Call for Papers
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Special Issue on Agent Mining
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Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems

In the last decade, autonomous agents and multi-agent systems (agents for
short) and data mining have emerged as two of the most vigorous areas in
information technology. The nature and complementarity of both areas foreshows
an emerging trend ? the increasing interaction and integration between agents
and data mining (Agent Mining for short). A symbiotic relationship could
significantly strengthen each side's progress and trigger new research
challenges and prospects toward the advancement of next-generation intelligent
technologies and systems, as well as the enrichment of integrated intelligence
and other emergent aspects. As a matter of fact, recent years have seen the
increasing research on Agent Mining in both agents and data mining communities.
This special issue aspires to report the high profile, original and
state-of-the-art progress made on Agent Mining. It aims to encourage the
interaction between agents and data mining, toward mutual enhancement and
super-intelligent techniques and synergism. It will bring together researchers
and industry practitioners from both areas to share pioneering results, and
discuss the existing and emerging theoretical and applied problems in the
interaction and evolution of agents and data mining.

Topics of Interest
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Topic areas include (but aren't limited to)
* Methodologies and mechanisms for integrating agents and data mining,
* Agent-based data mining and knowledge discovery,
* Data-mining-based agents and multi-agent systems,
* Performance evaluation of agent mining symbiosis, and
* Emerging agent-mining intelligent applications and systems.

Important Dates
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Submissions due: 15 Jan. 2011
Notification of acceptance: 5 Apr. 2011
Final version submitted: 5 Jun. 2011
Article online publication: Upon Acceptance

Submission Guidelines
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Submissions should follow the style and presentation guidelines of the journal
of Autonomous
Agents and Multi-agent Systems (JAAMAS) by referring to the Instructions for
Authors (see
http://www.springer.com/10458). To submit a manuscript, access JAAMAS online
submission
system, at http://www.editorialmanager.com/jaamas/.

Questions?
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Contact Guest Editors: Longbing Cao (longbing.cao-1@uts.edu.au), Gerhard Weiss
(gerhard.weiss@maastrichtuniversity.nl), or Philip S Yu (psyu@cs.uic.edu).

About Agent Mining
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Refer to www.agentmining.org for more information about Agent Mining.