Conference Program
Organization Sponsorship
IEEE Computer Society
Web Intelligence & Association for
Consortium (WIC)
Computing
Machinery (ACM)
Banca Popolare di Sondrio
Comune di Milano
Yahoo! Research
DocFlow Italia S.p.A.
Co-Organized and In Cooperation With
Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
(IEEE)
Dipartimento di
Informatica, Sistemistica
e Comunicazione
Università degli
Studi di
Milano Bicocca
Conference Program
Table of Contents
Conference Sponsors………………………………………………………………………………..2
Message from the Conference and Program Chairs ………………………………………….……4
General Information ………...……………………………...…………...………………………...…5
Information for Session Chairs and Presenters………...……………………………………………6
Internet Access Guide ………………………………………………………………………………7
Program at a Glance…………………………………………………………………………………8
Workshops & Tutorials Program at a Glance……………………………………………………8
WI/IAT 2009 Program at a Glance …………………………………………………..............10
Workshops & Tutorials Program …………………………………………………………….....12
WI 2009 Program …………………………………………………………………………............24
IAT 2009 Program …………………………………………………………...................................33
WI'09/IAT'09 Invited Talks……………………………………………………………………....41
Organizing Committee ...………………………………………………………………………….48
Some Useful Links…………………………………………………………………………………53
Maps…………………………………………………………………………………………...…..54
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Message from the Conference and Program Chairs
We are pleased to welcome in Milano the 2009 IEEE/WIC/ACM International Joint Conference on Web
Intelligence and Intelligent Agent Technology (WI’09 and IAT’09). On behalf of the WI’09 and IAT’09
Conference Committees, we would like to thank you for your participation and we do hope that you will enjoy the
conference technical and social programs.
The IAT’09 and WI’09 conferences are sponsored and co-organised by the IEEE Computer Society Technical
Committee on Intelligent Informatics, Web Intelligence Consortium Institute, ACM SIGART and the Department
of Informatics, Systems and Communication of the Università degli Studi di Milano Bicocca, Milano, Italy. With
the strong support of world-renowned researchers and practitioners from the international WI and IAT
communities, the IEEE/WIC/ACM Joint Conference has received an overwhelming response. WI'09 and
IAT'09 received 587 submissions (343 for WI'09 and 244 for IAT'09) to the research and industry tracks
from 50 countries and regions: Algeria, Australia, Austria, Bahrain, Brazil, Canada, China, Colombia,
Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Ethiopia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hong Kong, India, Iran,
Ireland, Israel, Italy, Jamaica, Japan, Jordan, Korea, Luxembourg, Malaysia, Mexico, New Zealand, Norway,
Pakistan, Poland, Portugal, Romania. Russia, Serbia and Montenegro, Singapore, Slovakia, Spain, Sweden,
Taiwan, The Netherlands, Tunisia, Turkey, UK, USA, Venezuela, and Vietnam.
The submitted papers went through a rigorous reviewing process. Most of the 587 submissions were
reviewed by at least three program committee members, and all the conflictive cases were revised by one
program vice-chair and one program co-chair. As a result, approximately 16% of the WI'09 submissions were
accepted as regular papers and 18% were accepted as short papers. For IAT'09, around 18% of the
submissions were accepted as regular papers and 22% were accepted as short papers. In addition to the paper
presentations at the research tracks, our technical program also features 6 invited talks, a WIC feature talk, 2
tutorials, and 18 workshops, including a doctoral workshop.
We are grateful to the following distinguished invited speakers for the delivery of the invited lectures: Stefano
Ceri (Politecnico di Milano, Italy), Marco Dorigo (Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium), Katia P. Sycara
(Carnegie Mellon University, U.S.A.), Bhavani Thuraisingham (The University of Texas at Dallas, U.S.A.),
Chengqi Zhang (University of Technology, Sydney, Australia), and Ronald R. Yager (Iona College, New
Rochelle, NY, U.S.A.). We are also grateful to Yulin Qin (The International WIC Institute, Beijing University of
Technology, China/Carnegie Mellon University, U.S.A) for the WIC feature talk.
As the Web continues to grow and evolve, many new problems and challenges are being introduced. The
WI-IAT workshops provide a venue and forum for contributions in specialized sub-areas of Web Intelligence
and Intelligent Agent Technology, and allow authors to present new and emerging trends in methods and
technologies to dedicated audiences. The organizers received 26 proposals for WI-IAT 2009 workshops, out
of which 18 were accepted, representing a variety of selected special topics. The 18 workshops received 205
submissions in total. We express our sincere gratitude to the workshop chairs (Paolo Boldi and Giuseppe
Vizzari) and the organizers of each workshop for their great efforts and hard work to make an exciting
workshop program.
It is impossible to organize any high quality conference without the enormous support and expertise of
many top class researchers and leaders. We express our gratitude to the Organisation Co-Chairs Gloria
Bordogna and Giancarlo Mauri. Our sincere thanks are due to all chairs, co-chairs, vice-chairs, WIC advisory
board members, WIC technical committee and WI/IAT steering committee members, program committee
members, reviewers, conference secretariat, Web support and volunteer team for their valuable contribution.
We thank also Juzhen Dong for her support with the Cyber-Chair, and the staff at the IEEE Computer Society
Press for their support in compiling the proceedings.
Finally we wish to show our appreciation to the sponsors of our WI’09 and IAT’09 and we are grateful to
the authors, presenters and delegates for their contribution and participation.
Gabriella Pasi
General Chair
Ricardo Baeza-Yates
Program Chair
Conference Program
General Information
Your Badge
Each badge carries the name and affiliation of the badge holder. Admission to the conference and workshop
sessions is by badge only. If you lose your badge, please go to the Registration Desk for a replacement.
Lunches
Lunches on the 16th and 17th September are included in the conference registration and are held in the
Lobby adjacent to the Aula Magna at the Ground Floor of Building U6, Bicocca Campus, Piazza dell'Ateneo
Nuovo 1, Milano.
Conference Registration
September 15-16-17
8:00am – 6:00pm Lobby adjacent to Aula Magna, Building U6, Bicocca Campus
September 18
8:00am – 10:00am Lobby adjacent to Aula Magna, Building U6, Bicocca Campus
Welcome Cocktail
September 16, 7:30pm – 8:30pm, Location: Teatro degli Arcimboldi, Viale dell’Innovazione, 20 - Bicocca
Campus, Milano.
Conference Banquet and Award Ceremony
September 17, 8:00pm – 11:00pm, Cortile della Rocchetta, Castello Sforzesco, Piazza Castello, Milano.
From the conference venue (Bicocca Campus) you can reach Castello Sforzesco by first taking a train from
Greco Pirelli Railway Station to either Garibaldi Railway Station or Centrale Railway station. Then, take the
green line of the underground to Cadorna stop and from there the red line to Cairoli-Castello stop.
Please be sure of arriving at Castello Sforzesco at 8.00pm by bringing your banquet ticket.
A shuttle bus will accompain the participants hosted in the Hotels conventioned with the Conference after
the banquet.
Coffee Breaks
Morning and afternoon Coffee breaks are served at the Lobby adjacent to Aula Magna at the Ground Floor
of building U6, Bicocca Campus, Piazza dell'Ateneo Nuovo 1, Milano.
Volunteers
You may ask Volunteers for help for any questions. They will be happy to help you. You will recognize
volunteers from their light blue shirt with the conference logo.
Language
The conference and all its activities will be conducted in English.
Smoking Policy
Smoking is forbidden by the Italian law in all public places, and transports.
General Inquiries
If you have anything regarding the conference organization, please write to the conference address
wi-iat09@disco.unimib.it.
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Information for Session Chairs and Presenters
Facilities at the Presentation Room
All rooms are equipped with a PC and a videoprojector connected to the PC.
Presentation Time
The presentation time allocated to each regular paper is 30 minutes, and 15 minutes for each short paper,
including questions and answers. The presentation time allocated to each Workshop paper is 25 minutes.
Session Chairs
If you cannot fulfill your duties as a session chair, please ensure that someone else will take your place as the
session chair, or contact the Conference Chair to arrange a back-up.
Session chairs are kindly requested to help with the followings:
1. Note the time allocated for each paper in your session. Each regular paper is allocated 30 minutes (25
minutes for the presentation plus 5 minutes for discussion). Each short paper is allocated 15 minutes (13
minutes for the presentation plus 2 minutes for discussion).
2. Arrive at the room of the session 5 minutes before the session starts and identify each of the speakers for
the session.
3. Suggest each speaker to keep corresponding time for discussions (questions and answers), and for
transition to the next presentation. If a presentation extends into the time for discussions, please shorten the
discussions accordingly or postpone the discussions until after the session.
4. Do not allow presentations or the subsequent discussions to spill beyond the starting time of the next
presentation.
5. If the presenter of a paper is absent (no-show), please continue to the next presentation. Please check
again at the end of the last presentation whether the no-show shows up. Best efforts have been made to
reduce the number of no-shows; however, they may not be eliminated.
6. Each presentation room is equipped with a video projector. If something is not working properly, please
contact a technical personel for help.
Presenters
Please check your presentation time and room. Please go to the room 5 minutes before the session starts and
identify yourself to the session chairs.
1. Note the time allocated for each regular paper is 30 minutes (25 minutes for your presentation plus 5
minutes for discussion) and 15 minutes for each short paper (2 minutes for discussions).
2. When it is your turn to present, please leave corresponding time for discussion (questions and answers),
and for transition to the next presentation. If your presentation extends into the time for discussions,
discussions on your paper will be shortened by the session chair accordingly or postpone until after the
session.
3. Please do not exceed your allocated time. Please follow the instructions of the Session Chairs.
If you cannot find your name in Sessions or your information is incorrect in the Program Booklet, please
contact the Conference Chair.
Conference Program
Internet Access Guide
(The account provided to you is valid ONLY between September 15th – 18th for WI-IAT 2009 conference)
Access to the Internet from any public place in Italy is strictly regulated by the Italian Law. To speed up the
generation of a personal userid and password, we kindly ask every attendee to provide personal data and to send
an image copy of her/his passport by following the instructions you can find at the link:
http://www.disco.unimib.it/go/1253560238
A confirmation of data correctness will be delivered to your email from wi-iat09@disco.unimib.it in some days.
Authentication credentials (user-id and password) will be delivered at the registration desk.
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Program at a Glance
WORKSHOPS & TUTORIALS
Tuesday, September 15, 2009
09:00-10.45
IAPWNC 2009 (1) [room 33]
[All rooms are located on the First Floor of Building U6, Bicocca Campus]
Crowds&Ped 2009 [room 32]
Intelligent Analysis and
International Workshop on Crowds
Processing of Web News Content
and Pedestrian Behavior
Organizers: Nello Cristianini,
Organizers: Sara Manzoni,
Marco Turchi
Rosaldo Rossetti
WPT 2009 [room 39]
DART 2009 (1) [room 40]
Workshop on Web Privacy and Trust
Organizers: Fahim Akhter,
Shiguo Lian
3rd International Workshop on
Distributed Agent-based Retrieval
Tools
Organizers: Eloisa Vargiu,
Alessandro Soro
WLIAMAS 2009 (1) [room 20]
IWI'09 (1) [room 21]
NLPOE 2009 (1) [room 30]
WIRSS 2009 (1) [room 28]
The Second Workshop on Logics
for Intelligent Agents and
Multi-Agent Systems
Organizers: Guido Governatori,
Chuchang Liu, Mehmet A.
Ogun, Mark Reynolds, Antonino
Rotolo, Abdul Sattar,
Leon Van Der Torre
International Workshop on
Intelligent Web Interaction
Organizers: Seiji Yamada,
Tsuyoshi Murata
Workshop on Natural Language
Processing and Ontology
Engineering
Organizers: Zhifang Sui, Yao Liu
International Workshop on Web
Information Retrieval Support Systems
Organizers: Orland Hoeber, Yiyu Yao
ECBS 2009 (1) [room 29]
WPRRS’09 (1) [room 26]
2nd International Workshop on
Workshop on Web Personalization,
Electronic Commerce, Business,
Reputation and Recommender
and Services
Systems
Organizers: Takayuki Ito, Minjie
Organizers: Yue Xu, Audun Josang,
Zhang, Tokuro Matsuo,
Yuefeng Li
Quan Bai
SPeL 2009 (1) [room 27]
Tutorial 1 (1) [room 23]
2nd International Workshop on
Social and Personal Computing for
Web-Supported Learning
Communities
Organizers: Elvira Popescu,
Sabine Graf
The Web of Data for E-Commerce in
Brief: A Hands-on Introduction to the
GoodRelations Ontology, RDFa, and
Yahoo! SearchMonkey.
Presenters: Martin Hepp,
Michael Hausenblas
10:45-11:05 Coffee Break [Lobby adjacent to Aula Magna, Ground Floor of Building U6, Bicocca Campus]
11:05-12.45
IAPWNC 2009 (2) [room 33]
[All rooms are located on the First Floor of Building U6, Bicocca Campus]
[room 32]
[room 39]
DART 2009 (2) [room 40]
3rd International Workshop on
Distributed Agent-based
Retrieval Tools
Organizers: Eloisa Vargiu,
Alessandro Soro
Intelligent Analysis and
Processing of Web News Content
Organizers: Nello Cristianini,
Marco Turchi
WLIAMAS 2009 (2) [room 20]
IWI'09 (2) [room 21]
NLPOE 2009 (2) [room 30]
WIRSS 2009 (2) [room 28]
The Second Workshop on Logics
for Intelligent Agents and
Multi-Agent Systems
Organizers: Guido Governatori,
Chuchang Liu, Mehmet A.
Ogun, Mark Reynolds, Antonino
Rotolo, Abdul Sattar,
Leon Van Der Torre
International Workshop on
Intelligent Web Interaction
Organizers: Seiji Yamada,
Tsuyoshi Murata
Workshop on Natural Language
Processing and Ontology
Engineering
Organizers: Zhifang Sui, Yao Liu
International Workshop on Web
Information Retrieval Support Systems
Organizers: Orland Hoeber, Yiyu Yao
ECBS 2009 (2) [room 29]
WPRRS’09 (2) [room 26]
2nd International Workshop on
Workshop on Web Personalization,
Electronic Commerce, Business,
Reputation and Recommender
and Services
Systems
Organizers: Takayuki Ito,
Organizers: Yue Xu, Audun Josang,
Minjie Zhang, Tokuro Matsuo,
Yuefeng Li
Quan Bai
12:45-14:00
SPeL 2009 (2)
[room 27]
2nd International Workshop on
Social and Personal Computing for
Web-Supported Learning
Communities
Organizers: Elvira Popescu,
Sabine Graf
Lunch break
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Tutorial 1 (2) [room 23]
The Web of Data for E-Commerce in
Brief: A Hands-on Introduction to the
GoodRelations Ontology, RDFa, and
Yahoo! SearchMonkey.
