From icdm at wi-lab.com Tue Feb 7 23:42:45 2006 From: icdm at wi-lab.com (ICDM) Date: Wed, 8 Feb 2006 16:42:45 +0900 Subject: [Info-www-search] ICDM'06: Call for Workshop Proposals Message-ID: <00ff01c62c83$41330b40$9032a8c0@pc7kenji> [Apologies if you receive this more than once] ================================================================== Call for Workshop Proposals ICDM '06: The 6th IEEE International Conference on Data Mining Sponsored by the IEEE Computer Society Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre, Hong Kong, China, 18-22 December 2006. http://www.comp.hkbu.edu.hk/iwi06/ (Workshop Proposals Due: 10 April 2006) =================================================================== The Program Committee of the 6th IEEE International Conference on Data Mining (ICDM '06) invites proposals for Workshops. The Workshops will be held at the beginning of the Conference, December 18, 2006 at the Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre. The workshop organizers will be responsible for advertising the workshop, forming the program committees, reviewing and selecting the papers, and guaranteeing high quality worthy of the prestige and range of the Conference. All papers accepted for workshops will be included in the Workshop Proceedings, which are expected to be published by IEEE Computer Society Press and will be available at the workshops. The workshop organizers will also have the discretion of editing selected papers (after their expansion and revision) into books or special journal issues. Workshops may be full-day or half-day. A full-day workshop should select 20-25 regular papers, while a half-day workshop should select 10-13 regular papers, from a large number of submissions. The workshop organizers should ensure the presence of authors of accepted papers at the workshops. Each workshop subject will focus on new research challenges and initiatives in Data Mining. The workshops should provide an informal and vibrant forum for researchers and industry practitioners to share their research results and practical development experiences in the data mining field. Workshop Proposal Submission ----------------------------- Workshop proposals should include the following elements: - Title of the workshop - Your name, affiliation, mailing address and e-mail address - A description of the topic of the workshop (not exceeding 200 words) - Type of the workshop (full-day or half-day) - A description of how the workshop will contribute to the field of Web Intelligence and/or Intelligent Agent Technology - A short description on how the workshop will be advertised so as to ensure a sufficiently wide range of authors and high quality papers After the acceptance of a workshop proposal the organizer(s) should: - Create a "Call for papers/participation" for the workshop - Create a Web page for the workshop, the link of which will be published on the Conference Web site - Create a Board of Reviewers (Program Committee) - Review and select papers - Schedule the workshop activities All submitted papers will be reviewed on the basis of technical quality, relevance, significance, and clarity. Those papers selected by a workshop organizer will also be reviewed by the Workshop Co-Chairs for final acceptance. We will provide an online paper submission and review system to support the workshops. Important Dates --------------- - April 10, 2006: Workshop proposal submission due (Please send proposals by e-mail to Workshops Chair) - April 20, 2006: Notification to workshop proposers - April 30, 2006: Each workshop organizer sends out Call for Workshops Papers - July 30, 2006: Due date for full workshop papers submission (at least two reviews for each paper) - September 5, 2006: Final acceptance by Workshop Co-Chairs - September 8, 2006: Notification of paper acceptance to authors - October 8, 2006: Camera-ready of accepted papers - December 18, 2006: Workshop day We look forward to your support in making 2006 IEEE Data Mining workshops an exciting event. Workshops Chair: * Shusaku Tsumoto, Shimane University, Japan E-mail: tsumoto at computer.org Note: we will not have a separate workshop registration fee this year (i.e., the conference registration covers everything). For your information, the ICDM '06 conference will be co-located with the IEEE/WIC/ACM International Joint Conference on Web Intelligence (WI) and Intelligent Agent Technology (IAT) for providing synergism among the three research areas. It will provide opportunities for technical collaboration beyond that of previous conferences. The three 