In this talk, we give a new perspective of Web Intelligence (WI)
research from the viewpoint of Brain Informatics.
Brain Informatics (BI) is a new interdisciplinary field
to study human information processing
mechanism systematically from both macro and micro points of view by
cooperatively using experimental cognitive neuroscience and WI centric
advanced information technology. We argue that new instrumentation
(fMRI etc.) and advanced information technology are causing
an impending revolution in Web intelligence and Brain Sciences (BS).
This revolution is bi-directional: new understanding and discovery of
human intelligence models in BS will yield a new generation of WI
research and development; and WI based portal techniques will provide
a new powerful platform for BS.
The synergy between WI with BI will yield profound advances in
our analyzing and understanding of the mechanism of data, knowledge,
intelligence and wisdom, as well as their relationship, organization
and creation process. It means that fundamental and implementation of
Web intelligence will be studied as a central topic and in a unique
way. It will fundamentally change the nature of information
technology in general and artificial intelligence in particular,
towards human-level Web intelligence.
Ning Zhong received the Ph.D. degree in the Interdisciplinary Course on Advanced Science and Technology from the University of Tokyo. He is currently head of Knowledge Information Systems Laboratory, and a professor in Department of Systems and Information Engineering at Maebashi Institute of Technology, Japan. He is also director and an adjunct professor in the International WIC Institute (WICI), Beijing University of Technology. He has conducted research in the areas of knowledge discovery and data mining, rough sets and granular-soft computing, Web intelligence, intelligent agents, brain-informatics, and knowledge information systems, with over 150 journal and conference publications and 10 books. He is the editor-in-chief of the Web Intelligence and Agent Systems journal (IOS Press), and Annual Review of Intelligent Informatics (World Scientific), associate editor of IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering, and the Knowledge and Information Systems journal (Springer), a member of the editorial board of Transactions on Rough Sets (Springer), and the editorial board of Advanced Information and Knowledge Processing (AI&KP) book series (Springer), Frontiers in AI and Applications book series (IOS Press), and editor (the area of intelligent systems) of the Encyclopedia of Computer Science and Engineering (Wiley). He is the co-chair of Web Intelligence Consortium (WIC), vice chair of the IEEE Computer Society Technical Committee on Intelligent Informatics, member of the steering committee of IEEE International Conferences on Data Mining (ICDM), the advisory board of International Rough Set Society. He has served or is currently serving on the program committees of over 80 international conferences and workshops, including IEEE ICDM'02 (conference chair), IEEE ICDM'06 (program chair), IEEE/WIC WI-IAT'03 (conference chair), IEEE/WIC/ACM WI-IAT'04 (program chair), and IJCAI'03 (advisory committee member). He is a senior member of IEEE, and a member of IPSJ, JSAI, IEEE-CS, IEEE-SMC, ACM, AAAI, and IRSS.
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