Presenters: Martin Hepp,
Michael Hausenblas
Conference Program
14:00-16:10 [All rooms are located on the First Floor of Building U6, Bicocca Campus]
EGOVEM 2009 (1) [room 33]
DOCW 2009 (1) [room 32]
W2T 2009 [room 39]
CIAO 2009 (1) [room 40]
International Workshop on
Intelligent E-government and
Emergency Management
Organizers: Ning Wang, Xin Ye,
Liming Zhu, Shaobo Ji
The Second WI-IAT
Doctoral Workshop
Organizers: Andrzej Skowron,
Marcin Szczuka, Xiaohui
(Daniel) Tao
The 2009 Workshop Web2Touch Living experience through web
Organizers: Maria Beatriz Felgar
de Toledo, Mariagrazia Fugini,
Miriam Capretz, Olga Nabuco,
Khalil Drira, Marcos Da Silveira
Computational Intelligence
Approaches for Ontology-based
Knowledge Discovery
Organizers: Tzung-Pei Hong,
Chang-Shing Lee, Vincenzo Loia
HAI 2009 (1) [room 20]
IWI'09 (3) [room 21]
NLPOE 2009 (3) [room 30]
WIRSS 2009 (3) [room 28]
3rd International Workshop on
Human Aspects in Ambient
Intelligence: Agent Technology,
Human-Oriented Knowledge, and
Applications
Organizers: Juan Carlos Augusto,
Tibor Bosse, Cristiano
Castelfranchi, Diane Cook, Mark
Neerincx, Fariba Sadri, Jan Treur
International Workshop on
Intelligent Web Interaction
Organizers: Seiji Yamada,
Tsuyoshi Murata
Workshop on Natural Language
Processing and Ontology
Engineering
Organizers: Zhifang Sui, Yao Liu
International Workshop on Web
Information Retrieval Support
Systems
Organizers: Orland Hoeber, Yiyu Yao
SAIAW 2009 (1) [room 29]
VUSW 2009 [room 26]
SPeL 2009 (3) [room 27]
Tutorial 2 (1) [room 23]
Soft approaches to information
access on the Web
Organizers: Guy De Tré, Enrique
Herrera-Viedma, Jose Angel
Olivas, Slawomir Zadrozny
Managing Vagueness and
Uncertainty in the Semantic Web
Organizers: Silvia Calegari,
Davide Ciucci, Elie Sanchez,
Umberto Straccia
2nd International Workshop on
Social and Personal Computing for
Web-Supported Learning
Communities
Organizers: Elvira Popescu,
Sabine Graf
Query Log Analysis for Enhancing
Web Search
Presenters: Salvatore Orlando,
Fabrizio Silvestri
16.10-16.25 Coffee Break [Lobby adjacent to Aula Magna, Ground Floor of Building U6, Bicocca Campus]
16:25-18.30 [All rooms are located on the First Floor of Building U6, Bicocca Campus]
EGOVEM 2009 (2) [room 33]
DOCW 2009 (2) [room 32]
W2T 2009 [room 39]
CIAO 2009 (2) [room 40]
International Workshop on
Intelligent E-government and
Emergency Management
Organizers: Ning Wang, Xin Ye,
Liming Zhu, Shaobo Ji
The Second WI-IAT Doctoral
Workshop
Organizers: Andrzej Skowron,
Marcin Szczuka,
Xiaohui (Daniel) Tao
The 2009 Workshop Web2Touch Living experience through web
Organizers: Maria Beatriz Felgar
de Toledo, Mariagrazia Fugini,
Miriam Capretz, Olga Nabuco,
Khalil Drira, Marcos Da Silveira
Computational Intelligence
Approaches for Ontology-based
Knowledge Discovery
Organizers: Tzung-Pei Hong,
Chang-Shing Lee, Vincenzo Loia
[room 30]
[room 28]
[room 27]
Tutorial 2 (2) [room 23]
HAI 2009 (2) [room 20]
IWI'09 (4) [room 21]
3rd International Workshop on
Human Aspects in Ambient
Intelligence: Agent Technology,
Human-Oriented Knowledge, and
Applications
Organizers: Juan Carlos Augusto,
Tibor Bosse, Cristiano
Castelfranchi, Diane Cook, Mark
Neerincx, Fariba Sadri, Jan Treur
International Workshop on
Intelligent Web Interaction
Organizers: Seiji Yamada,
Tsuyoshi Murata
SAIAW 2009 (2) [room 29]
[room 26]
Soft approaches to information
access on the Web
Organizers: Guy De Tré, Enrique
Herrera-Viedma, Jose Angel
Olivas, Slawomir Zadrozny
Query Log Analysis for Enhancing
Web Search
Presenters: Salvatore Orlando,
Fabrizio Silvestri
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Conference Program
Program at a Glance
WI/IAT 2009
09:00-09:30
Conference Opening
[Aula Magna, Ground Floor, Building U6]
Wednesday
September 16, 2009
09:30-10:15
WI/IAT Invited Talk [Aula Magna, Ground Floor, Building U6] Chair: Gabriella Pasi
Search Computing by Stefano Ceri (Politecnico di Milano, Italy)
10:15-10:45
Coffee Break [Lobby adjacent to Aula Magna, Ground Floor of Building U6, Bicocca Campus]
Session 16-A-WI-1
Session 16-A-WI-2
Session 16-A-WI-3
Session 16-A-WI-4
[room 33]
[room 32]
[room 39]
[room 40]
Search
Social network analysis:
Recommendation and
Social networks: reputation and
Chair: Seiji Yamada
temporal analysis
personalisation I
monetization models
10:45
Chair: Slawomir Zadrozny
Chair: Yasufumi Takama
Chair: Paolo Boldi
12:45
Session 16-A-IAT-1
Session 16-A-IAT-2
Session 16-A-IAT-3
Session 16-A-IAT-4
[room 20]
[room 21]
[room 30]
[room 28]
Learning
Cognitive modelling
Negotiation and auctions I
Autonomy-Oriented Computing
Chair: Giuseppe Vizzari
Chair: Catholijn Jonker
Chair: Tracy Mullen
Chair: Carlo Mastroianni
12:45-14:00 Conference Lunch [Lobby adjacent to Aula Magna, Ground Floor of Building U6, Bicocca Campus]
14:00-14:45
WI/IAT Invited Talk [Aula Magna, Ground Floor, Building U6] Chair: Ricardo Baeza -Yates
Developing Actionable Trading Strategies for Trading Agents by Chengqi Zhang (Centre for Quantum Computation & Intelligent
Systems University of Technology, Sydney, Australia)
14:45-15:30
WIC Feature Talk [Aula Magna, Ground Floor, Building U6]
Chair: Ning Zhong
Various Levels from Brain Informatics to Web Intelligence Yulin Qin (Beijing University of Technology, China, and Department of
Psychology, Carnegie Mellon University, USA)
15:30-16:00 Coffee Break [Lobby adjacent to Aula Magna, Ground Floor of Building U6, Bicocca Campus]
Session 16-B-WI-1
Session 16-B-WI-2
Session 16-B-WI-3
Session 16-B-WI-4
[room 33]
[room 32]
[Room 39]
[room 40]
Web services
Queries and clickthroughs
Recommendation and
Information retrieval & social
Chair: Atsuhiro Takasu
personalisation II
networks: foundations and
Chair: Ee-Peng Lim
16:00
Chair: Claudio Carpineto
algorithms
Chair: Alfredo Petrosino
18:00
Session 16-B-IAT-1
Session 16-B-IAT-2
Session 16-B-IAT-3
[room 20]
[room 21]
[room 30]
Self-organization and
BDI architectures, agent
Negotiation and auctions II
agent-based simulation
programming languages
Chair: Frank Dignum
Chair: Andrea Omicini
Chair: Célia da Costa Pereira
19:30-20:30
Welcome Cocktail
[Location: Teatro degli Arcimboldi, Viale dell’Innovazione, 20 - Bicocca Campus, Milano]
09:15-10:00
WI/IAT Invited Talk [Aula Magna, Ground Floor, Building U6]
Chair: Jiming Liu
Data Mining for Malicious Code Detection and Security Applications by Bhavani Thuraisingham (Cyber Security Research Center,
Eric Jonsson School of Engineering and Computer Science, The University of Texas at Dallas, USA)
10:00-10:30
Coffee Break [Lobby adjacent to Aula Magna, Ground Floor of Building U6, Bicocca Campus]
Session 17-A-WI-1
Thursday
September 17, 2009
10:30
12:30
[room 33]
Semantics and Ontology
Engineering
Chair: Mohand-Said Hacid
Session 17-A-WI-2
[room 32]
Intelligent E-Technology and
Web agents
Chair: Marcin Szczuka
Session 17-A-WI-3
[room 39]
Information retrieval / ranking
Chair: Gabriella Pasi
Session 17-A-WI-4
[room 40]
Social networks: communities
Chair: William K. Cheung
Session 17-A-IAT-1
[room 20]
Planning and search
Chair: Makoto Yokoo
Session 17-A-IAT-2
[room 21]
Strategic Interactions
Chair: Markus Zanker
Session 17-A-IAT-3
[room 30]
Distributed problem solving I
Chair: Ning Zhong
Session 17-A-IAT-4
[room 28]
Norms and Organizations
Chair: Guido Boella
12:30-13:45 Conference Lunch [Lobby adjacent to Aula Magna, Ground Floor of Building U6, Bicocca Campus]
13:45-14:30 Panel: Web Science Chair: Bettina Berendt [Aula Magna, Ground Floor of Building U6, Bicocca Campus]
14:30-15:15 WI/IAT Invited Talk [Aula Magna, Ground Floor, Building U6]
Chair: Marco Gori
Swarm-bots and Swarmanoid: Two experiments in embodied swarm intelligence by Marco Dorigo (Université Libre de Bruxelles,
Belgium)
15:15-15:45 Coffee Break [Lobby adjacent to Aula Magna, Ground Floor of Building U6, Bicocca Campus]
Session 17-B-WI-1
Session 17-B-WI-2
Session 17-B-WI-3
Session 17-B-WI-4
[room 33]
[room 32]
[room 39]
[room 40]
Queries, search, and
The (social) Web as a knowledge
Industry Track
Web and Social Intelligence
recommendation
source
Chair: Stefania Marrara
Chair: Naoki Fukuta
15:45
Chair: Helen Ashman
Chair: Fumio Hattori
17:45
Session 17-B-IAT-1
Session 17-B-IAT-2
Session 17-B-IAT-3
Session 17-B-IAT-4
[room 20]
[room 21]
[room 30]
[room 28]
Foundations
Planning, control, decision
Distributed Problem Solving II
Coordination and
Chair: Jérôme Lang
making, scheduling
Chair: Nicola Gatti
communication I
Chair: Ahmed Hambaba
Chair: Francesco Amigoni
20:00-23:00
Banquet/Award Cerimony
[Cortile della Rocchetta, Castello Sforzesco, Piazza Castello Milano
http://www.milanocastello.it/intro.html]
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Conference Program
Friday
September 18, 2009
09:15-10:00 WI/IAT Invited Talk [Aula Magna, Ground Floor, Building U6] Chair: Gloria Bordogna
Agent Based Aiding of Human Teams by Katia P. Sycara (School of Computer Science Carnegie Mellon University, USA)
10:00-10:45 WI/IAT Invited Talk [Aula Magna, Ground Floor, Building U6] Chair: Jérôme Lang
Intelligent Social Network Modeling by Ronald R. Yager (Iona College, New Rochelle, NY, USA)
10:45-11:15 Coffee Break [Lobby adjacent to Aula Magna, Ground Floor of Building U6, Bicocca Campus]
Session 18-A-WI-1
Session 18-A-WI-2
Session 18-A-WI-3
Session 18-A-WI-4
[room 33]
[room 32]
[room 39]
[room 40]
Query Analysis,
Web Services and Semantic Web
Document Content Mining
Web Infrastructure and
Recommendation and Ranking
Chair: Qiang Shen
Chair: Gloria Bordogna
Systems and Novel
Techniques
Applications
11:15
Chair: Jimmy Huang
Chair: Dominique
Decouchant
13:15
Session 18-A-IAT-1
Session 18-A-IAT-2
Session 18-A-IAT-3
Session 18-A-IAT-4
[room 20]
[room 21]
[room 30]
[room 28]
Applications I
Cooperation and coordination II Learning and classification
Social Computing and Social
Chair: Yifeng Zeng
Chair: Martin Purvis
Chair: Andrea Tettamanzi
networks
Chair: Ronald R. Yager
13:15-14:45 Free Lunch
Session 18-B-WI-1
[room 33]
Information and Opinion
Extraction
14:45
Chair: Fabio Stella
16:45
Session 18-B-IAT-1
[room 20]
Applications II
Chair: Satoshi Kurihara
16:45-17:00
Session 18-B-WI-2
[room 32]
Intelligent Human Web
Interaction
Chair: Giuseppe Psaila
Session 18-B-IAT-2
[room 21]
Learning, adaptation and
classification
Chair: Jiming Liu
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Workshops & Tutorials Program
Tuesday, September 15, 2009 (Building U6, Bicocca Campus)
General Information for All Workshops
Morning Coffee Break (10:45-11:05)
Location: Lobby adjacent to Aula Magna at the Ground Floor of Building U6, Bicocca Campus.
Lunch break (12:45-14:00)
Location: There are several bars, cafeterias and restaurants close to Bicocca Campus, see the Milano map at
the end of the program.
Afternoon Coffee Break (16.05/16.10-16.20/16.25)
Location: Lobby adjacent to Aula Magna at the Ground Floor of Building U6, Bicocca Campus.
Tutorial 1
The Web of Data for E-Commerce in Brief
A Hands-on Introduction to the GoodRelations Ontology, RDFa, and Yahoo! SearchMonkey
Presenters: Martin Hepp and Michael Hausenblas
(9:00-12.45) Location: room 23
Abstract
In this tutorial, we will
(1) explain the immediate business benefits of joining the Web of Data for Web shops, manufacturers of commodities, and
service providers of any kind,
(2) show how any commercial Web site can embed details of its business and offerings as RDFa metadata using the
GoodRelations ontology, and
(3) demonstrate the usage of the resulting data in multiple applications, namely Yahoo! SearchMonkey, queries on Semantic
Web data repositories, Mashups, and the import from and export to popular Web shop software. Participants will learn how
to use the GoodRelations ontology to augment Web shops and other Web applications with metadata on business entities,
products and services, prices, warranty, shop locations, terms and conditions, etc. This will improve the visibility of an
offering in next generation Web search engines, allow more precise search, and support partners in the value chain to
extract and reuse product model data easily. At the same time, the tutorial will explain the modeling of more complex RDF
patterns in RDFa.
The tutorial will also serve as a self-contained introduction of what the Web of Data is, which benefits it will provide for businesses,
and why now is the time to get involved.
Tutorial 2
Query Log Analysis for Enhancing Web Search
Presenters: Salvatore Orlando and Fabrizio Silvestri
(14:00-18.25) Location: room 23
Abstract
Web Search Engines have stored in their logs information about users since they started to operate. This information often serves
many purposes. The primary focus of this tutorial is to introduce to the discipline of query mining by showing its foundations and by
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analyzing the basic algorithms and techniques that could be used to extract and to exploit useful knowledge from this (potentially) in
finite source of information. Furthermore, participants to this tutorial will be given a unified view on the literature on query log
analysis.
Web search engines are queried by users to satisfy their information need. We will review studies analyzing how users interact with
search engine systems; how can a query be considered correctly answered, and so on.
We will show how search applications may benefit from this kind of analysis by analyzing popular applications of query log mining
and their influence on user experience. In addition, we will review some of the most recent results in this field, where techniques
enhancing both effectiveness and effciency of web search engine system are proposed.
Previously submitted queries represent a very important mean for enhancing effectiveness of search systems. Query logs keep track of
information regarding interaction between users and the search engine.
Sessions, i.e. the sequence of queries submitted by the same users in the same period of time, can be used as a way for deriving
recurring query patterns used, for instance, to give users query suggestions.
Click-through data is, usually, the main mean for capturing users’ relevance feedback information. All in all, every single kind of user
action (also, for instance, not clicking on a result) can be exploited to derive aggregate statistics which are very useful for the
optimization of search engine effectiveness. Regarding efficiency, query logs can be a critical source of information to optimize
precision of results and efficiency of different parts of search engines, whose distributed and scalable design needs to be optimized in
order to support the huge volume of queries submitted every day by users. Interesting features to exploit are the query distribution,
the arrival time of each query, the results that users click on, etc. We will review how such features can be exploited to optimally
partition the document collection/index, caching the query results, as well as to efficient route queries in distributed Web search
engines. This means that dealing with effciency in Web search engines is as important as it is dealing with user preferences and
feedback to enhance effectiveness.
Finally, the last part of the tutorial will, briefly, go through some of the most challenging current open problems in this field.
International Workshop on Intelligent Web Interaction 2009
(IWI'09)
Workshop Organizers:
Seiji Yamada, National Institute of Informatics, Japan
Tsuyoshi Murata, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan
Location: room 21
Workshop Opening (09:00-9.05)
Session 1 (09:05-10.45)
 Visualization Cube: Modeling Interaction for Exploratory Data Analysis of Spatiotemporal Trend Information, Yasufumi Takama
and Takashi Yamada
 How does label propagation algorithm work in bipartite networks?, Xin Liu and Tsuyoshi Murata
 User study of Automatic Photo Classifier by Color and Timestamp, Yuki Orii, Takayuki Nozawa, and Toshiyuki Kondo
 'Easy' Cooking Recipe Recommendation Considering User's Conditions, Asami Yajima and Ichiro Kobayashi
Session 2 (11:05-12:45)
 USE: a concept-based recommendation system to support creative search, João Sousa Lopes, Sergio Alvarez-Napagao, and Javier
Vázquez-Salceda
 Natural Language Question and Answer Method for RDF Information Resource, Chie Akita, Motohiro Mase, and Yasuhiko
Kitamura
 Optimizing Web Content Presentation: an Online PSO Approach, Alfredo Milani
 Automated Web Site Evaluation – An Approach Based on Ranking SVM, Peng Li and Seiji Yamada
Session 3 (14:00-16:10)
 Analyzing social networks using FCA: complexity aspects, Vaclav Snasel, Zdenek Horak, Jana Kocibova, and Ajith Abraam
 Managing context-dependent workspace awareness in an e-collaboration environment, Liliana Ardissono, Gianni Bosio, Anna Goy,
Giovanna Petrone, and Marino Segnan
 Enhanced Gestalt Theory Guided Web Page Segmentation for Mobile Browsing, Xin Yang and Yuanchun Shi
 Clustering with Constrained Similarity Learning, Masayuki Okabe and Seiji Yamada.
