DM: IAT'99 -- 2nd CFP

[IAT99 Conference]

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                    Second Call for Papers:  IAT'99

    First Asia-Pacific Conference on Intelligent Agent Technology

                    Hong Kong  December 15-17, 1999

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              Home Page: http://www.comp.hkbu.edu.hk/IAT99

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                      | Papers Due: May 31, 1999 |
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SPONSORS
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   Hong Kong Baptist University
   ACM Hong Kong
   IEEE Hong Kong Section - Computer Chapter

INVITED SPEAKERS
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   Setsuo Ohsuga  (Waseda University, Japan)
   Jeffrey Bradshaw  (The Boeing Company, USA)
   Dan Ling  (Microsoft Corporation, USA)
   Jan Zytkow  (University of North Carolina, USA)


The Asia-Pacific Conference on Intelligent Agent Technology (IAT) is
a high-quality, high-impact biannual agent conference series.  As the
first meeting in this new series, IAT'99 will primarily focus on (i)
the state-of-the-art in the development of intelligent agents and (ii)
the theoretical and computational foundations of intelligent agent
technology. The aim of IAT'99 is to bring together researchers and
practitioners from diverse fields, such as computer science,
information technology, business, education, human factors, systems
engineering, and robotics to (i) examine the design principles and
performance characteristics of various approaches in intelligent agent
technology, and (ii) increase the cross-fertilization of ideas on the
development of autonomous agents and multiagent systems among
different domains.  By encouraging idea-sharing and discussions on the
underlying logical, cognitive, physical, and biological foundations as
well as the enabling technologies of intelligent agents, IAT'99 is
expected to stimulate the future development of new models, new
methodologies, and new tools for building a variety of embodiments of
agent-based systems.

TOPICS
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IAT'99 welcomes submissions of original papers. The technical issues 
to
be addressed include, but not limited to:

* Applications:

   - Data and knowledge intensive domains (e.g., large databases,
     Internet, digital libraries, financial engineering, business
     information systems, CSCW).
   - Interaction with software/interface agents (e.g., E-commerce,
     personal assistant, information filter, tutor).
   - Computational intelligence (e.g., pattern analysis and
     recognition, imaging, optimization, resource allocation,
     constraint satisfaction, planning).
   - Physically embodied systems (e.g., autonomous robots).
   - Very-large, complex, integrated intelligent systems.

* Computational Architecture and Infrastructure:

   - Computational architectures.
   - Ontology models.
   - Agent-level and multiagent-level infrastructure.
   - Communication languages.
   - Multimodal systems and interfaces.
   - Protocols.
   - Tools and standards.
   - Heterogeneity and interoperability.
   - Scalability.

* Learning and Adaptation:

   - Uncertainty management in multiagent systems.
   - Integrated exploration and exploitation.
   - Long-term reliability.
   - Neural networks.
   - Artificial life.
   - Behavioral selection.
   - Coordinating perception, thought, and action.
   - Behavioral self-organization.
   - Believable lifelike quality.
   - Classifier systems.
   - Evolution and learning in dynamic environments.
   - Adaptation and self-adaptation.
   - Emergent behavior.
   - Evolutionary computation.

* Data and Knowledge Engineering/Communication:

   - Human-agent interaction.
   - Information filtering.
   - Data mining.
   - Heterogeneous data integration and management.
   - Knowledge discovery.
   - Knowledge sharing.
   - Knowledge aggregation.
   - Reasoning and planning.
   - Adaptation and evolution of knowledge networks.
   - Distributed knowledge systems.

* Distributed Intelligence:

   - Dynamics of groups and populations.
   - Swarms.
   - Population evolution.
   - Coevolution.
   - Collective group behavior.
   - Coordination and cooperation.
   - Distributed intelligence.
   - Social integration.
   - Market-based computing.

* Formal Theories of Agents:

   - Formal/computational modeling.
   - Chaotic and fractal dynamics.
   - Computational complexity.
   - Efficiency in distributed systems.
   - Taxonomy of agent environments.
   - Classification and characterization of complex behaviors.
   - Theories of perception, rationality, intention, emotion,
     coordination, action, and social behaviors.


IMPORTANT DATES
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     Four (4) copies of full papers due by:     May 31, 1999
     Notification of paper acceptance:         July 31, 1999
     Video/demo submission due by:              Aug. 2, 1999
     Notification of video/demo acceptance:    Sept. 3, 1999
     Camera-ready of accepted papers due by:  Sept. 11, 1999
     Conference:                            Dec. 15-17, 1999


PAPER SUBMISSION & PUBLICATION
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Both research and applications papers are solicited. Each submitted
paper must include a title, a 200-300 word abstract, a list of
keywords, the names, mailing addresses, and Email addresses of the
authors, and the main body. The length of submitted paper should not
exceed ten (10) single-spaced, single-column pages including all
figures, tables, and bibliography.  All submitted papers will be
reviewed on the basis of technical soundness, relevance, originality,
significance, and clarity.

Accepted papers will be published in the conference proceedings by
World Scientific Publishing. A selected number of IAT'99 accepted
papers will be expanded and revised for inclusion in ``Knowledge and
Information Systems: An International Journal'' by Springer-Verlag or
a book published by World Scientific Publishing in its Series on
Machine Perception and Artificial Intelligence.  The IAT best paper
award will be conferred on the author(s) of the best papers at the
conference.