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 three conferences. We are also planning a joint panel and joint paper sessions that discuss common problems in the three areas. From www-search-list at brisammon.fastmail.fm Wed Feb 8 18:30:01 2006 From: www-search-list at brisammon.fastmail.fm (Brian Sammon) Date: Wed, 08 Feb 2006 21:30:01 -0500 Subject: [Info-www-search] 3 more patches for WWW::Search::Monster Message-ID: <200602090229.k192TaI17716@gamma.isi.edu> patch3 and patch4 are simple one-liner fixes/additions. simplify_job_url.patch is a new function that I find useful. As this is a new feature, it probably needs some discussion/revision before being applied. -------------- next part -------------- --- lib/WWW/Search/Monster.pm 2006-02-08 21:21:43.000000000 -0500 +++ lib/WWW/Search/Monster.pm.v5 2006-02-08 21:23:36.000000000 -0500 @@ -382,4 +382,10 @@ return $hits_found; } # native_retrieve_some +sub simplify_job_url { + my $url = shift; + $url =~ s/\?.*JobID=([0-9]*)&.*/?JobID=$1/; + return $url; +} + 1; -------------- next part -------------- --- lib/WWW/Search/Monster.pm 2006-02-08 21:04:01.000000000 -0500 +++ lib/WWW/Search/Monster.pm.v4 2006-02-08 21:21:43.000000000 -0500 @@ -345,8 +345,8 @@ $p = new HTML::TokeParser(\$content); #skim the content until we reach the header row of the main table - while(1) { - $tag = $p->get_tag("td"); + while($p->get_tag("td")) + { my $data = $p->get_trimmed_text("/td"); last if($data eq 'Location' || $data eq 'Company' || -------------- next part -------------- --- lib/WWW/Search/Monster.pm 2006-02-08 21:17:54.000000000 -0500 +++ lib/WWW/Search/Monster.pm.v3 2006-02-08 21:04:01.000000000 -0500 @@ -332,6 +332,7 @@ $content =~ s/ / /ig; $content =~ m/Jobs (\d+) to (\d+) of (\d+)/; my $nrows = $2 - $1 + 1; + $self->approximate_hit_count($3); # Determine _next_url my ($nexturl) = From wi at maebashi-it.org Fri Feb 10 06:43:42 2006 From: wi at maebashi-it.org (WI) Date: Fri, 10 Feb 2006 23:43:42 +0900 Subject: [Info-www-search] Call for Workshop Proposals (WI-IAT'06) Message-ID: <01db01c62e50$63128fa0$9032a8c0@pc7kenji> [Apologies if you receive this more than once] ============================================================== Call for Workshop Proposals 2006 IEEE/WIC/ACM International Joint Conference on Web Intelligence and Intelligent Agent Technology (WI-IAT'06) Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre, Hong Kong, China, 18-22 December 2006. http://www.comp.hkbu.edu.hk/~wii06 (Workshop Proposals Due: 10 April 2006) =================================================================== The Program Committees of the 2006 IEEE/WIC/ACM International Joint Conference on Web Intelligence and Intelligent Agent Technology (WI-IAT'06) invite proposals for Workshops. The Workshops will be held at the beginning of the Conference, December 18, 2006 at Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre. The workshop organizers will be responsible for advertising the workshop, forming the program committees, reviewing and selecting the papers, and guaranteeing a high quality worthy of the prestige and range of the Conference. All papers accepted for workshops will be included in the Workshop Proceedings, which are expected to be published by IEEE Computer Society Press and will be available at the workshops. The workshop organizers will also have the discretion of editing selected papers (after their expansion and revision) into books or special journal issues. Workshops may be full-day or half-day. A full-day workshop should select 20-25 regular papers, while a half-day workshop should select 10-13 regular papers, from a large number of submissions. The workshop organizers should ensure the presence of authors of accepted papers at the workshops. I. Workshop Topics Each workshop subject will focus on new research challenges and initiatives in Web Intelligence (WI) and Intelligent Agent Technology (IAT). The workshops should provide an informal and vibrant forum for researchers and industry practitioners to share their research results and practical development experiences in these two fields. Suggested, but not limited to, workshop topics include: - Intelligent E-Technology (including E-Science, E-Business, E-Learning, E-Finance, E-Government, E-Community) - Intelligent Human-Web Interaction - Knowledge Grids and Grid Intelligence - Semantics and Ontology Engineering - Social Networks and Social Intelligence - Ubiquitous Computing - Web Agents - Web Information Filtering and Retrieval - Web Mining and Forming - Web Security, Integrity, Privacy and Trust - Web Services and Grid Services - Web Support Systems - World Wide Wisdom Web (W4) - Agent Systems Modeling and Methodology - Autonomous Knowledge and Information Agents - Autonomous Auctions and Negotiation - Autonomy-Oriented Computing (AOC) - Learning and Self-Adapting Agents - Distributed Intelligence II. Workshop Proposal Submission Workshop proposals should include the following elements: - Title of the workshop - Your name, affiliation, mailing address and e-mail address - A description of the topic of the workshop (not exceeding 200 words) - Type of the workshop (full-day or half-day) - A description of how the workshop will contribute to the field of Web Intelligence and/or Intelligent Agent Technology - A short description on how the workshop will be advertised so as to ensure a sufficiently wide range of authors and high quality papers After the acceptation of a workshop proposal the organizer(s) should: - Create a "Call for papers/participation" for the workshop - Create a Web page for the workshop, the link of which will be published on the Conference Web site - Create a Board of Reviewers (Program Committee) - Review and select papers - Schedule the workshop activities Those papers selected by a workshop organizer will also be reviewed by the Workshop Co-Chairs for final acceptance. All submitted papers will be reviewed on the basis of technical quality, relevance, significance, and clarity. We will provide an online paper submission and review system to support the workshops. III. Important Dates - April 10, 2006: Workshop proposal submission due (Please send proposals by e-mail to all three Workshop Co-Chairs) - April 20, 2006: Notification to workshop proposers - April 30, 2006: Each workshop organizer sends out Call for Workshops Papers - July 30, 2006: Due date for full workshop papers submission (at least two reviews for each paper) - September 5, 2006: Final acceptance by Workshop Co-Chairs - September 8, 2006: Notification of paper acceptance to authors - October 8, 2006: Camera-ready of accepted papers - December 18, 2006: Workshop day We look forward to your support in making 2006 IEEE/WIC/ACM WI-IAT workshops an exciting event. Workshop Co-Chairs: Cory J. Butz, University of Regina, Canada E-mail: butz at cs.uregina.ca Ngoc Thanh Nguyen, Wroclaw University of Technology, Poland E-mail: thanh at pwr.wroc.pl Yasufumi Takama, Tokyo Metropolitan University, Japan E-mail: ytakama at cc.tmit.ac.jp Note: we will not have a separate workshop registration fee this year (i.e., only one conference registration covers everything). For your information, the WI-IAT'06 conference will be co-located with the IEEE International Conference on Data Mining (ICDM'06) for providing synergism among the three research areas. It will provide opportunities for technical collaboration beyond that of previous conferences. The three conferences will have the joint opening, keynote, reception, and banquet. Attendees only need to register one conference and can attend sessions across the three conferences. We are planning to have a joint panel and joint paper sessions that discuss common problems in the three areas. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://mailman.isi.edu/pipermail/info-www-search/attachments/20060210/12c596cb/attachment.html From wi at maebashi-it.org Wed Feb 15 00:32:53 2006 From: wi at maebashi-it.org (WI) Date: Wed, 15 Feb 2006 17:32:53 +0900 Subject: [Info-www-search] WI'06: Call For Papers Message-ID: <013301c6320a$6a159960$9032a8c0@pc7kenji> [Apologies if you receive this more than once] ##################################################################### IEEE/WIC/ACM WEB INTELLIGENCE 2006 CALL FOR PAPERS ##################################################################### 2006 IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Web Intelligence (WI'06) Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre, Hong Kong, China, 18-22 December 2006. Sponsored By IEEE Computer Society Web Intelligence Consortium (WIC) Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) http://www.comp.hkbu.edu.hk/iwi06/ (Papers Due: 5 July 2006) ********************************************************************** Web Intelligence (WI) has been recognized as a new direction for scientific research and development to explore the fundamental roles as well as practical impacts of Artificial Intelligence (AI) (e.g., knowledge representation, planning, knowledge discovery and data mining, intelligent agents, and social network intelligence) and advanced Information Technology (IT) (e.g., wireless networks, ubiquitous devices, social networks, and data/knowledge grids) on