IEEE/WIC/ACM WI-IAT'06: Last Call for Workshop Proposals

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Call for Workshop Proposals

2006 IEEE/WIC/ACM International Joint
Conference on Web Intelligence and Intelligent Agent
Technology
(WI-IAT'06)

Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre, Hong Kong,
China,
18-22 December 2006

http://www.comp.hk
bu.edu.hk/~wii06

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Workshop Proposals Due: 10 April 2006
All papers accepted for workshops will be included in the
Workshop
Proceedings published by the IEEE Computer Society Press
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The Program Committees of the 2006 IEEE/WIC/ACM
International Joint
Conference on Web Intelligence and Intelligent Agent
Technology
(WI-IAT'06) invite proposals for Workshops.  The Workshops
will be
held at the beginning of the Conference, December 18, 2006
at Hong
Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre.

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 the 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 20-25 regular papers, while
a half-day
workshop should select 10-13 regular papers, from a large
number of
submissions.  The workshop organizers should ensure the
presence of
authors of accepted papers at the workshops.

I. Workshop Topics

Each workshop subject will focus on new research challenges
and
initiatives in Web Intelligence (WI) and Intelligent Agent
Technology
(IAT).  The workshops should provide an informal and vibrant
forum for
researchers and industry practitioners to share their
research results
and practical development experiences in these two fields. 
Suggested,
but not limited to, workshop topics include:

- Intelligent E-Technology (including E-Science, E-Business,
              E-Learning, E-Finance, E-Government,
E-Community)
- Intelligent Human-Web Interaction
- Knowledge Grids and Grid Intelligence
- Semantics and Ontology Engineering
- Social Networks and Social Intelligence
- Ubiquitous Computing
- Web Agents
- Web Information Filtering and Retrieval
- Web Mining and Forming
- Web Security, Integrity, Privacy and Trust
- Web Services and Grid Services
- Web Support Systems
- World Wide Wisdom Web (W4)
- Agent Systems Modeling and Methodology
- Autonomous Knowledge and Information Agents
- Autonomous Auctions and Negotiation
- Autonomy-Oriented Computing (AOC)
- Learning and Self-Adapting Agents
- Distributed Intelligence

II. Workshop Proposal Submission

Workshop proposals should include the following elements:

- Title of the workshop
- Your name, affiliation, mailing address and e-mail address
- A description of the topic of the workshop (not exceeding
200 words)
- Type of the workshop (full-day or half-day)
- A description of how the workshop will contribute to the
field of
  Web Intelligence and/or Intelligent Agent Technology
- A short description on how the workshop will be advertised
so as
  to ensure a sufficiently wide range of authors and high
quality papers

After the acceptation of a workshop proposal the
organizer(s) should:

- Create a "Call for papers/participation" for
the workshop
- Create a Web page for the workshop, the link of which will
be published
  on the Conference Web site
- Create a Board of Reviewers (Program Committee)
- Review and select papers
- Schedule the workshop activities

Those papers selected by a workshop organizer will also be
reviewed by
the Workshop Co-Chairs for final acceptance.

All submitted papers will be reviewed on the basis of
technical
quality, relevance, significance, and clarity.

We will provide an online paper submission and review system
to support the workshops.

III. Important Dates

- April 10, 2006: Workshop proposal submission due
    (Please send proposals by e-mail to all three Workshop
Co-Chairs)
- April 20, 2006: Notification to workshop proposers
- April 30, 2006: Each workshop organizer sends out Call for
Workshops
Papers
- July 30, 2006: Due date for full workshop papers
submission
                 (at least two reviews for each paper)
- September 5, 2006: Final acceptance by Workshop Co-Chairs
- September 8, 2006: Notification of paper acceptance to
authors
- September 29, 2006: Camera-ready of accepted papers
- December 18, 2006: Workshop day

We look forward to your support in making 2006 IEEE/WIC/ACM
WI-IAT
workshops an exciting event.

Workshop Co-Chairs:

Cory J. Butz, University of Regina, Canada
              E-mail: butzcs.uregina.ca
Ngoc Thanh Nguyen, Wroclaw University of Technology, Poland
              E-mail: thanhpwr.wroc.pl
Yasufumi Takama, Tokyo Metropolitan University, Japan
              E-mail: ytakamacc.tmit.ac.jp

Note: we will not have a separate workshop registration fee
this year
(i.e., only one conference registration covers everything).

For your information, the WI-IAT'06 conference will be
co-located with
the IEEE International Conference on Data Mining (ICDM'06)
for
providing synergism among the three research areas. It will
provide
opportunities for technical collaboration beyond that of
previous
conferences. The three conferences will have the joint
opening,
keynote, reception, and banquet. Attendees only need to
register one
conference and can attend sessions across the three
conferences. We
are planning to have a joint panel and joint paper sessions
that
discuss common problems in the three areas.