Please find enclosed calls for papers for ECAI 2002: 15th European Conference on Artificial Intelligence *** Submission deadline: January 18, 2002 *** PAIS 2002: Prestigious Applications of Intelligent Systems *** Submission deadline: January 18, 2002 *** ecai02 workshop: INTELLIGENT DATA ANALYSIS IN MEDICINE AND PHARMACOLOGY 2002 ecai02 workshop: Workshop on Knowledge Management and Organizational Memory ecai02 workshop: KNOWLEDGE DISCOVERY FROM TEMPORAL AND SPATIAL DATA ecai02 workshop: Semantic Authoring, Annotation & Knowledge Markup ecai02 workshop: Machine Learning and Natural Language Processing for Ontology Engineering *********************************************************************** ** 15th EUROPEAN CONFERENCE ON ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE (ECAI-2002) ** *********************************************************************** The ECAI 2002 Programme Committee invites submission of papers for the Technical Programme of the 15th biennial European Conference on Artificial Intelligence. ------------------------------------------------------------ IMPORTANT DATES ------------------------------------------------------------ 18 Jan 2002 Deadline for paper summaries 22 Jan 2002 Deadline for papers 22 April 2002 Notification of acceptance 10 May 2002 Camera-ready copies of papers 24-26 July 2002 Technical programme at ECAI 2002 ------------------------------------------------------------ Submissions are invited on substantial, original and previously unpublished research in all fields of Artificial Intelligence, including, but not limited to: Abduction Knowledge Representation AI Abduction and Creativity Logic Programming AI Architectures Machine Learning Art and Music Machine Translation Automated Reasoning Meta-Heuristics for AI Autonomous Agents Model-Based Reasoning Bayesian Learning Multi-Agent Systems Belief Revision Natural Language Processing Case-Based Reasoning Neural Networks Causal Reasoning Nonmonotonic Reasoning Cognitive Modelling Ontologies Cognitive Robotics Perception Common-Sense Reasoning Philosophical Foundations Computer-Aided Learning Planning Conceptual Graphs Probabilistic Reasoning Configuration Qualitative Reasoning Constraint Programming Real-Time Systems Constraint Satisfaction Reasoning about Actions and Change Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery Reasoning under Uncertainty Decision Theory Reinforcement Learning Deduction Resource-Bounded Reasoning Description Logics Reuse of Knowledge Design Robotics Diagnosis Satisfiability Testing Discourse Modelling Scheduling Distributed AI Search Game Playing Spatial Reasoning Genetic Algorithms Speech Processing Geometric Reasoning Temporal Reasoning Inductive Logic Programming Text Mining Information Extraction Theorem Proving Information Retrieval User Modelling Intelligent User Interfaces Verification and Validation Knowledge Acquisition Vision Knowledge-Based Systems Formatting guidelines It is highly recommended to submit papers using the final camera- ready formatting style, except that author names should be omitted, and replaced by the tracking number. Submissions must not exceed five pages in camera-ready format. Submissions of unformatted papers are limited to 6000 words including footnotes, figure captions, tables, appendices, and bibliography. Each half-page of figures will be counted as 600 words. (Please note that for some papers five camera-ready pages may be considerably less than 6000 words in practice.) Overlengthy submissions will be rejected without review. Authors submitting unformatted papers must include a word count on their paper. Guidelines on the format of submissions are available on the ECAI 2002 Style Guide page (http://ecai2002.univ-lyon1.fr/cfp/style.html). Latex style files to support formatting of submissions are also available (http://ecai2002.univ-lyon1.fr/cfp/latex). Final versions of accepted papers will be required to conform strictly to the formatting requirements specified in the ECAI 2002 Style Guide. Each accepted paper will be allocated five pages in the proceedings. Submission procedure Submission is a two-stage process. Authors are asked to submit a brief summary of their paper by 18 January 2002, followed by their full paper before 22 January 2002 (23:59 CET). The strongly preferred submission method for summaries is to use the web-based summary submission form (http://ecai2002.univ-lyon1.fr/ecai/summary_submission.html). Submitted summaries will be assigned a unique tracking number that should be marked on the full paper submission. Authors without access to the web should send a summary including the title, authors, contact address and abstract of the paper (maximum 200 words), plus keywords drawn from this list (plus other key-words if appropriate) to the ECAI 2002 Programme Chair (by email or postal mail). The summary information and the tracking number should also be included with the paper itself, on a separate sheet of paper. Authors not able to use the web-based submission form may omit the tracking number. The strongly preferred submission method for full papers is electronically, by email to: ecai2002-submission@cs.vu.nl Only PDF files will be accepted. A free service to convert a number of widely