the next generation of Web-empowered products, systems, services, and activities. It is one of the most important as well as promising IT research fields in the era of Web and agent intelligence. The 2006 IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Web Intelligence (WI'06) will be jointly held with the 2006 IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Intelligent Agent Technology (IAT'06) and the 6th IEEE International Conference on Data Mining (ICDM'06) for providing synergism among the three research areas. It will provide opportunities for technical collaboration beyond that of previous conferences. The three 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 three conferences. We are also planning a joint panel and joint paper sessions that discuss common problems in the three areas. +++++++++++++++++++ Topics of Interest +++++++++++++++++++ The topics and areas include, but not limited to: * 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 - Social Networks and Social Intelligence - Social Networks Mining - Web Site Clustering - 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 Mining and Farming - Text Mining - Data Stream Mining - Multimedia Data Mining - Web Content Mining - Web Log and Usage Mining - Learning User Profiles - Context Sensitive Web Mining - Web Information Clustering - Web Page Clustering and Mining - E-Mail Classification - Web Site Classification - Web Information Indexing - Data Warehousing - Web Farming and Warehousing * Semantics and Ontology Engineering - Ontology-Based Information Extraction and Retrieval - Ontology-Based Web Mining - Web-Based Ontology Learning - Semantic Web * 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 * Web Information Filtering and Retrieval - Automatic Cataloging and Indexing - Clustering-Based Recommender Systems - Collaborative Filtering and Recommendation - Hybrid Recommendation - Information Retrieval Criteria and Evaluations - Web Information Categorization and Ranking - Proxy and Cache Techniques - Web Prediction and Prefetching - Distributed Web Search - Specifications for Web Information Extraction Process - Web Crawling Systems - Search Engines and Meta-search Engines * Intelligent Human-Web Interaction - Adaptive Web Interfaces - Context-Aware Computing - Learning User Profiles - Personalized Interfaces - Personalized Web Sites - Remembrance Agents - Multimedia Representation - 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 - e-Publishing - e-Business and e-Commerce - e-Finance - e-Community - Decentralized Community Communication Techniques - e-Learning - Digital Library - 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. Papers exploring new directions or areas will receive a careful and supportive review. All submitted papers will be reviewed on the basis of technical quality, relevance, significance, and clarity. Note that WI'06 will accept ONLY on-line submissions, containing PDF versions. Paper submissions should be limited to a maximum of 8 pages in the IEEE 2-column format (see the IEEE Computer Society Press Proceedings Author Guidelines at http://www.computer.org/portal/pages/ieeecs/publications), and will be reviewed by the Program Committee on the basis of technical quality, relevance to data mining, originality, significance, and clarity. Please use the Submission Form on the WI'06 website to submit your paper. Accepted papers will be published in the conference proceedings by the IEEE Computer Society Press. A selected number of WI'06 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 can be found from the WI'06 homepage: http://www.comp.hkbu.edu.hk/~wii06/. ++++++++++++++++++++ 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), please find more detailed instructions at the homepages: http://www.comp.hkbu.edu.hk/iwi06/wi/?index=demo We are planning to arrange the Demo session in the afternoon of Dec 19 (before and during the conference reception), jointly with the IAT'06 and ICDM'06 Demo sessions. +++++++++ Workshops +++++++++ WI'06 welcomes Workshop proposals. 