Agents Applied in Health Care

*7th Workshop on Agents Applied in Health Care*
http://deim.urv.cat/~itaka/workshops/aamas2012

To be held in conjunction with the
Eleventh International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems
(AAMAS 2012, 4th-8th June 2012, Valencia, Spain)


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/.    If the quantity and quality of the papers submitted to the workshop is appropriate, those papers accepted for presentation at the workshop and presented in Valencia will be invited to present extended versions to a *special issue on agents applied in health care of the International Journal on Artificial Intelligence Tools (IJAIT)*, included in JCR.

.    Paper* submission deadline extended to February 28th* (this deadline will not be further extended)./

*Technical description*
Intelligent agent-based systems constitute one of the most exciting research areas in Artificial Intelligence. Due to the growing interest in the application of agent-based systems in health care, a number of applications addressing clinical problems are already based in agent technology. Thus, it may now be a good time for the specialists in the field to meet and report on the results achieved in this area, to discuss the benefits (and drawbacks) that agent-based systems may bring to medical domains, and also to provide a list of the research topics that should be tackled in the near future.

This workshop will try to incorporate two novel aspects with respect to related workshops held in the last years:

.    Interdisciplinary research: special efforts will be devoted to try to attract the attention of health care and biomedical specialists, so that they attend the workshop and realise the potential benefits of agent technology.
.    Applied research: the organising committee will also pay special attention to papers describing applications which are not just academic, but are already deployed and running in a real medical environment.

Current topics of research include personalized health systems for remote and autonomous tele-assistance, communication and co-operation between distributed intelligent agents to manage patient care, information agents that retrieve medical information from distributed repositories, intelligent and distributed data mining, and multi-agent systems that assist the doctors in the tasks of monitoring and diagnosis. Several methodological and technical problems have been discovered by the researchers that attempt to deploy agent-based systems in the medical area; just to name a few, the growing number of huge databases that need to be integrated (e.g. genetic data from next generation sequencing), the difficulty to integrate new agent-based systems with legacy software, the need to apply changing national and international laws and regulations concerning the privacy of medical data and the security of the transaction of patient information between agents.

*Submitted papers should address at least one of the following issues:*

.    Co-operation between intelligent agents to improve patient management (e.g. distributed patient scheduling).
.    Agents that provide autonomous and remote care delivery.
.    Agents that provide information about medical services.
.    Multi-agent systems for patient monitoring and diagnosis.
.    Successful applications of agents and multi-agent systems in health care.
.    MAS that improve medical training or education (e.g. tutoring systems).
.    Medical agent-based decision support systems.
.    Information agents that gather compile and organise medical data and knowledge available on Internet.
.    Solutions to the basic methodological and technological problems associated to the real deployment of health-care agent-based systems:
-    Security, privacy of medical data.
-    Social acceptance of agent-based systems.
-    Integration and use of medical ontologies.
-    Lack of centralised control.
-    Communication standards.
-    Integration with other types of software.
.    Legal and ethical issues related to the use of agents in health care.
.    Surveys providing an up to date view of the state of the art in the area of agents in health care.

Submissions must be formatted following the guidelines of the main AAMAS conference. Papers must not be longer than 10 pages.

The workshop organisers would appreciate that anyone intending to submit a paper to the workshop communicates this intention before February 1st to the workshop contact person.

*Previous editions of the workshop*
.    First edition - ECAI 2002 in Lyon, France. Expanded versions of selected papers published in a special issue of AI Communications (Ed: A.Moreno, 2003).
.    Second edition - ECAI 2004 in Valencia, Spain. Expanded versions of selected papers published in a special issue of AI Communications (Ed: J.Nealon, 2005).
.    Third edition - IJCAI 2005 in Edinburgh, Scotland. Expanded versions of selected papers published in a special issue of IEEE Intelligent Systems (Ed: A.Moreno, December 2006).
.    Fourth edition - ECAI 2006 in Riva del Garda, Italy. Expanded versions of selected papers published in a volume of the Whitestein series in Software Agent Technologies and Autonomic Computing (December 2007).
.    Fifth edition - AAMAS 2008 in Estoril, Portugal.
.    Sixth edition - e-Health 2010 in Casablanca, Morocco. Papers published by Springer in a book of the series ICST Transactions on e-health.

*Preliminary workshop agenda *
The workshop will feature some of the following activities:
.    1-2 invited presentations by international experts in the field
.    Presentation of state-of-the-art papers with the latest developments in the field.
.    Possible demos of practical applications of MAS in health care.
.    Panel discussion of the main problems that have to be faced to deploy real agent-based health-care applications.

*Important dates*
.    February 28th, 2012: Deadline for paper submission (this deadline will not be further extended)
.    March 28th, 2012: Notifications of acceptance/rejection sent
.    April 10th, 2012: Deadline for sending camera-ready papers to workshop organisers.
.    June 4th or 5th, 2012: Workshop.
.    Autumn-Winter 2012:  Possibility of publishing revised and expanded versions of selected papers in a special issue of an appropriate scientific journal or book.

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Paper review process*
All the submitted papers will be revised by at least three members of the Program Committee. The main aspects to be reviewed will be originality, technical accuracy and relevance to the workshop.
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Post --proceedings: special issue in IJAIT*
If the quantity and quality of the papers submitted to the workshop is appropriate, those papers accepted for presentation at the workshop and presented in Valencia will be invited to present extended versions to a special issue on agents applied in health care of the International Journal on Artificial Intelligence Tools (IJAIT), included in JCR.

*Organising committee*
Antonio Moreno (contact person)
  University Rovira i Virgili (URV), Tarragona, Spain.
  e-mail: antonio.moreno@urv.net
Ulises Cortés
  Technical University of Catalonia (UPC), Barcelona, Spain
Magí Lluch-Ariet
  Informatics Research Institute, Barcelona, Spain
David Isern
  University Rovira i Virgili (URV), Tarragona, Spain.

*Scientific committee*
M.Beer, Sheffield Hallam Univ., UK
F.Grasso, Univ. of Liverpool, UK
A.Ilarramendi, Univ. of the Basque Country, Spain
P.Kostkova, City Univ., UK
L.Lhotska, Czech Technical Univ., Czech Republic
B.López, Univ. of Girona, Spain
M.Schumacher, Univ. of Applied Sciences Western Switzerland, Switzerland
A.Valls, Univ. Rovira i Virgili, Spain
L.Varga, ELTE University, Hungary

Prestigious Applications of Intelligent Systems (PAIS-2012)

The Seventh Conference on Prestigious Applications of Intelligent Systems

29-30 August 2012 ## Montpellier, France

http://www.lirmm.fr/ecai2012

Deadline for submission of full papers: 6 March 2012

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The PAIS 2012 Program Committee invites papers describing innovative
applications of AI techniques to real-world systems and problems for
the Technical Program of the 7th International Conference on the
Prestigious Applications of Intelligent Systems - a subconference of
the 20th European Conference on Artificial Intelligence (ECAI-2012).

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is a central topic in contemporary
computing science.  The fruits of almost sixty years of AI research
have benefited application domains as disparate as industrial systems
control and medicine.  The milestone events in AI research are
increasingly regarded as milestones in scientific and technological
development: from the first chess playing program to defeat a reigning
world champion under standard chess tournament rules, via the first
robot to autonomously traverse 150 miles of rough terrain, to the
first computer program that beat humans in a quiz. Techniques,
concepts, and results developed under the banner of AI research have
proved to be of fundamental importance in areas such as medicine,
biology, economics, philosophy, linguistics, psychology, and
engineering. And of course, AI remains a topic of perennial
fascination in popular culture.

Papers highlighting all aspects of the application of intelligent
systems technology are most welcome. Our aim is to provide a forum for
academic and industrial researchers and practitioners to share
experience and insights on the applicability, development and
deployment of intelligent systems. PAIS is the largest showcase in
Europe of real applications using AI technology and the ideal place to
meet with those working to make successful applications.

PAIS-2012/ECAI-2012 will be held in the vibrant and elegant city of
Montpellier, France. With excellent opportunities for sightseeing and
gastronomy, Montpellier promises to be a wonderful venue for a
memorable conference.

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Papers are welcome on all novel and significant applications of
intelligent systems -- the following list of application areas is
indicative only:

* AI&  Life Sciences and Medicine
* AI&  Autonomous Vehicles
* AI&  Energy
* AI&  Ecology
* AI&  Education
* AI&  Mobile Computing and the Internet
* AI&  Sensor Networks
* AI&  Smart Surroundings
* AI&  Aerospace


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Paper submission deadline: 
 Tuesday, 6 March 2012

Notification of acceptance/rejection: 
 Monday, 21 May 2012

Camera-ready papers due:
         Sunday, 3 June 2012

Conference:
 29-30 August 2012

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Both long and short papers can be submitted.  Long papers must not
exceed *SIX* (6) pages in camera-ready format. Over-length submissions
will be rejected without review. Papers should be submitted using the
ECAI formatting style, to be available soon on the conference website
(this will be very close to previous ECAI styles). Each accepted paper
will be allocated six pages in the proceedings. Submission of short
papers, not exceeding *TWO* (2) pages in ECAI page format, is also
encouraged. Short papers are meant for highly promising but still
preliminary work. Short papers will be presented as a poster. Rejected
long papers will not be considered for poster presentation.

All submissions will be subject to peer review by the PAIS-2012
Programme Committee, and evaluated on the basis of: social relevance,
scientific and technological impact, originality, technical quality,
and quality of presentation.

Reviewing for PAIS-2012 will be double blind: reviewers will not be
presented with the identity of paper authors. To allow for double
blind review, author names in a submitted paper or poster should be
replaced by the unique tracking number assigned by the conference
website at the submission of an electronic abstract.  Authors should
avoid writing anything that makes their identity obvious in the text.
Submissions should be original, and in particular should not
previously have been formally published. (As a rule of thumb, any
publication venue with an ISBN or ISSN number counts as a formal
publication.) Submissions should not be submitted elsewhere during the
PAIS-2012 review phase.

