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    CALL FOR PARTICIPATION

    IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Intelligent Agent Technology 2015 (IAT'15)

    Big Data in Global Brain and Social Networks

    December 6-9, 2015 / Singapore
    Homepage: http://wi-iat15.ntulily.org

    Sponsored By:
    IEEE Computer Society
    Web Intelligence Consortium (WIC)
    Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
    Memetic Computing Society (MC)


    (Early Bird Registration DEADLINE: *** October 1, 2015 ***)

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    KEYNOTE SPEAKERS
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    * Joseph Sifakis (Turing Award 2007)
    Professor at Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne (EPFL)
    Director, Centre de Recherche Integrative (CRI) in Grenoble, France

    * Francis Heylighen
    Director, Global Brain Institute
    Professor at Free University of Brussels, Belgium

    * Steven E. Koonin
    Director, Center for Urban Science and Progress New York University, USA

    * Gee-Wah Ng
    Programme Director, DSO National Laboratories, Singapore

    * Sarit Kraus (AAAI, ECCAI and ACM Fellow)
    Professor of Computer Science, Bar-Ilan University, Israel
    Adjunct Professor, University of Maryland, USA

    * Dominik Slezak
    Professor at University of Warsaw, Poland
    Chief Scientist, Infobright Inc.


    The 2015 IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Intelligent Agent
    Technology (IAT'15) will be held in Singapore on December 6-9,
    2015, hosted by the Joint NTU-UBC Research Centre of Excellence in
    Active Living for the Elderly (LILY) at Nanyang Technological
    University (NTU) and the Living Analytics Research Centre at Singapore Management University (SMU). Co-located with the 2015 IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Web Intelligence (WI'15), IAT'15 is
    sponsored by IEEE Computer Society Technical Committee on Intelligent Informatics (TCII), Web Intelligence Consortium (WIC), ACM-SIGAI, and
    Memetic Computing Society.

    IAT'15 will feature special thematic workshops, technical sessions,
    tutorials and a joint panel. Conference programme will further include a welcome reception, keynotes, demos, poster sessions, and a
    banquet. Attendees only need one registration to attend all technical
    events.

    TOPICS AND AREAS (INCLUDE, BUT NOT LIMITED TO)

    * Autonomy-Oriented Computing
    * Agent and Multi-Agent Systems Engineering
    * Agent and Multi-Agent Systems Modeling
    * Knowledge and Information Agents
    * Autonomous Auction and Negotiation
    * Distributed Problem Solving
    * Cooperation & Coordination
    * Agent Systems Applications


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    WORKSHOPS
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    * The Third International Workshop on Data Oriented Constructive Mining and
    the Seventh International Workshop on Emergent Intelligence Networked Agents (DOCMAS/WEIN)
    Chairs: Satoshi Kurihara, Hiromitsu Hattori, Kiyoshi Izumi, Hidenori Kawamura,
    Hideyuki Nakashima, Akira Namatame, Kouzou Ohara, Fujio Toriumi.

    * International Workshop on Complex methods for data and web mining (CMDWM)
    Chairs: Yong Shi, Lingfeng Niu

    * The Fourth International Workshop on Web Personalization, Recommender Systems and Social Media (WPRSM)
    Chairs: Yue Xu, Yuefeng Li

    * International Workshop on Knowledge Management of Web Social Media (KMWSM)
    Chairs: Wei Huang, Xiaohui Tao, Yuefeng Li

    * 6th International Workshop on Intelligent E-government and Emergency Management (EGOVEM)
    Chairs: Xin Ye, Liming Zhu, Ning Wang, Xuelong Chen

    * 8th International Workshop on Natural Language Processing on Ontology Engineering (NLPOE)
    Chairs: Kang Shiyong, Liu Yao, Qiu Likun

    * International Workshop on Ensemble of Anomaly Detection Algorithms (EADA)
    Chairs: Yuh-Jye Lee, Hsing-Kuo Kenneth Pao, Esther David, Guy Leshem


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    TUTORIALS
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    * Content-based retrieval and browsing of images
    Speaker: Gerald Schaefer, United Kingdom

    * Higher-order Theory of Situated Information
    Speaker: Roussanka Loukanova, Sweden

    * Distributed Agent Simulations for the Smart Energy Grid: 11
    Speakers: Michel Oey, Sander van Splunter, ZC<lkC<f GenC', and Frances Brazier, Netherlands

    * Multiplex Networks Mining
    Speaker: Rushed Kanawati, France

    * Visual Analytics of Time-evolving Large-scale graphs
    Speakers: Raju Gottumukkala and Vijay Raghavan, United Kingdom


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    SPECIAL SESSIONS
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    * Special Session on Agents in Urban Computing and Engineering
    Organizer: Shih-Fen Cheng, Singapore

    * Special Session on Artificial Intelligence for Aging in-Place
    Organizer: Chunyan Miao, Singapore
    Cyril Leung, Canada


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    AWARDS
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    Best Paper awards will be conferred at the conference on the authors
    of (1) the best research paper, (2) the best student
    paper. Application-oriented submissions will be considered for the
    best application paper award.


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    IMPORTANT DATES
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    Early Bird Registration October 1, 2015

    Workshops/Tutorials December 6, 2015
    Main Conference December 7-9, 2015


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    ORGANIZING COMMITTEE
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    General Chairs
    * Ah-Hwee Tan, Singapore
    * Yuefeng Li, Australia

    Program Chair
    * Ee-Peng Lim, Singapore

    Program Vice-Chairs
    * Atsuhiro Takasu, Japan
    * Hoong-Chuin Lau, Singapore
    * Chunyan Miao, Singapore

    IAT Technical PC Chairs
    * Sarvapali Ramchurn, UK
    * Anita Raja, USA
    * Bo An, Singapore

    Local Organizing Chair
    * Meng-Hiot Lim, Singapore
    * Sufen Cheong, Singapore
    * Di Wang, Singapore

    Finance Chair and CyberChair-Master
    * Juzhen Dong, Japan

    Industry and Sponsorship Chairs
    * Xiaoli Li, Singapore
    * Richi Nayak, Australia
    * Saurav Karmakar, India

    Workshop Chairs
    * Bryan Kian-Hsiang Low, Singapore
    * Einoshin Suzuki, Japan
    * Jason Watson, Australia

    Tutorial Chairs
    * Pradeep Reddy Varakantham, Singapore
    * Yue Xu, Australia

    Demo/Poster Chair
    * Zhiqi Shen, Singapore
    * Yiqiang Chen, China

    Publicity Chairs
    * Xiaohui Tao, Australia
    * Teck-Hou Teng, Singapore

    Panel Chairs
    * Hady Lauw, Singapore
    * Neil Yorke-Smith, Lebanon

    Award Chairs
    * Ee-Peng Lim, Singapore
    * Raj Sunderraman, USA

    Webmaster
    * Jun Lin, Singapore
    * Yilin Kang, Singapore

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