Papers Due: *** 31 May 2009 *** NEW DEADLINE ***
Due to repeated requests, the deadline is extended to 31 May 2009.

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            Active Media Technology 2009

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2009 International Conference on Active Media Technology (AMT 2009)

October 22-24, 2009, Beijing, China

Homepage: http://www.wici-lab.org/amtbi09/
Mirror page: http://www.iwici.org/amtbi09/

Co-organized by Web Intelligence Consortium (WIC) and
                IEEE Task Force on Brain Informatics (IEEE TF-BI)
Co-sponsored by Beijing University of Technology (BJUT),
                Shanghai Psytech Electronic Technology Co., Ltd and
                National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC)

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# Accepted papers will be published by Springer as a volume of
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In the great digital era, we are witnessing many rapid scientific and
technological developments in human-centred, seamless computing environments,
interfaces, devices, and systems with applications ranging from business and
communication to entertainment and learning. These developments are
collectively best characterized as Active Media Technology (AMT), a new area
of intelligent information technology and computer science that emphasizes the
proactive, seamless roles of interfaces and systems as well as new media in
all aspects of digital life. An AMT based system offers services to enable the
rapid design, implementation and support of customized solutions.

The first International Conference on Active Media Technology
(AMT01) was held in Hong Kong in 2001, the second International
Conference on Active Media Technology (AMT04) was held in Chongqing,
China in May 29-31 of 2004, the third International Conference on
Active Media Technology (AMT05) was held in Kagawa, Japan in May
2005, and the fourth International Conference on Active Media
Technology (AMT06) was held in Brisbane, Australia in June 7-9,
2006. Following the success of AMT01, AMT04, AMT05 and AMT06, the
Fifth International Conference on Active Media Technology (AMT09)
will be held in Beijing, China in October 22-24, 2009.

Active Media Technology 2009 will be jointly held with the 2009
International Conference on Brain Informatics (BI 2009).  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, exhibits and demonstrations across the two
conferences.

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Topics of Interest
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CONFERENCE TOPICS AND AREAS INCLUDE, BUT NOT LIMITED TO

* Active Computer Systems and Intelligent Interfaces
* Adaptive Web Systems and Information Foraging Agents
* Agent-Based Software Engineering and Multi-Agent Systems
* AMT for Semantic Web and Web2.0
* Cognitive Foundations for AMT
* Conversational Informatics
* Data Mining, Ontology Mining and Web Reasoning
* Digital City and Digital Interactivity
* E-Commerce and Web Services
* Entertainment and Social Applications of Active Media
* Evaluation of Active Media and AMT Based Systems
* Human-Web Interaction
* Human Factors in AMT
* Machine Learning and Human-Centred Robotics
* Multi-Modal Processing, Detection, Recognition, and Expression Analysis
* Network, Mobile and Wireless Security
* Personalized, Pervasive, and Ubiquitous Systems and their Interfaces
* Semantic Comupting for Active Media and AMT Based Systems
* Sensing Web
* Smart Digital Media
* Trust on Web Information Systems
* Web Based Social Networks
* Web Mining, Wisdom Web and Web Intelligence

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On-Line Submissions and Publication
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High-quality papers in all AMT related areas are solicited. Papers
exploring new directions will receive a careful and supportive
review. All submitted papers will be reviewed on the basis of
technical quality, relevance, significance, and clarity.

The proceeding of the conference will be published by Springer as a
volume of the series of Lecture Notes in Computer Science/Lecture
Notes in Artificial Intelligence (LNCS/LNAI).
Extensions of selected papers from the proceedings will be
considered for publication in special issues of international journals,
including Journal of Intelligent Information Systems (Springer,
http://www.editorialmanager.com/jiis/).

Authors are strongly encouraged to use Springer LNCS/LNAI manuscript
submission guidelines (available at
http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html) for their initial
submissions. All papers must be submitted electronically in PDF format
only, using the conference management tool.

We will also have poster, demonstration, and late breaking result
paper sessions. More detailed instructions and a paper submission
form can be found the AMT'09 Web page at http://www.wici-lab.org/amtbi09/

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Awards
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AMT 2009 best paper awards and student paper awards will be conferred on the
authors at the conference. Also a selected number of AMT 2009 accepted papers
will be expanded and revised for inclusion in special issues in
several international journals, including Journal of Intelligent Information
Systems (Springer, http://www.editorialmanager.com/jiis/).

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Important Dates
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Electronic submission of full papers
(12 pages in Springer LNAI/LNCS style file):  
*** 31 May 2009 *** NEW DEADLINE ***

Notification of paper acceptance: July 1, 2009
Camera-ready of accepted papers: July 24, 2009
Conference:  October 22-24, 2009

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Conference Organization
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Conference General Chairs:
* Jeffrey Bradshaw, UWF/Institute for Human and Machine Cognition, USA
* Toyoaki Nishida, Kyoto University, Japan

Program Chairs:
* Jiming Liu, Hong Kong Baptist University, HK
* Jinglong Wu, Okayama University, Japan

Workshop Chairs:
* Yiyu Yao, University of Regina, Canada
* Runhe Huang, Hosei University, Japan

Organizing Chairs:
* Shengfu Lu, International WIC Institute/BJUT, China
* Yulin Qin, International WIC Institute/BJUT, China

Publicity Chairs:
* Jian Yang, International WIC Institute/BJUT, China
* Jiajin Huang, International WIC Institute/BJUT, China

WIC Co-Chairs/Directors:
* Ning Zhong, Maebashi Institute of Technology, Japan
* Jiming Liu, Hong Kong Baptist University, HK

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 ***

Email: Jia Hu  hujia0601@gmail.com
       Jiajin Huang  hjj@emails.bjut.edu.cn