The primary authors of submitted papers will be offered the
opportunity to respond to the reviewers before the final discussion
and decision phase.

The proceedings of the PAIS conference, together with those of the
main conference, and STAIRS, will be published online (as an open
access book) and USB sticks with the proceedings will be given to the
participants. The authors will be responsible for producing
camera-ready copies of papers, conforming to the ECAI-2012 formatting
guidelines for inclusion in the proceedings.  At least one author of
each accepted paper or poster is required to attend the conference to
present the contribution. Based on the recommendations made by the
reviewers and a separate award committee, one of the accepted long
papers will receive the *BEST PAIS PAPER AWARD*. In addition, there
will be a *BEST STUDENT PAIS PAPER AWARD* (first author should be a
student to qualify).

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PAIS Conference Co-Chairs:

         Paolo Frasconi (Universita degli Studi di Firenze, Italy)
 mailto:p-f@dsi.unifi.it
 Peter Lucas (Radboud University Nijmegen, Netherlands)
 mailto:peterl@cs.ru.nl

Local Organisation Chair:

 HAVE TO FIND ONE!

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Juan-Manuel Ahuactzin, France
Peter Antal, Hungary
Roberto Bayardo, USA
Samy Bengio, USA
Diego Calvanese, Italy
Robert Castelo, Spain
Marc Cavazza, UK
Fabrizio Costa, Germany
Jesse Davis, Belgium
Yves Deville, Belgium
Kurt Driessens, Netherlands
Norman Fenton, UK
Pierre Flener, Sweden
Maria Fox, UK
Thore Grapel, USA
Johan de Kleer, USA
Yolanda Gil, USA
Peter Haddawy, Macau
Jesse Hoey, Canada
Arjen Hommersom, Netherlands
Vanja Josifovski, USA
Hidde de Jong, France
Ross King, UK
Pedro Larranaga, Spain
Tze-Yun Leong, Singapore
Michael Madden, Ireland
Chris Manning, USA
Stephen Muggleton, UK
Tartar Mugur, Germany
Daniele Nardi, Italy
David Page, USA
Andrea Passerini, Italy
Pedro Pereira Rodrigues, Portugal
Alun Preece, UK
Gregory Provan, Ireland
Dan Roth, USA
Carles Sierra, Spain
Barry Smith, Ireland
Peter Struss, Germany
Enrique Sucar, Mexico
Louise Trave-Massuyes, France
Paolo Traverso, Italy
Allan Tucker, UK
Peter Van Roy, Belgium
Marina Velikova, Netherlands
Jiri Vomlel, Czech Republic

IEEE Symposium Series on Computational Intelligence 2011

This international event promotes all aspects of the theory and applications of Computational Intelligence. With its hosting of over thirty technical meetings in one location, it is bound to attract lead researchers, professionals and students from around the world. Sponsored by the IEEE Computational Intelligence Society, the 2011 edition follows in the footsteps of the SSCI 2007 meetings held in Honolulu and of the SSCI 2009 series held in Nashville.

The event will take place in the magic town of Paris.

Symposia and Workshops

ADPRL 2011 Symposium on Adaptive Dynamic Programming and Reinforcement Learning
Jagannathan Sarangapani, Missouri Univ. of Science and Techn., USA.
Zhang Huaguang, Northeastern Univ., China.
Marco Wiering, Univ. of Groningen, Netherland.

CCMB 2011 Symposium on Computational Intelligence, Cognitive Algorithms, Mind, and Brain.
Leonid Perlovsky, Harvard University and Air Force Research Laboratory, USA.
Robert Kozma, Memphis University, USA.
Damien Coyle, University of Ulster, UK

CIASG 2011 Symposium on Computational Intelligence Applications in Smart Grid
Ganesh Kumar Venayagamoorthy, Missouri University of Science and Technology, USA

CIBCB 2011 Symposium on Computational Intelligence in Bioinformatics and Computat. Biology
Clare Bates Congdon, University of Southern Maine, USA

CIBIM 2011 Workshop on Computational Intelligence in Biometrics and Identity Management
Qinghan Xiao, Defence R&D, Canada.
David Zhang, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, China.
Fabio Scotti, University of Milan, Italy

CICA 2011 Symposium on Computational Intelligence in Control and AutomationXiao-Jun Zeng, University of Manchester, UK

CICS 2011 Symposium on Computational Intelligence in Cyber Security
Dipankar Dasgupta, University of Memphis, USA.
Justin Zhan, National Center of Infrastructure Protection, USA

CIDM 2011 Symposium on Computational Intelligence and Data MiningNitesh Chawla, University of Notre Dame, USA.
Irwin King, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, China.
Alessandro Sperduti, Padova University, Italy

CIDUE 2011 Symposium on Computational Intelligence in Dynamic and Uncertain Environments
Yaochu Jin, University of Surrey, UK.
Shengxiang Yang, Brunel University, UK.
Robi Polikar, Rowan University, USA

CIFEr 2011 Symposium on Computational Intelligence for Financial Engineering & Economics
Han La Poutre, CWI, Netherlands.
Ronald R. Yager, Iona College, USA.
Robert Golan, Dbmind Technologies, USA

CII 2011 Symposium on Computational Intelligence in Industry
Yaochu Jin, University of Surrey, UK.
Piero P. Bonissone, GE Global Research, USA.
Jennie Si, Arizona State University, USA

CIMI 2011 Workshop on Computational Intelligence in Medical Imaging
Gerald Schaefer, Dpt. Of Computer Science, Loughborough University, UK. .
Sergio Damas, European Center for Soft Computing, Mieres, Asturias, Spain

CIMR 2011 Workshop on Computational Intelligence for Mobile Robots: Air-, Land-, and Sea-BasedLyle N. Long, Pennsylvania State University, USA.

CIMSIVP 2011 Symposium on Computational Intellig. for Multimedia, Signal and Vision ProcessingKhan M Iftekharuddin, University of Memphis, USA.
Salim Bouzerdoum, University of Wollongong, Australia

CIPLS 2011 Workshop on Computational Intelligence in Production and Logistic Systems
Bülent Çatay, Sabanci University, Turkey.
Raymond Chiong, Swinburne Univ. of Technology, Australia.
Patrick Siarry, Univ. Paris XII Val de Marne, France

CISched 2011 Symposium on Computational Intelligence in Scheduling
Rong Qu, University of Nottingham, UK.
Ender Ozcan, University of Nottingham, UK.
Michel Gendreau, École Polytechnique de Montréal, Canada

CISDA 2011 Symposium on Computational Intelligence for Security and Defence Applications
Slawo Wesolkowski, DRDC, Canada.
Nur Zincir-Heywood, Dalhousie University, Canada,
James R. Dankert, BAE Systems - AIT, USA,
Rami Abielmona, Larus Technologies, Canada

CIVI 2011 Workshop on Computational Intelligence for Visual Intelligence
Guilherme N. DeSouza, University of Missouri, USA.
Yuanqiang (Evan) Dong, University of Missouri, USA

CIVTS 2011 Symposium on Computational Intelligence in Vehicles and Transportation Systems
Danil Prokhorov, Toyota, USA. Dimitar Filev, Ford, USA

CompSens 2011 Workshop on Merging Fields of Computational Intelligence and Sensor Technology
Ivo Bukovsky, Czech Technical University in Prague, Czech Republic.
Torsten Wagner, Tohoku University, Japan

EAIS 2011 Workshop on Evolving and Adaptive Intelligent Systems
Plamen Angelov, Lancaster University, UK.
Dimitar Filev, Ford, USA.
Nikola Kasabov, Auckland University of Technology, New Zealand

FOCI 2011 Symposium on Foundations of Computational Intelligence
Manuel Ojeda-Aciego, University of Malaga, Spain.
Carlos Cotta, University of Malaga, Spain.
Francisco Veredas, University of Malaga, Spain

GEFS 2011 International Workshop on Genetic and Evolutionary Fuzzy Systems
Rafael Alcala, University of Granada, Spain.
Yusuke Nojima, Osaka Prefecture University, Japan

HIMA 2011 Workshop on Hybrid Intelligent Models and Applications
Patricia Melin, Tijuana Institute of Technology, Mexico

IA 2011 Symposium on Intelligent Agents
Hani Hagras, University of Essex, UK.
Vincenzo Loia, University of Salerno, Italy

IEEE ALIFE 2011 Symposium on Artificial Life
Terry Bossomaier, Charles Sturt University, Australia.
Hiroki Sayama, State University of New York, USA.
Chrystopher Nehaniv, University of Hertfordshire, UK

IEEE MCDM 2011 Symposium on Computational Intelligence in Multicriteria Decision-Making
Carlos A. Coello Coello, CINVESTAV-IPN, Mexico.
Piero P. Bonissone, GE Global Research, USA.
Yaochu Jin, University of Surrey, UK

MC 2011 Symposium on Memetic Computing 
Zexuan Zhu, Shenzhen University, China. Maoguo Gong, Xidian University,
China. Ji Zhen, Shenzhen University, China.
Yew-Soon Ong, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore

OC 2011 Workshop on Organic Computing
Rolf Wuertz, Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Germany

RiiSS 2011 Workshop on Robotic Intelligence in Informationally Structured Space
Honghai Liu, University of Portsmouth, UK.
Naoyuki Kubota, Tokyo Metropolitan University, Japan

SDE 2011 Symposium on Differential Evolution
Janez Brest, University of Maribor, Slovenia.
Swagatam Das, Jadavpur University, India.
P. N. Suganthan, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore

SIS 2011 Symposium on Swarm Intelligence 
Yuhui Shi, Xi'an Jiaotong-Liverpool University, Suzhou, China

T2FUZZ 2011 Symposium on Advances in Type-2 Fuzzy Logic SystemsHani Hagras, University of Essex, UK.
Jerry Mendel, University of Southern California, USA.
Bob John, De Montfort University, UK

