WISA 2012 - Fourth Workshop on Intelligent Systems and Applications (WISA 2012)

Fourth Workshop on Intelligent Systems and Applications (WISA 2012)
Scope
Intelligent Systems are those that incorporate aspects usually associated with intelligent human behaviour, such as perception, reasoning, learning, evolution, adaptation, autonomy, social interaction and pro-activity. Historically speaking, this is one of the main focuses of interest in Artificial Intelligence. However, the dynamic contemporary world has turned such characteristics a requirement in virtually every information system. As time evolves and given the fast technological development, intelligent systems are becoming even more feasible as they take part in our daily lives. Additionally, their great potential of application in different knowledge areas and sectors of the society turns its development even more interdisciplinary, with contributions from many different areas, not only engineering, computer science and informatics, but also from human and social sciences.
This workshop is aimed at building an adequate forum for the discussion of the many aspects related to the creation and development of intelligent systems, both from a theoretical perspective and from the practical exemplification of their potential applications. We intend to gather the scientific community, industry and society to discuss on the state-of-the-art models and architectures, as well as on paradigms and frontiers that motivate much of the advance of intelligent systems. Areas such as Artificial Intelligence, computing theories and models of the human cognition, knowledge representation and engineering, information infrastructure and distributed intelligent systems on the Web are some of the areas to be explored and deepen in this workshop.
Topics of Interest
The topics of interest for the workshop include, but are not limited to the following areas:
? Artificial Intelligence
? Agent technology and multi-agent systems
? Cognitive and adaptive robotics
? Knowledge-based systems
? Machine learning
? Electronic Commerce
? Adaptive business intelligence
? Semantic Web and Ontologies
? Information retrieval
? Data and knowledge engineering
? Knowledge discovery from databases
? Data mining and OLAP
? Human-Computer Interaction
? Ubiquitous computing and mobile systems
? Service oriented architectures
? Expert and decision support systems
? Intelligent entertainment systems
? Evolutionary computing and other bio-inspired models