Call For Papers - Deadline:  June 1, 2008

                        WORLDCOMP'08
         The 2008 World Congress in Computer Science,
         Computer Engineering, and Applied Computing

      Date and Location: July 14-17, 2008, Las Vegas, USA
          http://www.world-academy-of-science.org/

You are invited to submit a paper (see instructions below).

WORLDCOMP'08 is composed of a number of tracks (joint conferences,
tutorials, and workshops); all will be held simultaneously,
same location and dates: July 14-17, 2008.  See
http://www.world-academy-of-science.org/  for the complete
list of joint conferences.

This is a Call For Papers for publication in the Final Edition
of the conference proceedings.  All papers submitted in response
to this announcement will be evaluated for publication in the
Final Edition of the proceedings which will go to press soon
after the conference (publication date: late August 2008).
This announcement is ONLY for those who missed the opportunity
to submit their papers in response to earlier announcements
(authors who have already been notified that their papers have
been accepted/not-accepted should ignore this announcement.)

IMPORTANT DATES:

    June 1, 2008:       Submission of full papers (less than 8 pages)
    June 14, 2008:      Notification of acceptance
    June 27, 2008:      Registration
    July 14-17, 2008:   WORLDCOMP'08 Congress (all joint-conferences)
    July 20, 2008:      Camera-Ready Papers Due for publication in the
                        Final Edition of the proceedings.

SUBMISSION OF PAPERS:

    Prospective authors are invited to submit their papers to
    hra@... (no more than 7 pages, single spaced and font
    size of 10 to 12 - all reasonable typesetting formats are
    acceptable).

    Authors should write the following in the subject header of
    their email:
    "Submission for Consideration in Final Edition of Proceedings" +
    name of conference that the paper is being submitted to.

    Papers should be attached to emails and must be either in
    Word Doc or PDF formats.

    Papers must not have been previously published or currently
    submitted for publication elsewhere.  The first page of the paper
    should include: title of the paper, name, affiliation, postal
    address, and email address for each author.  The first page
    should also include the name of the conference the paper is
    being submitted to (the list of conferences appears below.)
    Accepted papers will be published in the final edition of the
    respective proceedings/books.

    All submissions will be evaluated for originality, significance,
    clarity, and soundness.  Each paper will be refereed by two
    researchers in the topical area.

    The authors of accepted papers will later be asked to follow a
    particular typing instructions to prepare their final paper for
    publication.

LIST OF CONFERENCES:

    PDPTA:   Parallel and Distributed Processing Techniques and
             Applications
    GCA:     Grid Computing and Applications
    CDES:    The 2008 International Conference on Computer Design
    CSC:     Scientific Computing
    ICAI:    Artificial Intelligence
    GEM:     Genetic and Evolutionary Methods
    MLMTA:   Machine Learning; Models, Technologies and Applications
    BIOCOMP: Bioinformatics and Computational Biology
    SERP:    Software Engineering Research and Practice
    ICWN:    Wireless Networks
    IPCV:    Image Processing, Computer Vision, and Pattern Recognition
    MSV:     Modeling, Simulation and Visualization Methods
    CGVR:    Computer Graphics and Virtual Reality
    ICOMP:   Internet Computing
    SWWS:    Semantic Web and Web Services
    SAM:     Security and Management
    DMIN:    Data Mining
    IKE:     Information and Knowledge Engineering
    EEE:     e-Learning, e-Business, Enterprise Information Systems,
             and e-Government
    ESA:     Embedded Systems and Applications
    FECS:    Frontiers in Education: Computer Science and Computer
             Engineering
    FCS:     Foundations of Computer Science
    CIC:     Communications in Computing

PLANNED TUTORIALS:
    See the following web site for a partial list:
    http://www.world-academy-of-science.org/worldcomp08/ws/tutorials

KEYNOTE LECTURES:
    See the following web site for a partial list:
    http://www.world-academy-of-science.org/worldcomp08/ws/keynotes

LOCATION OF CONFERENCE:

    WORLDCOMP will be held in the Monte Carlo hotel, Las Vegas, Nevada,
    USA (with any overflows at other near-by hotels).  This is a mega
    hotel with excellent conference facilities and over 3,000 rooms.
    It is minutes from the airport with 24-hour shuttle service to and
    from the airport.  This hotel has many recreational attractions,
    including: spa, pools, sunning decks, Easy River, wave pool,
    lighted tennis courts, nightly shows, a number of restaurants, ...
    The negotiated room rate for conference attendees is very reasonable.
    The hotel is within walking distance from most other attractions.

SPONSORS:

    Academic/Technical Co-Sponsors (a partial list):

    -->  Computational Biology and Functional Genomics Laboratory,
         Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
    -->  International Society of Intelligent Biological Medicine
    -->  Horvath Lab., University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), USA
    -->  Minnesota Supercomputing Institute, University of Minnesota, USA
    -->  Functional Genomics Laboratory, University of Illinois at
         Urbana-Champaign, USA
    -->  BioMedical Informatics & Bio-Imaging Laboratory, Georgia Institute
         of Technology and Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia, USA
    -->  Intelligent Data Exploration and Analysis Laboratory, University
         of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas, USA
    -->  Biomedical Cybernetics Laboratory, HST of Harvard University and
         MIT, USA
    -->  Center for the Bioinformatics and Computational Genomics,
         Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia, USA
    -->  Harvard Statistical Genomics and Computational Laboratory,
         Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
    -->  Bioinformatics & Computational Biology Program
         George Mason University, Virginia, USA
    -->  Hawkeye Radiology Informatics, Department of Radiology,
         College of Medicine, University of Iowa, Iowa, USA
    -->  Medical Image HPC & Informatics Lab (MiHi Lab),
         University of Iowa, Iowa, USA
    -->  The University of North Dakota, Grand Forks, North Dakota, USA
    -->  PSU - Prince Sultan University
    -->  Institute for Informatics Problems of the Russian Academy of
         Sciences, Moscow, Russia.
    -->  NEMO/European Union at Institute of Discrete Mathematics and
         Geometry, TU Vienna

    Corporate Co-Sponsors (a partial list):

    -->  Google, Inc.
    -->  Salford Systems
    -->  Synplicity
    -->  NIIT Technologies

    Other Co-Sponsors (a partial list):

    -->  High Performance Computing for Nanotechnology (HPCNano)
    -->  International Technology Institute (ITI)
    -->  GridToday - enewsletter focused on Grid, SOA, Virtualization,
         Storage, Networking and Service-Oriented IT
    -->  HPCwire - The Leading Source for Global News and Information
         Covering the Ecosystem of High Productivity Computing
    -->  Hodges' Health (H2CM), UK

>Subject: CFP: MICAI 2008: Artifiical
>Intelligence - Mexico - Springer LNAI, two weeks reminder
>Date: Mon, 2 Jun 2008 19:54:26 -0500
>
>
>                     MICAI 2008
>      7th Mexican International Conference on
>              ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
>
>            EXTENDED SUBMISSION DEADLINE
>
>                 www.MICAI.org/2008
>
>       October 27 to 31, Mexico City, Mexico
>
>       Proceedings: Springer LNAI, IEEE, and special issues of journals
>
>*NEW* EXTENDED submission deadline: JUNE 9 (abstract), JUNE 16 (paper)
>
>
>                 CALL FOR PAPERS
>
>
>*NEW* KEYNOTE SPEAKERS
>
>- George Gottlob, Oxford University, UK;
>- Simon Haykin, McMaster University, Canada;
>- Stephanie Forrest, U. of New Mexico, USA;
>- Steven M LaValle, University of Illinois, USA;
>- Gerardo Jiménez-Sánchez, Johns Hopkins University, USA;
>- Francisco Cervantes Peréz, UNAM, Mexico.
>
>
>GENERAL INFORMATION
>
>Topics of interest include all areas of Artificial Intelligence. Poster
>session, workshops, tutorials, doctoral consortium, and cultural events
>are planned.
>
>The recent MICAI events (2005, 2006, 2007) received around 450 submissions
>from over 40 countries each. The acceptance rate (oral session) was around
>26%. Among keynote speakers were John McCarthy, Tom Mitchell, Ronald Yager,
>and Pedro Domingos, to name just a few. There were over 500 attendees.
>
>
>PROCEEDINGS AND SUBMISSION
>
>Papers accepted for oral session will be published by Springer in LNAI:
>Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence. Poster session papers will
>be published separately. Special issues of journals are anticipated.
>
>Submissions are received via webpage; see guidelines there. By June 9,
>only abstract is to be registered; the full text is then due by June 16.
>
>
>IMPORTANT DATES
>
>June  9: Registration of abstracts.
>June 16: Uploading of full text of registered papers.
>
>
>CONTACT
>
>General inquiries: micai2008 at MICAI dot org; see www.MICAI.org/2008.
>
>
>PLEASE CIRCULATE this CFP among your students and colleagues. We apologize
>if
>you receive this CFP more than once. We send it in good faith of its
>interest
>for you as an AI-related researcher; please let us know if this is wrong.

>[Apologies if you receive this more than once]
>
>#####################################################################
>          IEEE/WIC/ACM WEB INTELLIGENCE 2008
>                   CALL FOR PAPERS
>#####################################################################
>
>2008 IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on
>Web Intelligence (WI-08)
>
>December 9-12, 2008, Sydney, Australia
>
>http://datamining.it.uts.edu.au/wi08/html/wi/
>
>Sponsored By
>IEEE Computer Society
>Web Intelligence Consortium (WIC)
>Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
>
>##################################################################
># (Papers Due: *** 10 July 2008 ***
># Accepted papers will be published in the conference proceedings
># by the IEEE Computer Society Press, which are indexed by EI.
>##################################################################
>
>WI 2008 provides a leading international forum of scientific research
>and development to explore the fundamental roles as well as practical
>impacts of Artificial Intelligence (e.g., knowledge representation,
>planning, knowledge discovery and data mining, intelligent agents, and
>social network intelligence) and advanced Information Technology
>(e.g., wireless networks, ubiquitous devices, social networks, and
>data/knowledge grids) on the next generation of Web-empowered
>products, systems, services, and activities.
>
>WI 2008 will be jointly held with the 2008 IEEE/WIC/ACM International
>Conference on Intelligent Agent Technology (IAT-08).  The two
>conferences will have a joint opening, keynote, reception, and
>banquet. Attendees only need to register for one conference and can
>attend workshops, sessions, tutorials, panels, exhibits and
>demonstrations across the two conferences. We are also planning a
>joint panel, joint paper sessions, and doctor symposium that discuss
>common problems in the two areas.
>
>+++++++++++++++++++
>Topics of Interest
>+++++++++++++++++++
>
>We invite submissions in all WI related areas. Papers exploring new
>directions or areas will receive a careful and supportive review.
>Areas of interest include, but are not limited to:
>
>* WI Foundations
>   - Brain Informatics for WI
>   - Human-Level WI
>   - New Cognitively Inspired Models for WI
>   - Granular Computing (GrC) for WI
>   - Autonomy-Oriented Computing (AOC) for WI
>   - Neuroeconomics for WI
>
>* World Wide Wisdom Web (W4)
>   - Meta-Knowledge Discovery and Representation
>   - Problem Solver Markup Language (PSML)
>   - Search of Best Means and Ends
>   - Web Based Question-Answering Systems
>   - Goal-Directed Services Support
>   - Distributed Resources Optimization
>   - Service Self-Aggregation
>   - Web Reasoning/Inference Engine
>   - Information and Knowledge Markets
>   - New Social Interaction Paradigms
>   - Social and Psychological Contexts
>   - Regularities and Laws of W4
>
>* Social Networks and Social Intelligence
>   - Social Network Mining
>   - Web Site Clustering
>   - Web 2.0
>   - Link Topology and Site Hierarchy
>   - Theories of Small-World Web
>   - Virtual and Web Communities
>   - Web-Based Cooperative Work
>   - Knowledge Community Formation and Support
>   - Ubiquitous Computing
>   - Intelligent Wireless Web
>   - Ubiquitous Learning Systems
>   - Entertainment
>
>* Knowledge Grids and Grid Intelligence
>   - Semantic Grids
>   - Knowledge Resources and Services Discovery
>   - On-Demand Planning and Routing
>   - Brokering and Scheduling
>   - Middleware Architectures and Tools
>
>* Web Mining and Farming
>   - Text Mining
>   - Data Stream Mining
>   - Multimedia Data Mining
>   - Web Content Mining
>   - Web Log, Click-stream and Usage Mining
>   - Learning User Profiles
>   - Context Sensitive Web Mining
>   - Web Information Clustering
>   - Web Page Clustering and Mining
>   - E-Mail Classification
>   - Web Site Classification
>   - Web Information Indexing
>   - Data Warehousing
>   - Web Farming and Warehousing
>
>* Semantics and Ontology Engineering
>   - Ontology-Based Information Extraction and Retrieval
>   - Ontology-Based Web Mining
>   - Web-Based Ontology Learning
>   - Semantic Web
>
>* Web Agents
>   - Global Information Foraging
>   - Distributed Problem Solving
>   - Coordination
>   - Resource Intermediary and Coordination Mechanisms
>   - Self-Organization and Reproduction
>   - Agent Networks and Topologies
>   - Mobile Agents
>   - Macroscopic Behavior Modeling
>   - Trust Models for Web Agents
>
>* Web Services
>   - Service-Oriented Computing
>   - Matchmaking
>   - Web Service Reconfiguration
>   - Web Service Workflow Composition
>   - Middleware-Based Ubiquitous Services
>   - Grid Services
>
>* Web Information Filtering and Retrieval
>   - Automatic Cataloging and Indexing
>   - Clustering-Based Recommender Systems
>   - Collaborative Filtering and Recommendation
>   - Hybrid Recommendation
>   - Information Retrieval Criteria and Evaluations
>   - Information Supply
>   - Web Information Categorization and Ranking
>   - Proxy and Cache Techniques
>   - Web Prediction and Prefetching
>   - Distributed Web Search
>   - Specifications for Web Information Extraction Process
>   - Web Crawling Systems
>   - Search Engines and Meta-search Engines
>
>* Intelligent Human-Web Interaction
>   - Adaptive Web Interfaces
>   - Context-Aware Computing
>   - Learning User Profiles
>   - Personalized Interfaces
>   - Personalized Web Sites
>   - Remembrance Agents
>   - Multimedia Representation
>   - Visualization of Information and Knowledge
>   - Social and Psychological Issues
>
>* Web Support Systems
>   - Information Retrieval Support Systems
>   - Web Site Navigation Support Systems
>   - Recommender Support Systems
>   - Web-Based Decision Support Systems
>   - Soft Computing (including neural networks, fuzzy logic,
>     evolutionary computation, rough sets, and granular computing)
>     and Uncertainty Management for WI
>
>* Intelligent e-Technology
>   - Business Intelligence
>   - Digital Library
>   - Decentralized Community Communication Techniques
>   - e-Community
>   - e-Business and e-Commerce
>   - e-Finance
>   - e-Government
>   - e-Learning
>   - e-Market
>   - e-Publishing
>   - e-Science
>   - e-Service
>   - Intelligent Enterprise Portals
>   - Web-Based Direct Marketing and CRM
>   - Web-Based EDI
>   - Web Security, Integrity, Privacy and Trust
>
>++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>On-Line Submissions and Publication
>++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>
>High-quality papers in all WI related areas are solicited.
>Paper submissions should be limited to a maximum of 7 pages in the
>IEEE 2-column format, the same as the camera-ready format (see the
>Author Guidelines of last year at
>http://www.ieeeconfpublishing.org/cpir/AuthorKit.asp?Community=CPS&Facility=CPS\
_Nov&ERoom=WI+2007).
>
>All submitted papers will be reviewed by the Program Committee
>on the basis of technical quality, relevance, significance, and clarity.
>
>Note that WI'08 will accept ONLY on-line submissions, containing
>PDF versions. Please use the Submission Form on the WI'08
>website to submit your paper. Accepted papers will be published in the
>conference proceedings by the IEEE Computer Society Press that are
>indexed by EI.
>
>Submissions accepted as regular papers will be allocated 7 pages in the
>proceedings and accorded oral presentation times in the main conference.
>Submissions accepted as short papers will be allocated 4
>pages in the proceedings and will have a shorter presentation time at
>the conference than regular papers.
>
>All co-authors will be notified at all time, for the submission,
>notification, and confirmation on the attendance. Submitting a paper
>to the conference and workshops means that, if the paper is accepted,
>at least one author should attend the conference to present the
>paper. The acceptance list and no-show list will be openly published
>on-line. For no-show authors, their affiliations will receive a
>notification.
>
>A selected number of WI'08 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 awards will be conferred at the conference on the
>authors of (1) the best research paper and (2) the best application
>paper. Application-oriented submissions will be considered for the
>best application paper award.
>
>More detailed instructions and the On-Line Submission Form can be
>found from the WI'08 homepage: http://datamining.it.uts.edu.au/wi08/html/wi/.
>
>++++++++++
>Workshops
>++++++++++
>
>As an important part of the conference, the workshop program will
>focus on new research challenges and initiatives.  All papers accepted
>for workshops will be included in the Workshop Proceedings published
>by the IEEE Computer Society Press that are indexed by EI, and will be
>available at the workshops. Detailed information is available at the
>conference homepage.
>
>Accepted Workshops:
>===================
>
>Workshop on Collective Intelligence in Semantic Web and Social Networks
>
>Workshop on Web Information Retrieval Support Systems
>
>Workshop on Web Personalization, Reputation and Recommender Systems
>
>Workshop on Intelligent Web Interaction
>
>Workshop on Intelligent e-government
>
>Workshop on New Computing Paradigms for Web Intelligence meets
>             Brain Informatics
>
>Workshop on Fuzzy Logic On the Web
>
>Workshop on Natural Language Processing and Ontology Engineering
>
>Workshop on Web Intelligence & Intelligent Agent Technology in e-Learning
>
>Workshop on Computational Social Networks
>
>Workshop on Optimization-based Data Mining and Web Intelligence
>
>Workshop on Human Aspects in Ambient Intelligence:
>             Agent Technology, Human-Oriented Knowledge and Applications
>
>Workshop on e-Commerce, Business, and Services
>
>Workshop on Agents and Data Mining Interaction
>
>Workshop on P2P Computing and Autonomous Agents
>
>Workshop on Logics for Intelligent Agents and Multi-Agent Systems
>
>Workshop on Data Mining in Bioinformatics
>
>2008 WI-IAT Doctoral Workshop
>
>
>Note: we will not have a separate workshop registration fee
>(i.e., conference registration covers everything).
>
>++++++++++
>Tutorials
>++++++++++
>
>WI'08 also welcomes Tutorial proposals. WI'08 will include tutorials
>providing in-depth background on subjects that are of broad interest
>to the Web intelligence community. Both short (2 hours) and long (half
>day) tutorials will be considered. The tutorials will be part of the
>main conference technical program. Detailed information is available
>at the conference homepage.
>
>Note: we will not have a separate tutorials registration fee
>(i.e., only one conference registration covers everything).
>
>++++++++++++++++++++
>Industry/Demo-Track
>++++++++++++++++++++
>
>We solicit Industry/Demo-Track papers by the following methods.
>
>(1) Industry papers of 4 pages can be submitted on the same schedule as
>     the research track.
>(2) Separate 2 page demo proposals can submitted at a later schedule.
>(3) Full regular paper submissions can include a demo option.
>     That is, a full paper submissions will be asked to
>     specify if they would like to give a demonstration; choice of
>     demonstrations (while utilizing information from the regular reviewing
>     process) will be selected based on value as a demonstration.
>
>For options (1) and (2), please find more detailed instructions at
>the homepage: http://datamining.it.uts.edu.au/wi08/html/wi/
>
>++++++++++++++++
>Important Dates
>++++++++++++++++
>
>  * Workshop proposal submission: April 10, 2008
>  * Electronic paper submission (7 pages): July 10, 2008
>  * Tutorial proposal submission: July 10, 2008
>  * Workshop paper submission: July 30, 2008
>  * Author notification: September 3, 2008
>  * Conference dates: December 9-12, 2008
>
>++++++++++++++++++++++++
>Conference Organization
>++++++++++++++++++++++++
>
>Conference General Chairs:
>   * Chengqi Zhang, University of Technology, Sydney, Australia
>   * Nick Cercone, York University, Canada
>
>Program Chair:
>   * Lakhmi Jain, University of South Australia, Australia
>
>WI Program Co-Chairs:
>   * Pawan Lingras, Saint Mary's University, Canada
>   * Matthias Klusch, German Research Center for AI, Germany
>   * Jie Lu, University of Technology, Sydney, Australia
>
>IAT Program Co-Chairs:
>   * Maria Gini, University of Minnesota, USA
>   * Boi B. Faltings, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Swiss
>   * Takao Terano, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan
>
>Organizing Chair:
>   * Longbing Cao, University of Technology, Sydney, Australia
>
>Workshop Co-Chairs:
>   * Yuefeng Li, Queensland University of Technology, Australia
>   * Gabriella Pasi, University of Milano, Italy
>
>Tutorial Chair:
>   * Ajith Abraham, Norwegian University of science and Technology, Norway
>
>Industry/Demo-Track Chair:
>   * Ngoc Thanh Nguyen, Wroclaw University of Technology, Poland
>
>Publicity Co-Chairs:
>   * Ioannis E. Anagnostopoulos, University of the Aegean, Greece
>   * Jia Hu, International WIC Institute/BJUT, China
>   * Richi Nayak, Queensland University of Technology, Australia
>
>IEEE-CS-TCII Chair:
>  * Ning Zhong, Maebashi Institute of Technology, Japan
>
>ACM-SIGART Chair
>  * Maria Gini, University of Minnesota, USA
>
>WIC Co-Chairs/Directors:
>  * Ning Zhong, Maebashi Institute of Technology, Japan
>  * Jiming Liu, University of Windsor, Canada
>
>WIC Advisory Board:
>  * Edward A. Feigenbaum, Stanford University, USA
>  * Setsuo Ohsuga, University of Tokyo, Japan
>  * Benjamin Wah, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, USA
>  * Philip Yu, University of Illinois, Chicago, USA
>  * L.A. Zadeh, University of California, Berkeley, USA
>
>WIC Tech. Committee & WI/IAT Steering Committee:
>  * Jeffrey Bradshaw, UWF/Institute for Human and Machine Cognition, USA
>  * Nick Cercone, York University, Canada
>  * Dieter Fensel, University of Innsbruck, Austria
>  * Georg Gottlob, Oxford University, UK
>  * Lakhmi Jain, University of South Australia, Australia
>  * Jianchang Mao, Yahoo! Inc., USA
>  * Pierre Morizet-Mahoudeaux, Compiegne University of Technology, France
>  * Hiroshi Motoda, Osaka University, Japan
>  * Toyoaki Nishida, Kyoto University, Japan
>  * Andrzej Skowron, Warsaw University, Poland
>  * Jinglong Wu, Kagawa University, Japan
>  * Xindong Wu, University of Vermont, USA
>  * Yiyu Yao, University of Regina, Canada
>
>*** Contact Information ***
>
>WI 2008 Program Co-chairs
>Email: wi08@...