WACI 2011 Workshop on Affective Computational Intelligence
Pau-Choo (Julia) Chung, National Cheng Kung University, Taiwan.
Marie-Jeanne Lesot, LIP6-UPMC, France.
Jean-Claude Martin, University Paris Sud, France

General Chair
Bernadette Bouchon-Meunier, LIP6, CNRS-Univ. P. et M. Curie, Paris, France

Honorary Chair
Vincenzo Piuri, University of Milan, Italy

Finance Chair
Piero Bonissone, General Electrics, USA

Local Arrangement Chair
Maria Rifqi, LIP6, Université Panthéon-Assas, Paris, France

Publication Chair
Sylvie Galichet, Université de Savoie, France

Registration Chair
Anne Laurent LIRMM Université Montpellier 2, France

Web Master
Christophe Marsala, LIP6, Université Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris, France

Publicity Co-chairs 
 Pau-Choo (Julia) Chung, National Cheng Kung University, Taiwan
Martine De Cock, Ghent University, Belgium
Slawo Wesolkowski, DRDC, Canada

Tutorial, Keynote and Panel Co-chairs
Marios Polycarpou, University of Cyprus, Cyprus
Ali M.S. Zalzala, Hikma Group Limited, Dubai, UAE

Posters & Local Organization
Marcin Detyniecki, LIP6, CNRS-Université P. et M. Curie, Paris, France
Secretary Adrien Revault d'Allonnes, LIP6, Université Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris, France

IMPORTANT DATES
Paper Submission Due: Oc tobe r 31, 2010
Notification to Authors: December 15, 2010
Camera-Ready Papers Due: J anua r y 15, 2011

2011 IEEE / WIC / ACM International Conferences on Web Intelligence and Intelligent Agent Technology

Call for Workshop Proposal

The 2011 IEEE / WIC / ACM International Conferences on Web Intelligence and 
Intelligent Agent Technology

22 � 27 August 2011, Campus Scientifique de la Doua, Lyon, France

http://wi-iat-2011.org

The Program Committees of the 2011 IEEE/WIC/ACM International Joint Conference on Web Intelligence and Intelligent Agent Technology (WI-IAT�11) invite proposals for Workshops. The Workshops will be held within the Conference, August, 22, 2011 at Lyon, France.

The main goal of the WI-IAT�11 workshops is to stimulate and facilitate active exchange, interaction and comparison of approaches, methods and ideas related to specific topics, both theoretical and applied, in the general areas related to Web Intelligence and Intelligent Agent Technology. The workshops will provide an informal setting where participants will have the opportunity to discuss specific technical topics in an atmosphere that fosters the active exchange of ideas.

The workshop organizers will be responsible for advertising the workshop, forming the program committees, reviewing and selecting the papers, and guaranteeing a high quality worthy of the prestige and range of the Conference. All papers accepted for workshops will be included in the Workshop Proceedings published by IEEE Computer Society Press and will be available at the workshops.

The workshop organizers will also have the discretion of editing selected papers (after their expansion and revision) into books or special journal issues. Workshops may be full-day or half-day. A full-day workshop should select 10-14 regular papers, while a half-day workshop should select 5-7 regular papers, from a large number of submissions. Submissions accepted as workshop papers will be allocated 4 pages in the proceedings. The workshop organizers should ensure the presence of authors of accepted papers at the workshops. Optionally, the workshop may be started or concluded by a panel focusing on interesting aspects, controversial issues, or unsolved problems to stimulate lively, thoughtful, and thought-provoking debate; we expect the workshop organizers to actively engage the audience and help them gain a deeper understanding of the issues. The goal of a panel is to debate and thus panels should always reflect more than one point of view.

Workshop Proposal Submission
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Workshop organizers should submit their proposals (PDF) directly to the three Workshop Chairs via e-mail (see their email addresses below).
Workshop proposals should include the following elements:

- Title of the workshop
- Names of workshop organizers, affiliation, mailing address and e-mail address
- Short CV of organizers
- A description of the topics of the workshop (not exceeding 200 words)
- Type of the workshop (full-day or half-day)
- A description of how the workshop will contribute to the field of Web Intelligence and/or Intelligent Agent Technology
- A short description on how the workshop will be advertised so as to ensure a sufficiently wide range of authors and high quality papers
- Information about previous offerings of the proposed workshop.

Topics of Interest
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Each workshop subject will focus on new research challenges and initiatives in Web Intelligence (WI) and Intelligent Agent Technology (IAT). The workshops should provide an informal and vibrant forum for researchers and industry practitioners to share their research results and practical development experiences in these two fields. Suggested, workshop topics include, but are not limited to:

- Intelligent e-Technology (including e-Science, e-Business, e-Things and e-Activities, e-Learning, e-Finance, e-Medicine, e-Government, e-Community)
- Intelligent Human-Web Interaction
- Intelligent Distributed Robots
- Distributed Intelligence
- Knowledge Grids and Grid Intelligence
- Semantics and Ontology Engineering
- Sensing Web and Smart World
- Social Networks and Ubiquitous Intelligence
- Ubiquitous Computing
- Web Agents
- Web Information Filtering and Retrieval
- Web Mining and Farming
- Web Data Management
- Web Scale Commonsense Knowledge Processing
- Web Security, Integrity, Privacy and Trust
- Web Services and Grid Services
- Web Support Systems
- World Wide Wisdom Web (W4)
- Convergence of email, instant messaging and social-network tools
- Agent Systems Modeling and Methodology
- Autonomous Knowledge and Information Agents
- Autonomous Auctions and Negotiation
- Autonomy-Oriented Computing (AOC)
- Learning and Self-Adapting Agents

Important Dates
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Workshop proposal submission: December 17, 2010
Notification to workshop proposers: January 7, 2011
Workshop paper submissions: March 21, 2011
Notification of Workshop paper acceptance: June 1, 2011
Workshops and Industry day: August 22, 2011

Workshop Co-Chairs
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Jomi F. Hübner (Federal University of Santa Catarina, Brasil)
Jean-Marc Petit (INSA, France)
Einoshin Suzuki (Kyushu University, Japan)

Special Issue on: Distributed Intelligence and Data Fusion for Sensor Systems

Call for Papers

Special Issue on:
Distributed Intelligence and Data Fusion for Sensor Systems

in IET Communications (SCI Indexed)
http://scitation.aip.org/IET-COM

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Scope

Use of intelligence, data mining and data fusion has provided new momentum in 
the use of sensors and converted WSNs into a new brand of dynamic, autonomous 
and intelligent Distributed Sensor Systems. These features enable new smart 
sensors to play new roles as intelligent nodes gathering, manipulating and 
decimating data for more reliable and secure communication whilst performing 
more efficiently using less energy and number crunching.

This special issue aims at presenting innovative and signifi cant research 
papers on the design, implementation and evaluation of wireless sensors, 
especially for use of distributed intelligence and data fusion. 



Topics of primaryinterest include, but are not limited to:
 
* applications and deployment of intelligence in sensor systems and distributed 
  data fusion
* sensor networking protocols and algorithms
* sensor network management protocol and systems
* cross-layer design and sensor network management protocols
* security of distributed intelligence in sensor networks
* inter-connection between distributed sensor systems
* testbed, experimental measurements & performance analysis
* systems for context sensing and context awareness
* tools and methodologies for sensory data fusion
* QoS provisioning protocols with data fusion technology
* collaborative in-network processing and data sharing
* use of Intelligence and data in energy harvesting



IMPORTANT DATES

* Deadline for Submission of Paper:   01 July 2010
* Authors to receive a 1st decision:  30 September  2010
* Final notification of acceptance:   31 January 2011
* On-line and print publication:      Q1/Q2 2011



Paper Submission:
All papers must be submitted through the journal's Manuscript Central system:




Guest editors:
 
 Dr. Lei Shu (Corresponding)
 Nishio Lab., Department of Multimedia Engineering
 Graduate School of Information Science and Technology
 Osaka University, Japan
 E-mail: lei.shu@ieee.org
 
 Prof. Jaime Lloret Mauri
 Polytechnic University of Valencia, Spain
 E-mail: jlloret@dcom.upv.es

 Prof. Joel Rodrigues
 University of Beira Interior, Portugal
 E-mail: joeljr@ieee.org

 Prof. Min Chen
 Seoul National University, Korea
 E-mail: minchen@ieee.org



IET Publishing Dept. contact:
 Paul Rowley
 Editorial Assistant
 IET Communications
 E-mail: prowley@theiet.org
 
 Professor Habib F. Rashvand
 Series Editor
 IET Communications
 E-mail: h.rashvand@warwick.ac.uk

WORKSHOP on Collaborative Agents -- REsearch and Development (CARE) 2010

Second INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP on Collaborative Agents -- REsearch and Development (CARE) 2010
31st August 2010, York University, Toronto, Canada

Abstract submission: April 14, 2010
Full paper submission: April 16, 2010

http://www.csse.monash.edu.au/~xtg/CARE2010/
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The workshop is held in conjunction with the International Conference on Intelligent Agent Technology (IAT).
http://www.yorku.ca/wiiat10/

Summary
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Collaboration is required when multiple agents achieve complex goals that are difficult or impossible to attain for an individual agent. This collaboration takes place under conditions of incomplete information, uncertainty, and bounded rationality, much of which has been previously studied in economics and artificial intelligence. However, many real world domains are characterised by even greater complexity, including the possibility of unreliable and non-complying collaborators, complex market and incentive frameworks, and complex transaction costs and organisational structures. This workshop's thematic focus is on collaborative and autonomous agents that plan, negotiate, coordinate, and act under this complexity.

This workshop aims to foster discussions on computational models of collaboration in distributed systems, addressing a range of theoretical and practical issues. We seek contributions of members in research and industry that use the agent paradigm to approach their problems.

