[agents] WI12/IAT12 Call for Tutorials

[Xiaohui Tao]

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CALL FOR TUTORIALS

The 2012 IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conferences on 
Web Intelligence (WI'12) and Intelligent Agent Technology (IAT'12)
    
December 4-7, 2012, Macau SAR, China
Conference Website: http://www.fst.umac.mo/wic2012

Sponsored By
IEEE Computer Society Technical Committee 
on Intelligent Informatics (TCII), 
Web Intelligence Consortium (WIC), and ACM-SIGART 
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The WI-IAT 2012 joint conferences (WI-IAT'12) will co-locate with
AMT'12, BI'12, and ISMIS'12 as a Congress, a Special Event of the Alan
Turing Year (Centenary of Alan Turing's birth).  The Congress will
have a joint opening, keynotes, reception and banquet.

WI-IAT'12 will provide a leading international forum for researchers
and practitioners to present the state-of-the-art WI-IAT technologies;
examine performance characteristics of various approaches in WI and
IAT; and cross-fertilize ideas on the development of WI and IAT.

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Important Dates
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Tutorial proposal submission 		July 10, 2012
Notification of proposal acceptance 	August 1, 2012 

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Detailed instructions for tutorial proposal
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Proposal for tutorials, in PDF format, should consist of an outline and 
background information on the presenter(s). The tutorial outline should 
be limited to 2 pages and must contain the following information:

- Title and abstract of the tutorial (overall goal of the tutorial)
- Proposed duration: short (2 hours) or long (4 hours)
- Description of intended audience: to whom is the tutorial going to be 
  of interest (WI or IAT communities or both)
- Description of prerequisite knowledge: what background the attendees 
  should already have
- Outline: overview of the tutorial (including references to papers, 
  books, etc.)
- The background information on the presenter(s) should be limited to 
  2 pages and must contain:
    * Names, affiliations, homepages and contact details of 
      all the presenters
    * Short biographies, including main publications related 
      to the topic of the proposed tutorial
    * If it makes sense, information about previous tutorials 
      given by the same presenters (title, conference, 
      year number of attendees, etc.)
- Tutorial proposals should be sent to both tutorial chairs by e-mail.

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Tutorial Co-Chairs
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Tsuyoshi Murata, E-mail: murata at cs.titech.ac.jp 
Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan

Hui Xiong, E-mail: hxiong at rutgers.edu
Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey, USA


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