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         FIRST INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON KNOWLEDGE CAPTURE
                             K-CAP 2001
                            
                        October 22-23, 2001
                     Victoria, British Columbia
        http://sern.ucalgary.ca/ksi/K-CAP/K-CAP2001

           Preliminary Announcement And Call For Papers

We are delighted to announce this new conference, which the organizers
have designed to continue the spirit of the Banff Knowledge Acquisition
Workshops, while opening up the interchange to a wider community of 
researchers and students.

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In today's Web-linked and data-rich world, there is a growing need to
manage burgeoning amounts of information effectively.  Although indexing
and linking documents and other information sources is an important
step, capturing the knowledge contained within these diverse sources is
crucial for the effective use of large information repositories.
Knowledge acquisition has been a challenging area of research in
artificial intelligence, with its roots in early work to develop expert
systems.  Driven by the modern Internet culture and by knowledge-based
industries, the study of knowledge acquisition has a renewed importance.

Although there has been considerable work in the area of knowledge
capture, activities have been distributed across several distinct
research communities.  In machine learning, learning apprentices acquire
knowledge by nonintrusively watching a user perform a task.  In the
human-computer interaction community, programming-by-demonstration
systems learn to perform a task by watching a user demonstrate how to
accomplish it.  In knowledge engineering, modeling techniques and design
principles have been proposed for knowledge-based systems, often
exploiting commonly occurring domain-independent inference structures
and reusable domain-specific ontologies.  In planning and process
management, mixed-initiative systems acquire knowledge about a user's
goals by taking commands or accepting advice regarding a task.  In
natural language processing, tools can process text and create
representations of its knowledge content.  All of these approaches are
related in that they acquire information and organize it in knowledge
structures that can be used for reasoning.  They are complementary in
that they use different techniques and approaches to capture different
forms of knowledge.

The aim of K-CAP 2001 is to provide a forum in which to bring together
disparate research communities whose members are interested in
efficiently capturing knowledge from a variety of sources and in
creating representations that can be (or eventually can be) useful for
reasoning.  This conference will promote multidisciplinary research that
could result in a new generation of tools and methodologies for
knowledge capture.

Topics of interest include but are not limited to:
   - Knowledge acquisition tools
   - Advice taking systems
   - Authoring tools
   - Programming-by-demonstration systems
   - Learning apprentices
   - Knowledge engineering and modeling methodologies
   - Knowledge extraction systems
   - Knowledge management environments
   - User preferences elicitation tools
   - Mixed-initiative decision-support tools
   - Knowledge-based markup techniques


TENTATIVE DEADLINES
   Deadline for submissions: April 25, 2001
   Notification of acceptance: June 27, 2001
   Final papers due: July 25, 2001
   Conference: October 22 - 23, 2001


ORGANIZING COMMITTEE

Conference Co-Chairs

    Yolanda Gil, USC/Information Sciences Institute
    Mark Musen, Stanford University
    Jude Shavlik, University of Wisconsin at Madison

Program Committee

    Hans Akkermans, Free University of Amsterdam
    Jeff Bradshaw, University of West Florida
    Bruce Buchanan, University of Pittsburgh
    Claire Cardie, Cornell University
    B. Chandrasekaran, Ohio State University
    Steve Chien, Jet Propulsion Laboratory
    Paul Compton, University of New South Wales
    Mark Craven, University of Wisonsin at Madison
    Rose Dieng, INRIA-Sophia-Antipolis
    Adam Farquhar, Schlumberger
    Dieter Fensel, Free University of Amsterdam
    Richard Fikes, Stanford University
    Ken Forbus, Northwestern University
    Peter Haddawy, Asian Institute of Technology
    Eric Horvitz, Microsoft Research
    Henry Kautz, University of Washington
    Pat Langley, Daimler-Benz Research
    Doug Lenat, Cycorp
    Henry Lieberman, MIT Media Lab
    Steve Minton, Fetch Technologies
    Ray Mooney, University of Texas at Austin
    Johanna Moore, University of Edinburgh
    Enrico Motta, Open University
    Karen Myers, SRI International
    Dan O'Leary, University of Southern California
    David Page, University of Wisonsin at Madison
    Bruce Porter, University of Texas at Austin
    Charles Rich, Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratory
    Claude Sammut, University of New South Wales
    Nigel Shadbolt, University of Southampton
    Rudi Studer, University of Karlsruhe
    Bill Swartout, USC/Institute for Creative Technologies
    Loren Terveen, AT&T Research
    Manuela Veloso, Carnegie Mellon University
    David C. Wilkins, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    Ian Witten, University of Waikato

Treasurer

    John Gennari, University of California at Irvine

Local Arrangements

    Rob Kremer, University of Calgary
    Tim Menzies, University of British Columbia

Registration Chair
    Rob Kremer, Univeristy of Calgary

LOCATION

Laurel Point Inn, Victoria, British Columbia
(http://www.laurelpoint.com)


UPDATED ONLINE INFORMATION

   http://sern.ucalgary.ca/ksi/K-CAP/K-CAP2001