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Active Media Technology 2009 & Brain Informatics 2009

CALL FOR POSTERS and CALL FOR PARTICIPATION
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2009 International Conference on Active Media Technology (AMT 2009)
2009 International Conference on Brain Informatics (BI 2009)

October 22-24, 2009, Beijing, China

Homepage: http://www.wici-lab.org/amtbi09/
Mirror page: http://www.iwici.org/amtbi09/

Co-organized by Web Intelligence Consortium (WIC) and
IEEE Task Force on Brain Informatics (IEEE TF-BI)

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On-line registration (and more information) at
http://www.wici-lab.org/amtbi09/

Posters Due: *** 30 September 2009 ***

Special discount (or free) registration is available
for students and poster session presenters
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You are invited to join Active Media Technology 2009 and Brain
Informatics 2009.

Active Media Technology is a new area of intelligent information
technology and computer science that emphasizes the proactive,
seamless roles of interfaces and systems as well as new media in all
aspects of digital life. An AMT based system offers services to enable
the rapid design, implementation and support of customized solutions.

Brain Informatics has recently emerged as an interdisciplinary
research field that focuses on studying the mechanisms underlying the
human information processing system (HIPS). BI lies in the interplay
between the studies of human brain and the research of informatics.

The two conferences will have a joint opening, keynote, reception, and
banquet. Attendees only need to register for one conference and can
attend keynotes, sessions, workshop, posters across the two conferences.

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***** Call for Posters *****
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AMT-BI'09 also welcomes Posters submissions.
AMT-BI'09 Posters session will provide researchers and practitioners
in active media technology and brain informatics an exciting and
highly interactive way to explore new ideas and results.
All areas of the AMT/BI conference are of interest to the Posters and Demos.

The proposal of a poster must include the following information:

- Authors (name, affiliation, email, address, phone and fax)
- The corresponding author with her/his email address
- Title
- Keywords
- The category of the submission (AMT or BI)

The proposals of posters must be submitted online at the conference
websites.
The deadline for proposals submission is *** 30 September 2009 ***.

Special discount (or free) registration is available
for students and poster session presenters


AMT-BI 2009 Keynote Speakers
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Using Neural Imaging to Inform the Instruction of Mathematics
Professor John Anderson
Department of Psychology, Carnegie Mellon University
http://act-r.psy.cmu.edu/people/ja/

Distributed Human-Machine Systems: Progress and Prospects
Dr. Jeffrey M. Bradshaw
Florida Institute for Human and Machine Cognition (IHMC)
http://www.ihmc.us/users/jbradshaw

Large Scale Reasoning on the Semantic Web:
what to do when success is becoming a problem
Professor Frank van Harmelen
AI Department, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
http://www.cs.vu.nl/~frankh

How Midazolam Can Help Us Understand Human Memory:
3 Illustrations and a Proposal for a New Methodology
Professor Lynne Reder
Department of Psychology, Carnegie Mellon University
http://memory.psy.cmu.edu/

Research on Brain-like Computer
Professor Zhongzhi Shi
Key Laboratory of Intelligent Information Processing
Institute of Computing Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences
http://www.intsci.ac.cn/en/shizz/

A Framework for Machine Learning with Ambiguous Objects
Professor Zhi-Hua Zhou
National Key Laboratory for Novel Software Technology
Nanjing University, China
http://cs.nju.edu.cn/zhouzh/


AMT-BI 2009 Special Sessions
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In addition to sessions for presenting accepted papers,
we have the following special sessions:

Special Session on Information Processing Meets Brain Sciences
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Data Compression and Data Selection in Human Vision
Zhaoping Li (University College London, UK)

Do Brain Networks Correlate with Intelligence?
Tianzi Jiang (Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China)

How Were Intelligence and Language Created in Human Brain
Setsuo Ohsuga (University of Tokyo, Japan)

Affective Learning with an EEG Approach
Bin Hu (Birmingham City University, UK, and
Lanzhou Unviersity, China)

Some Web Intelligence Oriented Brain Informatics Studies
Yulin Qin (Beijing University of Technology, China, and
Carnegie Mellon University, USA)


Special Session on Conversational Informatics
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Implementing a Multi-user Tour Guide system with an Embodied
Conversational Agent
Aleksandra Cerekovic, Hsuan-Huang Huang, Takuya Furukawa, Yuji Yamaoka,
Igor Pandzic, Toyoaki Nishida, and Yukiko Nakano

Actively Adaptive Agent for Human-Agent Collaborative Task
Yong Xu, Yoshimasa Ohmoto, Kazuhiro Ueda, Takanori Komatsu, Takeshi
Okadome, Koji Kamei, Shogo Okada, Yasuyuki Sumi, and Toyoaki Nishida

Low-Overhead 3D Items Drawing Engine for Communicating Situated Knowledge
Loic Merckel and Toyoaki Nishida

A Method to Detect Lies in Free Communication using Diverse
Nonverbal Information: Towards an Attentive Agent
Yoshimasa Ohmoto, Kazuhiro Ueda, and Takehiko Ohno

An Integrative Agent Model for Adaptive Human-Aware Presentation
of Information During Demanding Tasks
Andy van der Mee, Nataliya Mogles, and Jan Treur


Special Session on Human-Web Interaction
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Consumer Decision Making in Knowledge-Based Recommendation
Monika Mandl, Alexander Felfernig, and Monika Schubert

Incremental Learning of Triadic PLSA for Collaborative Filtering
Hu Wu and Yongji Wang

Interactive Storyboard: Animated Story Creation on Touch Interfaces
Kun Yu, Hao Wang, Chang Liu, and Jianwei Niu

Comparative Evaluation of Reliabilities on Semantic Search
Functions: Auto-complete and Entity-centric Unified Search
Hanmin Jung, Mi-Kyoung Lee, Beom-Jong You, and Do-Wan Kim

Integrated Recommender Systems Based on Ontology and Usage Mining
Liang Wei


AMT-BI 2009 Workshop
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WICI Workshop/Posters on Web Intelligence Meets Brain Informatics


Conference Site
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The conference will take place at the Grand Gongda Jianguo Hotel
(Beijing Gongda Jianguo Fandian - 4-stars hotel) is located inside
Beijing University of Technology within close proximity of
the central business district and only a five-minute walk
from the 2008 Beijing Olympic badminton and eurythmics venue.
We will give a special discount price for BI-AMT'09 attendees.
(400 RMB/1 single room, 450 RMB/1 double room (2 persons use),
including Tax, Breakfast, etc.)
The hotel reservation information is available at the AMT-BI'09 homepages.

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Co-sponsored by
Beijing University of Technology (BJUT)
Chinese Society of Radiology
National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC)
State Administration of Foreign Experts Affairs, PRC
Shanghai Psytech Electronic Technology Co. Ltd
Shenzhen Hanix United, Inc. Beijing Branch
Beijing JinShangQi Net System Integration Co. Ltd
Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS/LNAI)

*** Contact Information ***

Email: Jia Hu hujia0601 at gmail.com
Jiajin Huang hjj at emails.bjut.edu.cn