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, which are expected to be published by IEEE Computer Society Press 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 this year (i.e., conference registration covers everything). ++++++++++ Tutorials ++++++++++ WI'06 also welcomes Tutorial proposals. WI'06 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 this year (i.e., only one conference registration covers everything). ++++++++++++++++ Important Dates ++++++++++++++++ Workshop proposal submission: April 10, 2006 Electronic submission of full papers: ** July 5, 2006 ** Tutorial proposal submission: July 15, 2006 Notification of paper acceptance: September 4, 2006 Camera-ready copies of accepted papers: October 4, 2006 Workshops: December 18, 2006 Conference: December 19-22, 2006 ++++++++++++++++++++++++ Conference Organization ++++++++++++++++++++++++ Conference Chairs: * Jiming Liu, Hong Kong Baptist University, HK * Benjamin Wah, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA Organizing Chair: * Yiu-Ming Cheung, Hong Kong Baptist University, HK Program Chair: * Toyoaki Nishida, Kyoto University, Japan Program Co-chairs: * Zhongzhi Shi, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China * Ubbo Visser, Science Universitat Bremen, Germany * Xindong Wu, University of Vermont, USA Industry/Demo-Track Co-Chairs: * Wray Buntine, Helsinki Institute for Information Technology, Finland * Kazuhiro Kuwabara, ATR, Japan * Jianchang Mao, Yahoo! Inc., USA Workshop Co-Chairs: * Cory J. Butz, University of Regina, Canada * Ngoc Thanh Nguyen, Wroclaw University of Technology, Poland * Yasufumi Takama, Tokyo Metropolitan University, Japan Tutorial Co-Chairs: * Yuefeng Li, Queensland University of Technology, Australia * Pawan Lingras, Saint Mary's University, Canada * Hideaki Takeda, National Institute of Informatics/University of Tokyo, Japan Publicity Chairs: * Marcin Szczuka, Warsaw University, Poland * Guoyin Wang, Chongqing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China * Hui Xiong, Rutgers University, USA Sponsorship Chairs: * Man-chung Chan, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, HK * Einoshin Suzuki, Yokohama National University, Japan * Hongjin Yang, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China Program Vice Co-chairs: * Mario Cannataro, University "Magna Greia" of Catanzaro, Italy * Meng Chang Chen, Academia Sinica, Taiwan * Joost Kok, Leiden Institute of Advanced Computer Science, The Netherlands * Tsau Young Lin, San Jose State University, USA * Massimo Marchiori, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA and University of Venice, Italy * Ralf Moeller, Hamburg University of Technology, Germany * Sankar Pal, Machine Intelligence Unit Indian Statistical Institute, India * Steve Willmott, Technical University of Catalonia, Spain * Chengqi Zhang, Faculty of Information Technology, Australia * Lina Zhou, University of Maryland, USA *** Contact Information *** Yiuming Cheung Hong Kong Baptist University, HK E-mail: ymc at Comp.HKBU.Edu.HK From iat at maebashi-it.org Mon Feb 20 01:00:10 2006 From: iat at maebashi-it.org (IAT) Date: Mon, 20 Feb 2006 18:00:10 +0900 Subject: [Info-www-search] CFP: IEEE/WIC/ACM IAT'06 Message-ID: <025301c635fc$0dd34c60$9032a8c0@pc7kenji> [Apologies if you receive this more than once] ##################################################################### IEEE/WIC/ACM Intelligent Agent Technology 2006 CALL FOR PAPERS ##################################################################### 2006 IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Intelligent Agent Technology (IAT'06) Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre, Hong Kong, China, 18-22 December 2006. Sponsored By IEEE Computer Society Web Intelligence Consortium (WIC) Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) http://www.comp.hkbu.edu.hk/iwi06/ (Papers Due: 5 July 2006) ********************************************************************** The 2006 IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Intelligent Agent Technology (IAT'06) will be jointly held with the 2006 IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Web Intelligence (WI'06) and the 6th IEEE International Conference on Data Mining (ICDM'06) for providing synergism among the three research areas. It will provide opportunities for technical collaboration beyond that of previous conferences. The three 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 three conferences. We are also planning a joint panel and joint paper sessions that discuss common problems in the three areas. IAT 2006 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 2006 will foster the development of novel paradigms and advanced solutions in agent-based computing. +++++++++++++++++++ Topics of Interest +++++++++++++++++++ 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 - Self-Organized Criticality - Self-Organized Intelligence - Swarm Intelligence - Nature-Inspired Paradigms * 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 - Dynamics of Agent Groups and Populations - Efficiency and Complexity Issues - Market-Based Computing - Problem-Solving in Dynamic Environments - Distributed Search * 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 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ On-Line Submissions and Publication ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ High-quality papers in all IAT related areas are solicited. Papers exploring new directions or areas will receive a careful and supportive review. All submitted papers will be reviewed on the basis of technical quality, relevance, significance, and clarity. Note that IAT'06 will accept ONLY on-line submissions, containing PDF versions. Paper submissions should be limited to a maximum of 8 pages in the IEEE 2-column format (see the IEEE Computer Society Press Proceedings Author Guidelines at http://www.computer.org/portal/pages/ieeecs/publications), and will be reviewed by the Program Committee on the basis of technical quality, relevance to data mining, originality, significance, and clarity. Please use the Submission Form on the IAT'06 website to submit your paper. Accepted papers will be published in the conference proceedings by the IEEE Computer Society Press. A selected number of IAT'06 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 can be found from the IAT'06 homepage: http://www.comp.hkbu.edu.hk/~wii06/. ++++++++++++++++++++ Industry/Demo-Track ++++++++++++++++++++ We solicit Industry/Demo-Track papers by the following two 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 homepages: http://www.comp.hkbu.edu.hk/iwi06/iat/?index=demo We are planning to arrange the Demo session in the afternoon of Dec 19 (before and during the conference reception), jointly with the WI'06 and ICDM'06 Demo sessions. +++++++++ Workshops +++++++++ IAT'06 welcomes Workshop proposals. 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, which are expected to be published by IEEE Computer Society Press 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 this year (i.e., only one conference registration covers everything). ++++++++++ Tutorials ++++++++++ IAT'06 also welcomes Tutorial proposals. IAT'06 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 this year (i.e., only one conference registration covers everything). ++++++++++++++++ Important Dates ++++++++++++++++ Workshop proposal submission: April 10, 2006 Electronic submission of full papers: ** July 5, 2006 ** Tutorial proposal submission: July 15, 2006 Notification of paper acceptance: September 4, 2006 Camera-ready copies of accepted papers: October 4, 2006 Workshops: December 18, 2006 Conference: December 19-22, 2006 ++++++++++++++++++++++++ Conference Organization ++++++++++++++++++++++++ Conference Chairs: * Jiming Liu, Hong Kong Baptist University, HK * Benjamin Wah, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA Organizing Chair: * Yiu-Ming Cheung, Hong Kong Baptist University, HK Program Chair: * Toyoaki Nishida, Kyoto University, Japan Program Co-chairs: * Matthias Klusch, German Research Center for AI, Germany * Katia Sycara, Carnegie-Mellon University, USA * Makoto Yokoo, Kyushu University, Japan Industry/Demo-Track: * Wray Buntine, Helsinki Institute for Information Technology, Finland * Kazuhiro Kuwabara, ATR, Japan * Jianchang Mao, Yahoo! Inc., USA Workshop Co-Chairs: * Cory J. Butz, University of Regina, Canada * Ngoc Thanh Nguyen, Wroclaw University of Technology, Poland * Yasufumi Takama, Tokyo Metropolitan University, Japan Tutorial Co-Chairs: * Yuefeng Li, Queensland University of Technology, Australia * Pawan Lingras, Saint Mary's University, Canada * Hideaki Takeda, National Institute of Informatics/University of Tokyo, Japan Publicity Chairs: * Marcin Szczuka, Warsaw University, Poland * Guoyin Wang, Chongqing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China * Hui Xiong, Rutgers University, USA Sponsorship Chairs: * Man-chung Chan, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, HK * Einoshin Suzuki, Yokohama National University, Japan * Zhaohui Tang, Micorsoft Corp., USA * Hongjin Yang, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China Program Vice Co-chairs: * Jeffrey Bradshaw, Institute for Human and Machine Cognition/UWF, USA * Barbara Dunin-Keplicz, Warsaw University, Poland * Amal El Fallah Seghrouchni, University of Paris 6 and CNRS, France * Maria Gini, University of Minnesota, USA * Churn-Jung Liau, Academia Sinica, Taiwan * Jeremy Pitt, Imperial College, UK * Eugenio Oliveira, University of Porto, Portugal * Liz Sonenberg, The University of Melbourne, Australia *** Contact Information *** Yiuming Cheung Hong Kong Baptist University, HK E-mail: ymc at Comp.HKBU.Edu.HK