- Call for Participation: KAW'99 Twelfth Workshop on Knowledge Acquisition, Modeling and Management Voyager Inn, Banff, Alberta, Canada Saturday, October 16, through Thursday, October 21, 1999 Draft Papers Due May 31, 1999 http://sern.ucalgary.ca/KSI/KAW/KAW99/ The knowledge-acquisition workshops provide a forum for those developing theories, methods, systems, and empirical studies that relate to the process of building intelligent systems of all kinds. Increasing emphasis has been placed on approaches for modeling expertise and for management of knowledge within a variety of computational frameworks. To encourage vigorous interaction and exchange of ideas, the workshop will be kept small--to about 50 participants. The format is designed to develop extensive discussions and continuing collaboration on significant issues; thus, the majority of the workshop will be devoted to activities within small working groups that each will meet for one or two days, in parallel with other workshop activities over the course of the week. In plenary sessions, we will attempt to define the state of the art and future research needs. General attendance will be limited to those submitting their work, one author per paper. The meeting is structured to support specialist subgroups that will have their own working agendas, as well as plenary meetings for general knowledge exchange. In addition to the submission of papers, we welcome proposals for new specialist sessions and minitracks that may include a small number of invited participants who can help investigators in the area of knowledge acquisition to form bridges with other research communities. Important Due Dates: 31-May-1999 Submitted papers due 31-Jul-1999 Results of refereeing sent to authors 15-Sep-1999 Final proceedings papers due Tracks Seven sessions or minitracks have so far been scheduled for the workshop. Additional information about each of the minitracks has been posted to the world-wide web page for KAW'99 (http://sern.ucalgary.ca/KSI/KAW/KAW99/) and will appear on the KAW list server (archives of which are accessible from the KAW web page). The corresponding topics, and the organizers of the sessions, are as follows: 1. Knowledge Acquisition for Requirements Engineering Claudia Frydman claudia.frydman@VMESA12.U-3MRS.FR DIAM-IUSPIM Suzanne Barber barber@mail.utexas.edu U. Texas (Austin) 2. Knowledge Managment and Knowledge Distribution throught the Internet Rose Dieng Rose.Dieng@sophia.inria.fr INRIA-SA Knut Hinkelmann hinkelma@dfki.uni-kl.de DFKI Kaiserslautern Nada Matta Nada.Matta@sophia.inria.fr INRIA-SA Frank Maurer maurer@cpsc.ucalgary.ca U. Calgary 3. Knowledge Engineering for Intelligent Agent and Internet Applications Frances Brazier frances@cs.vu.nl Free U Amsterdam Catholijn Jonker jonker@cs.vu.nl Free U Amsterdam Jeff Bradshaw jeffrey.m.bradshaw@boeing.com Boeing Corp. 4. Cost-Effective Development and Use of Ontologies and Problem-Solving Methods Enrico Motta E.Motta@open.ac.uk Open University John Gennari gennari@ics.uci.edu U Calif. (Irvine) Mike Uschold mfu@redwood.rt.cs.boeing.com Boeing Corp. B. Chandrasekaran chandra@cis.ohio-state.edu Ohio State U. 5. Ontologies and Metadata for Knowledge Retrieval Andreas Abecker aabecker@dfki.de DFKI Stefan Decker Stefan.Decker@aifb.uni-karlsruhe.de U. Karlsruhe Amit Sheth amit@cs.uga.edu U. of Georgia 6. Evaluation of Knowledge Acquisition Methodologies Tim Menzies Tim@Menzies.com NASA Frank van Harmelen frankh@cs.vu.nl Free U Amsterdam Francis Rousseaux francis.rousseaux@univ-reims.fr Reims University 7. Tools for Adding Domain Knowledge to a Knowledge Base Paul Compton compton@cse.unsw.edu.au U New South Wales Achim Hoffmann achim@cse.unsw.edu.au U New South Wales Submission of Papers Draft papers (up to 20 pages) should be sent electronically to Rob Kremer before May 31, 1999. Acceptance and revision notices will be e-mailed by July 31, 1999. Revised papers (up to 20 pages) must be submitted by September 15, 1999, so that hardcopies may be bound together for distribution at the workshop. Authors who submit papers to the workshop will be expected to help with the refereeing of papers submitted by other individuals. Submission and review of papers, and coordination of all aspects of the meeting, will be through the Internet. The proceedings will be published on the World Wide Web and the only form of submission is HTML. The paper should be converted to a single HTML file, not split by section. For LaTeX, use the switch: latex2html -split 0 to achieve this. Please do not use style sheets. To submit a paper, simply e-mail the corresponding URL to kremer@cpsc.ucalgary.ca. It is preferable if the submission is as close as possible in format to that required for the final proceedings. See the final submission format for details of formats for both web and paper versions. Authors should indicate appropriate sessions/minitracks for each submission. If there is uncertainty regarding the optimum track for a paper, authors should contact the chairs of the track that seems closest, preferably in advance of the submission deadline. Depending on the range of papers received, some tracks may be collapsed whereas other tracks may be added in advance of the workshop. Demonstrations Demonstrations of software systems will be an important feature of the workshop, and a range of high-performance workstations will be provided. Authors submitting to this track should contact Rob Kremer (kremer@cpsc.ucalgary.ca) about the logistics of setting up demonstrations and showing videos Poster Sessions There will be a poster reception on the evening of Sunday, October 17. Authors submitting to any track are encouraged to enter a poster. If you are planning the enter a poster, please advise Rob Kremer (kremer@cpsc.ucalgary.ca) anytime before the workshop. Graduate Student Awards Participation by graduate students is particularly encouraged. There will be a number of awards for reduced conference fees to full-time graduate students whose papers are accepted. If appropriate, please indicate that you wish to apply for such an award when you submit a paper. Further Information The world-wide web (WWW) will be used to coordinate the meeting and to provide further details of the tracks, paper formats, conference arrangements, and so on. Please see the main KAW page for ongoing information about the workshop. Workshop Co-chairs Brian R. Gaines gaines@cpsc.ucalgary.ca University of Calgary Mark A. Musen musen@smi.stanford.edu Stanford University Rob C. Kremer kremer@cpsc.ucalgary.ca University of Calgary Knowledge Acquisition Workshop Steering Committee Hans Akkermans HansAkkermans@compuserve.com Free U. Amsterdam Paul Compton compton@cse.unsw.edu.au U. of New South Wales Brian R. Gaines gaines@cpsc.ucalgary.ca University of Calgary Mark A. Musen musen@smi.stanford.edu Stanford University Nigel Shadbolt nrs@ psychology.nottingham.ac.uk U. of Nottingham