<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; ">*********************************************************************************<o:p></o:p></div><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; ">Call for Posters at the International Conference on Knowledge Engineering and Knowledge Management, EKAW 2012 </div><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; ">Deadline on Monday 13th August</div><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><a href="http://ekaw2012.ekaw.org/node/59" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline; ">http://ekaw2012.ekaw.org/node/59</a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; "> </span></div><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; ">*********************************************************************************<o:p></o:p></div><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><o:p> </o:p></div><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; ">Introduction<o:p></o:p></div><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; ">---------------<o:p></o:p></div><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; ">The poster session of EKAW 2012 is an opportunity for researchers and practitioners to present their innovative, on-going projects, lessons learned and late-breaking results, to discuss with other conference participants and to establish new collaborations. We also encourage contributions that are likely to stipulate critical or controversial discussions about any of the areas of the EKAW conference series (knowledge management, knowledge engineering and acquisition, and knowledge in use). We particularly welcome submissions focusing on this year’s special topic (knowledge engineering and knowledge management that matters), which include practical applications of knowledge management technologies addressing the challenges of real-world data and use cases. </div><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; ">Topics of interest<o:p></o:p></div><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; ">---------------------<o:p></o:p></div><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; ">Topics of interest include, but are not restricted to the following areas:<o:p></o:p></div><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><o:p> </o:p></div><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "> Knowledge Management<o:p></o:p></div><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 36pt; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; text-indent: -18pt; "><span>-<span style="font: normal normal normal 7pt/normal 'Times New Roman'; "> </span></span>Methodologies and tools for knowledge management<o:p></o:p></div><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 36pt; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; text-indent: -18pt; "><span>-<span style="font: normal normal normal 7pt/normal 'Times New Roman'; "> </span></span>Knowledge sharing and distribution, collaboration<o:p></o:p></div><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 36pt; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; text-indent: -18pt; "><span>-<span style="font: normal normal normal 7pt/normal 'Times New Roman'; "> </span></span>Best practices and lessons learned from case studies<o:p></o:p></div><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 36pt; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; text-indent: -18pt; "><span>-<span style="font: normal normal normal 7pt/normal 'Times New Roman'; "> </span></span>Provenance and trust in knowledge management<o:p></o:p></div><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 36pt; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; text-indent: -18pt; "><span>-<span style="font: normal normal normal 7pt/normal 'Times New Roman'; "> </span></span>Methods for accelerating take-up of knowledge management technologies<o:p></o:p></div><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 36pt; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; text-indent: -18pt; "><span>-<span style="font: normal normal normal 7pt/normal 'Times New Roman'; "> </span></span>Corporate memories for knowledge management<o:p></o:p></div><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 36pt; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; text-indent: -18pt; "><span>-<span style="font: normal normal normal 7pt/normal 'Times New Roman'; "> </span></span>Evolution, maintenance and preservation of knowledge<o:p></o:p></div><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 36pt; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; text-indent: -18pt; "><span>-<span style="font: normal normal normal 7pt/normal 'Times New Roman'; "> </span></span>Web 2.0 technologies for knowledge management<o:p></o:p></div><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 36pt; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; text-indent: -18pt; "><span>-<span style="font: normal normal normal 7pt/normal 'Times New Roman'; "> </span></span>Incentives for human knowledge acquisition (e.g. games with a purpose)<o:p></o:p></div><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "> Knowledge Engineering and Acquisition<o:p></o:p></div><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 36pt; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; text-indent: -18pt; "><span>-<span style="font: normal normal normal 7pt/normal 'Times New Roman'; "> </span></span>Tools and methodologies for ontology engineering<o:p></o:p></div><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 36pt; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; text-indent: -18pt; "><span>-<span style="font: normal normal normal 7pt/normal 'Times New Roman'; "> </span></span>Ontology design patterns<o:p></o:p></div><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 36pt; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; text-indent: -18pt; "><span>-<span style="font: normal normal normal 7pt/normal 'Times New Roman'; "> </span></span>Ontology localization<o:p></o:p></div><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 36pt; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; text-indent: -18pt; "><span>-<span style="font: normal normal normal 7pt/normal 'Times New Roman'; "> </span></span>Ontology alignment<o:p></o:p></div><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 36pt; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; text-indent: -18pt; "><span>-<span style="font: normal normal normal 7pt/normal 'Times New Roman'; "> </span></span>Knowledge authoring and semantic annotation<o:p></o:p></div><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 36pt; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; text-indent: -18pt; "><span>-<span style="font: normal normal normal 7pt/normal 'Times New Roman'; "> </span></span>Knowledge acquisition from non-ontological resources (thesauri, folksonomies etc.)<o:p></o:p></div><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 36pt; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; text-indent: -18pt; "><span>-<span style="font: normal normal normal 7pt/normal 'Times New Roman'; "> </span></span>Semi-automatic knowledge acquisition, e.g., ontology learning<o:p></o:p></div><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 36pt; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; text-indent: -18pt; "><span>-<span style="font: normal normal normal 7pt/normal 'Times New Roman'; "> </span></span>Mining the Semantic Web and the Web of Data<o:p></o:p></div><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 36pt; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; text-indent: -18pt; "><span>-<span style="font: normal normal normal 7pt/normal 'Times New Roman'; "> </span></span>Ontology evaluation and metrics<o:p></o:p></div><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 36pt; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; text-indent: -18pt; "><span>-<span style="font: normal normal normal 7pt/normal 'Times New Roman'; "> </span></span>Uncertainty and vagueness in knowledge representation<o:p></o:p></div><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 36pt; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; text-indent: -18pt; "><span>-<span style="font: normal normal normal 7pt/normal 'Times New Roman'; "> </span></span>Dealing with dynamic, distributed and emerging