Some issues of interest of this workshop are:
o How to enable agents to form and follow joint agreements and contracts in complex organisational and market driven domains.
o How to develop a comprehensive contractual formation/maintenance framework applicable to many application domains.
o How to build comprehensive customer lifecycle management systems for customers, including telecommunication consumers, students and patients.
o How to deploy lifecycle management systems in real world applications, such as healthcare, telecommunication, and smart campuses.
o How to design markets that are adequate for agents to act with incomplete and uncertain information of the behaviour of collaborating agents. o How to build MAS that work efficiently in partially regulated markets (where governance policy or partnership agreements govern part of the market).
o What are the implications of partial regulation on the management of contractual relationships and service delivery.
o How organisational structures influence the negotiation of agents and the distribution/execution of tasks.
o How to cope with collaborators that exhibit unreliable and non-conformant behaviour, eg where agreements are made but are not always conformed with.
o How can interventions and incentive structures assist in managing contractual relationships and service delivery.
o How to assign transaction costs to actions in planning, assignment, and execution in organisational structures. o How can transaction costs influence the social outcome of the system which is further influenced by the organisational context under which the collaboration takes place. o Can lessons learnt in game theoretic computation inform collaborative agent settings.
o What role does learning and adaptivity play in building organisational MAS.

The one day workshop will feature a mixture of invited talks, discussions and submitted contributions describing current work or work in progress in collaborative agent research and technology. The workshop environment fosters open discussions among all participants, particularly encouraging students to discuss their research topics and seek feedback from senior agent researchers.


Contact
=======

CARE organisers

christian.guttmann@gmail.com
dignum@cs.uu.nl

Important Dates
===============

Abstract submission: April 14, 2010
Full paper submission: April 16, 2010

Notification: May 28, 2010
Camera ready: June 7, 2010


Topics of Interest include (but are not limited to):
====================================================

RESEARCH
* Collaboration frameworks
* Models of teamwork and joint action
* Organisation/Institutes/Norms
* Auctioning/Negotiation
* Task/Resource allocation
* Behaviour modelling/monitoring
* Adherence/Intervention mechanisms
* Incentive frameworks
* Intervention mechanisms
* Agreement technology
* Contract networks/formation
* Cloud computing

APPLICATION AREAS
* Collaborative care planning/management * Disaster planning/management
* Traffic planning/management
* Transport/Logistics
* Applications in primary and preventative healthcare * Chronic disease planning/management
* Epidemiological agent models
* Unmanned air/land vehicles
* Robotic soccer/Robotic rescues
* Weather forecast
* Artificial and natural immune systems
* Social networks (e.g., LinkedIn, Facebook,...)
* Smart grid network (e.g., electricity/gas metering)

Submission and Publication
==========================

Submission is to be done electronically at Cyberchair at: http://wi-consortium.org/cyberchair/wiiat10/scripts/ws_submit.php. CARE 2010 seeks 4-page submissions formatted according to IEEE specification.
Style Files for Paper Submission
IEEE Computer Society Proceedings Manuscript Formatting Guidelines:
DOC: ftp://pubftp.computer.org/press/outgoing/proceedings/instruct8.5x11.doc PDF:ftp://pubftp.computer.org/press/outgoing/proceedings/instruct8.5x11.pdf PS: ftp://pubftp.computer.org/press/outgoing/proceedings/instruct.ps LaTex Formatting Macros:
ftp://pubftp.computer.org/Press/Outgoing/proceedings/IEEE_CS_Latex8.5x11x2.zip

Submissions will be peer-reviewed by two or three reviewers per paper. Selection criteria will include relevance, significance, impact, originality, technical soundness, quality of presentation. Some preference may also be given to papers which address emergent trends or important common themes, or which enhance balance of workshop topics.

Post-Proceedings will be published with a major international publisher (most likely Springer as for the CARE 2009).

Workshop Officials
==================

GENERAL CHAIRS
Christian Guttmann (Monash University, Australia)
Frank Dignum (University Utrecht, Netherlands)

PROGRAM COMMITTEE
Wei Chen (Intelligent Automation, Inc., United States of America)
Philippe Pasquier (Simon Fraser University, Canada) Michael Luck (King's College London, United Kingdom)
Lawrence Cavedon (NICTA and RMIT University, Australia)
Samin Karim (Accenture, Australia)
Cees Witteveen (Delft University of Technology, Netherlands)   
Franziska Klügl (Örebro University, Sweden)
Toby Walsh (NICTA and UNSW, Australia)
Cristiano Castelfranchi (Institute of Cognitive Sciences and Technologies, Italy)
Alexander Pokahr (University Hamburg, Germany)
Lars Brauchbach (University Hamburg, Germany)
Wayne Wobcke (University of New South Wales, Australia)
Rainer Unland (University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany)
Liz Sonenberg (Melbourne University, Australia) Kumari Wickramasinghe (Monash University, Australia)
Simon Thompson (British Telecom Research Laboratories, United Kingdom)
Gord McCalla (University of Saskatchewan, Canada)
Andrew Gilpin (Hg Analytics, United States of America)
David Morley (SRI International, United States of America)
Marcelo Blois Ribeiro (Pontifical Catholic University of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil)
Simon Goss (Defence Science and Technology Organisation DSTO, Australia)

Symposium on Intelligent Distributed Computing IDC-2010

******************************* IDC-2010 ********************************

4th International Symposium on Intelligent Distributed Computing IDC-2010
=========================================================================
                  September 16-18, 2010, Tangier, Morocco

                       http://www.ieee.ma/~idc2010/


Organized by
  IEEE Morocco Section
  Software Engineering Department, University of Craiova, Romania


News
====
A special issue with best papers accepted and presented at IDC'2010 will be prepared using "Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience" journal, Wiley InterScience, http://www.cc-pe.net/journalinfo/.


Topics
======
Intelligent computing covers a hybrid palette of methods and techniques derived from classical artificial intelligence, computational intelligence, and intelligent agents. Distributed systems contain loosely-coupled components running on different networked computers that communicate and coordinate their actions by message transfer. The emergent field of intelligent distributed computing is expected to pose special challenges of adaptation and fruitful combination of results of both areas with a great impact on the development of new generation intelligent distributed information systems. The aim of this symposium is to bring together researchers involved in intelligent distributed 
computing to allow cross-fertilization and synergy of ideas and to enable advancement of researches in the field.

The symposium welcomes submissions of original papers concerning all aspects of intelligent distributed computing ranging from concepts and theoretical developments to advanced technologies and innovative applications. Papers acceptance and publication will be judged based on their relevance to the symposium theme, clarity of presentation, originality and accuracy of results and proposed solutions. 

Topics include, but are not limited to:
- Intelligent service composition and orchestration
- E-service and Web intelligence
- Multi-agent systems
- Information extraction and retrieval in distributed environments
- Data mining and knowledge discovery in distributed environments
- Semantic and knowledge grids
- Intelligent integration of data and processes
- Distributed problem solving and decision making
- Distributed search and constraint satisfaction
- Ontologies and meta-data for describing heterogeneous resources and services
- Autonomic, adaptive and self-organising distributed computing and systems
- Intelligence in mobile, ubiquitous and pervasive computing
- Intelligence in cooperative information systems, groupware and workflows, virtual enterprises, social networks
- Intelligent distributed applications: e-business/e-commerce, e-learning, e-health, e-science, e-government, crisis/disaster/emergency management, social networks
- Peer-to-Peer systems
- Emerging behaviours in complex distributed systems
- Distributed nature-inspired and bio-inspired computing
- Modelling and simulation of intelligent distributed systems
- Knowledge integration and fusion from distributed sources
- Trust, reputation, security and privacy


Paper Submission and Publication
================================
All accepted papers will be included in the Symposium Proceedings, which will be published by Springer as part of their series Studies in Computational Intelligence: http://www.springer.com/series/7092. Papers should have at most 10 pages length and must be formatted according to Springer format.

Submissions and reviews are automatically handled by a system provided by the organizers. Please submit your paper here: 
http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=idc2010

Extended versions of the best papers accepted and presented at this symposium may be considered for publication in a Special Issue of an internationally recognized journal.


Important dates
===============
Full paper submission: April 2, 2010
Notification of acceptance: May 7, 2010
Final (camera ready) paper due: June 4, 2010
Symposium: September 16-18, 2010


Committees
==========
http://www.ieee.ma/~idc2010/committees.html


On behalf of the IDC-2010 PC,
* Mohammad Essaaidi, Abdelmalek Essaadi University, Morocco
* Michele Malgeri, University of Catania, Italy
* Costin Badica, University of Craiova, Romania

Workshop on Safety, Security, and Rescue Robotics (SSRR-2010)

==============================================================
IEEE International Workshop on Safety, Security, and Rescue Robotics (SSRR-2010)
Bremen, 26.-30. July 2010
==============================================================

The eighth IEEE International Workshop on Safety, Security, and Rescue Robotics (SSRR-2010) is dedicated to identifying and solving the key issues necessary to field capable robots in response missions. This includes aerial and ground robots as well as unmanned underwater and surface marine vehicles. The scope of SSRR covers the robots' overall design as well as crucial components, e.g., for advanced locomotion, and intelligent onboard functionalities up to full autonomy.

Topics for contributions of interests can hence come from the following three areas
- vehicles: complete marine, aerial, and ground robots as well as their components
- intelligent functionalities: e.g., mapping, advanced user interfaces, autonomy
- applications: e.g., field reports, end user studies, prospective usages

All accepted papers are published by IEEE. Furthermore, a selection gets the opportunity to contribute an extended version to a special journal issue.

