<div dir="ltr"><div>==========================================================</div><div> CALL FOR PARTICIPATION</div><div><br></div><div> The 2013 WI-IAT Conferences:</div><div> IEEE/WIC/ACM Web Intelligence 2013 (WI'13)</div>
<div> IEEE/WIC/ACM Intelligent Agent Technology 2013 (IAT'13)</div><div><br></div><div><span class="" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Westin Peach Plaza Hotel</div><div><span class="" style="white-space:pre"> </span>November 17-20, 2013, Atlanta, GA, USA</div>
<div><br></div><div><span class="" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Homepage: <a href="http://cs.gsu.edu/wic2013/splash">http://cs.gsu.edu/wic2013/splash</a></div><div>==========================================================</div>
<div><br></div><div>**********************************************************</div><div>!!! Early-bird Registration by Oct 17, 2013 !!!</div><div><br></div><div>Hotel Reservation: Westin Peach Plaza Hotel, Atlanta</div><div>
Reservation link: </div><div><a href="https://www.starwoodmeeting.com/Book/webintelligenceandintelligentagent">https://www.starwoodmeeting.com/Book/webintelligenceandintelligentagent</a></div><div>**********************************************************</div>
<div><br></div><div>Turing Keynote Speaker: John Hopcroft</div><div>(1986 Turing Award Winner)</div><div><br></div><div>Conference Panel on </div><div>"Connecting Big Data with Web Intelligence"</div><div><br></div>
<div>Industry Track Panel on</div><div>"Internet of Things"</div><div><br></div><div>The congress includes two intelligent informatics related conferences:</div><div>- IEEE/WIC/ACM Web Intelligence 2013 (WI'13)</div>
<div>- IEEE/WIC/ACM Intelligent Agent Technology 2013 (IAT'13)</div><div>Co-located with the aim to facilitate interactions and idea exchange among</div><div>researchers working on a variety of focused themes under a holistic vision</div>
<div>for computing and intelligence in the post WWW era and to promote and</div><div>expedite new innovations for areas under intelligent informatics.</div><div><br></div><div>Sponsored and Organized by</div><div>- Web Intelligence Consortium (WIC)</div>
<div>- IEEE-CS Technical Committee on Intelligent Informatics (TCII)</div><div>- ACM SIGART</div><div>- Georgia State University</div><div><br></div><div>================= HIGHLIGHTS =========================</div><div> 6 Invited Speeches by</div>
<div> John Hopcroft (1986 Turing Award Winner)</div><div> Ophir Frieder (WI)</div><div> Victor Lesser (IAT)</div><div> Scott Fahlman (Technology/ Applications Award)</div><div> David Atkinson (Industry Track)</div>
<div> Cyrus Nourani (Industry Track)</div><div> 4 Tutorials</div><div> 9 Workshops</div><div> 4 Special Sessions</div><div> Presentations of Accepted Research Track Papers</div><div><br></div><div>REGISTRATRION</div>
<div>+++++++++++++</div><div>**********************************************************</div><div>!!! Early-bird Registration by Oct 17, 2013 !!!</div><div>**********************************************************</div><div>
<br></div><div>On-line registration (and more information) at</div><div><a href="https://wi-lab.com/cyberchair/2013/wiiat13/scripts/register_info.php">https://wi-lab.com/cyberchair/2013/wiiat13/scripts/register_info.php</a></div>
<div><br></div><div>Regular registration (Member and Non-Member) covers everything: all</div><div>four days technical programs (invited talks, tutorials, workshops,</div><div>parallel sessions for accepted papers presentation, industry/demo</div>
<div>session, etc.), social program (welcome reception, banquet), coffee</div><div>breaks, as well as a copy (CD) of proceedings (WI, IAT and Workshops</div><div>proceedings). Non-author student registration does not cover the</div>
<div>banquet.</div><div><br></div><div>As usual, WI-IAT 2013 will be co-located, providing synergism among</div><div>Web Intelligence, Intelligent Agent Technology. The two conferences</div><div>will have a joint opening, invited talks, reception, and</div>
<div>banquet. Attendees only need to register for one conference and can</div><div>attend workshops, sessions, invited talks, panels and tutorials across</div><div>the two conferences.</div><div><br></div><div>INVITED TALKS</div>