IAT'99 also welcomes video and demo submissions of research projects,
prototypes, experimental systems, and potential commercial products 
for
presentation and demonstration at the conference. Each submission
should include a title page containing a title, a 200-300 word
abstract, a list of keywords, the names, mailing addresses, and Email
addresses of the presenters, and a two-page description of the video
contents or the demo system.

Four (4) hard copies of the completed paper should be submitted by
May 31, 1999 to:

              Prof. Ning Zhong (IAT'99)
              Dept. of Computer Science and Sys. Eng.
              Faculty of Engineering, Yamaguchi University
              Tokiwa-Dai, 2557, Ube 755, Japan
              Email: zhong@ai.csse.yamaguchi-u.ac.jp

Videos and demos should be submitted by August 2, 1999 to:

              Dr. Jianchang Mao (IAT'99)
              IBM Almaden Research Center
              Image and Multimedia Systems, DPE/B3A
              650 Harry Road, San Jose, CA 95120, USA
              Email: mao@almaden.ibm.com


CONFERENCE ORGANIZATION
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          Honorary Chair:  Benjamin Wah (U. Illinois, USA)

          General Chairs:  Setsuo Ohsuga (Waseda U., Japan)
                           Ernest C. M. Lam (Hong Kong Baptist U.)

          Program Chairs:  Jiming Liu (Hong Kong Baptist U.)
                           Ning Zhong (Yamaguchi U., Japan)

    Video and Demo Chair:  Jianchang Mao (IBM Almaden Research Center)

Organizing & Local Chair:  P. C. Yuen (Hong Kong Baptist U.)

            Poster Chair:  Wai Wong (Hong Kong Baptist U.)

           Finance Chair:  C. S. Huang (Hong Kong Baptist U.)

      Registration Chair:  Kelvin Wong (Hong Kong Baptist U.)

         Publicity Chair:  C. S. Tong (Hong Kong Baptist U.)

International Advisory Board
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   Jeffrey Bradshaw (The Boeing Company, USA)
   Jiming Liu (Hong Kong Baptist U.)
   Jianchang Mao (IBM Almaden Research Center)
   Setsuo Ohsuga (Waseda U., Japan)
   Tieniu Tan (Chinese Academy of Sciences)
   Patrick S. P. Wang (Northeastern U., USA)
   Xin Yao (Australian Defence Force Academy)
   Ning Zhong (Yamaguchi U., Japan)

Program Committee
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   John A. Barnden (U. Birmingham, UK)
   Guy Boy (European Inst. Cognitive Sci.Eng.)
   Young-Tae Byun (Hong Ik U. Korea)
   David Cheung (U. Hong Kong)
   M. Desmarais (Centre de Recherche Infor. de Montreal)
   E. A. Edmonds (Loughborough U., UK)
   Mark Greaves (The Boeing Company, USA)
   Toru Ishida (Kyoto U., Japan)
   Lakhmi Jain (U. South Australia)
   Oussama Khatib (Stanford U., USA)
   David Kinny (Australia AI Institute)
   T.Y. Lin (San Jose State U., USA)
   Dan Ling (Microsoft Corporation, USA)
   Chunnian Liu (Beijing Poly. U., China)
   Jiming Liu (Hong Kong Baptist U.)
   Hongjun Lu (National U. Singapore)
   David Maluf (NASA Ames Research Center, USA)
   Jianchang Mao (IBM Almaden Research Center, USA)
   Shinichi Nakasuka (U. Tokyo, Japan)
   Ei-Ichi Osawa (Sony Computer Science Lab., Japan)
   Mohamed Quafafou (U. Nantes, France)
   Zbigniew W. Ras (U. North Carolina, USA)
   Eugene Santos (U. Connecticut, USA)
   Zhongzhi Shi (Chinese Academy of Sciences)
   Yoav Shoham (Stanford U., USA)
   Andrzej Skowron (Warsaw U., Poland)
   Yuan Y. Tang (Hong Kong Baptist U.)
   Takao Terano (U. Tsukuba, Japan)
   Wayne Wobcke (BT Lab., UK)
   Xindong Wu (Colorado School of Mines, USA)
   Yiyu Yao (U. Regina, Canada)
   Yiming Ye (IBM T. J. Watson Research Center)
   Jerome Yen (U. Hong Kong)
   John Yen (Texas AM U., USA)
   Kazumasa Yokota (Okayama Prefectural U., Japan)
   Philip Yu (IBM T. J. Watson Research Center)
   P. C. Yuen (Hong Kong Baptist U.)
   Ning Zhong (Yamaguchi U., Japan)
   Lizhu Zhou (Tsinghua U., China)
   Jan Zytkow (U. North Carolina, USA)

Please send suggestions and inquiries regarding IAT'99 to:

              Prof. Jiming Liu (IAT'99)
              Department of Computer Science
              Hong Kong Baptist University
              Kowloon Tong, Hong Kong
              Phone: (852) 2339-7088
              Fax:   (852) 2339-7892
              Email: jiming@comp.hkbu.edu.hk

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