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            Active Media Technology 2011

                  CALL FOR PAPERS
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2011 International Conference on Active Media Technology (AMT 2011)

September 7-9, 2011, Lanzhou, China

Homepage: http://wi-consortium.org/conferences/amtbi11/
Mirror page: http://uais.lzu.edu.cn/amtbi11 

Co-organized by Web Intelligence Consortium (WIC) 
                IEEE Task Force on Brain Informatics (IEEE TF-BI)
Co-sponsored by Lanzhou University, Lanzhou, China
                Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science

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# Papers Due: *** 31 March 2011 *** 
# Accepted papers will be published by Springer as a volume of 
# the series of LNCS/LNAI.
# Extensions of selected papers from the proceedings will be
# considered for publication in special issues of journals,
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In the great digital era, we are witnessing many rapid
scientific and technological developments in human-centred,
seamless computing environments, interfaces, devices, and
systems with applications ranging from business and communication
to entertainment and learning. These developments are collectively
best characterized as Active Media Technology (AMT), a new area
of intelligent information technology and computer science that
emphasizes the proactive, seamless roles of interfaces and systems
as well as new media in all aspects of digital life. An AMT based
system offers services to enable the rapid design, implementation
and support of customized solutions.

The first International Conference on Active Media Technology
(AMT01) was held in Hong Kong in 2001, the second International
Conference on Active Media Technology (AMT04) was held in Chongqing,
China in May 29-31 of 2004, the third International Conference on
Active Media Technology (AMT05) was held in Kagawa, Japan in May
2005, the fourth International Conference on Active Media
Technology (AMT06) was held in Brisbane, Australia in June 7-9,
2006, the fifth International Conference on Active Media
Technology (AMT09) was jointly held with the 2009
International Conference on Brain Informatics (BI 2009), and 
the sixth International Conference on Active Media
Technology (AMT10) was jointly held with the 2010
International Conference on Brain Informatics (BI 2010) in Toronto, Canada.
Following the success of AMT01, AMT04, AMT05, AMT06, AMT09 and AMT10,
the Seventh International Conference on Active Media Technology
(AMT11) will be held in Lanzhou, China from September 7-9, 2011.

Active Media Technology 2011 will be jointly held with the 2011
International Conference on Brain Informatics (BI 2011).  The two
conferences will have a joint opening, keynote, reception, and
banquet. Attendees only need to register for one conference and can
attend sessions, exhibits and demonstrations across the
two conferences.

The WIC decided to organize AMT2011 and BI 2011 in memoriam of Herbert Simon.

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Topics of Interest
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CONFERENCE TOPICS AND AREAS INCLUDE, BUT NOT LIMITED TO

* Active Computer Systems and Intelligent Interfaces
* Adaptive Web Systems and Information Foraging Agents
* Agent-Based Software Engineering and Multi-Agent Systems
* AMT for Semantic Web and Web2.0
* Cognitive Foundations for AMT
* Conversational Informatics
* Data Mining, Ontology Mining and Web Reasoning
* Digital City and Digital Interactivity
* E-Commerce and Web Services
* E-learning
* Entertainment and Social Applications of Active Media
* Evaluation of Active Media and AMT Based Systems
* Human-Web Interaction
* Human Factors in AMT
* Information Retrieval
* Machine Learning and Human-Centred Robotics
* Multi-Modal Processing, Detection, Recognition, and
  Expression Analysis
* Network, Mobile and Wireless Security
* Personalized, Pervasive, and Ubiquitous Systems and their
  Interfaces
* Semantic Computing for Active Media and AMT Based Systems
* Sensing Web
* Smart Digital Media
* Trust on Web Information Systems
* Web Based Social Networks
* Web Mining, Wisdom Web and Web Intelligence

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On-Line Submissions and Publication
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High-quality papers in all AMT related areas are solicited. Papers
exploring new directions will receive a careful and supportive
review. All submitted papers will be reviewed on the basis of
technical quality, relevance, significance, and clarity. 

The proceeding of the conference will be published by Springer as a
volume of the series of Lecture Notes in Computer Science/Lecture
Notes in Artificial Intelligence (LNCS/LNAI).
Extensions of selected papers from the proceedings will be
considered for publication in special issues of international journals,
including Journal of Intelligent Information Systems (Springer, 
http://www.editorialmanager.com/jiis/).

Authors are strongly encouraged to use Springer LNCS/LNAI manuscript
submission guidelines (available at 
http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html) for their initial
submissions (a maximum of 12 pages in Springer LNCS/LNAI style file). 
All papers must be submitted electronically in PDF format
only, using the conference management tool. 

We will also have poster, demonstration, and late breaking result
paper sessions. Detailed instructions and a paper submission form
can be found the AMT'11 Web page at http://wi-consortium.org/conferences/amtbi11/

A selected number of the best papers from AMT'10 will be expanded
and revised for possible inclusion in "Knowledge and Information Systems:
An International Journal" (http://www.cs.uvm.edu/~kais/) by Springer
and "Web Intelligence and Agent Systems: An International Journal"
(http://wi-consortium.org/journal.html) by IOS Press.

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Awards
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AMT 2011 best paper awards and student paper awards will be
conferred on the authors at the conference.

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Important Dates
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Electronic submission of full papers 
(12 pages in Springer LNAI/LNCS style file):  
*** 31 March 2011 *** 

Notification of paper acceptance: June 1, 2011
Camera-ready of accepted papers: June 24, 2011
Conference:  September 7-9, 2011

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Conference Organization
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Conference General Chairs 
Ali A. Ghorbani, University of New Brunswick, Canada 
Bin Hu, Lanzhou University, China 

Program Chairs 
Ning Zhong, Maebashi Institute of Technology, Japan
Vic Callaghan, University of Essex, UK

Organizing Chairs
Timothy K. Shi, National Central University, Taiwan
Juerg Gutknecht, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich, Swiss
Junzhou Luo, Southeast University, China

Publicity Chairs 
Li Liu, Lanzhou University, China 
Daniel Tao, Queensland University of Technology, Australia 
Yi Zeng, Beijing University of Technology, China 

IEEE-CIS-TFBI Chair 
Ning Zhong, Maebashi Institute of Technology, Japan 

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

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
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 ***

Li Liu, liliu at lzu.edu.cn
Yi Zeng, yizeng at bjut.edu.cn