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From wic-office at wi-consortium.org Sat May 16 22:59:26 2009 From: wic-office at wi-consortium.org (wic-office@wi-consortium.org) Date: 17 May 2009 14:59:26 +0900 Subject: [Ai-grid] AMT 2009 Final Call for Papers Message-ID: <20090517055926.25688.qmail@earth.azu.com> [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/ Co-organized by Web Intelligence Consortium (WIC) and IEEE Task Force on Brain Informatics (IEEE TF-BI) Co-sponsored by Beijing University of Technology (BJUT) and National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC) ################################################################## # Papers Due: *** May 22, 2009 *** # Accepted papers will be published by Springer as a volume of # the series of LNCS/LNAI, which are indexed by EI. # Extensions of selected papers from the proceedings will be # considered for publication in special issues of journals, # including Journal of Intelligent Information Systems (Springer). ################################################################## 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 * Sensing Web * 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, including Journal of Intelligent Information Systems (Springer, http://www.editorialmanager.com/jiis/). 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, including Journal of Intelligent Information Systems (Springer, http://www.editorialmanager.com/jiis/). ++++++++++++++++ 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 From wic-office at wi-consortium.org Sun May 17 07:08:35 2009 From: wic-office at wi-consortium.org (wic-office@wi-consortium.org) Date: 17 May 2009 23:08:35 +0900 Subject: [Ai-grid] Brain Informatics 2009 Final Call for Papers Message-ID: <20090517140835.16366.qmail@earth.azu.com> [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/ Co-organized by Web Intelligence Consortium (WIC) and IEEE Task Force on Brain Informatics (IEEE TF-BI) Co-sponsored by Chinese Society of Radiology, Beijing University of Technology (BJUT) and National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC) ################################################################## # Papers Due: *** May 22, 2009 *** # Accepted papers will be published by Springer as a volume of # the series of LNCS/LNAI, which are indexed by EI. # Extensions of selected papers from the proceedings will be # considered for publication in special issues of journals, # including Computational Intelligence, An International Journal # (Wiley-Blackwell). ################################################################## 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 * Cognitive architectures * 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, including Computational Intelligence: An International Journal (Wiley-Blackwell, http://www.wiley.com/bw/journal.asp?ref=0824-7935). 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, including Computational Intelligence: An International Journal (Wiley-Blackwell, http://www.wiley.com/bw/journal.asp?ref=0824-7935). ++++++++++++++++ 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 Sat May 23 08:39:20 2009 From: wic-office at wi-consortium.org (wic-office@wi-consortium.org) Date: 24 May 2009 00:39:20 +0900 Subject: [Ai-grid] AMT 2009 Deadline Extension Message-ID: <20090523153920.22255.qmail@earth.azu.com> [Apologies if you receive this more than once] Papers Due: *** 31 May 2009 *** NEW DEADLINE *** Due to repeated requests, the deadline is extended to 31 May 2009. #################################################################### 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/ Co-organized by Web Intelligence Consortium (WIC) and IEEE Task Force on Brain Informatics (IEEE TF-BI) Co-sponsored by Beijing University of Technology (BJUT), Shanghai Psytech Electronic Technology Co., Ltd and National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC) ################################################################## # Papers Due: *** 31 May 2009 *** NEW DEADLINE *** # Accepted papers will be published by Springer as a volume of # the series of LNCS/LNAI, which are indexed by EI. # Extensions of selected papers from the proceedings will be # considered for publication in special issues of journals, # including Journal of Intelligent Information Systems (Springer). ################################################################## 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 * Sensing Web * 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, including Journal of Intelligent Information Systems (Springer, http://www.editorialmanager.com/jiis/). 