<div>+++++++++++++</div><div><br></div><div>Turing Keynote Talk</div><div>Future Directions in Computer Science Research </div><div>John Hopcroft, Professor at Cornell University, USA</div><div>(1986 Turing Award Winner)</div>
<div><br></div><div>WI Invited Talk</div><div>Collective Intelligence</div><div>Ophir Frieder, Professor at Georgetown University, USA</div><div><br></div><div>IAT Invited Talk</div><div>Personal Reflections on Self-Awareness and Adaptability </div>
<div>in Agent and Multiagent Systems</div><div>Victor Lesser, Professor at University of Massachusetts-Amherst, USA</div><div><br></div><div>Technology/Applications Award Talk</div><div>Natural Language Understanding Using Background Knowledge</div>
<div>Scott Fahlman, Research Professor at Carnegie Mellon University, USA</div><div><br></div><div>Industry Track</div><div>Trust Between Humans and Intelligent, Autonomous Agents</div><div>David Atkinson, Senior Research Scientist at Florida Institute of </div>
<div>Human and Machine Cognition, USA</div><div><br></div><div>Industry Track</div><div>W-Interfaces, Business Intelligence, and Content Processing</div><div>Cyrus Nourani, Independent Consultant & Research Professor at Simon Fraser </div>
<div>University, Canada</div><div><br></div><div>PANEL</div><div>+++++</div><div><br></div><div>P1: Conference Panel on </div><div>"Connecting Big Data with Web Intelligence"</div><div><br></div><div>P2: Industry Track Panel on</div>
<div>"Internet of Things"</div><div><br></div><div>TUTORIALS</div><div>+++++++++</div><div><br></div><div>T1: Intelligent Web Crawling</div><div> Denis Shestakov, Department of Media Technology, Aalto University</div>
<div><br></div><div>T2: Ontology for Multimedia Applications</div><div> Hiranmay Ghosh, Tata Consultancy Services</div><div><br></div><div>T3: Agents in Smart Energy Grids</div><div> Michel Oey, Martijn Warnier and Frances Brazier, </div>
<div> Delft University of Technology</div><div><br></div><div>T4: Software Agent Architectures</div><div> Rosario Girardi, Federal University of Maranhao</div><div><br></div><div>WORKSHOPS</div><div>+++++++++</div><div>
<br></div><div>WI Workshops</div><div><br></div><div>W1: WPRSM 2013: International Workshop on Web Personalization, </div><div> Recommender Systems and Social Media</div><div> <a href="http://www.webpres-workshop.com/">http://www.webpres-workshop.com/</a> </div>
<div><br></div><div>W2: WOSWI 2013: First Workshop on Social Web Intelligence</div><div> <a href="http://csifa.org/WOSWI/">http://csifa.org/WOSWI/</a></div><div><br></div><div>W3: ODMWI 2013: Optimization-based Data Mining and Web Intelligence</div>
<div> <a href="http://www.feds.ac.cn/Pages/AnnounceShow.aspx?ID=22">http://www.feds.ac.cn/Pages/AnnounceShow.aspx?ID=22</a> </div><div><br></div><div>IAT Workshops</div><div><br></div><div>W4: AS-BPM 2013: International Workshop on Agent Systems </div>
<div> in Business Process Management</div><div> <a href="http://www.haw-ingolstadt.de/hochschule/fakultaeten/fakultaet-wirtschaftswissenschaften/forschung/workshopasbpm.html">http://www.haw-ingolstadt.de/hochschule/fakultaeten/fakultaet-wirtschaftswissenschaften/forschung/workshopasbpm.html</a> </div>
<div><br></div><div>W5: SPUnd 2013: Sensing, Perceiving, and Understanding Actions</div><div> <a href="http://workshopspund.uclm.es/">http://workshopspund.uclm.es/</a> </div><div><br></div><div>W6: DOCMAS-2013: 2nd International Workshop on Data Oriented </div>
<div> Constructive Mining and Multi-Agent Simulation</div><div> <a href="http://www.ai.soc.i.kyoto-u.ac.jp/docmas/workshop/docmas2013">http://www.ai.soc.i.kyoto-u.ac.jp/docmas/workshop/docmas2013</a> </div><div><br>
</div><div>W7: KDO 2013: First Workshop on Knowledge Discovery in Ontologies</div><div> <a href="http://www.inf.pucrs.br/peg/kdo2013/">http://www.inf.pucrs.br/peg/kdo2013/</a> </div><div><br></div><div>W8: HAI 2013: Seventh International Workshop on Human Aspects </div>
<div> in Ambient Intelligence</div><div> <a href="http://www.few.vu.nl/~tbosse/HAI13/">http://www.few.vu.nl/~tbosse/HAI13/</a> </div><div><br></div><div>W9: NLPOE 2013: 6th International Workshop on Natural Language Processing </div>
<div> and Ontology Engineering</div><div> <a href="http://www.ijklp.org/NLPOE2013/nlpoe.html">http://www.ijklp.org/NLPOE2013/nlpoe.html</a> </div><div><br></div><div>SPECIAL SESSIONS</div><div>++++++++++++++++</div>
