ICKE 2009

SCOPE
Knowledge Engineering refers to all technical, scientific and social aspects involved in building, maintaining and using knowledge-based systems. Knowledge Engineering is a multidisciplinary field, bringing in concepts and methods from several computer science domains such as artificial intelligence, databases, expert systems, decision support systems and geographic information systems. From the software development point of view, knowledge engineering uses principles that are strongly related to software engineering. Knowledge engineering is also related to mathematical logic, as well as strongly involved in cognitive science and socio-cognitive engineering where the knowledge is produced by socio-cognitive aggregates (mainly humans) and is structured according to our understanding of how human reasoning and logic works. Currently, a major concern in knowledge engineering is the construction of knowledge bases or conceptual frameworks, often designated as ontologies. ICKE aims at becoming a major meeting point for researchers and practitioners interested in Knowledge Engineering.

CONFERENCE TOPICS

 * Knowledge representation
 * Knowledge level modeling
 * Knowledge acquisition
 * Reflection and metadata approaches
 * Decision support systems
 * Expert systems
 * Ontology engineering
 * Networked ontologies
 * Semantic web
 * Process knowledge and semantic services
 * Knowledge reengineering
 * AI programming
 * Intelligent problem solving
 * Natural language processing
 * Human-machine cooperation
 * Workflow engineering
 * Intelligent multi-agent systems
 * Applications and case-studies
 * Domain analysis and modeling
 * Validation and verification
 * Mobile access to knowledge systems
 * Social and cognitive aspects of KE
 * Knowledge engineering education

KEYNOTE LECTURES
ICKE 2009 will have several invited Keynote Speakers, who are internationally recognized experts in their areas. Their names are not yet confirmed.

PAPER SUBMISSION
Authors should submit an original paper in English, carefully checked for correct grammar and spelling, using the on-line submission procedure. Please check the paper formats so you may be aware of the accepted paper page limits. The guidelines for paper formatting provided at the conference web site must be strictly used for all submitted papers. The submission format is the same as the camera-ready format. Please check and carefully follow the instructions and templates provided. Each paper should clearly indicate the nature of its technical/scientific contribution, and the problems, domains or environments to which it is applicable. Papers that are out of the conference scope or contain any form of plagiarism will be rejected without reviews.

Remarks about the on-line submission procedure: 1. A "double-blind" paper evaluation method will be used. To facilitate that, the authors are kindly requested to produce and provide the paper, WITHOUT any reference to any of the authors. This means that is necessary to remove the authors personal details, the acknowledgements section and any reference that may disclose the authors identity. LaTeX/PS/PDF/DOC/DOCX/RTF format are accepted. 2. The web submission procedure automatically sends an acknowledgement, by e-mail, to the contact author.

Paper submission types: Regular Paper Submission A regular paper presents a work where the research is completed or almost finished. It may be accepted as a ??full paper?? (30 min. oral presentation), a ??short paper?? (20 min. oral presentation) or a ??poster??.

Position Paper Submission A position paper presents an arguable opinion about an issue. The goal of a position paper is to convince the audience that your opinion is valid and worth listening to, without the need to present completed research work and/or validated results. It is, nevertheless, important to support your argument with evidence to ensure the validity of your claims. A position paper may be a short report and discussion of ideas, facts, situations, methods, procedures or results of scientific research (bibliographic, experimental, theoretical, or other) focused on one of the conference topic areas. The acceptance of a position paper is restricted to the categories of "short paper" or "poster", i.e. a position paper is not a candidate to acceptance as "full paper".

Camera-ready: After the reviewing process is completed, the contact author (the author who submits the paper) of each paper will be notified of the result, by e-mail. The authors are required to follow the reviews in order to improve their paper before the camera-ready submission.

All accepted papers will be published in the proceedings, under an ISBN reference, in paper and in CD-ROM support.

PUBLICATIONS
All accepted papers will be published in the conference proceedings, under an ISBN reference, in paper and in CD-ROM support.

