EKAW 2010: Call for Papers

[HSofia Pinto]

International Conference on Knowledge Engineering and Knowledge Management
EKAW 2010

Lisbon, Portugal,
http://ekaw2010.inesc-id.pt

The 17th International Conference on Knowledge Engineering and Knowledge 
Management is concerned with all aspects of eliciting, acquiring, 
modeling and managing knowledge, and its role in the construction of 
knowledge-intensive systems and services for the semantic web, knowledge 
management, e-business, natural language processing, intelligent 
information integration, etc.

The focus of the 17th edition of EKAW will be on "Knowledge Management 
and Engineering by the Masses".

The call for papers in PDF available at
http://ekaw2010.inesc-id.pt/docs/cfpEkaw2010.pdf

Important dates

* Submission: 19th of March 2010
* Notification: 14th of May 2010
* Camera Ready: 11th of June 2010

Organizing Committee

* General and PC chairs:
 - Sofia Pinto (INESC-ID, Lisbon)
 - Philipp Cimiano (CITEC, Universität Bielefeld)

* Workshop chair:
 - Siegfried Handschuh (DERI, NUI Galway)

* Tutorial chair:
 - Victoria Uren (University of Sheffield)

Demonstration chairs:
 - Oscar Corcho (UPM, Madrid)
 - Johanna Völker (University of Mannheim)

The proceedings of the conference will be published by Springer Verlag 
in the LNCS series. The LNCS volume will contain contributed papers.
EKAW 2010 will also feature a tutorial and workshop program, as well as 
a poster and demo track. Poster/demo notes and workshop/tutorial notes 
will be published separately in a companion booklet.

Paper submission and reviewing for EKAW 2010 will be electronic via the 
EasyChair conference submissions site. Submissions should be 15 pages 
long (max) formatted according to Springer Verlag LNCS guidelines.

EKAW 2010 welcomes papers dealing with theoretical, methodological, 
experimental, and application aspects. In particular, but not 
exclusively, we solicit papers about methodologies, models, and tools 
for the following topics:

1) Knowledge Management

* Methodologies and tools for knowledge management
* Aspects of collaboration, distribution and evolution of knowledge in KM
* Advanced knowledge modeling languages and tools
* Best practices / experiences in KM
* Foundations of KM
* Entity-oriented approaches to KM
* Layered intelligence in knowledge management
* Provenance, reliability and trust in knowledge management
* Knowledge management for collaboration and decision support
* Methods for accelerating take-up of KM technologies
* Corporate memories for KM
* Case-based reasoning for KM

2) Knowledge Engineering and Acquisition

* Methodologies for knowledge engineering
* Knowledge acquisition, ontology learning
* Knowledge sharing
* Knowledge evolution
* Collaborative knowledge engineering
* Design patterns
* Techniques for knowledge acquisition based on machine learning, NLP etc.
* Uncertainty and vagueness in knowledge modeling
* Knowledge engineering and software engineering
* Ontology localization
* Ontology alignment
* Evolution of knowledge (including ontology evolution)
* Knowledge acquisition from non-ontological resources (thesauri, 
folksonomies, lexica etc.)
* Knowledge acquisition and knowledge integration from heterogeneous 
sources (multimedia and 3D data, databases, sensor data streams, social 
interaction data)
* Knowledge authoring and knowledge markup languages
* Ontology evaluation
* Dynamic, distributed and process knowledge (including web services, 
grid services, P2P systems, rules and business processes, problem 
solving methods, procedural knowledge)
* Agent-based approaches to knowledge management
* Knowledge mashups

3) Knowledge In Use:
knowledge management and engineering for

* Retrieval and proactive delivery of pertinent knowledge
* Multimedia applications
* Life and E-sciences
* E-Government and public administration
* Health and medicine
* Automotive and manufacturing industry
* Semantic desktop applications
* The legal domain
* Cultural heritage applications
* Digital broadcasting and film, game and 3D media content production 
and sharing
* Digital libraries
* Virtual worlds
* Storytelling
* Management in critical applications
* Organizing user-contributed content
* Transition across organizations

