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The 23'rd IEEE/WIC International Conference on
Web Intelligence and Intelligent Agent Technology




























*** Please be advised that the allocated presentation time for long papers is 20 minutes, while short papers are allotted 15 minutes.
10 December 2024 (KX 10th floor)
Time Duration Event Program
8:30 - 17:00 - Registration
9:00 - 9:15 15 minutes Opening Ceremony (Room: X04)
9:15 - 10:00 45 minutes Keynote#1 - Guoyin Wang
Title: Brain Cognition Inspired Artificial Intelligence (Room: X04)
10:00 - 10:15 15 minutes Coffee Break (Corridor)
10:15 - 12:00 1 hour 45 minutes Parallel Sessions
Room: X02 Room: X01 Room: X04
Web of People Session no.1
Recommender Systems and Cold-Start Challenges
Web of Data Session no.1
Large Language Models, NLP, and Text Processing
SPECIAL TRACK: FAccT, LLM and AIGC and WEB OF TRUST
Trustworthy AI: Explainability, Fairness, and Security in Digital and Social Contexts
  • WI298 A Comprehensive Approach Integrating Spot Atmosphere,User Situations, and Moods for Music Recommendation
  • (20 minutes)
  • Da Li, Fumina Maruoka, Tadahiko Kumamoto, Shintaro Ono, and Yukiko Kawai
  • WI289 Reasoning Capabilities and Invariability of Large Language Models
  • (20 minutes)
  • Alessandro Raganato, Rafael Penaloza, Marco Viviani, and Gabriella Pasi
  • WI325 Argument-structured Justification Generation for Explainable Fact-checking
  • (20 minutes)
  • Xiaoou Wang, Elena Cabrio, and Serena Villata
  • WI215 Cold-Start Service Recommendation Based on a Multi-Strategy Pre-Training Model
  • (20 minutes)
  • Gang Xiao, Jiacheng Shi, JiaHuan Fei, Qibing Wang, Yuchen He, and Jiawei Lu
  • WI228 LLM’s got the funk: leveraging LLM, Prompt Engineering and Fine-Tuning for Topic Modelling on Brazilian Funk Lyrics
  • (20 minutes)
  • Jesus Yepez, Bruno Tavares, Fabíola Peres, and Karin Becker
  • WI244 Towards a Smart Asset Model for Digital Assets on Blockchains
  • (20 minutes)
  • Vodelina Samatova, Nodirbek Korchiev, Sogolsadat Mansouri, and Kemafor Anyanwu
  • WI331 In corporating Classifier-Free Guidance in Diffusion Model-Based Recommendation
  • (20 minutes)
  • Noah Buchanan, Susan Gauch, and Quan Mai
  • WI275 PROMET: Parameter-efficient Few-shot Fine-grained Entity Typing with Implicit Mask Filling
  • (20 minutes)
  • Riccardo Rubini, Manuel Vimercati, and Matteo Palmonari
  • WI249 EHSD : Explainable Hate Speech Detection Based on
    Pre-trained Language Models with Rationale Learning and Multi-Task Learning
  • (20 minutes)
  • Yuta Honjo, Jianwei Zhang, and Wei Zhang
  • WI225 Cosmetic Item Recommendation Method Based on Similar User Extraction Considering Skin Type and Concerns
  • (15 minutes)
  • Da Li, Amane Matsuoka, Fumiya Yamaguchi, Mayumi Ueda, and Shinsuke Nakajima
  • WI296 Leveraging LLMs for Mental Health: Detection and Recommendations from Social Discussions
  • (15 minutes)
  • Vaishali Aggarwal, Sachin Thukral, Krushil Patel, and Arnab Chatterjee
  • WI304 From Courts to Comprehension: Can LLMs Make Judgments More Accessible?
