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CALL FOR PARTICIPATION

2014 Web Intelligence Congress (WIC 2014)

The University of Warsaw

August 11-14, 2014, Wawsaw, Poland

Homepage: http://wic2014.mimuw.edu.pl/

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!!! Early-bird Registration by Jul 21, 2014 (extended) !!!
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A special event associated with celebration of
Web at 25 - the 25th Anniversary of the Web

Turing Keynote Speaker:
Quantum Computing: A Great Science in the Making
Andrew Chi-Chih Yao (2000 Turing Award Winner)

WIC 2014 Plenary Panel on
Computational Challenges for Brain Science and Medicine
Year of the Brain 2014 Europe

The congress includes four intelligent informatics related conferences:

- IEEE/WIC/ACM Web Intelligence 2014 (WI'14)
- IEEE/WIC/ACM Intelligent Agent Technology 2014 (IAT'14)
- Active Media Technology 2014 (AMT'14)
- Brain Informatics and Health 2014 (BIH'14)

The four conferences will be co-located and 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
four conferences.

Co-organized by
- Web Intelligence Consortium (WIC)
- IEEE-CS Technical Committee on Intelligent Informatics (TCII)
- IEEE-CIS Task Force on Brain Informatics (IEEE TF-BI)
- ACM SIGART
- The University of Warsaw
- Polish Mathematical Society
- Warsaw Center of Mathematics and Computer Science
- Warsaw University of Technology

Local Sponsors

Dituel Ltd
Google
EU Human Brain Project
IOS Press
MooseFS
Gemius

Technical Patronage

Poznan University of Technology
Polish Artificial Intelligence Society
Web25th Anniversary
Year of the Brain 2014 Europe

REGISTRATRION
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!!! Early-bird Registration by Jul 21, 2014 (extended) !!!
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On-line registration (and more information) at
https://wi-lab.com/cyberchair/2014/wiiat14/scripts/register_info.php
or
https://wi-lab.com/cyberchair/2014/amtbih14/scripts/register_info.php

Regular registration (non-authors) covers all events of technical
program (plenary talks, tutorials, workshops, parallel sessions,
industry/demo sessions, etc.), the reception, coffee breaks and
lunches.


INVITED TALKS
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Turing Keynote
Quantum Computing: A Great Science in the Making
Andrew Chi-Chih Yao, Tsinghua University, China

Free Energy, the Brain and Life as We Know It
Karl Friston, University College London, United Kingdom

Modern Rehabilitation Methods in Communication Disorders
Henryk Skarzynski, Institute of Physiology and Pathology of Hearing, Poland

Ontologies on the Web: An Alternative Model
Stefan Decker, National University of Ireland & Digital Enterprise Research
Institute (DERI), Ireland

Natural Language as an Inspiration for a Unifying Framework for Computing
Robert Kowalski, Imperial College London, United Kingdom

Theories of Clustering
Sadaaki Miyamoto, University of Tsukuba, Japan

Data Mining on Cloud Computing Platforms - Challenges and Solutions
Yi Pan, Georgia State University, USA

Quantum Cognition
John F. Sowa, VivoMind Intelligence LLC, USA

Light Tools for Tough Jobs
Andrzej Szalas, University of Warsaw & Linkoping University, Poland/Sweden


PLENARY PANELS
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- Computational Challenges for Brain Science & Medicine

- Web at 25 Anniversary - History & Perspectives

- Present & Prospective Issues of Science Communications

- Artificial Intelligence in Poland & Worldwide


TUTORIALS
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T1: Online Content Credibility Evaluation and Demo of Reconcile Open
Platform
Maria Rafalak and Radoslaw Nielek, Polish-Japanese Institute of Information
Technology (PJIIT), Poland

T2: Identifying Problems and Solutions on Ontology Learning and Population
from Text
Rosario Girardi, Federal University of Maranhao, Brazil

T3: Hot Ideas in Interactive Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining for
Biomedical Informatics
Andreas Holzinger, Medical University Graz, Institute for Medical Informatics,
Statistics and Documentation Research Unit HCI, Austrian IBM Watson Think Group
& Graz University of Technology, Institute of Information Systems and Computer
Media, Austria