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Session 4 (16:25-18:30)
 Mining for Patterns of Semantic Link Usage: Do Domain Users Actually Like Semantic Browsing?, Ed de Quincey, Helen Oliver,
Patty Kostkova, Gawesh Jawaheer, Gemma Madle, Gayo Diallo, Dimitra Alexopoulou, Michael Schroeder, Bianca Habermann,
Khaled Khelif, Simon Jupp, and Robert Stevens
 New Techniques for Data Preprocessing Based on Usage Logs for Efficient Web User Profiling at Client Side, Jinhyuk Choi and
Geehyuk Lee
 Adapting Recommendations Organization to User Preferences, Li Chen
Workshop on Web Personalization, Reputation and Recommender Systems
(WPRRS’09)
Workshop Co-Chairs:
Yue Xu, Queensland University of Technology, Australia
Audun Jøsang, University Of Oslo, Norway
Yuefeng Li, Queensland University of Technology, Australia
Location: room 26
Workshop Opening (09:00-9.05)
Session 1 (09:05-10.45)
 Max-Minimum Algorithm for Trust Transitivity in Trustworthy Networks, Yixiang Chen, Tian-Ming Bu, Min Zhang, and Hong Zhu
 Analyzing User Actions within a Web 2.0 Portal to Improve a Collaborative Filtering Recommendation System, Andrea Turati,
Dario Cerizza, Irene Celino, and Emanuele Della Valle
 A Metric Model for Trustworthiness of Softwares, Hongwei Tao and Yixiang Chen
 Classification and Summarization of Pros and Cons for Customer Reviews, Xinghua Hu and Bin Wu
Session 2 (11:05-12:45)
 Recommending effort estimation methods for software project management, Bernhard Peischl, Mihai Nica, and Markus Zanker
 Enhancing an Incremental Clustering Algorithm for Web Page Collections, Gavin Shaw and Yue Xu
 Social Trust-aware Recommendation System: A T-Index Approach, Alireza Zarghami, Soude Fazeli, Nima Dokoohaki, and Mihhail
Matskin
 Multi-model Ontology-based Hybrid Recommender System in E-learning Domain, Leyla Zhuhadar
International Workshop on Web Information Retrieval Support Systems
(WIRSS 2009)
Workshop Co-Chairs:
Orland Hoeber, Memorial University, Canada
Yiyu Yao, University of Regina, Canada
Location: room 28
Workshop Opening (09:00-9.05)
Session 1 (09:05-10.45)
 A Query Construction Service for large-scale Web Search Engines, Ioannis Papadakis, Michalis Stefanidakis, Sofia Stamou, and
Ioannis Andreou
 Utilizing Images for Assisting Cross-language Information Retrieval on the Web, Yoshihiko Hayashi, Savas Bora, and Masaaki
Nagata
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 Evaluating natural user preferences for selective retrieval, Alan Eckhardt and Peter Vojtas
 CubanSea: Cluster-Based Visualization of Search Results, Matthias Tilsner, Orland Hoeber, and Adrian Fiech
Session 2 (11:05-12:45)
 Reinventing the Web Browser for the Semantic Web, Michal Tvarozek and Maria Bielikova
 Bee Hive At Work: Story Tracking Case Study, Pavol Navrat, Lucia Jastrzembska, and Tomas Jelinek
 Information Extraction from Web Pages, Robert Novotny, Dusan Maruscak, and Peter Vojtas
 Query Disambiguation Based on Novelty and Similarity User’s Feedback, Gloria Bordogna, Alessandro Campi, Stefania Ronchi,
and Giuseppe Psaila
Session 3 (14:00-16:10)
 Differential tag clouds: highlighting particular features in documents, Geraldo Xexeo, Fernando Morgado, and Patricia Fiuza
 Construction of Ontology based Semantic-Linguistic Feature Vectors for Searching: the Process and Effect, Stein L. Tomassen and
Darijus Strasunskas
 Probabilistic Relational Models with Relational Uncertainty: An Early Study in Web Page Classification, Elisabetta Fersini, Enza
Messina, and Francesco Archetti
 Sparse Bayesian Learning to Rank for Information Retrieval, Xiao Chang and Qinghua Zheng
 Improving the performance of collaborative filtering recommender systems through user profile clustering, Paul te Braak,
Noraswaliza Abdullah, Yue Xu
Soft approaches to information access on the Web
(SAIAW 2009)
Workshop Co-Chairs:
Guy De Tré, Ghent University, Belgium
Enrique Herrera-Viedma, Granada University, Spain
Jose Angel Olivas, University of Castilla La Mancha, Spain
Slawomir Zadrozny, Systems Research Institute, Poland
Location: room 29
Workshop Opening (14:00-14.05)
Session 1 (14:05-16.10)
 Experimental Results on the Aggregation Methods in Blog Distillation, Mostafa Keikha and Fabio Crestani
 Tree-based Microaggregation for the Anonymization of Search Logs, Guillermo Navarro-Arribas and Vicenc Torra
 Web-based Personal Health Records Filtering using Fuzzy Prototypes and Data Quality Criteria, Francisco Romero, Ismael
Caballero, Jose A. Olivas, Eugenio Verbo, and Jesus Serrano-Guerrero
 A fuzzy linguistic recommender system to disseminate the own academic resources in universities, Enrique Herrera-Viedma, Carlos
Porcel
 Fuzzy Classification of Web Reports with Linguistic Text Mining, Jan Dedek and Peter Vojtas
Session 2 (16:25-18:30)
 Context-Aware Approach for orally accessible Web Services, David Griol, Nayat Sanchez, Javier Carbo, and Jose Manuel Molina
 A concept of bipolar queries in textual information retrieval, Slawomir Zadrozny, Janusz Kacprzyk, and Guy De Tre
 Uncertainty Reduction in Location-based Retrieval of Georeferenced Web Resources by Moving Users, Gloria Bordogna, Graziano
Bovenzi, Giorgio Ghisalberti, and Giuseppe Psaila
 Computer Crime Investigation by means of Fuzzy Semantic Maps, Vincenzo Loia, Marco Mattiucci, Sabrina Senatore, and Mario
Veniero
 REJA: A Georeferenced hybrid recommender system for restaurants, Luis Martinez, R.M. Rodriguez, and Macarena Espinilla
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Managing Vagueness and Uncertainty in the Semantic Web
(VUSW 2009)
Workshop Co-Chairs:
Silvia Calegari, Università degli Studi di Milano Bicocca, Italy
Davide Ciucci, Università degli Studi di Milano Bicocca, Italy
Elie Sanchez, LIF, Faculte de Medecine (Universite Aix-Marseille), France
Umberto Straccia, ISTI-CNR, Italy
Location: room 26
Workshop Opening (14:00-14.05)
Session 1 (14:05-16.10)
 Extracting Taxonomies from Data - a Case Study using Fuzzy Formal Concept Analysis, Andrei Majidian and Trevor Martin
 KOWLAN: A Multi-Agent System for Bayesian Diagnosis in Telecommunication Networks, Sergio Garcia-Gomez, Javier
Gonzalez-Ordas, F. Javier Garcia-Algarra, Raquel Toribio-Sardon, Andres Sedano-Frade, and Ferran Buisan-Garcia
2nd International Workshop on Social and Personal Computing for
Web-Supported Learning Communities
(SPeL 2009)
Workshop Co-Chairs:
Elvira Popescu, University of Craiova, Romania
Sabine Graf, Athabasca University, Canada
Location: room 27
Workshop Opening (09:00-9.05)
Session 1 (09:05-10.45)
 The Design of Learning Contracts, Chris Stary
 A Collaborative Environment for the Design of Accessible Educational Objects, Patrizia Boccacci, Marina Ribaudo, and Marco
Mesiti
 Self Regulated Learning provided by hypermedia and the Use of Technology Enhanced Learning Environments, Amir Benmimoun
and Philippe Trigano
 Recovering Brazilian Indigenous Cultural Heritage using New Information and Communication Technologies, Maria Beatriz
Felgar de Toledo
Session 2 (11:05-12:45)
 Adaptive Learning Based on Exercises Fitness Degree, Ana-Maria Mirea and Mircea Cezar Preda
 The Organizational Knowledge circulated Management on e-Learning Practices in Universities-Through the case study in UEC-,
Toshio Okamoto, Fumihiko Anma, Naomi Nagata, and Mizue Kayama
 Global Teacher Training Based on a Multiple Perspective Assessment: A Knowledge Building Community for Future Assistant
Language Teachers, Yuri Nishihori, Chizuko Kushima, Yuichi Yamamoto, Haruhiko Sato, and Satoko Sugie
 An Exploration of Formal and Informal Learning Flows in LMS 2.0: Case Study Edu 2.0, Malinka Ivanova and Anguelina Popova
Session 3 (14:00-16:10)
 Automatic Group Formation for Informal Collaborative Learning, Neil Rubens, Mikko Vilenius, and Toshio Okamoto
 Advanced Adaptivity in Learning Management Systems by Considering Learning Styles, Sabine Graf and Kinshuk
 Providing Personalized Courses in a Web-Supported Learning Environment, Elvira Popescu and Costin Badica
 Collaborative projects and self evaluation within a social reputation-based exercise-sharing system, Andrea Sterbini and Marco
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Workshop on Natural Language Processing and Ontology Engineering
(NLPOE 2009)
Workshop Co-Chairs:
Zhifang Sui, Peking University, China
Yao Liu, Institute of Scientific and Technical Information of China, China
Location: room 30
Workshop Opening (09:00-9.05)
Session 1 (09:05-10.45)
 Using Keywords Clustering to Construct Ontological Hierarchies, Jiashu Hao, Chengzhi Zhang, and Huilin Wang
 Discriminatively Modeling Commonality of Term Types for Extracting Relation from Small Corpora, Zhifang Sui, Yao Liu, and
yongwei wu
 The Semantic Computing Model of Sentence Similarity Based on Chinese FrameNet, Ru Li and Shuanghong Li
 Automatic Labeling of Semantic Role on Chinese FrameNet Using Conditional Random Fields, Jihong Li, Ruibo Wang, Weilin
Wang, Bo Gu, and Guochen Li
Session 2 (11:05-12:45)
 Development and Usage of Chinese Medicine Supporting System Based on Post-controlled Machinery, Yao Liu and XueFei Chen
 Research on Automatic Chinese Multi-word Term Extraction Based on Integration of Web Information and Term Component, Wei
Kang and Zhifang Sui
 Extracting Chinese-English Bilingual Core Terminology from Parallel Classified Corpora in Special Domain, Chengzhi Zhang
 Resolving Combinational Ambiguity Based On Ensembles of Classifiers, DeXin Ding, WeiGuang Qu, XuRi Tang, LiLi Yu, and Tao
Xu
Session 3 (14:00-16:10)
 Unsupervised Word Sense Discrimination Improves Construction of the Wordnets, Hong Zhu and Yang Liu
 A Stochastic Technique to Obtain Training Data for Word Segmentation, Takuya Fukuda and Takao Miura
 Mining Concepts from Wikipedia for Ontology Construction, Gaoying Cui, Qin Lu, Wenjie Li, and Yirong Chen
 Learning semantic roles for ontology patterns, Roberto Basili, Danilo Croce, Diego De Cao, and Cristina Giannone
The 2nd International Workshop on Electronic Commerce,
Business, and Services (ECBS 2009)
Workshop Co-Chairs:
Takayuki Ito, Nagoya Institute of Technology, Japan
Minjie Zhang, Wollongong University, Australia
Tokuro Matsuo, Yamagata University, Japan
Quan Bai, CSIRO, Australia
Location: room 29
Workshop Opening (9:00-9.05)
Session 1 (9:05-10.45)
 Simultaneous product attribute name and value extraction from web pages, Bo Wu, Yu Wang, Yan Guo, and Linhai Song
 Combining Similarity and Distribution Features to Match Attributes, Yu Wang, Binxing Fang, and Yan Guo
 Towards a Customizable Platform for Group Buying Markets, Hossein Sharif Paghaleh
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 Economics Applied to Information Security: The Brazilian Electronic Bill of Sale Case, Thiago Araujo and Jean Martina
Session 2 (11:05-12:45)
 Web Co-Clustering of Usage Network Using Tensor Decomposition, Qingbiao Zhou, Guandong Xu, and Yu Zong
 Preference-aware Web Service Composition Using Hierarchical Reinforcement Learning, Hongbing Wang and Xiaohui Guo
 Modelling SCM as a Multi-layer Interconnected Constraint Satisfaction Problem, Areej Malibary and Maria Fasli
Third International Workshop on Human Aspects in Ambient Intelligence:
Agent Technology, Human-Oriented Knowledge, and Applications (HAI 2009)
Workshop Co-Chairs:
Juan Carlos Augusto, University of Ulster, Ireland
Tibor Bosse , Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Cristiano Castelfranchi, CNR Rome, Italy
Diane Cook, Washington State University, USA
Mark Neerincx, TNO Human Factors, Technical University Delft, The Netherlands
Fariba Sadri, Imperial College, United Kingdom
Jan Treur, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Location: room 20
Workshop Opening (14:00-14.05)
Session 1 (14:05-16.10)
 Tacitly Communicating with our Intelligent Environment via our Practical Behavior and its Traces, Cristiano Castelfranchi
 The Behavioural Implications of Ubiquitous Monitoring, Stuart Moran and Keiichi Nakata
 Agent-based Security System for User Verification, Erik Dovgan, Boštjan Kaluža, Tea Tušar, and Matjaž Gams
 Modeling an Ambient Intelligent Agent to Support Relapse Prevention in Depression, Azizi Ab Aziz, Michel Klein, and Jan Treur
 Human Aspects in Clinical Ambient Intelligence Scenarios, Christian Henke and Vladimir Stantchev
Session 2 (16:25-18:30)
 Getting a Grip on Emotions in Negotiations: the Possibilities of ICT, Willem-Paul Brinkman, Joost Broekens, Catholijn Jonker,
and John-Jules Meyer
 Emotionally Intelligent Agents for Human Resource Management, Rajiv Khosla and Mei-Tai Chu
 Cognitive Modeling of Virtual Autonomous Intelligent Agents Including Human Factors, Lydie Edward, Domitile Lourdeaux, and
Jean-Paul Barthes
 Let's play catch in words: Online Negotiation System with a Sense of Presence Based on Haptic Interaction, Meng Chen, Daisuke
Katagami, and Katsumi Nitta
 Adaptive Work-Centered and Human-Aware Support Agents for Augmented Cognition in Tactical Environments, Martijn Neef,
Peter-paul Van maanen, Peter Petiet, and Maartje Spoelstra
International Workshop on Intelligent E-government and Emergency Management
(EGOVEM 2009)
Workshop Co-Chairs:
Ning Wang, Dalian University Of Technology, China
Xin Ye, Dalian University Of Technology, China
Liming Zhu, National ICT Australia
Shaobo Ji, Dalian University Of Technology, China/Carleton University, Canada
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Location: room 33
Workshop Opening (14:00-14.05)
Session 1 (14:05-16.10)
 Reflections on Web-Oriented Architectures for Risk Management, Mariagrazia Fugini, Piercarlo Maggiolini, Claudia Raibulet, and
Luigi Ubezio
 ERPBAM: A Model for Structure and Reasoning of Agent Based on Entity-Relation-Problem Knowledge Representation System,
Xue-Long Chen, LiMing Li, Yan-Zhang Wang, Ning Wang, and Xin Ye
 Research on Relation Models of Unexpected Events Oriented to Emergency Decision Support, Xuehua Wang, Dong Wang, Peng
Zhang, Xin Ye, and Ning Wang
 The Application of Web Service Technology in Government Information Resources Sharing System, Ning Wang, He Bai, Hui Li,
Xuehua Wang, and yanzhang Wang
 Research of Emergency Knowledge Model Based on Problem, Jiangnan Qiu, Ping'an Li, Liwen Wu, and Yanzhang Wang
Session 2 (16:25-18:30)
 Study on the Government Affairs System Based On MetaData, Peng Zhang, LiMing Li, Yanzhang Wang, and Ning Wang
 Research of Reliability-based Four Layers Access Control Model, Huaiming Li, Ke Tian, Shuai Yang, Xuehua Wang, and Qiuyan
Zhong
 Metadata management model for emergency Information resources, Yanzhang Wang, Tianwei Feng, and Xin Ye
 Research and Application on Business Rules for One-stop Administrative Permit System, Xin Ye, Na Wang, Yanzhang Wang, and
Hui Li
 Proposal to the Development of Emergency Logistics System, Lan Lan, Huaiming Li, and Ning Wang
Computational Intelligence Approach for Ontology-based knowledge Discovery
(CIAO 2009)
Workshop Co-Chairs:
Tzung-Pei Hong, National University of Kaohsiung, Taiwan
Chang-Shing Lee, National University of Tainan, Taiwan
Vincenzo Loia, University of Salerno, Italy
Location: room 40
Workshop Opening (14:00-14.05)
Session 1 (14:05-16.10)
 A multi facet representation of a fuzzy ontology population, Vincenzo Loia, Carmen De Maio, Giuseppe Fenza, and Sabrina
Senatore
 A New Method for Fuzzy Formal Concept Analysis, Siyao Zheng, Yiming Zhou, and Trevor Martin
 Recommending new tags using domain-ontologies, Andrea Baruzzo, Antonina Dattolo, Nirmala Pudota, and Carlo Tasso
 FML-based Ontological Agent for Healthcare Application with Diabetes, Giovanni Acampora, Chang-Shing Lee, Mei-Hui Wang,
and Chin-Yuan Hsu Acampora
 A Novel Type-2 Fuzzy Ontology and its Application to Diet Assessment, Chang-Shing Lee, Mei-Hui Wang, Chin-Yuan Hsu, and
Hani Hagras
Session 2 (16:25-18:30)
 Ontology-based Intelligent Web Mining Agent for Taiwan Travel, Young-Chung Chang and Pei-Ching Yang
 Ontology–Based Semantic Web Image Retrieval by Utilizing Textual and Visual Annotations, Ja-Hwung Su, Bo-Wen Wang,
Hsin-Ho Yeh, and Vincent Tseng
 Computational Detection of Humor: A Dream or A Nightmare?, Julia Taylor
 A web-based service for the elicitation of resources in the biomedical domain, José Morales-del-Castillo, Enrique Herrera-Viedma,
and Eduardo Peis, Carlos Porcel
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 Facilitating Active Multidimensional Association Mining with User Preference Ontology, Wen-Yang Lin Wen-Yang Lin
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The Second WI/IAT Doctoral Workshop
(DOCW 2009)
Workshop Co-Chairs:
Andrzej Skowron, The University of Warsaw, Poland
Marcin Szczuka, The University of Warsaw, Poland
Xiaohui Tao, Queensland University of Technology, Australia
Location: room 32
Workshop Opening (14:00-14.05)
Session 1 (14:05-16.10)
 Rewriting Agent Societies Strategically, Lacramioara Astefanoaei, Frank S. de Boer, and Mehdi Dastani
 To Enhance Web Search based on Topic Sensitive_Social Relationship Ranking Algorithm in Social Networks, GunWoo Park
 Rule-based Similarity for Classification, Andrzej Janusz
 EXPRESS: EXPressing REstful Semantic Services, Areeb Alowisheq and Dave Millard
Session 2 (16:25-18:30)
 Challenges in Predictive Self-Adaptation of Service Bundles, Patrício Alencar and Hans Weigand
 The Application of β-PSML in the Social Network Problem, Yila Su
 Text Categorization for Vietnamese documents, Giang-Son Nguyen, Xiaoying Gao, and Peter Andreae
The Second Workshop on Logics for Intelligent Agents and Multi-Agent Systems
(WLIAMAS 2009)
Workshop Co-Chairs:
Guido Governatori, NICTA, Australia
Chuchang Liu, DSTO, Australia
Mehmet A. Orgun, Macquarie University, Australia
Mark Reynolds, University of Western Australia, Australia
Antonino Rotolo, University of Bologna, Italy
Abdul Sattar, Griffith University, Australia
Leon van der Torre, University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg
Location: room 20
Workshop Opening (09:00-9.05)
Session 1 (09:05-10.45)
 Strategic Ability Update: A Modal Logic Account, Jan Broersen, Rosja Mastop, John-Jules Meyer, and Paolo Turrini
 Temporalised Epistemic Logic for Reasoning about Agent-Based Systems, Ji Ma, Mehmet Orgun, and Abdul Sattar
 Awareness and forgetting of facts and agents, Hans van Ditmarsch and Tim French
 A stit Logic for Extensive Form Group Strategies, Jan Broersen
Session 2 (11:05-12:45)
 How Do Agents Comply with Norms?, Guido Governatori and Antonino Rotolo
 A New Semantics of Social Commitments using Branching Space-Time Logic, Mohamed El-Menshawy Mohamed, Jamal Bentahar,
and Rachida Dssouli
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 An Obligation Approach for Exception Handling in Interaction Protocols, Jose Gutierrez, Jean-Luc Koning, and Felix Ramos
 General-Purpose Coordination Abstractions for Managing Interaction in MAS, Elena Nardini, Andrea Omicini, and Mirko Viroli
Intelligent Analysis and Processing of Web News Content
