IEEE/WIC/ACM WI-IAT 2010 - Call for Tutorial Proposals

2010 IEEE/WIC/ACM International Joint Conference on Web Intelligence and Intelligent Agent Technology (WI-IAT’10) http://www.yorku.ca/wiiat10/ The 2010 IEEE/WIC/ACM International Joint Conference on Web Intelligence (WI’10) and Intelligent Agent Technology (IAT’10) takes place on August 31 - Sept 3, 2010, at Toronto, Canada.The IEEE/WIC/ACM 2010 joint conferences are organized by York University, Canada, and sponsored by IEEE Computer Society Technical Committee on Intelligent Informatics (TCII), Web Intelligence Consortium (WIC), and ACM-SIGART. WI 2010 and IAT 2010 will include tutorials providing in-depth background on subjects that are of broad interest to both the Web intelligence community and the intelligent agent community. The goal of the Tutorial Program is to offer conference attendees and local participants a stimulating and informative selection of tutorials reflecting current topics in Web intelligence and intelligent agent. These tutorials will be presented by subject matter experts and will reflect the high academic and research standards of the WI-IAT 2010 conference. We encourage submissions of proposals on topics that have a direct relevance to the topics of the conference. Proposals will be considered for short (2 hrs) and long (half-day) tutorials. A list of recent tutorials collocated with WI-IATs can be found at WI-IAT 2009 and WI-IAT 2008 websites. A tutorial proposal should include the following: * Title of the tutorial * Instructor(s) and their credentials (CV) * Aims/Learning objectives * Description of topics * Scope of the tutorial * Tutorial history (previous offerings of tutorial, if any) * Format of tutorial (1/2 day, 2 hrs) * 300-word abstract (1-2 paragraphs suitable for inclusion in conference registration materials) * Keywords * Full description (1-2 pages to be used for evaluation) * Target audience information * Prerequisite knowledge of audience * Relevant references that would support proposal evaluation Please send your proposal in PDF format to the tutorial co-chairs, Sourav S Bhowmick (assourav@ntu.edu.sg) and Mounia Lalmas (mounia@acm.org) with subject: WI-IAT Tutorial Proposal. Important Dates * Tutorial submissions: March 26, 2010 * Acceptance notices: April 26, 2010 * Camera-ready copy of tutorial handouts: July 31, 2010