[Apologies if you receive this more than once] --------------------------------------------------------- IEEE/WIC/ACM WI-IAT'04 FINAL CALL FOR PAPERS 2004 IEEE/WIC/ACM International Joint Conference on Web Intelligence (WI) & Intelligent Agent Technology (IAT) September 20-24, 2004, Beijing, China www.maebashi-it.org/WI04/ & www.maebashi-it.org/IAT04/ ---------------------------------------------------------- ***** KEYNOTE/INVITED SPEAKERS ***** John McCarthy (Stanford University) Boi Faltings (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology) Carl Kesselman (University of Southern California) Victor Lesser (University of Massachusetts) Tom Mitchell (Carnegie Mellon University) Xindong Wu (University of Vermont) *************************************** Paper submission due: April 4, 2004 Submission websites WI-Track: www.maebashi-it.org/WI04/ www.comp.hkbu.edu.hk/WI04/ IAT-Track: www.maebashi-it.org/IAT04/ www.comp.hkbu.edu.hk/IAT04/ **************************************** ***** SPONSORED BY ***** IEEE Computer Society Web Intelligence Consortium (WIC) Association for Computing Machinery ***** CO-ORGANIZED/IN COOPERATION WITH ***** Beijing University of Technology China Computer Federation Hong Kong Baptist University Maebashi Institute of Technology Tsinghua University ***** CORPORATE SPONSORS ***** Beijing University of Technology Microsoft Research Asia National Natural Science Foundation of China ----------------------------------------------------------------------- WI-IAT'04 provides a leading international forum to bring together researchers and practitioners from diverse fields, such as Artificial Intelligence, Computer Science, Information Technology, Physical Science and Engineering, Business, Education, and Social Sciences etc., to discuss the fundamental methodologies and enabling techniques in developing the next-generation Web intelligence and intelligent agent technologies. High-quality papers in all WI and IAT related areas are solicited. All submitted papers will be reviewed on the basis of technical quality, relevance, significance, and clarity. WI-IAT'04 will accept ONLY on-line submissions, containing PDF (PostScript or MS-Word) versions. More detailed instructions and the On-Line Submission Form can be found from the WI-IAT'04 homepage. WI-IAT'04 also welcomes Industry/Demo-Track submissions, Workshop and Tutorial proposals. The conference proceedings will be published by the IEEE Computer Society Press. A selected number of WI-IAT'04 accepted papers will be expanded and revised for inclusion in Web Intelligence and Agent Systems: An International Journal and in Annual Review of Intelligent Informatics. The best paper and the best demo awards will be announced at the conference. ***** CONFERENCE ORGANIZATION ****** Conference Chairs: Jiming Liu, Hong Kong Baptist University, HK Nick Cercone, University of Dalhousie, Canada Program Chair: Ning Zhong, Maebashi Institute of Technology, Japan Program Co-Chairs: WI-Track: Henry Tirri, University of Helsinki, Finland Yiyu Yao, University of Regina, Canada Lizhu Zhou, Tsinghua University, China IAT-Track: Jeffrey Bradshaw, UWF/Institute for Human and Machine Cognition, USA Sankar K. Pal, Indian Statistical Institute, Inida Domenico Talia, University of Calabria, Italy Industry/Demo-Track Chairs: Qiang Yang, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, HK Wei-Ying Ma, Microsoft Research Asia, China Workshop Chair: Pawan Lingras, Saint Mary's University, Canada Tutorial Chair: Gerd Wagner, Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands Publicity Chair: Yuefeng Li, Queensland University of Technology, Australia Organizing Chairs: Tieyong Zuo, Beijing University of Technology, China Chunnian Liu, Beijing University of Technology, China Local Arrangement Chair: Baocai Yin, Beijing University of Technology, China IEEE-CS-TCCI Chair Xindong Wu USA WIC Co-Chairs/Directors Ning Zhong Japan Jiming Liu HK ACM-SIGART Chair Maria Gini USA WIC Advisory Board Edward A. Feigenbaum USA Setsuo Ohsuga Japan Benjamin Wah USA Philip Yu USA L.A. Zadeh USA WIC Technical Committee & WI-IAT Steering Committee Nick Cercone Canada Dieter Fensel Austria Georg Gottlob Austria Lakhmi Jain Australia W. Lewis Johnson USA Jianchang Mao USA Hiroshi Motoda Japan Toyoaki Nishida Japan Xindong Wu USA Yiyu Yao Canada ***** Contact Information ***** WI-IAT'04 Conference Secretariat: wi-iat@maebashi-it.org