(IAPWNC 2009)
Workshop Co-Chairs:
Nello Cristianini, University of Bristol, UK
Marco Turchi, University of Bristol, UK
Location: room 33
Workshop Opening (09:00-9.05)
Session 1 (09:05-10.45)
 Constructing Event Templates from Written News, Mitja Trampuš and Dunja Mladenić
 Identifying Differences in News Coverage Between Cultural/Ethnic Groups, Charles Ward, Mikhail Bautin, and Steven Skiena
 Propagating Fine-Grained Topic Labels in News Snippets, Luis Sarmento, Sérgio Nunes, Jorge Teixeira, and Eugenio Oliveira
 Multilingual Statistical News Summarisation: Preliminary Experiments with English, Mijail Kabadjov, Josef Steinberger, Bruno
Pouliquen, Ralf Steinberger, and Massimo Poesio
Session 2 (11:05-12:45)
 Opinion Mining on Newspaper Quotations, Alexandra Balahur, Ralf Steinberger, Erik van der Goot, and Bruno Pouliquen
 Detecting Macro-Patterns in the European Mediasphere, Ilias Flaounas, Marco Turchi, and Nello Cristianini
 STORIES in time: a graph-based interface for news tracking and discovery, Bettina Berendt
3rd International Workshop on Distributed Agent-Based Retrieval Tools
(DART 2009)
Workshop Co-Chairs:
Alessandro Soro, Center for Advanced Studies, Research and Development in Sardinia, Italy
Eloisa Vargiu, University of Cagliari, Italy
Location: room 40
Workshop Opening (09:00-9.05)
Session 1 (09:05-10.45)
 Contextual Data Management and Retrieval: a Self-organized Approach, Gabriella Castelli and Franco Zambonelli
 Exploiting Disambiguation and Discrimination in Information Retrieval Systems, Pierpaolo Basile, Annalina Caputo, and Giovanni
Semeraro
 Agent-Based Knowledge Discovery for Modeling & Simulation, Jereme Haack, Andrew Cowell, Michelle Gregory, Liam McGrath,
Keith Fligg, and Eric Marshall
 Group recommendation with automatic identification of users communities, Ludovico Boratto, Salvatore Carta, Alessandro Chessa,
Maurizio Agelli, and M. Laura Clemente
Session 2 (11:05-12:45)
 The DREAM Framework: using a network of scalable ontologies for intelligent indexing and retrieval of visual content, Atta Badii,
Chattun Lallah, Meng Zhu, and Michael Crouch
 Intelligent Crawling in Virtual Worlds, Joshua Eno, Susan Gauch, and Craig Thompson
 Semantic Agent Oriented Architecture for Researcher Profiling and Association (SemoRA), Sadaf Adnan, Amal Tahir, Amna
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Basharat, and Sergio Decesare
The 2009 Workshop Web2Touch - living experience through web
(W2T 2009)
Workshop Co-Chairs:
Miriam Capretz, University Western Ontario, Canada
Maria Beatriz Felgar Toledo, Unicamp, Brazil
Mariagrazia Fugini, Politecnico di Milano, Italy
Marcos da Silveira, CRP Henri Tudor, Luxembourg
Khalil Drira, LAAS-CNRS, France
Olga Nabuco, CTI, Brazil
Location: room 39
Workshop Opening (14:00-14.05)
Session 1 (14:05-16.10)
 Wearable services in risk management, Mariagrazia Fugini, Giovanni Maria Conti, Francesca Rizzo, Claudia Raibulet, and Luigi
Ubezio
 Improving Collaborations in Neuroscientist Community, Pierre Crescenzo and Isabelle Mirbel
 LiCoB: Lightweight Collaborative Browsing, Raphael Santos, Felipe Oliveira, Julio Antunes, Magnos Martinello, Renata
Guizzardi, and Roberta Gomes
 Towards Scientific Dataspaces, Nicoletta Dessi' and Barbara Pes
 Framework Proposal to Evaluate Trustworthiness in an Online Community, Adriana Figueiredo, Olga Nabuco, Tatiana Al-Chueyr,
and Marcos Rodrigues
Session 2 (16:25-18.30)
 Recovering Brazilian Indigenous Cultural Heritage using New Information and Communication Technologies, Maria Beatriz
Felgar de Toledo
International Workshop on Crowds and Pedestrian behavior
(Crowds&Ped 2009)
Workshop Co-Chairs:
Sara Manzoni, Complex Systems & Artificial Intelligence Research Center, Università degli Studi di Milano –
Bicocca, Italy
Rosaldo Rossetti, Department of Informatics Engineering, University of Porto, Portugal
Location: room 32
Workshop Opening (09:00-9.05)
Session 1 (09:05-10.45)
 Quantitative Description of Pedestrian Dynamics with a Force-based Model, Mohcine Chraibi, Armin Seyfried, Andreas
Schadschneider, and Wolfgang Mackens
 Towards Hybrid Situated Agents Based Virtual Environments, Giuseppe Vizzari and Francesco Olivieri
 Experimenting Situated Cellular Agents in Indoor Scenarios, Sara Manzoni, Antonio Pisano, Giuseppe Vizzari, and Andrea
Bonomi
 A Rule-based Multi-agent System for Road Traffic Management, Isabel Marti Ruiz, Vicente Ramón Tomás López, Arturo Saez
Esteve, and Juan José Martínez Durá
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Workshop On Web Privacy and Trust
(WPT 2009)
Workshop Co-Chairs:
Fahim Akhter, Zayed University, United Arab Emirates
Shiguo Lian, France Telecom R&D Beijing Center, China
Location: room 39
Workshop Opening (09:00-9.05)
Session 1 (09:05-10.45)
 Toward Trustworthy Web Services - Approaches, Weaknesses and Trust-By-Contract Framework, Nicola Dragoni
 Incorporating trust into combinatorial auctions: What does trust cost?, Guruprasad Airy, Po-Chun Chen, Tracy Mullen, and John
Yen
 Conceptual Framework: How to Engineer Online Trust for Disable Users, Fahim Akhter, Maria Buzzi, Marina Buzzi and Barbara
Leporini
 Software Agent in Desktop Virtual Shopping, Nasser Nassiri
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WI 2009 Program
Wednesday, September 16, 2009 (Building U6, Bicocca Campus)
Conference Opening (09:00--09:30)
Chair: Gabriella Pasi
Location: Aula Magna, Ground Floor, Building U6
Welcome: Prof. Marcello Fontanesi – Chancellor of the Università degli Studi di Milano Bicocca
Prof. Luigi Rossi Bernardi – Commissioner for Research, Innovation and Human Capital, City
of Milano
WI/IAT : Invited Talk (09:30-10:15)
Chair: Gabriella Pasi
Location: Aula Magna
Title: Search Computing
Speaker: Stefano Ceri (Politecnico di Milano, Italy)
Coffee Break (10:15-10:45)
Location: Lobby adjacent to Aula Magna, Ground Floor of Building U6, Bicocca Campus
Session 16-A-WI-1 Search (Room 33)
Session Chair: Seiji Yamada
Session Time: 10:45-12:45
Regular Papers:
 FaSet: A Set Theory Model for Faceted Search Dario Bonino, Fulvio Corno, and Laura Farinetti
 Effective Keyword Search for Software Resources installed in Large-scale Infrastructures George Pallis, Asterios Katsifodimos,
and Marios D. Dikaiakos
 Full-Subtopic Retrieval with Keyphrase-based Search Results Clustering Andrea Bernardini, Claudio Carpineto, and Massimiliano
D'Amico
 The Geographical Life of Search Ricardo Baeza-Yates, Christian Middleton, and Carlos Castillo
Session 16-A-WI-2: Social network analysis: temporal analysis (Room 32)
Session Chair: Slawomir Zadrozny
Session Time: 10:45-12:45
Regular Papers:
 Identifying Influential Bloggers: Time Does Matter Leonidas Akritidis, Dimitrios Katsaros, and Panayiotis Bozanis
 Detecting Changes over Time in a Knowledge Sharing Community Styliani Kleanthous and Vania Dimitrova
 Estimating relevance of items on basis of proximity of user groups on blogspace Shin-ya Sato, Kensuke Fukuda, Toshio Hirotsu,
Satoshi Kurihara, and Toshiharu Sugawara
 On Discovering Community Trends in Social Networks Jian Li, William K. Cheung, Jiming Liu, and C. H. Li
Session 16-A-WI-3: Recommendation and personalisation I (Room 39)
Session Chair: Yasufumi Takama
Session Time: 10:45-12:45
Regular Papers:
 Time-dependent Models in Collaborative Filtering based Recommender System Liang Xiang and Qing Yang
 Real-time Collaborative Filtering Using Extreme Learning Machine Wanyu Deng
 Novel Item Recommendation by User Profile Partitioning Mi Zhang and Neil Hurley
 A Recommender System based on a Machine Learning Algorithm for B2C Portals Lorenzo Manuel Lopez Lopez, Jose Jesus Castro
Sanchez, David Vallejo Fernandez, and Javier Alonso Albusac Jimenez
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Session 16-A-WI-4: Social networks: reputation and monetization models (Room 40)
Session Chair: Paolo Boldi
Session Time: 10:45-12:45
Regular Papers:
 CCR : A Model for Sharing Reputation Knowledge Across Virtual Communities Tal Grinshpoun, Nurit Gal-Oz, Amnon Meisels,
and Ehud Gudes
 A composite calculation for author activity in Wikis: accuracy needed. Claudia Mueller-Birn, Janette Lehmann, and Sabina
Jeschke
 Monetizing User Activity on Social Networks - Challenges and Experiences Meenakshi Nagarajan, Kamal Baid, Amit Sheth, and
Shaojun Wang
 Model for Voter Scoring and Best Answer Selection in Community Q&A Services Natasa Milic-Frayling, Chung Tong Lee, Eduarda
Mendes-Rodrigues, Aleks Ignjatovic, and Gabriela Kazai
Conference Lunch (12:45-14:00)
Location: Lobby adjacent to Aula Magna, Ground Floor of Building U6, Bicocca Campus
WI/IAT : Invited Talk (14:00-14:45)
Chair: Ricardo Baeza-Yates
Location: Aula Magna
Title: Developing Actionable Trading Strategies for Trading Agents
Speaker: Chengqi Zhang (Centre for Quantum Computation & Intelligent Systems University of Technology,
Sydney, Australia)
WIC Feature: Invited Talk (14:45-15:30)
Chair: Ning Zhong
Location: Aula Magna
Title: Various Levels from Brain Informatics to Web Intelligence
Speaker: Yulin Qin (The International WIC Institute, Beijing University of Technology, China, and Department
of Psychology, Carnegie Mellon University USA)
Coffee Break (15:30-16:00)
Location: Lobby adjacent to Aula Magna, Ground Floor of Building U6, Bicocca Campus
Session 16-B-WI-1: Web services (Room：33)
Session Chair: Atsuhiro Takasu
Session Time: 16:00-18:00
Regular Papers:
 Automated Web Services Composition: A Decentralised Multi-Agent Approach Mohamad El falou, Maroua Bouzid, Thierry Vidal,
and Abdel-Illah Mouaddib
 An Adaptive Web Service Selection Method Based on the QoS Prediction Mechanism Mu Li, Jinpeng Huai, and HuiPeng Guo
 Augmenting web service discovery by cognitive semantics and abduction Peter Bruza, Alistair Barros, and Matthias Kaiser
 Obligation-based Agent Conversations for Semantic Web Service Composition Jose Gutierrez, Felix Ramos, and Jean-Luc Koning
Session 16-B-WI-2: Queries and clickthroughs (Room：32)
Session Chair: Ee-Peng Lim
Session Time: 16:00-18:00
Regular Papers:
 From Dango to Japanese Cakes: Query Reformulation Models and Patterns Paolo Boldi, Francesco Bonchi, Carlos Castillo, and
Sebastiano Vigna
 Are clickthroughs useful for image labelling? Helen Ashman, Michael Antunovic, Christoph Donner, Rebecca Frith, Eric Rebelos,
Jan-Felix Schmakeit, Gavin Smith, and Mark Truran
 Estimating Ad Clickthrough Rate through Query Intent Analysis Azin Ashkan, Charles Clarke, Eugene Agichtein, and Qi Guo
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Short Papers:
 Query suggestion by query search: a new approach to user support in web search Shen Jiang, Sandra Zilles, and Robert Holte
 Deriving Customized Integrated Web Query Interfaces Eduard Dragut, Fang Fang, Clement Yu, and Weiyi Meng
Session 16-B-WI-3: Recommendation and personalisation II (Room：39)
Session Chair: Claudio Carpineto
Session Time: 16:00-18:00
Regular Papers:
 Minimization of Product Utility Estimation Errors in Recommender Result Set Evaluations Erich C.Teppan and Alexander
Felfernig
 Specialized Review Selection for Feature Rating Estimation Chong Long, Jie Zhang, Minlie Huang, Xiaoyan Zhu, Ming Li, and
Bin Ma
 Symbiotic Data Mining for Personalized Spam Filtering Paulo Cortez, Clotilde Lopes, Pedro Sousa, Miguel Rocha, and Miguel
Rio
 Statistical Modeling of Diversity in Top-N Recommender Systems Mi Zhang and Neil Hurley
Session 16-B-WI-4: Information retrieval & social networks: foundations and algorithms (Room：40)
Session Chair: Alfredo Petrosino
Session Time: 16:00-18:00
Regular Papers:
 A Web-Based Relatedness Measure by Conditional Query Ming-Shun Lin and Hsin-Hsi Chen
 Mining Negative Relevance Feedback for Information Filtering Yuefeng Li, Abdulmohsen Algarni, Sheng-Tang Wu, and Yue Xue
 Hierarchical-Hyperspherical Divisive Fuzzy C-Means (H2D-FCM) Clustering for Information Retrieval Gloria Bordogna and
Gabriella Pasi
 Local Search in Weighted and Directed Social Networks: the Case of Enron Email Network
Ning Zhong, Rui Guo and Wenbin Li
Welcome Cocktail (19:30-20:30)
Location: Teatro degli Arcimboldi, Viale dell’Innovazione, 20 - Bicocca Campus, Milano.
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Thursday, September 17, 2009 (Building U6, Bicocca Campus)
WI/IAT : Invited Talk (09:15 – 10:00)
Chair: Jiming Liu
Location: Aula Magna
Title: Data Mining for Malicious Code Detection and Security Applications
Speaker: Bhavani Thuraisingham (Cyber Security Research Center, Eric Jonsson School of Engineering and
Computer Science, The University of Texas at Dallas, USA)
Coffee Break (10:00 – 10:30)
Location: Lobby adjacent to Aula Magna, Ground Floor of Building U6, Bicocca Campus
Session 17-A-WI-1: Semantics and Ontology Engineering (Room：33)
Session Chair: Mohand-Said Hacid
Session Time: 10:30-12:30
Regular Papers:
 “All You Can Eat” Ontology-Building: Feeding Wikipedia to Cyc Samuel Sarjant, Catherine Legg, Michael Robinson, and Olena
Medelyan
 Measuring Inconsistency in DL-Lite Ontologies Liping Zhou, Houkuan Huang, Guilin Qi, Yue Ma, Zhisheng Huang, and Youli Qu
 Towards Bridging the Web and the Semantic Web Swarnim Kulkarni and Doina Caragea
Short Papers:
 R2D: Extracting Relational Structure from RDF Stores Sunitha Ramanujam, Anubha Gupta, Latifur Khan, Steven Seida,
and Bhavani Thuraisingham
 Mining Hidden Concepts for Ontology Extension using Multivariate Probabilistic Modeling Nanhong Ye, Ajith Pudhiyaveetil, and
Susan Gauch
Session 17-A-WI-2: Intelligent E-Technology and Web agents (Room 32)
Session Chair: Marcin Szczuka
Session Time: 10:30-12:30
Regular Papers:
 Relating Reputation and Money in On-line Markets Darko Kirovski
 Believable electronic trading environments on the Web John Debenham and Simeon Simoff
 Preserving Privacy in Social Networks: A Structure-Aware Approach Xiaoyun He, Jaideep Vaidya, Basit Shafiq, Nabil Adam, and
Vijayalakshmi Atluri
 A Trust Measurement Mechanism for Service Agents Manling Zhu and Zhi Jin
Session 17-A-WI-3: Information retrieval / ranking (Room 39)
Session Chair: Gabriella Pasi
Session Time: 10:30-12:30
Regular Papers:
 Ranking Weblogs by Analyzing Reading and Commenting Activities Songxiang Cen, Li Han, and Jian Ma
 Rank Aggregation based Text Feature Selection Ou Wu and Weiming Hu
 Personalization of Content Ranking in the Context of Local Search Philip O'Brien, Xiao Luo, Tony Abou-Assaleh, and Shujie Li
 Essential Pages Darko Kirovski
Session 17-A-WI-4: Social networks: communities (Room 40)
Session Chair: William K. Cheung
Session Time: 10:30-12:30
Regular Papers:
 Social Semantics And Its Evaluation By Means of Semantic Relatedness And Open Topic Models Ulli Waltinger and Alexander
Mehler
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 Community detection in large-scale bipartite networks Xin Liu and Tsuyoshi Murata
 Magrathea: Building and Analyzing Ubiquitous and Social Systems Jukka Perkiö and Petri Myllymäki
 Revealing Hidden Community Structures and Identifying Bridges in Complex Networks: An Application to Analyzing Contents of
Web Pages for Browsing Faraz Zaidi, Arnaud Sallaberry, and Guy Melançon
Conference Lunch (12:30– 13:45)
Location: Lobby adjacent to Aula Magna, Ground Floor of Building U6, Bicocca Campus
Panel Session: Web Science (Aula Magna)
Chair: Bettina Berendt
Session Time: 13:45-14:30
WI/IAT : Invited Talk (14:30-15:15)
Chair: Marco Gori
Location: Aula Magna
Title: Swarm-bots and Swarmanoid: Two experiments in embodied swarm intelligence
Speaker: Marco Dorigo (Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium)
Coffee Break (15:15-15:45)
Location: Lobby adjacent to Aula Magna, Ground Floor of Building U6, Bicocca Campus
Session 17-B-WI-1: Queries, search, and recommendation (Room 33)
Session Chair: Helen Ashman
Session Time: 15:45-17:45
Regular Papers:
 An Experimental Analysis of Suggestions in Collaborative Tagging Dirk Bollen and Harry Halpin
 Personalized Recommender Systems Integrating Social Tags and Item Taxonomy Huizhi Liang, Yue Xu, Yuefeng Li, Richi Nayak,
and Li-Tung Weng
 A Query Substitution-Search Result Refinement Approach for Long Query Web Searches Yan Chen and Yan-Qing Zhang
 Users, Queries and Documents: A Unified Representation for Web Mining Michelangelo Diligenti, Marco Gori, and Marco
Maggini
Session 17-B-WI-2: The (social) Web as a knowledge source (Room 32)
Session Chair: Fumio Hattori
Session Time: 15:45-17:45
Regular Papers:
 Mining a Multilingual Geographical Gazetteer from the Web Adrian Popescu, Gregory Grefenstette, and Houda Bouamor
 Classifying Web Pages by Genre: An n-gram Based Approach Jane Mason, Michael Shepherd, and Jack Duffy
 Serving Comparative Shopping Links Non-invasively Darko Kirovski
Short Papers:
 An Unsupervised Model of Exploiting the Web to Answer Definitional Questions, Youzheng Wu and Hideki Kashioka
Session 17-B-WI-3: Industry Track (Room 39)
Session Chair: Stefania Marrara
Session Time: 15:45-17:45
Short Papers:
 Intelligent Agents in the Service-Oriented World - An Industrial Experience Report. Li Guo, Moustafa Ghanem, Vasa Curcin, and
Nabeel Azam
 CosDic: Towards a Comprehensive System for Knowledge Discoveryin Large-scale data. Bin Wu, Shengqi Yang, Haizhou Zhao,
Yuan Gao, and Lijun Suo
 Distilling Informative Content from HTML News Pages. Cai-Nicolas Ziegler, Christian Voegele, and Maximilian Viermetz
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 Discovery of Technology Synergies Through Collective Wisdom. Cai-Nicolas Ziegler, Stefan Jung, and Maximilian Viermetz
 Character-Net: Character Network Analysis from Video. Seung-Bo Park, Yoo-Won Kim, Nazim Uddin Mohammed, and Geun Sik
Jo
 Stock Price Forecasting by Combining News Mining and Time Series Analysis Xiangyu Tang, Chunyu Yang, and Jie Zhou
Session 17-B-WI-4: Web and Social Intelligence (Room 40)
Session Chair: Naoki Fukuta
Session Time: 15:45-17:45
Short Papers:
 Do Lenders Make Optimal Decisions in a Peer-to-Peer Network? Katherine Krumme and Sergio Herrero
 Collaborative semantic structuring of folksonomies Freddy Limpens, Fabien Gandon, and Michel Buffa
 Exploiting Tags and Social Profiles to Improve Focused Crawling Zhiyong Zhang, Olfa Nasraoui, and Roelof Van Zwol
 Rigorous probabilistic trust-inference with applications to clustering Thomas DuBois, Jennifer Golbeck, and Aravind Srinivasan
 Improving Movie Gross Prediction Through News Analysis Wenbin Zhang and Steven Skiena
 Analysis of the Waiting Time Effects on the Financial Return and Order Fulfillment in Web-based Group Buying Mechanisms
Hossein Sharif-Paghaleh
 If-Then and If-Then-Unless Rules in the Semantic Web Xing Wang and Z. M. Ma
Banquet and Best Papers Award Cerimony (20:00-23:00)
Location: Cortile della Rocchetta, Castello Sforzesco, Piazza Castello
http://www.milanocastello.it/intro.html
Please be sure of arriving at Castello Sforzesco, at 8.00 pm with your banquet ticket.
