[DL] Workshop on Knowledge Management and Semantic Web (K-CAP'2003)

[- Fabien Gandon -]

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- *K-CAP'2003 Workshop on Knowledge Management and Semantic Web*   -
-             Sanibel, Florida, October 25 or 26, 2003             -
- http://www-sop.inria.fr/acacia/WORKSHOPS/KCAP2003-KMSW/call.html -
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*** *Scope* ***

The next generation of the Web will be the semantic Web where
semantic contents of the Web resources will be interpretable not
only by human but also by machine. One popular approach for
Semantic Web consists of describing this semantic contents
through metadata.

Knowledge Management (KM) is one of the key progress factors in
organizations. It involves explicit and persistent representation
of knowledge of (geographically) dispersed groups of people in
the organization, so as to improve the activities of the
organization.

When the organization knowledge is distributed among several
experts and documents, the Internet or an Intranet inside the
organization and Web technologies can be a privileged means for
acquisition, modelling, management of this distributed knowledge.
One promising approach relies on the analogy between the resources
constituting a corporate memory and the resources accessible
through the Web.

A corporate memory can thus be materialised in a "corporate
semantic Web" made up of documents, ontologies and semantic
annotations on these documents by using the conceptual vocabulary
of ontologies.

The objective of the workshop is to enable fruitful discussions
between "Semantic Web" and "Knowledge Management" communities,
about possible approaches of knowledge management based on such
corporate semantic Webs.

Long papers or position papers are welcome in any area concerning
knowledge management through corporate semantic Webs.

We specially expect papers discussing about the following issues:
o Role of enterprise models in corporate semantic Webs ?
o What kind of ontologies can be useful for such corporate
    semantic Webs?
o How to build such ontologies ?
o Techniques for (semi-)automatic building of such ontologies or
    annotations from the corporate information sources (such as
    textual or multimedia documents or databases)?
o Possible role of indexing techniques and of thesaurus in a
    corporate semantic Web approach?
o Ontology representation languages for a corporate semantic Web?
o How to tackle multiple viewpoints in a corporate semantic Web?
o Interoperability between ontologies or integration of multiple
    ontologies,
o Cooperative building, adaptation and evolution of a corporate
    semantic Web?
o Query languages for a corporate semantic Web, (Intelligent)
    Information retrieval from a corporate semantic Web ?
o Agent-based approaches for building and management of a corporate
    semantic Web and for information retrieval from a corporate
    semantic Web ?
o Users interfaces for building and using a corporate semantic Web?
o Features specific to corporate semantic Web w.r.t. open Semantic
    Web ?
o Concrete applications of corporate semantic Webs ?
o Techniques for optimising metadata storage and query processing
    for a corporate semantic Web?
o Management of multilinguism in a corporate semantic Web.


*** *Important dates* ***

o Submission deadline:     July 11, 2003
o Notification of acceptance:     August 22, 2003
o Camera (Web)-ready:      September 15, 2003
o Workshop:     October 25-26, 2003


*** *Submission format* ***

Contributions are invited in the form of a full paper (max. 15 pages)
or of a position paper (max. 6 pages). The title page should include
name, affiliation, and e-mail address of the contributor.
Papers will be judged on their contribution to the discussion.
Papers have to be submitted electronically (pdf only) to the contact
persons : kcap2003-KMSW at sophia.inria.fr. The proceedings will be
published on the WWW and as a report.


*** *Workshop organizing committee* ***

Rose Dieng-Kuntz (co-chair and contact person)
   INRIA Acacia Project, 2004 route des Lucioles, BP 93
   06902 Sophia-Antipolis Cedex FRANCE
   Phone: +33 4 92 38 78 10
   Fax: +33 4 92 38 77 83
   mailto:Rose.Dieng at sophia.inria.fr

Fabien Gandon (co-chair)
   Carnegie Mellon University
   ISRI - School of Computer Science
   5000 Forbes Avenue
   Pittsburgh, PA 15213-3891, U.S.A.
   Tel: +1 (412) 268-1357
   Fax: +1 (412) 268 2338
   mailto:Fabien.Gandon at cs.cmu.edu

Philippe Pérez
   Atos Origin France
   Le Thalassa B, 444 route des Dolines.
   B.P. 67 - 06902 Sophia Antipolis Cedex - France
   mailto:philippe.perez at atosorigin.com

Joel Quinqueton
   LIRMM
   161, rue Ada
   34392 MONTPELLIER Cedex 5, France
   mailto:jq at lirmm.fr

Paola Turci
   Dipartimento di Ingegneria dell Informazione
   University of Parma
   Parco Area delle Scienze, 181A
   43100, Parma, Italy
   FAX +39 0521 905723
   mailto:turci at ce.unipr.it


*** *Program committee* ***

o Andreas Abecker, University of Karlsruhe, (Germany)
o Richard Benjamins, Isoco, Spain
o Joost Breuker, University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands
o Olivier Corby, INRIA-Sophia-Antipolis, France
o Rose Dieng-Kuntz, INRIA-Sophia-Antipolis, France
o Peter Eklund, Griffith University (Australia)
o Fabien Gandon, Carnegie Mellon University (USA)
o Danièle Hérin, LIRMM, Montpellier, France
o Knut Hinkelmann, University of Applied Sciences Solothurn,
    Switzerland
o Joachim Hackstein, T-Systems Nova (Germany)
o Gilles Kassel, LARIA, université d'Amiens (France)
o Alain Mille, Université Claude Bernard Lyon I, France
o Juergen Muller, T-Systems Nova (Germany)
o Amedeo Napoli, INRIA-Lorraine (Fr)
o Philippe Pérez, ATOS (Fr)
o Joel Quinqueton, LIRMM (Fr)
o Ulrich Reimer, Bauer (Switzerland)
o Chantal Reynaud, LRI, France
o David G. Schwartz, Bar-Ilan University (Israel)
o Steffen Staab, University of Karlsruhe, (Germany)
o Paola Turci, University of Parma (Italy)


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