T4: Directed Probabilistic Graphs: Learning and Inference
Marek J. Druzdzel, University of Pittsburgh, USA & Bialystok University of
Technology, Poland

T5: Intelligent Multimodal Human-Computer Interfaces
Andrzej Czyzewski, Bozena Kostek, Piotr Odya, Bartosz Kunka, Michal Lech,
Gdansk University of Technology, Poland

T6: Plagiarism Detection in Digital Documents: Some Text Mining Techniques,
Algorithms and Proposals for Stopping One of the Worst Problem in the Web
Juan D. Velasquez, Web Intelligence Consortium Chile Research Centre &
Universidad de Chile, Chile

T7: Atlas of the Human Brain, Head and Neck: Introducing a New Standard
Wieslaw L. Nowinski, Agency for Science Technology and Research, Singapore


WORKSHOPS
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W1: The Third International Workshop on Web Personalization,
Recommender Systems and Social Media (WPRSM14)

W2: Second International Workshop on Social Web Intelligence (WOSWI 2014)

W3: 7th International Workshop on Natural Language Processing and Ontology
Engineering (NLPOE)

W4: International Workshop on Knowledge Discovery in Ontologies

W5: International Workshop on Agent Systems in Business Process
Management (AS-BPM)

W6: 8th International Workshop on Human Aspects in Ambient Intelligence

W7: International Workshop on Sensing, Understanding, and Modeling for
the Smart City


SPECIAL SESSIONS
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S1: Special session on Soft Clustering

S2: Special session on Granular Computing

S3: Special session on Complex Methods for Data and Web Mining

S4: Special session on Big Data Analytics

S5: Special session on Cooperative Knowledge Discovery and Management

S6: Special session on Agent-Based Simulation Supporting Decision Making

S7: Special session on Extracting Knowledge from Symptoms in
Neurodegenerative Disease (Parkinson)

S8: Special session on Analysis of Complex Medical Data

S9: Special session on Understanding of Information Processing in Brain

S10: Special session on Neuroimaging Data Processing Strategies

S11: Special session on Advanced Methods of Interactive Data Mining
for Personalized Medicine

S12: Type II special session on State of the Art Technology
in Hearing Loss Remediation

S13: Type II special session on Panomics of Diseases and Pathogens

S14: Type II special session on Early Detection of Dementia

S15: Special session on Human Aspects in Cyber-Physical Systems

S16: Special session on Facial Image Analysis with Applications

S17: Type II special session on Intelligent Technologies in Mineral
Exploration


SOCIAL PROGRAM
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The congress venue: the lectures and technical sessions will take place
in the Old Library building at Central Campus of the University of Warsaw
located in downtown Warsaw, close to the historical part of the City.

The WIC 2014 offers exciting social programs:

Welcome Reception, Monday, August 11, 19:00-21:30

The Welcome Reception will take place in the building of the F. Chopin
University of Music (Address: Okolnik 2, 00-368 Warszawa).

The reception starts at 19:00 in the main foyer and patio and will be
accompanied by a piano performance in the Concert Hall.
The performance starts at 20:15 and will take around 40 minutes.
The repertoire consist of music by F. Chopin.

WIC 2014 Reception, Tuesday, August 12, 18:30-20:00

The WIC 2014 Reception will take place in the Old Library building
(the conference venue). This informal event was made possible by
generosity of our sponsors.

Conference Banquet, Wednesday, August 13, 19:00-22:00

The Conference Banquet will take place in the Main Building of the
Warsaw University of Technology (Address: Plac Politechniki 1, 00-661
Warszawa). The banquet starts at 19:00 in the Main Hall and will be
accompanied by award ceremony.

You can also enjoy the city of Warsaw. More information about the
conference hotel, visas and local information can be obtained from the
congress homepage: http://wic2014.mimuw.edu.pl/


CONTACT INFORMATION
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Dominik Slezak <slezak at mimuw.edu.pl>
Marcin Szczuka <szczuka at mimuw.edu.pl>