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Friday, September 18, 2009 (Building U6, Bicocca Campus)
WI/IAT : Invited Talk (09:15 – 10:00)
Chair: Gloria Bordogna
Location: Aula Magna
Title: Agent Based Aiding of Human Teams
Speaker: Katia P. Sycara (School of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon University, USA)
WI/IAT: Invited Talk (10:00-10:45)
Chair: Jérôme Lang
Location: Aula Magna
Title: Intelligent Social Network Modeling
Speaker: R. Yager (Iona College, New Rochelle, NY, USA)
Coffee Break (10:45 – 11:15)
Location: Lobby adjacent to Aula Magna, Ground Floor of Building U6, Bicocca Campus
Session 18-A-WI-1: Web Infrastructure and Systems and Novel Applications (Room 33)
Session Chair: Dominique Decouchant
Session Time: 11:15-13:15
Short Papers:
 Online Geovisualization with Fast Kernel Density Estimator Hajime Hotta and Masafumi Hagiwara
 DBLP-SSE: A DBLP Search Support Engine Yi Zeng, Yiyu Yao, and Ning Zhong
 Learning Deep Web Crawling with Diverse Features Lu Jiang and Zhaohui Wu
 Web Observation from a User Perspective Rongwei Cen, Yiqun Liu, Min Zhang, Liyun Run, and Shaoping Ma
 An Empirical Study on Maximum Latency Saving in Web Prefetching Bernardo Antonio Ossa Pérez, Julio Sahuquillo Borrás,
Ana Pont Sanjuán, and José Antonio Gil Salinas
 Access and Exchange of Hierarchically Structured Resourceson the Web with the NESTOR Framework Maristella Agosti, Nicola
Ferro, and Gianmaria Silvello
 Online Evaluation of Patterns from Evolving Web Data Streams. Carlos Rojas and Olfa Nasraoui
 Adaptive Distributed Intrusion Detection Using A Parametric Model. Jun Gao, Weiming Hu, Xi Li, and Xiaoqin Zhang
Session 18-A-WI-2: Query Analysis, Recommendation and Ranking Techniques (Room 32)
Session Chair: Jimmy Huang
Session Time: 11:15-13:15
Short Papers:
 Zero-Sum Reward and Punishment Collaborative Filtering Recommendation Algorithm Nan Li and Chunping Li
 Query Classification Based on Regularized Correlated Topic Model Haijun Zhai
 OrdRank: Learning to Rank with Ordered Multiple Hyperplanes Heli Sun and Jianbin Huang
 A Reviewer Recommendation System Based on Collaborative Intelligence Tai-Liang Kuo, Kai-Hsiang Yang, Hahn-Ming Lee, and
Jan-Ming Ho
 SpIteR: a Module for Recommending Dynamic Personalized Museum Tours Pierpaolo Basile, Marco de Gemmis, Leo Iaquinta,
Pasquale Lops, Cataldo Musto, Fedelucio Narducci, and Giovanni Semeraro
 In the Mood to Click? Towards Inferring Receptiveness to Search Advertising Qi Guo, Eugene Agichtein, Charles L. A. Clarke, and
Azin Ashkan
 QueryTrans: Finding Similar Queries Based on Query Trace Graph Yanan Li, Sheng Xu, Bin Wang, Jintao Li, and Peng Li
 Fast Matching for All Pairs Similarity Search Amit Awekar and Nagiza Samatova
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Session 18-A-WI-3: Web Services and Semantic Web (Room 39)
Session Chair: Qiang Shen
Session Time: 11:15-13:15
Short Papers:
 Semantic Web Service Composition using Planning and Ontology Concept Relevance Ourania Hatzi, Georgios Meditskos, Dimitris
Vrakas,Nick Bassiliades, Dimosthenis Anagnostopoulos, and Ioannis Vlahavas
 Improving Web services adaptability thanks to a synergy between aspect programming and a multi-agent middleware Flavien
Balbo and Valérie Monfort
 QoSS Policies Operating for Web Services within SOA Hany EL Yamany, Miriam Capretz, and David Allison
 Building Blocks: Layered Components Approach for Accumulating High-Demand Web Services Satoshi Morimoto, Satoshi Sakai,
Masaki Gotou, Heeryon Cho, Toru Ishida, and Yohei Murakami
 A framework to guarantee time-bounded composed services Elena del Val, Martí Navarro, Vicente Julián, and Miguel Rebollo
 Supporting Web Service Protocol Changes by Propagation Ahmed Azough, Emmanuel Coquery, and Mohand-Said Hacid
 Reasoning about Web Services with Local Closed World Assumption Limin Chen, Hong Hu, and Zhongzhi Shi
Session 18-A-WI-4: Document Content Mining (Room 40)
Session Chair: Gloria Bordogna
Session Time: 11:15-13:15
Short Papers:
 Active Learning of Instance-level Constraints for Semi-supervised Document Clustering Weizhong Zhao, Qing He, Huifang Ma,
and Zhongzhi Shi
 A Software System for Topic Extraction and Document Classification Davide Magatti, Fabio Stella, and Marco Faini
 Writer Meets Reader: Emotion Analysis of Social Media from both the Writer's and Reader's Perspectives Changhua Yang, Kevin
Lin, and Hsin-Hsi Chen
 SentiRank: Cross-Domain Graph Ranking for Sentiment Classification Qiong Wu and Songbo Tan
 Web Information Organization using Keyword Distillation Based Clustering Tomohide Shibata, Yasuo Banba, Keiji Shinzato, and
Sadao Kurohashi
 An Information-Theoretic Approach for Unsupervised Topic Mining in Large Text Collections Eduardo Ramirez Rangel and
Ramon Brena Pinero
 Approximate Classification of Semantically Annotated Web Resources Exploiting Pseudo-metrics Induced by Local Models Claudia
d'Amato, Nicola Fanizzi, Floriana Esposito, and Thomas Lukasiewicz
Free Lunch (13:15 – 14:45)
Session 18-B-WI-1: Information and Opinion Extraction (Room 33)
Session Chair: Fabio Stella
Session Time: 14:45 – 16:45
Short Papers:
 Opinion and Relationship Mining in Online Forums Carolin Kaiser and Freimut Bodendorf
 ChronoSeeker: Future Opinion Extraction and Classification Pierre Brun, Hideki Kawai, Kazuo Kunieda, and Keiji Yamada
 Automatic Keyphrase Extraction with a Refined Candidate Set Wei You, Dominique Fontaine, and Jean-Paul Barthès
 Entropy-based Visual Tree Evaluation on Block Extraction Hung-Yu Kao and Wei-Ting Cho
 Web-Based Transliteration of Person Names. Satoshi Sato
 Identifying Information Sender Configuration of Web Pages. Yoshikiyo Kato, Daisuke Kawahara, Kentaro Inui, Sadao Kurohashi
and Tomohide Shibata
 Summarizing Documents by Measuring the Importance of a Subset of Vertices within a Graph. Shouyuan Chen and Minlie Huang
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Session 18-B-WI-2: Intelligent Human Web Interaction (Room 32)
Session Chair: Giuseppe Psaila
Session Time: 14:45 – 16:45
Short Papers:
 Mutli-agent system for personalizing Information Source Selection Samir Kechid and Drias Habiba
 Web2Animation - Automatic Generation of 3D Animation from the Web Text. Hyunju Shim, Bogyeong Kang, and Kyungsoo Kwag
 Proposing Web Design Enhancements based on SpecificCognitive Factors: An Empirical Evaluation. Panagiotis Germanakos,
Nikos Tsianos, Zacharias Lekkas, Mario Belk, Constantinos Mourlas, and George Samaras
 Area Based Collaborative Ubiquitous Work within Organizational Environments Victor Gomez Perez, Kimberly Garcia, Sonia
Mendoza, Dominique Decouchant, Gustavo Olague, and Jose Rodriguez
 Reasoning in Pervasive Environments: an Implementation of Concept Abduction with Mobile OODBMS Michele Ruta, Floriano
Scioscia, Tommaso Di Noia, and Eugenio Di Sciascio
 Adapting Reinforcement Learning For Trust: Effective Modeling in Dynamic Environments. Ozgur Kafali and Pinar Yolum
Conference Closure (16:45-17:00)
Location: Lobby adjacent to Aula Magna, Ground Floor of Building U6, Bicocca Campus
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IAT 2009 Program
Wednesday, September 16, 2009 (Building U6, Bicocca Campus)
Conference Opening (09:00--09:30)
Chair: Gabriella Pasi
Location: Aula Magna, Ground Floor, Building U6
Welcome: Prof. Marcello Fontanesi – Chancellor of the Università degli Studi di Milano Bicocca
Prof. Luigi Rossi Bernardi – Commissioner for Research, Innovation and Human Capital, City
of Milano
WI/IAT : Invited Talk (09:30-10:15)
Chair: Gabriella Pasi
Location: Aula Magna
Title: Search Computing
Speaker: Stefano Ceri (Politecnico di Milano, Italy)
Coffee Break (10:15-10:45)
Location: Lobby adjacent to Aula Magna, Ground Floor of Building U6, Bicocca Campus
Session 16-A-IAT-1 Learning (Room 20)
Session Chair: Giuseppe Vizzari
Session Time: 10:45-12:45
Regular Papers:
 An Intelligent Agent that Autonomously Learns how to Translate Marco Turchi, Tijl De Bie, and Nello Cristianini
 Learning in a fixed or evolving network of agents Gauvain Bourgne, Henry Soldano, and Amal El Fallah-Seghrouchni
 Adaptive Fuzzy Function Approximation for Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning Cheng Wu and Waleed Meleis
 Ontology-Based Learning for Negotiation Reyhan Aydogan and Pinar Yolum
Session 16-A-IAT-2 Cognitive modelling (Room 21)
Session Chair: Catholijn Jonker
Session Time: 10:45-12:45
Regular Papers:
 Subjectivity and Cognitive Biases Modeling for a Realistic and Efficient Assisting Conversational Agent François Bouchet and
Jean-Paul Sansonnet
 Modeling Agents with a Theory of Mind Maaike Harbers, Karel Van den Bosch, and John-Jules Meyer
 Effects of Polite Behaviors Expressed by Robots:A Case Study in Japan Tatsuya Nomura and Kazuma Saeki
 Leveraging Users for Efficient Interruption Management in Agent-User Systems Tammar Shrot, Avi Rosenfeld, and Sarit Kraus
Session 16-A-IAT-3 Negotiation and auctions I (Room 30)
Session Chair: Tracy Mullen
Session Time: 10:45-12:45
Regular Papers:
 Competitive Comparison-Shopping Mediated Markets David Sarne
 Combining Boolean Games with the Power of Ontologies forAutomated Multi-Attribute Negotiation in the Semantic Web Thomas
Lukasiewicz and Azzurra Ragone
 Bilateral Bargaining with One-Sided Uncertain Reserve Prices. Bo An, Nicola Gatti, and Victor Lesser
 Computing Information Minimal Match Explanations for Logic-based Matchmaking Tommaso Di Noia, Eugenio Di Sciascio, and
Francesco Donini
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Session 16-A-IAT-4 Autonomy-Oriented Computing (Room 28)
Session Chair: Carlo Mastroianni
Session Time: 10:45-12:45
Regular Papers:
 Cognitive-Agent-Based Modeling of a Financial Market Célia da Costa Pereira, Alessia Mauri, and Andrea G. B. Tettamanzi
 Adaptive Deterrence Sanctions in a Normative Framework Henrique Lopes Cardoso and Eugenio Oliveira
 MACSIMA: Simulating The Co-Evolution of Negotiation Strategies In Agent-Based Supply Networks Christian Russ and Alexander
Walz
Conference Lunch (12:45-14:00)
Location: Lobby adjacent to Aula Magna, Ground Floor of Building U6, Bicocca Campus
WI/IAT : Invited Talk (14:00-14:45)
Chair: Ricardo Baeza-Yates
Location: Aula Magna
Title: Developing Actionable Trading Strategies for Trading Agents
Speaker: Chengqi Zhang (Centre for Quantum Computation & Intelligent Systems University of Technology,
Sydney, Australia)
WIC Feature: Invited Talk (14:45-15:30)
Chair: Ning Zhong
Location: Aula Magna
Title: Various Levels from Brain Informatics to Web Intelligence
Speaker: Yulin Qin (The International WIC Institute, Beijing, China and University of Technology, and
Department of Psychology, Carnegie Mellon University USA)
Coffee Break (15:30-16:00)
Location: Lobby adjacent to Aula Magna , Ground Floor of Building U6, Bicocca Campus
Session 16-B-IAT-1 Self-organization and agent-based simulation (Room 20)
Session Chair: Andrea Omicini
Session Time: 16:00-18:00
Short Papers:
 Methodologies for self-organising systems: a SPEM approach Mariachiara Puviani, Giovanna Di Marzo Serugendo, Regina Frei,
and Giacomo Cabri
 Self-organization of Peers in Agent Societies Sharmila Savarimuthu, Miriam Purvis and Martin Purvis
 An Autonomy-Oriented Paradigm for Self-Organized Computing Jiming Liu, Chao Gao, and Ning Zhong
 Simulation of the Rungis Wholesale Market: lessons on the calibration, validation and usage of a Cognitive Agent-based
Simulation Philippe Caillou, Corentin Curchod, and Tiago Baptista
 Silicon Coppélia: Integrating three affect-related models for establishing richer agent interaction Matthijs Pontier and Ghazanfar
Siddiqui
 Transition Process Distinction in Multiagent. Organization Eric Matson
Session 16-B-IAT-2 BDI architectures, agent programming languages (Room 21)
Session Chair: Célia da Costa Pereira
Session Time: 16:00-18:00
Short Papers:
 Simulating BDI-based Wireless Sensor Networks. Alexis Morris, Paolo Giorgini, and Sameh Abdel-Naby
 Personality, Emotions and Physiology in a BDI agent architecture:the PEP --> BDI model. Hazael Jones, Julien Saunier, and
Domitile Lourdeaux
 Modularity in BDI-based Agent Programming Languages. Mehdi Dastani and Bas Steunebrink
 Abstract Requirement Analysis in Multiagent System Design. Scott Harmon, Scott DeLoach, and Robby
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 Integrating Model Transformation in Agent-Oriented Software Engineering. Cuiyun Hu and Xinjun Mao
Session 16-B-IAT-3 Negotiation and auctions II (Room 30)
Session Chair: Frank Dignum
Session Time: 16:00-18:00
Short Papers:
 Secure keyword auction: preserving privacy of bidding prices and CTRs. Yuko Sakurai, Koutarou Suzuki, Makoto Yokoo,
and
Atsushi Iwasaki
 Extending Alternating-Offers Bargaining in One-to-Many andMany-to-Many Settings. Bo An, Nicola Gatti, and Victor Lesser
 A Secure and Fair Negotiation Protocol in Highly Complex UtilitySpace based on Cone-Constraints. Katsuhide Fujita, Takayuki
Ito, and Mark Klein
 Creating incentives to prevent intentional execution failures. Yingqian Zhang and Mathijs de Weerdt
 A Novel Bid Optimizer for Sponsored Search Auctions based on Cooperative Game Theory. Sriram Somanchi, Chaitanya Nittala,
and Narahari Yadati
 The Benefits of Opponent Models in Negotiation. Koen Hindriks, Catholijn Jonker, and Dmytro Tykhonov
Welcome Cocktail (19:30-20:30)
Location: Teatro degli Arcimboldi, Viale dell’Innovazione, 20 - Bicocca Campus, Milano..
