[agents] WI-IAT 2015: Call for Workshop Proposals

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			Call for Workshops

IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Web Intelligence 2015
IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Intelligent Agent Technology 2015
(WI-IAT 2015)

December 6-9, 2015 / Singapore

Homepage: http://wi-iat15.ntulily.org 

Sponsored By:
 IEEE Computer Society
 Web Intelligence Consortium (WIC)
 Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
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The 2015 IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Web Intelligence (WI'15) 
and the 2015 IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Intelligent Agent 
Technology (IAT'15) will be held in Singapore December 6-9, 2015, hosted by 
the Joint NTU-UBC Research Centre of Excellence in Active Living for the 
Elderly (LILY) at Nanyang Technological University (NTU) and the Living 
Analytics Research Centre at Singapore Management University (SMU). The two 
co-located conferences are sponsored by IEEE Computer Society Technical 
Committee on Intelligent Informatics (TCII), Web Intelligence Consortium 
(WIC), ACM-SIGART, and the Memetic Computing Society.

Following the great successes of WI-IAT'01 held in Maebashi, Japan, WI-
IAT'03 in Halifax, Canada, WI-IAT'04 in Beijing, China, WI-IAT'05 in 
Compiegne, France, WI-IAT'06 in Hong Kong, WI-IAT'07 in Silicon-Valley, 
USA, WI-IA'08 in Sydney, Australia, WI-IAT'09 in Milano, Italy, WI-IAT'10 
in Toronto, Canada, WI-IAT'11 in Lyon, France, WI-IAT'12 in Macau, China, 
WI-IAT'13 in Atlanta, USA, and WI-IAT'14 in Warsaw, Poland, the WI-IAT'15 
will provide a global forum for scientists, engineers and educators to 
present the latest WI-IAT technologies and the development of future 
intelligent systems for complex applications. We will celebrate the common 
theme of Big Data in Global Brain and Social Networks and we welcome 
industry sessions representing both local and international companies 
developing solutions and running projects related to those areas.

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CALL FOR WORKSHOP PROPOSALS
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The Program Committees of the 2015 IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on 
Web Intelligence (WI'15) and  2015 IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on 
Intelligent Agent Technology (IAT'15) invite proposals for workshops. The 
workshops will be held within the Conference, December 6-9, 2015 in 
Singapore. The main goal of the WI-IAT 2015 workshops is to stimulate and 
facilitate active exchange, interaction and comparison of approaches, 
methods and ideas related to specific topics, both theoretical and applied, 
in the general areas related to Web Intelligence and Intelligent Agent 
Technology. The workshops will provide an informal setting where 
participants will have the opportunity to discuss specific technical topics 
in an atmosphere that fosters the active exchange of ideas.

The workshop organizers will be responsible for advertising the workshop, 
forming the program committees, reviewing and selecting the papers, and 
guaranteeing a high quality worthy of the prestige and range of the 
Conference. All papers accepted for workshops will be included in the 
Workshop Proceedings published by IEEE Computer Society Press and will be 
available at the workshops.

The workshop organizers will also have the discretion of editing selected 
papers (after their expansion and revision) into books or special journal 
issues. Workshops may be full-day or half-day. A full-day workshop should 
select 10-14 regular papers, while a half-day workshop should select 5-7 
regular papers, from a large number of submissions. Submissions accepted as 
workshop papers will be allocated 4 pages in the proceedings. The workshop 
organizers should ensure the presence of authors of accepted papers at the 
workshops. Optionally, the workshop may be started or concluded by a panel 
focusing on interesting aspects, controversial issues, or unsolved problems 
to stimulate lively, thoughtful, and thought-provoking debate. We expect 
the workshop organizers to actively engage the audience and help them gain 
a deeper understanding of the issues.

All inquiries and submission of workshop proposals should be addressed to 
the Workshop Chairs via e-mail.

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IMPORTANT DATES
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Workshop Proposal Submission	Feb 15, 2015
Decision Notification		March 1, 2015
Conferences		      	December 6-9, 2015

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WORKSHOP PROPOSAL REQUIREMENTS AND FORMAT
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Workshop proposals should be submitted as a single pdf file and include the 
following information:

1.	Title of the workshop
2.	Names of the workshop organizers, the affiliations, the postal 
        mailing addresses, and the e-mail addresses
3.	Name of the corresponding workshop organizer
4.	Short CV and publication list of the workshop organizers
5.	A description of the topics of the workshop (not exceeding 200 
        words)
6.	Type of the workshop (full-day or half-day)
7.	Description of how the workshop will contribute to the field of Web 
        Intelligence and/or Intelligent Agent Technology
8.	Short description on how the workshop will be advertised so as to 
        ensure a sufficiently wide range of authors and high quality papers
9.	Expected number of attendees
10.	Information about previous offerings of the proposed workshop.
11.	List of potential Program Committee members
12.	Information on the potential panel and the potential invited 
        talk(s) (if any)

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WI-IAT'15 WORKSHOP CHAIRS
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- Einoshin Suzuki, Kyushu University, Japan (suzuki at inf.kyushu-u.ac.jp)
- Bryan Low, National University of Singapore, Singapore (lowkh at comp.nus.edu.sg)
- Jason Watson, Queensland University of Technology, Australia (ja.watson at qut.edu.au)