IAWTIC2006

event series:=IAWTIC2006 is the title:=International Conference on Intelligent Agents, Web Technologies and Internet Commerce. It is held from start date:=November 28 2006 to end date:=November 30 2006 in has location city::Sydney, has location country::Australia. For more information, see web site:=http://www.ise.canberra.edu.au/conferences/iawtic06/. It is collocated event at the International Conference on Computational Intelligence for Modelling, Control and Automation (subevent of::CIMCA2006).

Honorary Chair
Lotfi A. Zadeh, University of California, USA Stephen Grossberg, Boston University, USA

Important Dates

 * paper deadline:=17 July 2006 Submission of papers
 * 7 August 2006 Notification of acceptance
 * camera ready due:=28 August 2006 Deadline for camera-ready copies of accepted papers
 * 28-30 November 2006 Conference sessions

In co-operation with
IEEE Computational Intelligence Society Conference Proceedings will be published as books by IEEE in USA

Sponsored by

 * European Society for Fuzzy Logic and Technology - EUFLAT
 * International Association for Fuzzy Set in Management and Economy - SIGEF
 * Japan Society for Fuzzy Theory and Intelligent Informatics - SOFT
 * Taiwan Fuzzy Systems Association - TFSA
 * World Wide Web Business Intelligence - W3BI
 * Hungarian Fuzzy Association - HFA
 * University of Canberra

International Conference on Intelligent Agents, Web Technology and Internet Commerce - IAWTIC'2006 provides a medium for researchers and practitioners to exchange and explore the issues and opportunities in the area of intelligent agent, web technologies and Internet commerce.

The conference will consist of both plenary sessions and contributory sessions, focusing on theory, implementation and applications of computational intelligence techniques to modelling, control and automation. For contributory sessions, papers (4 pages or more) are being solicited. Several well-known keynote speakers will address the conference.

Topics
Conference Proceedings will be published as books by IEEE (The Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineering) in USA and will be index world wide. All papers will be peer reviewed by at least two reviewers. Topics of the conference include, but are not limited to, the following areas:

Intelligent Agents

 * Knowledge Management
 * Intelligent Business Agents
 * Agent Architectures
 * Environments and Languages
 * Adaptation and learning for agents
 * Human and agent interaction
 * Interface agents
 * Mobile agents
 * Virtual agent-based marketplaces
 * Agents and uncertainty
 * The privacy issues for agents
 * Automated shopping and trading agents
 * Agent-oriented services
 * Social implications for agent
 * Conceptual modelling and design of Ontologies for agents
 * Agents and e-commerce
 * Legal aspects of agents in e-commerce
 * Performance measurement of e-commerce agents
 * Rational information agents and electronic commerce
 * Auction and negotiation for e-commerce agents
 * Knowledge Discovery,
 * Intelligent Information Systems
 * Knowledge Clustering
 * Classification

Web Technologies

 * Web data mining and information retrieval
 * Agent-based trade-and mediating services
 * Teaching on Web
 * Virtual trading institutions

Internet Commerce

 * E-commerce applications of Knowledge Representation
 * Reasoning Techniques
 * Electronic Payment Systems
 * Internet Marketing
 * Intranets and Extranets
 * Electronic Payment Systems
 * Electronic Data Interchange
 * Supply Chain Management
 * Electronic Payment Systems
 * Internet-based Electronic Commerce
 * Virtual Communities/Community Networks
 * Logistics Issues for Electronic Commerce
 * Business Reengineering Issues for Electronic Commerce
 * Government Electronic Procurement and Service Delivery
 * Legal, Auditing or Security Issues for Electronic Commerce
 * Requirements Engineering Approaches for Electronic Commerce

Paper Submission
Papers will be selected based on their originality, significance, correctness, and clarity of presentation. Papers (4 pages or more) should be submitted to the following e-mail or the following address: CIMCA'2006 Secretariat School of Information Sciences and Engineering University of Canberra, Canberra, 2616, ACT, Australia E-mail: cimca@canberra.edu.au

Electronic submission of papers (either by E-mail or through conference website) is preferred. Draft papers should present original work, which has not been published or being reviewed for other conferences.

