Call for WORKSHOP/SPECIAL-SESSION PROPOSALS

Introduction

The 2020 IEEE/WIC/ACM International Joint Conference on Web Intelligence and Intelligent Agent Technology (WI-IAT '20) will be held in Melbourne, Australia during 10th to 13thof December. Its organizing committee invites proposals for workshops/special sessions to be held in conjunction with the conference. The goals of the workshops/special sessions are to explore emerging research topics and to provide a forum for authors to present early research results on these topics. We would like to have a number of workshops/special sessions, with a high quality program dominated by contributed papers. We expect that workshops/special sessions will run a rigorous review process, to make sure programs will be of high-quality. Organizers may structure workshops/special sessions as they see fit, possibly including invited talks, panel discussions, presentations of work in progress, peer-reviewed papers, demonstrations, or some combination.

WI ‘20 WORKSHOP/SPECIAL SESSION CO-CHAIRS

Jian Cao, Shanghai Jiaotong University, China (cao-jian@cs.sjtu.edu.cn)

Ke Deng, RMIT University, Australia (ke.deng@rmit.edu.au)

Xiaoying Gao, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand (xiaoying.gao@ecs.vuw.ac.nz)

TOPICS OF INTEREST

  • The topic falls in the general scope of Web Intelligence and Intelligent Agent Technology 2020
  • Workshops/special-sessions under this theme “Web Intelligence = AI in the Connected World” are encouraged
  • There is a clear focus on a specific technology, problem or application
  • There should be a greater impact to the society

    • In particular, we encourage the submission of workshop/special-session proposals on:

  • Fairness in Web
  • Deep Learning/ML in the Web
  • Web for Social Good
  • Web for Smart cities
  • Web in/for IoT
  • Misinformation handling in the Web
  • Recommendation Systems for the Web
  • Big Data on the Web
  • User behaviour modelling in the Web
  • NLP in the Web
  • Mobile data mining in the Web
  • Social intelligence
  • Web/text mining

    • Important Dates
    TaskDue Date
    Workshop/Special-Session Proposal Submission Deadline1 May, 2020
    Workshop/Special-Session Proposal Notification of Acceptance1 June, 2020
    All Workshops/Special-Sessions Day14 December, 2020
    SUBMISSION INSTRUCTION

    The workshop/special session proposal, in PDF, should provide the following information, in the following format:

    HEADING:

  • Title of the workshop/special-session and acronym
  • Proposed duration (half-day or full-day)
  • Workshop/special session (co-)chair(s) name, affiliation and e-mail address
  • Short CV of (co-)chair(s) including past experience in organizing workshops/special session and/or related events


    • INTRODUCTION:

  • Abstract: one paragraph describing the workshop/special-session purpose (max. 200 words)
  • Scope and topics of the workshop/special session


    • MOTIVATION and RATIONALE:

  • Why the workshop/special session is related to WI-IAT 2020
  • Why the topic is timely and important
  • Why the workshop/special session may attract a significant number of submissions of good quality
  • Why the workshop/special session may attract a large number of attendees, in addition to the authors
  • Why the workshop/special session differs from others
  • Related workshops and conferences of similar topics


    • WORKSHOP/SPECIAL SESSION DETAILS:

  • Tentative committee lists (organizers, program committee, etc.)
  • Expected number of participants and the expected number of submissions
  • A short list of potential authors that are expected to submit papers to the workshop/special session
  • A draft call for papers (max 1 page)
  • A description of the publicity and promotion plan
  • Workshop/special session format planned (keynote, expected number of presented papers, invited talks, panels, demonstrations, etc.)


    • TENTATIVE INTERNAL AND EXTERNAL SCHEDULE (expect adjustments by the chairs to align all workshop/special session schedules)

  • Submission deadline
  • Review deadline
  • Acceptance deadline
  • Camera ready
  • Program ready


    • Please send a whole copy of your proposal in PDF format to the workshop/special session co-chairs with subject “Submission of WI-IAT 2020 workshop/special session proposal: XXX”, where XXX should be replaced by the acronym of your workshop/special session.


    REVIEW PROCESS

    The decision about acceptance or rejection of workshop/special session proposals will be made by the Workshop/special session co-Chairs in consultation with the General and Program Committee Chairs, taking into account several factors including overall quality, the topic fit with respect to WI-IAT2020, the coverage of the topic in other tracks of the conference, the estimated number of attendees for the workshop/special session, etc.

    ORGANIZATION DUTIES

  • Announce the calls for papers
  • Create and maintain the workshop/special-session website
  • Publicize workshop/special-session in the relevant communities
  • Create the Program Committee
  • Conduct the review process
  • Schedule the workshop/special-session program


    • REGISTRATION

    Workshop/special session paper registration fees are the same as regular conference fees. All registered participants are entitled to attend all keynotes, sessions, workshops/special sessions, panels, tutorials and social events.

    PUBLICATION

    Full day workshops should have 10-14 regular papers (max 8 pages), while half day should have 5-7 regular papers. On the other hand, special-session should have 4-6 regular papers. The papers must be submitted electronically via Cyberchair in standard ACM Conference Proceedings format (max 8 pages). The organizers of the workshops/special sessions will have the responsibility to ensure the presence of authors of the accepted papers at the workshops/special sessions.

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    CONTACT

    • Academic Matters

    • Prof. Jing He
      Swinburne University of Technology
    • Skype:loutsjing6863
      Skype:gmj23678111
      Email:jinghe@swin.edu.au

    LOCAL ARRANGEMENTS

    • Deakin Downtown, Level 12 Tower 2, 727 Collins Street Melbourne 3008, Australia.

    • wi.iat.2020.12@gmail.com

    • +61 (0)428796699