[Apologies if you receive this more than once] ##################################################################### IEEE/WIC/ACM Intelligent Agent Technology 2005 CALL FOR PAPERS ##################################################################### 2005 IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Intelligent Agent Technology (IAT'05) September 19-22, 2005 Compiegne University of Technology, France http://www.comp.hkbu.edu.hk/IAT05/ http://www.hds.utc.fr/IAT05/ Sponsored By IEEE Computer Society Web Intelligence Consortium (WIC) Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) ********************************************************************** - Paper submission due: April 3, 2005 - Submission websites: http://www.comp.hkbu.edu.hk/IAT05/ http://www.hds.utc.fr/IAT05/ - Electronic submissions are required in the form of PDF or PS files ********************************************************************** The 2005 IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Intelligent Agent Technology (IAT'05) will be jointly held with the 2005 IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Web Intelligence (WI'05 http://www.comp.hkbu.edu.hk/WI05/, http://www.hds.utc.fr/WI05/). The IEEE/WIC/ACM 2005 joint conferences are sponsored and organized by IEEE Computer Society Technical Committee on Computational Intelligence (TCCI) (http://www.cs.uvm.edu/~xwu/tcci/index.shtml), Web Intelligence Consortium (WIC) (http://wi-consortium.org), and ACM-SIGART (http://www.acm.org/sigart/). The upcoming meeting in this conference series follows the great success of IAT-99 held in Hong Kong, IAT-01 held in Maebashi City, Japan, IAT-03 held in Halifax, Canada, and IAT-04 in Beijing, China. +++++++ Topics +++++++ 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 +++++++++++++++++ Important Dates +++++++++++++++++ Electronic submission of full papers: ** April 3, 2005 ** Notification of paper acceptance: June 9, 2005 Workshop and tutorial proposals: June 9, 2005 Camera-ready of accepted papers: July 4, 2005 Workshops/Tutorials: September 19, 2005 Conference: September 20-22, 2005 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 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'05 will accept ONLY on-line submissions, containing PDF (PostScript or MS-Word) versions. The conference proceedings will be published by the IEEE Computer Society Press. IAT'05 also welcomes Industry Track and Demo submissions, Workshop and Tutorial proposals. More detailed instructions and the On-Line Submission Form can be found from the IAT'05 homepages: http://www.comp.hkbu.edu.hk/IAT05/ or http://www.hds.utc.fr/IAT05. A selected number of IAT'05 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 on the authors of the best papers at the conference. ++++++++++++++++++++++++ Conference Organization ++++++++++++++++++++++++ Conference Chairs: Pierre Morizet, University of Technology of Compiegne, France Jiming Liu, Hong Kong Baptist University, Hong Kong Program Chair: Andrzej Skowron, Warsaw University, Poland Steering Committee Chair: Ning Zhong, Maebashi Institute of Technology, Japan IAT-Track Program Co-chairs: Jean-Paul Barthes, University of Technology of Compiegne, France Lakhmi Jain, University of South Australia, Australia Ron Sun, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, USA WI-Track Program Co-chairs: Rakesh Agrawal, IBM Almaden Research Center, USA Mike Luck, University of Southampton, UK Takahira Yamaguchi, Shizuoka University, Japan IAT-Track Program Vice Chairs: Barbara Dunin-Keplicz, Warsaw University, Poland Amal El Fallah-Segrougchni, University of Paris 6, France Eugenio Oliveira, University of Porto, Portugl Marek Sergot, Imperial College, UK Jeffrey M. Bradshaw, UWF/Institute for Human and Machine Cognition, USA Katia Sycara, Carnegie Mellon University, USA Maria Gini, University of Minnesota, USA Churn-Jung Liau, Academia Sinica, Taiwan Zhongzhi Shi, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China Liz Sonenberg, The University of Melbourne, Australia WI-Track Program Vice Chairs: Matthias Klusch, German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence, Germany Joost Kok, Leiden University, The Netherlands Steve Willmott, Universitat Politccnica de Catalunya, Spain Ubbo Visser, Universitat Bremen, Germany Mario Cannataro, University "Magna Grecia" of Catanzaro, Italy Nick Cercone, Dalhousie University, Canada W. Lewis Johnson, University of Southern California, USA Lina Zhou, University of Maryland, Baltimore County, USA Massimo Marchiori, MIT Lab for Computer Science, USA Sankar K. Pal, Indian Statistical Institute, India Toyoaki Nishida, Kyoto University, Japan Einoshin Suzuki, Yokohama National University, Japan Chengqi Zhang, University of Technology, Sydney, Australia Industry/Demo-Track Chairs: Jianchang Mao, Yahoo! Inc., USA Toshiharu Sugawara, NTT Communication Science Laboratories, Japan Workshop Chair: Pawan Lingras, Saint Mary's University, Canada Tutorial Chair: Rineke Verbrugge, University of Groningen, NL Publicity Chairs: Jim Peters, University of Manitoba, Canada James Wang, Clemson University, USA Organizing Chair: Francois Peccoud, University of Technology of Compiegne, France Local Arrangement Chairs: Marie-Helene Abel, University of Technology of Compiegne, France Claude Moulin, University of Technology of Compiegne, France *** Contact Information *** wi-iat05@maebashi-it.org