Call For Participation

                            WORLDCOMP'08
             The 2008 World Congress in Computer Science,
             Computer Engineering, and Applied Computing

          Date and Location: July 14-17, 2008, Las Vegas, USA
        http://www.world-academy-of-science.org/worldcomp08/ws

This is an invitation to attend WORLDCOMP'08 Congress.  WORLDCOMP'08
is composed of a number of tracks (joint-conferences, tutorials, and
workshops); all will be held simultaneously, same location and dates:
July 14-17, 2008. Attendees will have full access to all conferences'
sessions, tracks, and tutorials. See below for: the complete list of
joint-conferences, list of sponsors, registration information, hotel
information, and some highlights.

LIST OF JOINT CONFERENCES:

    o  BIOCOMP'08: Bioinformatics & Computational Biology
    o  CDES'08: Computer Design
    o  CGVR'08: Computer Graphics & Virtual Reality
    o  CIC'08: Communications in Computing
    o  CSC'08: Scientific Computing
    o  DMIN'08: Data Mining
    o  EEE'08: e-Learning, e-Business, Enterprise Information Systems,
       & e-Government
    o  ERSA'08: Engineering of Reconfigurable Systems & Algorithms
    o  ESA'08: Embedded Systems & Applications
    o  FCS'08: Foundations of Computer Science
    o  FECS'08: Frontiers in Education: CS and CE
    o  GCA'08: Grid Computing & Applications
    o  GEM'08: Genetic & Evolutionary Methods
    o  ICAI'08: Artificial Intelligence
    o  ICOMP'08: Internet Computing
    o  ICWN'08: Wireless Networks
    o  IKE'08: Information & Knowledge Engineering
    o  IPCV'08: Image Processing, Computer Vision, & Pattern Recognition
    o  ITSL'08: Information Theory & Statistical Learning
    o  MLMTA'08: Machine Learning; Models, Technologies & Applications
    o  MSV'08: Modeling, Simulation & Visualization Methods
    o  PDPTA'08: Parallel & Distributed Processing Techniques &
       Applications
    o  SAM'08: Security & Management
    o  SERP'08: Software Engineering Research & Practice
    o  SWWS'08: Semantic Web & Web Services

SPONSORS (partial list):

    ACADEMIC/TECHNICAL Co-Sponsors (a partial list):
    o  Computational Biology and Functional Genomics Laboratory,
       Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
    o  International Society of Intelligent Biological Medicine
    o  Horvath Lab., University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), USA
    o  Minnesota Supercomputing Institute, University of Minnesota, USA
    o  Functional Genomics Laboratory, University of Illinois at
       Urbana-Champaign, USA
    o  BioMedical Informatics & Bio-Imaging Laboratory, Georgia Institute
       of Technology and Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia, USA
    o  Intelligent Data Exploration and Analysis Laboratory, University
       of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas, USA
    o  Biomedical Cybernetics Laboratory, HST of Harvard University and
       MIT, USA
    o  Center for the Bioinformatics and Computational Genomics,
       Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia, USA
    o  Harvard Statistical Genomics and Computational Laboratory,
       Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
    o  Bioinformatics & Computational Biology Program
       George Mason University, Virginia, USA
    o  Hawkeye Radiology Informatics, Department of Radiology,
       College of Medicine, University of Iowa, Iowa, USA
    o  Medical Image HPC & Informatics Lab (MiHi Lab),
       University of Iowa, Iowa, USA
    o  The University of North Dakota, Grand Forks, North Dakota, USA
    o  PSU - Prince Sultan University
    o  Institute for Informatics Problems of the Russian Academy of
       Sciences, Moscow, Russia.
    o  NEMO/European Union at Institute of Discrete Mathematics and
       Geometry, TU Vienna

    CORPORATE Co-Sponsors (a partial list):
    o  Google, Inc.
    o  Salford Systems
    o  Synplicity
    o  NIIT Technologies

    OTHER Co-Sponsors (a partial list):
    o  High Performance Computing for Nanotechnology (HPCNano)
    o  International Technology Institute (ITI)
    o  GridToday
    o  HPCwire
    o  Hodges' Health (H2CM), UK

CONFERENCE SCHEDULE/PROGRAM:

    The complete WORLDCOMP'08 schedule/program is available at:
    http://www.world-academy-of-science.org/worldcomp08/ws/program

REGISTRATION INFORMATION:

    To attend the congress, use the following online registration link:
    http://www.world-academy-of-science.org/worldcomp08/ws/registration

HOTEL RESERVATION:

    WORLDCOMP'08 will be held in the Monte Carlo hotel, Las Vegas,
    Nevada, USA (with any overflows at other near-by hotels).  This is
    a mega hotel with excellent conference facilities and over 3,000
    rooms.  It is minutes from the airport with 24-hour shuttle
    service to and from the airport.  This hotel has many recreational
    attractions, including: waterfalls, spa, pools, sunning decks, Easy
    River, wave pool, lighted tennis courts, health spa, nightly shows,
    a number of restaurants, ... The hotel is within walking distance
    from most other attractions (recreational destinations, Golf
    courses, ...).
    You are to reserve your hotel room directly by calling Monte
    Carlo Resort at 1-702-730-7000 or 1-702-730-7777. Make sure that
    you mention the Group Code "XWRLD8" (XWRLD8 is the keyword that the
    hotel will use to handle the reserved block of rooms for the Congress).
    You should reserve your room as soon as possible since our block is
    very close to being fully booked.  There are also many other hotels
    nearby.

KEYNOTE LECTURES: (this is a partial list)

    o  The Parallel Computing Landscape: A Berkeley View 2.0
       Prof. David A. Patterson
       Pardee Prof. of CS; Director, RAD Lab & Par Lab; Past
       President, ACM; Member, National Academy of Engineering;
       Member, National Academy of Sciences; Fellow of IEEE, ACM,
       & AAAS; University of California at Berkeley.
    o  Searching in the "Real World"
       Prof. Ophir Frieder
       The Royden B. Davis, SJ, Chair in Interdisciplinary
       Studies at Georgetown University; IITRI Chair Professor
       of CS at Illinois Institute of Technology; Director,
       Information Retrieval lab; Fellow of IEEE, ACM, and AAAS
    o  Achieving your Dreams
       Anousheh Ansari
       CEO, Chairman and Co-founder of Prodea Systems, Inc., USA;
       and Space Ambassador
    o  Dimensions in Reconfigurable Computing: A New Wave in Electronic
       System Designs
       Chris Phillips
       Vice President of Engineering at ElementCXI, USA
    o  The Burgeoning Field of Network Science
       Dr. Frederick I. Moxley
       Department of Defense Fellow & Visiting Professor,
       Director of Research and Deputy Director of the Network Science
       Center; Electrical Engineering & Computer Science Department;
       United States Military Academy, West Point, New York, USA
    o  High Performance Computing and Computational Intelligence:
       Link to the Translational Medicine and Personalized Healthcare
       Dr. Jack Y. Yang and Dr. Mary Qu Yang
       Harvard University, Massachusetts, USA and
       National Human Genome Research Institute, NIH, Bethesda, USA
    o  The Emerging Field of Translational Bioinformatics - A National
       Perspective
       Prof. Brian D. Athey
       Professor, Bioinformatics and Computational Biology,
       Departments of Psychiatry and Internal Medicine; Associate Director,
       U-M Center for Computational Medicine and Biology (CCMB);
       Director, Biomedical Informatics Program (BIP), Michigan Institute
       for Clinical and Health Research; Principal Investigator, NIH National
       Center for Integrative Biomedical Informatics; The University of
       Michigan Medical School, USA
    o  Unfoldomics" of Human Diseases
       Prof. Vladimir N. Uversky
       Senior Research Professor, Indiana University School of Medicine,
       Indianapolis, Indiana, USA and Russian Academy of Sciences, Russia

PLANNED TUTORIALS (this is a partial list):
    Tutorial attendance is free to registered attendees of worldcomp and
    all its associated conferences (most are 3 1/2 hours long):

    o  Robust Resource Allocation for Heterogeneous Parallel & Distributed
       Computing Systems
       Prof. H. J. Siegel
       Abell Endowed Chair Distinguished Prof. of ECE & Prof. of CS;
       Director, CSU Information Science & Technology Center (ISTeC),
       Colorado State University, Fort Collins, Colorado, USA
    o  Developing Enterprise Web Services and Mobile/Wireless Systems
       Dr. Sandeep Chatterjee
       Chief Technology Officer & Vice President, Source Trace Systems,
       Inc., USA
    o  Sensor Networks - Technologies, Protocols and Algorithms
       Prof. Anura P. Jayasumana
       Colorado State University, Fort Collins, Colorado, USA
    o  Fuzzy Logic Theory and Applications in Data Mining
       Ashu M. G. Solo
       Principal/R&D Engineer, Maverick Technologies America Inc., USA
    o  A Tour of Advanced Data Mining Methodologies
       Mikhail Golovnya
       Senior Scientist, Salford Systems, USA
    o  Exploration of Quantum Cryptography in Network Security
       Mehrdad S. Sharbaf
       Nova Southeastern University, Florida, USA
    o  Introduction to Asynchronous Circuits and NULL Convention Logic (NCL)
       Scott C. Smith, Waleed K. Al-Assadi, and Jia Di
       University of Arkansas, Arkansas, USA;
       Missouri University of Science & Technology, Missouri, USA
       -> gratefully acknowledge the support from the National Science
          Foundation under (NSF) CCLI grants DUE-0536343, DUE-0717572,
          & DUE-0717767.
    o  Cryptographic Features and Applications in Java (and possibly in C++)
       Prof. Ray Kresman
       Bowling Green State University, Bowling Green, Ohio, USA
    o  Parallel-Coordinate-Plots at Age 30: Why and How GeoDa Software Works
       as a Powerful and Intuitive Method for Geovisualizing Demographic Data
       Prof. J. Kevin Byrne
       Minneapolis College of Art & Design, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA &
       St. Mary's University of Minnesota, Minnesota, USA
    o  Teaching Graph Algorithms Using Java Online Package IAPPGA
       Prof. Mingshen Wu
       University of Wisconsin-Stout, Menomonie, Wisconsin, USA
    o  Introduction to Digital Forensics Research
       Prof. Robert F. Erbacher
       Utah State University, Utah, USA
    o  Ontological Engineering: Analyzing, Designing and Implementing a
       Real-World Semantic Web Ontology
       Dr. Dan Dunne, Ontological Consultant, USA
    o  Processing Geo-Semantic Knowledge and Visuals
       David Dodds
       Director, Open-Meta Computing Inc, Canada
    o  Parallel Input/Output Techniques in High-Performance Computing Systems
       Prof. Jesus Carretero
       Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain




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         IEEE/WIC/ACM WEB INTELLIGENCE 2008
                  CALL FOR PAPERS
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2008 IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on
Web Intelligence (WI-08)

December 9-12, 2008, Sydney, Australia

http://datamining.it.uts.edu.au/wi08/html/wi/

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

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# (Papers Due: *** 10 July 2008 ***
# Accepted papers will be published in the conference proceedings
# by the IEEE Computer Society Press, which are indexed by EI.
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WI 2008 provides a leading international forum of scientific research
and development to explore the fundamental roles as well as practical
impacts of Artificial Intelligence (e.g., knowledge representation,
planning, knowledge discovery and data mining, intelligent agents, and
social network intelligence) and advanced Information Technology
(e.g., wireless networks, ubiquitous devices, social networks, and
data/knowledge grids) on the next generation of Web-empowered
products, systems, services, and activities.

WI 2008 will be jointly held with the 2008 IEEE/WIC/ACM International
Conference on Intelligent Agent Technology (IAT-08).  The two
conferences will have a joint opening, keynote, reception, and
banquet. Attendees only need to register for one conference and can
attend workshops, sessions, tutorials, panels, exhibits and
demonstrations across the two conferences. We are also planning a
joint panel, joint paper sessions, and doctor symposium that discuss
common problems in the two areas.

+++++++++++++++++++
Topics of Interest
+++++++++++++++++++

We invite submissions in all WI related areas. Papers exploring new
directions or areas will receive a careful and supportive review.
Areas of interest include, but are not limited to:

* WI Foundations
  - Brain Informatics for WI
  - Human-Level WI
  - New Cognitively Inspired Models for WI
  - Granular Computing (GrC) for WI
  - Autonomy-Oriented Computing (AOC) for WI
  - Neuroeconomics for WI

* World Wide Wisdom Web (W4)
  - Meta-Knowledge Discovery and Representation
  - Problem Solver Markup Language (PSML)
  - Search of Best Means and Ends
  - Web Based Question-Answering Systems
  - Goal-Directed Services Support
  - Distributed Resources Optimization
  - Service Self-Aggregation
  - Web Reasoning/Inference Engine
  - Information and Knowledge Markets
  - New Social Interaction Paradigms
  - Social and Psychological Contexts
  - Regularities and Laws of W4

* Social Networks and Social Intelligence
  - Social Network Mining
  - Web Site Clustering
  - Web 2.0
  - Link Topology and Site Hierarchy
  - Theories of Small-World Web
  - Virtual and Web Communities
  - Web-Based Cooperative Work
  - Knowledge Community Formation and Support
  - Ubiquitous Computing
  - Intelligent Wireless Web
  - Ubiquitous Learning Systems
  - Entertainment

* Knowledge Grids and Grid Intelligence
  - Semantic Grids
  - Knowledge Resources and Services Discovery
  - On-Demand Planning and Routing
  - Brokering and Scheduling
  - Middleware Architectures and Tools

* Web Mining and Farming
  - Text Mining
  - Data Stream Mining
  - Multimedia Data Mining
  - Web Content Mining
  - Web Log, Click-stream and Usage Mining
  - Learning User Profiles
  - Context Sensitive Web Mining
  - Web Information Clustering
  - Web Page Clustering and Mining
  - E-Mail Classification
  - Web Site Classification
  - Web Information Indexing
  - Data Warehousing
  - Web Farming and Warehousing

* Semantics and Ontology Engineering
  - Ontology-Based Information Extraction and Retrieval
  - Ontology-Based Web Mining
  - Web-Based Ontology Learning
  - Semantic Web

* Web Agents
  - Global Information Foraging
  - Distributed Problem Solving
  - Coordination
  - Resource Intermediary and Coordination Mechanisms
  - Self-Organization and Reproduction
  - Agent Networks and Topologies
  - Mobile Agents
  - Macroscopic Behavior Modeling
  - Trust Models for Web Agents

* Web Services
  - Service-Oriented Computing
  - Matchmaking
  - Web Service Reconfiguration
  - Web Service Workflow Composition
  - Middleware-Based Ubiquitous Services
  - Grid Services

* Web Information Filtering and Retrieval
  - Automatic Cataloging and Indexing
  - Clustering-Based Recommender Systems
  - Collaborative Filtering and Recommendation
  - Hybrid Recommendation
  - Information Retrieval Criteria and Evaluations
  - Information Supply
  - Web Information Categorization and Ranking
  - Proxy and Cache Techniques
  - Web Prediction and Prefetching
  - Distributed Web Search
  - Specifications for Web Information Extraction Process
  - Web Crawling Systems
  - Search Engines and Meta-search Engines

* Intelligent Human-Web Interaction
  - Adaptive Web Interfaces
  - Context-Aware Computing
  - Learning User Profiles
  - Personalized Interfaces
  - Personalized Web Sites
  - Remembrance Agents
  - Multimedia Representation
  - Visualization of Information and Knowledge
  - Social and Psychological Issues

* Web Support Systems
  - Information Retrieval Support Systems
  - Web Site Navigation Support Systems
  - Recommender Support Systems
  - Web-Based Decision Support Systems
  - Soft Computing (including neural networks, fuzzy logic,
    evolutionary computation, rough sets, and granular computing)
    and Uncertainty Management for WI

* Intelligent e-Technology
  - Business Intelligence
  - Digital Library
  - Decentralized Community Communication Techniques
  - e-Community
  - e-Business and e-Commerce
  - e-Finance
  - e-Government
  - e-Learning
  - e-Market
  - e-Publishing
  - e-Science
  - e-Service
  - Intelligent Enterprise Portals
  - Web-Based Direct Marketing and CRM
  - Web-Based EDI
  - Web Security, Integrity, Privacy and Trust

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On-Line Submissions and Publication
++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++

High-quality papers in all WI related areas are solicited.
Paper submissions should be limited to a maximum of 7 pages in the
IEEE 2-column format, the same as the camera-ready format (see the
Author Guidelines of last year at
http://www.ieeeconfpublishing.org/cpir/AuthorKit.asp?Community=CPS&Facility=CPS_Nov&ERoom=WI+2007).
All submitted papers will be reviewed by the Program Committee
on the basis of technical quality, relevance, significance, and clarity.

