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<DIV><FONT face="MS UI Gothic" size=2>[Apologies if you receive this more than
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size=2>==============================================================<BR>Call
for Workshop Proposals</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face="MS UI Gothic" size=2>2006 IEEE/WIC/ACM International
Joint<BR>Conference on Web Intelligence and Intelligent Agent
Technology<BR>(WI-IAT'06)</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face="MS UI Gothic" size=2>Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition
Centre, Hong Kong, China,<BR>18-22 December 2006.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face="MS UI Gothic" size=2><A
href="http://www.comp.hkbu.edu.hk/~wii06">http://www.comp.hkbu.edu.hk/~wii06</A></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face="MS UI Gothic" size=2>(Workshop Proposals Due: 10 April
2006)<BR>===================================================================</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face="MS UI Gothic" size=2>The Program Committees of the 2006
IEEE/WIC/ACM International Joint<BR>Conference on Web Intelligence and
Intelligent Agent Technology<BR>(WI-IAT'06) invite proposals for
Workshops. The Workshops will be<BR>held at the beginning of the
Conference, December 18, 2006 at Hong<BR>Kong Convention and Exhibition
Centre.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face="MS UI Gothic" size=2>The workshop organizers will be
responsible for advertising the<BR>workshop, forming the program committees,
reviewing and selecting the<BR>papers, and guaranteeing a high quality worthy of
the prestige and<BR>range of the Conference. All papers accepted for
workshops will be<BR>included in the Workshop Proceedings, which are expected to
be<BR>published by IEEE Computer Society Press and will be available at
the<BR>workshops.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face="MS UI Gothic" size=2>The workshop organizers will also have the
discretion of editing<BR>selected papers (after their expansion and revision)
into books or<BR>special journal issues. Workshops may be full-day or
half-day. A<BR>full-day workshop should select 20-25 regular papers, while a
half-day<BR>workshop should select 10-13 regular papers, from a large number
of<BR>submissions. The workshop organizers should ensure the presence
of<BR>authors of accepted papers at the workshops.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face="MS UI Gothic" size=2>I. Workshop Topics</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face="MS UI Gothic" size=2>Each workshop subject will focus on new
research challenges and<BR>initiatives in Web Intelligence (WI) and Intelligent
Agent Technology<BR>(IAT). The workshops should provide an informal and
vibrant forum for<BR>researchers and industry practitioners to share their
research results<BR>and practical development experiences in these two
fields. Suggested,<BR>but not limited to, workshop topics
include:</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face="MS UI Gothic" size=2>- Intelligent E-Technology (including
E-Science, E-Business,
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E-Learning, E-Finance, E-Government, E-Community) <BR>- Intelligent Human-Web
Interaction<BR>- Knowledge Grids and Grid Intelligence<BR>- Semantics and
Ontology Engineering<BR>- Social Networks and Social Intelligence<BR>-
Ubiquitous Computing<BR>- Web Agents<BR>- Web Information Filtering and
Retrieval<BR>- Web Mining and Forming<BR>- Web Security, Integrity, Privacy and
Trust<BR>- Web Services and Grid Services<BR>- Web Support Systems<BR>- World
Wide Wisdom Web (W4) <BR>- Agent Systems Modeling and Methodology<BR>-
Autonomous Knowledge and Information Agents<BR>- Autonomous Auctions and
Negotiation<BR>- Autonomy-Oriented Computing (AOC)<BR>- Learning and
Self-Adapting Agents<BR>- Distributed Intelligence</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face="MS UI Gothic" size=2>II. Workshop Proposal
Submission</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face="MS UI Gothic" size=2>Workshop proposals should include the
following elements: </FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face="MS UI Gothic" size=2>- Title of the workshop <BR>- Your name,
affiliation, mailing address and e-mail address <BR>- A description of the
topic of the workshop (not exceeding 200 words)<BR>- Type of the workshop
(full-day or half-day)<BR>- A description of how the workshop will contribute to
the field of <BR> Web Intelligence and/or Intelligent Agent
Technology<BR>- A short description on how the workshop will be advertised so as
<BR> to ensure a sufficiently wide range of authors and high quality
papers</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face="MS UI Gothic" size=2>After the acceptation of a workshop
proposal the organizer(s) should:</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face="MS UI Gothic" size=2>- Create a "Call for papers/participation"
for the workshop <BR>- Create a Web page for the workshop, the link of which
will be published <BR> on the Conference Web site <BR>- Create a Board of
Reviewers (Program Committee)<BR>- Review and select papers <BR>- Schedule the
workshop activities </FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face="MS UI Gothic" size=2>Those papers selected by a workshop
organizer will also be reviewed by<BR>the Workshop Co-Chairs for final
acceptance.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face="MS UI Gothic" size=2>All submitted papers will be reviewed on
the basis of technical<BR>quality, relevance, significance, and
clarity.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face="MS UI Gothic" size=2>We will provide an online paper submission
and review system <BR>to support the workshops.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face="MS UI Gothic" size=2>III. Important Dates</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face="MS UI Gothic" size=2>- April 10, 2006: Workshop proposal
submission due <BR> (Please send proposals by e-mail to all
three Workshop Co-Chairs)<BR>- April 20, 2006: Notification to workshop
proposers<BR>- April 30, 2006: Each workshop organizer sends out Call for
Workshops Papers<BR>- July 30, 2006: Due date for full workshop papers
submission<BR>
(at least two reviews for each paper)<BR>- September 5, 2006: Final acceptance
by Workshop Co-Chairs<BR>- September 8, 2006: Notification of paper acceptance
to authors<BR>- October 8, 2006: Camera-ready of accepted
papers<BR>- December 18, 2006: Workshop day</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face="MS UI Gothic" size=2>We look forward to your support in making
2006 IEEE/WIC/ACM WI-IAT<BR>workshops an exciting event.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face="MS UI Gothic" size=2>Workshop
Co-Chairs: </FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face="MS UI Gothic" size=2>Cory J. Butz, University of Regina,
Canada<BR>
E-mail: <A
href="mailto:butz@cs.uregina.ca">butz@cs.uregina.ca</A> <BR>Ngoc
Thanh Nguyen, Wroclaw University of Technology,
Poland<BR>
E-mail: <A
href="mailto:thanh@pwr.wroc.pl">thanh@pwr.wroc.pl</A> <BR>Yasufumi
Takama, Tokyo Metropolitan University,
Japan<BR>
E-mail: <A
href="mailto:ytakama@cc.tmit.ac.jp">ytakama@cc.tmit.ac.jp</A></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face="MS UI Gothic" size=2>Note: we will not have a separate workshop
registration fee this year<BR>(i.e., only one conference registration covers
everything).</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face="MS UI Gothic" size=2>For your information, the WI-IAT'06
conference will be co-located with<BR>the IEEE International Conference on Data
Mining (ICDM'06) for<BR>providing synergism among the three research areas. It
will provide<BR>opportunities for technical collaboration beyond that of
previous<BR>conferences. The three conferences will have the joint
opening,<BR>keynote, reception, and banquet. Attendees only need to register
one<BR>conference and can attend sessions across the three conferences.
We<BR>are planning to have a joint panel and joint paper sessions
that<BR>discuss common problems in the three areas.</FONT></DIV>
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