[agents] KARE 2011 Call of Papers, int. Workshop on Knowledge Acquisition, Reuse and Evaluation, Special session : Knowledge Engineering Methods and Tools‏‏‏‏

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 KARE 2011 : Knowledge Acquisition, Reuse and Evaluation
Special session about Knowledge Engineering Methods and Tools
http://kare2011.blogspot.com/
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 Knowledge Engineering Methods and Tools
Fourth International Workshop on
Knowledge Acquisition, Reuse and Evaluation

In conjunction with the 7th IEEE international conference on Signal-Image
Technology & Internet Based Systems (SITIS 2011)

November 28 - December 1, Dijon - France

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Important Dates
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Submission deadline : September 20, 2011
Notification : October 03, 2011
Final date for camera-ready copy : October 16, 2011

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Description
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The International Workshop on Knowledge Acquisition, Reuse and Evaluation
aims to bring together researchers, scientists, engineers, and scholar
students to exchange and share their experiences, new ideas, and research
 results about all aspects of Knowledge, Ontology, Sermantic Web or Knowledge
Engineering. We will discuss the practical challenges encountered and the
solutions adopted.

This workshop will focus on the theoreticians and practitioners concerned
 with developing methods and systems that assist the knowledge management
process and assessing the suitability of such methods. Thus, the workshop
includes all aspects of acquiring, modeling and managing knowledge, and
 their role in the construction of knowledge-based systems. Knowledge
acquisition still remains the bottleneck for building a knowledge based
system. Reuse and sharing of knowledge bases are major issues and no
satisfactory solutions have been agreed upon yet. There is a wide range of
 research. Much of the work in this field has been knowledge acquisition. The
advent of the age of digital information has brought the problem of
knowledge reuse and knowledge evaluation. Our ability to analyze, evaluate
 and assist user in reusing knowledge present a great challenge of the next
years. A new generation of computational techniques and tools is required to
support the acquisition, the reuse and the evaluation of useful knowledge
 from the rapidly growing volume of information. All of these are to be
discussed in this workshop.

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Topics
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A non-exhaustive list of topics for the workshop includes the following:

 • Tools and techniques for knowledge acquisition, knowledge update and
knowledge validation
• knowledge portals
 • Web-based approaches for knowledge management
 • Agent-based approaches for knowledge management
• Software agents for semantic web
 • Semantic web-based knowledge management
 • Tools, languages, and techniques for semantic annotation
• Semantic searching
 • Semantic brokering
 • CSCW and cooperative approaches for knowledge management
• Agent-based approaches for knowledge management
 • Evaluation of knowledge acquisition techniques
 • Information and knowledge structures
 • Languages and frameworks for knowledge and knowledge modeling
 • Ontology creation, evolution, reconciliation, and mediation
• Ontology-based approaches for knowledge management
 • Knowledge delivery methods
 • Knowledge life cycle
 • Knowledge and information extraction and discovery techniques
 • Corporate Semantic Webs for knowledge management
• Peer-to-peer approaches for knowledge management
 • Knowledge extraction from images/pictures
 • Intelligent knowledge-based systems
 • Decision support and expert systems
 • Re-usability of software/knowledge/information
 • Semantic web inference methodologies


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Workshop Organizers
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Contact Point: Davy Monticolo(davy.monticolo@**ensgsi.inpl-nancy.fr<davy.monticolo at ensgsi.inpl-nancy.fr>
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Workshop Chairs:
Davy Monticolo, Polytechnical Institute of Lorraine (France)
 Inaya Lahoud, University of Technology UTBM (France)

International Program Committee
 • Andrew Kusiak, The University of Iowa, USA
 • Anthony Masys, Centre for Security Science, Canada
• Basim Alhadidi, Al Balqa’ Applied University, Jordan
• Carlo Tasso , Università di Udine, Italy
• Carsten Brockmann, Universität Potsdam, Germany
• Cathal Gurrin, Dublin City University, Ireland
 • Céline Hudelot, MAS Laboratory, Ecole Centrale Paris, France
• Daniel O'Leary, University of Southern California, USA
• Dickson K.W. Chiu, Dickson Computer Systems, Hong Kong
• Dirk Malzahn, OrgaTech GmbH, Germany
 • Dominique Decouchant, LIG de Grenoble - France & UAM Cuajimalpa - Mexico,
Mexico
• Elise Lavoué, Université Jean Moulin Lyon 3, France
• Ernesto Exposito, LAAS/CNRS, Université de Toulouse, France
• Ezendu Ariwa, London Metropolitan University, United Kingdom
 • Hiep Luong, Research Associate, University of Arkansas, USA
• Jan Hidders, Delft University of Technology, Netherlands
• Jan Martijn van der Werf, Technische Universiteit Eindhoven, The
Netherlands
• Jiankun Hu, University of New South Wales at the Australian Defence Force
 Academy, Australia
• Kenji Saito, Keio University, Japan
• M. Nasseh Tabrizi, East Carolina University, USA
• Marie-Helene Abel, Unité Mixte de Recherche Heudiasyc, University of
Compiègne, France
• Marite Kirikova, Riga Technical University, Latvia
 • Martine Cadot, LORIA laboratory, University of Nancy1, France
• Owen Molloy, National University of Ireland, Galway, Ireland
• Paul Mc Kevitt, University of Ulster, Ireland
• Quang Nhat Nguyen, Hanoi University of Science and Technology, Vietnam
 • Theodore Trafalis, University of Oklahoma, United States
• Xingquan Zhu, University of Technology Sydney, Australia
• Yonggang Zhang, Ingenuity Systems Inc., United States

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Submission
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 You are invited to submit full length papers, not exceeding 6 pages in
length, in two-column format including diagrams and references, following
IEEE publication guidelines. Papers that do not follow these guidelines may
 be rejected without consideration of their merits.
Papers must be submitted electronically to the contact point in PDF format.
All workshops will be published by IEEE in a single total conference volume
and fully indexed by IEEE Xplore.
 Selected papers after extension will be published in the following
journals:
- Journal of Digital Information Management (JDIM) (ISSN 0972-7272)
- International Journal of Computanional Intelligence Research (ISSN
 0973-1873)
All papers will be reviewed by at least three Program Committee members on
the basis of technical quality, originality, clarity, and relevance to the
track topics listed below. Accepted papers will be published in the
 conference proceedings. At least one author of each paper must attend the
workshop to present the paper.
Camera Ready papers should follow the IEEE conference templates.
Send your paper in format pdf to davy.monticolo at ensgsi.inpl-**nancy.fr<davy.monticolo at ensgsi.inpl-nancy.fr>or in the SITIS Website :
 http://www2.u-bourgogne.fr/**SITIS/11/<http://www2.u-bourgogne.fr/SITIS/11/>

Davy Monticolo & Inaya Lahoud
KARE2011 chairs