Note that WI'08 will accept ONLY on-line submissions, containing
PDF versions. Please use the Submission Form on the WI'08
website to submit your paper. Accepted papers will be published in the
conference proceedings by the IEEE Computer Society Press that are
indexed by EI.

Submissions accepted as regular papers will be allocated 7 pages in the
proceedings and accorded oral presentation times in the main conference.
Submissions accepted as short papers will be allocated 4
pages in the proceedings and will have a shorter presentation time at
the conference than regular papers.

All co-authors will be notified at all time, for the submission,
notification, and confirmation on the attendance. Submitting a paper
to the conference and workshops means that, if the paper is accepted,
at least one author should attend the conference to present the
paper. The acceptance list and no-show list will be openly published
on-line. For no-show authors, their affiliations will receive a
notification.

A selected number of WI'08 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 awards will be conferred at the conference on the
authors of (1) the best research paper and (2) the best application
paper. Application-oriented submissions will be considered for the
best application paper award.

More detailed instructions and the On-Line Submission Form can be
found from the WI'08 homepage: http://datamining.it.uts.edu.au/wi08/html/wi/.

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Workshops
++++++++++

As an important part of the conference, the workshop program will
focus on new research challenges and initiatives.  All papers accepted
for workshops will be included in the Workshop Proceedings published
by the IEEE Computer Society Press that are indexed by EI, and will be
available at the workshops. Detailed information is available at the
conference homepage.

Accepted Workshops:
===================

Workshop on Collective Intelligence in Semantic Web and Social Networks

Workshop on Web Information Retrieval Support Systems

Workshop on Web Personalization, Reputation and Recommender Systems

Workshop on Intelligent Web Interaction

Workshop on Intelligent e-government

Workshop on New Computing Paradigms for Web Intelligence meets
            Brain Informatics

Workshop on Fuzzy Logic On the Web

Workshop on Natural Language Processing and Ontology Engineering

Workshop on Web Intelligence & Intelligent Agent Technology in e-Learning

Workshop on Computational Social Networks

Workshop on Optimization-based Data Mining and Web Intelligence

Workshop on Human Aspects in Ambient Intelligence:
            Agent Technology, Human-Oriented Knowledge and Applications

Workshop on e-Commerce, Business, and Services

Workshop on Agents and Data Mining Interaction

Workshop on P2P Computing and Autonomous Agents

Workshop on Logics for Intelligent Agents and Multi-Agent Systems

Workshop on Data Mining in Bioinformatics

2008 WI-IAT Doctoral Workshop


Note: we will not have a separate workshop registration fee
(i.e., conference registration covers everything).

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Tutorials
++++++++++

WI'08 also welcomes Tutorial proposals. WI'08 will include tutorials
providing in-depth background on subjects that are of broad interest
to the Web intelligence community. Both short (2 hours) and long (half
day) tutorials will be considered. The tutorials will be part of the
main conference technical program. Detailed information is available
at the conference homepage.

Note: we will not have a separate tutorials registration fee
(i.e., only one conference registration covers everything).

++++++++++++++++++++
Industry/Demo-Track
++++++++++++++++++++

We solicit Industry/Demo-Track papers by the following methods.

(1) Industry papers of 4 pages can be submitted on the same schedule as
    the research track.
(2) Separate 2 page demo proposals can submitted at a later schedule.
(3) Full regular paper submissions can include a demo option.
    That is, a full paper submissions will be asked to
    specify if they would like to give a demonstration; choice of
    demonstrations (while utilizing information from the regular reviewing
    process) will be selected based on value as a demonstration.

For options (1) and (2), please find more detailed instructions at
the homepage: http://datamining.it.uts.edu.au/wi08/html/wi/

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Important Dates
++++++++++++++++

 * Workshop proposal submission: April 10, 2008
 * Electronic paper submission (7 pages): July 10, 2008
 * Tutorial proposal submission: July 10, 2008
 * Workshop paper submission: July 30, 2008
 * Author notification: September 3, 2008
 * Conference dates: December 9-12, 2008

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Conference Organization
++++++++++++++++++++++++

Conference General Chairs:
  * Chengqi Zhang, University of Technology, Sydney, Australia
  * Nick Cercone, York University, Canada

Program Chair:
  * Lakhmi Jain, University of South Australia, Australia

WI Program Co-Chairs:
  * Pawan Lingras, Saint Mary's University, Canada
  * Matthias Klusch, German Research Center for AI, Germany
  * Jie Lu, University of Technology, Sydney, Australia

IAT Program Co-Chairs:
  * Maria Gini, University of Minnesota, USA
  * Boi B. Faltings, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Swiss
  * Takao Terano, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan

Organizing Chair:
  * Longbing Cao, University of Technology, Sydney, Australia

Workshop Co-Chairs:
  * Yuefeng Li, Queensland University of Technology, Australia
  * Gabriella Pasi, University of Milano, Italy

Tutorial Chair:
  * Ajith Abraham, Norwegian University of science and Technology, Norway

Industry/Demo-Track Chair:
  * Ngoc Thanh Nguyen, Wroclaw University of Technology, Poland

Publicity Co-Chairs:
  * Ioannis E. Anagnostopoulos, University of the Aegean, Greece
  * Jia Hu, International WIC Institute/BJUT, China
  * Richi Nayak, Queensland University of Technology, Australia

IEEE-CS-TCII Chair:
 * Ning Zhong, Maebashi Institute of Technology, Japan

ACM-SIGART Chair
 * Maria Gini, University of Minnesota, USA

WIC Co-Chairs/Directors:
 * Ning Zhong, Maebashi Institute of Technology, Japan
 * Jiming Liu, University of Windsor, Canada

WIC Advisory Board:
 * Edward A. Feigenbaum, Stanford University, USA
 * Setsuo Ohsuga, University of Tokyo, Japan
 * Benjamin Wah, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, USA
 * Philip Yu, University of Illinois, Chicago, USA
 * L.A. Zadeh, University of California, Berkeley, USA

WIC Tech. Committee & WI/IAT Steering Committee:
 * Jeffrey Bradshaw, UWF/Institute for Human and Machine Cognition, USA
 * Nick Cercone, York University, Canada
 * Dieter Fensel, University of Innsbruck, Austria
 * Georg Gottlob, Oxford University, UK
 * Lakhmi Jain, University of South Australia, Australia
 * Jianchang Mao, Yahoo! Inc., USA
 * Pierre Morizet-Mahoudeaux, Compiegne University of Technology, France
 * Hiroshi Motoda, Osaka University, Japan
 * Toyoaki Nishida, Kyoto University, Japan
 * Andrzej Skowron, Warsaw University, Poland
 * Jinglong Wu, Kagawa University, Japan
 * Xindong Wu, University of Vermont, USA
 * Yiyu Yao, University of Regina, Canada

*** Contact Information ***

WI 2008 Program Co-chairs
Email: wi08@...

Date: Mon, 22 Sep 2008 21:04:01 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: [ICAPS] IJCAI-09 Call for Papers, Workshops and Tutorials
From:<Jussi.Rintanen@...>
To: ICAPS Conference <icaps-conference@googlegroups.com>
Reply-To: icaps-conference@googlegroups.com
Sender: icaps-conference@googlegroups.com

On behalf of the IJCAI-09 Conference Committee, I am pleased to
announce that the Call for Participation for the IJCAI-09 technical
program, workshops, and tutorials is now available at http://ijcai-09.org/ .

The theme of IJCAI-09, which will be held July 11-17, 2009, in
Pasadena, California, is "The Interdisciplinary Reach of Artificial
Intelligence," with a focus on the broad impact of artificial
intelligence on science, engineering, medicine, social sciences, arts
and humanities. IJCAI-09 is sponsored jointly by IJCAI and AAAI.

Please note the following important deadlines on your calendar:

* Tutorial proposal submission: October 3, 2008 (11:59PM, PDT)
* Workshop proposal submission: October 3, 2008 (11:59PM, PDT)
* Electronic abstract submission: January 7, 2009 (11:59PM, PST)
* Electronic paper submission: January 12, 2009 (11:59PM, PST)
* Workshop paper submission: March 6, 2009 (11:59PM, PST)
* Author feedback period: March 17-20, 2009 (11:59PM, PDT)
* Author notification of acceptance/rejection: March 31, 2009
* Camera-ready copy due: April 14, 2009 (11:59PM, PDT)
* Workshops: July 11-13, 2009
* Tutorials: July 12-13, 2009
* Technical sessions: July 13-17, 2009

For complete information regarding any of the IJCAI-09 or collocated
programs, please see
http://ijcai-09.org/. For general inquiries, please contact us at
ijcai09@....

We look forward to your participation in IJCAI-09!

Regards,

Carol Hamilton
Executive Director
Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI)

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Conference Chair
Hiroaki Kitano (Sony Computer Laboratories, Inc. and The Systems
Biology Institute, Japan)

Program Chair
Craig Boutilier (University of Toronto)
pcchair09@...

Tutorial Chair
Ronen Brafman (Ben-Gurion University)
brafman@...

Workshop Chair
Sylvie Thiebaux (The Australian National University/National ICT
Australia)
ijcaiworkshops09@...

Local Arrangements Chair
Richard Doyle (Jet Propulsion Laboratory)
local09@...

IJCAI Secretariat
Samy Uthurasamy (General Motors Research)
Vesna Sabljakovic-Fritz (Vienna University of Technology, Austria)

General Inquiries and Registration
Carol Hamilton (AAAI)
ijcai09@...
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                 C A L L  F O R  P A P E R S

      Special issue of the ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE Journal


       Representing, Learning, and Processing Preferences:
             Theoretical and Practical Challenges


            http://www.uni-marburg.de/fb12/kebi/si-ai



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Background and Scope
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The topic of preferences has recently attracted considerable attention
in Artificial Intelligence (AI) and plays an increasingly important
role in several AI-related research fields, including, e.g., agents,
constraint satisfaction, decision theory, planning, machine learning,
and argumentation. Representing and processing knowledge in terms of
preferences appears to be especially appealing from an AI perspective,
notably as it allows one to specify desires in a declarative way, to
combine qualitative and quantitative modes of reasoning and to deal
with inconsistencies and exceptions in a quite flexible manner.

Even though methods for dealing with preferences in a formal way have
been developed in research areas such as operations research, game and
decision theory, and social choice for quite a while, AI research has
made novel and complementary contributions to preference handling
during the last decade. Besides, having contemporary application
fields such as electronic auctions, e-commerce, and recommender
systems in mind, AI research has raised new problems and put emphasis
on additional aspects such as combinatorial structure of the
alternatives, algorithmic issues and complexity, and the absence of a
decision analyst in the loop (which is typical for many applications).

Despite the existence of some established representation frameworks
that allow for building and handling preference models in an effective
and tractable way, research in the preference field has remained very
active and still faces many challenges, such as comparing the
expressivity and complexity of existing modeling languages, combining
different representation modes and frameworks, supporting the
knowledge acquisition task by discovering, learning, and adapting user
preferences based on different types of feedback, handling preferences
in multi-agent systems and group decision making, and developing
efficient and theoretically sound algorithms for preference
aggregation and revision, just to mention a few.

The aim of this special issue is to provide an up-to-date picture of
the current trends in the AI research on handling user preferences.
Especially welcome are contributions that bridge the gap between the
rather particulate approaches existing so far, thereby helping to
establish a coherent theoretical foundation of preferences in AI, as
well as interdisciplinary work that combines or integrates approaches
from other fields, such as operations research, databases, or game and
decision theory.


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Submission Information
===================================================
All manuscripts must adhere to the submission guidelines of the AI
journal and should be submitted to the journal in the usual way (that
is, not to the guest editors directly). To give notice of submitting
to the special issue, please put "Special Issue on Preferences" in the
subject heading of your email to aij@....

We kindly ask prospective authors to express, as far as possible,
their intention to submit a paper. To this end, please send an email
including a tentative title and a short abstract to all guest editors.


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Timetable
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* Intention:      December 15th, 2008
* Submission:     February 15th, 2008
* Notification:   June 15th, 2009
* Revised papers: July 30th, 2009


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Guest Editors
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Carmel Domshlak, Israel Institute of Technology
dcarmel@...

Eyke Hüllermeier, University of Marburg, Germany
mail@...

Souhila Kaci, IUT de Lens, France,
kaci@...

Henri Prade, University of Toulouse, France,
prade@...

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Dear Adam

When you have time pl. see this

http://in.news.yahoo.com/48/20081023/804/tnl-scholars-turn-to-gandhian-principles_1.html

I think the individual vs collective as spoken about by the scholars lead us into some kind of 'emergence' modeling in HI terms.But it would be interesting to model how individual or (limited small group) collective practice of Ahimsa (or non-violence) can indeed reduce terrorism on the whole as these scholars are theorising...what do you think?...

Regards
Suman

Dear Adam

Thank you for your interesting thoughts and hereunder is a bit more...
>
AMG: As every social (socio-cognitive) behavioral rule ,
> "Non-Violence  Law"  (NVL) has its own
> domain-of-application, which, at present, is rather
> frequently confused,ill defined, and good for the manipulation of  public
> opinion...theme of NVL is interesting  but complex
> ,and its application in order to reduce terrorism  ...(?)
>... but in the context which is not sufficiently investigated yet from
computational  socio-cognitive  and HI (High-Intelligence) perspectives
> (lack of formal models where it can be allocated).
> >
> The key question could be: Where/when NVL is not applicable
> ? If applicable for the class of situation X, then when it
> could be successful?
>
> Terrorism requires a soc-cog systemic definition too, see
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terrorism

SAR: So from a HI perspective (the problem of) "terrorism" is ill defined, the
context not clear, the rules by which to combat (NV as an example) are also
unclear, the situations under which the agent rules such as NVL will work/won't
work is also unclear...which means from a HI perspective what we see as a "war
on terror" is actually a superficial combat of the isolated symptoms and not the
disease.What is worse is that the definition/categorisation of what is
terrorism(the disease) depends on which side of the table one is on...!!
>
AMG: In all , above mentioned, cases a terrorism relates to
> different conscious and not-conscious structures of  IPK
> (Information, Preferences, Knowledge) of an abstract HI agent, their
> different human carriers, and , ... so on.
>
SAR:In view of the above
I -what exists as "terrorism "is difficult to describe (if attempted seems to be
incomplete/inaccurate...)
P-If definitions are based on the table sides then ethics is in any case a big
question mark!!
K-how are we able to act...action rules such as NVL being themselves vague and
not guaranteeing any results

No wonder the abstract HI agents and their human carriers are totally helpless
against this phenomenon

AMG:Here, application of  the TOGA meta-theory framework is
> possible, but who could pay for this type of research??

SAR: No idea yet, but will try to find out

AMG: PS. Always, the requested final product of a sc. research
> should lead to the possibility of  a computer simulation/generation of the
behaviors of  interest... In the case of NVL and terrorism, we need before a
sufficiently complex software shell of a socio-cognitive simulation platform,
which, I suppose, does not exist yet.

SAR: If it does not exist Adam, we will build one.

