[Apologies if you receive this more than once] ================== Call for Tutorials ==================
The 2004 IEEE/WIC/ACM International Joint Conference on Web Intelligence (WI'04) and Intelligent Agent Technology (IAT'04) takes place on September 20-24, 2004, King Wing Hot Spring Hotel, Beijing, China. Homepages: http://www.comp.hkbu.edu.hk/IAT04 http://www.maebashi-it.org/IAT04 http://www.maebashi-it.org/WI04 http://www.comp.hkbu.edu.hk/WI04 WI 2004 and IAT 2004 will include tutorials providing in-depth background on subjects that are of broad interest to the intelligent agent community. Both short (2 hours) and long (half day) tutorials will be considered. The following is a *non-exclusive* list of preferred topic areas for tutorial proposals: Web Intelligence: - Intelligent/Semantic Web Services - Intelligent Wireless Web and Ubiquitous Computing - Rules and Inference Engines for the Web - Semantic Web Concepts and Techniques for Security and Trust - Service-Oriented Computing - Social Networks and Social Intelligence Intelligent Agent Technology: - Aagent-Based Modeling and Simulation - Agent Technologies in e-Business Systems - Agent-Mediated Knowledge Management - Peer-to-Peer Models for Multi-Agent Systems - Agent-Based Grid Computing Proposals related to these areas will receive special consideration. Submission Details: Proposals for tutorials should consist of an outline and background information on the presenter(s). The tutorial outline should be limited to 2 pages and contain the following information: 1. Title and abstract of the tutorial 2. Proposed duration: 2 hours or half-day 3. Intended audience: to whom is the tutorial of interest 4. Prerequisite knowledge: what the attendees should already know 5. Detailed outline The background information on the presenter(s) should be limited to 1-2 pages and contain: 1. Names, affiliations, homepages and contact details 2. Short biographies 3. Information about previous tutorials given by the same presenters (title, location, number of attendees, etc.) Tutorial materials such as handouts and slides should be included if already available, but are not required for submission. Please send your proposal to [EMAIL PROTECTED] A honorarium of $250/$500 is provided for giving a 2/4-hours tutorial. If the tutorial is given by multiple speakers, this honorarium is shared by them. Important Dates: June 10, 2004 Tutorial submissions June 25, 2004 Acceptance notices August 10, 2004 Camera-ready copy of tutorial handouts September 20, 2004 WI-IAT'04 tutorials Tutorial Chair: Gerd Wagner, Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