  • (20 minutes)
  • Giovanni Pinna, Davide Tugnoli, Mara Bartole, Luca Manzoni, and Andrea De Lorenzo
  • WI339 Alleviating the Cold Start Problem in Recommender
  • (15 minutes)
  • Systems Using Error-Based Learning Ricardo Laanen and Flavius Frasincar
  • WI354 A Framework for Synthetic Audio Conversations Generation using Large Language Models
  • (15 minutes)
  • Kaung Myat Kyaw and Jonathan Hoyin Chan
  • WI264 Malicious Web Links Detection Based on Image Processing and Deep Learning Models
  • (15 minutes)
  • Claudia-Ioana Coste
  • WI306 Synthetic Data Generation with Large Language Models for Personalized Community Question Answering
  • (15 minutes)
  • Marco Braga, Pranav Kasela, Alessandro Raganato, and Gabriella Pasi
  • WI310 Optimization of Bias Mitigation in Word Embeddings: a Methodological Approach
  • (15 minutes)
  • María José Zambrano and Felipe Bravo-Marquez
  • 12:00 - 13:00 1 hour Lunch (9th Fl)
    13:00 - 13:45 45 minutes Keynote#2 - Ong Yew Soon
    Title: Foundations of Transfer and Multitask Optimization and Advances with Generative AI and Large Language Models (Room: X04)
    13:45 - 15:45 2 hours Forum on AI and Education
    Chair: Irwin King (Room: X04)
    15:45 - 16:00 15 minutes Coffee Break (Corridor)
    16:00 17:45 1 hour 45 minutes Parallel Session
    Room: X02 Room: X01 Room: X04
    Web of People Session no.2
    AI for Health, Emotion, and Social Intelligence
    Web of Data Session no.2
    Knowledge Graphs and Entity Linking
    SPECIAL TRACK: Web in Industry, Society, Health and Smart Living, and the Web of Everything and WEB OF AGENTS
    Interactive and Intelligent Platforms for Policy, Education, and Service Compliance
  • WI311 Food KBQA Recommender: A knowledge base question answering system powered meal plan recommender
  • (20 minutes)
  • Felix Bölz, Diana Nurbakova, Audrey Serna, Sylvie Calabretto, Lionel Brunie, and Harald Kosch
  • WI260 Enhancing Entity Linking over Tabular Data with Large Language Models
  • (20 minutes)
  • Iroshani Jayawardene, Roberto Avogadro, Ahmet Soylu, and Dumitru Roman
  • WI262 Developing A Chatbot: A Hybrid Approach Using Deep Learning and RAG
  • (20 minutes)
  • Vrajkumar Patel, Parth Tejani, Jay Parekh, Xing Tan, and Huang Kai
  • WI237 Mind2: Mind-to-Mind Emotional Support System with Bidirectional Cognitive Discourse Analysis
  • (20 minutes)
  • Shi Yin Hong, Uttamasha Oyshi, Quan Mai, Gibson Nkhata, and Susan Gauch
  • WI284 Lifelong Neural Graph Summarization
  • (20 minutes)
  • Jonatan Frank, Marcel Hoffmann, Nicolas Lell, David Richerby, and Ansgar Scherp
  • WI345 Development of a Participatory Policy Planning Tool based on Multi-Agent Social Simulation
  • (20 minutes)
  • Naoki Sugie, Mamoru Yoshizoe, and Hiromitsu Hattori
  • WI247 Lung Nodule Diagnosis Model Simulating Brain's Uncertain Cognitive Mechanism
  • (20 minutes)
  • Huanan Bao, Guoyin Wang, Qun Liu, and Pengcheng Xu
  • WI285 Multi-View Structural Graph Summaries
  • (20 minutes)
  • Jonatan Frank, Andor Diera, David Richerby, and Ansgar Scherp
  • WI356 Measuring Spoken English Proficiency Level Based on IELTS Speaking Test Using Machine Learning Models
  • (15 minutes)
  • Dylan Yves and Jonathan Chan
  • WI251 Robustness of the compositional data approach in bipolar psychometric Likert scales big skewed data analysis