Best Regards

Suman
>
> At 03.18 23/10/2008, you wrote:
>
> Dear Adam
>
>
> When you have time pl. see this
>
>
>
>
http://in.news.yahoo.com/48/20081023/804/tnl-scholars-turn-to-gandhian-principle\
s_1.html
>
>
>
>
> I think the individual vs collective as spoken about by the
> scholars lead
> us into some kind of 'emergence' modeling in HI
> terms.But it would be
> interesting to model how individual or (limited small
> group) collective
> practice of Ahimsa (or non-violence) can indeed reduce
> terrorism on the
> whole as these scholars are theorising...what do you
> think?...
>
>
> Regards
>
> Suman
>
> ----------------------------------------------------
>
>
>
> See Google: "Adam Maria
> Gadomski
> "
>
> Senior Sc.  Research
> Expert
>
> Nuclear Safety & Socio-Cognitive Engineering



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>IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Web Intelligence (WI'08)
>IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Intelligent Agent Technology (IAT'08)
>
>December 9-12, 2008
>Building 5, Haymarket Campus, University of Technology, Sydney, Australia
>http://www.lido.com.au/online/default.aspx?id=657fj3g91907# (see the map)
>
>Official:
>http://datamining.it.uts.edu.au/conferences/wi08/
>http://datamining.it.uts.edu.au/conferences/iat08/
>
>Sponsored and Organized by
>IEEE Computer Society
>Web Intelligence Consortium (WIC)
>Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
>University of Technology, Sydney
>
>
>================= HIGHLIGHTS =========================
>
>  6 WI'08/IAT'08 Invited Speeches by
>  Professor Edmund H. Durfee
>  Professor Toru Ishida
>  Professor Tsau Young Lin
>  Professor Nigel Shadbolt
>  Professor Yanchun Zhang
>  Dr. Michael Witbrock
>  1 WIC Feature Talk by
>  Professor Jiming Liu
>  4 Tutorials
>  16 WI-IAT Workshops
>  Including the first WI-IAT Doctoral Workshop
>  Presentations of Accepted Research Track Papers.
>
>The research track papers were selected from 651 submissions received
>from over 52 countries and regions.
>
>All main conference and workshop proceedings will be published in the
>conference proceedings by the IEEE Computer Society Press, indexed by EI.
>
>
>REGISTRATRION
>+++++++++++++
>
>**********************************************
>!!! Early-bird Registration by Nov 8, 2008 !!!
>**********************************************
>
>On-line registration (and more information) at
>http://datamining.it.uts.edu.au/conferences/iat08/?page_id=45
>
>Regular registration covers all the events of WI-IAT'08 during the
>four conference days including keynotes, tutorials, accepted paper
>presentations, and workshops, as well as includes proceedings for one
>of the conferences or its associated workshops.
>
>As usual, WI'08 and IAT'08 will be co-located, providing
>synergism among Web Intelligence and
>Intelligent Agent Technology. The two
>conferences will have a joint opening, invited talks, reception, and
>banquet. Attendees only need to register for one conference and can
>attend workshops, sessions, invited talks, panels and tutorials across
>the two conferences.
>
>INVITED TALKS
>+++++++++++++
>
>WI'08/IAT'08 Joint Invited Talks include:
>
>Planning for Coordination and Coordination for Planning
>Professor Edmund H. Durfee
>EECS Department, University of Michigan, USA
>
>The Language Grid:
>Service-Oriented Collective Intelligence for Intercultural Collaboration
>Professor Toru Ishida
>Department of Social Informatics, Kyoto University, Japan
>
>The Emergence of Web Science
>Professor Nigel Shadbolt
>School of Electronics and Computer Science, University of Southampton, UK
>
>Knowledge Based Search Engine: Granular Computing on the Web
>Professor Tsau Young Lin
>Department of Computer Science, San Jose State University, USA
>
>Using Web Clustering for Web Community Mining and Analysis
>Professor Yanchun Zhang
>Centre for Applied Informatics Research, Victoria University, Australia
>
>Thinking Big - AI at Web Scale
>Dr. Michael Witbrock
>Vice President for Research at Cycorp, Inc., CEO of Cycorp Europe
>
>WIC FEATURE TALK
>++++++++++++++++
>
>Professor Jiming Liu
>Professor and Head of Computer Science Department,
>Hong Kong Baptist University
>
>TUTORIALS
>+++++++++
>
>T1: Web Content Mining
>  Vaclav Snasel
>  Technical University of Ostrava, Czech Republic
>
>T2: Matching Words and Pictures: Problems, and Applications in the Web
>  Latifur Khan
>  University of Texas at Dallas, USA
>
>T3: Utilizing Federated Knowledge in Semantic Web Applications
>  Jans Aasman
>  Franz Inc. USA
>
>T4: Modeling Agent Organizations
>  Virginia Dignum and Frank Dignum
>  Utrecht University, The Netherlands
>
>WORKSHOPS
>+++++++++
>
>W1: The 2nd Workshop on Collective Intelligence in Semantic Web and
>  Social Networks
>  (CISWSN 2008)
>
>W2: International Workshop on Web Information Retrieval Support Systems
>  (WIRSS 2008)
>
>W3: International Workshop on Web Personalization, Reputation and
>  Recommender Systems
>  (WPRRS 2008)
>
>W4: International Workshop on Intelligent Web Interaction
>  (IWI 2008)
>
>W5: Workshop on Intelligent e-Government
>  (IEG 2008)
>
>W6: International Workshop on Fuzzy Logic On the Web
>  (FLOW 2008)
>
>W7: Workshop on Natural Language Processing and Ontology Engineering
>  (NLPOE 2008)
>
>W8: Workshop on Web Intelligence & Intelligent Agent Technology in eLearning
>  (TUMAS-A 2008)
>
>W9: International Workshop on Computational Social Networks
>  (IWCSN 2008)
>
>W10: Workshop on Optimization-based Data Mining and Web Intelligence
>  (ODM 2008)
>
>W11: The Second International Workshop on Human Aspects in Ambient
>  Intelligence: Agent Technology, Human-Oriented Knowledge and Applications
>  (HAAI 2008)
>
>W12: International Workshop on E-Commerce, Business, and Services
>  (ECBS 2008)
>
>W13: Workshop on P2P Computing and Autonomous Agents
>  (P2P 2008)
>
>W14: International Workshop on Agents and Data Mining Interaction
>  (ADMI 2008)
>
>W15: Workshop on Logics for Intelligent Agents and Multi-Agent Systems
>  (WLIAMAS 2008)
>
>W16: 2008 WI-IAT Doctoral Workshop
>
>
>SOCIAL PROGRAM
>+++++++++++++++
>
>The WI'08 and IAT'08 joint conference offers an exciting social
>programs, including the conference welcome reception on Dec. 10 and
>the conference banquet on Dec. 11.
>
>You can also enjoy the city of Sydney, including Darling Harbour and
>Opera House. You can get more information about the conference hotel
>and local information from the conference homepage:
>http://datamining.it.uts.edu.au/conferences/wi08/
>
>CONTACT INFORMATION
>+++++++++++++++++++
>
>A/Prof Longbing Cao
>Data Sciences & Knowledge Discovery Lab (the Smart Lab)
>Research Centre for Quantum Computation and Intelligent Systems
>University of Technology Sydney, Australia
>Office: +61-2-9514 4477
>Fax: +61-2-9514 4517
>E-mail: lbcao@...
>Homepage: www-staff.it.uts.edu.au/~lbcao
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For more information email 
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Research team at the Institute of Statistical Science, Academia Sinica
seeks applicants for graduate research assistantship. Research
opportunities are in several different areas of brain science.

Research will involve EEG/MEG data processing and source localization,
structure images, functional MRI and 4D PET image analyses.

Ideal candidates will need a strong background in computer science,
statistics or numerical methods and be really interested in working
with and studying in brain science. Applicants must have a MS degree
in computer sciences, applied mathematics or related areas.

Research assistantships include a monthly stipend, health benefits,
scientific supervisor and tuition remission.

Please contact Dr. Michelle Liou at michelleliou@....

CALL  FOR  PAPERS
                              and
               Call For Workshop/Session Proposals

                           WORLDCOMP'09
           The 2009 World Congress in Computer Science,
           Computer Engineering, and Applied Computing
                July 13-16, 2009, Las Vegas, USA

               (composed of 22 Joint Conferences)


You are invited to submit a paper (and/or a proposal to organize
a session/workshop).  All accepted papers will be published in the
respective conference proceedings.

The 2009 World Congress in Computer Science, Computer Engineering,
and Applied Computing (WORLDCOMP'09) is composed of the following
22 conferences (all will be held simultaneously, same location
and dates: July 13-16, 2009, USA):

o BIOCOMP'09: The 2009 International Conference on Bioinformatics
   and Computational Biology

o CDES'09: The 2009 International Conference on Computer Design

o CGVR'09: The 2009 International Conference on Computer Graphics
   and Virtual Reality

o CSC'09: The 2009 International Conference on Scientific Computing

o DMIN'09: The 2009 International Conference on Data Mining

o EEE'09: The 2009 International Conference on e-Learning,
   e-Business, Enterprise Information Systems, and e-Government

o ERSA'09: The 2009 International Conference on Engineering of
   Reconfigurable Systems and Algorithms

o ESA'09: The 2009 International Conference on Embedded Systems
   and Applications

o FCS'09: The 2009 International Conference on Foundations of
   Computer Science

o FECS'09: The 2009 International Conference on Frontiers in
   Education: Computer Science and Computer Engineering

o GCA'09: The 2009 International Conference on Grid Computing and
   Applications

o GEM'09: The 2009 International Conference on Genetic and
   Evolutionary Methods

o ICAI'09: The 2009 International Conference on Artificial Intelligence

o ICOMP'09: The 2009 International Conference on Internet Computing

o ICWN'09: The 2009 International Conference on Wireless Networks

o IKE'09: The 2009 International Conference on Information and
   Knowledge Engineering

o IPCV'09: The 2009 International Conference on Image Processing,
   Computer Vision, and Pattern Recognition

o MSV'09: The 2009 International Conference on Modeling, Simulation
   and Visualization Methods

o PDPTA'09: The 2009 International Conference on Parallel and
   Distributed Processing Techniques and Applications

o SAM'09: The 2009 International Conference on Security and Management

o SERP'09: The 2009 International Conference on Software Engineering
   Research and Practice

o SWWS'09: The 2009 International Conference on Semantic Web and
   Web Services

(a link to each conference's URL can be found at
http://www.world-academy-of-science.org )

ACADEMIC CO-SPONSORS:

    Currently being prepared - it will include a number of active
    research laboratories and centers that have helped to shape our
    field.  The Academic Co-Sponsors of the last offering of
    WORLDCOMP included research labs at Harvard University, UCLA,
    University of Minnesota, University of Illinois at Urbana-
    Champaign, Georgia Institute of Technology, Emory University,
    University of Texas at Austin, MIT, George Mason University,
    University of Iowa, Russian Academy of Sciences, NEMO/European
    Union, and others.  Corporate Co-Sponsors included, Google,
    Salford Systems, Synplicity, Supermicro, NIIT, and others.

General Co-Chair and Coordinator:

    H. R. Arabnia, PhD
    Professor, Computer Science
    Editor-in-Chief, The Journal of Supercomputing (Springer)
    Advisory Board, IEEE Technical Committee on TCSC
    Vice President, Int'l Society of Intelligent Biological Medicine
    The University of Georgia
    Department of Computer Science
    415 Boyd Building
    Athens, Georgia 30602-7404, USA

    Tel: (706) 542-3480
    Fax: (706) 542-2966
    E-mail: hra@...

PURPOSE / HISTORY:

    This set of joint conferences is the largest annual gathering of
    researchers in computer science, computer engineering and applied
    computing.  Many of the joint conferences in WORLDCOMP are the
    premier conferences for presentation of advances in their respective
    fields.  We anticipate to have 2,400 or more attendees from over 85
    countries participating in the 2009 joint conferences.

    The motivation is to assemble a spectrum of affiliated research
    conferences into a coordinated research meeting held in a common
    place at a common time.  The main goal is to provide a forum for
    exchange of ideas in a number of research areas that interact.  The
    model used to form these annual conferences facilitates communication
    among researchers from all over the world in different fields of
    computer science, computer engineering and applied computing.  Both
    inward research (core areas of computer science and engineering) and
    outward research (multi-disciplinary, inter-disciplinary, and
    applications) will be covered during the conferences.

    WORLCOMP'09 will be composed of research presentations, keynote
    lectures, invited presentations, tutorials, panel discussions, and
    poster presentations.  In recent past, keynote and/or tutorial speakers
    included: Prof. David A. Patterson (U. of California, Berkeley);
    Prof. Michael J. Flynn (Stanford U.); Prof. John H. Holland
    (U. of Michigan, Ann Arbor); Prof. Brian D. Athey (U. of Michigan,
    Ann Arbor), Prof. H. J. Siegel (Colorado State U.); Prof. Barry Vercoe
    (MIT); Prof. Ruzena Bajcsy (U. of California, Berkeley);
    Prof. Jun Liu (Harvard U.); Dr. Jim Gettys (OLPC + developer of X
    Window); Dr. Chris Rowen (President and CEO, Tensilica, Inc.); and
    many other distinguished speakers.

SUBMISSION OF PAPERS:

    Prospective authors are invited to submit their draft papers by
    uploading them to http://worldcomp.cviog.uga.edu/ .
    Submissions must be received by Feb. 25, 2009 and they must be in
    either MS doc or pdf formats (about 5 to 7 pages - single space,
    font size of 10 to 12).  All reasonable typesetting formats are
    acceptable (later, the authors of accepted papers will be asked to
    follow a particular typesetting format to prepare their papers for
    publication.)

    The length of the Camera-Ready papers (if accepted) will be limited
    to 7 (IEEE style) pages.  Papers must not have been previously
    published or currently submitted for publication elsewhere.  The
    first page of the draft paper should include: title of the paper,
    name, affiliation, postal address, and email address for each author.
    The first page should also identify the name of the Contact Author
    and a maximum of 5 topical keywords that would best represent the
    content of the paper.  Finally, the name of the conference that
    the paper is being submitted to must be stated on the first page.

    Papers will be evaluated for originality, significance, clarity,
    impact, and soundness.  Each paper will be refereed by two experts
    in the field who are independent of the conference program committee.
    The referees' evaluations will then be reviewed by two members of
    the program committee who will recommend a decision to the chair of
    the track that the paper has been submitted to.  The chair will make
    the final decision.  Lastly, the Camera-Ready papers will be reviewed
    by one member of the program committee.

PROPOSAL FOR ORGANIZING SESSIONS/WORKSHOPS:

    Each session will have at least 6 paper presentations from
    different authors (12 papers in the case of workshops).  The
    session chairs will be responsible for all aspects of their
    sessions; including, soliciting papers, reviewing, selecting, ...
    The names of session chairs will appear as Associate Editors in
    the conference proceedings and on the cover of the books.

    Proposals to organize sessions should include the following
    information: name and address (+ email) of proposer, title of
    session, a 100-word description of the topic of the session,
    the name of the conference the session is submitted for
    consideration, and a short description on how the session will
    be advertised (in most cases, session proposers solicit papers
    from colleagues and researchers whose work is known to the
    session proposer).  email your session proposal to H. R. Arabnia
    (address is given above).  We would like to receive the proposals
    by January 16, 2009.

IMPORTANT DATES:

    Jan.  16, 2009:    Proposals for organizing/chairing sessions/workshops
    Feb.  25, 2009:    Submission of papers (about 5 to 7 pages)
    March 25, 2009:    Notification of acceptance
    April 25, 2009:    Camera-Ready papers and Registration due
    July 13-16, 2009:  The 2009 World Congress in Computer Science,
                       Computer Engineering, and Applied Computing
                       (WORLDCOMP'09 - 22 joint conferences)

MEMBERS OF PROGRAM AND ORGANIZING COMMITTEES:

    The Program Committee includes members of chapters of World Academy
    of Science (chapters: supercomputing; scientific computing; AI;
    imaging science; databases; simulation; software engineering;
    embedded systems; internet and web technologies; communications;
    computer security; and bioinformatics.) The Program Committee for
    individual conferences is currently being formed.  Those interested
    in joining the Program Committee should email H. R. Arabnia
    (hra@...) the following information: Name, affiliation
    and position, complete mailing address, email address, a short
    biography together with research interests and the name of the
    conference offering to help with.
    Many who have already joined the committees of individual tracks
    are renowned leaders, scholars, researchers, scientists and
    practitioners of the highest ranks; many are directors of research
    laboratories, fellows of various societies, heads/chairs of
    departments, deans and provosts.

LOCATION OF CONFERENCES:

    The conferences will be held in the Monte Carlo hotel, Las Vegas,
    Nevada, USA (with any overflows at other near-by hotels).  This is
    a mega hotel with excellent conference facilities and over 3,000
    rooms.  It is minutes from the airport with 24-hour shuttle
    service to and from the airport.  This hotel has many recreational
    attractions, including: waterfalls, spa, pools, sunning decks, Easy
    River, wave pool, lighted tennis courts, health spa, nightly shows,
    a number of restaurants, ...  The negotiated room rate for
    conference attendees is very reasonable.  The hotel is within
    walking distance from most other attractions (recreational
    destinations, Golf courses, ...)

C A L L    F O R    P A P E R S
                  ===============================

                        CALL  FOR  PAPERS
                              and
               Call For Workshop/Session Proposals

              The 2009 International Conference on
                  Semantic Web and Web Services
                            SWWS'09

       Date and Location: July 13-16, 2009, Las Vegas, USA

You are invited to submit a paper (and/or a proposal to organize
a session/workshop).  All accepted papers will be published in the
respective conference proceedings.

SCOPE: Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following:

   O  Semantic Web:
      - Machine learning approaches for semantic web
      - Semantic web for e-Business and e-Learning
      - Trust networks on semantic web
      - Database technologies for semantic web
      - Semantic knowledge portals
      - Semantic web mining
      - Semantic web inference methodologies
      - Metadata generation
      - Semantic web services
      - Semantic web trust, privacy, and security
      - Tools, languages, and techniques for semantic annotation of web data
      - Semantic intellectual property rights
      - Semantic searching
      - Reasoning in the semantic web
      - Semantic brokering
      - Visualization and modeling
      - Hypermedia and semantic web
      - Software agents for semantic web
      - Community web portals
      - Semantic web and enterprises
      - Trust management for semantic web
      - Semantic interoperability
      - Ontology creation, evolution, reconciliation, and mediation
      - Semantic web mining
      - Semantic web-based knowledge management
      - Ontology languages for semantic web
      - Autonomous semantic web services
      - Service discovery, description, composition and invocation
      - Data semantics
      - Semantic verification of web sites
      - Case studies

   O  Web Services:
      - Web Service Technologies and Research Directions:
        + Enhancements to the basic web services platform
          (SOAP, WSDL, UDDI, ...)
        + Advanced web service technologies including security,
          workflow/process management, transactions, mobile
          and wireless, portals, services management,
          quality-of-service (QoS)
        + Novel web service architectures
        + Development and modeling frameworks for web
          service applications
        + Composite web services, enabling technologies and
          support infrastructure
        + Data structures and models
      - Practices for developing enterprise-class web services
        and applications:
        + Design patterns
        + Architecting for customization, maintenance, and management
        + Architecting for easy integration or service "consumption"
        + Fault-tolerant architectures
        + Service mediation systems and architectures
      - Case studies of web service development and deployment:
        + e-Commerce applications using web services
        + Business-to-Business (B2B) applications using web services
        + Mobile and wireless applications using web services
        + Utility and on-demand computing using web services
        + Government applications using web services
        + Applications of web services in developing countries
      - Multimedia applications using web services
      - Communication applications using web services
      - Interactive TV applications using web services
      - Novel applications, case studies, and emerging technologies

Web links:
http://www.world-academy-of-science.org/worldcomp09/ws/conferences/swws09
http://www.world-academy-of-science.org/

ACADEMIC CO-SPONSORS:

    Currently being prepared - it will include a number of active
    research laboratories and centers that have helped to shape our
    field.  The Academic Co-Sponsors of the last offering of
    SWWS included research labs at Harvard University, UCLA,
    University of Minnesota, University of Illinois at Urbana-
    Champaign, Georgia Institute of Technology, Emory University,
    University of Texas at Austin, MIT, George Mason University,
    University of Iowa, Russian Academy of Sciences, NEMO/European
    Union, and others.  Corporate Co-Sponsors included, Google,
    Salford Systems, Synplicity, Supermicro, NIIT, and others.

General Co-Chair and Coordinator:

    H. R. Arabnia, PhD
    Professor, Computer Science
    Editor-in-Chief, The Journal of Supercomputing (Springer)
    Advisory Board, IEEE Technical Committee on TCSC
    Vice President, Int'l Society of Intelligent Biological Medicine
    The University of Georgia
    Department of Computer Science
    415 Boyd Building
    Athens, Georgia 30602-7404, USA

    Tel: (706) 542-3480
    Fax: (706) 542-2966
    E-mail: hra@...

SUBMISSION OF PAPERS:

    Prospective authors are invited to submit their draft papers by
    uploading them to http://worldcomp.cviog.uga.edu/ .
    Submissions must be received by Feb. 25, 2009 and they must be in
    either MS doc or pdf formats (about 5 to 7 pages - single space,
    font size of 10 to 12).  All reasonable typesetting formats are
    acceptable (later, the authors of accepted papers will be asked to
    follow a particular typesetting format to prepare their papers for
    publication.)