used file formats to PDF is available at http://createpdf.adobe.com/ (the first three uses of this service are for free). Submissions in hardcopy may also be made if electronic submission is prob-lematic for the authors. In that case, six copies of the paper (each including the summary sheet) should be sent by postal mail or courier service to the ECAI 2002 Programme Chair, Frank van Harmelen, at the address below. The deadline for receipt of papers is 22 January 2002 (23:59 CET) for both electronic and hardcopy submissions. Papers received after this date will not be reviewed. Notification of receipt of full papers will be mailed to the corresponding author soon after receipt. ------------------------------------------------------------ ADDRESS FOR SUBMISSION ------------------------------------------------------------ Frank van Harmelen, ECAI 2002 Programme Chair Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science, Vrije Universiteit De Boelelaan 1081a, 1081HV Amsterdam The Netherlands Summary form: http://ecai2002.univ-lyon1.fr/ecai/summary_submission.html Email submission: ecai2002-submission@cs.vu.nl Email correspondence: ecai2002@cs.vu.nl Tel: +31-20-444 7700 Fax: +31-84-872 2806 ------------------------------------------------------------ Anonymous reviewing process ECAI 2002 will operate an anonymous reviewing process. Reviewing for ECAI 2002 will be blind to the identities of the authors and their institutions. To allow for blind reviewing replace the authors line in your submission by the unique tracking number assigned by the submission of the summary form (or leave it empty in case you are not able to use the web-based summary submission form). Please avoid identifying self-references. Replace phrases like "We have shown in [n]" by "In [n] it has been shown ...". Multiple submissions policy ECAI 2002 will not accept any paper which at the time of submission is under review for, or has already been published or accepted for publication in a journal or another conference. Authors are also expected not to submit their papers elsewhere during the review period. These restrictions only apply to journals and conferences and not to workshops or similar specialised meetings with limited audiences. The title page should include a statement that "this paper is not under review or accepted for publication in another conference or journal". The review process All submissions will be subject to academic peer review by the ECAI 2002 Programme Committee under the chairmanship of the ECAI 2002 Programme Committee Chair. The ECAI 2002 Programme Committee Chair has final authority over the review process and all decisions relating to acceptance of papers. Review criteria include originality of ideas, technical soundness, significance of results, and quality of presentation. Notification of acceptance or rejection of submitted papers will be mailed to the corresponding author by 22 April 2002. Awards The best paper of the conference, as selected by the ECAI 2002 Programme Committee, will receive a prize sponsored by Elsevier Science. The authors will also be invited to publish a longer version of the paper in the Artificial Intelligence journal. The authors of the 10 next best papers will all be invited to submit a long version of their paper to a special fast-review track of the Artificial Intelligence journal. Conference proceedings The conference proceedings will be published and distributed by IOS Press on paper and as a CD-ROM. The authors will be responsible for producing camera-ready copies of papers, conforming to the ECAI 2002 formatting guidelines, for inclusion in the proceedings. The deadline for receipt of the camera-ready copy is 10 May 2002. Note that at least one author of each accepted paper is required to attend the conference to present the paper. Support for Central and Eastern Europe ECAI 2002 is dedicated to supporting AI research in Central and Eastern Europe. A travel grant to attend the conference will be given to one author of each accepted paper from Central or Eastern Europe. Also, authors from Central and Eastern Europe are offered the possibility of pre-reviewing. They can submit their paper anytime after 1 October 2002 to the ECAI 2002 Central and Eastern Europe Chair at the address below. The paper will then be assigned to a pre-reviewer, who may yield useful suggestions for the authors. The pre-reviewing is aimed at supporting authors from Central and Eastern Europe, and is no guarantee of acceptance of the final paper. ------------------------------------------------------------ ADDRESS FOR PRE-REVIEWING ------------------------------------------------------------ Michael Beetz Department of Computer Science IX Technical University Munich Orleansstr. 