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IEEE/WIC/ACM Intelligent Agent Technology 2004
C A L L F O R P A P E R S
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2004 IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on
Intelligent Agent Technology (IAT'04)
September 20-24, 2004
King Wing Hot Spring Hotel, Beijing, China
Homepages: http://www.maebashi-it.org/IAT04http://www.comp.hkbu.edu.hk/IAT04
Sponsored By
IEEE Computer Society
Web Intelligence Consortium (WIC)
Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
Co-Organized and In Cooperation With
Beijing University of Technology
China Computer Federation (CCF)
Hong Kong Baptist University (HKBU)
Tsinghua University
Corporate Sponsors
Beijing University of Technology
Microsoft Research Asia
National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC)
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- Paper submission due: April 4, 2004
- Submission websites: http://www.maebashi-it.org/IAT04http://www.comp.hkbu.edu.hk/IAT04
- Electronic submissions are required in the form of PDF or PS files
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The 2004 IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Intelligent Agent
Technology (IAT'04) will be jointly held with the 2004 IEEE/WIC/ACM
International Conference on Web Intelligence (WI'04
http://www.maebashi-it.org/WI04/). The IEEE/WIC/ACM 2004 joint
conferences are sponsored and organized by IEEE Computer Society
Technical Committee on Computational Intelligence (TCCI)
(http://www.cs.uvm.edu/~xwu/tcci/index.shtml), Web Intelligence
Consortium (WIC) (http://wi-consortium.org), and ACM-SIGART
(http://www.acm.org/sigart/). The upcoming meeting in this conference
series follows the great successes of IAT-99 held in Hong Kong, IAT-01
held in Maebashi City, Japan, and IAT-03 held in Halifax, Canada.
IAT 2004 provides a leading international forum to bring together
researchers and practitioners from diverse fields, such as computer
science, information technology, business, education, human factors,
systems engineering, and robotics, to (1) examine the design
principles and performance characteristics of various approaches in
intelligent agent technology, and (2) increase the cross-fertilization
of ideas on the development of autonomous agents and multi-agent
systems among different domains. By encouraging idea-sharing and
discussions on the underlying logical, cognitive, physical, and
sociological foundations as well as the enabling technologies of
intelligent agents, IAT 2004 will foster the development of
novel paradigms and advanced solutions in agent-based computing.
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Topics
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The topics and areas to be addressed include, but not limited to:
* Autonomy-Oriented Computing (AOC)
Agent-Based Complex Systems Modeling and Development
Agent-Based Simulation
Autonomy-Oriented Modeling and Computation Methods
Behavioral Self-Organization
Complex Behavior Characterization and Engineering
Emergent Behavior
Hard Computational Problem Solving
Self-Organized Criticality
Self-Organized Intelligence
Swarm Intelligence
Nature-Inspired Paradigms
* Autonomous Knowledge and Information Agents
Agent-Based Distributed Data Mining
Agent-Based Knowledge Discovery And Sharing
Autonomous Information Services
Distributed Knowledge Systems
Emergent Natural Law Discovery in Multi-Agent Systems
Evolution of Knowledge Networks
Human-Agent Interaction
Information Filtering Agents
Knowledge Aggregation
Knowledge Discovery
Ontology-Based Information Services
* Agent Systems Modeling and Methodology
Agent Interaction Protocols
Fault-Tolerance in Multi-Agent Systems
Formal Framework for Multi-Agent Systems
Information Exchanges in Multi-Agent Systems
Learning and Self-Adaptation in Multi-Agent Systems
Mobile Agent Languages and Protocols
Multi-Agent Autonomic Architectures
Multi-Agent Coordination Techniques
Multi-Agent Planning and Re-Planning
Peer-to-Peer Models for Multi-Agent Systems
Reinforcement Learning
Social Interactions in Multi-Agent Systems
Task-Based Agent Context
Task-Oriented Agents
* Distributed Problem Solving
Agent-Based Grid Computing
Agent Networks in Distributed Problem Solving
Collective Group Behavior
Coordination and Cooperation
Distributed Intelligence
Dynamics of Agent Groups and Populations
Efficiency and Complexity Issues
Market-Based Computing
Problem-Solving in Dynamic Environments
Distributed Search
* Autonomous Auctions and Negotiation
Agent-Based Marketplaces
Auction Markets
Combinatorial Auctions
Hybrid Negotiation
Integrative Negotiation
Mediating Agents
Pricing Agents
Thin Double Auctions
* Applications
Agent-Based Assistants
Agent-Based Virtual Enterprise
Embodied Agents and Agent-Based Systems Applications
Interface Agents
Knowledge and Data Intensive Systems
Scalability
Software and Pervasive Agents
Tools and Standards
Ubiquitous Systems and E-Technology Agents
Ubiquitous Software Services
XML-Based Agent Systems
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Important Dates
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Electronic submission of full papers: April 4, 2004
Notification of paper acceptance: June 10, 2004
Workshop and tutorial proposal submission: June 10, 2004
Camera-ready of accepted papers: July 5, 2004
Workshops/Tutorials: September 20, 2004
Conference: September 21-24, 2004
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Submissions and Publication
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High-quality papers in all IAT related areas are solicited. Papers
exploring new directions or areas will receive a careful and
supportive review. All submitted papers will be reviewed on the
basis of technical quality, relevance, significance, and clarity.
Note that IAT'04 will accept ONLY on-line submissions, containing
PDF (PostScript or MS-Word) versions.
The conference proceedings will be published by the IEEE Computer
Society Press.
IAT'04 also welcomes Industry/Demo-Track submissions, Workshop and
Tutorial proposals.
All paper submissions will be handled electronically. More detailed
instructions and the On-Line Submission Form can be found from the
IAT'04 homepages: http://www.maebashi-it.org/IAT04 and
http://www.comp.hkbu.edu.hk/IAT04.
A selected number of IAT'04 accepted papers will be expanded and
revised for inclusion in Web Intelligence and Agent Systems:
An International Journal (http://wi-consortium.org/journal.html)
and in Annual Review of Intelligent Informatics
(http://www.wi-consortium.org/annual.html).
The best paper award and the best demo award will be conferred on the
authors of the best papers and the best demos at the conference.
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Conference Organization
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***** Conference Committee *****
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:
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
WI-Track:
Henry Tirri, University of Helsinki, Finland
Yiyu Yao, University of Regina, Canada
Lizhu Zhou, Tsinghua University, China
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:
Tieyoung 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
***** IAT'04 Program Committee *****
(to be announced)
*** Contact Information ***
WI'04 and IAT'04 Conference Secretariat
wi-iat at maebashi-it.org
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