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                        EKAW 2008 CALL FOR PARTICIPATION

                        16th International Conference on
                Knowledge Engineering and Knowledge Management
                             "Knowledge Patterns"
                          http://ekaw2008.inrialpes.fr

                           Acitrezza, Catania, Italy
                        29th September-3rd October 2008

Knowledge is considered as the most important asset in our modern society. It has now penetrated all facets of computing practice: from the rise of knowledge management to the semantic web and from the blog culture to the knowledge economy. This penetration has made proper knowledge engineering a most required feature.

The 16th International Conference on Knowledge Engineering and Knowledge Management is concerned with all aspects of eliciting, acquiring, modelling and managing knowledge, and their role in the construction of knowledge-intensive systems and services for the semantic web, knowledge management, e-business, natural language processing, intelligent integration of information, etc.Â

This year we pay special attention to the topic of "knowledge patterns" as good practices or models that are applied or reused throughout the knowledge engineering lifecycle.

EKAW 2008 features two tutorials, six regular sessions, a poster session, and an Industry Panel.

Accepted papers: http://ekaw2008.inrialpes.fr/Papers.html
Conference program: http://ekaw2008.inrialpes.fr/programme.pdf

Invited Speakers
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• Peter CLARK (The Boeing Company, USA) - Knowledge Patterns
• Johan BOS (University of Edinburgh, UK and University of Rome I, Italy) - Computational Semantics and Knowledge Engineering
• Guus SCHREIBER (Free University of Amsterdam, Netherlands) - Principles for Knowledge Engineering on the Web

Visit http://ekaw2008.inrialpes.fr/speakers.html for abstracts

Tutorials
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• Tutorial 1: Mari-Carmen SUAREZ-FIGUEROA, Asuncion GOMEZ-PEREZ and Valentina PRESUTTI - NeOn Methodology: how to build ontology networks?
• Tutorial 2: Johan BOS and Malvina NISSIM - From shallow to deep natural language processing - a hands-on tutorial

Visit http://ekaw2008.inrialpes.fr/tutorials.html for abstracts and tutorial material

Industry panel

The panel will focus on semantic technologies, and will feature contributions including (confirmed):

• Ricardo BAEZA-YATES (Yahoo Research, Barcelona, Spain)
• Conor SHANKEY (Reinvent Technology, Vancouver, B.C.)
• Peter CLARK (The Boeing Company, USA)
• Jose-Manuel GOMEZ (ISOCO, Spain)
• Francesco TORTORELLI (Italian Council for Informatics in the Public Administration, Italy)
• ...

Registration Fees

Visit http://ekaw2008.inrialpes.fr/registration.html for details on registration and venue

Organizers

Conference Chairs

• Aldo GANGEMI, ISTC-CNR, Rome, Italy
• Jérôme EUZENAT, INRIA Rhône-Alpes & LIG, Montbonnot, France

Student Track and Tutorial Chair

• Valentina PRESUTTI, ISTC-CNR, Rome, Italy

Demo and Poster Chair

• Eva BLOMQVIST, Jönköping University, Jönköping, Sweden

Industry Panel and Sponsor Chair

• Alfio M. GLIOZZO, ISTC-CNR, Rome, Italy