Special Sessions and Tutorials
Special sessions and tutorials will be organised at the conference. The conference is calling for special sessions and tutorial proposals. All special session proposals should be sent to the conference chair (by email to: masoud.mohammadian@canberra.edu.au) on or before 4th of August 2006. CIMCA'06 will also include a special poster session devoted to recent work and work-in-progress. Abstracts are solicited for this session. Abstracts (3 pages limit) may be submitted up to 30 days before the conference date.

Visits and social events
Sightseeing visits will be arranged for the delegates and guests. A separate program will be arranged for companions during the conference.

Further Information
For further information either contact cimca@canberra.edu.au or see the conference homepage at: http://www.ise.canberra.edu.au/conferences/cimca06/default.htm

Organising Committee Chair
has general chair::Masoud Mohammadian, University of Canberra, Australia

International Programme Committee

 * has PC member::J. Liu, Hong Kong Baptist University, Hong Kong
 * has PC member::A. Namatame, National Defense Academy, Japan
 * has PC member::A. Agah, The University of Kansas, USA
 * has PC member::J. P. Bigus, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, USA
 * has PC member::E. André, Universität Augsburg, Germany
 * has PC member::K. Sycara, Carnegie Mellon University, USA
 * has PC member::H. Adeli, The Ohio State University, USA
 * has PC member::B. Kosko, University of Southern California, USA
 * has PC member::A. Kandel, University of South Florida, USA
 * has PC member::T. Fukuda, Nagoya University, Japan
 * has PC member::T. Baeck, Informatic Centrum Dortmund, Germany
 * has PC member::J.Bezdek, University of West Florida, USA
 * has PC member::M. Mohammadian, University of Canberra, Australia
 * has PC member::K. Hirota, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan
 * has PC member::E. Oja, Helsinki University of Technology, Finland
 * has PC member::W. Pedrycz, University of Manitoba, Canada
 * has PC member::X. Yao, The University of New South Wales, ADFA, Australia
 * has PC member::H. R. Berenji, NASA Ames Research Center, USA
 * has PC member::R. C. Eberhart, Purdue University,USA
 * has PC member::T. Shibata, MITI, Ministry of International Trade and Industry, Japan
 * has PC member::H. Liljenstrom, Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden
 * has PC member::A. Y. Zomaya, University of Western Australia, Australia
 * has PC member::F. Herrera, University of Granada, Spain
 * has PC member::A Jafari, Indiana University Purdue University Indianapolis, IUPUI, USA
 * has PC member::A. Bulsari, AB Nonlinear Solutions OY, Finland
 * has PC member::B. Ruhul Sarker, University of New South Wales (ADFA), Australia
 * has PC member::J. D. Pinter, Dalhousie University, Canada
 * has PC member::V. Piuri, Politecnico di Milano, Italy
 * has PC member::T. Furuhashi, Nagoya University, Japan
 * has PC member::A. Aamodt, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway
 * has PC member::J. Fernandez de Cañete, University of Malaga, Spain
 * has PC member::W. Duch, Nicholas Copernicus,University, Poland
 * has PC member::E. Tulunay, Middle East Technical University, Turkey
 * has PC member::L. Guan, University of Sydney, Australia
 * has PC member::C. Kuroda, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan
 * has PC member::T. Yamakawa, Kyushu Institute of Technology, Japan
 * has PC member::J. Liu, Hong Kong Baptist University, Hong Kong
 * has PC member::A. Namatame, National Defense Academy, Japan
 * has PC member::A. Agah, The University of Kansas, USA

Canada and USA Liaison
J. D. Pinter, Dalhousie University, Canada

Asia Liaison
Christina Meier, Australia

Europe Liaison
Robert John, De Montfort University, UK

Publication
Masoud Mohammadian, University of Canberra, Australia