4) Social and Cognitive Aspects of Knowledge Engineering

* Sustainability and cost analysis of knowledge engineering
* Human-knowledge interaction
* Cognitive systems and knowledge engineering
* Knowledge ecosystems
* Knowledge and social network analysis & modeling
* Knowledge in trust networks
* Personal sphere in knowledge engineering and management
* Collaborative and social approaches to knowledge management and 
acquisition

5) Special focus knowledge management and engineering by the masses

* Human-machine synergy in knowledge acquisition
* Incentives for knowledge creation and semantic annotation
* Enhancing human productivity (e.g. knowledge workers)
* Social and human factors in knowledge management
* Collective and collaborative intelligence in knowledge management
* Social tagging and folksonomies, social networks
* Web2.0 approaches to KM (including semantic wikis, folksonomies, etc.)
* Games with a Purpose and KM
* Linked Open Data / Web of Data

As an important difference to earlier conferences, EKAW will accept 
different types of papers. The papers will all have the same status and 
follow the same formatting guidelines in the proceedings but will 
receive special treatment during the reviewing phase. In particular, 
each paper type will be subject to own evaluation criteria. The PC will 
also make sure that there is a reasonable balance of the paper types 
accepted. At submission time the paper has to be clearly identified as 
belonging to one of the following categories.

A) Standard research papers

These are "standard" papers presenting a novel method, technique or 
analysis with appropriate empirical or other types of evaluation as 
proof-of concept. The main evaluation criteria here will be originality, 
technical soundness and validation.

B) In-use papers

Here we are expecting papers describing applications of knowledge 
management and engineering in real environments. Applications need to 
address a sufficiently interesting and challenging problem on real and 
large datasets, involving many users etc. The focus is less on the 
originality of the approach and more on presenting real, large-scale and 
complex systems that solve a significant problem. Technical details to 
understand how the problem is solved are required. Evaluations should 
involve real users of a system rather than representing a pure academic 
exercise.
The papers will be evaluated according to the significance and practical 
relevance of the described research as well as with respect to the 
technical soundness of the described solution and accompanying evaluation.

C) Problem Analysis papers

We invite researchers to also publish problem analysis papers which do 
not present any novel method, technique or approach to solving a 
problem, but help to understand the problem itself. Understanding the 
characteristics of a problem itself is an important task in research and 
can benefit many people working on the same or at least similar 
problems. We expect in-depth discussions and analysis of a certain 
phenomenon or problem, with
clear definitions as well as qualitative and quantitative analyzes of 
the main characteristics of the problem. We also expect a reasonable 
review of the state-of-the-art stating in how far current solutions fall 
short. Papers will mainly be evaluated with respect to how general and 
technically sound their problem analysis is and how useful it will be 
for other researchers working on the same problem. We expect that such 
papers will guide future research by highlighting critical assumptions, 
motivating the difficulty of a subproblem or explaining why current 
techniques are not sufficient, all corroborated by quantitative and 
qualitative arguments. Evaluation criteria will also include appropriate 
categorization of the problem area and description of present solutions 
and approaches; and appropriate description of the limitations of the 
present solutions and approaches.

D) Validation papers

A fundamental characteristic of research is that it should be 
reproducible. In some disciplines, reproduction of results by others is 
a basic research activity. We would like to encourage researchers to 
reproduce and validate methods, results and experiments etc. proposed by 
others before in a new context or application, on new datasets, under 
new assumptions etc. The goal is clearly to reach interesting and 
significant new conclusions about the method/approach in question that 
warrant a stand-alone publication. The reproduction of results should 
thus lead to new knowledge about the method in question or reveal 
inherent problems in the assumptions of the original research or 
limitations of previous solutions. Papers will be evaluated with respect 
to the soundness of the rationale for reproducing a certain approach as 
well as with respect to the new knowledge that is generated by 
reproducing the approach in question. A clear comparison between the 
results obtained through the reproduction and the original results are 
mandatory.

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