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CALL FOR PARTICIPATION

IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Web Intelligence 2015 (WI'15)

Big Data in Global Brain and Social Networks

December 6-9, 2015 / Singapore

Homepage: http://wi-iat15.ntulily.org

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

(Early Bird Registration DEADLINE: *** October 1, 2015 ***)

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KEYNOTE SPEAKERS
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* Joseph Sifakis (Turing Award 2007)
Professor at Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne (EPFL)
Director, Centre de Recherche Integrative (CRI) in Grenoble, France

* Francis Heylighen
Director, Global Brain Institute
Professor at Free University of Brussels, Belgium

* Steven E. Koonin
Director, Center for Urban Science and Progress New York University, USA

* Gee-Wah Ng
Programme Director, DSO National Laboratories, Singapore

* Sarit Kraus (AAAI, ECCAI and ACM Fellow)
Professor of Computer Science, Bar-Ilan University, Israel
Adjunct Professor, University of Maryland, USA

* Dominik Slezak
Professor at University of Warsaw, Poland
Chief Scientist, Infobright Inc.

The 2015 IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Web Intelligence
(WI'15) will be held in Singapore on December 6-9, 2015, hosted by the
Joint NTU-UBC Research Centre of Excellence in Active Living for the
Elderly (LILY) at Nanyang Technological University (NTU) and the
Living Analytics Research Centre at Singapore Management University
(SMU). Co-located with the 2015 IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference
on Intelligent Agent Technology (IAT'15), WI'15 is sponsored by IEEE
Computer Society Technical Committee on Intelligent Informatics
(TCII), Web Intelligence Consortium (WIC), ACM-SIGAI, and Memetic
Computing Society.

WI'15 will feature special thematic workshops, technical sessions,
tutorials and a joint panel. Conference programme will further include
a welcome reception, keynotes, demos, poster sessions, and a
banquet. Attendees only need one registration to attend all technical
events.

TOPICS AND AREAS (INCLUDE, BUT NOT LIMITED TO)

* Web Intelligence Foundations
* World Wide Wisdom Web (W4)
* Semantic Aspects of Web Intelligence
* Web Mining and Warehousing
* Web Search & Recommendation
* Knowledge Grids and Grid Intelligence
* Web Agents and Services
* Intelligent Human-Web Interaction
* Social Media and Web Applications
* Social Networks and Ubiquitous Intelligence

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WORKSHOPS
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* The Third International Workshop on Data Oriented Constructive Mining and
the Seventh International Workshop on Emergent Intelligence Networked
Agents (DOCMAS/WEIN)
Chairs: Satoshi Kurihara, Hiromitsu Hattori, Kiyoshi Izumi,
Hidenori Kawamura, Hideyuki Nakashima, Akira Namatame,
Kouzou Ohara, Fujio Toriumi.

* International Workshop on Complex methods for data and web mining (CMDWM)
Chairs: Yong Shi, Lingfeng Niu

* The Fourth International Workshop on Web Personalization, Recommender
Systems and Social Media (WPRSM)
Chairs: Yue Xu, Yuefeng Li

* International Workshop on Knowledge Management of Web Social Media (KMWSM)
Chairs: Wei Huang, Xiaohui Tao, Yuefeng Li

* 6th International Workshop on Intelligent E-government and Emergency
Management (EGOVEM)
Chairs: Xin Ye, Liming Zhu, Ning Wang, Xuelong Chen

* 8th International Workshop on Natural Language Processing on Ontology
Engineering (NLPOE)
Chairs: Kang Shiyong, Liu Yao, Qiu Likun

* International Workshop on Ensemble of Anomaly Detection Algorithms (EADA)
Chairs: Yuh-Jye Lee, Hsing-Kuo Kenneth Pao, Esther David, Guy Leshem

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TUTORIALS
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* Content-based retrieval and browsing of images
Speaker: Gerald Schaefer, United Kingdom

* Higher-order Theory of Situated Information
Speaker: Roussanka Loukanova, Sweden

* Distributed Agent Simulations for the Smart Energy Grid: 11
Speakers: Michel Oey, Sander van Splunter, Z¸lk¸f GenÁ, and
Frances Brazier, Netherlands

* Multiplex Networks Mining
Speaker: Rushed Kanawati, France

* Visual Analytics of Time-evolving Large-scale graphs
Speakers: Raju Gottumukkala and Vijay Raghavan, United Kingdom

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SPECIAL SESSIONS
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* Special Session on Quality of User Generated Content
Organizer: Adam Wierzbicki, Poland
Radoslaw Nielek, Poland

* Special Session on Multi-Agent Systems for Big Data
Organizer: Henryk Rybinski, Poland
Dominik Ryzko, Poland

* Special Session on Agents in Urban Computing and Engineering
Organizer: Shih-Fen Cheng, Singapore

* Special Session on Artificial Intelligence for Aging in-Place
Organizer: Chunyan Miao, Singapore
Cyril Leung, Canada

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AWARDS
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Best Paper awards will be conferred at the conference on the authors
of (1) the best research paper, (2) the best student
paper. Demo/poster submissions will be considered for the best demo
and best poster awards.

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IMPORTANT DATES
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Early Bird Registration October 1, 2015

Workshops/Tutorials December 6, 2015
Main Conference December 7-9, 2015

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ORGANIZING COMMITTEE
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General Chairs
* Ah-Hwee Tan, Singapore
* Yuefeng Li, Australia

Program Chair
* Ee-Peng Lim, Singapore

Program Vice-Chairs
* Atsuhiro Takasu, Japan
* Hoong-Chuin Lau, Singapore
* Chunyan Miao, Singapore

WI Technical PC Chairs
* Dell Zhang, UK
* Julita Vassileva, USA
* Jie Zhang, Singapore

Local Organizing Chairs
* Meng-Hiot Lim, Singapore
* Sufen Cheong, Singapore
* Di Wang, Singapore

Finance Chair and CyberChair-Master
* Juzhen Dong, Japan

Industry and Sponsorship Chairs
* Xiaoli Li, Singapore
* Richi Nayak, Australia
* Saurav Karmakar, India

Workshop Chairs
* Bryan Kian-Hsiang Low, Singapore
* Einoshin Suzuki, Japan
* Jason Watson, Australia

Tutorial Chairs
* Pradeep Reddy Varakantham, Singapore
* Yue Xu, Australia

Demo/Poster Chairs
* Zhiqi Shen, Singapore
* Yiqiang Chen, China

Publicity Chairs
* Xiaohui Tao, Australia
* Teck-Hou Teng, Singapore

Panel Chairs
* Hady Lauw, Singapore
* Neil Yorke-Smith, Lebanon

Award Chairs
* Ee-Peng Lim, Singapore
* Raj Sunderraman, USA

Webmasters
* Jun Lin, Singapore
* Yilin Kang, Singapore