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, including Journal of Intelligent Information Systems (Springer, http://www.editorialmanager.com/jiis/). ++++++++++++++++ Important Dates ++++++++++++++++ Electronic submission of full papers (12 pages in Springer LNAI/LNCS style file): *** 31 May 2009 *** NEW DEADLINE *** Notification of paper acceptance: July 1, 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 From wic-office at wi-consortium.org Sat May 23 08:37:43 2009 From: wic-office at wi-consortium.org (wic-office@wi-consortium.org) Date: 24 May 2009 00:37:43 +0900 Subject: [Ai-grid] Brain Informatics 2009 Deadline Extension Message-ID: <20090523153743.21406.qmail@earth.azu.com> [Apologies if you receive this more than once] Papers Due: *** 31 May 2009 *** NEW DEADLINE *** Due to repeated requests, the deadline is extended to 31 May 2009. ############################################################### 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/ Co-organized by Web Intelligence Consortium (WIC) and IEEE Task Force on Brain Informatics (IEEE TF-BI) Co-sponsored by Chinese Society of Radiology Shanghai Psytech Electronic Technology Co., Ltd Beijing University of Technology (BJUT) and National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC) ################################################################## # Papers Due: *** 31 May 2009 *** NEW DEADLINE *** # Accepted papers will be published by Springer as a volume of # the series of LNCS/LNAI, which are indexed by EI. # Extensions of selected papers from the proceedings will be # considered for publication in special issues of journals, # including Computational Intelligence, An International Journal # (Wiley-Blackwell). ################################################################## 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 * Cognitive architectures * 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, including Computational Intelligence: An International Journal (Wiley-Blackwell, http://www.wiley.com/bw/journal.asp?ref=0824-7935). 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, including Computational Intelligence: An International Journal (Wiley-Blackwell, http://www.wiley.com/bw/journal.asp?ref=0824-7935). ++++++++++++++++ Important Dates ++++++++++++++++ Electronic submission of full papers (12 pages in Springer LNAI/LNCS style file): *** 31 May 2009 *** NEW DEADLINE *** Notification of paper acceptance: July 1, 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 pichappan at rediffmail.com Sun May 24 11:35:42 2009 From: pichappan at rediffmail.com (pitchappan pichappan) Date: 24 May 2009 18:35:42 -0000 Subject: [Ai-grid] CFP: NDT 2009- IEEE co-sponsored Message-ID: <20090524183542.24376.qmail@f5mail-237-206.rediffmail.com> Call for Papers First International Conference on 'Networked Digital Technologies'(NDT 2009) (Technical co-sponsors - COMSOC of IEEE) Ostrava, Czech Republic, July 28-31, 2009 The proceedings will be indexed in IEEE Xplore http://arg.vsb.cz/ndt2009/Default.aspx The proposed conference on the above theme will be be held at the VSB-Technical University, Ostrava, Czech Republic from July 28 to July 31 2009 which aims to enable researchers build connections between different digital applications. Currently a number of institutions across the countries are working to evolve better models to provide collaborative technology services for scholarship by creating shared cyberspace thro expert collaboration, but this is a challenge for the institutions for a number of reasons. In the last few years, the landscape of digital technology applications projects for the various disciplines in humanities, social sciences, and sciences appears induced by many initiatives. For the creation of research clusters, the research community has thousands of databases, websites, local computing clusters, and web-based tools around individual themes, interests and projects. In most cases, these tools and resources are and were created to meet the specific needs of a particular community. In many cases, the funding and support for these critical initiatives is fragile and temporary, and directed in piecemeal fashion. There is a need to provide concerted efforts in building federated digital technologies that will enable the formation of network of digital technologies. Topics include but not limited to: Information and Data Management Data and Network mining Intelligent agent-based systems, cognitive and reactive distributed AI systems Internet Modeling User Interfaces, Visualization and modeling XML-based languages Security and Access Control Trust models for social networks Information Content Security Mobile, Ad Hoc and Sensor Network Management Web Services Architecture, Modeling and Design New architectures for web-based social networks Semantic Web, Ontologies (creation , merging, linking and reconciliation) Web Services Security Quality of Service, Scalability and Performance Self-Organizing Networks and Networked Systems Data management in mobile peer-to-peer networks Data stream processing in mobile/sensor networks Indexing and query processing for moving objects User interfaces and usability issues form mobile applications Mobile social networks Peer-to-peer social networks Sensor networks and social sensing Social search Social networking inspired collaborative computing Information propagation on social networks Resource and knowledge discovery using social networks Measurement studies of actual social networks Simulation models for social networks LOCATION NDT 2009 will be organized by VSB-Technical University, Ostrava, Czech Republic, in cooperation with the Digital Information Research Foundation (DIRF) located in India. NDT is technically co-sponsored by the Communications Society of IEEE. All the activities of the conference will take place in Ostrava, Czech Republic. IMPORTANT DATES Submission Date: June 1, 2009 Notification of acceptance: June 20, 2009 Camera-ready July 15, 2009 Registration July 25, 2009 Conference dates:July 28-31, 2009 Modified versions of the selected papers of the conference will be published in the following peer reviewed journals. 