  • (15 minutes)
  • René Lehmann and Bodo Vogt
  • WI238 Semantic and Structural Clustering for Enhancing SubGraph-based Knowledge Graph Completion
  • (15 minutes)
  • You-Syuan Chen, Cheng-Ru Wei, Tzi-Ping Gau, and Wei-Po Lee
  • WI307 LLM-based Interoperable IoT Service Platform
  • (15 minutes)
  • Ryutaro Yokotsuji, Donghui Lin, and Fumito Uwano
  • WI322 Anomalous Speech Detection: Unleashing the Adaptive Power of VarietyDetect for Enhanced Short-Text Anomaly Detection through Transfer Learning and Self-Training
  • (15 minutes)
  • Saugata Bose and Guoxin Su
  • WI258 Fact-Centric Knowledge Web for Information Retrieval
  • (15 minutes)
  • Reuben Sinha and Shun Shiramatsu
  • WI287 Developing Metaverse Initiatives: Insights from a University Case Study
  • (15 minutes)
  • Jiongbin Liu, William Yeoh, Shang Gao, Xiaoliang Meng, and Yuhan Zhu
  • WI278 Modelling and Exploitation of Knowledge Graphs using Category Theory
  • (15 minutes)
  • Marek Reformat and Tim Put
  • WI348 Automatic Recognition of Business Intent Compliance through Integration and Sensor Data Analysis with Deep Learning
  • (15 minutes)
  • kaoutar sadouki, Elena Kornyshova, and Nourhene Ben Rabah
  • 17:45 - 20:00 2 hours 15 minutes Reception

    *** Please be advised that the allocated presentation time for long papers is 20 minutes, while short papers are allotted 15 minutes.
    11 December 2024 (KX 10th floor)
    Time Duration Event Program
    8:30 - 17:00 - Registration
    8:30 - 10:50 2 hours 20 minutes Best Paper Award Candidate Presentation & Parallel Sessions
    Room: X02 Room: X01 Room: X04
    Web of People Session no.3
    Social Media, Opinion Analysis, and Citizen Participation
    Web of Data Session no.3
    AI for Context-Aware QA, Social Insights, and Predictive Modeling
    Best Paper Award / Best Student Paper Award - Shortlist
  • WI233 Exploring Divergence in Collective Perception to Noto Earthquake Through News Comment Data
  • (20 minutes)
  • Kunhao Yang and Mengyuan Fu
  • WI266 HouseOfTheDragonQA: Open-Domain Long-Form Context-Aware QA Pairs for TV Series
  • (20 minutes)
  • Aritra Kumar Lahiri and Qinmin Vivian Hu
  • WI240 Estimation of POI Characteristics Based on Visitor Mobility Behavior
  • (20 minutes)
  • Landy Rajaonarivo and Tsunenori Mine
  • WI282 A Comparative Analysis of Offensive Discourse in the 2021 Chilean Presidential Campaign on Twitter and WhatsApp
  • (20 minutes)
  • Hernan Sarmiento, Jorge Ortiz, Felipe Bravo-Marquez, Marcelo Santos, and Sebastián Valenzuela
  • WI208 The 3SD few-shot method for detecting stances on Twitter:a case study of Brazilian Stances on COVID vaccination
  • (20 minutes)
  • Karin Becker, Jesus Yepes, and Andre Mediote de Souza
  • WI337 Enhancing the conformal predictability of context-aware recommendation systems by using Deep Autoencoders
  • (20 minutes)
  • Saloua Zammali, Siddhant Dutta, and Sadok Ban Yahia
  • WI338 Finding Conflicts of Opinion in Citizen Participation Platforms
  • (20 minutes)
  • William Aboucaya, Oana Balalau, Rafael Angarita, and Valérie Issarny
  • WI309 Leveraging Large Language Models for Medical Information Extraction and Query Generation
  • (15 minutes)
  • Georgios Peikos, Pranav Kasela, and Gabriella Pasi
