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            Active Media Technology 2013 (AMT'13)

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2013 International Conference on Active Media Technology (AMT'13)

October 29-31, 2013, Maebashi, Japan

Homepage: http://wi-consortium.org/conferences/amtbi13/

Co-organized by Web Intelligence Consortium (WIC)
                IEEE-CIS Task Force on Brain Informatics (IEEE TF-BI)
Co-sponsored by Maebashi Institute of Technology
                Maebashi City and Gunma Prefecture Government
                Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science

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# Full Paper Submission Due: *** 15 April 2013 ***
# Accepted full papers will be published by Springer as
# a volume of the series of LNCS/LNAI.
# Extensions of selected papers from the proceedings will be
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Special AMT-BHI 2013 Joint Keynote:
Yuichiro Anzai
President, Japan Society for the Promotion of Science

Keynote Speakers:
Yuzuru Tanaka, Hokkaido University, Japan
Carl K. Chang, Iowa State University, USA
Andrzej Skowron, Warsaw University, Poland

Shinsuke Shimojo, California Institute of Technology, USA
Marcel A. Just, Carnegie Mellon University, USA (pending)
Jiming Liu, Hong Kong Baptist University, HK SAR

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.

AMT'13 aims at providing a leading international forum to bring
together researchers and practitioners from diverse fields, to
increase the cross-fertilization of ideas and explore the fundamental
roles, interactions as well as practical impacts of intelligent
information technology and computer science on the next generation of
computing environments, systems and media. AMT will feature
high-quality, original research papers in all theoretical, technical,
practical, and interdisciplinary studies that make up the field of
active media technology.

The 1st International Conference on Active Media Technology (AM'01)
was held in Hong Kong in 2001, the 2nd, 3rd, and 4th International
Conferences on Active Media Technology (AMT04, AMT05, AMT06) were
held respectively, in Chongqing China, Kagawa Japan, and Brisbane
Australia, and the 5th, 6th, and 7th International Conferences on
Active Media Technology (AMT'09, AMT'10, AMT'11) were jointly held with
International Conferences on Brain Informatics (BI09, BI10, BI11),
respectively, in Beijing China, Toronto Canada, and Lanzhou China.
Active Media Technology 2012 (AMT12) was held under the 2012 World
Intelligence Congress, jointly with  other four international
conferences (BI12, WI-IAT12 and ISMIS12) in 2012.
Following the success of AMT01, AMT04, AMT05, AMT06, AMT09, AMT10,
AMT11 and AMT12, Active Media Technology 2013 (AMT'13) will be held
in Maebashi, Japan, October 29-31, 2013.

Active Media Technology 2013 will be jointly held with the 2013
International Conference on Brain and Health Informatics (BHI'13).  
The two conferences will have a joint opening, keynote, reception, and
banquet. Attendees only need to register for one conference and can
attend 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
* Agent-Based Software Engineering
* AMT for Semantic Web and Web2.0
* Cognitive Foundations for AMT
* Computational Intelligence for Active Media
* Conversational Informatics
* Data Mining
* Digital City and Digital Interactivity
* E-Commerce and Web Services
* Edutainment and E-learning
* Entertainment and Social Applications of Active Media
* Evaluation of Active Media and AMT Based Systems
* Human-Centred Robotics
* Human-Web Interaction
* Human Factors in AMT
* Human Modeling and Personalized Services
* Information Design with Active Media
* Information Retrieval
* Information Foraging Agents
* Interactive Gaming Media
* Media Art with Computing
* Machine Learning
* Multi-Agent Systems
* Multi-Modal Processing, Detection, Recognition, and
  Expression Analysis
* Network, Mobile and Wireless Security
* Ontology Mining and Web Reasoning
* Personalized, Pervasive, and Ubiquitous Systems and their
  Interfaces
* Semantic Computing for Active Media and AMT Based Systems
* Semantic Web, Linked data, and Ontology
* Sensing Web
* Smart Digital Media
* Social Networks and Social Media
* Statistical Analysis and Pattern Recognition
* Transparent Computing and Active Services
* Trust on Web Information Systems
* Ubiquitous Intelligent Devices and Systems
* Wearable Computing
* Web Mining, Wisdom Web and Web Intelligence

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On-Line Submissions and Publication
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There are 2 types of Paper Submissions and Publication,
which you can choose one of them:

Type I of Submissions and Publication: Full Paper Submissions:
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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.

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 (a maximum of 12 pages in Springer LNCS/LNAI style file).
All papers must be submitted electronically in PDF format only, using
the conference management tool.

Type II of Submissions and Publication: Abstract Submissions:
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Accepted abstract submissions will be included in the conference
program.  Selected abstract submissions will be considered for
publication in special issues of international journals after their
abstracts are extended to a full-length paper and pass a peer review
process.

We will also have poster, demonstration, and late breaking result
paper sessions.

Detailed instructions and a paper submission form can be found
from the AMT'13 Web page at http://wi-consortium.org/conferences/amtbi13/

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Awards
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AMT 2013 best paper awards and student paper awards will be conferred
on the authors at the conference.

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Important Dates
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Electronic submission of full papers
(12 pages in Springer LNAI/LNCS style file):  
*** 15 April 2013 ***

Notification of full paper acceptance: June 30, 2013
Camera-ready of accepted papers: July 21, 2013

Electronic submission of abstracts
*** 15 July 2013 ***

Notification of abstract acceptance: July 30, 2013

Conference:  October 29-31, 2013

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Conference Organization
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AMT-BHI'13 Honorary General Chair:
Setsuo Ohsuga, University of Tokyo, Japan

AMT'13 Conference General Chairs:
Andrzej Skowron, Warsaw University, Poland
Jian-Nong Cao, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, SAR China

AMT'13 Program Chairs:
Tetsuya Yoshida, Hokkaido University, Japan
Gang Kou, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, China

AMT'13 Workshop/Special Session Chair:
Hakim Hacid, Alcatel-Lucent Bell lab, France

AMT-BHI'13 Organizing Chairs:
Kazuyuki Imamura, Maebashi Institute of Technology, Japan
Tetsumi Harakawa, Maebashi Institute of Technology, Japan
Ning Zhong, Maebashi Institute of Technology, Japan

AMT-BHI'13 Panel Chair:
Stephen S. Yau, Arizona State University, USA

AMT-BHI'13 Journal Special Issue Chairs:
Xin Yao, University of Birmingham, UK
Runhe Huang, Hosei University, Japan

AMT-BHI'13 Publicity Chairs:
Shinichi Motomura, Maebashi Institute of Technology, Japan
Dominik Slezak, Infobright Inc., Canada & Univ. of Warsaw, Poland
Jian Yang, Beijing University of Technology, China

BHI'13 Conference General Chairs:
Tomoaki Shirao, Gunma University Graduate School of Medicine, Japan
Takuji Kasamatsu, The Smith Kettlewell Eye Research Institute, USA

BHI'13 Program Chairs:
Kazuyuki Imamura, Maebashi Institute of Technology, Japan
Shiro Usui, Toyohashi University of Technology, Japan

BHI'13 Workshop/Special Session Chair:
Lars Schwabe, University of Rostock, Germany

IEEE-CIS-TFBI Chair
Ning Zhong, Maebashi Institute of Technology, Japan

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, Chinese University of Hong Kong, HK
Philip Yu, University of Illinois, Chicago, USA
L.A. Zadeh, University of California, Berkeley, USA

WIC Technical 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
Jianhua Ma, Hosei University, Japan
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 ***
Tetsuya Yoshida (Hokkaido University, Japan)
<yoshida@meme.hokudai.ac.jp>