From wiiat at wi-consortium.org Wed Feb 25 05:31:24 2009 From: wiiat at wi-consortium.org (wiiat) Date: Wed, 25 Feb 2009 22:31:24 +0900 Subject: [Ai-grid] CFP: IEEE/WIC/ACM WI 2009 (Milano, Italy) Message-ID: <49A5482C.1040000@wi-consortium.org> [Apologies if you receive this more than once] ##################################################################### IEEE/WIC/ACM WEB INTELLIGENCE 2009 CALL FOR PAPERS ##################################################################### 2009 IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Web Intelligence (WI-09) September 15-18, 2009, University of Milano - Bicocca, Milano, Italy http://www.wi-iat09.disco.unimib.it Sponsored By IEEE Computer Society Web Intelligence Consortium (WIC) Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) ################################################################## # (Papers Due: *** 10 April 2009 *** # Accepted papers will be published in the conference proceedings # by the IEEE Computer Society Press, which are indexed by EI. ################################################################## WI 2009 will provide a leading international forum of scientific research and development to explore the fundamental interactions between AI-engineering and Advanced Information Technology (e.g., wireless networks, ubiquitous devices, social networks, and data/knowledge grids), and their role on the next generation of Web-empowered products, Web systems and services. AI-engineering refers to a new area, slightly beyond tradional AI, which encompasses: brain informatics, human level AI, intelligent agents, social network intelligence, knowledge engineering, representation, planning, data mining and discovery. WI 2009 will be jointly held with the 2009 IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Intelligent Agent Technology (IAT-09). 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 a doctoral mentoring program to discuss common problems in the two areas. +++++++++++++++++++ Topics of Interest +++++++++++++++++++ We invite submissions in all WI related areas. Papers exploring new directions or areas will receive a careful and supportive review. Areas of interest include, but are not limited to: * WI Foundations - Brain Informatics for WI - Human Level WI - New Cognitive Models and Computational Models for WI - Granular Computing (GrC) for WI - Soft Computing for WI - Autonomy-Oriented Computing (AOC) for WI - Human-Inspired WI Computing * World Wide Wisdom Web (W4) - Meta-Knowledge Discovery and Representation - Problem Solver Markup Language (PSML) - Search of Best Means and Ends - Goal-Directed Services Support - Distributed Resources Optimization - Service Self-Aggregation - Web Inference Engine - Information and Knowledge Markets - New Social Interaction Paradigms - Social and Psychological Contexts Regularities and Laws of W4 * Web Information Retrieval and Filtering - Web Information Retrieval in context - Multimedia Indexing - Personalization - Location-based Information Retrieval - Geographic information retrieval - Content-based Information Filtering - Collaborative Filtering and Recommendation - Hybrid Recommendation - Clustering-Based Recommender Systems - Information Retrieval Models and Evaluations - Web Information Categorization - Ranking Techniques - Proxy and Cache Techniques - Web Prediction and Pre-fetching - Distributed Web Search - Specifications for Web Information Extraction Process - Web Crawling Systems - Search Engines and Meta-search Engines * Semantics and Ontology Engineering - Semantic Web - Ontology-Based Information Extraction and Retrieval - Ontology-Based Web Mining - Web-Based Ontology Learning - Web Scale Reasoning * Web Mining and Farming - Text Mining - Data Stream Mining - Multimedia Data Mining - Web Content Mining - Web Log and Usage Mining - Context Sensitive Web Mining - Web Information Clustering - Web Page Clustering and Mining - Data Warehousing - Web Farming and Warehousing * Social Networks and Social Intelligence - Social Networks Mining - Web Site Clustering - Web 2.0 - Link Topology and Site Hierarchy - Theories of Small-World Web - Virtual and Web Communities - Web-Based Cooperative Work - Knowledge Community Formation and Support - Ubiquitous Computing - Intelligent Wireless Web - Ubiquitous Learning Systems - Entertainment * Knowledge Grids and Grid Intelligence - Semantic Grids - Knowledge Resources and Services Discovery - On-Demand Planning and Routing - Brokering and Scheduling - Middleware Architectures and Tools * Web Agents - Global Information Foraging - Distributed Problem Solving - Coordination - Resource Intermediary and Coordination Mechanisms - Self-Organization and Reproduction - Agent Networks and Topologies - Mobile Agents - Macroscopic Behavior Modeling - Trust Models for Web Agents * Web Services - Service-Oriented Computing - Matchmaking - Web Service Reconfiguration - Web Service Workflow Composition - Middleware-Based Ubiquitous Services - Grid Services * Intelligent Human-Web Interaction - Adaptive Web Interfaces - Context-Aware Computing - Emotional Factor - Learning User Profiles - Multimedia Representation - Personalized Interfaces - Personalized Websites - Remembrance Agents - Visualization of Information and Knowledge - Social and Psychological Issues * Web Support Systems - Information Retrieval Support Systems - Web Site Navigation Support Systems - Recommender Support Systems - Web-Based Decision Support Systems - Soft Computing (including neural networks, fuzzy logic, evolutionary computation, rough sets, and granular computing) and Uncertainty Management for WI * Intelligent e-Technology - Business Intelligence - Intelligent Enterprise Portals - Web-Based Direct Marketing and CRM - Web-Based EDI - Digital Libraries - e-Publishing - e-Business and e-Commerce - e-Finance - e-Community Decentralized Community Communication Techniques - e-Learning - e-Medicine - e-Science - e-Government - Web Security, Integrity, Privacy and Trust ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ On-Line Submissions and Publication ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ High-quality papers in all WI related areas are solicited. Paper submissions should be limited to a maximum of 8 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_Dec&ERoom=WI%2DIAT+2008). All submitted papers will be reviewed by the Program Committee on the basis of technical quality, relevance, significance, and clarity. Note that WI'09 will accept ONLY on-line submissions, containing PDF versions. Please use the Submission Form on the WI'09 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 8 pages in the proceedings and accorded oral presentation 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 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 WI'09 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 will be found on the WI'09 homepage: http://www.wi-iat09.disco.unimib.it/WI09/WIhome.htm ++++++++++ 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. Note: we will not have a separate workshop registration fee (i.e., conference registration covers everything). ++++++++++ Tutorials ++++++++++ WI'09 also welcomes Tutorial proposals. WI'09 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), more detailed instructions will be found at the homepage: http://www.wi-iat09.disco.unimib.it/WI09/WIhome.htm ++++++++++++++++ Important Dates ++++++++++++++++ * Workshop proposal submission: January 31, 2009 * Electronic paper submission (8 pages): April 10, 2009 * Tutorial proposal submission: April 10, 2009 * Workshop paper submission: April 30, 2008 * Author notification: June 3, 2009 * Conference dates: September 15-18, 2009 ++++++++++++++++++++++++ Conference Organization ++++++++++++++++++++++++ Conference General Chair: * Gabriella Pasi, University of Milano - Bicocca, Milano, Italy Program Chair: * Ricardo Baeza-Yates, Yahoo! Research, Barcelona, Spain WI Program Co-Chairs: * Bettina Berendt, K.U. Leuven, Leuven, Belgium * Elisa Bertino, Purdue University, West Lafayette, USA * Lim Ee Peng, Singapore Management University, Singapore IAT Program Co-Chairs: * Jerome Lang, CNRS, LAMSADE, Paris, France * Sushmita Mitra, Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata, India * Simon Parsons, Brooklyn College, City University of New York, USA Organizing Co-Chairs: * Gloria Bordogna, National Council of Research, Milano, Italy * Giancarlo Mauri, University of Milano - Bicocca, Milano, Italy Workshop Co-Chairs: * Paolo Boldi, University of Milano, Milano. Italy * Giuseppe Vizzari, University of Milano - Bicocca, Milano, Italy Tutorial Co-Chairs: * Mohand Boughanem, University Paul Sabatier, Toulouse, France * Fabrizio Sebastiani, National Council of Research, Pisa, Italy Publicity Co-Chairs: * Jia Hu, The International WIC Institute/BJUT, China * Mounia Lalmas, University of Glasgow, UK 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, University of Tokyo, 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, Okayama University, Japan * Xindong Wu, University of Vermont, USA * Yiyu Yao, University of Regina, Canada *** Contact Information *** Gabriella Pasi (Conference General Chair) Email: WI-IAT09 at disco.unimib.it The WIC Office Email: wi09 at wi-consortium.org From wic-office at wi-consortium.org Wed Feb 25 21:14:14 2009 From: wic-office at wi-consortium.org (WIC Office) Date: Thu, 26 Feb 2009 14:14:14 +0900 Subject: [Ai-grid] CfP: 2009 International Conference on Brain Informatics (BI 2009) Message-ID: <49A62526.3080905@wi-consortium.org> [Apologies if you receive this more than