  • WI235 A Concise Multi-Document Extractive Summarization Approach on Product Reviews
  • (20 minutes)
  • Nathaniel Benham, Siqi Gao, and Yiu-Kai Ng
  • WI223 C2DRNet: Context-Commonsense Discrepancy Resolution Learning on Commonsense Attentive Network for Humor Recognition
  • (15 minutes)
  • Yuta Sasaki, Jianwei Zhang, and Yuhki Shiraishi
  • WI248 Cross-domain Hate Speech Detection for Content Moderation in Greek Social Networks
  • (15 minutes)
  • Nikolaos Stylianou, Theodora Tsikrika, Stefanos Vrochidis, and Ioannis Kompatsiaris
  • WI277 Unveiling the Source: Differentiating Human and Machine-Generated Texts in a Multilingual Setting
  • (20 minutes)

  • Gurunameh Singh Chhatwal and Jiashu Zhao
  • WI226 A System for Analyzing the Frequency of Product Feature Mentions in Review Videos
  • (15 minutes)
  • Fumiya Yamaguchi, Aiko Kobayashi, Mayumi Ueda, Da Li, and Shinsuke Nakajima
  • WI232 Spatial-Temporal Multi-Factor Network Based on Attention Mechanism for Traffic Prediction
  • (15 minutes)
  • Yutong Li, Zhonghua Sun, Xinke Wang, Kebin Jia, and Jinchao Feng
  • WI292 Deep Reinforcement Learning with Local Communications for Continuous Pathfinding Problems in Multi-Agent Systems
  • (20 minutes)
  • Yosuke Fujisawa, Daiki Shimada, Yuki Miyashita, and Toshiharu Sugawara
  • WI317 A knowledge-based sequential sensor selection approach for fast object classification
  • (15 minutes)
  • Vincent Beugnet, Nathalie Pernelle, Manel Zarrouk, Cyrille Enderli, and Ludovic Grivault
  • WI303 TIMBRE: Efficient Job Recommendation On Heterogeneous Graphs For Professional Recruiters
  • (20 minutes)
  • Éric Behar, Julien Romero, Amel Bouzeghoub, and Katarzyna Wegrzyn-Wolska
  • WI241 A Multi-Population Surrogate-Assisted Algorithm Based on Granular-Ball K-Nearest Neighbors Classification for Expensive Optimization
  • (15 minutes)
  • Haihuan Jiang, Guoyin Wang, Qun Liu, and Jiajia Cao
  • WI224 Synthetic Mobility Feature Generation for Mental Health Prediction using Diffusion Models
  • (20 minutes)
  • Masahiro Suzuki, Megumi Kodaka, and Yusuke Fukazawa
  • 10:50 - 11:00 10 minutes Coffee Break
    11:00 - 13:00 2 hours Doctoral Consortium (Room: X04)
    13:00 - 14:00 1 hour Lunch
    14:00 - 14:45 45 minutes Keynote#3 - Danilo Mandic
    Title: Interpretable Convolutional NNs and Graph CNNs: Role of Domain Knowledge (Room: X04)
    14:45 - 15:00pm 15 minutes Coffee Break
    15:00 - 16:30pm 1 hour 30 minutes Panel: Web Intelligence 3.0 and Beyond: Exploring the Intersection of LLMs, AI Agents, and Embodied Intelligence for a Future Intelligent Society Chairs: Jiming Liu and Ning Zhong
    (Room: X04)
    16:30 - 17:00pm 30 minutes Award Ceremony and WI-IAT 2025 Introduction
    (1) The awards in the conference level, including the Best Paper Awards, the Best Service Awards etc.
    (2) The awards in the WIC level, including WIC Outstanding Research Contributions Award and WIC Outstanding Service Award.
    (3) The announcement of new Web Intelligence Academy (WIA) fellows.
    (4) The introduction of WI-IAT 2025.
    (Room: X04)
    17:15 - 18:00 45 minutes Break
    17:45 - 20:00 2 hours 15 minutes Banquet (TBA)



    *** Please be advised that the allocated presentation time for long papers is 20 minutes, while short papers are allotted 15 minutes.