IMPORTANT DATES
Conference date: 5-8 October, 2009

Regular Paper Submission: April 21, 2009 Authors Notification: June 16, 2009 Final Regular Paper Submission and Registration: June 30, 2009

Program Committee

 * has PC member::Ajith Abraham, Machine Intelligence research Labs (MIR Labs), United States
 * has PC member::Khurshid Ahmad, The University of Dublin, Ireland
 * has PC member::Yuan An, Drexel University, United States
 * has PC member::Sören Auer, University of Leipzig, Germany
 * has PC member::Jean-Paul Barthes, Université de Technologie de Compiègne, France
 * has PC member::Sonia Bergamaschi, University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Italy
 * has PC member::Patrick Brezillon, LIP6 - University Pierre et Marie Curie (Paris 6), France
 * has PC member::Silvana Castano, University of Milan, Italy
 * has PC member::Yixin Chen, University of Mississippi, United States
 * has PC member::Key-Sun Choi, KAIST, Korea, Republic of
 * has PC member::Wichian Chutimaskul, King Mongkut's University of Technology Thonburi, Thailand
 * has PC member::Nigel Collier, National Institute of Informatics, Japan
 * has PC member::Pieter De Leenheer, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium
 * has PC member::Juergen Dix, Clausthal University of Technology, Germany
 * has PC member::Peter Eklund, University of Wollongong, Australia
 * has PC member::Angus F.M. Huang, National Central University, Taiwan
 * has PC member::Dieter A. Fensel, University of Innsbruck, Austria
 * has PC member::Johannes Fuernkranz, TU Darmstadt, Germany
 * has PC member::Serge Garlatti, Telecom Bretagne, France
 * has PC member::Paolo Giorgini, University of Trento, Italy
 * has PC member::Guido Governatori, NICTA, Australia
 * has PC member::Sergio Greco, University of Calabria, Italy
 * has PC member::Volker Haarslev, Concordia University, Canada
 * has PC member::Ahmed Hambaba, San Jose State University, United States
 * has PC member::Soonhung Han, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Korea, Republic of
 * has PC member::Stijn Heymans, Vienna University of Technology, Austria
 * has PC member::Eyke Hüllermeier, Philipps University of Marburg, Germany
 * has PC member::Masahiro Inuiguchi, Osaka University, Japan
 * has PC member::Mustafa Jarrar, University of Cyprus, Cyprus
 * has PC member::C. Maria Keet, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy
 * has PC member::Tetsuo Kinoshita, Cyberscience Center, Tohoku University, Japan
 * has PC member::Michel Klein, VU University Amsterdam, Netherlands
 * has PC member::Pavel Kordik, Czech Technical University in Prague, Czech Republic
 * has PC member::Chang-Shing Lee, National University of Tainan, Taiwan
 * has PC member::Ming Li, National Key Lab for Novel Software Technology, Nanjing University, China
 * has PC member::Xiao-Lin Li, LAMDA Group, Nanjing University, China
 * has PC member::Weiru Liu, Queen's University Belfast, United Kingdom
 * has PC member::Ralf Möller, Hamburg University of Technology, Germany
 * has PC member::Keiichi Nakata, University of Reading, United Kingdom
 * has PC member::Adrian Paschke, Freie Universität Berlin, Germany
 * has PC member::Mihail Popescu, University of Missouri-Columbia, United States
 * has PC member::Rong Qu, University of Nottingham, United Kingdom
 * has PC member::Seungmin Rho, Carnegie Mellon University, United States
 * has PC member::Kiril Simov, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Bulgaria
 * has PC member::Heiner Stuckenschmidt, University of Mannheim, Germany
 * has PC member::Domenico Talia, University of Calabria, Italy
 * has PC member::Ngoc Thanh Nguyen, Wroclaw University of Technology, Poland
 * has PC member::Dongming Wang, Université Pierre et Marie Curie - CNRS, France
 * has PC member::Martin Wolpers, Fraunofer Institute for Applied Information Technology, Germany
 * has PC member::Dan Wu, University of Windsor, Canada
 * has PC member::Junjie Wu, Beihang University, China
 * has PC member::Slawomir Zadrozny, Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland
 * has PC member::Min-Ling Zhang, Hohai University, China
 * has PC member::Shichao Zhang, Guangxi Normal University, Australia
 * has PC member::Anna V. Zhdanova, FTW, Austria
 * has PC member::Xingquan (Hill) Zhu, Florida Atlantic University, United States