CALL FOR PARTICIPATION: The 2014 Web Intelligence Congress

[Jian Yang]

[Apologies if you receive this more than once]

 

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CALL FOR PARTICIPATION

 

2014 Web Intelligence Congress (WIC 2014)

 

The University of Warsaw

 

August 11-14, 2014, Wawsaw, Poland

 

Homepage: http://wic2014.mimuw.edu.pl/

 

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!!! Early-bird Registration by Jul 21, 2014 (extended) !!!

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A special event associated with celebration of

Web@25 - the 25th Anniversary of the Web

 

Turing Keynote Speaker:

Quantum Computing: A Great Science in the Making

Andrew Chi-Chih Yao (2000 Turing Award Winner)

 

WIC 2014 Plenary Panel on

Computational Challenges for Brain Science and Medicine

Year of the Brain 2014 Europe

 

The congress includes four intelligent informatics related conferences:

 

- IEEE/WIC/ACM Web Intelligence 2014 (WI'14)

- IEEE/WIC/ACM Intelligent Agent Technology 2014 (IAT'14)

- Active Media Technology 2014 (AMT'14)

- Brain Informatics and Health 2014 (BIH'14)

 

The four conferences will be co-located and have a joint opening,

invited talks, reception, and banquet.

 

Attendees only need to register for one conference and can attend

workshops, sessions, invited talks, panels and tutorials across the

four conferences.

 

Co-organized by

- Web Intelligence Consortium (WIC)

- IEEE-CS Technical Committee on Intelligent Informatics (TCII)

- IEEE-CIS Task Force on Brain Informatics (IEEE TF-BI)

- ACM SIGART

- The University of Warsaw

- Polish Mathematical Society

- Warsaw Center of Mathematics and Computer Science

- Warsaw University of Technology

 

Local Sponsors

 

Dituel Ltd

Google

EU Human Brain Project

IOS Press

MooseFS

Gemius

 

Technical Patronage

 

Poznan University of Technology

Polish Artificial Intelligence Society

Web25th Anniversary

Year of the Brain 2014 Europe

 

REGISTRATRION

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!!! Early-bird Registration by Jul 21, 2014 (extended) !!!

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On-line registration (and more information) at

https://wi-lab.com/cyberchair/2014/wiiat14/scripts/register_info.php

or

https://wi-lab.com/cyberchair/2014/amtbih14/scripts/register_info.php

 

Regular registration (non-authors) covers all events of technical

program (plenary talks, tutorials, workshops, parallel sessions,

industry/demo sessions, etc.), the reception, coffee breaks and

lunches.

 

 

INVITED TALKS

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Turing Keynote

Quantum Computing: A Great Science in the Making

Andrew Chi-Chih Yao, Tsinghua University, China

 

Free Energy, the Brain and Life as We Know It

Karl Friston, University College London, United Kingdom

 

Modern Rehabilitation Methods in Communication Disorders

Henryk Skarzynski, Institute of Physiology and Pathology of Hearing, Poland

 

Ontologies on the Web: An Alternative Model

Stefan Decker, National University of Ireland & Digital Enterprise Research

Institute (DERI), Ireland

 

Natural Language as an Inspiration for a Unifying Framework for Computing

Robert Kowalski, Imperial College London, United Kingdom

 

Theories of Clustering

Sadaaki Miyamoto, University of Tsukuba, Japan

 

Data Mining on Cloud Computing Platforms - Challenges and Solutions

Yi Pan, Georgia State University, USA

 

Quantum Cognition

John F. Sowa, VivoMind Intelligence LLC, USA

 

Light Tools for Tough Jobs

Andrzej Szalas, University of Warsaw & Linkoping University, Poland/Sweden

 

 

PLENARY PANELS

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- Computational Challenges for Brain Science & Medicine

 

- Web@25 Anniversary - History & Perspectives

 

- Present & Prospective Issues of Science Communications

 

- Artificial Intelligence in Poland & Worldwide

 

 

TUTORIALS

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T1: Online Content Credibility Evaluation and Demo of Reconcile Open

Platform

Maria Rafalak and Radoslaw Nielek, Polish-Japanese Institute of Information

Technology (PJIIT), Poland

 

T2: Identifying Problems and Solutions on Ontology Learning and Population

from Text

Rosario Girardi, Federal University of Maranhao, Brazil

 

T3: Hot Ideas in Interactive Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining for

