[PlanetKR] CFP: 2012 Pacific Rim Knowledge Acquisition Workshop

[Mary-Anne Williams]

The 2012 Pacific Rim Knowledge Acquisition Workshop (PKAW 2012)
Kuching, Sarawak, Malaysia
September 3 - 7, 2012

http://www.comp.mq.edu.au/~richards/pkaw12/index.php

The 2012 Pacific Rim Knowledge Acquisition Workshop (PKAW 2012) is
part of the 12th Pacific Rim International Conference on Artificial
Intelligence. The purpose of this workshop is to provide a forum for
presentation and discussion of all aspects of knowledge acquisition
from both the theoretician's and practitioner's points of view. While
it is well accepted that knowledge is vital for our individual,
organisational and societal survival and growth, the nature of
knowledge and how it can be captured, represented, reused, maintained
and shared are not fully-understood. This workshop will explore
approaches that address these issues. PKAW includes knowledge
acquisition research involving manual and automated methods and
combinations of both.

We invite authors to submit papers on any aspect of knowledge
engineering, management and acquisition research and practice.
Research which addresses advanced application issues such as
scalability, security, and robustness are particularly welcome. All
papers will be peer reviewed, and those accepted for the conference
will be included in the Springer LNAI proceedings.

Topics of Interest
Papers are invited for consideration in all aspects of knowledge
acquisition, engineering and management for intelligent systems,
including (but not restricted to):
-   Fundamental views on knowledge that affect the knowledge
acquisition process and the use of knowledge in knowledge engineering
-   Algorithmic approaches to knowledge acquisition
-   Tools and techniques for knowledge acquisition, knowledge
maintenance and knowledge validation.
 -  Evaluation of knowledge acquisition techniques, tools and methods
   Knowledge acquisition and machine learning
 -  Languages and frameworks for knowledge and knowledge modelling
information systems or decision support systems
 -  Methods and techniques for sharing and reusing knowledge
 -  Distributed knowledge acquisition through infrastructures such as
the internet and social networks
 -  Ontology acquisition and the role of ontologies in knowledge acquisition
 -  Knowledge authoring and semantic annotation
 -  Knowledge acquisition from non-ontological sources
 -  Mining the Semantic Web and the Web of Data
 -  The role of agents in knowledge acquisition
 -  Data mining and machine learning
 -  Business Rules, Knowledge Acquisition and Software Engineering
 -  Knowledge Acquisition for idea generation, creativity and innovation
 -  Algorithmic approaches to machine intelligence
 -  Tools and techniques for machine intelligence

Instructions for Paper Submission
Papers must follow the Springer Lecture Notes format. The paper should
be between 10 to 15 pages long. For format templates, please see the
Springer Website (http://www.springer.com/lncs). Submission will be
via Easychair (https://www.easychair.org/account/signin.cgi?conf=pkaw2012).
The site will be open soon.

Important Dates
   Paper Submission: 30th April, 2012
   Notification of Acceptance: 18th May, 2012
   Camera Ready: 28th May, 2012

Review
Each submission will be reviewed by at least two members from the
program committee. Acceptance is based on the basis of relevance,
originality, significance, soundness and clarity.

Publication
All accepted papers will be published in Springer Lecture Notes Series.

Concerning suggestions for the conference and other inquiries, write
to the Program Co-chairs: Prof. Deborah Richards, Macquarie University
(deborah.richards at mq.edu.au); and A/Prof. Byeong-ho Kang , University
of Tasmania (bhkang at utas.edu.au).

Workshop Honorary Chairs
   Prof. Paul Compton,  University of New South Wales, Australia
  Prof. Hiroshi Motoda,  AFOSR/AOARD and Osaka University, Japan

Workshop Co-Chairs
  A/Prof. Byeong Ho Kang,  University of Tasmania, Australia
 Prof. Deborah Richards,  Macquarie University, Australia

Program Committee
   Ghassan Beydoun (University of Wollongong, Australia)
   Ivan Bindoff (University of Tasmania, Australia)
   Richard Dazeley (University of Ballarat, Australia)
   Byeong Ho Kang (University of Tasmania, Australia)
   Achim Hoffman (University of NSW, Australia)
   Mihye Kim (Catholic Ukniversity of Daegu, South Korea)
   Yang Sok Kim (University of New South Wales, Australia)
   Masahiro Kimura (Ryukoku University, Australia)
   Maria Lee (Shih Chien University, Taiwan)
   Kyongho Min  (Australia)
   Toshiro Minami  (Kyushu Institute of Information Sciences & Kyushu
University Library, Japan)
   Hiroshi Motoda (Osaka University and AFOSR/AOARD, Japan)
   Kozo Ohara (Aoyama Gakuin University, Japan)
  Ulrich Reimer (University of Applied Sciences St. Gallen, Switzerland)
   Deborah Richards (Macquarie University, Australia)
   Kazumi Saito (Univesity of Shizuoka, Japan)
   Hendra Suryanto (University of New South Wales, Australia)
   Takao Terano (Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan)
   Shuxiang Xu (University of Tasmania, Australia)
   Seiji Yamada (National Institute of Informatics, Japan)
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