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CALL FOR PAPERS (extended)
The 22nd IEEE/WIC International Conference on
Web Intelligence and Intelligent Agent Technology (WI-IAT)
26-29 October 2023 | Venice, Italy

A hybrid conference with both online and offline modes

Web Intelligence = AI in the Connected World

Homepage: https://www.wi-iat.com/wi-iat2023/

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Full Papers Submission Deadline (extended): June 25, 2023 (Anywhere on Earth)
Workshops and Special Sessions Paper Submission: July 2, 2023 (Anywhere on Earth)

Sponsored By:
ACM-SIGAI
Web Intelligence Consortium (WIC)
IEEE Computer Society Technical Committee on Intelligent Informatics (TCII)

The 2023 IEEE/WIC International Conference on Web Intelligence and Intelligent Agent Technology (WI-IAT'23) provides a premier international forum to bring together researchers and practitioners from diverse fields for presentation of original research results, as well as exchange and dissemination of innovative and practical development experiences on Web intelligence and intelligent agent technology research and applications. Academia, professionals and industry people can exchange their ideas, findings and strategies in deepening the understanding of all Web's entities, phenomena, and developments in utilizing the power of human brains and man-made networks to create a better world. More specifically, the fields of how artificial intelligence is impacting the Web of People, the Web of Data, the Web of Things, the Web of Trust, the Web of Agents, the Web of Everything, and emerging FAccT in WI-IAT. Therefore, the theme of WI-IAT '23 will be

“Web Intelligence = AI in the Connected World”.

WI-IAT '23 welcomes research, application, and Industry/Demo track paper submissions in these core thematic pillars under wider topics, which demand WI innovative and disruptive solutions for any of the next indicative sub-topics. Relevant topics include but are not limited to:

TRACKS AND TOPICS
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TRACK 1: WEB OF PEOPLE
* Cognitive Modeling and Computing
* Conversational Search and Dialog Systems
* Crowdsourcing and Social Computing
* Human Centric Computing and Services
* Human Creativity and Decision-making Support
* Human-level Collective Intelligence
* Human-machine Co-intelligence in the Connected World
* Information Diffusion Modeling and Analysis
* Opinion Mining and Sentiment Analysis
* Recommendation Systems
* Situation and Personality Awareness
* Social Media and Social Networks
* User and Behavioural Modelling
* Wisdom Services

TRACK 2: WEB OF DATA
* Artificial Intelligence Generated Content (AIGC)
* Big Data Analytics and Deep Learning
* Big Data and Human Brain Complex Systems
* Cognitive Models and Computational Models
* Data Driven Services and Applications
* Data Integration and Data Provenance
* Data-Knowledge-Wisdom Hierarchy
* Data Science and Machine Learning
* Few-shot Learning and Transfer Learning
* Graph Isomorphism and Graph Theory
* Information Search and Retrieval
* Knowledge Graph and Semantic Networks
* Linked Data Management and Analytics
* Multimodal Data Fusion
* Pre-trained Language Models and Applications
* Representation Learning

TRACK 3: WEB OF THINGS
* Distributed Systems and Devices
* Dynamics of Networks
* Industrial Multi-domain Web
* Intelligent Ubiquitous Web of Things
* IoT Data Analytics
* Location and Time Awareness
* Open Autonomous Systems
* Sensor Networks
* Streaming Data Analysis
* Web Infrastructures and Devices Mobile Web
* Wisdom Web of Things

TRACK 4: WEB OF TRUST
* Blockchain Analytics and Technologies
* De-Platforming and No-platforming
* Decentralization of Internet
* Fake Content and Fraud Detection
* Hidden Web Analytics
* Monetization Services and Applications
* Trust Models for Agents
* Ubiquitous Computing
* Web Cryptography
* Web Safety and Openness
* Web-scale Security, Integrity, Privacy and Trust

TRACK 5: WEB OF AGENTS
* Agent Networks and Multi-Agent Systems
* Autonomy Remembrance Agents
* Autonomy-oriented Computing
* Behaviour Modelling and Individual-based Modelling
* Chatbot and Intelligent Agent
* Computational Social Science
* Deep Reinforcement Learning
* Distributed Problem-Solving and Reasoning
* Edge Computing and Cloud Computing
* Local-global Behavioural Interactions
* Mechanism Design
* Network Autonomy Remembrance Agents
* Self-adaptive and Self-organizing Evolutionary Systems
* Social-cyber-physical Systems
* Symbols-Meaning-Value Space

SPECIAL TRACK: Web in Industry, Society, Health and Smart Living, and the Web of Everything
* AIGC in Industry, Finance, Culture, Tourism, Education and Healthcare
* Data Brain, City Brain and Global Brain
* Data-driven Service Industry
* Data-driven Innovative Service-oriented Society
* Digital Ecosystems and Digital Epidemiology
* Digital Transformation and Digital Twin
* Generative AI and the Web of Everything
* Human-machine Symbiosis in a Connected World
* Web3, Metaverse and Smart Living
* Wellbeing and Healthcare in the 5G Era

SPECIAL TRACK in WI-IAT 2023: FAccT
* Fairness, Accountability, and Transparency
* Generative AI
* Explainability and Interpretability
* Responsible AI
* Metric and Evaluation
* Applications and use cases
* Impact on Society
* Robustness and Security

IMPORTANT DATES
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April 16, 2023: Workshop Proposal Submission
April 30, 2023: Workshop Proposal Acceptance Notification
June 25, 2023: Full Papers Submission (Extended)
July 2, 2023: Workshops/Special Sessions Paper Submission
August 8, 2023: Paper Acceptance Notification (Main Conference + Workshops)
October 26, 2023: Workshops and Special Sessions
October 27-29, 2023: Main Conference

PAPER SUBMISSION
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Papers must be submitted electronically via CyberChair in standard IEEE
Conference Proceedings format (max 8 pages, templates at
https://www.ieee.org/conferences/publishing/templates.html).
Submitted papers will undergo a peer review process, coordinated by the International Program Committee.

Main Conference Paper Submission:
https://wi-lab.com/cyberchair/2023/wi23/scripts/submit.php?subarea=WI
Workshops and Special Sessions Paper Submission:
https://wi-lab.com/cyberchair/2023/wi23/scripts/ws_submit.php?subarea=S

Organization Structure
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General Chairs
* Salvatore Orlando, Ca' Foscari University of Venice, Italy
* Gabriella Pasi, University of Milano-Bicocca, Italy

Program Committee Chairs
* Claudio Lucchese, Ca' Foscari University of Venice, Italy
* Xiaohui Tao, University of Southern Queensland, Australia
* Sebastian Bruch, Ca' Foscari University of Venice, Italy

Local Organizing Chair
* Cristiana Fiandra, The Office, Italy

Workshop/Special Session Chairs
* Marco Viviani, University of Milano Bicocca, Italy
* Xujuan Zhou, University of Southern Queensland, Australia

Publicity Chairs
* Hongzhi Kuai, Maebashi Institute of Technology, Japan
* Thanveer Shaik, University of Southern Queensland, Australia

WIC Steering Committee Chairs
* Ning Zhong, Maebashi Institute of Technology, Japan
* Jiming Liu, Hong Kong Baptist University, HK, China

WIC Executive Secretary
* Xiaohui Tao, University of Southern Queensland, Australia