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                 CALL FOR PARTICIPATION

              The 2013 WI-IAT Conferences

     Westin Peach Plaza Hotel
     November 17-20, 2013, Atlanta, GA, USA
     Homepage: http://cs.gsu.edu/wic2013/splash
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!!! Early-bird Registration by Oct 17, 2013 !!!
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Turing Keynote Speaker: John Hopcroft
(1986 Turing Award Winner)

Conference Panel on 
"Connecting Big Data with Web Intelligence"

Industry Track Panel on
"Internet of Things"

The congress includes two intelligent informatics related conferences:
- IEEE/WIC/ACM Web Intelligence 2013 (WI'13)
- IEEE/WIC/ACM Intelligent Agent Technology 2013 (IAT'13)
Co-located with the aim to facilitate interactions and idea exchange among
researchers working on a variety of focused themes under a holistic vision
for computing and intelligence in the post WWW era and to promote and
expedite new innovations for areas under intelligent informatics.

Sponsored and Organized by
- Web Intelligence Consortium (WIC)
- IEEE-CS Technical Committee on Intelligent Informatics (TCII)
- ACM SIGART
- Georgia State University

================= HIGHLIGHTS =========================
    6 Invited Speeches by
      John Hopcroft (1986 Turing Award Winner)
      Ophir Frieder (WI)
      Victor Lesser (IAT)
      Scott Fahlman (Technology/ Applications Award)
      David Atkinson (Industry Track)
      Cyrus Nourani (Industry Track)
    4 Tutorials
    9 Workshops
    4 Special Sessions
    Presentations of Accepted Research Track Papers

REGISTRATRION
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!!! Early-bird Registration by Oct 17, 2013 !!!
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On-line registration (and more information) at
https://wi-lab.com/cyberchair/2013/wiiat13/scripts/register_info.php
Regular registration (Member and Non-Member) covers everything: all four days technical programs (invited talks, tutorials, workshops, parallel sessions for accepted papers presentation, industry/demo session, etc.), social program (welcome reception, banquet), coffee breaks, as well as a copy (CD) of proceedings (WI, IAT and Workshops proceedings). Non-author student registration does not cover the banquet.

As usual, WI-IAT 2013 will be co-located, providing synergism among Web
Intelligence, Intelligent Agent Technology.  The two conferences will have a joint opening, invited talks, reception, and banquet. Attendees only need to register for one conference and can attend workshops, sessions, invited talks, panels and tutorials
across the two conferences.

INVITED TALKS
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Turing Keynote Talk
Future Directions in Computer Science Research 
John Hopcroft, Professor at Cornell University, USA
(1986 Turing Award Winner)

WI Invited Talk
Collective Intelligence
Ophir Frieder, Professor at Georgetown University, USA

IAT Invited Talk
Personal Reflections on Self-Awareness and Adaptability in Agent and Multiagent Systems
Victor Lesser, Professor at University of Massachusetts-Amherst, USA

Technology/ Applications Award Talk
Personal Reflections on Self-Awareness and Adaptability in Agent and Multiagent Systems
Scott Fahlman, Research Professor at Carnegie Mellon University, USA

Industry Track
Trust Between Humans and Intelligent, Autonomous Agents
David Atkinson, Senior Research Scientist, Florida Institute of Human and Machine Cognition, USA

Industry Track
W-Interfaces, Business Intelligence, and Content Processing
Cyrus Nourani, Independent Consultant & Research Professor at Simon Fraser University, Canada

PANEL
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P1: Conference Panel on 
"Connecting Big Data with Web Intelligence"

P2: Industry Track Panel on
"Internet of Things"

TUTORIALS
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T1: Intelligent Web Crawling
    Denis Shestakov, Department of Media Technology, Aalto University

T2: Ontology for Multimedia Applications
    Hiranmay Ghosh, Tata Consultancy Services

T3: Agents in Smart Energy Grids
    Michel Oey, Martijn Warnier and Frances Brazier, Delft University of Technology

T4: Software Agent Architectures
    Rosario Girardi, Federal University of Maranhão

WORKSHOPS
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WI Workshops

W1: WPRSM 2013: International Workshop on Web Personalization, Recommender Systems and Social Media
    http://www.webpres-workshop.com/ 

W2: WOSWI 2013: First Workshop on Social Web Intelligence
    http://csifa.org/WOSWI/

W3: ODMWI 2013: Optimization-based Data Mining and Web Intelligence
    http://www.feds.ac.cn/Pages/AnnounceShow.aspx?ID=22 