    The length of the Camera-Ready papers (if accepted) will be limited
    to 7 (IEEE style) pages.  Papers must not have been previously
    published or currently submitted for publication elsewhere.  The
    first page of the draft paper should include: title of the paper,
    name, affiliation, postal address, and email address for each author.
    The first page should also identify the name of the Contact Author
    and a maximum of 5 topical keywords that would best represent the
    content of the paper.  Finally, the name of the conference (SWWS)
    must be mentioned on the first page.

    Papers will be evaluated for originality, significance, clarity,
    impact, and soundness.  Each paper will be refereed by two experts
    in the field who are independent of the conference program committee.
    The referees' evaluations will then be reviewed by two members of
    the program committee who will recommend a decision to the co-chairs.
    The co-chairs will make the final decision.  Lastly, the Camera-Ready
    papers will be reviewed by one member of the program committee.

PROPOSAL FOR ORGANIZING SESSIONS/WORKSHOPS:

    Each session will have at least 6 paper presentations from
    different authors (12 papers in the case of workshops).  The
    session chairs will be responsible for all aspects of their
    sessions; including, soliciting papers, reviewing, selecting, ...
    The names of session chairs will appear as Associate Editors in
    the conference proceedings and on the cover of the books.

    Proposals to organize sessions should include the following
    information: name and address (+ email) of proposer, title of
    session, a 100-word description of the topic of the session,
    the name of the conference the session is submitted for
    consideration (ie, SWWS'09), and a short description on how
    the session will be advertised (in most cases, session proposers
    solicit papers from colleagues and researchers whose work is
    known to the session proposer).  email your session proposal
    to Prof. Arabnia (address is given above).  We would like to
    receive the proposals by January 16, 2009.

IMPORTANT DATES:

    Jan.  16, 2009:    Proposals for organizing/chairing sessions/workshops
    Feb.  25, 2009:    Submission of papers (about 5 to 7 pages)
    March 25, 2009:    Notification of acceptance
    April 25, 2009:    Camera-Ready papers and Registration due
    July 13-16, 2009:  The 2009 International Conference on
                       Semantic Web and Web Services (SWWS'09)

MEMBERS OF PROGRAM AND ORGANIZING COMMITTEES:

    The Program Committee includes members of chapters of World Academy
    of Science (chapters: supercomputing; scientific computing; AI;
    imaging science; databases; simulation; software engineering;
    embedded systems; internet and web technologies; communications;
    bioinformatics; computational biology; and computer security.)
    The Program Committee for SWWS is currently being formed.  Those
    interested in joining the Program Committee should email Prof. Arabnia
    (hra@...) the following information: Name, affiliation
    and position, complete mailing address, email address, a short
    biography together with research interests and the name of the
    conference (SWWS) offering to help with.
    Many who have already joined the committees of individual tracks
    are renowned leaders, scholars, researchers, scientists and
    practitioners of the highest ranks; many are directors of research
    laboratories, fellows of various societies, heads/chairs of
    departments, deans and provosts.

PURPOSE / HISTORY:

    SWWS'09 is an annual research conference about semantic web and
    web services.  It is being held jointly (same location and dates)
    with a number of other conferences (WORLDCOMP'09).  WORLDCOMP is
    the largest annual gathering of researchers in computer science,
    computer engineering and applied computing.

    The motivation is to assemble a spectrum of affiliated research topics
    into a coordinated meeting held in a common place at a common time.
    The main goal is to provide a forum for exchange of ideas in a number
    of research areas that interact.  The model used facilitates
    communication among researchers from all over the world in different
    fields of computer science, computer engineering and applied
    computing.  Both inward research (core areas of computer science and
    engineering) and outward research (multi-disciplinary, inter-disciplinary,
    and applications) will be covered during the event.

    SWWS'09 and WORLDCOMP'09 will be composed of research presentations,
    keynote lectures, invited presentations, tutorials, panel discussions,
    and poster presentations.  In recent past, keynote and/or tutorial
    speakers included: Prof. David A. Patterson (U. of California,
    Berkeley); Prof. Michael J. Flynn (Stanford U.); Prof. John H. Holland
    (U. of Michigan, Ann Arbor); Prof. Brian D. Athey (U. of Michigan,
    Ann Arbor), Prof. H. J. Siegel (Colorado State U.); Prof. Barry Vercoe
    (MIT); Prof. Ruzena Bajcsy (U. of California, Berkeley);
    Prof. Jun Liu (Harvard U.); Dr. Jim Gettys (OLPC + developer of X
    Window); Dr. Chris Rowen (President and CEO, Tensilica, Inc.); and
    many other distinguished speakers.

LOCATION OF CONFERENCES:

    The conferences will be held in the Monte Carlo hotel, Las Vegas,
    Nevada, USA (with any overflows at other near-by hotels).  This is
    a mega hotel with excellent conference facilities and over 3,000
    rooms.  It is minutes from the airport with 24-hour shuttle
    service to and from the airport.  This hotel has many recreational
    attractions, including: waterfalls, spa, pools, sunning decks, Easy
    River, wave pool, lighted tennis courts, health spa, nightly shows,
    a number of restaurants, ...  The negotiated room rate for
    conference attendees is very reasonable.  The hotel is within
    walking distance from most other attractions (recreational
    destinations, Golf courses, ...)

C A L L    F O R    P A P E R S
                  ===============================

                        CALL  FOR  PAPERS
                              and
               Call For Workshop/Session Proposals

               The 2009 International Conference on
              Information and Knowledge Engineering
                             IKE'09

       Date and Location: July 13-16, 2009, Las Vegas, USA

You are invited to submit a paper (and/or a proposal to organize
a session/workshop).  All accepted papers will be published in the
respective conference proceedings.

SCOPE: Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following:

   O  Information reliability and security
   O  Information and knowledge structures
   O  Information retrieval systems
   O  Knowledge mining
   O  Knowledge management and cyber-learning
   O  Knowledge delivery methods
   O  Knowledge life cycle
   O  Knowledge and information extraction and discovery techniques
   O  Knowledge classification tools
   O  Knowledge and information management techniques
   O  Knowledge extraction from images/pictures
   O  Large-scale information processing methods
   O  Intelligent knowledge-based systems
   O  Re-usability of software/knowledge/information
   O  Aspect-oriented programming
   O  Formal and visual specification languages
   O  Decision support and expert systems
   O  e-Libraries (digital libraries) + e-Publishing
   O  Digital typography
   O  Agent-based techniques and systems
   O  Workflow management
   O  Large-scale information processing methods and systems
   O  Content management
   O  Database engineering and systems
   O  Data and knowledge fusion
   O  Data and knowledge processing
   O  Databanks - issues, methods, and standards
   O  Dataweb models and systems
   O  Data/Information/Knowledge models
   O  Data warehousing
   O  Data security and privacy issues
   O  Managing copyright laws
   O  Interoperability issues
   O  Transaction systems
   O  Ontologies and semantics
   O  Object-oriented modeling and systems
   O  Case-based reasoning
   O  Digital watermarking
   O  Classical aspects of information theory
   O  Coding theory
   O  Information geometry
   O  Quantum information theory
   O  Applications (e-Commerce, multimedia, business, banking, ...)
   O  Emerging technologies and related issues

Web links:
http://www.world-academy-of-science.org/worldcomp09/ws/conferences/ike09
http://www.world-academy-of-science.org/

ACADEMIC CO-SPONSORS:

    Currently being prepared - it will include a number of active
    research laboratories and centers that have helped to shape our
    field.  The Academic Co-Sponsors of the last offering of
    IKE included research labs at Harvard University, UCLA,
    University of Minnesota, University of Illinois at Urbana-
    Champaign, Georgia Institute of Technology, Emory University,
    University of Texas at Austin, MIT, George Mason University,
    University of Iowa, Russian Academy of Sciences, NEMO/European
    Union, and others.  Corporate Co-Sponsors included, Google,
    Salford Systems, Synplicity, Supermicro, NIIT, and others.

General Co-Chair and Coordinator:

    H. R. Arabnia, PhD
    Professor, Computer Science
    Editor-in-Chief, The Journal of Supercomputing (Springer)
    Advisory Board, IEEE Technical Committee on TCSC
    Vice President, Int'l Society of Intelligent Biological Medicine
    The University of Georgia
    Department of Computer Science
    415 Boyd Building
    Athens, Georgia 30602-7404, USA

    Tel: (706) 542-3480
    Fax: (706) 542-2966
    E-mail: hra@...

SUBMISSION OF PAPERS:

    Prospective authors are invited to submit their draft papers by
    uploading them to http://worldcomp.cviog.uga.edu/ .
    Submissions must be received by Feb. 25, 2009 and they must be in
    either MS doc or pdf formats (about 5 to 7 pages - single space,
    font size of 10 to 12).  All reasonable typesetting formats are
    acceptable (later, the authors of accepted papers will be asked to
    follow a particular typesetting format to prepare their papers for
    publication.)

    The length of the Camera-Ready papers (if accepted) will be limited
    to 7 (IEEE style) pages.  Papers must not have been previously
    published or currently submitted for publication elsewhere.  The
    first page of the draft paper should include: title of the paper,
    name, affiliation, postal address, and email address for each author.
    The first page should also identify the name of the Contact Author
    and a maximum of 5 topical keywords that would best represent the
    content of the paper.  Finally, the name of the conference (IKE)
    must be mentioned on the first page.

    Papers will be evaluated for originality, significance, clarity,
    impact, and soundness.  Each paper will be refereed by two experts
    in the field who are independent of the conference program committee.
    The referees' evaluations will then be reviewed by two members of
    the program committee who will recommend a decision to the co-chairs.
    The co-chairs will make the final decision.  Lastly, the Camera-Ready
    papers will be reviewed by one member of the program committee.

PROPOSAL FOR ORGANIZING SESSIONS/WORKSHOPS:

    Each session will have at least 6 paper presentations from
    different authors (12 papers in the case of workshops).  The
    session chairs will be responsible for all aspects of their
    sessions; including, soliciting papers, reviewing, selecting, ...
    The names of session chairs will appear as Associate Editors in
    the conference proceedings and on the cover of the books.

    Proposals to organize sessions should include the following
    information: name and address (+ email) of proposer, title of
    session, a 100-word description of the topic of the session,
    the name of the conference the session is submitted for
    consideration (ie, IKE'09), and a short description on how
    the session will be advertised (in most cases, session proposers
    solicit papers from colleagues and researchers whose work is
    known to the session proposer).  email your session proposal
    to Prof. Arabnia (address is given above).  We would like to
    receive the proposals by January 16, 2009.

IMPORTANT DATES:

    Jan.  16, 2009:    Proposals for organizing/chairing sessions/workshops
    Feb.  25, 2009:    Submission of papers (about 5 to 7 pages)
    March 25, 2009:    Notification of acceptance
    April 25, 2009:    Camera-Ready papers and Registration due
    July 13-16, 2009:  The 2009 International Conference on Information
                       and Knowledge Engineering (IKE'09)

MEMBERS OF PROGRAM AND ORGANIZING COMMITTEES:

    The Program Committee includes members of chapters of World Academy
    of Science (chapters: supercomputing; scientific computing; AI;
    imaging science; databases; simulation; software engineering;
    embedded systems; internet and web technologies; communications;
    bioinformatics; computational biology; and computer security.)
    The Program Committee for IKE is currently being formed.  Those
    interested in joining the Program Committee should email Prof. Arabnia
    (hra@...) the following information: Name, affiliation
    and position, complete mailing address, email address, a short
    biography together with research interests and the name of the
    conference (IKE) offering to help with.
    Many who have already joined the committees of individual tracks
    are renowned leaders, scholars, researchers, scientists and
    practitioners of the highest ranks; many are directors of research
    laboratories, fellows of various societies, heads/chairs of
    departments, deans and provosts.

PURPOSE / HISTORY:

    IKE'09 is an annual research conference about Information and
    Knowledge Engineering.  It is being held jointly (same location
    and dates) with a number of other conferences (WORLDCOMP'09).
    WORLDCOMP is the largest annual gathering of researchers in
    computer science, computer engineering and applied computing.

    The motivation is to assemble a spectrum of affiliated research topics
    into a coordinated meeting held in a common place at a common time.
    The main goal is to provide a forum for exchange of ideas in a number
    of research areas that interact.  The model used facilitates
    communication among researchers from all over the world in different
    fields of computer science, computer engineering and applied
    computing.  Both inward research (core areas of computer science and
    engineering) and outward research (multi-disciplinary, inter-disciplinary,
    and applications) will be covered during the event.

    IKE'09 and WORLDCOMP'09 will be composed of research presentations,
    keynote lectures, invited presentations, tutorials, panel discussions,
    and poster presentations.  In recent past, keynote and/or tutorial
    speakers included: Prof. David A. Patterson (U. of California,
    Berkeley); Prof. Michael J. Flynn (Stanford U.); Prof. John H. Holland
    (U. of Michigan, Ann Arbor); Prof. Brian D. Athey (U. of Michigan,
    Ann Arbor), Prof. H. J. Siegel (Colorado State U.); Prof. Barry Vercoe
    (MIT); Prof. Ruzena Bajcsy (U. of California, Berkeley);
    Prof. Jun Liu (Harvard U.); Dr. Jim Gettys (OLPC + developer of X
    Window); Dr. Chris Rowen (President and CEO, Tensilica, Inc.); and
    many other distinguished speakers.

LOCATION OF CONFERENCES:

    The conferences will be held in the Monte Carlo hotel, Las Vegas,
    Nevada, USA (with any overflows at other near-by hotels).  This is
    a mega hotel with excellent conference facilities and over 3,000
    rooms.  It is minutes from the airport with 24-hour shuttle
    service to and from the airport.  This hotel has many recreational
    attractions, including: waterfalls, spa, pools, sunning decks, Easy
    River, wave pool, lighted tennis courts, health spa, nightly shows,
    a number of restaurants, ...  The negotiated room rate for
    conference attendees is very reasonable.  The hotel is within
    walking distance from most other attractions (recreational
    destinations, Golf courses, ...)

C A L L    F O R    P A P E R S
                  ===============================

                        CALL  FOR  PAPERS
                              and
               Call For Workshop/Session Proposals

              The 2009 International Conference on
                     Artificial Intelligence
                            ICAI'09

       Date and Location: July 13-16, 2009, Las Vegas, USA

You are invited to submit a paper (and/or a proposal to organize
a session/workshop).  All accepted papers will be published in the
respective conference proceedings.

SCOPE: Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following:

   O  Brain models / cognitive science
   O  Natural language processing
   O  Fuzzy logic and soft computing
   O  Software tools for AI
   O  Expert systems
   O  Decision support systems
   O  Automated problem solving
   O  Knowledge discovery
   O  Knowledge representation
   O  Knowledge acquisition
   O  Knowledge-intensive problem solving techniques
   O  Knowledge networks and management
   O  Intelligent information systems
   O  Intelligent data mining and farming
   O  Intelligent web-based business
   O  Intelligent agents
   O  Intelligent networks
   O  Intelligent databases
   O  Intelligent user interface
   O  AI and evolutionary algorithms
   O  Intelligent tutoring systems
   O  Reasoning strategies
   O  Distributed AI algorithms and techniques
   O  Distributed AI systems and architectures
   O  Neural networks and applications
   O  Heuristic searching methods
   O  Languages and programming techniques for AI
   O  Constraint-based reasoning and constraint programming
   O  Intelligent information fusion
   O  Learning and adaptive sensor fusion
   O  Search and meta-heuristics
   O  Multisensor data fusion using neural and fuzzy techniques
   O  Integration of AI with other technologies
   O  Evaluation of AI tools
   O  Social intelligence (markets and computational societies)
   O  Social impact of AI
   O  Emerging technologies
   O  Applications (including: computer vision, signal processing,
      military, surveillance, robotics, medicine, pattern recognition,
      face recognition, finger print recognition, finance and
      marketing, stock market, education, emerging applications, ...)

   O  The 2009 International Workshop on Machine Learning; Models,
      Technologies and Applications:

      - General Machine Learning Theory
        . Statistical learning theory
        . Unsupervised and Supervised Learning
        . Multivariate analysis
        . Hierarchical learning models
        . Relational learning models
        . Bayesian methods
        . Meta learning
        . Stochastic optimization
        . Simulated annealing
        . Heuristic optimization techniques
        . Neural networks
        . Reinforcement learning
        . Multi-criteria reinforcement learning
        . General Learning models
        . Multiple hypothesis testing
        . Decision making
        . Markov chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) methods
        . Non-parametric methods
        . Graphical models
        . Gaussian graphical models
        . Bayesian networks
        . Particle filter
        . Cross-Entropy method
        . Ant colony optimization
        . Time series prediction
        . Fuzzy logic and learning
        . Inductive learning and applications
        . Grammatical inference

      - General Graph-based Machine Learning Techniques
        . Graph kernel and graph distance methods
        . Graph-based semi-supervised learning
        . Graph clustering
        . Graph learning based on graph transformations
        . Graph learning based on graph grammars
        . Graph learning based on graph matching
        . General theoretical aspects of graph learning
        . Statistical modeling of graphs
        . Information-theoretical approaches to graphs
        . Motif search
        . Network inference
        . General issues in graph and tree mining

      - Machine Learning Applications
        . Aspects of knowledge structures
        . Computational Finance
        . Computational Intelligence
        . Knowledge acquisition and discovery techniques
        . Induction of document grammars
        . Supervised and unsupervised classification of web data
        . General Structure-based approaches in information retrieval,
          web authoring, information extraction, and web content mining
        . Latent semantic analysis
        . Aspects of natural language processing
        . Intelligent linguistic
        . Aspects of text technology
        . Computational vision
        . Bioinformatics and computational biology
        . Biostatistics
        . High-throughput data analysis
        . Biological network analysis:
          protein-protein networks, signaling networks, metabolic networks,
          transcriptional regulatory networks
        . Graph-based models in biostatistics
        . Computational Neuroscience
        . Computational Chemistry
        . Computational Statistics
        . Systems Biology
        . Algebraic Biology

Web links:
http://www.world-academy-of-science.org/worldcomp09/ws/conferences/icai09
http://www.world-academy-of-science.org/

ACADEMIC CO-SPONSORS:

    Currently being prepared - it will include a number of active
    research laboratories and centers that have helped to shape our
    field.  The Academic Co-Sponsors of the last offering of
    ICAI included research labs at Harvard University, UCLA,
    University of Minnesota, University of Illinois at Urbana-
    Champaign, Georgia Institute of Technology, Emory University,
    University of Texas at Austin, MIT, George Mason University,
    University of Iowa, Russian Academy of Sciences, NEMO/European
    Union, and others.  Corporate Co-Sponsors included, Google,
    Salford Systems, Synplicity, Supermicro, NIIT, and others.

General Co-Chair and Coordinator:

    H. R. Arabnia, PhD
    Professor, Computer Science
    Editor-in-Chief, The Journal of Supercomputing (Springer)
    Advisory Board, IEEE Technical Committee on TCSC
    Vice President, Int'l Society of Intelligent Biological Medicine
    The University of Georgia
    Department of Computer Science
    415 Boyd Building
    Athens, Georgia 30602-7404, USA

    Tel: (706) 542-3480
    Fax: (706) 542-2966
    E-mail: hra@...

