Trends in Web Intelligence is the official monthly newsletter of Web Intelligence Consortium (WIC). Its' aim is to promote scientific research in Web Intelligence (WI) related topics. The Contents in Issue 3 (November, 2010) include:

• Call for WIC research centers.
• Introduction of International WIC Institute (WICI).
• Introduction of the Large Knowledge Collider(LarKC) Project.
• The 2011 IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conferences on Web Intelligence and Intelligent Agent Technology.
• The 2011 International Conference on Active Media Technology and Brain Informatics.

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Call for WIC research centers

In order to celeberate the 10 years anniversary of the field Web Intelligence, WIC is planning to renew and establish new research centers in the year 2010-2011.

Responsibility

• The potential WIC research centers world wide are responsible for creating a Web Intelligence Lab in their universities, institutions, or companies.
• The directors of different WIC research centers need to give an anual report of their WIC centers on WIC centers working workshop from the perspectives of members, involved projects, research results and agenda for the future research in their centers. The workshop is co-located with IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Web Intelligence and Intelligent Agent Technology every year.
• WIC research centers need to report their research results and share their thougts on Web Intelligence with other centers in the form of Blog entry, twitter, and monthly report.

Benifit

• WIC research centers will be selected and invited to give WIC feature talk on IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Web Intelligence and Intelligent Agent Technology.
• WIC research centers's research advances will be promoted on the official website of WIC.
• Exchange program will be established to create a bridge for different WIC research centers.
• Joint research program on Web Intelligence.

Please contact Professor Ning Zhong and Dr. Yi Zeng for possible collaboration opportunities on establishing a new WIC research center.

Introduction of International WIC Institute (WICI)

The International WIC Institute (WICI) is the official research organization of Web Intelligence Consortium(WIC) in China. WIC is an international and non-profit academic organization which focus on the study of creating an Intelligent Web. The Institute is affiliated with Beijing University of Technology (BJUT).

The main research topics at International WIC Institute is the fundamentals and their implementations on "Web Intelligence(WI) meets Brain Informatics(BI)", which is a big challenge for scientists in the 21st century. It proposes that WI provides new, powerful technology support to BI, while BI focuses on principles, models and mechanism of Human Intelligence, all of which will lead to new methodologies, ideas for the development of WI Technology.

The International WIC Institute is an international, open educational research center. It is involved in several national and international projects related to Web Intelligence and Brain Informatics. It provides Master, Ph.D education on Artifitial Intelligence, and Postdoctoral Fellow position in Beijing University of Technology.

Introduction of the Large Knowledge Collider(LarKC) Project

The Large Knowledge Collider (LarKC) project is under the EU 7th Framework Program (FP 7) Large-Scale Integrating Project. It's aim is to develop the Large Knowledge Collider as a platform for effective Web-scale semantic data processing. Following is a paragraph from the LarKC project official website, introducing the approach and highlight of this project:

" It is designed to be a platform for massive distributed incomplete reasoning that will remove the scalability barriers of currently existing reasoning systems for the Semantic Web. This will be achieved by:

• Enriching the current logic-based Semantic Web reasoning methods with methods from information retrieval, machine learning, information theory, databases, and probabilistic reasoning,

• Employing cognitively inspired approaches and techniques such as spreading activation, focus of attention, reinforcement, habituation, relevance reasoning, and bounded rationality.

• Building a distributed reasoning platform and realizing it both on a high-performance computing cluster and via computing at home”

(From the LarKC project website) .

International WIC Institute (WICI) serves as an official partner of the LarKC project. It is involved in the research of 4 work packages, including : (WP1) Conceptual Framework and Evaluation, (WP2) Identifying and Selecting, (WP4) Reasoning and Deciding, (WP8) Training, dissemination, community building and cross-fertilisation.

More about the project could be found on the project website. WICI's LarKC project team can be reached from http://www.wici-lab.org/wici/wiki/index.php/LarKC .

The 2011 IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conferences on Web Intelligence and Intelligent Agent Technology

The 2011 IEEE/WIC/ACM International Joint Conference on Web Intelligence and Intelligent Agent Technology (WI-IAT 2011), August 22-27, 2011, Lyon, France. (For more information, please visit http://liris.cnrs.fr/~wi-iat11/)

The 2011 International Conference on Active Media Technology and Brain Informatics

The 2011 International Conferences on Active Media Technology (AMT 2011) and Brain Informatics(BI 2011), September 7-9, 2011, Lanzhou, China. (For more informatrion, please visit http://wi-consortium.org/conferences/amtbi11/)