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Call for Workshop Proposals

2009 IEEE/WIC/ACM International Joint
Conference on Web Intelligence and Intelligent Agent Technology
(WI-IAT'09)

Milano, Italy, September 15-18, 2009.
http://www.wi-iat09.disco.unimib.it/WI09/WIhome.htm
http://www.wi-iat09.disco.unimib.it/IAT09/IAThome.htm

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Workshop Proposals Due: ** January 31 **, 2009 - DEADLINE EXTENDED

All papers accepted for workshops will be included in the Workshop
Proceedings published by the IEEE Computer Society Press,
which are indexed by EI.
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The Program Committees of the 2009 IEEE/WIC/ACM International Joint
Conference on Web Intelligence and Intelligent Agent Technology
(WI-IAT'09) invite proposals for Workshops. The Workshops will be held
within the Conference, September 15-18, 2009 at Milano, Italy.

The main goal of the WI-IAT'09 workshops is to stimulate and facilitate
active exchange, interaction and comparison of approaches, methods and
ideas related to specific topics, both theoretical and applied, in the
general areas related to Web Intelligence and Intelligent Agent
Technology. The workshops will provide an informal setting where
participants will have the opportunity to discuss specific technical
topics in an atmosphere that fosters the active exchange of ideas.

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, which are expected to be published by 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 10-14 regular papers, while a half-day workshop should select 5-7
regular papers, from a large number of submissions. The workshop
organizers should ensure the presence of authors of accepted papers at the
workshops. Optionally, the workshop may be started or concluded by a panel
focusing on interesting aspects, controversial issues, or unsolved
problems to stimulate lively, thoughtful, and thought-provoking debate; we
expect the workshop organizers to actively engage the audience and help
them gain a deeper understanding of the issues. The goal of a panel is to
debate and thus panels should always reflect more than one point of view.


*** 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
workshop topics include, but are not limited to:

Web Intelligence, Brain Informatics and Bio Technology
Intelligent E-Technology (including E-Science, E-Business, E-Learning,
E-Finance, E-Government, E-Community)
Intelligent Web Interaction
Knowledge Grids and Grid Intelligence
Semantics and Ontology Engineering
Social Networks and Social Intelligence
Web Agents
Web Information Filtering and Retrieval
Web Mining and Forming
Web Monitoring and Change
Web Personalization and Recommendations
Web Security, Integrity, Privacy and Trust
Web Services and Grid Services
Web Support Systems
World Wide Wisdom Web (W4)
Intelligent Web Querying
Log Mining
Agent Systems Modeling and Methodology
Autonomous Knowledge and Information Agents
Autonomous Auctions and Negotiation
Autonomy-Oriented Computing (AOC)
Learning and Self-Adapting Agents
Agents and Data Mining Interaction
Multiagent Systems in E-business


*** Workshop Proposal Submission

Workshop proposals should include the following elements:

Title of the workshop
The organizers 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
Optionally, only for full-day workshops, the title of a proposed panel,
with a brief description highlighting the reasons of interest of the 
issues to be debated

After the acceptance 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.


*** Important Dates

- Workshop proposal submission due: January 31, 2009 - DEADLINE EXTENDED
- Notification to workshop proposers: February 16, 2009
- Each Workshop Organizer Sends out Call for Workshops Papers: February 5,
2009
- Due date for full workshop papers submission: (at least two reviews for
each paper) April 30, 2009
- Final acceptance by Workshop Co-Chairs: June 10, 2009
- Notification of paper acceptance to authors: June 8, 2009
- Camera-ready of accepted papers: June 30, 2009
- Workshop day: 	September 15, 2009


*** Workshop proposal submissions
The above described workshop proposals must be submitted via e-mail
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We look forward to your support in making 2009 IEEE/WIC/ACM WI-IAT'09
workshops an exciting event.


*** Workshop Co-Chairs:

- Paolo Boldi, DSI, Universita' degli Studi di Milano (boldi [at>
dsi.unimi.it)
- Giuseppe Vizzari, DISCO, Universita' degli Studi di Milano Bicocca
(vizzari [at> disco.unimib.it)