EKAW'2000 CALL FOR PARTICIPATION 12th International Conference on Knowledge Engineering and Knowledge Management, Juan-les-Pins, French Riviera, October 2-6, 2000. EKAW'2000 (12th International Conference on Knowledge Engineering and Knowledge Management) aims at gathering researchers working on any area concerning methods, techniques and tools for the construction and the exploitation of knowledge-intensive systems and for knowledge management. The program and the registration form are available at http://www.inria.fr/acacia/ekaw2000 ----------- EKAW'2000 PROGRAM MONDAY 2 OCTOBER : WORKSHOPS in parallel : ONTOLOGIES AND TEXTS organized by Sylvie SZULMAN (LIPN, Paris), Brigitte BIEBOW (LIPN, Paris), Nathalie AUSSENAC-GILLES (IRIT - CNRS, Toulouse) http://www.irit.fr/wsontologies2000 COMMON APPROACHES IN KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT organized by Fabien GANDON (INRIA, FR), Philippe PEREZ (ATOS, FR), Agostino POGGI (University of Parma, IT), Joel QUINQUETON (LIRMM, FR) program TUESDAY 3 OCTOBER : 9h15 - 9h30: Welcome introduction 9h30 - 10h30 : INVITED SPEAKER: Vincent QUINT (W3C) 10h30 - 11h: PAUSE KNOWLEDGE MODELLING LANGUAGES AND TOOLS 11h - 11h30 OIL in a Nutshell D. Fensel, I. Horrocks, F. Van Harmelen, S. Decker, M. Erdmann, and M. Klein 11h30 - 12h Title : The knowledge model of Protege-2000: combining interoperability and flexibility Natalya Fridman Noy, Ray W. Fergerson and Mark A. Musen 12h - 12h30 Title : A Case Study in Using Protege-2000 as a Tool for CommonKADS Guus Schreiber, Monica Crubezy and Mark Musen 12h30- 12h45 The MOKA Modelling Language Richard Brimble and Florence Sellini 12h45 - 13h Mdos: a modelling language to build a formal ontology in either Description Logics or Conceptual Graphs Jérôme Nobécourt and Brigitte Biébow 13h - 14h30 : LUNCH ONTOLOGIES (I ) 14h30 - 15h Ontology's Crossed Life Cycles Authors: Fernandez-Lopez, Gomez-Pérez and Rojas 15h - 15h30 A Road Map on Ontology Specification Languages Oscar Corcho and Asuncion Gomez-Perez 15h30 - 16h A Formal Ontology of Properties Nicola Guarino and Christopher Welty 16h - 16h30: PAUSE METHODOLOGIES 16h30 - 17h Kinesys, a participative approach to the design of knowledge systems A. Slodzian 17h - 17h15 An organizational semiotics model for multi-agent systems design Joaquim Filipe DEMOS WEDNESDAY 4 OCTOBER : KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT& E-COMMERCE 9h30 - 10h What's in an electronic business model? Jaap Gordijn, Hans Akkermans and Hans van Vliet 10h - 10h30 Chinese Encyclopaedias and Balinese Cockfights - Lessons for Business Process Change and Knowledge Management Antony Bryant 10h30 - 10h45 Using problem-solving models to design efficient cooperative knowledge-management systems based on formalization and traceability of argumentation Myriam Lewkowicz and Manuel Zacklad 10h45 - 11h Integrating Textual Knowledge and Formal Knowledge for Improving Traceability Farid Cerbah, Jérôme Euzenat PAUSE : 11h - 11h30 11h30 - 11h45 Knowledge Management by Reusing Experience Sabine Delaître and Sabine Moisan 11h45 - 12h Crystallizing knowledge of historical company performance into interactive, query-able 3D Landscapes Brendan Kitts , Leif Edvinsson and Tord Beding 12h - 12h45 Presentation of AKT Derek Sleeman , Nigel Shadbolt and Enrico Motta 12h45 - 14h15 : LUNCH DEMOS : 14h15 - 16h SOCIAL EVENT : from 17h THURSDAY 5 OCTOBER : 9h - 10h: INVITED SPEAKER: Gio WIEDERHOLD (Stanford University) 10h - 10h30: PAUSE KNOWLEDGE ACQUISITION FROM TEXTS 10h30 - 11h Revisiting Ontology Design: a methodology based on corpus analysis Nathalie Aussenac-Gilles, Brigitte Biébow and Sylvie Szulman 11h - 11h30 Mining Ontologies from Text Alexander Maedche and Steffen