[agents] Extended CfPs: IEEE/WIC/ACM Int'l Conf. on Web Intelligence 2015 (WI'15)

[Xiaohui Tao]

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CALL FOR PAPERS

IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Web Intelligence 2015 (WI'15)

Big Data in Global Brain and Social Networks

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)
Memetic Computing Society (MC)

(EXTENDED FULL PAPER SUBMISSION DEADLINE: *** May 15, 2015 ***)

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KEYNOTE SPEAKERS
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* Joseph Sifakis (Turing Award 2007)
  Professor at Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne (EPFL)
  Director, Centre de Recherche Integrative (CRI) in Grenoble, France

* Francis Heylighen
  Director, Global Brain Institute
  Professor at Free University of Brussels, Belgium

* Steven E. Koonin
  Director, Center for Urban Science and Progress New York University, USA

* Gee-Wah Ng
  Programme Director, DSO National Laboratories, Singapore

* Sarit Kraus (AAAI, ECCAI and ACM Fellow)
  Professor of Computer Science, Bar-Ilan University, Israel
  Adjunct Professor, University of Maryland, USA

* Dominik Slezak
  Professor at University of Warsaw, Poland
  Chief Scientist, Infobright Inc.

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SPECIAL SESSIONS
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* Quality of User Generated Content
Adam Wierzbicki, Polish-Japanese Academy of Information Technology, Poland
Radoslaw Nielek, Polish-Japanese Academy of Information Technology, Poland

* Multi-Agent Systems for Big Data
Henryk Rybinski, Warsaw University of Technology, Poland
Dominik Ryzko, Warsaw University of Technology, Poland


The 2015 IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Web Intelligence
(WI'15) will be held in Singapore on 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). Co-located with the 2015 IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference
on Intelligent Agent Technology (IAT'15), WI'15 is sponsored by IEEE
Computer Society Technical Committee on Intelligent Informatics
(TCII), Web Intelligence Consortium (WIC), ACM-SIGAI, and Memetic
Computing Society.

WI'15 will feature special thematic workshops, technical sessions,
tutorials and panels. Conference programme will further include a
welcome reception, keynotes, demos, poster sessions, and a
banquet. Attendees only need one registration to attend all technical
events.

TOPICS AND AREAS (INCLUDE, BUT NOT LIMITED TO)

* Web Intelligence Foundations
* World Wide Wisdom Web (W4)
* Semantic Aspects of Web Intelligence
* Web Mining and Warehousing
* Web Search & Recommendation
* Knowledge Grids and Grid Intelligence
* Web Agents and Services
* Intelligent Human-Web Interaction
* Social Media and Web Applications
* Social Networks and Ubiquitous Intelligence

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PAPER SUBMISSION AND PUBLICATION
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WI'15 solicits original work submitted as a regular paper (limited to
8 pages) or as short paper (limited to 4 pages) in IEEE 2-column
format. Each paper will be peer-reviewed by at least three PC members
on the basis of technical quality, relevance, originality,
significance and clarity. Accepted papers will be published in the
conference proceedings by the IEEE Computer Society Press and indexed
by EI. Selected WI'15 papers will be further invited for expansion
and publication in Web Intelligence and Agent Systems and other
international Journals.

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CALL FOR TUTORIALS/PANELS
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WI'15 solicits proposals for tutorials and panels on specific topics
of interests, which will form an integral part of the conference
program. Inquiries and submission of proposals should be addressed to
the respective chairs.

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AWARDS
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Best Paper awards will be conferred at the conference on the authors
of (1) the best research paper, (2) the best student
paper. Application-oriented submissions will be considered for the
best application paper award.

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IMPORTANT DATES
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Electronic Submission of Regular/Special Session Papers    *** May 15, 2015 ***
Tutorial Proposal Submission                        June 1, 2015
Workshop Paper Submission                        June 1, 2015
Demos and Posters Submission July 1, 2015
Notification on Conference Paper Acceptance                July 1, 2015
Notification on Workshop Paper Acceptance                July 15, 2015
Notification on Demo and Poster Acceptance August 1, 2015

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ORGANIZING COMMITTEE
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General Chairs
* Ah-Hwee Tan, Singapore
* Yuefeng Li, Australia

Program Chair
* Ee-Peng Lim, Singapore

Program Vice-Chairs
* Atsuhiro Takasu, Japan
* Hoong-Chuin Lau, Singapore
* Chunyan Miao, Singapore

WI Technical PC Chairs
* Dell Zhang, University of London, UK
* Julita Vassileva, University of Saskatchewan, USA
* Jie Zhang, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore

Local Organizing Chair
* Meng-Hiot Lim, Singapore
* Sufen Cheong, Singapore
* Di Wang, Singapore

Finance Chair and CyberChair-Master
* Juzhen Dong, Japan

Industry and Sponsorship Chairs
* Xiaoli Li, Singapore
* Richi Nayak, Australia
* Saurav Karmakar, India

Workshop Chairs
* Bryan Kian-Hsiang Low, Singapore
* Einoshin Suzuki, Japan
* Jason Watson, Australia

Tutorial Chairs
* Pradeep Reddy Varakantham, Singapore
* Yue Xu, Australia

Demo/Poster Chair
* Zhiqi Shen, Singapore
* Yiqiang Chen, China

Publicity Chairs
* Xiaohui Tao, Australia
* Teck-Hou Teng, Singapore

Panel Chairs
* Hady Lauw, Singapore
* Neil Yorke-Smith, Lebanon

Award Chairs
* Ee-Peng Lim, Singapore
* Raj Sunderraman, USA

Webmaster
* Jun Lin, Singapore
* Yilin Kang, Singapore




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