SUBMISSION OF PAPERS:

    Prospective authors are invited to submit their draft papers by
    uploading them to http://worldcomp.cviog.uga.edu/ .
    Submissions must be received by Feb. 25, 2009 and they must be in
    either MS doc or pdf formats (about 5 to 7 pages - single space,
    font size of 10 to 12).  All reasonable typesetting formats are
    acceptable (later, the authors of accepted papers will be asked to
    follow a particular typesetting format to prepare their papers for
    publication.)

    The length of the Camera-Ready papers (if accepted) will be limited
    to 7 (IEEE style) pages.  Papers must not have been previously
    published or currently submitted for publication elsewhere.  The
    first page of the draft paper should include: title of the paper,
    name, affiliation, postal address, and email address for each author.
    The first page should also identify the name of the Contact Author
    and a maximum of 5 topical keywords that would best represent the
    content of the paper.  Finally, the name of the conference (ICAI)
    must be mentioned on the first page.

    Papers will be evaluated for originality, significance, clarity,
    impact, and soundness.  Each paper will be refereed by two experts
    in the field who are independent of the conference program committee.
    The referees' evaluations will then be reviewed by two members of
    the program committee who will recommend a decision to the co-chairs.
    The co-chairs will make the final decision.  Lastly, the Camera-Ready
    papers will be reviewed by one member of the program committee.

PROPOSAL FOR ORGANIZING SESSIONS/WORKSHOPS:

    Each session will have at least 6 paper presentations from
    different authors (12 papers in the case of workshops).  The
    session chairs will be responsible for all aspects of their
    sessions; including, soliciting papers, reviewing, selecting, ...
    The names of session chairs will appear as Associate Editors in
    the conference proceedings and on the cover of the books.

    Proposals to organize sessions should include the following
    information: name and address (+ email) of proposer, title of
    session, a 100-word description of the topic of the session,
    the name of the conference the session is submitted for
    consideration (ie, ICAI'09), and a short description on how
    the session will be advertised (in most cases, session proposers
    solicit papers from colleagues and researchers whose work is
    known to the session proposer).  email your session proposal
    to Prof. Arabnia (address is given above).  We would like to
    receive the proposals by January 16, 2009.

IMPORTANT DATES:

    Jan.  16, 2009:    Proposals for organizing/chairing sessions/workshops
    Feb.  25, 2009:    Submission of papers (about 5 to 7 pages)
    March 25, 2009:    Notification of acceptance
    April 25, 2009:    Camera-Ready papers and Registration due
    July 13-16, 2009:  The 2009 International Conference on Artificial
                       Intelligence (ICAI'09)

MEMBERS OF PROGRAM AND ORGANIZING COMMITTEES:

    The Program Committee includes members of chapters of World Academy
    of Science (chapters: supercomputing; scientific computing; AI;
    imaging science; databases; simulation; software engineering;
    embedded systems; internet and web technologies; communications;
    bioinformatics; computational biology; and computer security.)
    The Program Committee for ICAI is currently being formed.  Those
    interested in joining the Program Committee should email Prof. Arabnia
    (hra@...) the following information: Name, affiliation
    and position, complete mailing address, email address, a short
    biography together with research interests and the name of the
    conference (ICAI) offering to help with.
    Many who have already joined the committees of individual tracks
    are renowned leaders, scholars, researchers, scientists and
    practitioners of the highest ranks; many are directors of research
    laboratories, fellows of various societies, heads/chairs of
    departments, deans and provosts.

PURPOSE / HISTORY:

    ICAI'09 is an annual research conference about Artificial Intelligence.
    It is being held jointly (same location and dates) with a number of
    other conferences (WORLDCOMP'09).  WORLDCOMP is the largest annual
    gathering of researchers in computer science, computer engineering
    and applied computing.

    The motivation is to assemble a spectrum of affiliated research topics
    into a coordinated meeting held in a common place at a common time.
    The main goal is to provide a forum for exchange of ideas in a number
    of research areas that interact.  The model used facilitates
    communication among researchers from all over the world in different
    fields of computer science, computer engineering and applied
    computing.  Both inward research (core areas of computer science and
    engineering) and outward research (multi-disciplinary, inter-disciplinary,
    and applications) will be covered during the event.

    ICAI'09 and WORLDCOMP'09 will be composed of research presentations,
    keynote lectures, invited presentations, tutorials, panel discussions,
    and poster presentations.  In recent past, keynote and/or tutorial
    speakers included: Prof. David A. Patterson (U. of California,
    Berkeley); Prof. Michael J. Flynn (Stanford U.); Prof. John H. Holland
    (U. of Michigan, Ann Arbor); Prof. Brian D. Athey (U. of Michigan,
    Ann Arbor), Prof. H. J. Siegel (Colorado State U.); Prof. Barry Vercoe
    (MIT); Prof. Ruzena Bajcsy (U. of California, Berkeley);
    Prof. Jun Liu (Harvard U.); Dr. Jim Gettys (OLPC + developer of X
    Window); Dr. Chris Rowen (President and CEO, Tensilica, Inc.); and
    many other distinguished speakers.

LOCATION OF CONFERENCES:

    The conferences will be held in the Monte Carlo hotel, Las Vegas,
    Nevada, USA (with any overflows at other near-by hotels).  This is
    a mega hotel with excellent conference facilities and over 3,000
    rooms.  It is minutes from the airport with 24-hour shuttle
    service to and from the airport.  This hotel has many recreational
    attractions, including: waterfalls, spa, pools, sunning decks, Easy
    River, wave pool, lighted tennis courts, health spa, nightly shows,
    a number of restaurants, ...  The negotiated room rate for
    conference attendees is very reasonable.  The hotel is within
    walking distance from most other attractions (recreational
    destinations, Golf courses, ...)

C A L L    F O R    P A P E R S
                  ===============================

                        CALL  FOR  PAPERS
                              and
               Call For Workshop/Session Proposals

              The 2009 International Conference on
                Genetic and Evolutionary Methods
                             GEM'09

       Date and Location: July 13-16, 2009, Las Vegas, USA

You are invited to submit a paper (and/or a proposal to organize
a session/workshop).  All accepted papers will be published in the
respective conference proceedings.

SCOPE: Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following:

   O  Genetic programming
   O  Genetic algorithms
   O  Hybrid genetic / memetic algorithms
   O  Artificial life
   O  Genetic benchmarks and software packages
   O  Optimization methodologies
   O  Swarm intelligence and optimization
   O  Artificial immune systems
   O  Evolutionary programming
   O  Fuzzy systems and evolutionary computing
   O  Biologically inspired systems
   O  Evolutionary strategies
   O  Combinatorial optimization problems
   O  Ant colony optimization
   O  Learning classifiers
   O  Agent technologies
   O  Parallel/distributed evolutionary algorithms
   O  Evolvable hardware
   O  Evolutionary scheduling
   O  Search based strategies
   O  Evolutionary multi-objective optimization
   O  Prediction methods
   O  Co-evolution
   O  Novel methodologies
   O  Robotics
   O  Biological methods
   O  Applications

Web links:
http://www.world-academy-of-science.org/worldcomp09/ws/conferences/gem09
http://www.world-academy-of-science.org/

ACADEMIC CO-SPONSORS:

    Currently being prepared - it will include a number of active
    research laboratories and centers that have helped to shape our
    field.  The Academic Co-Sponsors of the last offering of
    GEM included research labs at Harvard University, UCLA,
    University of Minnesota, University of Illinois at Urbana-
    Champaign, Georgia Institute of Technology, Emory University,
    University of Texas at Austin, MIT, George Mason University,
    University of Iowa, Russian Academy of Sciences, NEMO/European
    Union, and others.  Corporate Co-Sponsors included Google,
    Salford Systems, Synplicity, Supermicro, NIIT, and others.

General Co-Chair and Coordinator:

    H. R. Arabnia, PhD
    Professor, Computer Science
    Editor-in-Chief, The Journal of Supercomputing (Springer)
    Advisory Board, IEEE Technical Committee on TCSC
    Vice President, Int'l Society of Intelligent Biological Medicine
    The University of Georgia
    Department of Computer Science
    415 Boyd Building
    Athens, Georgia 30602-7404, USA

    Tel: (706) 542-3480
    Fax: (706) 542-2966
    E-mail: hra@...

SUBMISSION OF PAPERS:

    Prospective authors are invited to submit their draft papers by
    uploading them to http://worldcomp.cviog.uga.edu/ .
    Submissions must be received by Feb. 25, 2009 and they must be in
    either MS doc or pdf formats (about 5 to 7 pages - single space,
    font size of 10 to 12).  All reasonable typesetting formats are
    acceptable (later, the authors of accepted papers will be asked to
    follow a particular typesetting format to prepare their papers for
    publication.)

    The length of the Camera-Ready papers (if accepted) will be limited
    to 7 (IEEE style) pages.  Papers must not have been previously
    published or currently submitted for publication elsewhere.  The
    first page of the draft paper should include: title of the paper,
    name, affiliation, postal address, and email address for each author.
    The first page should also identify the name of the Contact Author
    and a maximum of 5 topical keywords that would best represent the
    content of the paper.  Finally, the name of the conference (GEM)
    must be mentioned on the first page.

    Papers will be evaluated for originality, significance, clarity,
    impact, and soundness.  Each paper will be refereed by two experts
    in the field who are independent of the conference program committee.
    The referees' evaluations will then be reviewed by two members of
    the program committee who will recommend a decision to the co-chairs.
    The co-chairs will make the final decision.  Lastly, the Camera-Ready
    papers will be reviewed by one member of the program committee.

PROPOSAL FOR ORGANIZING SESSIONS/WORKSHOPS:

    Each session will have at least 6 paper presentations from
    different authors (12 papers in the case of workshops).  The
    session chairs will be responsible for all aspects of their
    sessions; including, soliciting papers, reviewing, selecting, ...
    The names of session chairs will appear as Associate Editors in
    the conference proceedings and on the cover of the books.

    Proposals to organize sessions should include the following
    information: name and address (+ email) of proposer, title of
    session, a 100-word description of the topic of the session,
    the name of the conference the session is submitted for
    consideration (ie, GEM'09), and a short description on how
    the session will be advertised (in most cases, session proposers
    solicit papers from colleagues and researchers whose work is
    known to the session proposer).  email your session proposal
    to Prof. Arabnia (address is given above).  We would like to
    receive the proposals by January 16, 2009.

IMPORTANT DATES:

    Jan.  16, 2009:    Proposals for organizing/chairing sessions/workshops
    Feb.  25, 2009:    Submission of papers (about 5 to 7 pages)
    March 25, 2009:    Notification of acceptance
    April 25, 2009:    Camera-Ready papers and Registration due
    July 13-16, 2009:  The 2009 International Conference on Genetic and
                       Evolutionary Methods (GEM'09)

MEMBERS OF PROGRAM AND ORGANIZING COMMITTEES:

    The Program Committee includes members of chapters of World Academy
    of Science (chapters: supercomputing; scientific computing; AI;
    imaging science; databases; simulation; software engineering;
    embedded systems; internet and web technologies; communications;
    bioinformatics; computational biology; and computer security.)
    The Program Committee for GEM is currently being formed.  Those
    interested in joining the Program Committee should email Prof. Arabnia
    (hra@...) the following information: Name, affiliation
    and position, complete mailing address, email address, a short
    biography together with research interests and the name of the
    conference (GEM) offering to help with.
    Many who have already joined the committees of individual tracks
    are renowned leaders, scholars, researchers, scientists and
    practitioners of the highest ranks; many are directors of research
    laboratories, fellows of various societies, heads/chairs of
    departments, deans and provosts.

PURPOSE / HISTORY:

    GEM'09 is an annual research conference about genetic and
    evolutionary methods.  It is being held jointly (same location and
    dates) with a number of other conferences (WORLDCOMP'09).
    WORLDCOMP is the largest annual gathering of researchers in
    computer science, computer engineering and applied computing.

    The motivation is to assemble a spectrum of affiliated research topics
    into a coordinated meeting held in a common place at a common time.
    The main goal is to provide a forum for exchange of ideas in a number
    of research areas that interact.  The model used facilitates
    communication among researchers from all over the world in different
    fields of computer science, computer engineering and applied
    computing.  Both inward research (core areas of computer science and
    engineering) and outward research (multi-disciplinary, inter-disciplinary,
    and applications) will be covered during the event.

    GEM'09 and WORLDCOMP'09 will be composed of research presentations,
    keynote lectures, invited presentations, tutorials, panel discussions,
    and poster presentations.  In recent past, keynote and/or tutorial
    speakers included: Prof. David A. Patterson (U. of California,
    Berkeley); Prof. Michael J. Flynn (Stanford U.); Prof. John H. Holland
    (U. of Michigan, Ann Arbor); Prof. Brian D. Athey (U. of Michigan,
    Ann Arbor), Prof. H. J. Siegel (Colorado State U.); Prof. Barry Vercoe
    (MIT); Prof. Ruzena Bajcsy (U. of California, Berkeley);
    Prof. Jun Liu (Harvard U.); Dr. Jim Gettys (OLPC + developer of X
    Window); Dr. Chris Rowen (President and CEO, Tensilica, Inc.); and
    many other distinguished speakers.

LOCATION OF CONFERENCES:

    The conferences will be held in the Monte Carlo hotel, Las Vegas,
    Nevada, USA (with any overflows at other near-by hotels).  This is
    a mega hotel with excellent conference facilities and over 3,000
    rooms.  It is minutes from the airport with 24-hour shuttle
    service to and from the airport.  This hotel has many recreational
    attractions, including: waterfalls, spa, pools, sunning decks, Easy
    River, wave pool, lighted tennis courts, health spa, nightly shows,
    a number of restaurants, ...  The negotiated room rate for
    conference attendees is very reasonable.  The hotel is within
    walking distance from most other attractions (recreational
    destinations, Golf courses, ...)