34 81667 Munich Germany Tel: +49 (89) 48095-129 Fax: +49 (89) 48095-120 (-203) Email: beetzm@in.tum.de ---- *********************************************************************** ** PRESTIGIOUS APPLICATIONS OF INTELLIGENT SYSTEMS (PAIS-2002) ** *********************************************************************** ECAI 2002 is pleased to announce its "Prestigious Applications of Intelligent Systems" (PAIS-2002) sub-conference. The PAIS-2002 Programme Committee invites authors to submit application papers. ------------------------------------------------------------ IMPORTANT DATES ------------------------------------------------------------ 18 Jan 2002 Deadline for PAIS papers summaries 22 Jan 2002 Deadline for papers 22 Apr 2002 Notification of acceptance 10 May 2002 Camera-ready copies of papers 24-26 July 2002 PAIS-2002, Lyon ------------------------------------------------------------ This event, associated with ECAI 2002 is created to specifically highlight significant successful applications of intelligent system technology. The purpose of the event is to provide a forum for industry practitioners to learn about the power and applicability of selected intelligent system techniques and share experience on the applicability, development and deployment of intelligent systems in industry. This will be the largest showcase in Europe of real applications using intelligent system technology and the ideal place to meet with those working to make successful intelligent system based applications. The Prestigious Applications of Intelligent Systems event will present papers describing successful applications of intelligent systems. Although associated with ECAI, it has a separate review process conducted by experts in the application of intelligent system technologies. Papers are selected to highlight critical areas of success (and failure) and to present the benefits and lessons of value to other developers. Submitted papers should make these points clear. Accepted papers will be published in a special section of the ECAI 2002 proceedings. ------------------------------------------------------------ PAIS CHAIR ------------------------------------------------------------ Boi Faltings Laboratoire d'Intelligence Artificielle (LIA) Département Informatique (DI) Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) Ecublens 1015 Lausanne Switzerland Email : faltings@lia.di.epfl.ch Tel: +41 21 693-2735 Fax: +41 21 693-5225 ------------------------------------------------------------ Paper submissions to PAIS 2002 will follow exactly the same format and procedure as ECAI 2002. Papers must respect the formatting and length restrictions given on page 5, but additionally should be clearly marked as a submission to PAIS on the first page. Submissions should be made electronically or in hardcopy to the same addresses and by the same deadlines as papers submitted to the regular conference. Do not submit papers directly to the PAIS programme committee. For full details, see: http://ecai2002.univ-lyon1.fr/ ================================================== ================================================== Workshop held in conjunction with ECAI 2002, Lyon, France ** INTELLIGENT DATA ANALYSIS IN MEDICINE AND ** ** PHARMACOLOGY 2002 (IDAMAP 2002) ** (Web version of the CfP: http://idamap.org/idamap2002) Peter Lucas (Chair), Lars Asker (Co-Chair), Silvia Miksch (Co-chair) SCHEDULE o Paper submission deadline - 22 March, 2002 o Notification to Authors - 12 April, 2002 o Camera-ready papers - 10 May, 2002 o Workshops at ECAI 2002 - 22 or 23 July 2002 SCOPE The IDAMAP workshop series is devoted to computational methods for data analysis in *medicine*, *biology* and *pharmacology* that somehow exploit expert knowledge of the problem domain. Such knowledge may be available at different stages of the data analysis and model-building process. Nowadays, machine-learning tools provide an effective means to derive understandable diagnostic and prognostic rules; Bayesian structure and parameter learning methods are capable of capturing the (in)dependence structure hidden in data and of learning and updating the model's parameters; clustering and instance-based learning methods, like case-based reasoning, may represent a crucial help to physicians in their decision making process; the interpretation of time-ordered data through the derivation and revision of temporal trends and other types of temporal data abstraction provides a powerful instrument for event detection and prognosis; data visualisation is increasingly becoming an essential element in the overall process of knowledge discovery in databases. In the workshop, special attention will be given to systems that aim at integrating the above mentioned techniques to promote the construction of effective decision models to support medical decision making, the discovery of meaningful patterns and structures in biomolecules and bioassays, the design of new drug compounds, discovery of drugs, etc. In addition, issues related to automated data collection in modern hospitals, such as analysis of computer-based patient records (CPR), data warehousing tools, outcomes analysis, intelligent alarming, effective and efficient monitoring, and so on are covered in the workshop. SCIENTIFIC PROGRAMME The scientific programme of the workshop will consist of presentations of accepted papers and panel discussions. Papers are invited both on methodological issues of intelligent data analysis as well as on specific applications in medicine and pharmacology. The preferred length of papers is 10 pages. Papers should in any case explicitly address the topics of the workshop, explaining: o what kind of knowledge they have used and/or extracted; o why they need to exploit