Call for Tutorials (IEEE/WIC/ACM WI-IAT 2004)

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 Call for Tutorials 
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 The 2004 IEEE/WIC/ACM International Joint Conference on 
 Web Intelligence (WI'04) and Intelligent Agent Technology (IAT'04) 
 takes place on September 20-24, 2004, King Wing Hot Spring Hotel, 
 Beijing, China.
 
 Homepages: http://www.comp.hkbu.edu.hk/IAT04
            http://www.maebashi-it.org/IAT04
            http://www.maebashi-it.org/WI04
            http://www.comp.hkbu.edu.hk/WI04
 
 WI 2004 and IAT 2004 will include tutorials providing in-depth
 background on subjects that are of broad interest to the intelligent
 agent community. Both short (2 hours) and long (half day) tutorials
 will be considered.
 
 The following is a *non-exclusive* list of preferred topic areas 
 for tutorial proposals:
 
 Web Intelligence:
 
 - Intelligent/Semantic Web Services
 - Intelligent Wireless Web and Ubiquitous Computing
 - Rules and Inference Engines for the Web
 - Semantic Web Concepts and Techniques for Security and Trust 
 - Service-Oriented Computing
 - Social Networks and Social Intelligence
 
 Intelligent Agent Technology:
 
 - Aagent-Based Modeling and Simulation
 - Agent Technologies in e-Business Systems
 - Agent-Mediated Knowledge Management
 - Peer-to-Peer Models for Multi-Agent Systems
 - Agent-Based Grid Computing
 
 Proposals related to these areas will receive special consideration.
 
 Submission Details:
 
 Proposals for tutorials should consist of an outline and 
 background information on the presenter(s). The tutorial 
 outline should be limited to 2 pages and contain the 
 following information:
 
    1. Title and abstract of the tutorial
    2. Proposed duration: 2 hours or half-day
    3. Intended audience: to whom is the tutorial of interest
    4. Prerequisite knowledge: what the attendees should 
       already know
    5. Detailed outline
 
 The background information on the presenter(s) should be 
 limited to 1-2 pages and contain:
 
    1. Names, affiliations, homepages and contact details   
    2. Short biographies
    3. Information about previous tutorials given by the same 
       presenters (title, location, number of attendees, etc.)
 
 Tutorial materials such as handouts and slides should be included 
 if already available, but are not required for submission. 
 
 Please send your proposal to G.Wagner at tm.tue.nl 
 
 A honorarium of $250/$500 is provided for giving a 2/4-hours 
 tutorial. If the tutorial is given by multiple speakers, this 
 honorarium is shared by them.
 
 Important Dates:
 
      June 10, 2004  Tutorial submissions 
      June 25, 2004  Acceptance notices 
    August 10, 2004  Camera-ready copy of tutorial handouts 
 September 20, 2004  WI-IAT'04 tutorials
 
 Tutorial Chair: 
 
   Gerd Wagner, Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands
   Email: G.Wagner at tm.tue.nl 
 
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