[agents] JIST2012 - CALL FOR PARTICIPATION (Early Registration due: October 29 )

[Kouji Kozaki]

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* CALL FOR PARTICIPATION
* The Joint International Semantic Technology Conference (JIST 2012)
* http://www.ei.sanken.osaka-u.ac.jp/jist2012/
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* December 2-4, 2012，Nara, Japan
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* Early Registration due: 23:59 (Hawaii Time), October 29 , 2012
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The Joint International Semantic Technology Conference (JIST) is a regional 
federation of Semantic Technology related conferences. The mission of JIST 
is to bring together researchers in Semantic Technology research community 
and other areas of semantic related technologies to present their innovative 
research results or novel applications of semantic technologies. 


*** Keynote Speakers ***
Prof. Eero Hyvonen, Aalto University
Prof. Junichi Tsujii, Microsoft Research Asia (MSRA)
Prof. Juanzi Li, Tsinghua University
Dr. Tom Heath, Talis Education Limited
http://www.ei.sanken.osaka-u.ac.jp/jist2012/InvitedSpeakers.html

*** Program Overview ***
http://www.ei.sanken.osaka-u.ac.jp/jist2012/Program.html

*** Tutorial ***
Semantic Technologies: Beyond the Semantic Web
 (Speaker: Ian Horrocks: University of Oxford, UK)

*** Workshops ***
- Semantic Web-based R&D Trend Analysis on Big Data 
   (SWRTAB2012)
- The 1st International Workshop on Big data for Knowledge Engineering 
   (BIKE2012)
- 8th International Workshop on Semantic Web Enabled Software Engineering 
  (SWESE2012)


*** Organization ***
General Chair
  - Riichiro Mizoguchi: Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Japan
Program Chairs
  - Hideaki Takeda: National Institute of Informatics (NII), Japan
  - Yuzhong Qu: Nanjing University, China
In-Use Track Chair:
  - Takahiro Kawamura: Toshiba Corp., Japan
Special Track Chair:
  - Tetsuro Toyoda: RIKEN, Japan
Poster and Demo Chairs:
  - Ryutaro Ichise: National Institute of Informatics (NII), Japan
  - Seokchan Yun: Daum Communications Corp., Korea
Workshop Chairs:
  - Zhiqiang Gao: Southeast University, China
  - Hakrae Kim: Samsung Electronics, Korea
Tutorial Chairs:
  - Ikki Ohmukai: National Institute of Informatics (NII), Japan
  - Hanmin Jung: Korea Institute of Science and Technology Information,
    Korea
Publicity Chair:
  - Kouji Kozaki: Osaka University, Japan
Local Organizing Chair:
  - Yoshinobu Kitamura: Osaka University, Japan