the available prior knowledge in their problem; o how they have represented the available knowledge; o how they plan to use / have used the derived knowledge. Panel discussions will be organised in two phases: the first will identify clusters of basic approaches presented to intelligently analyse data, the second one will deal with discussions initiated by participants. WHY THE WORKSHOP IS OF INTEREST In all human activities, automatic data collection is driving the development of tools able to handle and analyse data in a computer-supported fashion. In the majority of application areas, this cannot be accomplished without using the available knowledge of the domain or of the data analysis process. This requirement becomes essential in biomedical applications, since biomedical decision making needs to be supported by arguments based on basic biomedical and pharmacological knowledge. SUBMISSION FORMAT OF PAPERS The workshop invites submission of long and short papers written in English to the workshop chair, Peter Lucas. Authors should send an electronic submission in either PDF or Postscript to idamap2002@csd.abdn.ac.uk not later than 22nd March, 2002. The length of long papers is about 6000 words (5 pages) and the length of short papers is about 3000 words (2-3 pages). Papers should be formatted in accordance with the style as proposed by ECAI. Instructions for authors are available at http://ecai2002.univ-lyon1.fr/en/cfp/latex/latex2e This site also includes a LaTeX style file and an example LaTeX document. ORGANISING COMMITTEE Peter Lucas (Chair) Department of Computing Science University of Aberdeen Aberdeen AB24 3UE Scotland, UK Tel: +44 1224 273829; Fax: +44 1224 273422/487048 E-mail: lucas@cs.uu.nl, plucas@csd.abdn.ac.uk WWW: http://www.cs.uu.nl/~lucas http://www.csd.abdn.ac.uk/~plucas Lars Asker (Co-chair) Department of Computer and Systems Sciences Stockholm University/ KTH Forum 100 SE-164 40 Kista Sweden Tel: +46 8674 7002; Fax +46 8703 9025 E-mail: asker@dsv.su.se Silvia Miksch (Co-chair) Vienna University of Technology Institute of Software Technology (IFS) Favoritenstrasse 9-11 / 188 A-1040 Vienna, Austria Tel: +43 1 58801 18824, +43-1-58801-18801 Fax: +43 1 58801 18899 E-mail: silvia@ifs.tuwien.ac.at WWW: http://www.ifs.tuwien.ac.at/~silvia SCIENTIFIC COMMITTEE Ameen Abu-Hanna, Netherlands Steen Andreassen, Denmark Lars Asker, Sweden Riccardo Belazzi, Italy Marie-Odile Cordier, France Luc Dehaspe, Belgium Javier Diez, Spain Michel Dojat, France Linda van der Gaag, Netherlands Catherine Garbay, France Peter Hammond, UK Werner Horn, Austria Elpida Keravnou, Cyprus Jan Komorovski, Norway Pedro Laranaga, Spain Nada Lavrac, Slovenia Cristiana Larizza, Italy Xiaohui Liu, UK Peter Lucas, UK Silvia Miksch, Austria Lucila Ohno-Machado, USA Rene Quiniou, France Marco Ramoni, USA Paola Sebastiani, USA Yuval Shahar, Israel Stefan Wrobel, Germany Blaz Zupan, Slovenia PRIMARY CONTACT Peter Lucas Dept. of Computing Science University of Aberdeen Aberdeen AB24 3UE Scotland, UK Tel: +44 1224 273829; Fax: +44 1224 273422/487048 E-mail: lucas@cs.uu.nl PREVIOUS IDAMAP WORKSHOPS IDAMAP 2002 is a follow-up to the following successful workshops in the IDAMAP series: o ECAI'96 workshop Intelligent Data Analysis in Medicine and Pharmacology IDAMAP'96, Budapest, Hungary, August 1996 (N. Lavrac, E. Keravnou, B. Zupan - co-chairs, R. Bellazzi, W. Horn, C. Larizza - PC members) o IJCAI '97 workshop Intelligent Data Analysis in Medicine and Pharmacology IDAMAP'97, Nagoya, Japan, August 1997 (N. Lavrac, E. Keravnou, B. Zupan - co-chairs, R. Bellazzi, W. Horn - PC members) o ECAI'98 workshop Intelligent Data Analysis in Medicine and Pharmacology IDAMAP'98, Brighton, UK, August 1998 (R. Bellazzi, B. Zupan - co-chairs, N. Lavrac, E. Keravnou, C. Larizza, X. Liu, S. Andreassen, W. Horn, S. Miksch - PC members) o AMIA'99 workshop Intelligent Data Analysis in Medicine and Pharmacology IDAMAP'99, Washington, DC, USA, November 1999 (Y. Shahar, S. Miksch - co-chairs, S. Anand, L. Asker, R. Bellazzi, B. Zupan, N. Lavrac, E. Keravnou, C. Larizza, X. Liu, C. Popow, S. Andreassen, W. Horn, - PC members) o ECAI 2000 workshop Intelligent Data Analysis in Medicine and Pharmacology IDAMAP 2000, Berlin, Germany, August 2000 (Nada Lavrac, Silvia Miksch - co-chairs, Sarabjot Anand; Steen Andreassen; Lars Asker; Riccardo Bellazzi; Werner Horn; Elpida Keravnou; Cristiana Larizza; Nada Lavrac; Xiaohui Liu; Christian Popow; Yuval Shahar; Blaz Zupan - PCmembers) o Medinfo 2001 workshop Intelligent Data Analysis in Medicine and Pharmacology IDAMAP 2001, London, England, September 2001 (Riccardo Bellazzi, Blas Zupan, Xiaohui Liu, - co-chairs, Ameen Abu-Hanna, Noriaki Aoki, Lars Asker, Werner Horn, Elpida Keravnou, Isaac Kohane, Nada Lavrac, Cristiana Larizza, Peter Lucas, David Marrero, Silvia Miksch, Christian Popow, Marco Ramoni, Yuval Shahar, - PC members) ================================================== ================================================== ECAI'2002 Workshop on Knowledge Management and Organizational Memory Call for Papers = http://www-sop.inria.fr/acacia/WORKSHOPS/ECAI2002-OM/call.html July 21-26, 2002 Lyon Submission deadline: March 15, 2002 Knowledge Management (KM) is one of the key progress