[agents] WI-IAT 2011 -- Call for Workshops

[Jomi Fred Hubner]

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



****   Call for Workshop Proposals   ****

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 organisers 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 organisers 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 organisers 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 organisers 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

Workshop organisers should submit their proposals (PDF)
directly to the three Workshop Chairs via e-mail.

Workshop proposals should include the following elements:

- Title of the workshop
- Names of workshop organisers, affiliation, mailing address and
   e-mail address
- Short CV of organisers
- 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

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

Workshop proposal submission:  * January 4, 2011*
Notification to workshop proposers:  January 18, 2011

Workshop paper submissions: March 21, 2011
Camera-ready copies of accepted papers: June 10, 2011

Workshops and Industry day: August 22, 2011


**** Workshop Co-Chairs


Jomi F. Hubner (Federal University of Santa Catarina, Brasil)
	  jomi at das.ufsc.br 

Jean-Marc Petit (INSA, France)
	  jean-marc.petit at insa-lyon.fr

Einoshin Suzuki (Kyushu University, Japan)
	 suzuki at inf.kyushu-u.ac.jp