once] ############################################################### Brain Informatics 2009 CALL FOR PAPERS ############################################################### 2009 International Conference on Brain Informatics (BI 2009) October 22-24, 2009, Beijing, China Homepage: http://www.wici-lab.org/amtbi09/ Mirror page: http://www.iwici.org/amtbi09/ Organized by Web Intelligence Consortium (WIC) In Cooperation with Chinese Society of Radiology and Beijing University of Technology (BJUT) Brain Informatics (BI) has recently emerged as an interdisciplinary research field that focuses on studying the mechanisms underlying the human information processing system (HIPS). It investigates the essential functions of the brain, ranging from perception to thinking, and encompassing such areas as multi-perception, attention, memory, language, computation, heuristic search, reasoning, planning, decision-making, problem-solving, learning, discovery, and creativity. The goal of BI is to develop and demonstrate a systematic approach to achieving an integrated understanding of both macroscopic and microscopic level working principles of the brain, by means of experimental, computational, and cognitive neuroscience studies, as well as utilizing advanced Web Intelligence (WI) centric information technologies. BI represents a potentially revolutionary shift in the way that research is undertaken. It attempts to capture new forms of collaborative and interdisciplinary work. In this vision, new kinds of BI methods and global research communities will emerge, through infrastructure on the wisdom Web and knowledge grids that enables high speed and distributed, large-scale analysis and computations, and radically new ways of sharing data/knowledge. Brain Informatics 2009 provides a leading international forum to bring together researchers and practitioners from diverse fields, such as computer science, information technology, artificial intelligence, Web intelligence, cognitive science, neuroscience, medical science, life science, economics, data mining, data and knowledge engineering, intelligent agent technology, human computer interation, complex systems, and system science, to explore the main research problems in BI lie in the interplay between the studies of human brain and the research of informatics. On the one hand, one models and characterizes the functions of the human brain based on the notions of information processing systems. WI centric information technologies are applied to support brain science studies. For instance, the wisdom Web and knowledge grids enable high-speed, large-scale analysis, simulation, and computation as well as new ways of sharing research data and scientific discoveries. On the other hand, informatics-enabled brain studies, e.g., based on fMRI, EEG, MEG significantly broaden the spectrum of theories and models of brain sciences and offer new insights into the development of human-level intelligence on the wisdom Web and knowledge grids. Brain Informatics 2009 will be jointly held with the 2009 International Conference on Active Media Technology (AMT 2009). 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, exhibits and demonstrations across the two conferences. +++++++++++++++++++ Topics of Interest +++++++++++++++++++ CONFERENCE TOPICS AND AREAS INCLUDE, BUT NOT LIMITED TO - Thinking and perception-centric investigations of HIPS: * Human reasoning mechanisms (e.g., principles of human deductive/inductive reasoning, common-sense reasoning, decision making, and problem solving) * Human learning mechanisms (e.g., stability, personalized user/student models) * Emotion, heuristic search, information granularity, and autonomy related issues in human reasoning and problem solving * Human higher cognitive functions and their relationships * Human multi-perception mechanisms and visual, auditory, and tactile information processing * Methodologies for systematic design of cognitive experiments * Investigating spatiotemporal characteristics and flow in HIPS and the related neural structures and neurobiological process * ACT-R meets fMRI/EEG/MEG * HIPS meets complex systems * Modeling brain information processing mechanisms (e.g., neuro-mechanism, mathematical, cognitive and computational models of HIPS). - Information technologies for the management and use of brain data: * Human brain data collection, pre-processing, management, and analysis * Databasing the brain and constructing data brain models * Data brain modeling and formal conceptual models of human brain data * Multi-media brain data mining and reasoning * Multi-aspect analysis in fMRI/EEG/MEG activations * Simulating spatiotemporal characteristics and flow in HIPS * Developing brain data grids and brain research support portals * Knowledge representation and discovery in neuroimaging * Multimodal information fusion for brain image interpretation * Statistical analysis and pattern recognition in neuroimaging - Applications * Neuro-economics and neuro-marketing * Brain-Computer-Interface (BCI) * Brain/Cognition inspired artifical systems * Wisdom Web systems based on new cognitive and computational models * MCI and AD diagnosis * e-Science and e-Medicine ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ On-Line Submissions and Publication ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ High-quality papers in all BI related areas are solicited. Papers exploring new directions will receive a careful and supportive review. All submitted papers will be reviewed on the basis of technical quality, relevance, significance, and clarity. The proceeding of the conference will be published by Springer as a volume of the series of Lecture Notes in Computer Science/Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence (LNCS/LNAI). Extensions of selected papers from the proceedings will be considered for publication in special issues of international journals. Authors are strongly encouraged to use Springer LNCS/LNAI manuscript submission guidelines (available at http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html) for their initial submissions. All papers must be submitted electronically in PDF format only, using the conference management tool. We will also have poster, demonstration, and late breaking result paper sessions. More detailed instructions and a paper submission form can be found the BI'09 Web page at http://www.wici-lab.org/amtbi09/ +++++++ Awards +++++++ BI 2009 best paper awards and student paper awards will be conferred on the authors at the conference. Also a selected number of BI 2009 accepted papers will be expanded and revised for inclusion in several international journals ++++++++++++++++ Important Dates ++++++++++++++++ Electronic submission of full papers (12 pages in Springer LNAI/LNCS style file): May 22, 2009 Notification of paper acceptance: June 25, 2009 Camera-ready of accepted papers: July 24, 2009 Conference: October 22-24, 2009 ++++++++++++++++++++++++ Conference Organization ++++++++++++++++++++++++ Conference General Chairs: * Setsuo Ohsuga, University of Tokyo, Japan * Lin Chen, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China Program Chairs: * Ning Zhong, Maebashi Institute of Technology, Japan * Kuncheng Li, Xuanwu Hospital/Capital Medical University, China Workshop Chairs: * Yiyu Yao, University of Regina, Canada * Runhe Huang, Hosei University, Japan Organizing Chairs: * Shengfu Lu, International WIC Institute/BJUT, China * Yulin Qin, International WIC Institute/BJUT, China Publicity Chairs: * Jian Yang, International WIC Institute/BJUT, China * Jiajin Huang, International WIC Institute/BJUT, China WIC Co-Chairs/Directors: * Ning Zhong, Maebashi Institute of Technology, Japan * Jiming Liu, Hong Kong Baptist University, HK WIC Advisory Board: * Edward A. Feigenbaum, Stanford University, USA * Setsuo Ohsuga, University of Tokyo, 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, Okayama University, Japan * Xindong Wu, University of Vermont, USA * Yiyu Yao, University of Regina, Canada *** Contact Information *** Email: Jia Hu hujia0601 at gmail.com Jiajin Huang hjj at emails.bjut.edu.cn From wic-office at wi-consortium.org Wed Feb 25 22:35:43 2009 From: wic-office at wi-consortium.org (WIC Office) Date: Thu, 26 Feb 2009 15:35:43 +0900 Subject: [Ai-grid] AMT 2009 - Call for Papers Message-ID: <49A6383F.20501@wi-consortium.org> [Apologies if you receive this more than once] #################################################################### Active Media Technology 2009 CALL FOR PAPERS #################################################################### 2009 International Conference on Active Media Technology (AMT 2009) October 22-24, 2009, Beijing, China Homepage: http://www.wici-lab.org/amtbi09/ Mirror page: http://www.iwici.org/amtbi09/ Organized by Web Intelligence Consortium (WIC) In Cooperation with Beijing University of Technology (BJUT) In the great digital era, we are witnessing many rapid scientific and technological developments in human-centred, seamless computing environments, interfaces, devices, and systems with applications ranging from business and communication to entertainment and learning. These developments are collectively best characterized as Active Media Technology (AMT), a new area of intelligent information technology and computer science that emphasizes the proactive, seamless roles of interfaces and systems as well as new media in all aspects of digital life. An AMT based system offers services to enable the rapid design, implementation and support of customized solutions. The first International Conference on Active Media Technology (AMT01) was held in Hong Kong in 2001, the second International Conference on Active Media Technology (AMT04) was held in Chongqing, China in May 29-31 of 2004, the third International Conference on Active Media Technology (AMT05) was held in Kagawa, Japan in May 2005, and the fourth International Conference on Active Media Technology (AMT06) was held in Brisbane, Australia in June 7-9, 2006. Following the success of AMT01, AMT04, AMT05 and AMT06, the Fifth International Conference on Active Media Technology (AMT09) will be held in Beijing, China in October 22-24, 2009. Active Media Technology 2009 will be jointly held with the 2009 International Conference on Brain Informatics (BI 2009). 