Report from WI / IATWeb Intelligence

Intelligent Agent Technology

York University, Keele Campus Toronto, Canada

Ivan SrbaMichal TvarožekMária Bieliková

General information

• WI– 51 papers were accepted as regular papers and 66 papers were

accepted as short papers (acceptance rate 16% and 21%)

• IAT'10– 36 papers were accepted as regular papers and 42 papers were

accepted as short papers (acceptance rate 19% and 21%)

• 5 keynote talks• 16 workshops (acceptance rate 36.5%)

Keynotes

Ian Witten• Wikipedia and how to use it for semantic

document representation– http://www.cs.waikato.ac.nz/~ihw/my_talks/

Wikipedia%20general%20talk/index.html

• Wikifier project– http://wdm.cs.waikato.ac.nz:8080/wikifier/index.jsp?

source=http%3A%2F%2Fwiki.fiit.stuba.sk%2Fresearch%2Fseminars%2Fpewe

• Compare Wikipedia Miner Service– http://wdm.cs.waikato.ac.nz:8080/service?

task=compare&details=true&term1=pencil&term2=pen

Keynotes

Ian Witten• Compare Wikipedia Miner Service

Keynotes

Milind Tambe• Game Theory for Security: Lessons

learned from deployed applications– Keynote about security systems on LA

International Airport

Alan Smeaton• The Sensor Web: Unpredictable, Noisy

and Loaded with Errors– Several applications of sensor systems

Keynotes

Pasi Gabriella • Issues on preference-modelling and

personalization in Information Retrieval

Maria Gini • Why robots are more than just agents

Workshops

• Web Information Retrieval Support Systems• The 2010 International Workshop on

Web-scale Knowledge Representation, Retrieval, and Reasoning

• The 3rd Workshop on Collective Intelligence in Semantic Web and Social Networks

• International Workshop on Computational Social Networks

Best Paper

Best Paper Award for IEEE/WIC/ACM WI'10:• Title: Niche Product Retrieval in Top-N Recommendation• Authors: Mi Zhang and Neil Hurley (Ireland)

Best Student Paper Award for IEEE/WIC/ACM WI'10 • Title: The Effects of Query Bursts on Web Search• Authors: Ilija Subasic and Carlos Castillo (Belgium)