Staab 11h30 - 12h SVETLAN' or How to Classify Words Using their Context Gaël de Chalendar and Brigitte Grau MACHINE LEARNING 12h- 12h30 KIDS: an iterative algorithm to organize relational knowledge Authors: Mélanie Courtine, Isabelle Bournaud and Jean-Daniel Zucker 12h30 - 13h Informed Selection of Training Examples for Knowledge Refinement Nirmalie Wiratunga and Susan Craw 13h- 13h15 Experiences with a Generic Refinement Toolkit Robin Boswell and Susan Craw 13h15 - 14h30 : LUNCH ONTOLOGIES (II ) 14h30 - 15h Construction And Deployment of a Plant Ontology Riichiro Mizoguchi, Kouji Kozaki, Toshinobu Sano and Yoshinobu Kitamura 15h - 15h30 The role of ontologies for an effective and unambiguous dissemination of clinical guidelines. Domenico M. Pisanelli, Aldo Gangemi and Geri Steve 15h30 - 16h Supporting Multiple Inheritance in Ontology Representation Valentina A.M. Tamma and Trevor J.M. Bench-Capon 16h - 16h30 Conflict Resolution in the Collaborative Design of Terminological Knowledge Bases Gilles Falquet and Claire-Lise Mottaz Jiang 16h30 - 17h: PAUSE VALIDATION, EVALUATION, CERTIFICATION 17h - 17h30 Monitoring Knowledge Acquisition, Instead of Evaluating Knowledge Bases Ghassan Beydoun and Achim Hoffmann 17h30 - 18h Torture tests: a quantitative analysis for the robustness of KBSs Perry Groot, Frank Van Harmelen and Annette ten Teije 18h - 18h30 Certifying KBSs: Using CommonKADS to Provide Supporting Evidence for Fitness for Purpose of KBSs Kieron O'Hara, Nigel Shadbolt and Jeni Tennison FRIDAY 6 OCTOBER : PROBLEM-SOLVING METHODS 9h15- 9h45 Integrating Knowledge-Based Configuration Systems by Sharing Functional Architectures Alexander Felfernig, Gerhard Friedrich, Dietmar Jannach, and Markus Zanker 9h45 - 10h15 The Nature of Knowledge in an Abductive Event Calculus Planner Leliane Nunes de Barros and Paulo E. Santos 10h15 - 10h30 Adapting tableaux for classification Machiel Jansen, Guus Schreiber, and Bob Wielinga 10h30 - 11h: PAUSE KNOWLEDGE REPRESENTATION 11h- 11h30 Conceptual Information Systems Discussed through an IT-Security Tool Klaus Becker, Gerd Stumme, Rudolf Wille, Uta Wille and Monika Zickwolff 11h30 - 12h Translations of Ripple Down Rules into Logic Formalisms Rex B. H. Kwok 12h - 12h15 Generalising Ripple-Down Rules Paul Compton and Debbie Richards FINAL DISCUSSION : 12h15 - 13h15 13h15 - 14h30 : LUNCH ************************************************************ ************************************************************ Dear colleagues, Please notice that the deadline for EKAW'2000 (12th International Conference on Knowledge Engineering and Knowledge Management) - see http://www.inria.fr/acacia/ekaw2000 - is postponed to March 31, 2000. Best regards, Rose ------------------------------------------------------------------- The URL is http://www.inria.fr/acacia/ekaw2000 ------------------------------------------------------------------- CALL FOR PAPER for EKAW'2000 12th International Conference on Knowledge Engineering and Knowledge Management, Juan-les-Pins, French Riviera, October 2-6, 2000. EKAW'2000 (12th International Conference on Knowledge Engineering and Knowledge Management) aims at gathering researchers working on any area concerning methods, techniques and tools for the construction and the exploitation of knowledge-intensive systems and for knowledge management. Papers are welcome on the following topics (not exclusive): Languages and frameworks for knowledge engineering and knowledge management. Tools and techniques for knowledge engineering and knowledge management. Acquiring knowledge through machine learning, data-mining and knowledge discovery in databases. Knowledge management, enterprise modeling and corporate memories. Methods