycara (School of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon University, USA) Data Mining for Malicious Code Detection and Security Applications by Bhavani Thuraisingham (Cyber Security Research Center, Eric Jonsson School of Engineering and Computer Science, The University of Texas at Dallas, USA) Intelligent Social Network Modeling by Ronald R. Yager (Iona College, USA) Developing Actionable Trading Strategies for Trading Agents by Chengqi Zhang (Centre for Quantum Computation & Intelligent Systems, University of Technology, Sydney, Australia) WIC FEATURE TALK ++++++++++++++++ Various Levels from Brain Informatics to Web Intelligence by Yulin Qin (The International WIC Institute, Beijing University of Technology, China and Department of Psychology, Carnegie Mellon University, USA) TUTORIALS +++++++++ T1: The Web of Data for E-Commerce in Brief: A Hands-on Introduction to the Good Relations Ontology, RDFa, and Yahoo! SearchMonkey by Martin Hepp, Michael Hausenblas T2: Query Log Analysis for Enhancing Web Search by Salvatore Orlando, Fabrizio Silvestri WORKSHOPS +++++++++ (DOCW'09) The Second WI/IAT Doctoral Workshop Andrzej Skowron, The University of Warsaw, Poland Marcin Szczuka, The University of Warsaw, Poland Xiaohui Tao, Queensland University of Technology, Australia (IWI'09) International Workshop on Intelligent Web Interaction 2009 Seiji Yamada, National Institute of Informatics , Japan Tsuyoshi Murata, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan (WPRRS'09) Workshop on Web Personalization, Reputation and Recommender Systems Yue Xu, Queensland University of Technology, Australia Audun Josang, University of Oslo, Norway Yuefeng Li, Queensland University of Technology, Australia (WIRSS'09) International Workshop on Web Information Retrieval Support Systems Orland Hoeber, Memorial University, Canada Yiyu Yao, University of Regina, Canada (SAIAW'09) Soft Approaches to Information Access on the Web Guy De Tre, Ghent University, Belgium Enrique Herrera-Viedma, Granada University, Spain Jose Angel Olivas, University of Castilla La Mancha, Spain Slawomir Zadrozny, Systems Research Institute, Poland (VUSW'09) Managing Vagueness and Uncertainty in the Semantic Web Silvia Calegari, University degli Studi di Milano Bicocca, Italy Davide Ciucci, University degli Studi di Milano Bicocca, Italy Elie Sanchez, LIF, Faculte de Medecine (Universite Aix-Marseille), France Umberto Straccia, ISTI-CNR, Italy (SPeL'09) 2nd International Workshop on Social and Personal Computing for Web-Supported Learning Communities Elvira Popescu, University of Craiova, Romania Sabine Graf, Athabasca University, Canada (NLPOE'09) Workshop on Natural Language Processing and Ontology Engineering Zhifang Sui, Peking University, China Yao Liu, Institute of Scientific and Technical Information of China, (ECBS'09) The 2nd International Workshop on Electronic Commerce, Business, and Services Takayuki Ito, Nagoya Institute of Technology, Japan Minjie Zhang, Wollongong University, Australia Tokuro Matsuo, Yamagata University, Japan Quan Bai, CSIRO, Australia (HAI'09) Third International Workshop on Human Aspects in Ambient Intelligence: Agent Technology, Human-Oriented Knowledge, and Applications Juan Carlos Augusto, University of Ulster, Ireland Tibor Bosse , Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, The Netherlands Cristiano Castelfranchi, CNR Rome, Italy Diane Cook, Washington State University, USA Mark Neerincx, TNO Human Factors; Technical University Delft, The Netherlands Fariba Sadri, Imperial College, United Kingdom Jan Treur, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, The Netherlands (EGOVEM'09) International Workshop on Intelligent E-government and Emergency Management Ning Wang, Dalian University Of Technology, China Xin Ye, Dalian University Of Technology, China Liming Zhu, National ICT Australia Shaobo Ji, Dalian University Of Technology, China/Carleton University, Canada (CIAO'09) Computational Intelligence Approach for Ontology-based knowledge Discovery Tzung-Pei Hong, National University of Kaohsiung, Taiwan Chang-Shing Lee, National University of Tainan, Taiwan Vincenzo Loia, University of Salerno, Italy (WLIAMAS'09) The Second Workshop on Logics for Intelligent Agents and Multi-Agent Systems Guido Governatori, NICTA, Australia Chuchang Liu, DSTO, Australia Mehmet A. Orgun, Macquarie University, Australia Mark Reynolds, University of Western Australia, Australia Antonino Rotolo, University of Bologna, Italy Abdul Sattar, Griffith University, Australia Leon van der Torre, University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg (IAPWNC'09) Intelligent Analysis and Processing of Web News Content Nello Cristianini, University of Bristol, UK Marco Turchi, University of Bristol, UK (DART'09) 3rd International Workshop on Distributed Agent-Based Retrieval Tools Alessandro Soro, Research and Development in Sardinia, Italy Eloisa Vargiu, University of Cagliari, Italy (W2T'09) The 2009 Workshop Web2Touch - living experience through web Miriam Capretz, University Western Ontario, Canada Maria Beatriz Felgar Toledo, Unicamp, Brazil Mariagrazia Fugini, Politecnico di Milano, Italy Marcos da Silveira, CRP Henri Tudor, Luxembourg Khalil Drira, LAAS-CNRS, France Olga Nabuco, CTI, Brazil (Crowds&ped'09) International Workshop on Crowds and Pedestrian behavior Sara Manzoni, Complex Systems & Artificial Intelligence Research Center, University of Milano Bicocca, Italy Rosaldo Rossetti, Department of Informatics Engineering, University of Porto, Portugal (WPT 2009) Workshop On Web Privacy and Trust Fahim Akhter, Zayed University, United Arab Emirates Shiguo Lian, France Telecom R&D Beijing Center, China SOCIAL PROGRAM +++++++++++++++ The WI'09 and IAT'09 joint conference offers an exciting social programs, including the conference welcome reception on September 16th and the conference banquet on September 17th. The conference banquet will be held in the Historic location of Castello Sforzesco, Cortile della Rocchetta, Piazza Castello Milano http://www.milanocastello.it/intro.html WI'09/IAT'09 online accomodation information can be found at: www.wiiat2009.promoest.com The Conference Tour booking Website is at: www.wiiat2009tour.promoest.com CONTACT INFORMATION +++++++++++++++++++ If you have anything regarding the conference organization, please write to the conference address: wi-iat09 at disco.unimib.it. From ai-grid at ISI.EDU Sun Aug 9 14:17:25 2009 From: ai-grid at ISI.EDU (VIAGRA ® Official Site) Date: Sun, 9 Aug 2009 14:17:25 -0700 (PDT) Subject: [Ai-grid] Dear ai-grid@isi.edu 53% 0FF on PFIZER ! Message-ID: <200908092117.n79LHPwB002896@nitro.isi.edu> An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://mailman.isi.edu/pipermail/ai-grid/attachments/20090809/5d4ca77d/attachment.html