Biomedical Informatics

Andreas Holzinger, Medical University Graz, Institute for Medical Informatics,

Statistics and Documentation Research Unit HCI, Austrian IBM Watson Think Group

& Graz University of Technology, Institute of Information Systems and Computer

Media, Austria

 

T4: Directed Probabilistic Graphs: Learning and Inference

Marek J. Druzdzel, University of Pittsburgh, USA & Bialystok University of

Technology, Poland

 

T5: Intelligent Multimodal Human-Computer Interfaces

Andrzej Czyzewski, Bozena Kostek, Piotr Odya, Bartosz Kunka, Michal Lech,

Gdansk University of Technology, Poland

 

T6: Plagiarism Detection in Digital Documents: Some Text Mining Techniques,

Algorithms and Proposals for Stopping One of the Worst Problem in the Web

Juan D. Velasquez, Web Intelligence Consortium Chile Research Centre &

Universidad de Chile, Chile

 

T7: Atlas of the Human Brain, Head and Neck: Introducing a New Standard

Wieslaw L. Nowinski, Agency for Science Technology and Research, Singapore

 

 

WORKSHOPS

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W1: The Third International Workshop on Web Personalization,

Recommender Systems and Social Media (WPRSM14)

 

W2: Second International Workshop on Social Web Intelligence (WOSWI 2014)

 

W3: 7th International Workshop on Natural Language Processing and Ontology

Engineering (NLPOE)

 

W4: International Workshop on Knowledge Discovery in Ontologies

 

W5: International Workshop on Agent Systems in Business Process

Management (AS-BPM)

 

W6: 8th International Workshop on Human Aspects in Ambient Intelligence

 

W7: International Workshop on Sensing, Understanding, and Modeling for

the Smart City

 

 

SPECIAL SESSIONS

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S1: Special session on Soft Clustering

 

S2: Special session on Granular Computing

 

S3: Special session on Complex Methods for Data and Web Mining

 

S4: Special session on Big Data Analytics

 

S5: Special session on Cooperative Knowledge Discovery and Management

 

S6: Special session on Agent-Based Simulation Supporting Decision Making

 

S7: Special session on Extracting Knowledge from Symptoms in

Neurodegenerative Disease (Parkinson)

 

S8: Special session on Analysis of Complex Medical Data

 

S9: Special session on Understanding of Information Processing in Brain

 

S10: Special session on Neuroimaging Data Processing Strategies

 

S11: Special session on Advanced Methods of Interactive Data Mining

for Personalized Medicine

 

S12: Type II special session on State of the Art Technology

in Hearing Loss Remediation

 

S13: Type II special session on Panomics of Diseases and Pathogens

 

S14: Type II special session on Early Detection of Dementia

 

S15: Special session on Human Aspects in Cyber-Physical Systems

 

S16: Special session on Facial Image Analysis with Applications

 

S17: Type II special session on Intelligent Technologies in Mineral

Exploration

 

 

SOCIAL PROGRAM

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The congress venue: the lectures and technical sessions will take place

in the Old Library building at Central Campus of the University of Warsaw

located in downtown Warsaw, close to the historical part of the City.

 

The WIC 2014 offers exciting social programs:

 

Welcome Reception, Monday, August 11, 19:00-21:30

 

The Welcome Reception will take place in the building of the F. Chopin

University of Music (Address: Okolnik 2, 00-368 Warszawa).

 

The reception starts at 19:00 in the main foyer and patio and will be

accompanied by a piano performance in the Concert Hall.

The performance starts at 20:15 and will take around 40 minutes.

The repertoire consist of music by F. Chopin.

 

WIC 2014 Reception, Tuesday, August 12, 18:30-20:00

 

The WIC 2014 Reception will take place in the Old Library building

(the conference venue). This informal event was made possible by

generosity of our sponsors.

 

Conference Banquet, Wednesday, August 13, 19:00-22:00

 

The Conference Banquet will take place in the Main Building of the

Warsaw University of Technology (Address: Plac Politechniki 1, 00-661

Warszawa). The banquet starts at 19:00 in the Main Hall and will be

accompanied by award ceremony.

 

You can also enjoy the city of Warsaw. More information about the

conference hotel, visas and local information can be obtained from the

congress homepage: http://wic2014.mimuw.edu.pl/

 

 

CONTACT INFORMATION

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Dominik Slezak <sle...@mimuw.edu.pl>

Marcin Szczuka <szc...@mimuw.edu.pl>