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CALL FOR PAPERS <br>
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EKAW 2014: Diversity in a Heterogeneous World <br>
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19th International Conference on Knowledge Engineering and
Knowledge <br>
Management (EKAW 2014). November 24-28, 2014, Linköping,
Sweden. <br>
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The 19th International Conference on Knowledge Engineering
and Knowledge Management is concerned with all aspects of
eliciting, acquiring, modeling and managing knowledge, and
its role in the construction of knowledge-intensive
systems and services for the Semantic Web, knowledge
management, e-business, natural language processing,
intelligent information integration, personal digital
assistance systems, and so forth. <br>
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The special focus of this year's EKAW will be on
diversity. In the recent past the amount and ease of
availability of data has dramatically increased. While
scale and complexity of information has always attracted
attention, its heterogeneity in nature and usage are only
now being investigated more systematically. Data-driven
research is gaining increasing visibility in areas such as
in eScience or eHumanities, but such distinct fields
require diverse knowledge management and acquisition
methods. Knowledge in the Cultural Heritage domain
radically differs from what is required to run a global
company or support projects in the developing world. The
geosciences produce and consume data spanning a wide range
of formats, topics, perspectives, and sources, and require
the integration of such heterogeneous data to foster data
sharing, access, retrieval, and reuse, without restricting
semantic heterogeneity. EKAW 2014 will put a special
emphasis on this diversity of knowledge and its usage. <br>
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In addition to the main research track, EKAW 2014 will
feature a Tutorial and Workshop Program, as well as a
Poster and Demo Track. Moreover, there will be a Doctoral
Consortium giving new PhD students a possibility to
present their research proposals, and to get feedback on
methodological and practical aspects of their planned
dissertation. <br>
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The proceedings of the conference will be published by
Springer Verlag in the LNCS series. <br>
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EKAW 2014 welcomes papers dealing with theoretical,
methodological, experimental, and application-oriented
aspects of knowledge engineering and knowledge management.
In particular, but not exclusively, we solicit papers
about methods, tools, methodologies and application case
studies relevant with regard to the following topics: <br>
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1) "Knowledge in a diverse world" <br>
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Methods and methodologies addressing the challenges of
diversity, such as: <br>
Semantic heterogeneity <br>
- Semantic interoperability <br>
- Scalability, robustness, etc. <br>
- Multi-perspective data <br>
- Semantic mediation <br>
- Ontology and vocabulary matching and alignment <br>
- Data-driven ontology engineering <br>
- Privacy and data security <br>
- Data reuse <br>
- Maintenance costs and financial risks <br>
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Lessons learned from case studies, e.g.: <br>
- Knowledge management in large organizations <br>
- Adoption of semantic web technologies <br>
- Maintenance of corporate knowledge repositories <br>
- Applications in domains such as <br>
- eGovernment and public administration <br>
- Life sciences, health and medicine <br>
- Humanities and Social Sciences <br>
- Automotive and manufacturing industry <br>
- Cultural heritage <br>
- Digital libraries <br>
- Geosciences <br>
- Knowledge in the developing world (ICT4D) <br>
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2) Knowledge Management <br>
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- Methodologies and tools for knowledge management <br>
- Knowledge sharing and distribution, collaboration <br>
- Best practices and lessons learned from case studies <br>
- Provenance and trust in knowledge management <br>
- Methods for accelerating take-up of knowledge management
technologies <br>
- Corporate memories for knowledge management <br>
- Evolution, maintenance and preservation of knowledge <br>
- Web 2.0 technologies for knowledge management <br>
- Incentives for human knowledge acquisition (e.g., games
with a purpose) <br>
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3) Knowledge Engineering and Acquisition <br>
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- Tools and methodologies for ontology engineering <br>
- Ontology design patterns <br>
- Ontology localization <br>
- Ontology alignment <br>
- Knowledge authoring and semantic annotation <br>
- Knowledge acquisition from non-ontological resources
(thesauri, folksonomies etc.) <br>
- Semi-automatic knowledge acquisition, e.g., ontology
learning <br>
- Mining the Semantic Web and the Web of Data <br>
- Ontology evaluation and metrics <br>
- Uncertainty and vagueness in knowledge representation <br>
- Dealing with dynamic, distributed and emerging knowledge
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4) Social and Cognitive Aspects of Knowledge
Representation <br>
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- Similarity and analogy-based reasoning <br>
- Knowledge representation inspired by cognitive science <br>
- Synergies between humans and machines <br>
- Knowledge emerging from user interaction and networks <br>
- Knowledge ecosystems <br>
- Expert finding, e.g., by social network analysis <br>