factors in organizations. It involves explicit and persistent representation of knowledge of (geographically) dispersed groups of people in the organization, so as to improve the activities of the organization. Although= KM is an issue in human resource management and enterprise organization beyond any specific technology questions, there are important aspects that= can be supported or even enabled by intelligent information systems. Especially AI and related fields provide solutions for important parts of the overall KM problem. =B7 Identification and analysis of a company's knowledge-intensive= work processes (e.g., product design or strategic planning). Knowledge Engineering and Enterprise Modeling techniques can contribute to this topic. The analysis of information flow and involved knowledge sources allows to identify shortcomings of business processes, and to specify requirements on potential IT support. =B7 In an organization, know-how may relate to problem solving expertise in functional disciplines, experiences of human resources, and project experiences in terms of project management issues, design technical= issues and lessons learned. The coherent integration of this dispersed know-how in a corporation, aimed at enhancing its access and reuse, is called "corporate memory" or "organizational memory" (OM). It is regarded as the central prerequisite for IT support of Knowledge Management and is the means for knowledge conservation, distribution, and reuse. An OM enables organizational learning and continuous process improvement. Activities underlying knowledge management in an organization can comprise= detection of needs, construction, distribution, use and maintenance of the= corporate memory. It demands abilities to manage disparate know-how and heterogeneous viewpoints, to make it accessible and suitable for adequate members of the organization. When the organization knowledge is distributed= on several experts and documents in different locations all over the world,= the Internet or an Intranet inside the organization and World Wide Web (WWW) techniques can be a privileged means for acquisition, modelling, management of this distributed knowledge. Papers are welcome in any area concerning knowledge management or corporate memory or organizational= memory. Examples of interesting topics are: Dimensions of knowledge management: organization, competence, methodology... Enterprise modeling Artificial Intelligence methods or techniques for construction of computational corporate memories (knowledge= bases, case bases, intelligent documentary systems, agent-based systems...)= Business Intelligence Solutions for KM Intranet Solutions for KM Document Management Solutions for KM MultiMedia solutions for KM Content Management= solutions for KM Architectures for KM/OM systems Integration of formal and= informal knowledge in KM/OM Integration of knowledge from different groups= in an organization Knowledge sharing between different groups in an organization (possibly via Internet/Intranet) Cooperative (possibly WWW-based) building, adaptation and evolution of a corporate memory Building and Exploiting a Corporate Semantic Web WWW-based repositories for= sharable ontologies and reusable problem-solving methods WWW-based terminology servers Assessment of concrete applications for knowledge management Case studies of building KM/OM in enterprises Active, context-dependent knowledge supply Important Dates: ----------------------- Submission deadline: March 15, 2002 Notification of acceptance : April 15, 2002 Camera-ready: May 15, 2002 Workshop: 21 July, 2002 Submission procedure ------------------------------- Contributions are invited in the form of a full paper (max. 20 pages). The= title page should include name, affiliation, and e-mail address of the contributor. Papers will be judged on their contribution to the discussion,= and some will be selected for presentation. Papers have to be submitted electronically (in PostScript or HTML or pdf) to OM2002@sophia.inria.fr. The proceedings will be published on the WWW and as a report. Organizing comittee ------------------------------ Jean-Paul Barth=E8s Universit=E9 de Technologie de Compi=E8gne BP 20529, F-60205 Compi=E8gne Tel +33 3 44 23 44 66 Fax +33 3 44 23 46 33 E-mail: Jean-Paul Barthes Rose Dieng-Kuntz (co-chair) Address: INRIA Acacia Project, 2004 route des Lucioles, BP 93 06902 Sophia-Antipolis Cedex FRANCE Phone: +33 4 92 38 78 10 FAX: +33 4 92 38 77 83 E-mail: Rose.Dieng@sophia.inria.fr Knut Hinkelmann Address: University of Applied Sciences Solothurn Riggenbachstrasse 16 CH-4600 Olten Phone: +41-(0)62-286 00 80 Fax: +41-(0)62-296 65 01 Email: knut.hinkelmann@fhso.ch Ann Macintosh Address: International Teledemocracy Centre Napier University 10 Colinton Road Edinburgh, EH10 5DT Telephone: +44 (0) 131 455 2421 Fax: +44 (0) 131 455 2282 Email: A.Macintosh@napier.ac.uk Nada Matta (co-chair) Address: Universit=E9 de Technologie de Troyes (GSID/Tech-CICO) 12, rue Marie Curie BP. 2060, 10010 Troyes Cedex France Tel: (+33) 3 25 71 58 65 E-mail:nada.matta@univ-troyes.fr WWW: http://www.inria.fr/acacia/personnel/nmatta/nada.html Ulrich Reimer Address: Swiss Life Information Systems Research Group Postfach CH-8022 Zurich, Switzerland