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Thursday, September 17, 2009 (Building U6, Bicocca Campus)
WI/IAT : Invited Talk (09:15 – 10:00)
Chair: Jiming Liu
Location: Aula Magna
Title: Data Mining for Malicious Code Detection and Security Applications
Speaker: Bhavani Thuraisingham (Cyber Security Research Center, Eric Jonsson School of Engineering and
Computer Science, The University of Texas at Dallas, USA)
Coffee Break (10:00 – 10:30)
Location: Lobby adjacent to Aula Magna, Ground Floor of Building U6, Bicocca Campus
Session 17-A-IAT-1: Planning and Search (Room：20)
Session Chair: Makoto Yokoo
Session Time: 10:30-12:30
Regular Papers:
 Offline Planning for Communication by Exploiting Structured Interactions in Decentralized MDPs Hala Mostafa and Victor Lesser
 Reinforcement Learning in RoboCup KeepAway with Partial Observability Sam Devlin, Marek Grzes, and Daniel Kudenko
 Myopic and Non-Myopic Communication Under Partial Observability Alan Carlin and Shlomo Zilberstein
 The M2M Pathfinding Algorithm Based on the Idea of Granular Computing YingPeng Zhang, Haifeng Wan, ShengZou Luo,
WenSheng Ye, and Qiong Chen
Session 17-A-IAT-2: Strategic Interactions (Room 21)
Session Chair: Markus Zanker
Session Time: 10:30-12:30
Regular Papers:
 Extending Algorithms for Mobile Robot Patrolling in the Presence of Adversaries to More Realistic Settings Nicola Basilico,
Nicola Gatti, Thomas Rossi, Sofia Ceppi, and Francesco Amigoni
 Developing a Deterministic Patrolling Strategy for Security Agents Nicola Basilico, Nicola Gatti, and Francesco Amigoni
 Computing Bayes-Nash Equilibria through Support Enumeration Methods in Bayesian Two-Player Strategic-Form Games Sofia
Ceppi, Nicola Gatti, and Nicola Basilico
 On-line Coordination: Event Interaction and State Communication between Cooperative Agents Manh Tung Pham and Kiam Tian
Seow
Session 17-A-IAT-3: Distributed Problem Solving I (Room 30)
Session Chair: Ning Zhong
Session Time: 10:30-12:30
Regular Papers:
 Efficient Distributed Bayesian Reasoning via Targeted Instantiation of Variable Patrick de Oude and Gregor Pavlin
 An Efficient Algorithm for Solving Dynamic Complex DCOP Problems Sankalp Khanna, Abdul Sattar, David Hansen, and Bela
Stantic
 Distributed Constraint Optimization for large teams of mobile sensing agents Roie Zivan, Robin Glinton, and Katia Sycara
 Small World Model for Agent Searching Miguel Rebollo
Session 17-A-IAT-4: Norms and Organizations (Room 28)
Session Chair: Guido Boella
Session Time: 10:30-12:30
Regular Papers:
 Programming Normative Artifacts with Declarative Obligations and Prohibitions. Nick Tinnemeier, Mehdi Dastani, John-Jules
Meyer, and Leon van der Torre
 Evaluating Organizational Configurations. Loris Penserini, Davide Grossi, Frank Dignum, Virginia Dignum, and Huib Aldewereld
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 Topology and memory effect on convention emergence. Daniel Villatoro, Sandip Sen, and Jordi Sabater-Mir
 Embodying Organisations in Multi-Agent Work Environments. Michele Piunti, Alessandro Ricci, Olivier Boissier, and Jomi Hubner
Conference Lunch (12:30– 13:45)
Location: Lobby adjacent to Aula Magna, Ground Floor of Building U6, Bicocca Campus
Panel Session: Web Science (Aula Magna)
Chair: Bettina Berendt
Session Time: 13:45-14:30
WI/IAT : Invited Talk (14:30-15:15)
Chair: Marco Gori
Location: Aula Magna
Title: Swarm-bots and Swarmanoid: Two experiments in embodied swarm intelligence
Speaker: Marco Dorigo (Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium)
Coffee Break (15:15-15:45)
Location: Lobby adjacent to Aula Magna, Ground Floor of Building U6, Bicocca Campus
Session 17-B-IAT-1: Foundations (Room 20)
Session Chair: Jérôme Lang
Session Time: 15:45-17:45
Short Papers:
 Symbol Statistics for Concept Formation in AI Agents Jason Chen
 An agent supports constructivist and ecological rationality John Debenham and Carles Sierra
 Towards the specification of recursive multi-agent systems using type theory Thi Thanh Ha Hoang and Michel Occello
 On the Acceptability of Meta-Arguments and its Fundamental Role in Toulmin Schemes, Normative Reasoning and Coalitional
Game Theory Guido Boella, Leon van der Torre, and Serena Villata
 How to complete regulations in multi-agent systems Christophe Garion, Stéphanie Roussel, and Laurence Cholvy
Session 17-B-IAT-2: Planning, control, decision making, scheduling (Room 21)
Session Chair: Ahmed Hambaba
Session Time: 15:45-17:45
Short Papers:
 Autonomous UAV Surveillance in Complex Urban Environments. Eduard Semsch, Michal Jakob, and Dusan Pavlicek
 Enabling Goal Oriented Action Planning with Goal Net. Huiliang Zhang, Chunyan Miao, and Zhiqi Shen
 Toward A Generic Framework for Modeling Human-like Behaviors in Crowd Simulation. Linbo Luo, Suiping Zhou, Wentong Cai,
Malcolm Yoke Hean Low, and Michael Lees
 Integrating NLP with Reasoning about Actions for Autonomous Agents Communicating with Humans . Xiaoping Chen, Jiehui Jiang,
Jianmin Ji, Guoqiang Jin, and Feng Wang
 Agent Influence and Intelligent Approximation in Multiagent Problems. Martin Allen and Shlomo Zilberstein
 Meeting Scheduling Assembles Children in the Rectangular Forest. Ahmed Tawfik and Hijaz Al-Ani
Session 17-B-IAT-3: Distributed Problem Solving II (Room 30)
Session Chair: Nicola Gatti
Session Time: 15:45-17:45
Short Papers:
 Load-Balancing in Collaborative Distributed Environments Mauricio Paletta and Pilar Herrero
 Optimization-based Collision Avoidance for Cooperating Airplanes David Sislak, Premysl Volf, Michal Pechoucek, Niranjan Suri,
David Nicholson, and David Woodhouse
 Multi-Hyb: A Hybrid Algorithm for Solving DisCSPs with Complex Local Problems David Lee, Ines Arana, Hatem Ahriz, and
Kit-Ying Hui
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 BSA-CM: A Multi-Robot Coverage Algorithm Eduardo Andrés Gerlein and Enrique González
 Introducing Communication in Dis-POMDPs with Finite State Machines Yuki Iwanari, Makoto Tasaki, Makoto Yokoo, Atsushi
Iwasaki, and Yuko Sakurai
 Requirement Driven Agent Collaboration and QoS based Negotiation Jian Tang and Zhi Jin
 Autonomous Agents: When the Mailbox Remains Empty. Katia Potiron, Patrick Taillibert, and Amal El Fallah Seghrouchni
Session 17-B-IAT-4: Coordination and communication I (Room 28)
Session Chair: Francesco Amigoni
Session Time: 15:45-17:45
Short Papers:
 Multi-A(ge)nt Graph Patrolling and Partitioning Yotam. Elor and Alfred Bruckstein
 A Formalization of Continuous Commitments among Multiple Agents Viji Avali and Michael Huhns
 DeCoMAS: an Architecture for Supplementing MAS with Systemic Models of Decentralized Agent. Jan Sudeikat and Wolfgang
Renz
 Autonomy and Coordination: Controling External Influences on Decision Making Bob van der Vecht, Frank Dignum, and
John-Jules Meyer
 A Multi-Agent Resource Negotiation For Social Welfare. Antoine Nongaillard and Philippe Mathieu
 Autonomous Agents: When the Mailbox Remains Empty Katia Potiron, Patrick Taillibert, and Amal El Fallah Seghrouchni
Banquet and Best Papers Award Cerimony (20:00-23:00)
Location: Cortile della Rocchetta, Castello Sforzesco, Piazza Castello
http://www.milanocastello.it/intro.html
Please be sure of arriving at Castello Sforzesco, at 8.00 pm with your banquet ticket.
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Friday, September 18, 2009 (Building U6, Bicocca Campus)
WI/IAT : Invited Talk (09:15 – 10:00)
Chair: Gloria Bordogna
Location: Aula Magna
Title: Agent Based Aiding of Human Teams
Speaker: Katia P. Sycara (School of Computer Science Carnegie Mellon University, USA)
WI/IAT: Invited Talk (10:00-10:45)
Chair: Jérôme Lang
Location: Aula Magna
Title: Intelligent Social Network Modeling
Speaker: R. Yager (Iona College, New Rochelle, NY, USA)
Coffee Break (10:45 – 11:15)
Location: Lobby adjacent to Aula Magna, Ground Floor of Building U6, Bicocca Campus
Session 18-A-IAT-1: Applications I (Room 20)
Session Chair: Yifeng Zeng
Session Time: 11:15-13:15
Regular Papers:
 Attention Manipulation for Naval Tactical Picture Compilation. Tibor Bosse, Rianne van Lambalgen, Peter-Paul van Maanen, and
Jan Treur
 An Adaptive Agent Model Estimating Human Trust in Information Sources. Mark Hoogendoorn, S. Waqar Jaffry, and Jan Treur
 Easy Living in the Virtual World: a Noble Approach to Integrate Real World Activities to Virtual Worlds. Mostafa Al Masum
Shaikh, Prendinger Helmut, Keikichi Hirose, and Ishizuka Mitsuru
 Railroad Driving Model Based on Distributed Constraint Optimization. Allan Rodrigo Leite, Bruno Giacomet, and Fabrício
Enembreck
Session 18-A-IAT-2: Cooperation and coordination II (Room 21)
Session Chair: Martin Purvis
Session Time: 11:15-13:15
Regular Papers:
 Temporal Decoupling and Determining Resource Needs of Autonomous Agents in the Airport Turnaround Process. Pim van
Leeuwen and Cees Witteveen
 Efficient Allocation of Hierarchically-Decomposable Tasks in a Sensor Web Contract Net. John Kinnebrew and Gautam Biswas
 Cluster-Swap: A Distributed K-median Algorithm for Sensor Networks. Yoonheui Kim and Victor Lesser
 On the Logic of Cellular Reactive Systems. Jun Wu, Chongjun Wang, and Junyuan Xie
Session 18-A-IAT-3: Learning and classification (Room 30)
Session Chair: Andrea Tettamanzi
Session Time: 11:15-13:15
Regular Papers:
 User insisted redistribution of belief in hierarchical classification space. Willem Van Norden and Catholijn Jonker
 An Intelligent Social Fabric Influence Component in Cultural Algorithms for Knowledge Learning in Dynamic Environments.
Mostafa Ali and Robert Reynolds
 Incremental Non-Unanimous Concept Reformation through Queried Object Classification. Mohsen Afsharchi, Nima Mirbakhsh,
and Arman Didandeh
 Globally Optimal Multi-agent Reinforcement Learning Parameters in Distributed Task Assignment. Dominik Dahlem and William
Harrison
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Session 18-A-IAT-4: Social Computing and Social networks (Room 28)
Session Chair: Ronald R. Yager
Session Time: 11:15-13:15
Short Papers:
 Relation of Trust and Social Emotions: a Logical Approach. Manh Hung Nguyen, Dominique Longin, and Jean-François Bonnefon
 Dependable Recommendations in Social Internetworking. Domenico Ursino, Pasquale De Meo, Giovanni Quattrone, and
Domenico Rosaci
 Reputation Cascade Model Over Social Connections in Online Social Networks. Maziar Gomrokchi, Jamal Benathar, and Babak
Khosravifar
 An Agent Model for a Human’s Social Support Network Tie Preference during Depression. Azizi Ab Aziz, Michel Klein, and Jan
Treur
 Evaluating a Drama Management Approach in an Interactive Fiction Game. Andrea Corradini, Manish Mehta, and Santi Ontanon
Free Lunch (13:15 – 14:45)
Session 18-B-IAT-1: Applications II (Room 20)
Session Chair: Satoshi Kurihara
Session Time: 14:45 – 16:45
Short Papers:
 Towards a Knowledge-based Framework for Agents Interacting in the Semantic Web Kalliopi Kravari, Efstratios Kontopoulos, and
Nick Bassiliades
 Comparing Crime Prevention Strategies by Agent-Based Simulation Tibor Bosse and Charlotte Gerritsen
 A multiagent tool to simulate hybrid real/virtual embedded agent societies Jean-Paul Jamont and Michel Occello
 An Agent Model for Personal Development Support. Tibor Bosse, Rob Duell, Zulfiqar Memon, Jan Treur, and Natalie van der Wal
 Towards Zero-delay Recovery of Agents in Production Automation Systems Eva Kühn, Richard Mordinyi, Mario Lang, and Adnan
Selimovic
Session 18-B-IAT-2: Learning, adaptation and classification (Room 21)
Session Chair: Jiming Liu
Session Time: 14:45 – 16:45
Short Papers:
 Confusion and distance metrics as performance criteria for hierarchical classification spaces. Willem Van Norden and Catholijn
Jonker
 Tank War Using Online Reinforcement Learning. Kresten Toftgaard Andersen and Yifeng Zeng
 Runtime Adaptation of Multiagent Systems for Ubiquitous Environments. Kutila Gunasekera, Seng Loke, Arkady Zaslavsky,
and Shonali Krishnaswamy
Conference Closure (16:45-17:00)
Location: Lobby adjacent to Aula Magna, Ground Floor of Building U6, Bicocca Campus
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WI'09/IAT'09 Invited Talks
Title: Search Computing
Stefano Ceri
Politecnico di Milano, Italy
Abstract
“Who are the strongest European competitors on software ideas? Who is the best doctor to cure insomnia in a
nearby hospital? Where can I attend an interesting conference in my field closest to a sunny beach?" This
information is available on the Web, but no software system can accept such queries nor compute the answer. We
hereby propose search computing as a new multi-disciplinary science which will provide the abstractions,
foundations, methods, and tools required to answer these and many similar queries. While state-of-art search
systems answer generic or domain-specific queries, search computing enables answering questions via a
constellation of dynamically selected, cooperating, search services. Search computing requires innovation in
software principles, languages, interfaces, and protocols, as well as contributions from other sciences such as
mathematics, operations research, psychology, sociology, economical and legal sciences.
Biography
Stefano Ceri is Professor of Database Systems at the Dipartimento di Elettronica e Informazione (DEI),
Politecnico di Milano; he was visiting professor at the Computer Science Department of Stanford University
between 1983 and 1990. He is vice-chairman of Alta Scuola Politecnica, a school of excellence for master-level
students which is jointly organized by Politecnico di Milano and Politecnico di Torino. He is an associated editor
of several international journals, co-editor in chief of the book series "Data Centric Systems and Applications"
(Springer-Verlag), author of over 250 articles on International Journals and Conference Proceedings, and
co-author of nine international books.
His research interests are focused on extending database technology to incorporate data distribution, deductive
and active rules, object orientation, and XML query languages, as well as on design methods for data-intensive
WEB sites, stream reasoning, and search computing. He is co-inventor of WebML, a model for the conceptual
design of Web applications, and co-founder of Web Models, a startup of Politecnico di Milano focused on WebML
commercialization by means of the product WebRatio. He has been responsible of several EU-Funded Projects
projects, including being awarded in July 2008 an IDEAS Advanced Grant, funded by the European Research
Council (ERC), on "Search Computing" (2008-2013).
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Title: Swarm-bots and Swarmanoid: Two experiments in embodied swarm
intelligence
Marco Dorigo
Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium
Abstract
Swarm intelligence is the discipline that deals with natural and artificial systems composed of many individuals
that coordinate using decentralized control and self-organization. In particular, it focuses on the collective
behaviors that result from the local interactions of the individuals with each other and with their environment. The
characterizing property of a swarm intelligence system is its ability to act in a coordinated way without the
presence of a coordinator or of an external controller.
Swarm robotics could be defined as the application of swarm intelligence principles to the control of groups of
robots.
In this talk I will discuss results of Swarm-bots, an experiment in swarm robotics. A swarm-bot is an artifact
composed of a swarm of assembled s-bots. The s-bots are mobile robots capable of connecting to, and
disconnecting from, other s-bots. In the swarm-bot form, the s-bots are attached to each other and, when needed,
become a single robotic system that can move and change its shape.
S-bots have relatively simple sensors and motors and limited computational capabilities. A swarm-bot can solve
problems that cannot be solved by s-bots alone.
In the talk, I will shortly describe the s-bots hardware and the methodology we followed to develop algorithms for
their control. Then I will focus on the capabilities of the swarm-bot robotic system by showing video recordings of
some of the many experiments we performed to study coordinated movement, path formation, self-assembly,
collective transport, shape formation, and other collective behaviors.
I will conclude presenting initial results of the Swarmanoid experiment, an extension of swarm-bot to
3-dimensional environments.
Biography
Marco Dorigo received the Laurea (Master of Technology) degree in industrial technologies engineering in 1986
and the doctoral degree in information and systems electronic engineering in 1992 from Politecnico di Milano,
Milan, Italy, and the title of Agrégé de l'Enseignement Supérieur, from the Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium,
in 1995. From 1992 to 1993 he was a Research Fellow at the International Computer Science Institute of Berkeley,
CA. In 1993 he was a NATO-CNR Fellow, and from 1994 to 1996 a Marie Curie Fellow. Since 1996 he has been
a tenured researcher of the FNRS, the Belgian National Funds for Scientific Research, and a Research Director of
IRIDIA, the artificial intelligence laboratory of the Universitè Libre de Bruxelles. He is the inventor of the ant
colony optimization metaheuristic. His current research interests include swarm intelligence, swarm robotics, and
metaheuristics for discrete optimization.
Dr. Dorigo is the Editor-in-Chief of the Swarm Intelligence journal, and an Associate Editor or member of the
editorial board for many journals in computational intelligence and adaptive systems among which the IEEE
Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, the IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation, the IEEE
Transactions on Autonomous Mental Development, and the ACM Transactions on Adaptive and Autonomous
Systems.
Dr. Dorigo was awarded the Italian Prize for Artificial Intelligence in 1996, the Marie Curie Excellence Award
in 2003, the Dr A.De Leeuw-Damry-Bourlart award in applied sciences in 2005 and the Cajastur International
Prize for Soft Computing in 2007. He is a fellow of the IEEE and of ECCAI.
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Title: Agent Based Aiding of Human Teams
Katia P. Sycara
Carnegie Mellon University, U.S.A.
Abstract
Teams are a form of organizational structure where the team members engage in information exchanges in order
to fulfill team goals. The activities that the team engages in are inter-dependent and usually involve gathering,
interpreting and exchanging information; creating and identifying alternative courses of action; choosing among
alternatives by considering different viewpoints of team members; choosing among decision alternatives and
monitoring the consequences of the decision. Effective teams achieve goals and accomplish tasks that otherwise
would not be achievable by groups of uncoordinated individuals. While previous work in teamwork theory has
focused on describing ways in which humans coordinate their activities, there has been little previous work on
which of those specific activities, information flows and team performance can be enhanced by being aided by
software agents. Recent interest in supporting emergency response teams, military interest in operations other
than war, and coalition operations, motivates the need for studies that examine agent aiding strategies and their
effect on human team performance.
This talk will present (a) characteristics and challenges of human teamwork that have not been well studied to
date, such as decentralization and self-organization, (b) results of studies of human-only teamwork performance
that incorporate these challenges in order to establish a baseline, and (c) identification of fruitful ways for agents
to aid human teams with these characteristics. In particular, we will focus on teams that operate in time stressed
environments without previous training together. We will also present results of studies where software agents
provided decision support for human teams in the performance of a variety of tasks and under different
environmental and task constraints. We will close with open challenges and research problems in agent aiding of
human teamwork.
Biography
Katia Sycara is a Professor in the School of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University and holds the Sixth
Century Chair in Computing Science at the University of Aberdeen in the U.K. She is the Director of the
Laboratory for Agents Technology and Semantic Web Technologies. She holds a B.S in Applied Mathematics
from Brown University, M.S. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Wisconsin and PhD in Computer
Science from Georgia Institute of Technology. She holds an Honorary Doctorate from the University of the
Aegean (2004). She is a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE), Fellow of the
American Association for Artificial Intelligence (AAAI) and the recipient of the 2002 ACM/SIGART Agents
Research Award. She is a member of the Scientific Advisory Board of France Telecom.
Prof. Sycara has given numerous invited talks, and has authored or co-authored more than 350 technical papers
dealing with Multiagent Systems, Agents Supporting Human Teams, Multi-Agent Learning, Sensor Networks,
Web Services, the Semantic Web, Human-Agent Interaction, Negotiation, Case-Based Reasoning and numerous
application of these techniques.
Prof. Sycara has served as the program co-chair of the International conference on Service Oriented Computing
and Applications (SOCASE 2007), program co-chair of the 6th IEEE/ACM conference on Intelligent Agent
Technology (IAT 2006), program chair of the Second International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC 2003), as
general chair of the Second International Conference on Autonomous Agents (Agents 98), as the chair of the
Steering Committee of the Agents Conference (1999-2001), as the Scholarship chair of AAAI (1993-1999) and as
a member of the AAAI Executive Council (1996-99). She is a founding member and member of the Board of
Directors of the International Foundation of Multiagent Systems (IFMAS); founding member of the Semantic
Web Science Association. She is a founder of the journal “Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems” , serving
as Editor in Chief from 1998-2007, and on the editorial board of 7 other journals. Her project website
is: www.cs.cmu.edu/~softagents.
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Title: Data Mining for Malicious Code Detection and Security Applications
Bhavani Thuraisingham
The University of Texas at Dallas, U.S.A.
