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           Active Media Technology 2013 (AMT'13)
           CALL FOR PAPERS (Type-2 submissions)
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2013 International Conference on Active Media Technology (AMT'13)

October 29-31, 2013, Maebashi, Japan

Homepage: http://wi-consortium.org/conferences/amtbi13/

Co-organized by Web Intelligence Consortium (WIC) 
                IEEE-CIS Task Force on Brain Informatics (IEEE TF-BI)
Co-sponsored by Maebashi Institute of Technology
                Maebashi City and Gunma Prefecture Government
                Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science

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# Type-2 submissions: Abstract Submission Due: *** 15 July 2013 *** 
# Selected abstract submissions will be considered for publication 
# in special issues of international journals after their abstracts 
# are extended to a full-length paper and pass a peer review process
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Special AMT-BHI 2013 Joint Keynote:
Yuichiro Anzai
President, Japan Society for the Promotion of Science

Keynote Speakers:
Yuzuru Tanaka, Hokkaido University, Japan
Carl K. Chang, Iowa State University, USA
Andrzej Skowron, Warsaw University, Poland 
Shinsuke Shimojo, California Institute of Technology, USA
Marcel A. Just, Carnegie Mellon University, USA 
Jiming Liu, Hong Kong Baptist University, HK SAR

Panel: Brain Big Data in the Hyper World

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On-Line Submissions and Publication
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Type II of Submissions and Publication: Abstract Submissions:
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Accepted abstract submissions will be included in the conference
program.  Selected abstract submissions will be considered for
publication in special issues of international journals after their
abstracts are extended to a full-length paper and pass a peer review
process.

Detailed instructions and a paper submission form can be found 
from the AMT'13 Web page at http://wi-consortium.org/conferences/amtbi13/

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Journal Special Issues 
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Web Intelligence and Agent Systems journal (IOS Press) and
Computational Cognitive Science journal (Springer) have the formal
ties with AMT-BHI conferences.

A selected number of accepted papers from these conferences, including
their Best Paper Award papers, will be expended and revised for
possible inclusion in the journals each year.

We also organize special issues to be published in journals,
including: International Journal of Information Technology & Decision
Making (World Scientific), Computational Intelligence (Wiley), Health
Information Science and Systems (Springer), Cognitive Systems Research
(Elsevier), and International Journal of Semantic Computing (World
Scientific).

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Important Dates (Type 2 submission)
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Electronic (Type-2) submission of abstracts
*** 15 July 2013 *** 

Notification of (Type-2) abstract acceptance: July 30, 2013

Conference:  October 29-31, 2013

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Conference Organization
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AMT-BHI'13 Honorary General Chair:
Setsuo Ohsuga, University of Tokyo, Japan

AMT'13 Conference General Chairs: 
Andrzej Skowron, Warsaw University, Poland 
Jian-Nong Cao, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, SAR China

AMT'13 Program Chairs: 
Tetsuya Yoshida, Hokkaido University, Japan
Gang Kou, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, China

AMT'13 Workshop/Special Session Chair:
Hakim Hacid, Alcatel-Lucent Bell lab, France

AMT-BHI'13 Organizing Chairs:
Kazuyuki Imamura, Maebashi Institute of Technology, Japan
Tetsumi Harakawa, Maebashi Institute of Technology, Japan
Ning Zhong, Maebashi Institute of Technology, Japan

AMT-BHI'13 Panel Chair:
Stephen S. Yau, Arizona State University, USA

AMT-BHI'13 Journal Special Issue Chairs:
Xin Yao, University of Birmingham, UK
Runhe Huang, Hosei University, Japan 

AMT-BHI'13 Publicity Chairs:
Shinichi Motomura, Maebashi Institute of Technology, Japan
Dominik Slezak, Infobright Inc., Canada & Univ. of Warsaw, Poland
Jian Yang, Beijing University of Technology, China 

BHI'13 Conference General Chairs:
Tomoaki Shirao,	Gunma University Graduate School of Medicine, Japan
Takuji Kasamatsu, The Smith Kettlewell Eye Research Institute, USA

BHI'13 Program Chairs:
Kazuyuki Imamura, Maebashi Institute of Technology, Japan
Shiro Usui, Toyohashi University of Technology, Japan

BHI'13 Workshop/Special Session Chair:
Lars Schwabe, University of Rostock, Germany

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, Chinese University of Hong Kong, HK 
Philip Yu, University of Illinois, Chicago, USA 
L.A. Zadeh, University of California, Berkeley, USA 

WIC Technical 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
Jianhua Ma, Hosei University, Japan 
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 ***
Tetsuya Yoshida (Hokkaido University, Japan)
<yoshida at meme.hokudai.ac.jp>