Call For Participation

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IEEE/WIC International Conference on Web Intelligence (WI'03)

IEEE/WIC International Conference on Intelligent Agent Technology (IAT'03)

October 13-16, 2003, Lord Nelson Hotel, Halifax, Canada

Sponsored and organized by

IEEE Computer Society

&

Web Intelligence Consortium (WIC)

!!! Advance Registration by 13 September 2003 !!!

Following the great success of previous WI and IAT conferences, WI'03 and IAT'03 will provide a leading international forum for researchers and practitioners (1) to present the state-of-the-art WI and agent technologies, and (2) to cross-fertilize ideas on the development of Web-based intelligent information systems as well as new models, new methodologies, and new tools for building a variety of embodiments of agent-based systems.

Invited Talks

WI'03 and IAT'03 feature 5 invited/keynote talks:

Professor Lotfi A. Zadeh
"Web Intelligence and Fuzzy Logic"
University of California, Berkeley
Director, Berkeley Initiative in Soft Computing (BISC)
http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~zadeh/

Dr. Philip S. Yu
"Mining and Monitoring Data Streams"
Manager of the Software Tools and Techniques Group
IBM T.J. Watson Research Center
http://www.research.ibm.com/people/p/psyu/

Professor Michael Wooldridge
"Reasoning about Cooperation"
Department of Computer Science, University of Liverpool
http://www.csc.liv.ac.uk/~mjw/

Professor Georg Gottlob
"Web information Extraction with Lixto: Visual Logic and Expressive Power"
Head of Department of Computer Science
Vienna University of Technology
http://www.dbai.tuwien.ac.at/staff/gottlob/

Professor Zhiwei Xu
"Grid Research in China and the Vega Grid Project at ICT"
Deputy Director of the Institute of Computing Technology
Chinese Academy of Sciences
http://www.ict.ac.cn/page/xzw.htm

Tutorials and Workshops (Oct. 13)

The Tutorial and Workshop programs of WI'03 and IAT'03 include:

T1: "A Glimpse at the Future of Agent Technology"
Jeffrey M. Bradshaw, Institute for Human and Machine Cognition, Pensacola, FL USA

T2: "Adaptive Web-based Systems: Technologies and Examples"
Peter Brusilovsky, University of Pittsburgh, USA

W1: Workshop on Knowledge Grid and Grid Intelligence
http://www.comp.hkbu.edu.hk/~william/KGGI03/index.html

W2: Workshop on Applications, Products and Services of Web-based Support Systems
http://www2.cs.uregina.ca/~jtyao/Workshop_WI03/Workshop_WI03.html

W3: Workshop on Collaboration Agents: Autonomous Agents for Collaborative Environments
http://www.cs.unb.ca/~ghorbani/ca/index.html

Main Conference (Oct. 14-16)

The main conference of WI'03 and IAT'03 contains 13 WI sessions and 14 IAT sessions. All the papers were selected from the 592 submissions received from over 48 countries and regions.

WI'03 Technical Sessions

• Categorization and Ranking
• Collaborative Filtering and Recommendation
• Context-Aware Computing
• E-Business and E-Technology
• Intelligent Human-Web Interaction
• Ontology Engineering
• Web Agents
• Web Information Extraction and Management
• Web Information Search and Retrieval
• Web Mining and Data Engineering
• Web Prefetching
• Web Services
• Web Topology and Social Networks

IAT'03 Technical Sessions

• Agent Behaviors and Reinforcement Learning
• Agent-Based Simulation
• Autonomous Auctions
• Autonomous Information Services
• Autonomy-Oriented Computing (AOC)
• Cooperative Problem Solving
• Distributed Problem Solving
• Embodied Agents and Applications
• Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining Agents
• Mobile Agents
• Multi-Agent Modeling and Methodology
• Pricing and Negotiation
• Task-Oriented Agents
• Ubiquitous and E-Technology Agents

(NOTE: WI'03 acceptance rates are: 16% for Regular Papers and 20% for Short Papers. IAT'03 acceptance rates are: 23% and 20%, respectively.)

Social Program

The WI'03 and IAT'03 joint conference offers an exciting social program; the Lobster Banquet will naturally become one of the conference highlights.