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IEEE/WIC/ACM WI-IAT'04 FINAL CALL FOR PAPERS
2004 IEEE/WIC/ACM International Joint Conference on
Web Intelligence (WI) & Intelligent Agent Technology (IAT)
September 20-24, 2004, Beijing, China
www.maebashi-it.org/WI04/ & www.maebashi-it.org/IAT04/
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***** KEYNOTE/INVITED SPEAKERS *****
John McCarthy (Stanford University)
Boi Faltings (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology)
Carl Kesselman (University of Southern California)
Victor Lesser (University of Massachusetts)
Tom Mitchell (Carnegie Mellon University)
Xindong Wu (University of Vermont)
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Paper submission due: April 4, 2004
Submission websites
WI-Track: www.maebashi-it.org/WI04/
www.comp.hkbu.edu.hk/WI04/
IAT-Track: www.maebashi-it.org/IAT04/
www.comp.hkbu.edu.hk/IAT04/
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***** SPONSORED BY *****
IEEE Computer Society
Web Intelligence Consortium (WIC)
Association for Computing Machinery
***** CO-ORGANIZED/IN COOPERATION WITH *****
Beijing University of Technology
China Computer Federation
Hong Kong Baptist University
Maebashi Institute of Technology
Tsinghua University
***** CORPORATE SPONSORS *****
Beijing University of Technology
Microsoft Research Asia
National Natural Science Foundation of China
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WI-IAT'04 provides a leading international forum to bring together
researchers and practitioners from diverse fields, such as Artificial
Intelligence, Computer Science, Information Technology, Physical
Science and Engineering, Business, Education, and Social Sciences
etc., to discuss the fundamental methodologies and enabling techniques
in developing the next-generation Web intelligence and intelligent
agent technologies.
High-quality papers in all WI and IAT related areas are solicited. All
submitted papers will be reviewed on the basis of technical quality,
relevance, significance, and clarity. WI-IAT'04 will accept ONLY
on-line submissions, containing PDF (PostScript or MS-Word) versions.
More detailed instructions and the On-Line Submission Form can be
found from the WI-IAT'04 homepage.
WI-IAT'04 also welcomes Industry/Demo-Track submissions, Workshop and
Tutorial proposals.
The conference proceedings will be published by the IEEE Computer
Society Press.
A selected number of WI-IAT'04 accepted papers will be expanded and
revised for inclusion in Web Intelligence and Agent Systems: An
International Journal and in Annual Review of Intelligent Informatics.
The best paper and the best demo awards will be announced at the conference.
***** CONFERENCE ORGANIZATION ******
Conference Chairs:
Jiming Liu, Hong Kong Baptist University, HK
Nick Cercone, University of Dalhousie, Canada
Program Chair:
Ning Zhong, Maebashi Institute of Technology, Japan
Program Co-Chairs:
WI-Track:
Henry Tirri, University of Helsinki, Finland
Yiyu Yao, University of Regina, Canada
Lizhu Zhou, Tsinghua University, China
IAT-Track:
Jeffrey Bradshaw, UWF/Institute for Human and Machine Cognition, USA
Sankar K. Pal, Indian Statistical Institute, Inida
Domenico Talia, University of Calabria, Italy
Industry/Demo-Track Chairs:
Qiang Yang, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, HK
Wei-Ying Ma, Microsoft Research Asia, China
Workshop Chair:
Pawan Lingras, Saint Mary's University, Canada
Tutorial Chair:
Gerd Wagner, Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands
Publicity Chair:
Yuefeng Li, Queensland University of Technology, Australia
Organizing Chairs:
Tieyong Zuo, Beijing University of Technology, China
Chunnian Liu, Beijing University of Technology, China
Local Arrangement Chair:
Baocai Yin, Beijing University of Technology, China
IEEE-CS-TCCI Chair
Xindong Wu USA
WIC Co-Chairs/Directors
Ning Zhong Japan
Jiming Liu HK
ACM-SIGART Chair
Maria Gini USA
WIC Advisory Board
Edward A. Feigenbaum USA
Setsuo Ohsuga Japan
Benjamin Wah USA
Philip Yu USA
L.A. Zadeh USA
WIC Technical Committee & WI-IAT Steering Committee
Nick Cercone Canada
Dieter Fensel Austria
Georg Gottlob Austria
Lakhmi Jain Australia
W. Lewis Johnson USA
Jianchang Mao USA
Hiroshi Motoda Japan
Toyoaki Nishida Japan
Xindong Wu USA
Yiyu Yao Canada
***** Contact Information *****
WI-IAT'04 Conference Secretariat: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