    12 December 2024 (KX 10th floor)
    Time Duration Event Program
    8:30 - 12:00 3 hours 30 minutes Registration
    9:00 - 9:45 45 minutes Keynote#4 - Saori Tanaka
    Title: Status of Human Neuroimaging Databases Worldwide
    Focusing on Psychiatric and Neurological Disorders (Room: X04)
    9:45 - 10:00 15 minutes Coffee Break (Corridor)
    10:00 - 11:45 1 hour 45 minutes Parallel Session
    Room: X02 Room: X01 Room: X04
    Web of People Session no.4
    AI Innovations in Learning, Search, and Crowdsourcing
    Web of Data Session no.4
    Perception Analysis and Monitoring
    Web of Agent
    Multi-Agent Systems, Coalition Formation, and Game Theory
  • WI305 Enhancing User’s Knowledge Gain Estimation In Search-as-Learning Using Implied Knowledge
  • (20 minutes)
  • Arno Lesage, Hadi Nasser, Célia da Costa Pereira, Cathy Escazut, and Andrea Tettamanzi
  • WI218 GAF-based multimodal time series data fusion for water depth monitoring in headwater streams
  • (20 minutes)
  • Xiaohu Zhao, Kebin Jia, Yue Zhang, Zhonghua Sun, Jinchao Feng, and Wei Liu
  • WI221 Using Two Colour Necklaces to Fairly Allocate Coalition Value Calculations
  • (20 minutes)
  • Terry Payne, Luke Riley, Katie Atkinson, and Paul Dunne
  • WI242 Automatic Rating for Each Evaluation Aspect Based on Hotel Review Analysis Using Word Embedding
  • (20 minutes)
  • Yujiro Hayashi, Jianwei Zhang, Yukiko Kawai, and Shinsuke Nakajima
  • WI229 LAIP: Learned Adaptive Inspection Paths Using Offline Reinforcement Learning
  • (20 minutes)
  • Samuel Matloob, Ayan Dutta, O. Patrick Kreidl, Swapnonel Roy, and Ladislau Bölöni
  • WI222 Incentives in Public Goods Games on Networks
  • (20 minutes)
  • Yair Vaknin and Amnon Meisels
  • WI245 Self-Supervised Fine-tuning for Neural Expert Finding
  • (20 minutes)
  • Budhitama Subagdja, Sanchari Dan, and Ah-Hwee Tan
  • WI286 Survey Table Generation from Academic Articles
  • (20 minutes)
  • Po-Chun Chen, Hen-Hsen Huang, and Hsin-Hsi Chen
  • WI314 Utility-Profit based Large Scale Simultaneous Coalition Structure Generation and Assignment in Constrained Environment
  • (15 minutes)
  • Tuhin Kumar Biswas, Ankit Roy, and Animesh Dutta
  • WI328 Task Assignment in Crowdsourcing Using Deep Knowledge Tracing
  • (15 minutes)
  • Ryotaro Yamamoto, Zhang Yuxuan, Yohei Murakami, Mondheera Pituxcoosuvarn
  • WI253 Estimating Anime Sacred Sites Based on Geolocalization by Hybrid Model of Classification and Regression
  • (15 minutes)
  • Weixiang Ou, Kaito Honda, and Takayasu Fushimi
  • WI343 Multi-Agent Traffic Simulations with Agent Control based on Logic Programming Languages
  • (15 minutes)
  • Mamoru Yoshizoe and Hiromitsu Hattori
  • WI280 Estimating Knowledge Gain in Search As Learning: A Clustering-based Approach to Inferring Learning Goals
  • (15 minutes)
  • Hadi Nasser, Célia da Costa Pereira, Cathy Escazut, and Andrea Tettamanzi
  • WI281 Moving Object Detection using Hybrid Yolo-v8 with Improved GAN
  • (15 minutes)
  • Mukaram Safaldin, Nizar Zaghden, and Mahmoud Mejdoub
  • WI324 Evaluating and Enhancing LLMs Agent based on Theory of Mind in Guandan: A Multi-Player Cooperative Game under Imperfect Information
  • (15 minutes)
  • Yauwai Yim, Chunkit Chan, Tianyu Shi, Zheye Deng, Wei Fan, Tianshi Zheng, and Yangqiu Song
  • WI294 What makes a place safe? uncovering urban perception through street view imagery
  • (15 minutes)
  • Felipe Moreno
  • 11:45 - 12:00 15 minutes Closing Remark (Room: X04)