[PlanetKR] CFP: International Conference on Knowledge Science, Engineering, and Management

[Mary-Anne Williams]

Call For Papers

First International Conference on Knowledge Science, Engineering and 
Management (KSEM'2006)

August 5-8, 2006
Guilin City, China
http://www.cs.ust.hk/ksem06
Co-located with PRICAI'2006 (http://www.csse.monash.edu.au/pricai06)

* PAPER SUBMISSION DEADLINE: 10 March 2006
* PAPER SUBMISSION SITE: http://www.easychair.org/KSEM06

The aim of this interdisciplinary conference is to provide
a forum for researchers in the broad areas of knowledge science, knowledge
engineering, and knowledge management to exchange ideas and to report state
of the art research results. We invite submissions that are original and not
yet published. The topics of interest include but are not limited to:

* Knowledge Science
  - Knowledge representation and reasoning
  - Logics of knowledge; formal analysis of knowledge; reasoning about knowledge
  - Knowledge complexity and knowledge metrics
  - Commonsense knowledge; nonmonotonic reasoning
  - Uncertainty in knowledge (randomness, fuzziness, roughness, vagueness, etc.)
  - Reasoning about knowledge in the presence of inconsistency, incompleteness, 
    context-dependency, etc.
  - Belief revision and update
  - Cognitive foundations of knowledge
  - Knowledge in complex systems (e.g. economical and quantum systems)  
  - Game-theoretical aspects of knowledge; knowledge in multiagent systems
  - Formal ontology

* Knowledge Engineering
  - Knowledge and information extraction from databases and Web
  - Knowledge discovery from very large databases
  - Knowledge integration
  - Knowledge-based software engineering
  - Knowledge-based systems in life sciences
  - Conceptual modelling in knowledge-based systems
  - Semantic database systems
  - Semantic Web
  - Content engineering
  - Ontological engineering
  - Implementation issues in KBS
* Knowledge Management
  - Knowledge creation and acquisition
  - Knowledge verification and validation 
  - Knowledge dissemination 
  - Knowledge management systems
  - Organizational ontology 
  - Data mining and knowledge discovery
  - Organizational memory
  - Organizational learning 
  - Knowledge management strategies and practices
  - Knowledge management applications


Important Dates

Paper submission deadline                March 10, 2006
Notification of acceptance               April 28, 2006
Camera-ready paper due date              May 15, 2006
Conference                               August 5-8, 2006

Paper Submission

Papers must be submitted electronically as a PDF file through
EasyChair KSEM'06 web site http://www.easychair.org/KSEM06.
Please note that if a submission is accepted, one of the authors
must present the paper at the conference.

Paper Length and Format

Submissions must not exceed thirteen (13) pages including title page,
references, and figures. They must be formatted according to the Springer
LNCS/LNAI instructions (see http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html).

Conference Proceedings

The conference proceedings will be published by Springer-Verlag
as an LNAI.

Conference Co-Chairs

Joerg Siekmann (German Research Centre of Artificial Intelligence, Germany)
Chengqi Zhang (University of Technology, Sydney, Australia)

Organizing Chair

Ju Wang  (Guangxi Normal University, China)

Publicity Co-Chairs

Shuigeng Zhou (Fudan University, China)
Zili Zhang (Deakin University, Australia)

Sponsorship Chair:

Ke Liu (National Natural Science Foundation of China)

Tutorial Chair:

Cungen Cao (Chinese Academy of Sciences, China)

Advisory Committee

Andreas Dengel, Chair, German Research Center for AI, Germany
David Bell, Queen's University, UK
Didier Dubois, IRIT/UPS, Toulouse, France
Michael Gelfond, Texas Tech University, USA
Hector Levesque, University of Toronto, Canada
Ruqian Lu, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
Yoav Shoham, Stanford University, USA
Bo Zhang, Qinghua University, China

Program Committee

Program Chairs

Jerome Lang   (IRIT/UPS, Toulouse, France)
Fangzhen Lin  (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, China)

Area Chairs

Mingsheng Ying (Knowledge Science), Tsinghua University, Beijing, China
Shan Wang (Knowledge Engineering), Renmin University of China, China
Huaiqing Wang (Knowledge Management), City University of Hong Kong, China

