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CALL FOR PARTICIPATION
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IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Web Intelligence (WI'08)
IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Intelligent Agent Technology (IAT'08)

December 9-12, 2008
Building 5, Haymarket Campus, University of Technology, Sydney, Australia
http://www.lido.com.au/online/default.aspx?id=657fj3g91907# (see the map)

Official:
http://datamining.it.uts.edu.au/conferences/wi08/
http://datamining.it.uts.edu.au/conferences/iat08/

Sponsored and Organized by
IEEE Computer Society
Web Intelligence Consortium (WIC)
Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
University of Technology, Sydney


================= HIGHLIGHTS =========================

 6 WI'08/IAT'08 Invited Speeches by
 Professor Edmund H. Durfee
 Professor Toru Ishida
 Professor Tsau Young Lin
 Professor Nigel Shadbolt
 Professor Yanchun Zhang
 Dr. Michael Witbrock
 1 WIC Feature Talk by
 Professor Jiming Liu
 4 Tutorials
 16 WI-IAT Workshops
 Including the first WI-IAT Doctoral Workshop
 Presentations of Accepted Research Track Papers.

The research track papers were selected from 651 submissions received
from over 52 countries and regions.

All main conference and workshop proceedings will be published in the
conference proceedings by the IEEE Computer Society Press, indexed by EI.


REGISTRATRION
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!!! Early-bird Registration by Nov 8, 2008 !!!
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On-line registration (and more information) at
http://datamining.it.uts.edu.au/conferences/iat08/?page_id=45

Regular registration covers all the events of WI-IAT'08 during the
four conference days including keynotes, tutorials, accepted paper
presentations, and workshops, as well as includes proceedings for one
of the conferences or its associated workshops.

As usual, WI'08 and IAT'08 will be co-located, providing
synergism among Web Intelligence and
Intelligent Agent Technology. The two
conferences will have a joint opening, invited talks, reception, and
banquet. Attendees only need to register for one conference and can
attend workshops, sessions, invited talks, panels and tutorials across
the two conferences.

INVITED TALKS
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WI'08/IAT'08 Joint Invited Talks include:

Planning for Coordination and Coordination for Planning
Professor Edmund H. Durfee
EECS Department, University of Michigan, USA

The Language Grid:
Service-Oriented Collective Intelligence for Intercultural Collaboration
Professor Toru Ishida
Department of Social Informatics, Kyoto University, Japan

The Emergence of Web Science
Professor Nigel Shadbolt
School of Electronics and Computer Science, University of Southampton, UK

Knowledge Based Search Engine: Granular Computing on the Web
Professor Tsau Young Lin
Department of Computer Science, San Jose State University, USA

Using Web Clustering for Web Community Mining and Analysis
Professor Yanchun Zhang
Centre for Applied Informatics Research, Victoria University, Australia

Thinking Big - AI at Web Scale
Dr. Michael Witbrock
Vice President for Research at Cycorp, Inc., CEO of Cycorp Europe

WIC FEATURE TALK
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Professor Jiming Liu
Professor and Head of Computer Science Department,
Hong Kong Baptist University

TUTORIALS
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T1: Web Content Mining
 Vaclav Snasel
 Technical University of Ostrava, Czech Republic

T2: Matching Words and Pictures: Problems, and Applications in the Web
 Latifur Khan
 University of Texas at Dallas, USA

T3: Utilizing Federated Knowledge in Semantic Web Applications
 Jans Aasman
 Franz Inc. USA

T4: Modeling Agent Organizations
 Virginia Dignum and Frank Dignum
 Utrecht University, The Netherlands

WORKSHOPS
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W1: The 2nd Workshop on Collective Intelligence in Semantic Web and
 Social Networks
 (CISWSN 2008)

W2: International Workshop on Web Information Retrieval Support Systems
 (WIRSS 2008)

W3: International Workshop on Web Personalization, Reputation and
 Recommender Systems
 (WPRRS 2008)

W4: International Workshop on Intelligent Web Interaction
 (IWI 2008)

W5: Workshop on Intelligent e-Government
 (IEG 2008)

W6: International Workshop on Fuzzy Logic On the Web
 (FLOW 2008)

W7: Workshop on Natural Language Processing and Ontology Engineering
 (NLPOE 2008)

W8: Workshop on Web Intelligence & Intelligent Agent Technology in eLearning
 (TUMAS-A 2008)

W9: International Workshop on Computational Social Networks
 (IWCSN 2008)

W10: Workshop on Optimization-based Data Mining and Web Intelligence
 (ODM 2008)

W11: The Second International Workshop on Human Aspects in Ambient
 Intelligence: Agent Technology, Human-Oriented Knowledge and Applications
 (HAAI 2008)

W12: International Workshop on E-Commerce, Business, and Services
 (ECBS 2008)

W13: Workshop on P2P Computing and Autonomous Agents
 (P2P 2008)

W14: International Workshop on Agents and Data Mining Interaction
 (ADMI 2008)

W15: Workshop on Logics for Intelligent Agents and Multi-Agent Systems
 (WLIAMAS 2008)

W16: 2008 WI-IAT Doctoral Workshop


SOCIAL PROGRAM
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The WI'08 and IAT'08 joint conference offers an exciting social
programs, including the conference welcome reception on Dec. 10 and
the conference banquet on Dec. 11.

You can also enjoy the city of Sydney, including Darling Harbour and
Opera House. You can get more information about the conference hotel
and local information from the conference homepage:
http://datamining.it.uts.edu.au/conferences/wi08/

CONTACT INFORMATION
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A/Prof Longbing Cao
Data Sciences & Knowledge Discovery Lab (the Smart Lab)
Research Centre for Quantum Computation and Intelligent Systems
University of Technology Sydney, Australia
Office: +61-2-9514 4477
Fax: +61-2-9514 4517
E-mail: lbcao@...
Homepage: www-staff.it.uts.edu.au/~lbcao
The Smart Lab: datamining.it.uts.edu.au