Important dates:
- 15. April 2010: submission deadline
- 21. May 2010: notification of acceptance
- 25. June 2010: final version due

Further information: http://robotics.jacobs-university.de/SSRR2010

IEEE/WIC/ACM Intelligent Agent Technology 2010

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        IEEE/WIC/ACM Intelligent Agent Technology 2010
                  CALL FOR PAPERS
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2010 IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on 
Intelligent Agent Technology (IAT-10)

August 31 - September 3, 2010, York University, Toronto, Canada 

http://www.yorku.ca/wiiat10

Sponsored By
IEEE Computer Society
Web Intelligence Consortium (WIC)
Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)

##################################################################
# Papers Due: *** March 26, 2010 ***
# Accepted papers will be published in the conference proceedings
# by the IEEE Computer Society Press.
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IAT 2010 will provide a leading international forum to bring together
researchers and practitioners from diverse fields, such as computer
science, information technology, business, education, systems
engineering, and robotics, to (1) examine the design principles and
performance characteristics of various approaches in intelligent agent
technology, and (2) increase the cross-fertilization of ideas on the
development of autonomous agents and multi-agent systems among
different domains.  By encouraging idea-sharing and discussions on the
underlying logical, cognitive, physical, and sociological foundations
as well as the enabling technologies of intelligent agents, IAT 2010
will foster the development of novel paradigms and advanced solutions
in agent-based computing.

IAT 2010 will be jointly held with the 2010 IEEE/WIC/ACM International
Conference on Web Intelligence (WI-10).  The two conferences will have
a joint opening, keynote, reception, and banquet. Attendees only need
to register for one conference and can attend workshops, sessions,
tutorials, panels, exhibits and demonstrations across the two
conferences. We are also planning a joint panel, joint paper sessions,
and a doctoral mentoring program to discuss
common problems in the two areas.

+++++++++++++++++++
Topics of Interest
+++++++++++++++++++

We invite submissions in all IAT related areas. Areas of interest include, 
but are not limited to:

* Autonomy-Oriented Computing (AOC)

- Autonomy-Oriented Modeling and Computing Methods
- Complex Behavior Characterization
- Complex Systems Modeling and Simulation
- Emergent Behavior
- Hard Computational Problem Solving
- Large-Scale Systems Applications (e.g., Social, Policy, Sustainability,
  Brain Informatics (BI), and Web Intelligence (WI) Applications) 
- Nature-Inspired Computing
- Regularities and Models of AOC
- Self-Organization in Multi-Agent Systems
- Self-Organized Complex Networks
- Swarm or Collective Intelligence
- Unconventional, Self-Organized Computing Paradigms

* Autonomous Knowledge and Information Agents

- Agent-Based Knowledge Discovery and Sharing
- Autonomous Information Services
- Distributed Data Mining
- Distributed Knowledge Systems
- Evolution of Topics, Trends, Knowledge Networks and Communities
- Human-Agent Interaction
- Information Filtering Agents
- Knowledge Aggregation
- Ontology-Based Services
- Recommender Systems

* 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
- Neuroeconomics
- Peer-to-Peer Models for Multi-Agent Systems
- Social Interactions in Multi-Agent Systems
- Task-Based Agent Context
- Task-Oriented Agents

* Distributed Problem Solving

- Agent-Based Cloud Computing
- Agent Networks in Distributed Problem Solving
- Collective Group Behavior
- Coordination and Cooperation
- Distributed Intelligence
- Distributed Search
- Dynamics of Agent Groups and Populations
- Efficiency and Complexity Issues
- Market-Based Computing
- Problem-Solving in Dynamic Environments

* Autonomous Auctions and Negotiation

- Agent-Based Marketplaces
- Auction Markets
- Combinatorial Auctions
- Hybrid Negotiation
- Integrative Negotiation
- Mediating Agents
- Pricing Agents

* Applications

- Agent-Based Assistants
- Agent-Based Virtual Enterprise
- Embodied Agents and Agent-Based Systems Applications
- Games
- Interface Agents
- Knowledge and Data Intensive Systems
- Perceptive Animated Interfaces
- Scalability
- Social Simulation (e.g., Social Behavior, Social Inference, Social
  Networks, and Social Norms)
- Socially Situated Planning
- Software and Pervasive Agents
- Tools and Standards
- Ubiquitous Systems and e-Technology Agents
- Virtual Humans
- XML-Based Agent Systems

++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
On-Line Submissions and Publication
++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++

High-quality papers in all WI related areas are solicited. 
Paper submissions should be limited to a maximum of 8 pages in 
the IEEE 2-column format. 
The same format will be used for final camera-ready papers
(see the Author Guidelines at
http://www.ieeeconfpublishing.org/cpir/AuthorKit.asp?Community=CPS&Facility=CPS_Dec&ERoom=WI%2DIAT+2008).  
All submitted papers will be reviewed by the Program Committee 
on the basis of technical quality, relevance, significance, and clarity. 

Note that IAT'10 will accept ONLY on-line submissions in 
PDF format. Please use the Submission Form on the WI'10
website to submit your paper. Accepted papers will be published in the
conference proceedings by the IEEE Computer Society Press that is
indexed by EI.

Submissions accepted as regular papers will be allocated 8 pages in the
proceedings and accorded oral presentation times in the main conference. 
Submissions accepted as short papers will be allocated 4
pages in the proceedings and will have a shorter presentation time at
the conference than regular papers.

All co-authors will be notified at all time, for the submission,
notification, and confirmation on the attendance. Submitting a paper
to the conference and workshops means that, if the paper is accepted,
at least one author should attend the conference to present the
paper. The acceptance list and no-show list will be openly published
on-line. For no-show authors, their affiliations will receive a
notification.

Papers receiving outstanding review scores from IAT'10 will be 
invited for possible inclusion, in an expanded/revised form, 
in Web Intelligence and Agent Systems: An International Journal 
(http://wi-consortium.org/journal.html). Those that are recommended by 
reviewer(s) to the Journal will also be considered.

The best paper awards will be conferred at the conference on the
authors of (1) the best research paper and (2) the best application
paper. Application-oriented submissions will be considered for the
best application paper award. 

More detailed instructions and the On-Line Submission Form will be
found on the IAT'10 homepage: 
http://www.yorku.ca/wiiat10/contributors.php

++++++++++
Workshops
++++++++++

An important part of the conference is the workshop program which will
focus on new research challenges and initiatives.  All papers accepted
for workshops will be allocated 4 pages and will be included in the
Workshop Proceedings published by the IEEE Computer Society Press that
are indexed by EI, and will be available at the workshops. Detailed
information is available at the conference homepage.

Note: we will not have a separate workshop registration fee
(i.e., conference registration covers everything).

Accepted Workshops:

The Third WI-IAT Doctoral Workshop (WI-IAT DW)
http://roughsets.home.pl/www/WI-IAT2010/DoctoralWS.html

First International Workshop on the Adaption of Web Services (AWS)
http://www.uc.rnu.tn/aws2010.html

Second International Workshop on Collaborative Agents - 
Research and development (CARE)
http://www.csse.monash.edu.au/~xtg/CARE2010/

Human Aspects in Ambient Intelligence: Agent Technology, 
Human-Oriented Knowledge, and Applications (HAI)
http://www.cs.vu.nl/~tbosse/HAI10/

Service Intelligence and Engineering (SIE)
http://166.111.68.103/WI-SI2010/

Service-Oriented Computing for Collective Intelligence (SOC4CI)
http://paginas.fe.up.pt/~melania/SOC4CI2010.html

Third Workshop on Logics for Intelligent Agents and Multi-Agent Systems 
(WLIAMAS)
http://www.comp.mq.edu.au/conferences/wliamas10/

3rd Workshop on Collective Intelligence in Semantic Web and 
Social Networks (CISWSN)
http://resources.smile.deri.ie/ciswsn2010/

4th International Workshop on Intelligent E-government and 
Emergency Management (IEEM)
http://management.dlut.edu.cn/IEGEM10/index.htm

International Workshop on Computational Social Networks (IWCSN)
http://arg.vsb.cz/iwcsn2010/

International Workshop on Intelligent Web Interaction (IWI)
http://ymd.ex.nii.ac.jp/ws/iwi/10/

10th International Workshop on Meta-synthesis and Complex Systems (MCS)
http://meta-synthesis.iss.ac.cn/mcs2010/

Natural Language Processing and Ontology Engineering (NLPOE)
http://nlpoe2010.pqpq.net/

First International Workshop on Opinion Mining for Business Intelligence (OMBI)
http://www.yorku.ca/xhyu/OMBI10/

2nd Workshop on Soft Approaches to Information Access on the Web (SAIAW)
http://scdmir.ugent.be/node/16

Trust and Recommender Systems for Social Search and Web Logs Analysis (TReSSS)
http://www.tresss.org/public/

International Workshop on Web-scale Knowledge Representation, Retrieval, 
and Reasoning (Web-KR3)
http://www.wici-lab.org/wici/web-kr3-2010/

3rd International Workshop on Web Information Retrieval Support Systems (WIRSS)
http://uxlab.cs.mun.ca/wirss2010/

Web Personalization and Recommender Systems (WebPRES)
http://www.webpres-workshop.com/

Optimization-based Data Mining and Web Intelligence (ODMWI)
http://www.feds.ac.cn/kxyj/WI-IAT2010.htm

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Tutorials
++++++++++

IAT'10 also welcomes Tutorial proposals. IAT'10 will include tutorials
providing in-depth background on subjects that are of broad interest
to the Web intelligence community. Both short (2 hours) and long (half
day) tutorials will be considered. The tutorials will be part of the
main conference technical program. Detailed information is available
at the conference homepage.

Note: we will not have a separate tutorials registration fee
(i.e., only one conference registration covers everything).

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Industry/Demo-Track
++++++++++++++++++++

We solicit Industry/Demo-Track papers by the following methods.

(1) Industry papers of 4 pages can be submitted on the same schedule as
    the research track.
(2) Separate 2 page demo proposals can submitted at a later schedule.
(3) Full regular paper submissions can include a demo option.
    That is, a full paper submissions will be asked to
    specify if they would like to give a demonstration; choice of
    demonstrations (while utilizing information from the regular reviewing
    process) will be selected based on value as a demonstration.

