[agents] AI 60 Years’ Celebration - CFP: Web Intelligence 2016

[Xiaohui Tao]

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A Celebration to the 60th Anniversary of AI
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IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Web Intelligence 2016 (WI'16)

October 13-16, 2016, Hilton Omaha, USA
Homepage: http://wibih.unomaha.edu/wi

***Full Paper Submission Deadline*** - May 10, 2016

Sponsored By:
IEEE Computer Society
Web Intelligence Consortium (WIC)
Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)

This year, the Web Intelligence (WI) conference is especially
dedicated to the celebration of the 60th anniversary of
Artificial Intelligence (AI). Aiming at creating computers and
computer software capacity of intelligent behaviour, throughout
the sixty years' journey many amusing achievements have been made,
including the recent AlphaGo, an intelligent computer program who
beat Lee Sedol, a 9-dan professional player in a five-game match of Go.
Such a task was considered an impossible mission if looking back in
just a decade ago. As we enter the big data era, Web Intelligence has
extended and made use of artificial intelligence for new products,
services and frameworks that are empowered by the World Wide Web.

As a part of the celebration to the sixty years of AI, WI'16 will
be co-located with Brain Informatics & Health (BIH) 2016, and proudly
host two Turing Award laureates, Dr. Leslie Valiant (Turing Award
2010) and Dr. Butler Lampson (Turing Award 1992) as keynote speakers,
as well as two distinguished brain scientists, Dr. Stephen Smith and
Dr. Ivan Soltesz as the BIH keynote speakers, for the community to
share with their intelligent, wisdom minds. We also will organize
a panel on Connecting Network and Brain with Big Data and invite
keynote/feature speakers of the 2 conferences as panelists.
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CALL FOR PAPERS

FULL PAPER SUBMISSION DEADLINE: May 10, 2016 (!!Extended!!)

*** KEYNOTE SPEAKERS ***
Butler Lampson (Turing Award 1992), Microsoft & MIT
Leslie Valiant (Turing Award 2010), Harvard University

*** FEATURE SPEAKERS ***
Vijay Raghavan, University of Louisiana
Naren Ramakrishnan, Virginia Tech
Marek Rusinkiewicz, New Jersey Institute of Technology
Daniel P. Siewiorek, Carnegie Mellon University
Chris Welty, Google Research

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Web Intelligence (WI) aims to achieve a multi-disciplinary balance
between research advances in theories and methods usually associated
with collective intelligence, data science, human-centric computing,
knowledge management, and network science. It is committed to
addressing research that both deepen the understanding of
computational, logical, cognitive, physical, and social foundations of
the future Web, and enable the development and application of
technologies based on Web intelligence.

The IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Web Intelligence (WI) has
been held jointly with the IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on
Intelligent Agent Technology (IAT) since 2001 in Europe, North
America, and Asia Pacific. Starting from 2016, the IAT conference as
well as its themes and topics will be embedded inside WI. WI'16
features high-quality, original research papers and real-world
applications in all theoretical and technology areas that make up the
field of WI.

WI'16 will be co-located with the 2016 International Conference on
Brain Informatics & Health (BIH'16) (http://wibih.unomaha.edu/bih).
Under our theme Connecting Network and Brain with Big Data, WI'16 and
BIH'16 will provide a broad forum that academia, professionals and
industry can use to exchange their ideas, findings and
strategies in utilizing the power of human brains and man-made
networks to create a better world.  The attendees only need to
register for one of the 2 conferences, but they can attend all
sessions and social events of the 2 conferences.

WI'16 welcomes both research and application papers submissions.
All submitted papers will be reviewed on the basis of technical quality,
relevance, significance and clarity. Accepted full papers will be
included in the proceedings published by IEEE Computer Society Press.

Tutorial, Workshop and Special-Session proposals and
Industry/Demo-Track papers are also welcome.

*** Topics and Areas ***
Track-1: Collective Intelligence
Track-2: Data Science
Track-3: Human-Centric Computing
Track-4: Knowledge Management
Track-5: Network Science

Please find the topics and areas of interest of WI'16
at http://wibih.unomaha.edu/wi

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IMPORTANT DATES (Extended!)
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Workshop and Special-Session proposals submission: April 10, 2016
Notification of Workshop and Special-Session acceptance: April 30, 2016
Submission of full papers: May 10, 2016
Submission of Workshop/Special-Session full papers: June 1, 2016
Notification of full paper acceptance: June 20, 2016
Notification of Workshop/Special-Session full paper acceptance: June 25, 2016
Tutorial proposal submission: July 10, 2016
Tutorials, Workshop and Special-Sessions: October 13, 2016
Main conference: October 14-16, 2016

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PAPER SUBMISSION AND PUBLICATION
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WI'16 solicits original work submitted as a regular paper (limited to
6-8 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'16 papers will be further invited for expansion
and publication in Web Intelligence journal and other international
journals.

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CALL FOR TUTORIALS/WORKSHOPS/SPECIAL-SESSIONS
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WI'16 solicits proposals for tutorials, workshops, and special
sessions 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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ORGANIZING COMMITTEE
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General Chairs

Hesham Ali (University of Nebraska at Omaha, USA)
Deepak Khazanchi (University of Nebraska at Omaha, USA)
Yong Shi (University of Nebraska at Omaha/Chinese Academy of Sciences)

WI'16 PC Chairs

Zbigniew W. Ras (University of North Carolina at Charlotte, USA)
Yuefeng Li (Queensland University of Technology, Australia)
Matthias Klusch (German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence,
Germany)

WI'16 Workshop/Special-session/Tutorial Chairs

Saeid Belkasim (Georgia State University, USA)
Stefano Ferilli (University of Bari, Italy)
Marek Reformat (University of Alberta, Canada)

WI'16 Industry Track & Demo/Poster Session Chair

Saurav Karmakar (Media iQ Digital LTD)

WI'16 Publicity Chairs

Kate Cooper (University of Nebraska at Omaha, USA)
Daniel Tao (University of Southern Queensland, Australia)
Lars Braubach (University of Hamburg, Germany)

Local Organizing Committee

Prithviraj (Raj) Dasgupta
Zhengxin Chen
Peter Wolcott
Haifeng Guo
Mark Pauley
Wikil Kwak
Kerry Ward
Dhundy (Kiran) Bastola
Kate Cooper (publicity)
Bettina Lechner (webmaster)

WI Steering Committee Co-chairs

Ning Zhong (Maebashi Institute of Technology, Japan)
Jiming Liu (Hong Kong Baptist University, HK SAR, China)

*** Contact Information ***
kdempsey at unomaha.edu<mailto:kdempsey at unomaha.edu>
y2.li at qut.edu.au<mailto:y2.li at qut.edu.au>
ras at uncc.edu<mailto:ras at uncc.edu>
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