1. Journal of Digital Information Management (ISSN 0972 7272) 2. International Journal of Autonomic Computing (IJAC) 3. Journal of Information Assurance and Security 4. Neural Network World 5. International Journal of Computer Science and Software Technology COMMITTEES General Chairs Vaclav Snasel, VSB-Technical University of Ostrava, Czech Republic Jaroslav Pokorny, Charles University in Prague, Czech Republic Program Chairs Khalid Saeed, Faculty of Computer Science, Bialystok University of Technology, Poland Dusan Husek, Institute of Computer Science, Academy of Science, Czech Republic Youakim Badr, INSA-Lyon, France Program co-Chairs Ezendu Ariwa, London Metropolitan University, UK Hefei Ling, University College London, UK Industrial Chairs Soraya Mostefaoui, Open University, UK. SUBMISSION Submission instructions are listed at http://arg.vsb.cz/ndt2009/Default.aspx ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://mailman.isi.edu/pipermail/ai-grid/attachments/20090524/4ea35818/attachment.html From pichappan at rediffmail.com Sun May 24 11:36:40 2009 From: pichappan at rediffmail.com (pitchappan pichappan) Date: 24 May 2009 18:36:40 -0000 Subject: [Ai-grid] CFP: ICDIM 2009 Message-ID: <20090524183640.37085.qmail@f5mail-237-237.rediffmail.com> Fourth International Conference on Digital Information Management (ICDIM 2009) University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, USA (November 1-4, 2009) http://www.icdim.org) Technically co-sponsored by the Technology Management Council of IEEE. Proceedigns will be published and indexed by IEEE Xplore Call for Papers Following the successful earlier conferences at Bangalore (2006) Lyon (2007), and London (2008) the fourth event is planned to get organized at Michigan (2009). The International Conference on Digital Information Management is a multidisciplinary conference on digital information management, science and technology. The principal aim of this conference is to bring people in academia, research laboratories and industry and offer a collaborative platform to address the emerging issues and solutions in digital information science and technology. The ICDIM intends to bridge the gap between different areas of digital information management, science and technology. This forum will address a large number of themes and issues. The conference will have original research and industrial papers on the theory, design and implementation of digital information systems, as well as demonstrations, tutorials, workshops and industrial presentation. The topics in ICDIM 2009 include but are not confined to the following areas. Temporal and Spatial Databases Data Mining Web Mining including Web Intelligence and Web 3.0 E-Learning, eCommerce, e-Business and e-Government Web Metrics and its applications XML and other extensible languages Semantic Web and Ontology Human-Computer Interaction Artificial Intelligence and Expert Systems Knowledge Management Ubiquitous Systems Peer to Peer Data Management Interoperability Mobile Data Management Data Models for Production Systems and Services Data Exchange issues and Supply Chain Data Life Cycle in Products and Processes Case Studies on Data Management, Monitoring and Analysis Security and Access Control Information Content Security Mobile, Ad Hoc and Sensor Network Security Distributed information systems Information visualization Web services Quality of Service Issues All the accepted papers will appear in the proceedings published by IEEE and fully indexed by IEEE Xplore. All the ICDIM papers are indexed by DBLP (http://www.informatik.uni-trier.de/~ley/db/conf/icdim/index.html) Important Dates Submission of papers: May 31, 2009 Notification of Paper Acceptance: June 30, 2009 Camera Ready Paper Due: September 1, 2009 Author Registration: September 1, 2009 Late Registration: October 1, 2009 Conference Dates: November 1-4, 2009 Modified version of the selected papers will appear in the special issues of the following peer reviewed journals. 1. Journal of Digital Information Management (JDIM) 2. Journal of Information Assurance and Security (JIAS) 3. International Journal of Computational Intelligence Research (IJCIR) 4. International Journal of Autonomic Computing, Inderscience Publishers 5. International Journal of Information Technology and Web Engineering (IJITWE) 6. International Journal of Web Applications (IJWA) Programme Committee General Chair William I. Grosky University of Michigan - Dearborn, USA. Program Chairs Richard Chbeir, University of Bourgogne, France Frederic Andres, NII, Tokyo, Japan Program Co-Chairs Asanee Kawtrakul, NECTEC, Bangkok, Thailand Farshad Fotouhi, Wayne State University, Detroit, USA Workshop Chairs Epaminondas Kapetanios, University of Westminster, UK Hiroshi Ishikawa, Shizuoka University, Japan Publication Chair Ajith Abraham, Norway University of Science and Technology, Norway Publicity Chair Ghislain Sillaume, CVCE, Luxembourg Local Arrangements Chair Peter Stanchev, Kettering University, Flint, Michigan, USA Susan Haynes, Eastern Michigan University, USA ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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