For options (1) and (2), more detailed instructions will be found at
the homepage: http://www.yorku.ca/wiiat10/participants.php 

++++++++++++++++
Important Dates
++++++++++++++++

 * Electronic paper submission (8 pages): March 26, 2010
 * Tutorial proposal submission: March 26, 2010
 * Workshop paper submission: April 16, 2010
 * Author notification: May 28, 2010
 * Conference dates: August 31-September 3, 2010

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Conference Organization
++++++++++++++++++++++++

Conference General Chair:
  * Nick Cercone, York University, Toronto, Canada 

Program Chair:
  * Jimmy Huang, York University, Toronto, Canada

IAT Program Co-Chairs:
  * Takahira Yamaguchi, Keio University, Japan 
  * Ali A. Ghorbani, University of New Brunswick, Canada
  * Mohand-Said Hacid, Universite Claude Bernard Lyon 1, France 

WI Program Co-Chairs:
  * Vijay Raghavan, University of Louisiana, USA 
  * Irwin King, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
  * Gareth Jones, Dublin City University, Ireland 

Organizing Co-Chairs:
  * Aijun An, York University, Toronto, Canada 
  * Thomas Lynam, York University, Toronto, Canada 
  * Marshall Walker, York University, Toronto, Canada 

Workshop Co-Chairs:
  * Orland Hoeber, Memorial University of Newfoundland, Canada
  * Yuefeng Li, Queensland University of Technology, Australia 

Industry-Demo Co-Chairs: 
  * Dominik Slezak, Infobright Inc., Canada 
  * Tony Abou-Assaleh, GenieKnows.com, Canada 

Tutorial Co-Chairs:
  * Sourav Saha Bhowmick, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore 
  * Mounia Lalmas, University of Glasgow, UK 

Publicity Co-Chairs: 
  * Vlado Keselj, Dalhousie University, Canada 
  * Markus Kirchberg, Institute for Infocomm Research, A*STAR, Singapore 
  * Jianhan Zhu, University College London, UK

IEEE-CS-TCII Chair:
 * Ning Zhong, Maebashi Institute of Technology, Japan

ACM-SIGART Chair
 * Maria Gini, University of Minnesota, USA

WIC Co-Chairs/Directors:
 * Ning Zhong, Maebashi Institute of Technology, Japan
 * Jiming Liu, Hong Kong Baptist University, Hong Kong 

WIC Advisory Board: 
 * Edward A. Feigenbaum, Stanford University, USA
 * Setsuo Ohsuga, University of Tokyo, Japan
 * Benjamin Wah, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, USA
 * Philip Yu, University of Illinois, Chicago, USA
 * L.A. Zadeh, University of California, Berkeley, USA

WIC Tech. Committee & WI/IAT Steering Committee:
 * Jeffrey Bradshaw, UWF/Institute for Human and Machine Cognition, USA
 * Nick Cercone, York University, Canada
 * Dieter Fensel, University of Innsbruck, Austria
 * Georg Gottlob, Oxford University, UK
 * Lakhmi Jain, University of South Australia, Australia
 * Jianchang Mao, Yahoo! Inc., USA
 * Pierre Morizet-Mahoudeaux, Compiegne University of Technology, France
 * Hiroshi Motoda, Osaka University, Japan
 * Toyoaki Nishida, Kyoto University, Japan
 * Andrzej Skowron, Warsaw University, Poland
 * Jinglong Wu, Okayama University, Japan
 * Xindong Wu, University of Vermont, USA
 * Yiyu Yao, University of Regina, Canada

*** Contact Information ***

Jimmy Huang (Conference General Program Chair)
Email: wiiat10@yorku.ca 

The WIC Office
Email: wi10@wi-consortium.org

2010 IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Web Intelligence (WI-10)

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         IEEE/WIC/ACM WEB INTELLIGENCE 2010 
                  CALL FOR PAPERS
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2010 IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Web Intelligence (WI-10)

August 31 - September 3, 2010, York University, Toronto, Canada

http://www.yorku.ca/wiiat10

Sponsored By
IEEE Computer Society
Web Intelligence Consortium (WIC)
Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)

##################################################################
# Papers Due: *** March 26, 2010 ***
# Accepted papers will be published in the conference proceedings
# by the IEEE Computer Society Press.
##################################################################

WI 2010 will provide a leading international forum of scientific
research and development to explore the fundamental interactions
between AI-engineering and Advanced Information Technology 
(e.g., wireless networks, ubiquitous devices, social networks, and
data/knowledge grids), and their role on the next generation of
Web-empowered products, Web systems and services.  AI-engineering
refers to a new area, slightly beyond traditional AI, which encompasses:
brain informatics, human level AI, intelligent agents, social network
intelligence, knowledge engineering, representation, planning, data
mining and discovery.

WI 2010 will be jointly held with the 2010 IEEE/WIC/ACM International
Conference on Intelligent Agent Technology (IAT-10).  The two
conferences will have a joint opening, keynote, reception, and
banquet. Attendees only need to register for one conference and can
attend workshops, sessions, tutorials, panels, exhibits and
demonstrations across the two conferences. We are also planning a
joint panel, joint paper sessions, and a doctoral mentoring program to
discuss common problems in the two areas.

+++++++++++++++++++
Topics of Interest
+++++++++++++++++++

We invite submissions in all WI related areas. Areas of interest include, 
but are not limited to:

* WI Foundations
 - Brain Informatics for WI 
 - Human Level WI 
 - New Cognitive Models and Computational Models for WI 
 - Granular Computing (GrC) for WI 
 - Soft Computing for WI
 - Autonomy-Oriented Computing (AOC) for WI
 - Human-Inspired WI Computing

* World Wide Wisdom Web (W4)
 - Meta-Knowledge Discovery and Representation 
 - Problem Solver Markup Language (PSML) 
 - Search of Best Means and Ends 
 - Goal-Directed Services Support 
 - Distributed Resources Optimization 
 - Service Self-Aggregation 
 - Web Inference Engine 
 - Information and Knowledge Markets 
 - New Social Interaction Paradigms 
 - Social and Psychological Contexts Regularities and Laws of W4

* Web Information Retrieval and Filtering 
 - Web Information Retrieval in context
 - Multimedia Indexing 
 - Personalization
 - Location-based Information Retrieval
 - Geographic information retrieval
 - Content-based Information Filtering
 - Collaborative Filtering and Recommendation 
 - Hybrid Recommendation sem
 - Clustering-Based Recommender Systems 
 - Information Retrieval Models and Evaluations 
 - Web Information Categorization 
 - Ranking Techniques
 - Proxy and Cache Techniques 
 - Web Prediction and Pre-fetching 
 - Distributed Web Search 
 - Specifications for Web Information Extraction Process 
 - Web Crawling Systems 
 - Search Engines and Meta-search Engines

* Semantics and Ontology Engineering
 - Semantic Web
 - Ontology-Based Information Extraction and Retrieval 
 - Ontology-Based Web Mining 
 - Web-Based Ontology Learning 
 - Web Scale Reasoning
 - Commonsense Knowledge Processing on the Web 
 - Unifying Search and Reasoning

* Web Mining and Farming
 - Text Mining 
 - Data Stream Mining 
 - Multimedia Data Mining 
 - Web Content Mining 
 - Web Log and Usage Mining 
 - Context Sensitive Web Mining 
 - Web Information Clustering 
 - Web Page Clustering and Mining 
 - Data Warehousing 
 - Web Farming and Warehousing

* Social Networks and Ubiquitous Intelligence
 - Social Networks Theory, Models, and Mining 
 - Web Site Clustering 
 - Web 2.0
 - Link Topology and Link Analysis
 - Theories of Small-World Web 
 - Virtual and Web Communities 
 - Web-Based Cooperative Work 
 - Knowledge Community Formation and Support 
 - Ubiquitous and Social Computing 
 - Intelligent Wireless Web 
 - Entertainment
 - Social Media
 - Human Computation and Social Games
 - Opinion Mining and Sentiment Analysis
 - Social Monetization and Computational Advertising

* Knowledge Grids and Grid Intelligence
 - Semantic Grids 
 - Knowledge Resources and Services Discovery 
 - On-Demand Planning and Routing 
 - Brokering and Scheduling 
 - Middleware Architectures and Tools

* Web Agents
 - Global Information Foraging 
 - Distributed Problem Solving 
 - Coordination 
 - Resource Intermediary and Coordination Mechanisms 
 - Self-Organization and Reproduction 
 - Agent Networks and Topologies 
 - Mobile Agents 
 - Macroscopic Behavior Modeling 
 - Trust Models for Web Agents

* Web Services
 - Service-Oriented Computing 
 - Matchmaking 
 - Web Service Reconfiguration 
 - Web Service Workflow Composition 
 - Middleware-Based Ubiquitous Services 
 - Grid Services

* Intelligent Human-Web Interaction
 - Adaptive Web Interfaces 
 - Context-Aware Computing
 - Emotional Factor 
 - Learning User Profiles 
 - Multimedia Representation 
 - Personalized Interfaces 
 - Personalized Websites 
 - Remembrance Agents
 - Smart Digital Media
 - Cyberpsychology for HCI
 - User Interests and User Modeling
 - Visualization of Information and Knowledge 
 - Social and Psychological Issues

* Web Support Systems
 - Information Retrieval Support Systems 
 - Web Site Navigation Support Systems 
 - Recommender Support Systems 
 - Web-Based Decision Support Systems 
 - Soft Computing (including neural networks, fuzzy logic, 
   evolutionary computation, rough sets, and granular computing) 
   and Uncertainty Management for WI

* Intelligent e-Technology
 - Business Intelligence 
 - Intelligent Enterprise Portals 
 - Web-Based Direct Marketing and CRM 
 - Web-Based EDI 
 - Digital Libraries 
 - e-Publishing 
 - e-Business and e-Commerce 
 - e-Things and e-Activities
 - e-Finance 
 - e-Learning 
 - e-Medicine and e-Health
 - e-Science 
 - e-Government 
 - e-Community 
 - Decentralized Community Communication Techniques 
 - Web Security, Integrity, Privacy and Trust

++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
On-Line Submissions and Publication
++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++

High-quality papers in all WI related areas are solicited. 
Paper submissions should be limited to a maximum of 8 pages in 
the IEEE 2-column format. 
The same format will be used for final camera-ready papers
(see the Author Guidelines at
http://www.ieeeconfpublishing.org/cpir/AuthorKit.asp?Community=CPS&Facility=CPS_Dec&ERoom=WI%2DIAT+2008).  
All submitted papers will be reviewed by the Program Committee 
on the basis of technical quality, relevance, significance, and clarity. 

