Introduction
The 2008 IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Intelligent Agent Technology (IAT-08) will be jointly held with the 2008 IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Web Intelligence (WI-08). The IEEE/WIC/ACM 2008 joint conferences are organized by University of Technology Sydney, and sponsored by IEEE Computer Society Technical Committee on Intelligent Informatics (TCII), Web Intelligence Consortium (WIC), and ACM-SIGART. The upcoming meeting in this conference series follows the great success of IAT-99 held in Hong Kong in 1999, IAT-01 held in Maebashi City, Japan in 2001, IAT-03 held in Halifax, Canada, IAT-04 held in Beijing, China, IAT-05 held in Compiegne University of Technology, France, IAT-06 held in Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre, China, and IAT-07 held in Silicon Valley, California, USA.
IAT 2008 provides a leading international forum to bring together researchers and practitioners from diverse fields, such as computer science, information technology, business, education, human factors, systems engineering, and robotics, to (1) examine the design principles and performance characteristics of various approaches in intelligent agent technology, and (2) increase the cross-fertilization of ideas on the development of autonomous agents and multi-agent systems among different domains. By encouraging idea-sharing and discussions on the underlying logical, cognitive, physical, and sociological foundations as well as the enabling technologies of intelligent agents, IAT 2008 will foster the development of novel paradigms and advanced solutions in agent-based computing.