IAT Workshops

W4: AS-BPM 2013: International Workshop on Agent Systems in Business Process Management
    http://www.haw-ingolstadt.de/hochschule/fakultaeten/fakultaet-wirtschaftswissenschaften/forschung/workshopasbpm.html 

W5: SPUnd 2013: Sensing, Perceiving, and Understanding Actions
    http://workshopspund.uclm.es/ 

W6: DOCMAS-2013: 2nd International Workshop on Data Oriented Constructive Mining and Multi-Agent Simulation
    http://www.ai.soc.i.kyoto-u.ac.jp/docmas/workshop/docmas2013 

W7: KDO 2013: First Workshop on Knowledge Discovery in Ontologies
    http://www.inf.pucrs.br/peg/kdo2013/ 

W8: HAI 2013: Seventh International Workshop on Human Aspects in Ambient Intelligence
    http://www.few.vu.nl/~tbosse/HAI13/ 

W9: NLPOE 2013: 6th International Workshop on Natural Language Processing and Ontology Engineering
    http://www.ijklp.org/NLPOE2013/nlpoe.html 

SPECIAL SESSIONS
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S1: BWMD 2013: Intelligent Methods for Web & Machine Big Data Analytics 
    http://www.cs.gsu.edu/wic2013/wi/bwmd

S2: IOT 2013: Internet of Things
    http://www.cs.gsu.edu/wic2013/wi/iot

S3: WI/IAT 2013 Student Posters Session
    http://cs.gsu.edu/wic2013/wi/poster-session

S4: WI/IAT 2013 Industry Track Session
    http://cs.gsu.edu/wic2013/wi/industry-session

SOCIAL PROGRAM
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- The WI-IAT 2013 offers an exciting social program, including the
conference welcome reception on Nov. 18 and the congress banquet on
Nov. 19.

- The congress venue: Westin Peach Plaza Hotel was designed by renowned Atlanta architect John Portman, the Western Hemisphere's largest. This 73-story tower, topped by the revolving Sun Dial Restaurant, Bar & View, graces the heart of Atlanta. Connected to AmericasMart, The Westin Peachtree Plaza, is steps from CNN, Georgia Aquarium, Georgia World Congress Center and the Georgia Dome.

- Atlanta Trolley Tour Line - http://www.atlantatrolleytourline.com/ 
The Atlanta Trolley Tour Line is a tour and sightseeing company in Atlanta Georgia. The company offers an up-close look at the city's hustle and bustle aboard a hop-on, hop-off trolley tour! On you tour you will discover all the history from Atlanta's founding through the Civil War through the Civil Rights Era and the Olympics. Your journey takes you through many of Atlanta's neighborhoods including Downtown, Grant Park, Cabbagetown, Martin Luther King Jr. Historic District, SoNo, Midtown, Georgia Tech and Centennial Olympic Park. You will hear tales of famous writers, see beautiful parks and, hear the triumphs of the Olympics throughout the city. You will learn about the major attractions, the best places to wine and dine, the best shopping, where to go for night life, beautiful green spaces, views of the city's architecture, and so much more. Ride at your own pace. Disembark the trolley at any of the stops; then re-board to continue your adventure. It's a great way to get !
 around
the city for a day of sightseeing. 

- Atlanta Links to Sightseeing & Entertainment. 
Follow these links to learns more about Atlanta including "50 Fun Things" to do and "Atlanta Alive After 5". 

- Two other discounts are listed below.
Discounted Entertainment Tickets - AtlanTIX
http://atlanta.tix.com/ActSelection.asp?OrganizationNumber=323
Any visit to Atlanta should start at the same-day, half-price AtlanTIX booth located at Underground Atlanta. The booth allows visitors to find half-priced tickets to hundreds of theater, dance and music performances and more than a dozen cultural attractions such as Zoo Atlanta, Atlanta Botanical Gardens and the High Museum of Art. Visit the AtlanTIX Website for events and available discount ticket offers.
Affordable Atlanta - CityPass - www.citypass.com
With CityPass, you'll save 50% off admission prices to Atlanta's most popular spots in a booklet with tips, maps and unexpected CityPass extras. Atlanta CityPass is the biggest ticket booklet in CityPass history. For information or to purchase a CityPass, log onto our Website. Pricing as of Sept 21, 2013 is $74 (a $127 value) per booklet for adults and $54 (a $100 value) per booklet for children.

CONTACT INFORMATION
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Tammie Dudley, Georgia State University <tdudley at gsu.edu>