- Trust and privacy in knowledge representation <br>
- Collaborative and social approaches to knowledge
management and acquisition <br>
- Crowdsourcing in knowledge management <br>
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We will accept different types of papers. The papers will
all have the same status and follow the same formatting
guidelines in the proceedings but will receive special
treatment during the reviewing phase. In particular, each
paper type will be subject to own evaluation criteria. The
Programme Committee will also make sure that there is a
reasonable balance of the paper types accepted. At
submission time the paper has to be clearly identified as
belonging to one of the following categories. <br>
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- Research papers: These are "standard" papers presenting
a novel method, technique or analysis with appropriate
empirical or other types of evaluation as a proof-of
concept. The main evaluation criteria here will be
originality, technical soundness and validation. <br>
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- In-use papers: Here we are expecting papers describing
applications of knowledge management and engineering in
real environments. Applications need to address a
sufficiently interesting and challenging problem on
real-world datasets, involving many users etc. The focus
is less on the originality of the approach and more on
presenting systems that solve a significant problem while
addressing the particular challenges that come with the
use of real-world data. Evaluations should involve a
representative subset of the actual users of the system. <br>
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- Position papers: We invite researchers to also publish
position papers which describe novel and innovative
ideas. Position papers may also comprise an analysis of
currently unsolved problems, or review these problems from
a new perspective, in order contribute to a better
understanding of these problems in the research community.
We expect that such papers will guide future research by
highlighting critical assumptions, motivating the
difficulty of a certain problem or explaining why
current techniques are not sufficient, possibly
corroborated by quantitative and qualitative arguments. <br>
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Submissions of research and in-use papers should be
formatted according to Springer Verlag LNCS guidelines,
not exceed 15 pages, and uploaded using Easychair (<a
class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ekaw2014">http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ekaw2014</a>).
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Position papers are required to have at most 5 pages in
the same format. <br>
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Combined conference/journal (fast-track) submission: <br>
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In addition to the regular conference submission, we offer
authors the possibility to submit their work to a combined
conference/journal submission track. Papers submitted via
this track will be published as regular research paper in
the EKAW 2014 Springer conference proceedings; an extended
version of the paper will be published as a full journal
paper at the Semantic Web journal (SWJ) by IOS Press. <br>
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The deadline and Easychair submission system for the
combined submission is the same as for the conference-only
track. Authors interested in the combined track should
indicate this via the submission system. Papers submitted
to the combined track will then undergo the regular (open
and transparent) SWJ review process with the following
possible decisions: <br>
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* Rejected <br>
* Accepted for the conference proceedings <br>
* Accepted for the conference proceedings and invited for
extended submission to the Semantic Web journal <br>
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Papers that are acceptable for both will be printed in the
Springer volume and authors will be asked to submit an
extended version (at least 30-50% new content, e.g., full
literature review, full evaluation, proofs, additional
results, additional case studies, implementation details)
within 6 weeks. This extended version will then undergo a
fast-track review process, i.e., we assume that the paper
as such is 'acceptable' and the reviewers will focus on
revisions. These revisions could still be substantial and
the final acceptance is based on their authors' ability to
address those revisions. Papers in the 'accepted for the
conference proceedings' category will be accepted to the
EKAW Springer proceedings.' <br>
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The organisers of EKAW 2014 are committed to an open and
transparent reviewing process. For this reason we
encourage authors to submit their paper as a combined
conference/journal submission. Their submissions, and the
reviews, are then public, which fosters scientific
discourse and high quality reviewing. <br>
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Important Dates: <br>
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Abstract Submission: July 9, 2014 <br>
Full Paper Submission: July 16, 2014 <br>
Notification: September 3, 2014 <br>
Camera-Ready: October 1, 2014 <br>
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General Chairs <br>
Patrick Lambrix Linköping University, Sweden <br>
Eero Hyvönen Aalto University, Finland <br>
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Program Chairs <br>
Krzysztof Janowicz University of California, USA <br>
Stefan Schlobach Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, The
Netherlands <br>
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