Abstract
Data mining is the process of posing queries and extracting patterns, often previously unknown from large quantities of
data using pattern matching or other reasoning techniques. Data mining has many applications in security including
for national security as well as for cyber security. The threats to national security include attacking buildings,
destroying critical infrastructures such as power grids and telecommunication systems. Data mining techniques are
being investigated to find out who the suspicious people are and who is capable of carrying out terrorist activities.
Cyber security is involved with protecting the computer and network systems against corruption due to Trojan horses,
worms and viruses. Data mining is also being applied to provide solutions such as intrusion detection and auditing. The
first part of the presentation will discuss my joint research with Prof. Latifur Khan and our students at the University of
Texas at Dallas on data mining for cyber security applications For example; anomaly detection techniques could be
used to detect unusual patterns and behaviors. Link analysis may be used to trace the viruses to the perpetrators.
Classification may be used to group various cyber attacks and then use the profiles to detect an attack when it occurs.
Prediction may be used to determine potential future attacks depending in a way on information learnt about terrorists
through email and phone conversations. Data mining is also being applied for intrusion detection and auditing. Other
applications include data mining for malicious code detection such as worm detection and managing firewall policies.
This second part of the presentation will discuss the various types of threats to national security and describe data
mining techniques for handling such threats. Threats include non real-time threats and real-time threats. We need to
understand the types of threats and also gather good data to carry out mining and obtain useful results. The challenge
is to reduce false positives and false negatives. The third part of the presentation will discuss some of the research
challenges. We need some form of real-time data mining, that is, the results have to be generated in real-time, we also
need to build models in real-time for real-time intrusion detection. Data mining is also being applied for credit card
fraud detection and biometrics related applications. While some progress has been made on topics such as stream data
mining, there is still a lot of work to be done here. Another challenge is to mine multimedia data including surveillance
video. Finally, we need to maintain the privacy of individuals. Much research has been carried out on privacy
preserving data mining. In summary, the presentation will provide an overview of data mining, the various types of
threats and then discuss the applications of data mining for malicious code detection, cyber security and national
security. Then we will discuss the consequences to privacy.
Biography
Bhavani Thuraisingham joined The University of Texas at Dallas in October 2004 as a Professor of Computer Science
and Director of the Cyber Security Research Center in the Erik Jonsson School of Engineering and Computer Science.
She is an elected Fellow of three professional organizations: the IEEE (Institute for Electrical and Electronics
Engineers), the AAAS (American Association for the Advancement of Science) and the BCS (British Computer Society)
for her work in data security. She received the IEEE Computer Society’s prestigious 1997 Technical Achievement
Award for “outstanding and innovative contributions to secure data management”. Dr Thuraisingham’s work in
information security and information management has resulted in over 80 journal articles, over 200 refereed conference
papers and workshops, and three US patents. She is the author of nine books in data management, data mining and data
security including one on data mining for counter-terrorism and another on Database and Applications Security and is
completing her tenth book on Secure Service Oriented Information Systems. She has given over 60 keynote
presentations at various technical conferences and has also given invited talks at the White House Office of Science and
Technology Policy and at the United Nations on Data Mining for counter-terrorism. She serves (or has served) on
editorial boards of leading research and industry journals and was the Editor in Chief of Computer Standards and
Interfaces Journal. She is also an Instructor at AFCEA’s (Armed Forces Communications and Electronics Association)
Professional Development Center and has served on panels for the Air Force Scientific Advisory Board and the National
Academy of Sciences. Dr Thuraisingham is the Founding President of “Bhavani Security Consulting” - a company
providing services in consulting and training in Cyber Security and Information Technology Prior to joining UTD,
Thuraisingham was an IPA (Intergovernmental Personnel Act) at the National Science Foundation from the MITRE
Corporation. At NSF she established the Data and Applications Security Program and co-founded the Cyber Trust theme
and was involved in inter-agency activities in data mining for counter-terrorism. She has been at MITRE since January
1989 and has worked in MITRE's Information Security Center and was later a department head in Data and Information
Management as well as Chief Scientist in Data Management. She has served as an expert consultant in information
security and data management to the Department of Defense, the Department of Treasury and the Intelligence
Community for over 10 years. Thuraisingham’s industry experience includes six years of research and development at
Control Data Corporation and Honeywell Inc. Thuraisingham was educated in the United Kingdom both at the
University of Bristol and at the University of Wales.
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Feautre Talks
Title: Intelligent Social Network Modeling
Ronald R. Yager
Iona College, New Rochelle, NY, U.S.A.
Abstract
The recent development of Web 2.0 has provided an enormous increase in human interactions across all corners
of the earth. One manifestation of this is the growth of computer mediated social networks. Many notable Web 2.0
applications such as Facebook, Myspace and LinkedIn are social networks. Relational networks are becoming an
important technology for modeling these types of social networks and the type of collaborative intelligence that
arises from these interactions. Our goal here is to enrich the domain of social network modeling by introducing
ideas from fuzzy sets and related granular computing technologies to provide a bridge between a human network
analyst's linguistic description of social network concepts and the formal model of the network.
Biography
Ronald R. Yager is Director of the Machine Intelligence Institute and Professor of Information Systems at Iona
College. He is editor and chief of the International Journal of Intelligent Systems. He has worked in the area of
machine intelligence and decision making under uncertainty for over twenty-five years. He has published over
500 papers and fifteen books. He is among the world's top 1% most highly cited researchers with over 7000
citations. He was the recipient of the IEEE Computational Intelligence Society Pioneer award in Fuzzy Systems.
Dr. Yager is a fellow of the IEEE, the New York Academy of Sciences and the Fuzzy Systems Association. He
was given a lifetime achievement award by the Polish Academy of Sciences. He served at the National Science
Foundation as program director in the Information Sciences program. He was a NASA/Stanford visiting fellow
and a research associate at the University of California, Berkeley. He has been a lecturer at NATO Advanced
Study Institutes. He has been a distinguished honorary professor at the Aalborg University Esbjerg Denmark. He
is an affiliated distinguished researcher at the European Centre for Soft Computing. He serves on the editorial
board of numerous technology journals.
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Conference Program
Title: Developing Actionable Trading Strategies for Trading Agents
Chengqi Zhang
University of Technology, Sydney, Australia
Abstract
Trading agents are useful for developing and back-testing quality trading strategies for taking actions in the real
world. The existing trading agent research mainly focuses on simulation using artificial data. As a result, the
actionable capability of developed trading strategies is often limited, and the trading agents therefore lack power.
Actionable trading strategies can empower trading agents with workable decision-making in real-life markets.
The development of actionable strategies is a non-trivial task, which needs to consider real-life constraints and
organisational factors in the market. In this talk, we first analyse such constraints on developing actionable
trading strategies for trading agents and propose a trading strategy development framework for trading agents.
We then develop a series of trading strategies for trading agents through optimising, enhancing and discovering
actionable trading strategies. We demonstrate working case studies using agent mining technology in real market
data. These approaches, and their performance, are evaluated from both technical and business perspectives.
These evalualtions clearly show that the development of trading strategies for trading agents, using our approach,
can lead to smart decisions for brokerage firms and financial companies.
Biography
Chengqi Zhang has been a Research Professor of Information Technology at the University of Technology,
Sydney (UTS), Australia since December 2001. He is currently the Director of the UTS Priority Research Centre
for Quantum Computation and Intelligent Systems (QCIS). He has also been the Chairperson of the Australian
Computer Society’s National Committee for Artificial Intelligence since 2005 and the Leader of the Data Mining
program at the Australian Capital Market Cooperative Research Centre since 2002. Chengqi Zhang obtained his
PhD degree from Queensland University in 1991 and Doctor of Science (DSc) from Deakin University in 2002.
Prof. Zhang’s research interests include “Multi-Agent Systems”, “Data Mining”, and their integrations. He has
published more than 200 research papers in these research areas. His most notable paper was published in
“Artificial Intelligence” in 1992 – the most prestigious Journal in Artificial Intelligence field. He has also
published many papers in first class international journals, such as IEEE and ACM Transactions. He has led his
research team to attract more than $2 million in research grants from the Australian Research Council. He has
been invited to present ten keynote/invited speeches in international conferences and workshops.
Prof. Zhang has been actively serving professional communities. He has been the Associate Editor for several
international journals, including IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering. He has been the Chair
of the Steering Committee for the International Conference on Knowledge Science, Engineering, and
Management since 2006. He was the General Co-chair of WI-IAT 2008. As a visiting scholar or a visiting
professor, he visited the University of Massachusetts for six months in 1993, Carnegie Mellon University for three
months in 1995, London University for six months in 1996, Chinese University of Hong Kong for six months in
2003, and City University of Hong Kong for six months in 2007. More detailed information can be found on his
homepage at http://www-staff.it.uts.edu.au/~chengqi/
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WIC Feature Talk
Title: Various Levels from Brain Informatics to Web Intelligence
Yulin Qin
The International WIC Institute, Beijing University of Technology, China, and Department of
Psychology, Carnegie Mellon University, U.S.A.
Abstract
In the early stage of artificial intelligence (AI), AI very closed to then modern cognitive psychology based on the
recognition that both computer and human brain are information processing machines meeting the requirements
to show intelligence. It seems that the similar trend appears again today between Web Intelligence (WI) and Brain
Informatics (BI) based on the recognition that both World Wide Web (the Web) and the human brain are
informational huge open systems meeting the requirements to deal with scalable, dynamically changing,
distributed, incomplete and inconsistent information, and the advancement both in the Web (e.g., semantic Web
and human-level wisdom-Web computing) and in BI (e.g., advanced information technologies for brain science
and non-invasive neuroimaging technologies, such as functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI)).
ACT-R is a theory and model of computational cognitive architecture, which consists of functional modules, such
as declarative knowledge module, procedural knowledge module, goal module and input (visual, aural), output
(motor, verbal) modules. Information can be proposed parallel inside and among the modules, but has to be
sequentially if it needs procedural module to coordinate the behavior across modules. At the International WIC
Institute (WICI), we are trying to introduce this kind of architecture and the mechanism of activation of the units
in declarative knowledge module into our wisdom-Web computing system.
Based on or related to ACT-R, theories and models that are with very close relation to WI have also been
developed, such as threaded cognition for concurrent multitasking, cognitive agents, human-Web interaction (e.g.,
SNIT-ACT (Scent-based navigation and information foraging in the ACT cognitive architecture). At the WICI, we
are also working on the user behavior and reasoning on the Web by eye-tracker and fMRI.
Human can perceive the real world under many levels of granularity (i.e., abstraction) and can also easily switch
among granularities.
By focusing on different levels of granularity, one can obtain different levels of knowledge, as well as in-depth
understanding of the inherent knowledge structure. At the WICI, we are taking Granular Reasoning (GrR) as a
human intelligence inspired methodology and developing specific methods for a reasoning process in a variable
precision at Web scale.
All of above will be discussed in my talk as examples of various levels from BI to WI to show the trend of close
interacting between BI and WI, which will benefit both WI and BI researches.
Biography
Yulin Qin is a professor at International WIC Institute (WICI) at Beijing University of Technology, and a senior
research psychologist in the department of psychology, Carnegie Mellon University. Professor Qin received M.E.
in computer science and engineering from Beijing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, and Ph.D. in
cognitive psychology at Carnegie Mellon University. His research interests include cognitive psychology,
cognitive neuroscience and Web Intelligence, and currently focus on the neural basis of ACT-R, a computational
cognitive model, and its relation with Web Intelligence.
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Conference Program
Organizing Committee
WI'09 and IAT'09 Conference Organization
Conference Chair:
Gabriella Pasi, Università degli Studi di Milano Bicocca, Milano, Italy
Program Chair:
Ricardo Baeza-Yates, Yahoo! Research, Barcelona, Spain
Program Co-chairs:
IAT-Track:
Jérôme Lang, CNRS, LAMSADE, Paris, France
Sushmita Mitra, Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata, India
Simon Parsons, Brooklyn College, City University of NY, USA
WI-Track:
Bettina Berendt, K.U.Leuven, Leuven, Belgium
Elisa Bertino, Purdue University, West Lafayette,USA
Lim Ee Peng, Singapore Management University, Singapore
Organizing Co-Chairs:
Gloria Bordogna, National Council of Research, Bergamo, Italy
Giancarlo Mauri, Università degli Studi di Milano Bicocca, Italy
Workshop Co-Chairs:
Paolo Boldi, Università degli Studi di Milano, Italy
Giuseppe Vizzari, Università degli Studi di Milano Bicocca, Italy
Tutorial Co-Chair:
Mohand Boughanem, University Paul Sabatier, Toulouse, France
Fabrizio Sebastiani, Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, Pisa, Italy
Sponsorship Chair:
Ernesto Damiani, Università degli Studi di Milano, Italy
Publicity Co-Chairs:
Jia Hu, the International WIC Institute/BJUT, China
Mounia Lalmas, University of Glasgow, UK
WIC Technical Committee & WI/IAT Steering Committee:
Jeffrey Bradshaw, UWF/Insti. for Human and Machine Cognition, USA
Nick Cercone, York University, Canada
Dieter Fensel, University of Innsbruck, Austria
Georg Gottlob, Oxford University, UK
Lakhmi Jain, University of South Australia, Australia
Jianchang Mao, Yahoo! Inc., USA
Pierre Morizet-Mahoudeaux, Université de Technology of Compiègne,
France
Hiroshi Motoda, Osaka University, Japan
Toyoaki Nishida, Kyoto University, Japan
Andrzej Skowron, Warsaw University, Poland
Jinglong Wu, Kagawa University, Japan
Xindong Wu, University of Vermont, USA
Yiyu Yao, University of Regina, Canada
Program Vice Chairs:
WI-Track:
Nick Cercone, York University, Canada
Dominique Decouchant, CNRS - LIG de Grenoble, France
Mohand-Said Hacid, Université Claude Bernard Lyon, France
Jimmi Xiangij Huang, York University, Canada
Yuefeng Li, Queensland University of Technology, Australia
Olfa Nasraoui, University of Louisville, USA
Atshuro Takasu, National Institute of Informatics, Japan
Andreas Wombacher, University of Twente, The Netherlands
IAT-Track:
Longbing Cao, University of Technology Sydney, Australia
Andrea Omicini, Alma Mater Studiorum Università di Bologna a
Cesena, Italy
Iyad Rahwan, British University in Dubai & University of Edinburgh,
UAE
Eugene Santos, Dartmouth College, USA
Leendert van der Torre, University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg
Proceedings Chair:
Stefania Marrara, Università degli Studi di Milano, Italy
Local Organization Chair:
Silvia Calegari, Università degli Studi di Milano Bicocca, Italy
Local Organization Co-Chairs:
Andrea Proietto, Università degli Studi di Milano Bicocca, Italy
Fabio Reguzzoni, Università degli Studi di Milano Bicocca, Italy
Luca Rocca, Università degli Studi di Milano Bicocca, Italy
Luisella Sironi, Università degli Studi di Milano Bicocca, Italy
IEEE-CS-TCII Chair:
Ning Zhong, Maebashi Institute of Technology, Japan
ACM-SIGART Chair
Maria Gini, University of Minnesota, USA
WIC Co-Chairs/Directors:
Ning Zhong, Maebashi Institute of Technology, Japan
Jiming Liu, University of Windsor, Canada
WIC Advisory Board:
Edward A. Feigenbaum, Stanford University, USA
Setsuo Ohsuga, University of Tokyo, Japan
Benjamin Wah, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, USA
Philip Yu, University of Illinois, Chicago, USA
L.A. Zadeh, University of California, Berkeley, USA
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WI'09 Program Committee Members
Ajith Abraham, Machine Intelligence Research Labs (MIR Labs), USA
Maristella Agosti, University of Padua, Italy
Reda Alhajj, University of Calgary, Canada
Anupriya Ankolekar, Hewlett-Packard Laboratories, USA
Luis Antunes, Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal
Helen Ashman, University of South Australia, Australia
Ebrahim Bagheri, National Research Council, Canada
Michel Beigbeder, Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Mines de
Saint-Etienne, France
Sonia Bergamaschi,University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Italy
