Transcript EKAW’06
EKAW’06 15th International Conference on Knowledge Engineering and Knowledge Management Poděbrady, Czech Republic 2.- 6. October 2006 http://ekaw.vse.cz The EKAW series • History – Started as „European Knowledge Acquisition Workshop“ in 1987 – From 1992 proceedings in LNCS, from 2000 denoted as conference – Originally annual, then each 1,5 year, most recently biannual - alternation with K-CAP conference oversea (originally KAW – „Banff workshop“) – Previous: EKAW 2004, Whittlebury Hall, UK • Established community, friendly athmosphere, often location beyond big cities Focus of the series • Knowledge engineering „in narrow sense“ – Knowledge Acquisition – Knowledge Modelling (Problem Solving Methods, Ontological Engineering) – KBS design • Recently strong influence by Semantic Web topics • Special (intended) focus of the 2006 edition: social and other kinds of networks Some statistics of EKAW 2006 • 119 full paper submissions – almost 60% increase compared to 2004! – all reviewed by at least 3 reviewers – discussion followed for all papers with uneven ratings • 33 accepted (27.7% acceptance rate) – 17 long and 16 short papers • Posters/demos – 12 rejected papers directly accepted for posters – further 17 posters/demos submitted at later stage – of which 9 (53%) were accepted, based on 2-3 reviews and (in some cases) reviewer discussion – altogether 21 posters/demos accepted • 86 registered participants Numbers per country Submitted full (28) Accepted full (13) Accepted all (16) Participants (17) UK KR FR CN DE IT NL SK ES JP PL … 17,65 16,08 14,43 9,00 9,00 7,60 6,00 6,00 3,35 3,00 3,00 UK NL FR DE IT JP AU ES PT PL CN CL SE 7,75 4,00 4,00 4,00 3,00 2,00 2,00 1,75 1,00 1,00 1,00 1,00 0,50 UK 13,00 FR 8,00 DE 6,00 IT 5,00 NL 4,00 ES 3,50 AU 2,67 CZ 2,00 JP 2,00 SK 2,00 SE 1,50 … UK DE FR CZ NL IT GR PL PT … 13 13 10 10 8 6 5 4 3 Overall Programme • • • • 3 invited talks 2 tutorials 1 workshop Sessions with contributed papers (single track) – Most presentations are at http://ekaw.vse.cz/accepted-papers.php • Poster/demo session • Social events – Welcome Party at Podebrady Castle, with folk dance performance – Trip to Outdoor Museum in Přerov n.L. – Dinner in ‘medieval’ tavern in Dětenice Hot topics • Ontology patterns; frequent errors – tutorial Rector+Gangemi+Schreiber, paper Sunagawa et al., paper Baumeister+Seipel • „Non-standard“ reasoning over ontologies – keynote Rector, • Imprecise models – keynote Domingos • Ontology mapping, search, combining – papers Aleksovski et al., Hu et al., 3x Motta’s group • RDF data handling – posters Frivolt, Laborda • Ontology learning and information extraction – Keynote Domingos, papers Aussenac+Gilles, Navigli+Velardi, Brunzel+Spiliopoulou, workshop Boemie Hot topics (cont’d) • Multimedia semantics – workshop Boemie • Cultural heritage applications – paper Malaise et al., demo Zdrahal • Prior knowledge in KDD – papers Jozefowska et al., Atzmueller+Puppe, Fauré et al. • “New text” (wiki, blog, …) – demo Resist project • Social networks – keynote Nowak, poster Frivolt Social events Forthcoming conferences • K-CAP 2007 – 28-31 October 2007, Whistler, Canada – Conference Chair: Derek Sleeman (U. Aberdeen) – Program Chair: Ken Barker (U. Texas) • EKAW 2008 – ? October 2008, ? Rome, Italy – Conference Co-Chairs: Aldo Gangemi (ISTC-CNR) + ???