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CALL FOR PARTICIPATION--WIC2012 [Apologies if you receive this more than once] =============================================== CALL FOR PARTICIPATION The 2012 World Intelligence Congress (WIC 2012) Macau Fisherman's Wharf December 4-7, 2012, Macau, China Homepage: http://www.fst.umac.mo/wic2012 =============================================== ********************************************************** !!! Early-bird Registration by Oct 26, 2012 (extended) !!! ********************************************************** Turing Keynote Speaker: Edward Feigenbaum (1994 Turing Award Winner) T-Centenary Panel on Top 10 Questions in Intelligent Informatics/Computing http://wi-consortium.org/blog/top10qi/index.html A Special Event of the Alan Turing Year (Centenary of Alan Turing's birth). The congress includes five intelligent informatics related conferences: - IEEE/WIC/ACM Web Intelligence 2012 (WI'12) - IEEE/WIC/ACM Intelligent Agent Technology 2012 (IAT'12) - Active Media Technology 2012 (AMT'12) - Brain Informatics 2012 (BI'12) - Methodologies for Intelligent Systems 2012 (ISMIS'12) co-located with the aim to facilitate interactions and idea exchange among researchers working on a variety of focused themes under a holistic vision for computing and intelligence in the post WWW era and to promote and expedite new innovations for areas under intelligent informatics. Sponsored and Organized by - Web Intelligence Consortium (WIC) - IEEE-CS Technical Committee on Intelligent Informatics (TCII) - IEEE-CIS Task Force on Brain Informatics (IEEE TF-BI) - ACM SIGART - University of Macau - Hong Kong Baptist University ================= HIGHLIGHTS =========================      6 Invited Speeches by        Edward Feigenbaum (1994 Turing Award Winner)        Eunice Santos (WI)        Sven Koenig (IAT)        Sankar Pal (AMT)        Jianhua Ma (BI)        Alfred Kobsa (ISMIS)      2 Tutorials     17 Workshops     16 Special Sessions        Presentations of Accepted Research Track Papers REGISTRATRION +++++++++++++ ********************************************************** !!! Early-bird Registration by Oct 26, 2012 (extended) !!! ********************************************************** On-line registration (and more information) at http://www.fst.umac.mo/wic2012/ Regular registration covers all the events of WIC'12 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, WIC'12 will be co-located, providing synergism among Web Intelligence, Intelligent Agent Technology, Active Media Technology, Brain Informatics, and Methodologies for Intelligent Systems.  The five 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 five conferences. INVITED TALKS +++++++++++++ Turing Keynote Talk EXTREME TURE-ING IN THE SPECTRUMS OF AI Edward Feigenbaum, Professor at Stanford University, USA (1994 Turing Award Winner) WI Invited Talk ANYTIME ANYWHERE COMPUTATIONAL SOCIAL SYSTEMS Eunice Santos, Professor at University of Texas at El Paso, USA IAT Invited Talk MAKING GOOD DECISIONS Sven Koenig, Professor at University of Southern California, USA AMT Invited Talk SOFT GRANULAR MINING: Concepts, Features, Applications and Challenges Sankar Pal, Professor at Indian Statistical Institute, India BI Invited Talk DIGTAL CLONE: Possible or Impossible? Jianhua Ma, Professor at Hosei University, Japan ISMIS Invited Talk PERSONALIZATION WITH USER-TAILORED PRIVACY Alfred Kobsa, Professor at University of California, Irvine, USA PANEL +++++ T-Centenary Panel on Top 10 Questions in Intelligent Informatics/Computing http://wi-consortium.org/blog/top10qi/index.html TUTORIALS +++++++++ T1: Behavior Computing: Complex Behavior Modeling, Analysis and Mining      Longbing Cao, University of Technology Sydney, Australia      Philip S Yu, University of Illinois at Chicago, USA      Can Wang, University of Technology Sydney, Australia T2: Recognizing Textual Entailment for Web-based Question-Answering      Fabio Massimo Zanzotto, University of Rome "Tor Vergata", Italy WORKSHOPS +++++++++ W1: International Workshop on Optimization-based Data Mining and      Web Intelligence (ODMWI 2012) W2: International Workshop on Behavior Informatics (BI 2012) W3: International Workshop on Intelligent Web Interaction (IWI-2012) W4: International Workshop on Tourism Facilities (TF'12) W5: International Workshop on Natural Language Processing and Ontology      Engineering (NLPOE 2012) W6: International Workshop on Web Personalization, Recommender Systems      and Social Media (WPRSM 2012) W7: International Workshop on Nature-Inspired Computing and Metaheuristics      for Web Intelligence (NiCaM-WI 2012) W8: International Workshop on Web Information Retrieval Support Systems      (WIRSS'12) W9: International Symposium on Web Intelligent Systems & Services      (WISS 2012) W10: 2012 Combined Workshop on Cross-Cultural and Cross-Linguistic       Semantic Web and Software Agent Teamwork for the Semantic Web W11: International Symposium on the Intelligent Campus (iCampus) - IC'12 W12: International Workshop on Green Computing and Sustainable Society       (GCSS'12) W13: International Workshop on Social Networks and Data Processing (SNDP 2012) W14: International Workshop on Privacy-Aware Intelligent Systems W15: International Workshop on Domain Knowledge in Knowledge Discovery W16: International Workshop on Meta-synthesis and Complex Systems W17: WIC Centers Working Meeting SPECIAL SESSIONS ++++++++++++++++ S1: Technology Intelligence and Applications S2: Product Configuration S3: Human Factors in Information Retrieval S4: Social Recommender Systems S5: Warehousing and OLAPing Complex, Spatial and Spatio-Temporal Data S6: Social Media towards Knowledge Discovery and Management S7: Human-Computer Interaction & Knowledge Discovery S8: Granular Computing and Brain Informatics S9: Cognitive Architecture Meets Brain Informatics S10: Online Social Network, Intelligent Data Processing, Multi-agent Systems S11: Computational Intelligence for Image Processing and Pattern Recognition S12: Large-Scale Application-focused Multiagent Systems S13: Intelligent and Affective Computing S14: Intelligent Methodology and Applications S15: WI/IAT 2012 Industry Session S16: WI/IAT 2012 Demo Session SOCIAL PROGRAM +++++++++++++++ The WIC'12 Congress offers an exciting social programs, including the conference welcome reception on Dec. 4 and the congress banquet on Dec. 6. The congress venue: Macau Fisherman's Wharf is the first-ever themed entertainment complex in the tourism zone of the city, located at the center of tourism area within 10 minutes walking distance to Macau-HK Ferry Terminal and Heliport and 15 minutes driving distance to Macau International Airport. You can also enjoy the city of Macau.  You can get more information about the conference hotel, visas and local information from the congress homepage: http://www.fst.umac.mo/wic2012/ CONTACT INFORMATION +++++++++++++++++++ *** Contact Information *** Ryan Leang Hou U, University of Macau <ryanlhu@umac.mo>    Êղؠ  ·ÖÏí   ¶¥(0)