<div><br></div><div>S1: BWMD 2013: Intelligent Methods for Web & Machine Big Data Analytics </div><div> <a href="http://www.cs.gsu.edu/wic2013/wi/bwmd">http://www.cs.gsu.edu/wic2013/wi/bwmd</a></div><div><br></div>
<div>S2: IOT 2013: Internet of Things</div><div> <a href="http://www.cs.gsu.edu/wic2013/wi/iot">http://www.cs.gsu.edu/wic2013/wi/iot</a></div><div><br></div><div>S3: WI/IAT 2013 Student Posters Session</div><div> <a href="http://cs.gsu.edu/wic2013/wi/poster-session">http://cs.gsu.edu/wic2013/wi/poster-session</a></div>
<div><br></div><div>S4: WI/IAT 2013 Industry Track Session</div><div> <a href="http://cs.gsu.edu/wic2013/wi/industry-session">http://cs.gsu.edu/wic2013/wi/industry-session</a></div><div><br></div><div>SOCIAL PROGRAM</div>
<div>+++++++++++++++</div><div><br></div><div>- The WI-IAT 2013 offers an exciting social program, including the</div><div> conference welcome reception on Nov. 18 and the congress banquet on</div><div> Nov. 19.</div><div>
<br></div><div>- The congress venue: Westin Peach Plaza Hotel was designed by</div><div> renowned Atlanta architect John Portman, the Western Hemisphere's</div><div> largest. This 73-story tower, topped by the revolving Sun Dial</div>
<div> Restaurant, Bar & View, graces the heart of Atlanta. Connected to</div><div> AmericasMart, The Westin Peachtree Plaza, is steps from CNN, Georgia</div><div> Aquarium, Georgia World Congress Center and the Georgia Dome.</div>
<div><br></div><div>- Atlanta Trolley Tour Line - <a href="http://www.atlantatrolleytourline.com/">http://www.atlantatrolleytourline.com/</a></div><div> The Atlanta Trolley Tour Line is a tour and sightseeing company in</div>
<div> Atlanta Georgia. The company offers an up-close look at the city's</div><div> hustle and bustle aboard a hop-on, hop-off trolley tour! On you tour</div><div> you will discover all the history from Atlanta's founding through</div>
<div> the Civil War through the Civil Rights Era and the Olympics. Your</div><div> journey takes you through many of Atlanta's neighborhoods including</div><div> Downtown, Grant Park, Cabbagetown, Martin Luther King Jr. Historic</div>
<div> District, SoNo, Midtown, Georgia Tech and Centennial Olympic</div><div> Park. You will hear tales of famous writers, see beautiful parks</div><div> and, hear the triumphs of the Olympics throughout the city. You will</div>
<div> learn about the major attractions, the best places to wine and dine,</div><div> the best shopping, where to go for night life, beautiful green</div><div> spaces, views of the city's architecture, and so much more. Ride at</div>
<div> your own pace. Disembark the trolley at any of the stops; then</div><div> re-board to continue your adventure. It's a great way to get around</div><div> the city for a day of sightseeing.</div><div><br></div>
<div>- Atlanta Links to Sightseeing & Entertainment. Follow these links to</div><div> learns more about Atlanta including "50 Fun Things" to do and</div><div> "Atlanta Alive After 5".</div><div><br>
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<div> visit to Atlanta should start at the same-day, half-price AtlanTIX</div><div> booth located at Underground Atlanta. The booth allows visitors to</div><div> find half-priced tickets to hundreds of theater, dance and music</div>
<div> performances and more than a dozen cultural attractions such as Zoo</div><div> Atlanta, Atlanta Botanical Gardens and the High Museum of Art. Visit</div><div> the AtlanTIX Website for events and available discount ticket</div>
<div> offers. Affordable Atlanta - CityPass - <a href="http://www.citypass.com">www.citypass.com</a> With</div><div> CityPass, you'll save 50% off admission prices to Atlanta's most</div><div> popular spots in a booklet with tips, maps and unexpected CityPass</div>
<div> extras. Atlanta CityPass is the biggest ticket booklet in CityPass</div><div> history. For information or to purchase a CityPass, log onto our</div><div> Website. Pricing as of Sept 21, 2013 is $74 (a $127 value) per</div>
<div> booklet for adults and $54 (a $100 value) per booklet for children.</div><div><br></div><div>CONTACT INFORMATION</div><div>+++++++++++++++++++</div><div>Tammie Dudley, Georgia State University <<a href="mailto:tdudley@gsu.edu">tdudley@gsu.edu</a>></div>
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