[PlanetKR] 2014 Pacific Rim Knowledge Acquisition Workshop (PKAW 2014) - extended deadline

[Xun Wang]

Call for Papers

The 2014 Pacific Rim Knowledge Acquisition Workshop  (PKAW2-14)
Gold Coast, Australia
December 1-2, 2014,

http://www.pkaw.org/pkaw2014/

The PKAW 2014 Program Committee invites submissions of research papers
for PKAW 2014, to be held Gold Coast, Australia, on December 1 - 2,
2014. PKAW 2014 is part of the 13th Pacific Rim International
Conference on Artificial Intelligence (PRICAI 2014).

The purpose of this workshop is to provide a forum for presentation
and discussion of all aspects of knowledge acquisition research. In
particular, today the study of knowledge acquisition has enormous
importance, because the unprecedented data, called Big Data, are
available today. Knowledge acquisition aims to extract useful
knowledge from vast and diverse data as well as its acquisition
directly from human experts.

Knowledge acquisition research is multidisciplinary research,
including knowledge engineering, machine learning, natural language
processing, human computer interaction, artificial intelligence and
the Semantic Web. We invite authors to submit papers on all aspect of
knowledge acquisition research and practices. We will also invite
submissions that present applications tested and deployed in real-life
settings. Those papers should address lessons learned from the
development and deployment. All papers will be peer reviewed, and
those accepted for the workshop 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
- Languages and frameworks for knowledge and knowledge modelling
information systems or decision support systems
- Methods and techniques for sharing and reusing knowledge
- Ontology and its role in knowledge acquisition
- Mining the Semantic Web, the Linked Data and the Web of Data
- Hybrid approaches combining knowledge engineering and machine learning
- Innovative user interfaces
- Big data capture, representation and analytics
- Crowd-sourcing for data generation and problem solving
- Software engineering and knowledge engineering
- Algorithms, tools and techniques for machine intelligence
- Knowledge acquisition applications tested and deployed in inreal-life settings

IMPORTANT DATES

July 25, 2014 Deadline for Submission of papers
August 29, 2014 Notification of acceptance
September 12, 2014  Deadline for submission of camera-ready paper
December 1 ~ 2, 2014 Workshop

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. Submission via Easychair, see PKAW website.

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

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

INFORMATION AND INQUIRIES
Workshop information is available at the Workshop Website: http://www.pkaw.org/

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

Information about visiting Gold Coast can be found at
http://www.visitgoldcoast.com/ and for visiting Australia see
http://www.australia.com/