and techniques for reuse of knowledge and knowledge models, in particular related to the construction, use, and maintenance of supporting libraries of problem-solving methods and ontologies. Terminology, ontologies and knowledge acquisition from texts Knowledge engineering and knowledge management over the Internet. Exploitation of Intranet for knowledge engineering and knowledge management 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 WWW-based repositories for sharable ontologies and reusable problem-solving methods WWW-based terminology servers Agent-oriented approaches to knowledge engineering and management. Use of knowledge engineering approaches for intelligent information integration, knowledge retrieval and meta-content descriptions. Evaluation of methods, techniques and tools for knowledge engineering and knowledge management. Submission Procedure Authors should submit by March 15, 2000, a full paper electronically either as a postscript, html or pdf file by emailing the corresponding URL. In addition, authors should submit an ascii version of their title page by email. Submission address : ekaw2000@sophia.inria.fr. Submission Format The first page of submitted papers should include: title, author names, affiliations, postal addresses, electronic mail addresses, telephone and fax numbers for all authors, and a brief abstract. All correspondence will be sent to the author designed as contact person in the electronic title page. Submissions should not exceed 6000 words and should be printed on A4 paper with at least 1 inch margins on all sides. Notice that authors using LaTeX may already use the Springer style files. International Program Committee of EKAW'2000 Chairs and main organizers Rose DIENG, INRIA-Sophia-Antipolis (F) Rose.Dieng@sophia.inria.fr Olivier CORBY, INRIA-Sophia-Antipolis (F) Program Committee Stuart AITKEN, University of Glasgow (UK) Hans AKKERMANS, University of Twente (NL) Nathalie AUSSENAC, IRIT- CNRS Toulouse (F) Richard BENJAMINS, University of Amsterdam (NL) Jeff BRADSHAW , Boeing Corp. (USA) Joost BREUKER, University of Amsterdam (NL) John DOMINGUE, Open University (UK) Dieter FENSEL, Free University of Amsterdam (NL) Jean-Gabriel GANASCIA, LAFORIA-University Paris VI (F) Yolanda GIL, ISI, University of Southern California (USA) Asuncion GOMEZ-PEREZ, Universidad Politecnica de Madrid (ES) Nicola GUARINO, National Research Council (I) Udo HAHN, University of Freiburg (G) Frank van HARMELEN, Free University Amsterdam (NL) Rob KREMER, University of Calgary (CA) Franck MAURER, University of Calgary (CA) Riichiro MIZOGUCHI, Osaka University (JP) Martin MOLINA, Technical University of Madrid (ES) Enrico MOTTA, Open University (UK) Mark MUSEN, Stanford University (USA) Enric PLAZA I CERVERA , Spanish Scientific Research Council, CSIC (ES) Ulrich REIMER, Swiss Life (CH) Chantal REYNAUD, University of Nanterre, University of Paris-Sud (F) François ROUSSELOT, LIIA-ENSAIS, University of Strasbourg (F) Marie-Christine ROUSSET, University of Paris-Sud (F) Franz SCHMALHOFER, DFKI, Kaiserslautern (G) Guus SCHREIBER, University of Amsterdam (NL) Nigel SHADBOLT, University of Southampton (UK) Derek SLEEMAN, University of Aberdeen (UK) Rudi STUDER, University of Karlsruhe (G) Jan TREUR, Free University Amsterdam (NL) Andre VALENTE, ISI, University of Southern California (USA) Thomas WETTER, University of Heidelberg (G) Organization committee Olivier CORBY, INRIA-Sophia-Antipolis, F Rose DIENG, INRIA-Sophia-Antipolis, F Monique SIMONETTI, INRIA-Sophia-Antipolis, F Important dates Submission deadline: March 15, 2000 Notification of acceptance: May 1, 2000 Camera ready copy and author registration: June 15, 2000 Conference: October 2-6, 2000