Note that WI'10 will accept ONLY on-line submissions in 
PDF format. Please use the Submission Form on the WI'10
website to submit your paper. Accepted papers will be published in the
conference proceedings by the IEEE Computer Society Press that is
indexed by EI.

Submissions accepted as regular papers will be allocated 8 pages in the
proceedings and accorded oral presentation in the main conference. 
Submissions accepted as short papers will be allocated 4
pages in the proceedings and will have a shorter presentation time at
the conference than regular papers.

All co-authors will be notified for the submission,
notification, and confirmation on the attendance. Submitting a paper
to the conference and workshops means that, if the paper is accepted,
at least one author should attend the conference to present the
paper. The acceptance list and no-show list will be openly published
on-line. For no-show authors, their affiliations will receive a notification. 

Papers receiving outstanding review scores from WI'10 will be 
invited for possible inclusion, in an expanded/revised form, 
in Web Intelligence and Agent Systems: An International Journal 
(http://wi-consortium.org/journal.html). Those that are recommended by 
reviewer(s) to the Journal will also be considered.

The best paper awards will be conferred at the conference on the
authors of (1) the best research paper and (2) the best application
paper. Application-oriented submissions will be considered for the
best application paper award. 

More detailed instructions and the On-Line Submission Form will be
found on the WI'10 homepage: 
http://www.yorku.ca/wiiat10/contributors.php

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Workshops
++++++++++

An important part of the conference is the workshop program which will
focus on new research challenges and initiatives.  All papers accepted
for workshops will be allocated 4 pages and will be included in the
Workshop Proceedings published by the IEEE Computer Society Press that
are indexed by EI, and will be available at the workshops. Detailed
information is available at the conference homepage.

Note: we will not have a separate workshop registration fee
(i.e., conference registration covers everything).

Accepted Workshops:

The Third WI-IAT Doctoral Workshop (WI-IAT DW)
http://roughsets.home.pl/www/WI-IAT2010/DoctoralWS.html

First International Workshop on the Adaption of Web Services (AWS)
http://www.uc.rnu.tn/aws2010.html

Second International Workshop on Collaborative Agents - 
Research and development (CARE)
http://www.csse.monash.edu.au/~xtg/CARE2010/

Human Aspects in Ambient Intelligence: Agent Technology, 
Human-Oriented Knowledge, and Applications (HAI)
http://www.cs.vu.nl/~tbosse/HAI10/

Service Intelligence and Engineering (SIE)
http://166.111.68.103/WI-SI2010/

Service-Oriented Computing for Collective Intelligence (SOC4CI)
http://paginas.fe.up.pt/~melania/SOC4CI2010.html

Third Workshop on Logics for Intelligent Agents and Multi-Agent Systems 
(WLIAMAS)
http://www.comp.mq.edu.au/conferences/wliamas10/

3rd Workshop on Collective Intelligence in Semantic Web and 
Social Networks (CISWSN)
http://resources.smile.deri.ie/ciswsn2010/

4th International Workshop on Intelligent E-government and 
Emergency Management (IEEM)
http://management.dlut.edu.cn/IEGEM10/index.htm

International Workshop on Computational Social Networks (IWCSN)
http://arg.vsb.cz/iwcsn2010/

International Workshop on Intelligent Web Interaction (IWI)
http://ymd.ex.nii.ac.jp/ws/iwi/10/

10th International Workshop on Meta-synthesis and Complex Systems (MCS)
http://meta-synthesis.iss.ac.cn/mcs2010/

Natural Language Processing and Ontology Engineering (NLPOE)
http://nlpoe2010.pqpq.net/

First International Workshop on Opinion Mining for Business Intelligence (OMBI)
http://www.yorku.ca/xhyu/OMBI10/

2nd Workshop on Soft Approaches to Information Access on the Web (SAIAW)
http://scdmir.ugent.be/node/16

Trust and Recommender Systems for Social Search and Web Logs Analysis (TReSSS)
http://www.tresss.org/public/

International Workshop on Web-scale Knowledge Representation, Retrieval, 
and Reasoning (Web-KR3)
http://www.wici-lab.org/wici/web-kr3-2010/

3rd International Workshop on Web Information Retrieval Support Systems (WIRSS)
http://uxlab.cs.mun.ca/wirss2010/

Web Personalization and Recommender Systems (WebPRES)
http://www.webpres-workshop.com/

Optimization-based Data Mining and Web Intelligence (ODMWI)
http://www.feds.ac.cn/kxyj/WI-IAT2010.htm

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Tutorials
++++++++++

WI'10 also welcomes Tutorial proposals. WI'10 will include tutorials
providing in-depth background on subjects that are of broad interest
to the Web intelligence community. Both short (2 hours) and long (half
day) tutorials will be considered. The tutorials will be part of the
main conference technical program. Detailed information is available
at the conference homepage.

Note: we will not have a separate tutorials registration fee
(i.e., only one conference registration covers everything).

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Industry/Demo-Track
++++++++++++++++++++

We solicit Industry/Demo-Track papers by the following methods.

(1) Industry papers of 4 pages can be submitted on the same schedule as
    the research track.
(2) Separate 2 page demo proposals can submitted at a later schedule.
(3) Full regular paper submissions can include a demo option.
    That is, a full paper submissions will be asked to
    specify if they would like to give a demonstration; choice of
    demonstrations (while utilizing information from the regular reviewing
    process) will be selected based on value as a demonstration.

For options (1) and (2), more detailed instructions will be found at
the homepage: http://www.yorku.ca/wiiat10/participants.php

++++++++++++++++
Important Dates
++++++++++++++++

 * Electronic paper submission (8 pages): March 26, 2010
 * Tutorial proposal submission: March 26, 2010
 * Workshop paper submission: April 16, 2010
 * Author notification: May 28, 2010
 * Conference dates: August 31-September 3, 2010

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Conference Organization
++++++++++++++++++++++++

Conference General Chair:
  * Nick Cercone, York University, Toronto, Canada 

Program Chair:
  * Jimmy Huang, York University, Toronto, Canada

WI Program Co-Chairs:
  * Vijay Raghavan, University of Louisiana, USA 
  * Irwin King, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
  * Gareth Jones, Dublin City University, Ireland 

IAT Program Co-Chairs:
  * Takahira Yamaguchi, Keio University, Japan 
  * Ali A. Ghorbani, University of New Brunswick, Canada
  * Mohand-Said Hacid, Universite Claude Bernard Lyon 1, France 

Organizing Co-Chairs:
  * Aijun An, York University, Toronto, Canada 
  * Thomas Lynam, York University, Toronto, Canada 
  * Marshall Walker, York University, Toronto, Canada 

Workshop Co-Chairs:
  * Orland Hoeber, Memorial University of Newfoundland, Canada
  * Yuefeng Li, Queensland University of Technology, Australia 

Industry-Demo Co-Chairs: 
  * Dominik Slezak, Infobright Inc., Canada 
  * Tony Abou-Assaleh, GenieKnows.com, Canada 

Tutorial Co-Chairs:
  * Sourav Saha Bhowmick, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore 
  * Mounia Lalmas, University of Glasgow, UK 

Publicity Co-Chairs: 
  * Vlado Keselj, Dalhousie University, Canada 
  * Markus Kirchberg, Institute for Infocomm Research, A*STAR, Singapore 
  * Jianhan Zhu, University College London, UK

IEEE-CS-TCII Chair:
 * Ning Zhong, Maebashi Institute of Technology, Japan

ACM-SIGART Chair
 * Maria Gini, University of Minnesota, USA

WIC Co-Chairs/Directors:
 * Ning Zhong, Maebashi Institute of Technology, Japan
 * Jiming Liu, Hong Kong Baptist University, Hong Kong 

WIC Advisory Board: 
 * Edward A. Feigenbaum, Stanford University, USA
 * Setsuo Ohsuga, University of Tokyo, Japan
 * Benjamin Wah, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, USA
 * Philip Yu, University of Illinois, Chicago, USA
 * L.A. Zadeh, University of California, Berkeley, USA

WIC Tech. Committee & WI/IAT Steering Committee:
 * Jeffrey Bradshaw, UWF/Institute for Human and Machine Cognition, USA
 * Nick Cercone, York University, Canada
 * Dieter Fensel, University of Innsbruck, Austria
 * Georg Gottlob, Oxford University, UK
 * Lakhmi Jain, University of South Australia, Australia
 * Jianchang Mao, Yahoo! Inc., USA
 * Pierre Morizet-Mahoudeaux, Compiegne University of Technology, France
 * Hiroshi Motoda, Osaka University, Japan
 * Toyoaki Nishida, Kyoto University, Japan
 * Andrzej Skowron, Warsaw University, Poland
 * Jinglong Wu, Okayama University, Japan
 * Xindong Wu, University of Vermont, USA
 * Yiyu Yao, University of Regina, Canada

*** Contact Information ***

Jimmy Huang (Conference General Program Chair)
Email: wiiat10@yorku.ca 

The WIC Office
Email: wi10@wi-consortium.org

CfP SIMPAR 2010 Conference

Call for Papers

           2nd International Conference on
         SIMULATION, MODELING and PROGRAMMING
          for AUTONOMOUS ROBOTS (SIMPAR 2010)

       Darmstadt (Germany), November 15-18, 2010

               http://www.simpar.org
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The objective of the International Conference on Simulation,
Modeling, and Programming for Autonomous Robots (SIMPAR) is
to offer a unique forum for the next generation of methodologies
and tools for robot development and to bring together researchers
from academia and industry to identify and solve the key issues
necessary to ease the development of increasingly complex robot software,
and to boost a smooth shifting of results from simulated to real applications.