Members

Eugene Agichtein, Microsoft Research, USA
Klaus Dieter Althoff, University of Hildesheim, Germany
Eyal Amir, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, USA
Grigoris Antoniou, FORTH, Greece
Nathalie Aussenac, IRIT-CNRS, France
Cungen Cao, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
Xiaoping Chen, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei,China
Yin Chen, South China Normal University, China
John Debenham, University of Technology, Sydney, Australia
Jim Delgrande, Simon Fraser University, Canada 
Xiaotie Deng, City University of Hong Kong, China
Rose Dieng-Kuntz, INRIA - Sophia Antipolis, France
Chabane Djeraba, University of Science and Technology of Lille, France
Patrick Doherty, Linkoping University, Sweden
Xiaoying Dong, Peking University, China
Xiaoyong Du, Renmin University of China, China
Martin Dzbor, Open University, UK
Thomas Eiter, Technische Universitat Wien, Austria
Hector Geffner, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Spain
Giangiacomo Gerla, University of Salerno, Italy
Lluis Godo, Artificial Intelligence Research Institute, CSIC, Spain
Nicola Guarino, ISTC-CNR, Trento, Italy
Andreas Herzig, IRIT, CNRS / Universite Paul Sabatier, France
Knut Hinkelmann, University of Applied Science, Solothurn, Switzerland
Wiebe van der Hoek, University of Liverpool, UK
Zhisheng Huang, Vrije University Amsterdam, the Netherlands
Anthony Hunter, University College London, UK
David Israel, SRI International, USA
Zhi Jin, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
Gabriele Kern-Isberner, Universitat Dortmund, Germany
Ron Kowk, City University of Hong Kong
Andre Kushniruk, University of Victoria, Canada
James Kwok, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, China
Qing Li, City University of Hong Kong, China
Xuelong Li, University of London, UK
Stephen Liao, City University of Hong Kong, China
Paolo Liberatore, Universita di Roma 'La Sapienza', Italy
Zuoquan Lin, Peking University, China
Chunnian Liu, Beijing University of Technology, China
Dayou Liu, Jilin University, China
Weiru Liu, Queen's University Belfast,UK
Dickson Lukose, DL Informatique Sdn Bhd, Malaysia
Zongmin Ma, Northeastern University, China
Chris Manning, University of Queensland, Australia
Jiye Mao, Renmin University of China, China
Simone Marinai, University of Florence, Italy
Pierre Marquis, Universite d'Artois, France
John-Jules Meyer, Utrecht University, The Netherlands 
Vibhu Mittal, Google, Inc., USA
Kenneth S Murray, SRI International, USA
Abhaya Nayak, Macquarie University, Sydney ,Australia
Wolfgang Nejdl, L3S Research Center, University of Hannover, Germany
Ewa Orlowska, Institute of Telecommunications, Poland
Maurice Pagnucco, University of New South Wales, Australia 
Fiora Pirri, Universita di Roma 'La Sapienza', Italy
Ulrich Reimer, University of Applied Sciences St. Gallen, Switzerland
Marie-Christine Rousset, Universite de Grenoble, France
Ken Satoh, National Institute of Informatics, Japan
Torsten Schaub, Universitat Potsdam, Germany
Choon Ling Sia, City University of Hong Kong, China
H. Stuckenschmidt, Vrije University Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Kaile Su, Zhongshan University, China
Katia Sycara, Carnegie Mellon University, USA
Leon van der Torre, CWI, Amsterdam,  The Netherlands 
Mirek Truszczynski, University of Kentucky, USA 
Laure Vieu, IRIT-CNRS (France) and LOA-CNR (Italy)
Guoren Wang, Northeasten University, China
Ju Wang, Guangxi Normal University, China
Kewen Wang, Griffith University, Australia  
Mary-Anne Williams, University of Technology, Sydney, Australia
Mike Wooldridge, University of Liverpool, UK 
Dongming Xu, University of Queensland, Australia
Jia-Huai You, University of Alberta, Canada
Chunxia Zhang, Beijing Institute of Technology, China
Dongmo Zhang, University of Western Sydney, Australia
Mingyi Zhang, Guizhou Academy of Sciences, China
Shichao Zhang, Guangxi Normal University, China
Yan Zhang, University of Western Sydney, Australia
Aoying Zhou, Fudan University, China
Xiaofang Zhou, University of Queesland, Australia
Zhi-Hua Zhou, Nanjing University, China
Zhaohui Zhu, Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, China
Sandra Zilles, DFKI Kaiserslautern, Germany
Meiyun Zuo, Renmin University of China, China