Phone: +41 1 7114061 FAX: +41 1 7116913 E-mail: Ulrich.Reimer@swisslife.ch Carla Simone Department of Informatics, Systems and Communication University of Milano-Bicocca(Italy) phone: +39 011 6706736 fax: +39 011 751603 E-mail: simone@di.unito.it Program comittee -------------------------- Mark Ackerman, University of California, Irvine (USA) Hans Akkermans, Free University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands Richard Benjamins, Isoco, Spain Joost Breuker, University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands John Debenham, University of Technology, (Sydney, Australia) John Domingue, Open University, (UK) Jean-Louis Ermine, Tech-CICO, UTT (Paris, France) J=E9r=F4me Euzenat, INRIA Rh=F4ne-Alpes (Grenoble, France) Fabien Gandon, INRIA-Sophia-Antipolis (France) Tom Gruber, Intraspect (USA) Robert Jasper (USA) Gilles Kassel, LARIA, universit=E9 d'Amiens (France) Dirk Mahling, University of Pittsburgh (USA) Frank Maurer, University of Calgary (Canada) Myriam Ribi=E8re (France) David G. Schwartz, Bar-Ilan University (Israel) Nigel Shadboldt, University of Southampton, UK Steffen Staab, University of Karlsruhe, (Germany) Rudi Studer, University of Karlsruhe, (Germany) Mike Uschold, Boeing (USA) Myriam LewKowicz, Tech-CICO, UTT (Troyes, France) Gertjan van Heijst, CIBIT (Utrecht, The Netherlands) Manuel Zacklad, Tech-CICO, UTT (Troyes, France) ================================================== ================================================== KNOWLEDGE DISCOVERY FROM TEMPORAL AND SPATIAL DATA Call for ECAI 2002 Workshop Participation http://tasda.elibel.tm.fr TECHNICAL ASPECTS This workshop aims at bringing together experts in data-mining, knowledge discovery, machine learning or database as well as practitioners, in order to share methods and techniques and discuss their utility for knowledge discovery, especially when formulated in high-level representation paradigms (based on temporal/spatial logic or constraints, for instance). The following aspects, among others, are of particular interest: - Accommodating and representing data and rules for temporal/spatial data mining - Generalizing or meta-learning from association rules - Dealing with multiple time or space granularities - Discovering rules involving temporal intervals or spatial regions - Improving learning efficiency and scalability - Using background knowledge - Uncertainty management in temporal and spatial data mining - Similarities and differences of mining temporal and spatial data Practical applications from (but not limited to) the following areas are also welcome: - Electronic commerce - Surveillance and supervision of dynamic systems - Geographical information systems - Medicine - Forecast HOW TO PARTICIPATE ? There are three complementary ways to participate in this workshop: - by submitting a technical paper (indicate if the paper has been published before) - by submitting a technical description of a real world problem - by submitting 1-2 pages why she or he wants to attend (including specification of area of interest) All the submissions will be reviewed by the workshop organising committee in order to select relevant participants which share technics or practice on the areas of this workshop. Participants will be requested to perform an anonymous peer review of 1-2 other submissions (free choice). This enables the organizers to identify hot topics (areas many people were interested in), but also prepares the participants to go in deeper discussions during the workshop. All workshop participants are expected to register for the main ECAI 2002 conference. Notice also that, in order to encourage discussion and interaction, attendance will be limited to 30 participants. It is highly recommended to submit papers using the final camera-ready formatting style (the main conference guidelines are applicable: A4 paper, no footer, no numbering). Submissions should be 6-12 pages in camera-ready format. Submissions of unformatted papers should be 6000-12000 words including footnotes, figure captions, tables, appendices, and bibliography. Each half-page of figures will be counted as 500 words. Papers should be submitted via e-mail in PDF format (preferred) or postscript or, Microsoft Word (the worse solution) to: christophe.dousson@rd.francetelecom.com IMPORTANT DATES 25th March 2002 Deadline for papers 1st April 2002 Beginning of the peer-review 25th April 2002 End of the peer-review 30th April 2002 Notification of acceptance 31th May 2002 Camera-Ready copy (full paper) ORGANISING COMMITTEE Christophe Dousson, France Telecom R&D christophe.dousson@rd.francetelecom.com Frank Hoeppner, University of Applied Sciences Emden hoeppner@et-inf.fho-emden.de Rene Quiniou, INRIA / IRISA rene.quiniou@irisa.fr MORE INFORMATION at http://tasda.elibel.tm.fr ================================================== ================================================== Workshop on SAAKM 2002 -Semantic Authoring, Annotation & Knowledge Markup Workshop at the 15th European Conference on Artificial Intelligence July 22-26, 2002 , Lyon, France --- Call for Papers --- Workshop Goals The workshop intends to bring together researchers and practitioners from such research areas as the Semantic Web, knowledge