knowledge<o:p></o:p></div><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "> Social and Cognitive Aspects of Knowledge Representation<o:p></o:p></div><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 36pt; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; text-indent: -18pt; "><span>-<span style="font: normal normal normal 7pt/normal 'Times New Roman'; "> </span></span>Knowledge representation inspired by cognitive science<o:p></o:p></div><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 36pt; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; text-indent: -18pt; "><span>-<span style="font: normal normal normal 7pt/normal 'Times New Roman'; "> </span></span>Synergies between humans and machines<o:p></o:p></div><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 36pt; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; text-indent: -18pt; "><span>-<span style="font: normal normal normal 7pt/normal 'Times New Roman'; "> </span></span>Knowledge emerging from user interaction and networks<o:p></o:p></div><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 36pt; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; text-indent: -18pt; "><span>-<span style="font: normal normal normal 7pt/normal 'Times New Roman'; "> </span></span>Knowledge ecosystems <o:p></o:p></div><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 36pt; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; text-indent: -18pt; "><span>-<span style="font: normal normal normal 7pt/normal 'Times New Roman'; "> </span></span>Expert finding, e.g., by social network analysis<o:p></o:p></div><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 36pt; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; text-indent: -18pt; "><span>-<span style="font: normal normal normal 7pt/normal 'Times New Roman'; "> </span></span>Trust and privacy in knowledge representation<o:p></o:p></div><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 36pt; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; text-indent: -18pt; "><span>-<span style="font: normal normal normal 7pt/normal 'Times New Roman'; "> </span></span>Collaborative and social approaches to knowledge management and acquisition<o:p></o:p></div><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 36pt; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; text-indent: -18pt; "><span>-<span style="font: normal normal normal 7pt/normal 'Times New Roman'; "> </span></span>Crowdsourcing in knowledge management<o:p></o:p></div><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "> Special Focus: "Knowledge Management and Knowledge Engineering that matters"<o:p></o:p></div><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "> Real-world applications of methods for knowledge management and engineering in domains such as<o:p></o:p></div><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 36pt; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; text-indent: -18pt; "><span>-<span style="font: normal normal normal 7pt/normal 'Times New Roman'; "> </span></span>e-Government and public administration<o:p></o:p></div><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 36pt; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; text-indent: -18pt; "><span>-<span style="font: normal normal normal 7pt/normal 'Times New Roman'; "> </span></span>Life sciences, health and medicine<o:p></o:p></div><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 36pt; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; text-indent: -18pt; "><span>-<span style="font: normal normal normal 7pt/normal 'Times New Roman'; "> </span></span>Automotive and manufacturing industry<o:p></o:p></div><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 36pt; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; text-indent: -18pt; "><span>-<span style="font: normal normal normal 7pt/normal 'Times New Roman'; "> </span></span>Cultural heritage applications<o:p></o:p></div><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 36pt; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; text-indent: -18pt; "><span>-<span style="font: normal normal normal 7pt/normal 'Times New Roman'; "> </span></span>Digital libraries<o:p></o:p></div><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "> Development and evaluation of publicly available knowledge repositories for new applications or domains<o:p></o:p></div><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><o:p> </o:p></div><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "> Methods and methodologies addressing the challenges of real-world data, e.g.,<o:p></o:p></div><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 36pt; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; text-indent: -18pt; "><span>-<span style="font: normal normal normal 7pt/normal 'Times New Roman'; "> </span></span>Scalability, robustness etc.<o:p></o:p></div><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 36pt; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; text-indent: -18pt; "><span>-<span style="font: normal normal normal 7pt/normal 'Times New Roman'; "> </span></span>Maintenance costs and financial risks<o:p></o:p></div><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 36pt; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; text-indent: -18pt; "><span>-<span style="font: normal normal normal 7pt/normal 'Times New Roman'; "> </span></span>Privacy and data security <o:p></o:p></div><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "> Lessons learned from case studies, e.g.,<o:p></o:p></div><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 36pt; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; text-indent: -18pt; "><span>-<span style="font: normal normal normal 7pt/normal 'Times New Roman'; "> </span></span>Knowledge management in large organizations<o:p></o:p></div><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 36pt; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; text-indent: -18pt; "><span>-<span style="font: normal normal normal 7pt/normal 'Times New Roman'; "> </span></span>Adoption of semantic web technologies<o:p></o:p></div><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 36pt; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; text-indent: -18pt; "><span>-<span style="font: normal normal normal 7pt/normal 'Times New Roman'; "> </span></span>Maintenance of corporate knowledge repositories<o:p></o:p></div><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><o:p> </o:p></div><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; ">Submission<o:p></o:p></div><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; ">--------------<o:p></o:p></div><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; ">Authors must prepare a paper in PDF format (Springer Verlag LNCS guidelines: <a href="http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs/lncs+authors?SGWID=0-40209-0-0-0" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline; ">http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs/lncs+authors?SGWID=0-40209-0-0-0</a>), which describes the planned contents of the poster to be presented, and submit it via EasyChair (<a href="http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ekaw2012pd" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline; ">http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ekaw2012pd</a> ). The maximal length of the paper is 2 pages for posters. A poster description should be an informative abstract motivating the relevance of the poster with respect to the topics of interest of EKAW 2012. Each submission will be reviewed by members of the poster/demonstration program committee, who will judge the originality, topicality and clarity of the proposed contents.<o:p></o:p></div><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><o:p> </o:p></div><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; ">Important dates<o:p></o:p></div><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; ">--------------------<o:p></o:p></div><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "> Poster Submission: August 13th, 2012</div><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><o:p></o:p></div><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "> Poster Notification: September 3rd, 2012<o:p></o:p></div><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><o:p> </o:p></div><p><br>
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