CALL FOR PAPERS


             Fourth Australian Knowledge Acquisition Workshop (AKAW'99)
                             Sydney, Australia
                             December 5, 1999
                   http://www.cse.unsw.edu.au/~ghassan/akaw99.html 


    The Fourth Australian Knowledge Acquisition Workshop will be held in
    conjunction with the Australian Joint Conference on Artificial
    Intelligence in December 1999.

    AKAW '99 is concerned with all aspects of eliciting, acquiring,
    modeling and managing knowledge, and with their role in the
    construction of knowledge-intensive systems. Knowledge acquisition
    directly from humans continues to be a bottleneck in the building of
    knowledge based systems. To alleviate this bottleneck and to provide 
    a solution to understanding the rapidly growing volume of data this 
    workshop includes research into machine learning and data mining.
    Thus, topics include (but are not restricted to):

            o Languages and frameworks for knowledge acquisition,
              modeling, and management.
            o Tools and techniques for knowledge acquisition, modeling,
              and maintenance.
            o Acquiring knowledge through machine learning, data-mining
              and knowledge discovery in databases.
            o Knowledge acquisition and management for enterprise
              modeling and corporate memories.
            o Methods and techniques for reuse of knowledge and
              knowledge models, in particular related to the
              construction, maintenance and use of supporting libraries.
            o Knowledge acquisition, modeling, and management over the
              Internet.
            o Agent-oriented approaches to knowledge acquisition,
              modeling, and management.
            o The reuse and sharing of knowledge bases.
            o Evaluations of knowledge acquisition, modeling, and
              management techniques, tools and methods.

    Invited Speaker
    ---------------
            Professor Takahira Yamaguchi, Shizuoka University, Japan

    Location
    --------
            University of New South Wales, Sydney


    Paper Submission
    ----------------
    Authors are invited to submit either four hard copies or an
    electronic copy of their paper. Previously accepted papers, or
    papers under review are not acceptable. Submissions should be
    limited to 15 pages formatted on an area of (approx.) 140 x 210 mm
    (5.75 x 8.5 in.) in 12 point type (single-spaced and single column).
    Submissions should arrive no later than September 20, 1999. No
    copyright claims will be made, therefore accepted papers may be
    submitted elsewhere after the workshop reviewing period. The format
    of the papers may be in either hardcopy form (send 4 copies) or
    electronic form (post-script only). The Programme Committee has a
    preference for electronic submissions. We also welcome suggestions
    for panels. All submissions should include an email address, and a
    postal address of the author. Deadline dates will be strictly
    adhered to.

    Hardcopy papers should be sent to:

         Debbie Richards
         Department of Computing
         Division of Information and Communication Sciences
         Macquarie University
         NSW 2109, Australia

    Post-Script files to richards@ics.mq.edu.au

    Important Dates
    ---------------
    Deadline for Submission: September 20, 1999
    Notification of Acceptance: October 20, 1999
    Camera Ready Copy Due: November 20, 1999
    Workshop Date: December 5, 1999

    Program Committee
   -----------------
    Ghassan Beydoun, University of New South Wales
    Andrew Blair, Bankers Trust
    Bob Colomb, University of Queensland
    Paul Compton, University of New South Wales
    John Debenham, University of Technology
    John Gammack, Murdoch University
    Simon Goss, DSTO, Melbourne
    Achim Hoffmann, University of New South Wales
    Byeong Ho Kang, Hoseo University, Korea
    Maria Lee, CSIRO, Sydney
    Tim Menzies, NASA/WVU Software Reseach Lab
    John O'Neill, NASA Ames Research Center
    Debbie Richards, Macquarie University (program chair)
    Claude Sammut, University of New South Wales
    Sam Waugh, DSTO, Melbourne
    Geoff Webb, Deakin University

    Organising Committee
    --------------------
    Ghassan Beydoun, University of New South Wales
    Paul Compton, University of New South Wales
    Achim Hoffmann, University of New South Wales
    Debbie Richards, Macquarie University (program chair)

    For more information about the venue and other events transgress to
    Australian Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence webpage:
        www.cse.unsw.edu.au/~ai99