acquisition, computational linguistics, document processing, terminology, information science, and multimedia content, among others, to discuss various aspects of knowledge markup and semantic annotation in an interdisciplinary way. Potential topics include but are not limited to: - authoring/annotation tools - web page annotation - ontology-based markup - knowledge markup in the Semantic Web - using semantic annotations to define knowledge - tools for supporting knowledge markup - integrated software architecture based on semantic annotation - multimedia annotation (e.g. by using MPEG-7) - annotation of software components - linguistic aspects of semantic annotation - capturing knowledge through Information Extraction and NLP - text mining for creating knowledge markup - collaborative, shared annotation - evaluation of manual annotation Intended Audience This workshop aims at bringing together members of different overlapping communities that share the interest on semantic authoring and annotation for developing methods and tools: - Semantic Web researchers who use semantic authoring and annotation to enrich the web with distributed relational meta-data in order to enable a machine-readable web - member of the computational linguistics community, developing information extraction systems for the generation of meta-data - people from the multimedia content domain, indexing and searching of multimedia (and multilingual) data. This will give an opportunity to push further the discussion upon the potential of semantic annotation or authoring across these communities. How to contribute We invite submissions of technical papers and short position papers (two pages). Authors of accepted technical and position papers will be invited to participate in the workshop. Format requirements for submissions of technical papers are: * maximum 12 double-spaced pages, excluding title page and bibliography. * All submissions should be made electronically if possible, by email attachment and preferably in Postscript or PDF format. Only if electronic submission is impossible should you send three hardcopies. * All submissions must be sent to the workshop contact, Siegfried Handschuh, at handschuh@aifb.uni-karlsruhe.de Organization Committee Siegfried Handschuh (University of Karlsruhe, Germany) Rose Dieng-Kuntz (INRIA, France) Nigel Collier (National Institute of Informatics, Japan) Steffen Staab (University of Karlsruhe, Germany) Programm Committee Ana Belen Benitez (Columbia University) Paul Buitelaar (DFKI) Fabio Ciravegna (University of Sheffield) Olivier Corby (INRIA) Koichi Hashida (Electrotechnical Lab. Japan) Marja-Riitta Koivunen (W3C) Riichiro Mizoguchi (Osaka University, Japan) Jeff Heflin (University of Maryland) Alun Preece (University of Aberdeen) Gerd Stumme (University of Karlsruhe) Sylvie Szulman (LIPN, University Paris-Nord) Hideaki Takeda (National Institute of Informatics, Japan) Jun'ichi Tsujii (University of Tokyo, Japan) Important Dates 28 April 2002 Submission of technical and position papers 2 June 2002 Notification of acceptance 30 June 2002 Camera-ready papers due 22-23 July 2002 ECAI Workshop Lyon France. --- Siegfried Handschuh University of Karlsruhe, Institute AIFB, D-76128 Karlsruhe, Germany Tel.: +49-(0)721-608 6554, Fax.: +49-(0)721-608 6580 sha@aifb.uni-karlsruhe.de http://www.aifb.uni-karlsruhe.de/WBS/sha ================================================== ================================================== Machine Learning and Natural Language Processing for Ontology Engineering CALL FOR PAPERS _______________________________________ Lyon (France), July 22-23 2002 http://www.inria.fr/acacia/OLT2002 _______________________________________ Workshop chairs Nathalie AUSSENAC-GILLES (IRIT, Toulouse, F) Alexander MAEDCHE (AIFB, Karlsruhe, G) SCHEDULE o Deadline for paper submissions March 15th 2002 o Notification of acceptance April 26th 2002 o Deadline for motivation abstracts May 24th 2002 o Camera ready papers May 24th 2002 o Workshop et ECAI2002 July 22nd-23rd 2002 SCOPE Ontologies serve as a means to establish a conceptually concise basis for communicating knowledge for many purposes. Recent years have seen a surge of interest in the discovery, automatic or semi-automatic creation of complex, multirelational knowledge structures. For example, the natural language community tries to acquire word semantics from texts, database researchers tackle the problem of schema induction, and numerous intelligent information agents are built by learning complex structures from semi-structured input (HTML, XML files). This interest converges with the recent proposals from various communities to build a Semantic Web. One popular solution relies on ontologies and annotations of Web resources w.r.t. these ontologies. The size of the Web implies being able to automate some parts of the process and to scale it up. Therefore NLP (Natural Language Processing) tools as well as learning techniques seem to be very promising. Engineering ontologies may be considered as a process that, starting from (possibly evolutive) knowledge sources, produces a structured conceptual model. Among all knowledge sources, special interest will be paid to texts (technical documentation, interview