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>Subject: CFP: IEEE/WIC/ACM WI 2009 (Milano, Italy)
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>#####################################################################
>          IEEE/WIC/ACM WEB INTELLIGENCE 2009
>                   CALL FOR PAPERS
>#####################################################################
>
>2009 IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Web Intelligence (WI-09)
>
>September 15-18, 2009, University of Milano - Bicocca, Milano, Italy
>
>http://www.wi-iat09.disco.unimib.it
>
>Sponsored By
>IEEE Computer Society
>Web Intelligence Consortium (WIC)
>Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
>
>##################################################################
># (Papers Due: *** 10 April 2009 ***
># Accepted papers will be published in the conference proceedings
># by the IEEE Computer Society Press, which are indexed by EI.
>##################################################################
>
>WI 2009 will provide a leading international forum of scientific
>research and development to explore the fundamental interactions
>between AI-engineering and Advanced Information Technology
>(e.g., wireless networks, ubiquitous devices, social networks, and
>data/knowledge grids), and their role on the next generation of
>Web-empowered products, Web systems and services.  AI-engineering
>refers to a new area, slightly beyond tradional AI, which encompasses:
>brain informatics, human level AI, intelligent agents, social network
>intelligence, knowledge engineering, representation, planning, data
>mining and discovery.
>
>WI 2009 will be jointly held with the 2009 IEEE/WIC/ACM International
>Conference on Intelligent Agent Technology (IAT-09).  The two
>conferences will have a joint opening, keynote, reception, and
>banquet. Attendees only need to register for one conference and can
>attend workshops, sessions, tutorials, panels, exhibits and
>demonstrations across the two conferences. We are also planning a
>joint panel, joint paper sessions, and a doctoral mentoring program to
>discuss common problems in the two areas.
>
>+++++++++++++++++++
>Topics of Interest
>+++++++++++++++++++
>
>We invite submissions in all WI related areas. Papers exploring new
>directions or areas will receive a careful and supportive review.
>Areas of interest include, but are not limited to:
>
>* WI Foundations
>  - Brain Informatics for WI
>  - Human Level WI
>  - New Cognitive Models and Computational Models for WI
>  - Granular Computing (GrC) for WI
>  - Soft Computing for WI
>  - Autonomy-Oriented Computing (AOC) for WI
>  - Human-Inspired WI Computing
>
>* World Wide Wisdom Web (W4)
>  - Meta-Knowledge Discovery and Representation
>  - Problem Solver Markup Language (PSML)
>  - Search of Best Means and Ends
>  - Goal-Directed Services Support
>  - Distributed Resources Optimization
>  - Service Self-Aggregation
>  - Web Inference Engine
>  - Information and Knowledge Markets
>  - New Social Interaction Paradigms
>  - Social and Psychological Contexts Regularities and Laws of W4
>
>* Web Information Retrieval and Filtering
>  - Web Information Retrieval in context
>  - Multimedia Indexing
>  - Personalization
>  - Location-based Information Retrieval
>  - Geographic information retrieval
>  - Content-based Information Filtering
>  - Collaborative Filtering and Recommendation
>  - Hybrid Recommendation
>  - Clustering-Based Recommender Systems
>  - Information Retrieval Models and Evaluations
>  - Web Information Categorization
>  - Ranking Techniques
>  - Proxy and Cache Techniques
>  - Web Prediction and Pre-fetching
>  - Distributed Web Search
>  - Specifications for Web Information Extraction Process
>  - Web Crawling Systems
>  - Search Engines and Meta-search Engines
>
>* Semantics and Ontology Engineering
>  - Semantic Web
>  - Ontology-Based Information Extraction and Retrieval
>  - Ontology-Based Web Mining
>  - Web-Based Ontology Learning
>  - Web Scale Reasoning
>
>* Web Mining and Farming
>  - Text Mining
>  - Data Stream Mining
>  - Multimedia Data Mining
>  - Web Content Mining
>  - Web Log and Usage Mining
>  - Context Sensitive Web Mining
>  - Web Information Clustering
>  - Web Page Clustering and Mining
>  - Data Warehousing
>  - Web Farming and Warehousing
>
>* Social Networks and Social Intelligence
>  - Social Networks Mining
>  - Web Site Clustering
>  - Web 2.0
>  - Link Topology and Site Hierarchy
>  - Theories of Small-World Web
>  - Virtual and Web Communities
>  - Web-Based Cooperative Work
>  - Knowledge Community Formation and Support
>  - Ubiquitous Computing
>  - Intelligent Wireless Web
>  - Ubiquitous Learning Systems
>  - Entertainment
>
>* Knowledge Grids and Grid Intelligence
>  - Semantic Grids
>  - Knowledge Resources and Services Discovery
>  - On-Demand Planning and Routing
>  - Brokering and Scheduling
>  - Middleware Architectures and Tools
>
>* Web Agents
>  - Global Information Foraging
>  - Distributed Problem Solving
>  - Coordination
>  - Resource Intermediary and Coordination Mechanisms
>  - Self-Organization and Reproduction
>  - Agent Networks and Topologies
>  - Mobile Agents
>  - Macroscopic Behavior Modeling
>  - Trust Models for Web Agents
>
>* Web Services
>  - Service-Oriented Computing
>  - Matchmaking
>  - Web Service Reconfiguration
>  - Web Service Workflow Composition
>  - Middleware-Based Ubiquitous Services
>  - Grid Services
>
>* Intelligent Human-Web Interaction
>  - Adaptive Web Interfaces
>  - Context-Aware Computing
>  - Emotional Factor
>  - Learning User Profiles
>  - Multimedia Representation
>  - Personalized Interfaces
>  - Personalized Websites
>  - Remembrance Agents
>  - Visualization of Information and Knowledge
>  - Social and Psychological Issues
>
>* Web Support Systems
>  - Information Retrieval Support Systems
>  - Web Site Navigation Support Systems
>  - Recommender Support Systems
>  - Web-Based Decision Support Systems
>  - Soft Computing (including neural networks, fuzzy logic,
>    evolutionary computation, rough sets, and granular computing)
>    and Uncertainty Management for WI
>
>* Intelligent e-Technology
>  - Business Intelligence
>  - Intelligent Enterprise Portals
>  - Web-Based Direct Marketing and CRM
>  - Web-Based EDI
>  - Digital Libraries
>  - e-Publishing
>  - e-Business and e-Commerce
>  - e-Finance
>  - e-Community Decentralized Community Communication Techniques
>  - e-Learning
>  - e-Medicine
>  - e-Science
>  - e-Government
>  - Web Security, Integrity, Privacy and Trust
>
>++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>On-Line Submissions and Publication
>++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>
>High-quality papers in all WI related areas are solicited.
>Paper submissions should be limited to a maximum of 8 pages in the
>IEEE 2-column format, the same as the camera-ready format (see the
>Author Guidelines of last year at
>http://www.ieeeconfpublishing.org/cpir/AuthorKit.asp?Community=CPS&Facility=CPS\
_Dec&ERoom=WI%2DIAT+2008).
>
>All submitted papers will be reviewed by the Program Committee
>on the basis of technical quality, relevance, significance, and clarity.
>
>Note that WI'09 will accept ONLY on-line submissions, containing
>PDF versions. Please use the Submission Form on the WI'09
>website to submit your paper. Accepted papers will be published in the
>conference proceedings by the IEEE Computer Society Press that are
>indexed by EI.
>
>Submissions accepted as regular papers will be allocated 8 pages in the
>proceedings and accorded oral presentation in the main conference.
>Submissions accepted as short papers will be allocated 4
>pages in the proceedings and will have a shorter presentation time at
>the conference than regular papers.
>
>All co-authors will be notified for the submission,
>notification, and confirmation on the attendance. Submitting a paper
>to the conference and workshops means that, if the paper is accepted,
>at least one author should attend the conference to present the
>paper. The acceptance list and no-show list will be openly published
>on-line. For no-show authors, their affiliations will receive a notification.
>
>A selected number of WI'09 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 awards will be conferred at the conference on the
>authors of (1) the best research paper and (2) the best application
>paper. Application-oriented submissions will be considered for the
>best application paper award.
>
>More detailed instructions and the On-Line Submission Form will be
>found on the WI'09 homepage:
>http://www.wi-iat09.disco.unimib.it/WI09/WIhome.htm
>
>++++++++++
>Workshops
>++++++++++
>
>As an important part of the conference, the workshop program will
>focus on new research challenges and initiatives.  All papers accepted
>for workshops will be included in the Workshop Proceedings published
>by the IEEE Computer Society Press that are indexed by EI, and will be
>available at the workshops. Detailed information is available at the
>conference homepage.
>
>Note: we will not have a separate workshop registration fee
>(i.e., conference registration covers everything).
>
>++++++++++
>Tutorials
>++++++++++
>
>WI'09 also welcomes Tutorial proposals. WI'09 will include tutorials
>providing in-depth background on subjects that are of broad interest
>to the Web intelligence community. Both short (2 hours) and long (half
>day) tutorials will be considered. The tutorials will be part of the
>main conference technical program. Detailed information is available
>at the conference homepage.
>
>Note: we will not have a separate tutorials registration fee
>(i.e., only one conference registration covers everything).
>
>++++++++++++++++++++
>Industry/Demo-Track
>++++++++++++++++++++
>
>We solicit Industry/Demo-Track papers by the following methods.
>
>(1) Industry papers of 4 pages can be submitted on the same schedule as
>     the research track.
>(2) Separate 2 page demo proposals can submitted at a later schedule.
>(3) Full regular paper submissions can include a demo option.
>     That is, a full paper submissions will be asked to
>     specify if they would like to give a demonstration; choice of
>     demonstrations (while utilizing information from the regular reviewing
>     process) will be selected based on value as a demonstration.
>
>For options (1) and (2), more detailed instructions will be found at
>the homepage: http://www.wi-iat09.disco.unimib.it/WI09/WIhome.htm
>
>++++++++++++++++
>Important Dates
>++++++++++++++++
>
>  * Workshop proposal submission: January 15, 2009
>  * Electronic paper submission (8 pages): April 10, 2009
>  * Tutorial proposal submission: April 10, 2009
>  * Workshop paper submission: April 30, 2008
>  * Author notification: June 3, 2009
>  * Conference dates: September 15-18, 2009
>
>++++++++++++++++++++++++
>Conference Organization
>++++++++++++++++++++++++
>
>Conference General Chair:
>   * Gabriella Pasi, University of Milano - Bicocca, Milano, Italy
>
>Program Chair:
>   * Ricardo Baeza-Yates, Yahoo! Research, Barcelona, Spain
>
>WI Program Co-Chairs:
>   * Bettina Berendt, K.U. Leuven, Leuven, Belgium
>   * Elisa Bertino, Purdue University, West Lafayette, USA
>   * Lim Ee Peng, Singapore Management University, Singapore
>
>IAT Program Co-Chairs:
>   * Jerome Lang, CNRS, LAMSADE, Paris, France
>   * Sushmita Mitra, Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata, India
>   * Simon Parsons, Brooklyn College, City University of New York, USA
>
>Organizing Co-Chairs:
>   * Gloria Bordogna, National Council of Research, Milano, Italy
>   * Giancarlo Mauri, University of Milano - Bicocca, Milano, Italy
>
>Workshop Co-Chairs:
>   * Paolo Boldi, University of Milano, Milano. Italy
>   * Giuseppe Vizzari, University of Milano - Bicocca, Milano, Italy
>
>Tutorial Co-Chairs:
>   * Mohand Boughanem, University Paul Sabatier, Toulouse, France
>   * Fabrizio Sebastiani, National Council of Research, Pisa, Italy
>
>Publicity Co-Chairs:
>   * Jia Hu, The International WIC Institute/BJUT, China
>   * Mounia Lalmas, University of Glasgow, UK
>
>IEEE-CS-TCII Chair:
>  * Ning Zhong, Maebashi Institute of Technology, Japan
>
>ACM-SIGART Chair
>  * Maria Gini, University of Minnesota, USA
>
>WIC Co-Chairs/Directors:
>  * Ning Zhong, Maebashi Institute of Technology, Japan
>  * Jiming Liu, University of Windsor, Canada
>
>WIC Advisory Board:
>  * Edward A. Feigenbaum, Stanford University, USA
>  * Setsuo Ohsuga, University of Tokyo, Japan
>  * Benjamin Wah, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, USA
>  * Philip Yu, University of Illinois, Chicago, USA
>  * L.A. Zadeh, University of California, Berkeley, USA
>
>WIC Tech. Committee & WI/IAT Steering Committee:
>  * Jeffrey Bradshaw, UWF/Institute for Human and Machine Cognition, USA
>  * Nick Cercone, York University, Canada
>  * Dieter Fensel, University of Innsbruck, Austria
>  * Georg Gottlob, Oxford University, UK
>  * Lakhmi Jain, University of South Australia, Australia
>  * Jianchang Mao, Yahoo! Inc., USA
>  * Pierre Morizet-Mahoudeaux, Compiegne University of Technology, France
>  * Hiroshi Motoda, Osaka University, Japan
>  * Toyoaki Nishida, Kyoto University, Japan
>  * Andrzej Skowron, Warsaw University, Poland
>  * Jinglong Wu, Okayama University, Japan
>  * Xindong Wu, University of Vermont, USA
>  * Yiyu Yao, University of Regina, Canada
>
>*** Contact Information ***
>
>Gabriella Pasi (Conference General Chair)
>Email: WI-IAT09@...
>
>The WIC Office
>Email: wi09@...

CALL  FOR  PAPERS
                              and
               Call For Workshop/Session Proposals

                           WORLDCOMP'09
           The 2009 World Congress in Computer Science,
           Computer Engineering, and Applied Computing
                July 13-16, 2009, Las Vegas, USA

               (composed of 22 Joint Conferences)


You are invited to submit a paper (and/or a proposal to organize
a session/workshop).  All accepted papers will be published in the
respective conference proceedings.

The 2009 World Congress in Computer Science, Computer Engineering,
and Applied Computing (WORLDCOMP'09) is composed of the following
22 conferences (all will be held simultaneously, same location
and dates: July 13-16, 2009, USA):

o BIOCOMP'09: The 2009 International Conference on Bioinformatics
   and Computational Biology

o CDES'09: The 2009 International Conference on Computer Design

o CGVR'09: The 2009 International Conference on Computer Graphics
   and Virtual Reality

o CSC'09: The 2009 International Conference on Scientific Computing

o DMIN'09: The 2009 International Conference on Data Mining

o EEE'09: The 2009 International Conference on e-Learning,
   e-Business, Enterprise Information Systems, and e-Government

o ERSA'09: The 2009 International Conference on Engineering of
   Reconfigurable Systems and Algorithms

o ESA'09: The 2009 International Conference on Embedded Systems
   and Applications

o FCS'09: The 2009 International Conference on Foundations of
   Computer Science

o FECS'09: The 2009 International Conference on Frontiers in
   Education: Computer Science and Computer Engineering

o GCA'09: The 2009 International Conference on Grid Computing and
   Applications

o GEM'09: The 2009 International Conference on Genetic and
   Evolutionary Methods

o ICAI'09: The 2009 International Conference on Artificial Intelligence

o ICOMP'09: The 2009 International Conference on Internet Computing

o ICWN'09: The 2009 International Conference on Wireless Networks

o IKE'09: The 2009 International Conference on Information and
   Knowledge Engineering

o IPCV'09: The 2009 International Conference on Image Processing,
   Computer Vision, and Pattern Recognition

o MSV'09: The 2009 International Conference on Modeling, Simulation
   and Visualization Methods

o PDPTA'09: The 2009 International Conference on Parallel and
   Distributed Processing Techniques and Applications

o SAM'09: The 2009 International Conference on Security and Management

o SERP'09: The 2009 International Conference on Software Engineering
   Research and Practice

o SWWS'09: The 2009 International Conference on Semantic Web and
   Web Services

(a link to each conference's URL can be found at
http://www.world-academy-of-science.org )

ACADEMIC CO-SPONSORS:

    Currently being prepared - it will include a number of active
    research laboratories and centers that have helped to shape our
    field.  The Academic Co-Sponsors of the last offering of
    WORLDCOMP included research labs at Harvard University, UCLA,
    University of Minnesota, University of Illinois at Urbana-
    Champaign, Georgia Institute of Technology, Emory University,
    University of Texas at Austin, MIT, George Mason University,
    University of Iowa, Russian Academy of Sciences, NEMO/European
    Union, and others.  Corporate Co-Sponsors included, Google,
    Salford Systems, Synplicity, Supermicro, NIIT, and others.

General Co-Chair and Coordinator:

    H. R. Arabnia, PhD
    Professor, Computer Science
    Editor-in-Chief, The Journal of Supercomputing (Springer)
    Advisory Board, IEEE Technical Committee on TCSC
    Vice President, Int'l Society of Intelligent Biological Medicine
    The University of Georgia
    Department of Computer Science
    415 Boyd Building
    Athens, Georgia 30602-7404, USA

    Tel: (706) 542-3480
    Fax: (706) 542-2966
    E-mail: hra@...

PURPOSE / HISTORY:

    This set of joint conferences is the largest annual gathering of
    researchers in computer science, computer engineering and applied
    computing.  Many of the joint conferences in WORLDCOMP are the
    premier conferences for presentation of advances in their respective
    fields.  We anticipate to have 2,400 or more attendees from over 85
    countries participating in the 2009 joint conferences.

    The motivation is to assemble a spectrum of affiliated research
    conferences into a coordinated research meeting held in a common
    place at a common time.  The main goal is to provide a forum for
    exchange of ideas in a number of research areas that interact.  The
    model used to form these annual conferences facilitates communication
    among researchers from all over the world in different fields of
    computer science, computer engineering and applied computing.  Both
    inward research (core areas of computer science and engineering) and
    outward research (multi-disciplinary, inter-disciplinary, and
    applications) will be covered during the conferences.

    WORLCOMP'09 will be composed of research presentations, keynote
    lectures, invited presentations, tutorials, panel discussions, and
    poster presentations.  In recent past, keynote and/or tutorial speakers
    included: Prof. David A. Patterson (U. of California, Berkeley);
    Prof. Michael J. Flynn (Stanford U.); Prof. John H. Holland
    (U. of Michigan, Ann Arbor); Prof. Brian D. Athey (U. of Michigan,
    Ann Arbor), Prof. H. J. Siegel (Colorado State U.); Prof. Barry Vercoe
    (MIT); Prof. Ruzena Bajcsy (U. of California, Berkeley);
    Prof. Jun Liu (Harvard U.); Dr. Jim Gettys (OLPC + developer of X
    Window); Dr. Chris Rowen (President and CEO, Tensilica, Inc.); and
    many other distinguished speakers.

SUBMISSION OF PAPERS:

    Prospective authors are invited to submit their draft papers by
    uploading them to http://worldcomp.cviog.uga.edu/ .
    Submissions must be received by Feb. 25, 2009 and they must be in
    either MS doc or pdf formats (about 5 to 7 pages - single space,
    font size of 10 to 12).  All reasonable typesetting formats are
    acceptable (later, the authors of accepted papers will be asked to
    follow a particular typesetting format to prepare their papers for
    publication.)

    The length of the Camera-Ready papers (if accepted) will be limited
    to 7 (IEEE style) pages.  Papers must not have been previously
    published or currently submitted for publication elsewhere.  The
    first page of the draft paper should include: title of the paper,
    name, affiliation, postal address, and email address for each author.
    The first page should also identify the name of the Contact Author
    and a maximum of 5 topical keywords that would best represent the
    content of the paper.  Finally, the name of the conference that
    the paper is being submitted to must be stated on the first page.

    Papers will be evaluated for originality, significance, clarity,
    impact, and soundness.  Each paper will be refereed by two experts
    in the field who are independent of the conference program committee.
    The referees' evaluations will then be reviewed by two members of
    the program committee who will recommend a decision to the chair of
    the track that the paper has been submitted to.  The chair will make
    the final decision.  Lastly, the Camera-Ready papers will be reviewed
    by one member of the program committee.

PROPOSAL FOR ORGANIZING SESSIONS/WORKSHOPS:

    Each session will have at least 6 paper presentations from
    different authors (12 papers in the case of workshops).  The
    session chairs will be responsible for all aspects of their
    sessions; including, soliciting papers, reviewing, selecting, ...
    The names of session chairs will appear as Associate Editors in
    the conference proceedings and on the cover of the books.

    Proposals to organize sessions should include the following
    information: name and address (+ email) of proposer, title of
    session, a 100-word description of the topic of the session,
    the name of the conference the session is submitted for
    consideration, and a short description on how the session will
    be advertised (in most cases, session proposers solicit papers
    from colleagues and researchers whose work is known to the
    session proposer).  email your session proposal to H. R. Arabnia
    (address is given above).  We would like to receive the proposals
    by January 16, 2009.

IMPORTANT DATES:

    Jan.  16, 2009:    Proposals for organizing/chairing sessions/workshops
    Feb.  25, 2009:    Submission of papers (about 5 to 7 pages)
    March 25, 2009:    Notification of acceptance
    April 25, 2009:    Camera-Ready papers and Registration due
    July 13-16, 2009:  The 2009 World Congress in Computer Science,
                       Computer Engineering, and Applied Computing
                       (WORLDCOMP'09 - 22 joint conferences)

MEMBERS OF PROGRAM AND ORGANIZING COMMITTEES:

    The Program Committee includes members of chapters of World Academy
    of Science (chapters: supercomputing; scientific computing; AI;
    imaging science; databases; simulation; software engineering;
    embedded systems; internet and web technologies; communications;
    computer security; and bioinformatics.) The Program Committee for
    individual conferences is currently being formed.  Those interested
    in joining the Program Committee should email H. R. Arabnia
    (hra@...) the following information: Name, affiliation
    and position, complete mailing address, email address, a short
    biography together with research interests and the name of the
    conference offering to help with.
    Many who have already joined the committees of individual tracks
    are renowned leaders, scholars, researchers, scientists and
    practitioners of the highest ranks; many are directors of research
    laboratories, fellows of various societies, heads/chairs of
    departments, deans and provosts.

LOCATION OF CONFERENCES:

    The conferences will be held in the Monte Carlo hotel, Las Vegas,
    Nevada, USA (with any overflows at other near-by hotels).  This is
    a mega hotel with excellent conference facilities and over 3,000
    rooms.  It is minutes from the airport with 24-hour shuttle
    service to and from the airport.  This hotel has many recreational
    attractions, including: waterfalls, spa, pools, sunning decks, Easy
    River, wave pool, lighted tennis courts, health spa, nightly shows,
    a number of restaurants, ...  The negotiated room rate for
    conference attendees is very reasonable.  The hotel is within
    walking distance from most other attractions (recreational
    destinations, Golf courses, ...)

Subject: WI/IAT'09: Call for Workshop Proposals (Milano, Italy)
From: wi09@...

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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

*******************************************************************
Workshop Proposals Due: ** January 15 **, 2009

All papers accepted for workshops will be included in the Workshop
Proceedings published by the IEEE Computer Society Press,
which are indexed by EI.
===================================================================

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.  Submissions accepted as workshop papers will be
allocated 4 pages in the proceedings.  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 Cognition-inspired Computing
- 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 Farming
- Web Monitoring and Change
- Web Personalization and Recommendations
- Web Scale Reasoning
- Web Security, Integrity, Privacy and Trust
- Web Services and Grid Services
- Web Support Systems
- World Wide Wisdom Web (W4)
- Intelligent Web Querying
- 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 15, 2009
- Notification to workshop proposers: January 25, 2009
- Each Workshop Organizer Sends out Call for Workshops
  Papers: February 5, 2009
- Due date for full workshop papers submission (4 pages): 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
(workshops.wi.iat@...).

