The topics and areas to be addressed include, but not limited to:
Intelligent Agent Technology (IAT) Topics
Autonomy-Oriented Computing (AOC)
- Agent-Based Complex Systems Modeling and Development
- Agent-Based Simulation
- Autonomy-Oriented Modeling and Computation Methods
- 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 Complex Systems Modeling and Development
- Web Agent-Based Distributed Data Mining
- Web Agent-Based Knowledge Discovery And Sharing
- Autonomous Information Services
- Distributed Knowledge Systems
- Evolution of Knowledge Networks
- Human-Agent Interaction
- Knowledge Aggregation
- Knowledge Discovery
- Ontology-Based Information Services
Agent Systems Modeling and Methodology
- Agent Interaction Protocols
- 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
- Reinforcement Learning
- Social Interactions in Multi-Agent Systems
- Task-Based Agent Contexts
- Task-Oriented Agents
Distributed Problem Solving
- Agent Networks in Distributed Problem Solving
- Collective Group Behavior
- Coordination and Cooperation
- Distributed Intelligence
- 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
- Scalability
- Software and Pervasive Agents
- Tools and Standards
- Ubiquitous Systems and E-Technology Agents
- Ubiquitous Software Services
- XML-Based Agent Systems
Web Intelligence (WI) Topics
World Wide Wisdom Web (W4)
- Distributed Resources Optimization
- Goal-Directed Services Support
- Information and Knowledge Markets
- Knowledge Community Formation and Support
- Meta-Knowledge Discovery and Representation
- New Social Interaction Paradigms
- Problem Solver Markup Language (PSML)
- Regularities and Laws of W4
- Search of Best Means and Ends
- Social and Psychological Contexts
- Web Inference Engine
Social Networks and Social Intelligence
- Entertainment
- Knowledge Community Formation and Support
- Link Topology and Site Hierarchy
- Social Networks Mining
- Theories of Small-World Web
- Ubiquitous Computing
- Ubiquitous Learning Systems
- Virtual and Web Communities
- Web-Based Cooperative Work
- Web Site Clustering
Knowledge Grids
- Brokering and Scheduling
- Knowledge Resources and Services Discovery
- Middleware Architectures and Tools
- On-Demand Planning and Routing
- Semantic Grids
Web Mining and Farming
- Context Sensitive Web Mining
- E-Mail Classification
- Data Warehousing
- Learning User Profiles
- Multimedia Data Mining
- Mining Data Streams
- Text Mining
- Web Farming and Warehousing
- Web Content Mining
- Web Information Clustering
- Web Information Indexing
- Web Log and Usage Mining
- Web Page Clustering and Mining
- Web Site Classification
Semantics and Ontology Engineering
- Ontology-Based Information Extraction and Retrieval
- Ontology-Based Web Mining
- Web-Based Ontology Learning
- Semantic Web
Web Agents
- Agent Networks and Topologies
- Coordination
- Distributed Problem Solving
- Global Information Foraging
- Macroscopic Behavior Modeling
- Mobile Agents
- Remembrance Agents
- Resource Intermediary and Coordination Mechanisms
- Self-Organization and Reproduction
- Trust Models for Web Agents
Web Services
- Matchmaking
- Middleware-Based Ubiquitous Services
- Web Service Reconfiguration
- Web Service Workflow Composition
- grid Services
Web Information Filtering and Retrieval
- Automatic Cataloging and Indexing
- Clustering-Based Recommender Systems
- Collaborative Filtering
- Digital Library
- Distributed Web Search
- Hybrid Recommendation
- Information Retrieval Criteria and Evaluations
- Proxy and Cache Techniques
- Search Engines and Meta-search Engines
- Specifications for Web Information Extraction Process
- Web Crawling Systems
- Web Information Categorization and Ranking
- Web Prediction and Prefetching
Intelligent Human-Web Interaction
- Adaptive Web Interfaces
- Context-Aware Computing
- Learning User Profiles
- Multimedia Representation
- Personalized Interfaces
- Personalized Web Sites
- Social and Psychological Issues
- Visualization of Information and Knowledge
Intelligent E-Technology
- Collaborative Filtering and Recommendation
- Business Intelligence
- Decentralized Community Communication Techniques
- E-Business and E-Commerce
- E-Community
- E-Finance
- E-Government
- E-Learning
- E-Publishing
- E-Science
- Intelligent Enterprise Portals
- Web-Based Direct Marketing and CRM
- Web-Based EDI
- Web Security, Integrity, Privacy and Trust
Web Support Systems
- Information Retrieval Support Systems
- Web Site Navigation Support Systems
- Recommender Support Systems
- Soft Computing (including neural networks, fuzzy logic, evolutionary computation, rough sets, and granular computing) and Uncertainty Management for WI
- Web-Based Decision Support Systems