transcripts, handbooks, documents gathered from the Web and so on), semi-structured data and existing knowledge bases. Among all possible techniques, NLP tools, linguistic approaches, machine learning algorithms and any combination of these are encouraged. As a matter of fact, efforts in the machine learning community pursue the induction of more concise and more expressive knowledge structures (e.g. relational learning). Moreover, results (principles, methods and techniques) in machine learning, NLP, linguistics are mature enough to be worth integrating into knowledge engineering methods. It is time to evaluate how their combination could improve the efficiency of building ontologies as well as their quality and their relevance. Engineering such knowledge structures raises some theoretical issues that are little studied. The originality of this workshop is to call for several disciplines such as linguistics, terminology, natural language processing, knowledge representation and machine learning to go deeply into these issues and related epistemological foundations. It will give these communities a unique opportunity to confront their views and results. To this end, the workshop will focus not only on practical and technical problems but also on a theoretical reflection about building, maintaining and reusing terminological resources and ontologies. We would also like to debate the nature of ontologies, their genericity according to applications and sources. Cross-disciplinary contributions, in particular those involving linguistics, are strongly encouraged. Technical and theoretical issues to be discussed at the workshop include, but are not limited to: Ø Status of texts as knowledge sources, connections between ontologies and texts Ø Linguistic and terminological resources as knowledge sources Ø Learning from machine-readable dictionaries Ø Extending existing ontologies (Wordnet) Ø Text Mining for building ontologies Ø Linguistics (techniques and principles) to build ontologies Ø Natural Language Processing (NLP) tools for building and maintaining ontologies Ø Ontologies for Text and Document Processing Ø Learning selectional restrictions Ø Multi-relational learning, Inductive Logic Programming Ø Instance mining Ø Learning ontologies with inferences (e.g. using description logics) Ø Cooperative learning of ontologies Ø Ontologies and NLP tools for the semantic web Ø Learning ontologies from the Web (from DTDs, XML files, RDF files) SUBMISSION FORMAT OF PAPERS Papers should be no longer than 5000 words. They can either report research work, practical experiments whether completed or in progress. Papers discussing more theoretical questions are also welcome. Each paper will be reviewed by two persons from the program committee having in mind the willingness to promote discussions and debates rather than selection. Papers will be published in paperback proceedings distributed to the workshop participants and available on-line after June 10th, 2002. Please use the same format as the one suggested for the conference. Send papers by email (html, ps or pdf files) to mailto:OLT2002@sophia.inria.fr before March 15th. PARTICIPATION CONDITIONS Beside the papers' authors, anyone wishing to take part in this workshop should send a one page abstract about his/her motivations to attend the workshop and/or his/her recent work related to the workshop topic. This page should also contain one question-issue to be debated during the workshop. Motivation abstracts will be reviewed. Send your text to mailto:OLT2002@sophia.inria.fr before May 24th. All workshop participants are required to register for the ECAI 2002 main conference. WORKSHOP TIME-TABLE In order to make exchanges easier during the workshop, each paper will be assigned a discutant selected among the authors of the other papers. Discutants will contribute to paper presentations and discussions. Paper presentations will be organized into thematic sessions. A large amount of time will be dedicated to debates at the end of each session or during specific sessions according to the questions suggested by the participants (see participation conditions). ORGANIZING COMMITTEE Brigitte BIEBOW (LIPN, Paris, F) Anne CONDAMINES (ERSS, Toulouse, F) Rose DIENG-KUNTZ (INRIA, Sophia Antipolis, F) Adeline NAZARENKO (LIPN, Paris, F) Claire NEDELLEC (LRI, Paris, F) Stephen STAAB (AIFB, Karslruhe, G) PROGRAM COMMITTEE Roberto BASILI (University Tor Vergata, Roma, I) Teresa CABRE (Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, S) Farid CERBAH (Dassault Electronique, Paris, F) Ido DAGAN (Bar Ilan University, Israel) * Dieter FENSEL (Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam, NL) Udo HAHN (Freiburg University, D) Ed HOVY (Information Science Institute, USA) Paul JOHANNSON (Univ. of Stockholm, Sw) Yves KODRATOFF (LRI, Paris, F) Stan MATWIN (Univ. of Ottawa, Can) Ulrich REIMER (Zuerich, CH) * Chantal REYNAUD (LRI, Paris, F) Monique SLODZIAN (CRIM-INALCO, Paris, F) Stefan WROBEL (Univ. of Magdeburg, D) Pierre ZWEIGENBAUM (SIM-APHP, Paris, F) (* to be confirmed) -- Nathalie Aussenac-Gilles IRIT - UMR 5505 du CNRS Tel : +33 5 61 55 82 93 Universite P. Sabatier Fax : +33 5 61 55 62 58 118, route de Narbonne mailto :aussenac@irit.fr 31062 TOULOUSE Cedex 4