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FINAL CALL FOR PAPERS

 

2015 IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Intelligent Agent Technology

(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)

 

(EXTENDED FULL PAPER SUBMISSION DEADLINE: *** May 31, 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 panels. 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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PAPER SUBMISSION AND PUBLICATION

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IAT'15 solicits original work submitted as a regular paper (limited to

8 pages) or as short paper (limited to 4 pages) in IEEE 2-column

format. Each paper will be peer-reviewed by at least three PC members

on the basis of technical quality, relevance, originality,

significance and clarity. Accepted papers will be published in the

conference proceedings by the IEEE Computer Society Press and indexed

by EI. Selected IAT'15 papers will be further invited for expansion

and publication in Web Intelligence and Agent Systems and other

international Journals.

 

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CALL FOR TUTORIALS/PANELS

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IAT'15 solicits proposals for tutorials and panels on specific topics

of interests, which will form an integral part of the conference

program. Inquiries and submission of proposals should be addressed to

the respective chairs.

 

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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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Electronic Submission of Regular/Special Session Papers                     

*** May 31, 2015 ***

 

Tutorial Proposal Submission                              

June 1, 2015

 

Workshop Paper Submission                                                

June 1, 2015

 

Demos and Posters Submission                                                 

July 1, 2015

 

Notification on Conference Paper Acceptance                   

*** July 15, 2015 ***

 

Notification on Workshop Paper Acceptance                     

July 15, 2015

 

Notification on Demo and Poster Acceptance                   

August 1, 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