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, exhibits and demonstrations across the two conferences. +++++++++++++++++++ Topics of Interest +++++++++++++++++++ CONFERENCE TOPICS AND AREAS INCLUDE, BUT NOT LIMITED TO * Active Computer Systems and Intelligent Interfaces * Adaptive Web Systems and Information Foraging Agents * Agent-Based Software Engineering and Multi-Agent Systems * AMT for Semantic Web and Web2.0 * Cognitive Foundations for AMT * Conversational Informatics * Data Mining, Ontology Mining and Web Reasoning * Digital City and Digital Interactivity * E-Commerce and Web Services * Entertainment and Social Applications of Active Media * Evaluation of Active Media and AMT Based Systems * Human-Web Interaction * Human Factors in AMT * Machine Learning and Human-Centred Robotics * Multi-Modal Processing, Detection, Recognition, and Expression Analysis * Network, Mobile and Wireless Security * Personalized, Pervasive, and Ubiquitous Systems and their Interfaces * Semantic Comupting for Active Media and AMT Based Systems * Smart Digital Media * Trust on Web Information Systems * Web Based Social Networks * Web Mining, Wisdom Web and Web Intelligence ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ On-Line Submissions and Publication ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ High-quality papers in all AMT related areas are solicited. Papers exploring new directions will receive a careful and supportive review. All submitted papers will be reviewed on the basis of technical quality, relevance, significance, and clarity. The proceeding of the conference will be published by Springer as a volume of the series of Lecture Notes in Computer Science/Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence (LNCS/LNAI). Extensions of selected papers from the proceedings will be considered for publication in special issues of international journals. Authors are strongly encouraged to use Springer LNCS/LNAI manuscript submission guidelines (available at http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html) for their initial submissions. All papers must be submitted electronically in PDF format only, using the conference management tool. We will also have poster, demonstration, and late breaking result paper sessions. More detailed instructions and a paper submission form can be found the AMT'09 Web page at http://www.wici-lab.org/amtbi09/ +++++++ Awards +++++++ AMT 2009 best paper awards and student paper awards will be conferred on the authors at the conference. Also a selected number of AMT 2009 accepted papers will be expanded and revised for inclusion in special issues in several international journals. ++++++++++++++++ Important Dates ++++++++++++++++ Electronic submission of full papers (12 pages in Springer LNAI/LNCS style file): May 22, 2009 Notification of paper acceptance: June 25, 2009 Camera-ready of accepted papers: July 24, 2009 Conference: October 22-24, 2009 ++++++++++++++++++++++++ Conference Organization ++++++++++++++++++++++++ Conference General Chairs: * Jeffrey Bradshaw, UWF/Institute for Human and Machine Cognition, USA * Toyoaki Nishida, Kyoto University, Japan Program Chairs: * Jiming Liu, Hong Kong Baptist University, HK * Jinglong Wu, Okayama University, Japan Workshop Chairs: * Yiyu Yao, University of Regina, Canada * Runhe Huang, Hosei University, Japan Organizing Chairs: * Shengfu Lu, International WIC Institute/BJUT, China * Yulin Qin, International WIC Institute/BJUT, China Publicity Chairs: * Jian Yang, International WIC Institute/BJUT, China * Jiajin Huang, International WIC Institute/BJUT, China WIC Co-Chairs/Directors: * Ning Zhong, Maebashi Institute of Technology, Japan * Jiming Liu, Hong Kong Baptist University, HK WIC Advisory Board: * Edward A. Feigenbaum, Stanford University, USA * Setsuo Ohsuga, University of Tokyo, 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, Okayama University, Japan * Xindong Wu, University of Vermont, USA * Yiyu Yao, University of Regina, Canada *** Contact Information *** Email: Jia Hu hujia0601 at gmail.com Jiajin Huang hjj at emails.bjut.edu.cn