*** 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)

>
>[Apologies if you receive this more than once]
>
>#####################################################################
>  IEEE/WIC/ACM Intelligent Agent Technology 2009
>  CALL FOR PAPERS
>#####################################################################
>
>2009 IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on
>Intelligent Agent Technology (IAT-09)
>
>September 15-18, 2009, University of Milano - Bicocca, Milano, Italy
>
>http://www.wi-iat09.disco.unimib.it/
>
>Sponsored By
>IEEE Computer Society
>Web Intelligence Consortium (WIC)
>Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
>
>##################################################################
># (Papers Due: *** 10 April 2009 ***
># Accepted papers will be published in the conference proceedings
># by the IEEE Computer Society Press, which are indexed by EI.
>##################################################################
>
>IAT 2009 will provide a leading international forum to bring together
>researchers and practitioners from diverse fields, such as computer
>science, information technology, business, education, 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 2008
>will foster the development of novel paradigms and advanced solutions
>in agent-based computing.
>
>IAT 2009 will be jointly held with the 2009 IEEE/WIC/ACM International
>Conference on Web Intelligence (WI-09). The two conferences will have
>a joint opening, keynote, reception, and banquet. Attendees only need
>to register for one conference and can attend workshops, sessions,
>tutorials, panels, exhibits and demonstrations across the two
>conferences. We are also planning a joint panel, joint paper sessions,
>and a doctoral mentoring program to discuss
>common problems in the two areas.
>
>+++++++++++++++++++
>Topics of Interest
>+++++++++++++++++++
>
>We invite submissions in all IAT related areas. Papers exploring new
>directions or areas will receive a careful and supportive review.
>Areas of interest include, but are 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
>  - Nature-Inspired Paradigms
>  - Self-Organized Criticality
>  - Self-Organized Intelligence
>  - Swarm Intelligence
>
>* 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
>  - Cognitive Architectures
>  - Cognitive Modeling of Agents
>  - Emotional Modeling
>  - 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
>  - Neuroeconomics
>  - Peer-to-Peer Models for Multi-Agent Systems
>  - Reinforcement Learning
>  - Social Interactions in Multi-Agent Systems
>  - Task-Based Agent Context
>  - Task-Oriented Agents
>  - Multi-Agent Self-Organization
>  - Sensor Robotic Agents
>  - Hybrid Multi-Agent Systems
>
>* Distributed Problem Solving
>  - Agent-Based Grid Computing
>  - Agent Networks in Distributed Problem Solving
>  - Collective Group Behavior
>  - Coordination and Cooperation
>  - Distributed Intelligence
>  - Distributed Search
>  - Dynamics of Agent Groups and Populations
>  - Efficiency and Complexity Issues
>  - Market-Based Computing
>  - Problem-Solving in Dynamic Environments
>
>* 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
>  - Perceptive Animated Interfaces
>  - Scalability
>  - Social Simulation
>  - Socially Situated Planning
>  - Software and Pervasive Agents
>  - Tools and Standards
>  - Ubiquitous Systems and e-Technology Agents
>  - Ubiquitous Software Services
>  - Virtual Humans
>  - XML-Based Agent Systems
>
>++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>On-Line Submissions and Publication
>++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>
>High-quality papers in all IAT related areas are solicited.
>Paper submissions should be limited to a maximum of 8 pages in the
>IEEE 2-column format, the same as the camera-ready format (see the
>Author Guidelines of last year at
>http://www.ieeeconfpublishing.org/cpir/AuthorKit.asp?Community=CPS&Facility=CPS\
_Dec&ERoom=WI%2DIAT+2008).
>
>All submitted papers will be reviewed by the Program Committee
>on the basis of technical quality, relevance, significance, and clarity.
>
>Note that IAT'09 will accept ONLY on-line submissions, containing
>PDF versions. Please use the Submission Form on the IAT'09
>website to submit your paper. Accepted papers will be published in the
>conference proceedings by the IEEE Computer Society Press that are
>indexed by EI.
>
>Submissions accepted as regular papers will be allocated 8 pages in the
>proceedings and accorded oral presentation times in the main conference.
>Submissions accepted as short papers will be allocated 4
>pages in the proceedings and will have a shorter presentation time at
>the conference than regular papers.
>
>All co-authors will be notified at all time, for the submission,
>notification, and confirmation on the attendance. Submitting a paper
>to the conference and workshops means that, if the paper is accepted,
>at least one author should attend the conference to present the
>paper. The acceptance list and no-show list will be openly published
>on-line. For no-show authors, their affiliations will receive a
>notification.
>
>A selected number of IAT'09 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 awards will be conferred at the conference on the
>authors of (1) the best research paper and (2) the best application
>paper. Application-oriented submissions will be considered for the
>best application paper award.
>
>More detailed instructions and the On-Line Submission Form will be
>found on the IAT'09 homepage:
>http://www.wi-iat09.disco.unimib.it/IAT09/IAThome.htm.
>
>++++++++++
>Workshops
>++++++++++
>
>As an important part of the conference, the workshop program will
>focus on new research challenges and initiatives. All papers accepted
>for workshops will be included in the Workshop Proceedings published
>by the IEEE Computer Society Press that are indexed by EI, and will be
>available at the workshops. Detailed information is available at the
>conference homepage.
>
>Note: we will not have a separate workshop registration fee
>(i.e., conference registration covers everything).
>
>++++++++++
>Tutorials
>++++++++++
>
>IAT'09 also welcomes Tutorial proposals. IAT'09 will include tutorials
>providing in-depth background on subjects that are of broad interest
>to the Web intelligence community. Both short (2 hours) and long (half
>day) tutorials will be considered. The tutorials will be part of the
>main conference technical program. Detailed information is available
>at the conference homepage.
>
>Note: we will not have a separate tutorials registration fee
>(i.e., only one conference registration covers everything).
>
>++++++++++++++++++++
>Industry/Demo-Track
>++++++++++++++++++++
>
>We solicit Industry/Demo-Track papers by the following methods.
>
>(1) Industry papers of 4 pages can be submitted on the same schedule as
>  the research track.
>(2) Separate 2 page demo proposals can submitted at a later schedule.
>(3) Full regular paper submissions can include a demo option.
>  That is, a full paper submissions will be asked to
>  specify if they would like to give a demonstration; choice of
>  demonstrations (while utilizing information from the regular reviewing
>  process) will be selected based on value as a demonstration.
>
>For options (1) and (2), more detailed instructions will be found at
>the homepage: http://www.wi-iat09.disco.unimib.it/IAT09/IAThome.htm
>
>++++++++++++++++
>Important Dates
>++++++++++++++++
>
>  * Workshop proposal submission: January 15, 2009
>  * Electronic paper submission (8 pages): April 10, 2009
>  * Tutorial proposal submission: April 10, 2009
>  * Workshop paper submission: April 30, 2008
>  * Author notification: June 3, 2009
>  * Conference dates: September 15-18, 2009
>
>++++++++++++++++++++++++
>Conference Organization
>++++++++++++++++++++++++
>
>Conference General Chair:
>  * Gabriella Pasi, University of Milano - Bicocca, Milano, Italy
>
>Program Chair:
>  * Ricardo Baeza-Yates, Yahoo! Research, Barcelona, Spain
>
>WI Program Co-Chairs:
>  * Bettina Berendt, K.U. Leuven, Heverlee, Belgium
>  * Elisa Bertino, Purdue University, West Lafayette, USA
>  * Lim Ee Peng, Singapore Management University, Singapore
>
>IAT Program Co-Chairs:
>  * Jerome Lang, CNRS, LAMSADE, Paris, France
>  * Sushmita Mitra, Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata, India
>  * Simon Parsons, Brooklyn College, City University of New York, USA
>
>Organizing Co-Chairs:
>  * Gloria Bordogna, National Council of Research, Milano, Italy
>  * Giancarlo Mauri, University of Milano - Bicocca, Milano, Italy
>
>Workshop Co-Chairs:
>  * Paolo Boldi, University of Milano, Milano. Italy
>  * Giuseppe Vizzari, University of Milano - Bicocca, Milano, Italy
>
>Tutorial Co-Chairs:
>  * Mohand Boughanem, University Paul Sabatier, Toulouse, France
>  * Fabrizio Sebastiani, National Council of Research, Pisa, Italy
>
>Publicity Co-Chairs:
>  * Jia Hu, The International WIC Institute/BJUT, China
>  * Mounia Lalmas, University of Glasgow, UK
>
>IEEE-CS-TCII Chair:
>  * Ning Zhong, Maebashi Institute of Technology, Japan
>
>ACM-SIGART Chair
>  * Maria Gini, University of Minnesota, USA
>
>WIC Co-Chairs/Directors:
>  * Ning Zhong, Maebashi Institute of Technology, Japan
>  * Jiming Liu, University of Windsor, Canada
>
>WIC Advisory Board:
>  * Edward A. Feigenbaum, Stanford University, USA
>  * Setsuo Ohsuga, University of Tokyo, Japan
>  * Benjamin Wah, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, USA
>  * Philip Yu, University of Illinois, Chicago, USA
>  * L.A. Zadeh, University of California, Berkeley, USA
>
>WIC Tech. Committee & WI/IAT Steering Committee:
>  * Jeffrey Bradshaw, UWF/Institute for Human and Machine Cognition, USA
>  * Nick Cercone, York University, Canada
>  * Dieter Fensel, University of Innsbruck, Austria
>  * Georg Gottlob, Oxford University, UK
>  * Lakhmi Jain, University of South Australia, Australia
>  * Jianchang Mao, Yahoo! Inc., USA
>  * Pierre Morizet-Mahoudeaux, Compiegne University of Technology, France
>  * Hiroshi Motoda, Osaka University, Japan
>  * Toyoaki Nishida, Kyoto University, Japan
>  * Andrzej Skowron, Warsaw University, Poland
>  * Jinglong Wu, Okayama University, Japan
>  * Xindong Wu, University of Vermont, USA
>  * Yiyu Yao, University of Regina, Canada
>
>*** Contact Information ***
>
>Gabriella Pasi (Conference General Chair)
>Email: WI-IAT09@...
>
>The WIC Office
>Email: wi09@...

C A L L    F O R    P A P E R S
                  ===============================

                        CALL  FOR  PAPERS
                              and
               Call For Workshop/Session Proposals

              The 2009 International Conference on
                  Semantic Web and Web Services
                            SWWS'09

       Date and Location: July 13-16, 2009, Las Vegas, USA

You are invited to submit a paper (and/or a proposal to organize
a session/workshop).  All accepted papers will be published in the
respective conference proceedings.

SCOPE: Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following:

   O  Semantic Web:
      - Machine learning approaches for semantic web
      - Semantic web for e-Business and e-Learning
      - Trust networks on semantic web
      - Database technologies for semantic web
      - Semantic knowledge portals
      - Semantic web mining
      - Semantic web inference methodologies
      - Metadata generation
      - Semantic web services
      - Semantic web trust, privacy, and security
      - Tools, languages, and techniques for semantic annotation of web data
      - Semantic intellectual property rights
      - Semantic searching
      - Reasoning in the semantic web
      - Semantic brokering
      - Visualization and modeling
      - Hypermedia and semantic web
      - Software agents for semantic web
      - Community web portals
      - Semantic web and enterprises
      - Trust management for semantic web
      - Semantic interoperability
      - Ontology creation, evolution, reconciliation, and mediation
      - Semantic web mining
      - Semantic web-based knowledge management
      - Ontology languages for semantic web
      - Autonomous semantic web services
      - Service discovery, description, composition and invocation
      - Data semantics
      - Semantic verification of web sites
      - Case studies

   O  Web Services:
      - Web Service Technologies and Research Directions:
        + Enhancements to the basic web services platform
          (SOAP, WSDL, UDDI, ...)
        + Advanced web service technologies including security,
          workflow/process management, transactions, mobile
          and wireless, portals, services management,
          quality-of-service (QoS)
        + Novel web service architectures
        + Development and modeling frameworks for web
          service applications
        + Composite web services, enabling technologies and
          support infrastructure
        + Data structures and models
      - Practices for developing enterprise-class web services
        and applications:
        + Design patterns
        + Architecting for customization, maintenance, and management
        + Architecting for easy integration or service "consumption"
        + Fault-tolerant architectures
        + Service mediation systems and architectures
      - Case studies of web service development and deployment:
        + e-Commerce applications using web services
        + Business-to-Business (B2B) applications using web services
        + Mobile and wireless applications using web services
        + Utility and on-demand computing using web services
        + Government applications using web services
        + Applications of web services in developing countries
      - Multimedia applications using web services
      - Communication applications using web services
      - Interactive TV applications using web services
      - Novel applications, case studies, and emerging technologies

Web links:
http://www.world-academy-of-science.org/worldcomp09/ws/conferences/swws09
http://www.world-academy-of-science.org/

ACADEMIC CO-SPONSORS:

    Currently being prepared - it will include a number of active
    research laboratories and centers that have helped to shape our
    field.  The Academic Co-Sponsors of the last offering of
    SWWS included research labs at Harvard University, UCLA,
    University of Minnesota, University of Illinois at Urbana-
    Champaign, Georgia Institute of Technology, Emory University,
    University of Texas at Austin, MIT, George Mason University,
    University of Iowa, Russian Academy of Sciences, NEMO/European
    Union, and others.  Corporate Co-Sponsors included, Google,
    Salford Systems, Synplicity, Supermicro, NIIT, and others.

General Co-Chair and Coordinator:

    H. R. Arabnia, PhD
    Professor, Computer Science
    Editor-in-Chief, The Journal of Supercomputing (Springer)
    Advisory Board, IEEE Technical Committee on TCSC
    Vice President, Int'l Society of Intelligent Biological Medicine
    The University of Georgia
    Department of Computer Science
    415 Boyd Building
    Athens, Georgia 30602-7404, USA

    Tel: (706) 542-3480
    Fax: (706) 542-2966
    E-mail: hra@...

SUBMISSION OF PAPERS:

    Prospective authors are invited to submit their draft papers by
    uploading them to http://worldcomp.cviog.uga.edu/ .
    Submissions must be received by Feb. 25, 2009 and they must be in
    either MS doc or pdf formats (about 5 to 7 pages - single space,
    font size of 10 to 12).  All reasonable typesetting formats are
    acceptable (later, the authors of accepted papers will be asked to
    follow a particular typesetting format to prepare their papers for
    publication.)

    The length of the Camera-Ready papers (if accepted) will be limited
    to 7 (IEEE style) pages.  Papers must not have been previously
    published or currently submitted for publication elsewhere.  The
    first page of the draft paper should include: title of the paper,
    name, affiliation, postal address, and email address for each author.
    The first page should also identify the name of the Contact Author
    and a maximum of 5 topical keywords that would best represent the
    content of the paper.  Finally, the name of the conference (SWWS)
    must be mentioned on the first page.

    Papers will be evaluated for originality, significance, clarity,
    impact, and soundness.  Each paper will be refereed by two experts
    in the field who are independent of the conference program committee.
    The referees' evaluations will then be reviewed by two members of
    the program committee who will recommend a decision to the co-chairs.
    The co-chairs will make the final decision.  Lastly, the Camera-Ready
    papers will be reviewed by one member of the program committee.

PROPOSAL FOR ORGANIZING SESSIONS/WORKSHOPS:

    Each session will have at least 6 paper presentations from
    different authors (12 papers in the case of workshops).  The
    session chairs will be responsible for all aspects of their
    sessions; including, soliciting papers, reviewing, selecting, ...
    The names of session chairs will appear as Associate Editors in
    the conference proceedings and on the cover of the books.

    Proposals to organize sessions should include the following
    information: name and address (+ email) of proposer, title of
    session, a 100-word description of the topic of the session,
    the name of the conference the session is submitted for
    consideration (ie, SWWS'09), and a short description on how
    the session will be advertised (in most cases, session proposers
    solicit papers from colleagues and researchers whose work is
    known to the session proposer).  email your session proposal
    to Prof. Arabnia (address is given above).  We would like to
    receive the proposals by January 16, 2009.

IMPORTANT DATES:

    Jan.  16, 2009:    Proposals for organizing/chairing sessions/workshops
    Feb.  25, 2009:    Submission of papers (about 5 to 7 pages)
    March 25, 2009:    Notification of acceptance
    April 25, 2009:    Camera-Ready papers and Registration due
    July 13-16, 2009:  The 2009 International Conference on
                       Semantic Web and Web Services (SWWS'09)

MEMBERS OF PROGRAM AND ORGANIZING COMMITTEES:

    The Program Committee includes members of chapters of World Academy
    of Science (chapters: supercomputing; scientific computing; AI;
    imaging science; databases; simulation; software engineering;
    embedded systems; internet and web technologies; communications;
    bioinformatics; computational biology; and computer security.)
    The Program Committee for SWWS is currently being formed.  Those
    interested in joining the Program Committee should email Prof. Arabnia
    (hra@...) the following information: Name, affiliation
    and position, complete mailing address, email address, a short
    biography together with research interests and the name of the
    conference (SWWS) offering to help with.
    Many who have already joined the committees of individual tracks
    are renowned leaders, scholars, researchers, scientists and
    practitioners of the highest ranks; many are directors of research
    laboratories, fellows of various societies, heads/chairs of
    departments, deans and provosts.

PURPOSE / HISTORY:

    SWWS'09 is an annual research conference about semantic web and
    web services.  It is being held jointly (same location and dates)
    with a number of other conferences (WORLDCOMP'09).  WORLDCOMP is
    the largest annual gathering of researchers in computer science,
    computer engineering and applied computing.

    The motivation is to assemble a spectrum of affiliated research topics
    into a coordinated meeting held in a common place at a common time.
    The main goal is to provide a forum for exchange of ideas in a number
    of research areas that interact.  The model used facilitates
    communication among researchers from all over the world in different
    fields of computer science, computer engineering and applied
    computing.  Both inward research (core areas of computer science and
    engineering) and outward research (multi-disciplinary, inter-disciplinary,
    and applications) will be covered during the event.

    SWWS'09 and WORLDCOMP'09 will be composed of research presentations,
    keynote lectures, invited presentations, tutorials, panel discussions,
    and poster presentations.  In recent past, keynote and/or tutorial
    speakers included: Prof. David A. Patterson (U. of California,
    Berkeley); Prof. Michael J. Flynn (Stanford U.); Prof. John H. Holland
    (U. of Michigan, Ann Arbor); Prof. Brian D. Athey (U. of Michigan,
    Ann Arbor), Prof. H. J. Siegel (Colorado State U.); Prof. Barry Vercoe
    (MIT); Prof. Ruzena Bajcsy (U. of California, Berkeley);
    Prof. Jun Liu (Harvard U.); Dr. Jim Gettys (OLPC + developer of X
    Window); Dr. Chris Rowen (President and CEO, Tensilica, Inc.); and
    many other distinguished speakers.

LOCATION OF CONFERENCES:

    The conferences will be held in the Monte Carlo hotel, Las Vegas,
    Nevada, USA (with any overflows at other near-by hotels).  This is
    a mega hotel with excellent conference facilities and over 3,000
    rooms.  It is minutes from the airport with 24-hour shuttle
    service to and from the airport.  This hotel has many recreational
    attractions, including: waterfalls, spa, pools, sunning decks, Easy
    River, wave pool, lighted tennis courts, health spa, nightly shows,
    a number of restaurants, ...  The negotiated room rate for
    conference attendees is very reasonable.  The hotel is within
    walking distance from most other attractions (recreational
    destinations, Golf courses, ...)