Topics of interests include, but are not limited to:

     * 3D robot simulation
     * Reliability, scalability and validation of robot simulation
     * Simulated sensors and actuators
     * Offline simulation of robot design
     * Online simulation with realtime constraints
     * Simulation with software/hardware in the loop
     * Middleware for robotics
     * Modeling framework for robots and environments
     * Testing and validation of robot software
     * Standardization for robotic services
     * Communication infrastructures in distributed robotics
     * Interaction between sensor networks and robots
     * Human robot interaction and collaboration
     * Multirobot systems

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IMPORTANT DATES

Deadline for submission of papers:    June 1, 2010
Proposals for tutorials/workshops:    June 1, 2010
Notification of acceptance:          July 19, 2010
Submission of camera-ready papers: August 20, 2010

Conference proceedings will be published in the Springer LNCS/LNAI series.
Workshop proceedings will be published online with ISBN number.
A special issue of the Journal of Software Engineering
for Robotics related to the conference will be planned.

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       General Chair
O. von Stryk (TU Darmstadt, Germany)

       International Program Co-Chairs
S. Balakirsky (NIST, USA)
N. Ando (AIST, Japan)
M. Reggiani (University of Padua, Italy)

      International Steering Committee
M. Gini (University of Minnesota, USA)
L. Parker (University of Tennessee, USA)
T. Arai (University of Tokyo, Japan)
X.P. Chen (University of Science and Technology of China)
H. Bruyninckx (Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium)
E. Pagello (University of Padua, Italy)

       Award Chair
Itsuki Noda (AIST, Japan)
       Local Chair
T. Hemker (TU Darmstadt, Germany)
       Tutorial Chair
D. Brugali (University of Bergamo, Italy)
       Workshop Chair
E. Menegatti (University of Padua, Italy)
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More details can be found at http://www.simpar.org
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4th Semantic Robot Vision Challenge 2010

Call for Participation for the FOURTH SEMANTIC ROBOT VISION CHALLENGE  
- an event of the 2010 AAAI Robotics Exhibition and Workshop at the  
AAAI 2010 Conference in Atlanta

http://www.semantic-robot-vision-challenge.org

The Semantic Robot Vision Challenge (SRVC) is a scavenger hunt for  
mobile robots.  The robots are given a list of objects to find and  
they must learn what those objects look like by searching the internet  
(autonomously) for images of those objects, then take snapshots of the  
objects, draw bounding boxes around the objects and label them.

The actual contest is broken into two sections.  First, the robots are  
hooked up to the internet for the image search phase. Afterwards, the  
robot league entries are allowed to explore the environment for the  
objects that they are supposed to find to take snapshots and label  
them. Software-only teams are given a dataset of images to search  
through and label that is collected by the competition organizers.

This year, cash prizes of $2,000 and $1,000 will be offered to the  
winning teams of the robot league and the software-only teams. Also,  
as before, travel scholarships will be provided to participants. In  
exchange, participants will have to share their code as open source  
code. Since these rules were applied in the past three competitions,  
there is enough high quality code available at the SRVC web site to  
allow a new team to perform at a level comparable to winning teams of  
previous years.

We encourage anyone in these research fields to participate and help  
us to advance the state of the art in robotic vision and scene  
understanding. At the end of the competition, we will hold a workshop  
so that the specific technical aspects of each entry can be presented  
and discussed. The competition will be held at the Twenty-Fourth AAAI  
Conference on Artificial Intelligence that will be held at the Westin  
Peachtree Plaza in Atlanta, Georgia, USA, July 11-15, 2010, in the  
context of the Nineteenth Edition of the Robotics Exhibition and  
Workshop at AAAI.


TENTATIVE TIMETABLE

Qualification Material Submission Deadline:  May 30, 2010
Acceptance Notification:                     June 7, 2010
AAAI Conference                              July 11-15, 2010
Competition Date:                            July 14, 2010


See http://www.semantic-robot-vision-challenge.org for more details on  
participation and qualification. If interested, subscribe to our email  
list! Please send an email to Paul Rybski and Daniel DeMenthon if you  
would like to participate.

Organizing committee:

Paul E. Rybski (prybski at cs.cmu.edu), Carnegie Mellon University, USA
Daniel DeMenthon (Daniel.DeMenthon at jhuapl.edu), Johns Hopkins University,
USA
Cornelia Fermuller (fer at umiacs.umd.edu), University of Maryland, USA
Pooyan Fazli (pooyanf at cs.ubc.ca), University of British Columbia, Canada
Ajay Mishra (mishraka at umiacs.umd.edu), University of Maryland, USA
Luis Seabra Lopes (lsl at ua.pt), Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal
Florian Roehrbein (roehrbei at informatik.uni-bremen.de), Universitaet
Bremen, Germany
David Gustafson (dag at ksu.edu), Kansas State University, USA

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Dr. Florian Roehrbein
Universitaet Bremen
FB 3 Informatik und Mathematik
Kognitive Neuroinformatik
e-mail: roehrbei at informatik.uni-bremen.de

CALL FOR TUTORIALS -- EASSS 2010

      !!!   CALL FOR TUTORIALS -- EASSS 2010   !!!

The twelfth edition of the European Agent Systems Summer
School (EASSS 2010) will be in conjunction with MALLOW 2010
and take place at

  Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Mines de Saint-Etienne
                  Saint-Etienne, France
                   23-27 August, 2010
                http://easss2010.emse.fr

Researchers and lecturers in the field of autonomous agents
and multi-agent systems are invited to submit a proposal
for a state-of-the-art course in the twelfth edition of the
European Agent Systems Summer School. Like its very successful
predecessors, EASSS 2010 aims to offer a valuable forum for
knowledge exchange between various research groups in this field
for the benefit of students and researchers at both beginner and
advanced level. The success of this summer school is essential not
only for the mutual benefit of research groups, but also in
forming future generations of researchers to maintain the
excellence of Agents research and development in Europe.

Tutors are encouraged to submit a 1-page course proposal including:
the topic and its importance for the field, intended audience and
their required background knowledge, outline of the topics to be
presented, how the course material will be prepared, the tutors
and their experience, level of the course (beginners/advanced),
duration (typically 4 or 6 hours), and any special equipment
requirements. Proposals will be evaluated based on the importance and
quality of the topic description, the quality of the presentation
material, and the teaching ability of the proposed speakers.

Deadline for proposals:         April 18, 2010
Notification:                   May 24,   2010
material for reader (< 26 pp)   July 4,   2010

A typical course has 4 hours in total, but variations are
possible. Courses should be broad enough to provide a general
introduction to the chosen topic, but it should also cover
the most important contributions in depth. Courses are expected
to take a wider perspective than one specific approach practised
by an individual or group. For an impression, the courses given in
2001 are collected in a volume of Springer's LNAI series (No 2086),
and programmes of previous editions of EASSS can be found via the
webpage of EASSS09 (http://agents009.di.unito.it/EASSS.html).

The summer schools attract about 100 students each year. We intend
to give a modest contribution towards tutors' expenses by providing
free accommodation, but EASSS would not normally cover tutors'
travel costs. Please note that this year EASSS is in conjunction
(but not co-located) with MALLOW 2010 for the third time and takes
place one week before that event. MALLOW 2010 will be in Lyon
(very close to Saint-Etienne).

Submissions of tutorial proposals should be sent to Mehdi Dastani
(mehdi@cs.uu.nl).

The EASSS-2010 Committee members are:

Local Chairs:
Olivier Boissier                Saint-Etienne, France
Gauthier Picard                 Saint-Etienne, France
Laurent Vercouter               Saint-Etienne, France

Program Committee:
Mehdi Dastani (chair)           Utrecht, Netherlands
Rafael Bordini                  Durham, UK
Catholijn Jonker                Delft, Netherlands
Barbara Keplicz                 Warszawa, Poland
Nicolas Maudet                  Paris, France
Andrea Omicini                  Bologna, Italy
Michal Pechoucek                Prague, Czech Republic

For information about local organisation please contact
Laurent Vercouter (easss2010@emse.fr).

POSSIBLE TOPICS:

* action selection and planning in multi-/agent systems
* adaptation, evolution and learning in multi-/agent systems
* agent-based simulation and modeling
* agent communication, agent dialogues and agent argumentation
* agents, ontologies, web services and semantic web
* agent-oriented software engineering and development methodologies
* agent programming languages and development tools   
* agent standardizations in industry and commerce
* applications and deployment for agents and multi-agent systems
* architectures for multi-agent systems
* artificial market systems, auctions, trading agents and electronic
  commerce, electronic institutions
* autonomous robots and robot teams
* believability, human-like qualities of synthetic agents, humanoid
  and sociable robots
* game theory and coalition formation for agents based systems
* computational complexity in agent systems
* conventions, commitments, norms, social laws and legal issues in
  multi-agent systems
* coordination, cooperation, and collaboration in multi-agent systems
* emergence, self-organisation and collective behavior in agent-based
  systems
* foundational issues and theories of agency     
* information agents, routers, brokering and matchmaking
* logics for specification, verification and validation of
  multi-agent systems
* mobile agents
* negotiation, task and resource allocation, and conflict handling
  in multi-agent systems
* privacy, safety and security in multi-agent systems
* scalability, robustness and dependability of multi-agent systems
* social and cognitive models for agents   
* social and organizational structures of multi-agent systems
* trust and reputation in multi-agent systems
* Multi-agent systems and/for Web Intelligence
* Multi-agent systems and/for Ambient Computing