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                       CALL FOR PAPERS
        The 23rd IEEE/WIC International Conference on
   Web Intelligence and Intelligent Agent Technology (WI-IAT)
              December 9-12, 2024 | Bangkok, Thailand

    The key theme: Web Intelligence = AI in the Connected World
          A hybrid conference with both online and offline modes

        History of WI-IAT: www.youtube.com/watch?v=wOiSI3NhyKw
        Conference homepage: https://www.wi-iat.com/wi-iat2024/
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Main Conference Papers Submission System:
https://wi-lab.com/cyberchair/2024/wi24/scripts/submit.php?subarea=WI

Workshops and Special Sessions Paper Submission:
https://wi-lab.com/cyberchair/2024/wi24/scripts/ws_submit.php?subarea=S

Keynote Speakers
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Professor Danilo Mandic
Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineering (IEEE)
President of the International Neural Network Society (INNS)
Imperial College, UK

Professor Ong Yew Soon
Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineering (IEEE)
Nanyang Technological University, Singapore

Professor Guoyin Wang
Vice-President of the Chinese Association for Artificial Intelligence (CAAI)
President of Chongqing Normal University
Chongqing Normal University, China
Title: Brain Cognition Inspired Artificial Intelligence

More to be confirmed!

Sponsored By:
IEEE Computer Society
(IEEE-CS: https://www.computer.org/)
IEEE Computer Society Technical Committee on Intelligent Informatics
(TCII: https://www.computer.org/communities/technical-committees/tcii)
Web Intelligence Consortium
(WIC: https://wi-consortium.org/)
King Mongkut’s University of Technology Thonburi, Thailand
(KMUTT: https://www.kmutt.ac.th/en/)
Asia-Pacific Neural Network Society (APNNS)
IEEE-CIS Thailand Chapter

PAPER SUBMISSION GUIDELINE
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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.

The 2024 IEEE/WIC International Conference on Web Intelligence and Intelligent Agent Technology (WI-IAT'24) 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 and intelligent societies. 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 in industry, society, health, and smart living, the Web of Everything, and emerging AIGC in WI-IAT.
Therefore, the theme of WI-IAT '24 will be:

“Web Intelligence = AI in the Connected World”.

WI-IAT '24 welcomes research and application 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
* Large Language Models (LLMs) 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
* AI Agents 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, Education, 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 2024: FAccT, LLM and AIGC
* Digital Divide, Fairness, Accountability, and Transparency
* Generative AI – LLM and AIGC
* Explainability and Interpretability
* Responsible AI
* Metric and Evaluation
* Applications and Use Cases
* Impact on Society
* Robustness and Security

IMPORTANT DATES
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July 30, 2024: Workshop Papers Submission
August 15, 2024: Papers Submission (Main Conference)
September 15, 2024: Paper Acceptance Notification (Main Conference)
September 15, 2024: Workshop Paper Acceptance Notification
December 9, 2024: Workshops and Special Sessions
December 10-11, 2024: Main Conference

Organization Structure
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Honorary Chairs
* Irwin King, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China
* Suvit Saetia, King Mongkut’s University of Technology Thonburi (KMUTT), Thailand

General Chairs
* Jonathan Chan, KMUTT, Thailand
* Ah-Hwee Tan, Singapore Management University, Singapore
* Yiyu Yao, University of Regina, Canada

Program Committee Chairs
* Kitsuchart Pasupa, KMITL, Thailand
* Sung-Bae Cho, Yonsei University, South Korea
* Mufti Mahmud, Nottingham Trent University, UK
* Haiqin Yang, International Digital Economy Academy, China

Local Organizing Chairs
* Nipon Charoenkitkarn, KMUTT, Thailand
* Phayung Meesad, KMUTNB, Thailand
* Kuntpong Woraratpanya, KMITL, Thailand
* Ruttikorn Varakulsiripunth, TNI, Thailand

Finance Chair
* Vajirasak Vanijja, KMUTT, Thailand

Workshop/Special Session Chairs
* Mark Chignell, University of Toronto, Canada
* Ashish Ghosh, Indian Statistical Institute, India
* Min Pan, Hubei Normal University, China
* Kaizhu Huang, Duke Kunshan University, China

Publicity Chairs
* Hongzhi Kuai, Maebashi Institute of Technology, Japan
* Susmita Ghosh, Jadavpur University, India
* Ka-Chun Wong, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China

Publication Chair
* Hongzhi Kuai, Maebashi Institute of Technology, Japan

Liaison Chair
* Sirawaj Itthipuripat, KMUTT, Thailand

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