Benchmarking what's new, scanning the smart technology horizon for conference titles
Benchmarking what's new
If you are trying to track what's new in your field or what topics are growing out of obscurity and into the limelight, approaching prominence and a critical mass of "interest seekers" and becoming hot, you can use a number of "proxy" indicators.
One of the best ways is to follow the emergence of new conference titles. More specifically, you want to spot a conference topic for the very first time-like "patient zero" in epidemiology.
One way is to look for titles that have something like: the first or second annual conference on…..whatever topic tickles your fancy
Here's a recent list. This gives you a futuristic flavor of what new areas researchers and academics are starting to explore and delve into.
That doesn't of course mean that you won't find new and exciting things at the 24th annual conference on……
List of Recent of 1st annual conferences
- 1st Annual Conference on Human-Robot Interaction. March 2-4, 2006 Salt Lake City, Utah,
- 1st Annual Conference on Nanopolicy and the Human Future.
- 1st annual Conference on the Convergence of Nano- and Bio- Technology"
- 1st Annual Conference on Empirical Legal Studies
- 1st Annual Augmented Cognition International Conference. (from 2005)
- "Interact. Inform. Inspire" - Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. Quebec, Canada. 22-27 April 2006.
- 1st International Conference on Digital Interactive Media Entertainment and Arts. Bangkok, Thailand. 25-27 October 2006
First International Conference on Scalable Information Systems, May 29-June 1, 2006, Hong Kong
1st International Conference on Cognitive Radio Oriented Wireless Networks and Communications (CROWNCOM 2006). Mykonos Island, Greece, June 8-10, 2006
Second International Conference on Information Systems Security (ICISS 2006)
17-21 December 2006; Indian Statistical institute, Kolkata, India- The 2nd International Conference on Collaborative Computing: Networking, Applications and Worksharing; Atlanta, Georgia, USA, November 17th - 20th, 2006
1st International Conference on Computational Models of Argument The University of Liverpool, UK 11th - 12th September 2006
If we open up a conference, say the last one, on Computaional Models of Arguement, we see a very intersting subset of topics
Over the past decade argumentation has become increasingly important in Artificial Intelligence. It has provided a fruitful way of approaching non-monotonic and defeasible reasoning, deliberation about action, and agent communication scenarios such as negotiation.
In application domains such as law, medicine and e-democracy it has come to be seen as an essential part of the reasoning. [ ] The time is now right for a conference dedicated to all aspects of computation argument.
Topics include, but are not limited to:
- argumentation frameworks
- argument schemes
- argument in agent systems
- argument based negotiation
- computational properties of argumentation
- decision making based on argumentation
- dialogue based on argument
- e-democracy, legal and medical applications
- learning through argument
- reasoning about action with argument
- tools for argumentation
The Conference Proceedings will be published by IOS Press as a volume in the Series 'Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence and Applications'.
Source: The Opportunity Clinic workshop by W. Derzko
Add your Ideas ot the Comments Section: Have you run across any 1st annual conferences on something ? email me the info and link or add it to the comments section below..Thanks in advance
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