Shlomo Berkovsky, CSIRO, Tasmanian ICT Centre, Australia
Gloria Bordogna, IDPA CNR, Italy
Patrick Bosc, IRISA/ENSSAT, France
Omar Boucelma, University of Aix-Marseille 3, France
Mohand Boughanem, Université de Toulouse-IRIT, France
Peter Brusilovsky, University of Pittsburgh, USA
Peter Bruza, Queensland University of Technology, Australia
Wray Buntine, NICTA Canberra Research Laboratory, Australia
Longbing Cao, University of Technology, Australia
Claudio Carpineto, Fondazione Ugo Bordoni, Italy
Sylvie Cazalens, Université de Nantes, Francia
Nick Cercone, York University, Canada
Stefano Ceri, Politecnico di Milano, Italy
Keith C.C. Chan, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong
Liming Chen, University of Ulster, UK
Meng Chang Chen, Academia Sinica, Taiwan
William K. Cheung, Hong Kong Baptist University, Hong Kong
Yiu-ming Cheung, Hong Kong Baptist University, Hong Kong
Joongmin Choi, Hanyang University, Republic of Korea
Ruth Cobos, Universidad Autonoma de Madrid, Spain
Nigel Collier, National Institute of Informatics, Japan
Sara Comai, Politecnico di Milano, Italy
Fabio Crestani, University of Lugano, Switzerland
Juan Carlos Cubero, University of Granada, Spain
Alfredo Cuzzocrea, DEIS-Unical, Italy
Claudia d'Amato, University of Bari, Italy
Swagatam Das, Jadavpur University, India
Martine De Cock, Ghent University, Belgium
Jean-Yves Delort, Macquarie University / CMCRC, Australia
Ying Ding, Indiana University, USA
Josep Domenech, Universitat Politecnica de Valencia, Spain
Edith Elkind, University of Southampton, UK
Nicola Fanizzi, University of Bari, Italy
Shaheen Fatima, Loughborough University, UK
Nicola Ferro, University of Padova, Italy
Naoki Fukuta, Shizuoka University, Japan
Fabien Gandon, INRIA, France
Serge Garlatti, Telecom Bretagne, Institut Telecom, France
Susan Gauch, University of Arkansas, USA
Marc Gelgon, Université de Nantes, France
José A. Gil, Universitat Politecnica de Valencia, Spain
Marco Gori, Università di Siena, Italy
Gregory Grefenstette, Exalead, Paris, France
Fumio Hattori, Ritsumeikan University, Japan
Haibo He, Stevens Institute of Technology, USA
Enrique Herrera-Viedma, Universidad de Granada, Spain
Masahiro Hori, Kansai University, Japan
Jia Hu, International WIC Institute, China
Xiaohua Tony Hu, Drexel University, USA
Yuh-Jong Hu, National Chengchi University, Taiwan
Joshua Huang, University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
Koji Iwanuma, University of Yamanashi, Japan
Janusz Kacprzyk, Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland
Samuel Kaski, Helsinki University of Technology, Finland
Irwin King, the Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
Tetsuo Kinoshita, Tohoku University, Japan
Mieczyslaw Klopotek, Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland
Walter Kosters, Universiteit Leiden, The Netherlands
Donald H. Kraft, U.S. Air Force Academy, USA
Philippe Lamarre, Université de Nantes, France
Stefano Leonardi, Sapienza University of Rome, Italy
Chun Hung Li, Hong Kong Baptist University, Hong Kong
Juanzi Li, TsingHua University, China
Tao Li, Florida International University, USA
Wenbin Li, Shijiazhuang University of Economics, China
Tsau Young Lin, San Jose State University, USA
Chao-Lin Liu, National Chengchi University, Taiwan
Jiming Liu, Hong Kong Baptist University, Hong Kong
Vincenzo Loia, Università degli Studi di Salerno, Italy
Massimo Marchiori, Università di Padova and UTILABS, Italy
Stefania Marrara, Università degli Studi di Milano, Italy
Ana Maria Martinez-Enriquez, CINVESTAV-IPN, Mexico
Andrea Maurino, Università degli Studi di Milano Bicocca, Italy
Xiaofeng Meng, Renmin University of China, China
Paolo Merialdo, Università Roma Tre, Italy
Alberto Messina, RAI - Centre for Research and Technological
Innovation, Italy
Duoqian Miao, Tongji University, China
Stefano Mizzaro, Università di Udine, Italy
Pierre Morizet-Mahoudeaux, University of Technology of Compiegne,
France
Wolfgang Nejdl, L3S and University of Hannover, Germany
Matteo Palmonari, Università di Milano Bicocca, Italy
Junfeng Pan, Google Inc., USA
Alessandro Panconesi, Sapienza University of Rome, Italy
Seog Park, Sogang University, South Korea
Alfredo Petrosino, University of Naples Parthenope, Italy
Giuseppe Psaila, Università di Bergamo, Italy
Guillaume Raschia, Université de Nantes, France
Shigeaki Sakurai, Toshiba Corporation, Japan
Florence Sedes, IRIT Universitè de Tolouse, France
Dou Shen, Microsoft Adcenter Labs, USA
Qiang Shen, Aberystwyth University, UK
Amandeep Sidhu, Murdoch University, Australia
Andrzej Skowron, Warsaw University, Poland
Dominik Slezak, Infobright Inc., Poland
Fabio Stella, Università di Milano Bicocca, Italy
Umberto Straccia, ISTI-CNR, Italy
Heiner Stuckenschmidt, University of Mannheim, Germany
Zhong Su, IBM China Research Lab., China
Aixin Sun, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
Marcin Sydow, Polish-Japanese Institute of Information Technology,
Poland
Piotr Szczepaniak, Technical University of Lodz, Poland
Marcin Szczuka, The University of Warsaw, Poland
Yasufumi Takama, Tokyo Metropolitan University, Japan
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Conference Program
Pang-Ning Tan, Michigan State University, USA
Jie Tang, Tsinghua University, China
Hiroyuki Tarumi, Kagawa University, Japan
Pierre Tchounikine, Universite de Grenoble 1, France
Leendert van der Torre, University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg
Maria Vargas-Vera, The Open University, UK
Athanasios V Vasilakos, University of Western Macedonia, Greece
Jose Vidal, University of South Carolina, USA
Maurizio Vincini, Università di Modena e Reggio Emilia, Italy
Gottfried Vossen, University of Munster, Germany
Fang Wang, BT Group, UK
Xindong Wu, University of Vermont, USA
Hui Xiong, Rutgers University, USA
Ronald Yager, Iona College, USA
Seiji Yamada, National Institute of Informatics, Japan
Takahira Yamaguchi, Keio University, Japan
Kun Yang, University of Essex, UK
Jing Tao Yao, University of Regina, Canada
Yiyu Yao, University of Regina, Canada
Slawomir Zadrozny, Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland
Yanchang Zhao, University of Technology, Sydney, Australia
Aoying Zhou, East China Normal University, China
Lina Zhou, University of Maryland, Baltimore County, USA
Wojciech Ziarko, University of Regina, Canada
WI'09 Non-PC Reviewers
Helena Aidos
Antti Ajanki
Alessia Albanese
Sheng Hua Bao
Andras Benczur
Domenico Beneventano
Tim Brailsford
Guillaume Cabanac
Ke Ke Cai
Bin Cao
Mark Carman
Paolo Casoto
Yuming Chen
Chien Chin Chen
Yi Cheng
Flavio Chierichetti
Hanachi Chihab
Helder Coelho
Enrique Munos de Cote
Faezeh Ensan
Timur Fayruzov
Alessio Ferone
Piero Fraternali
Shima Gerani
Jean Marie Gilliot
Roberto De Prisco
Matteo Di Gioia
Giorgio Maria Di Nunzio
Anastasios Gounaris
Francisco Grimaldo
Allel Hadjali
Rabab Hayek
Nicolas Hernandez
Derek Hao Hu
Jeroen Janssen
Melih Kandemir
Arto Klami
Monica Landoni
Jens Lechtenbörger
Danielle Lee
Gayle Leen
Cane Wing-ki Leung
Peng Li
Wen Li
Bo Liu
Tomek Loboda
Eric Louie
Hiep Luong
Antonio Maratea
José Martinez
Motohiro Mase
Li Meng
Duoqian Miao
Luis Moniz
Maurizio Montagnuolo
Luis Morgado
Takeshi Morita
Guillermo Morales Luna
Masayuki Okabe
Nicola Orio
Fabrizio Orlandi
Salvatore Orlando
Mirko Orsini
Denis Parra
Marco Pellegrini
Wei Peng
Quang-Khai Pham
Fabien Picarougne
Antoine Pigeau
John A. Piorkowski
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Olivier Pivert
Ajith Kodakateri Pudhiyaveetil
Daniel Rocacher
Régis Saint-Paul
Antonio Sala
Giuseppe Salvi
Yacine Sam
Karen Sauvagnat
Steven Schockaert
Bo Shao
Gianmaria Silvello
Fabrizio Silvestri
Janne Sinkkonen
Laurianne Sitbon
Gavin Smith
Serena Sorrentino
Mirco Speretta
Sebastian Stein
Yu-Wei Sung
Gunnar Thies
Paulo Trigo
Luca Vassena
Patricia Victor
Maurizio Vincini
Xin Wang
Qiang Wang
Dingding Wang
Chi Wang
Xian Wu
Nanhong Ye
Erliang Zeng
Xiao Xun Zhang
Judy Zhao
Jie Zhou
Conference Program
IAT'09 Program Committee Members
Reda Alhajj, University of Calgary, Canada
Francesco Amigoni, Politecnico di Milano, Italy
Stefania Bandini, Università degli Studi di Milano Bicocca, Italy
Federico Bergenti, University of Parma, Italy
Sambhu Nath Biswas, Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata, India
Guido Boella, University of Turin, Italy
Olivier Boissier, Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Mines de
Saint-Etienne, France
Magnus Boman, Royal Institute of Technology (KTH) and SICS,
Sweden
Scott Buffett, National Research Council (NRC), Canada
Andrew Byde, HP Labs, UK
Luigia Carlucci Aiello, Sapienza Università di Roma, Italy
Krzysztof Cetnarowicz, AGH University of Science and Technology,
Poland
Zheng Chen, Microsoft Research Asia, China
Paolo Ciancarini, University of Bologna, Italy
Massimo Cossentino, Italian National Research Council, Italy
Stephen Cranefield, University of Otago, New Zealand
Célia da Costa Pereira, Università degli Studi di Milano, Italy
Wei Dai, Victoria University, Australia
Yves Demazeau, LIG Grenoble, France
Jörg Denzinger, University of Calgary, Canada
Frank Dignum, Utrecht University, The Netherlands
Hakan Duman, British Telecom, UK
Tapio Elomaa, Tampere University of Technology, Finland
Xiaocong Fan, The Pennsylvania State University, United States
Kensuke Fukuda, National Institute of Informatics, Japan
Adam Maria Gadomski, Italian National Research Agency ENEA, Italy
Matjaz Gams, Intelligent Systems Department, Ljubljana, Slovenia
Leonardo Garrido, Monterrey Institute of Technology, México
Nicola Gatti, Politecnico di Milano, Italy
Khaled Ghedira, LI3/ISG, Tunisia
Joseph A. Giampapa, Carnegie Mellon University, USA
Paolo Giorgini, University of Trento, Italy
Marie-Pierre Gleizes, Université Paul Sabatier, France
Piotr Gmytrasiewicz, University of Illinois at Chicago, USA
Lluís Godo, Artificial Intelligence Research Institute, IIIA - CSIC,
Spain
Vladimir Gorodetsky, St. Petersburg Institute for Informatics and
Automation, Russia
Steve Goschnick, University of Melbourne, Australia
Eric Gregoire, CRIL CNRS, France
Daniel Grosu, Wayne State University, USA
Mohand-Said Hacid, Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1, France
Ahmed Hambaba, San Jose State University, USA
Chihab Hanachi, Université Toulouse 1 / IRIT, France
Fumio Hattori, Ritsumeikan University, Japan
Haibo He, Stevens Institute of Technology, USA
Heikki Helin, Finland
Andreas Herzig, IRIT-CNRS, France
Vasant Honavar, Iowa State University, USA
Michael D. Howard, HRL Laboratories, USA
Seunghyun Im, University of Pittsburgh at Johnstown, USA
Xiaolong Jin, University of Bradford, UK
Stefan J. Johansson, Blekinge Institute of Technology, Sweden
Catholijn Jonker, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands
Anthony Karageorgos, Technological Education Institute of Larissa,
Greece
Oleg Karsaev, St.Petersburg Institute for Informatics and Automation,
Russia
Tetsuo Kinoshita, Tohoku University, Japan
Mieczyslaw Klopotek, Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland
Sébastien Konieczny, CRIL, France
Manolis Koubarakis, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens,
Greece
Daniel Kudenko, University of York, UK
Satoshi Kurihara, Osaka University, Japan
Kate Larson, University of Waterloo, Canada
Hoong Chuin Lau, Singapore Management University, Singapore
Jaeho Lee, The University of Seoul Korea, Seoul Korea
João Leite, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal
Ioan Alfred Letia, Technical University of Cluj-Napoca, Romania
Churn-Jung Liau, Academia Sinica, Taiwan
Jiming Liu, Hong Kong Baptist University, Hong Kong
Alessio Lomuscio, Imperial College London, UK
Rainer Malaka, University of Bremen, Germany
Sara Manzoni, Università degli Studi di Milano Bicocca, Italy
Carlo Mastroianni, ICAR-CNR, Italy
Shigeo Matsubara, Kyoto University, Japan
Nicolas Maudet, LAMSADE, Université Paris-Dauphine, France
John-Jules Meyer, Utrecht University, The Netherlands
Grazyna Mirkowska-Salwicka, University Cardinal Stefan Wyszynski,
Poland
Pericles Mitkas, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece
Pavlos Moraitis, Paris Descartes University, France
Haralambos Mouratidis, University of East London, UK
Thierry Moyaux, Université de Lyon (INSA), France
Joerg P. Mueller, TU Clausthal, Germany
Tracy Mullen, The Pennsylvania State University, USA
Wee Keong Ng, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
Eugénio Oliveira, Universidade do Porto, DEI/LIACC, Portugal
Sascha Ossowski, Universidad Rey Juan Carlos Madrid, Spain
Luigi Palopoli, DEIS, Università della Calabria, Italy
Marek Paralič, Technical University of Košice, Slovakia
Witold Pedrycz, University of Alberta, Canada
Anna Perini, Fondazione Bruno Kessler - IRST, Italy
Agostino Poggi, University of Parma, Italy
Martin Purvis, University of Otago, New Zealand
Zbigniew Ras, University of North Carolina, USA
Nancy Reed, University of Hawai, USA
Alessandro Ricci, University of Bologna, Italy
Juan Antonio Rodriguez, IIIA - CSIC, Spain
Pierre-Yves Schobbens, Université de Namur, Belgium
Heiko Schuldt, University of Basel, Switzerland
Jaime Simao Sichman, University of Sao Paulo, Brazil
Elizabeth Sklar, Brooklyn College, City University of New York, USA
Andrzej Skowron, Warsaw University, Poland
Von-Wun Soo, National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan
Pradip Srimani, Clemson University, USA
Toshiharu Sugawara, Waseda University, Japan
Gita Sukthankar, University of Central Florida, USA
Ah-Hwee Tan, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
Andrea G. B. Tettamanzi, Università degli Studi di Milano, Italy
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Conference Program
Karl Tuyls, Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands
Norimichi Ukita, Nara Institute of Science and Technology, Japan
Rainer Unland, University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany
Giuseppe Vizzari, Università degli Studi di Milano-Bicocca, Italy
Richard Wallace, University College Cork, Ireland
Danny Weyns, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium
Makoto Yokoo, Kyushu University, Japan
Jeffrey Xu Yu, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
Franco Zambonelli, University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Italy
Markus Zanker, University Klagenfurt, Austria
Wei Zhang, Boeing Company, USA
IAT'09 Non-PC Reviewers
Shadi Abras
Guruprasad Airy
Marco Alberti
Eric Andonoff
Sandra Baldassarri
Daniel Le Berre
Magnus Boman
A. Byrski
Baki Cakici
Thomas Carroll
Sara Casare
Roberto Centeno
Sofia Ceppi
Walid Chainbi
Kyriakos C. Chatzidimitriou
Shih-Fen Cheng
Mika Cohen
Antônio Carlos da Rocha Costa
Ludivine Crépin
Christos Dimou
Julie Dugdale
Patricia Everaere
Jonathan Ezekiel
Moser Fagundes
Alan Fedoruk
Agostino Forestiero
Garijo Francisco
Alfredo Gabaldon
Nandan Garg
Alfredo Garro
Salvatore Garruzzo
Valerio Genovese
Jean-Pierre Georgé
Pierre Glize
Aldy Gunawan
Thomas Guyet
Johan Hagelbäck
Ramon Hermoso
J. Hubner
Holger Kasinger
R. Kitio
Matthias Knorr
Vavliakis Konstantinos
Jaroslaw Kozlak
Laurent Lacomme
Sylvain Lagrue
Victor R Lesser
Henrique Lopes Cardoso
Maite Lopez-Sanchez
Kong-wei Lye
Fernando José de Moura Marcellino
Frédéric Migeon
Mirko Morandini
Luís Morgado
Paul Moynihan
Kreshnik Musaraj
Cu Duy Nguyen
Vivia Nikolaidou
Pablo Noriega
Magalie Ochs
Eugénio Oliveira
Ruben Ortiz
Giuseppe Papuzzo
Luis Moniz Pereira
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Michele Piunti
Fotis E. Psomopoulos
Geber Ramalho
Francesco Ricca
Ana Paula Rocha
Domenico Rosaci
Norman Salazar
Pedro Sanches
Giuseppe Sarne'
Roy Savarimuthu
Valeria Seidita
Alberto Siena
Leszek Siwik
Jung-woo Sohn
Nikolaos Spanoudakis
Budhitama Subagdja
Eric-Oluf Svee
John Tajan
Teck-Hou Teng
Ramesh Thangarajoo
Bastin Tony
Wojciech Turek
Joana Urbano
Diggelen, Jurriaan van
Matteo Vasirani
Laurent Vercouter
Serena Villata
Pascal Wiggers
Michael Winikoff
Di Wu
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Some Useful Links
City of Milano:
http://www.comune.milano.it/portale/wps/portal/CDMLanguages?WCM_GLOBAL_CONTEXT=/
wps/wcm/connect/ContentLibrary/inglese/homepage/inglese_home
Milano Tourist information:
http://www.turismo.comune.milano.it/pls/milano/!turismo?pid=2&lang=2
Points of interest in Milano: http://milan.arounder.com/
First Aid Medical Care: http://www.118milano.it/
General medical Service:
o Centro Diagnostico Italiano CDI:http://www.cdi.it/eng/index.asp?lang=eng
o Ospedale Niguarda: http://www.ospedaleniguarda.it/content/per_stranieri.html
Milano Airports: http://www.sea-aeroportimilano.it/en/
Train Booking site: http://www.ferroviedellostato.it/homepage_en.html
Milano Public transport (ATM): http://www.atm-mi.it/it/Giromilano/Pagine/default.aspx
About the Conference venue: Università degli Studi di Milano Bicocca
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The full map of the campus can be seen at http://www.unimib.it/go/Home/English
The instruction on how to reach Milano Bicocca Campus can be found at
http://www.unimib.it/switch/switch2Meta.jsp?meta=111
About WI-IAT 2009:
WI’09/IAT’09 Website: http://www.wi-iat09.disco.unimib.it/
WI’09/IAT’09 online registration Website: www.wiiat2009registration.promoest.com
WI’09/IAT’09 online accomodation: www.wiiat2009.promoest.com
Tour booking Website: www.wiiat2009tour.promoest.com
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Conference venue: Bicocca University Campus
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Conference venue: Building U6, Ground Floor, Aula Magna
Aula
Magna
Registration
Desk
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Conference venue: Building U6, First Floor, Rooms
Room 33
Room 39
Room 32
Room 40
Room 28
Room 30
Room 29
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Room 23
Room 26
Room 21
Room 27
Room 20
Some Bars where it is possible to have lunch at a walking distance from Building U6 of Bicocca Campus:
A Harry's Bar‎
Viale Dell' Innovazione, 20126 Milano
02 64109060‎
E Fredy Bar Snc‎
Via Pulci Luigi, 13, 20126 Milano
02 36594079‎
C Bar Tabacchi Tempi Moderni‎
Via Fortiguerra Nicolo', 12, 20126 Milano
02 6424035‎
F Tam Tam Milano SRL‎
Viale Pirelli Piero E Alberto, 14, 20126 Milano
02 94435130‎
D Vgr srl‎
Via S. Glicerio, 14, 20126, 02 6425647‎
Conference
Venue
(Università degli
Studi di Milano
Bicocca)
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Some Restaurants at a walking distance from Building U6 of Bicocca Campus:
A Trattoria Arlati Mario‎Via Nota Alberto, 47, 20126 Milano
Tel 02 6433327
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D San Glicerio Sas Di Arcieri Donato E C.‎
Viale Testi Fulvio, 220, 20126 Milano
02 6424721
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B Baikal Srl‎-Piazza della Trivulziana, 20126 Milano
02 66118276
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J Hinode Sushi Di Zhu Junyong‎
Via Privata San Glicerio, 6, 20126 Milano
02 6437288
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C Ristorante Barbecue‎198, Vl. Sarca (Angolo Padre Beccaro), 20126 Milano
02 66104859
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E Ami Bar‎
Viale Pirelli Piero E Alberto, 14, 20126 Milano
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Venue
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Bicocca)
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Università degli Studi di Milano Bicocca and the city center
Università degli Studi di
Milano Bicocca.
OVERVIEW OF THE UNIVERSITY CAMPUS
Conference Venue: U6
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