EKAW 2012 - The 18th International Conference on Knowledge Engineering and Knowledge Management

Topics
Knowledge Management
Methodologies and tools for knowledge management
Aspects of collaboration, distribution and evolution of knowledge in KM
Advanced knowledge modeling languages and tools
Best practices / experiences in KM
Foundations of KM
Entity-oriented approaches to KM
Layered intelligence in knowledge management
Provenance, reliability and trust in knowledge management
Knowledge management for collaboration and decision support
Methods for accelerating take-up of KM technologies
Corporate memories for KM
Case-based reasoning for KM
Large-scale distributed reasoning
Knowledge Engineering and Acquisition
Methodologies for knowledge engineering
Knowledge acquisition, ontology learning
Knowledge sharing
Knowledge evolution
Collaborative knowledge engineering
Design patterns
Techniques for knowledge acquisition based on machine learning, NLP etc.
Uncertainty and vagueness in knowledge modeling
Knowledge engineering and software engineering
Ontology localization
Ontology alignment
Evolution of knowledge (including ontology evolution)
Knowledge acquisition from non-ontological resources (thesauri, folksonomies, lexica etc.)
Knowledge acquisition and knowledge integration from heterogeneous sources (multimedia and 3D data, databases, sensor data streams, social interaction data)
Knowledge authoring and knowledge markup languages
Ontology evaluation
Dynamic, distributed and process knowledge (including web services, grid services, P2P systems, rules and business processes, problem solving methods, procedural knowledge)
Agent-based approaches to knowledge management
Knowledge mashups
Knowledge In Use: knowledge management and engineering
Retrieval and proactive delivery of pertinent knowledge
Multimedia applications
Life and E-sciences
E-Government and public administration
Health and medicine
Automotive and manufacturing industry
Semantic desktop applications
The legal domain
Cultural heritage applications
Digital broadcasting and film, game and 3D media content production and sharing
Digital libraries
Virtual worlds
Storytelling
Management in critical applications
Organizing user-contributed content
Transition across organizations
Social and Cognitive Aspects of Knowledge Representation
Sustainability and cost analysis of knowledge engineering
Human-knowledge interaction
Cognitive systems and knowledge engineering
Knowledge ecosystems
Knowledge and social network analysis & modeling
Knowledge in trust networks
Personal sphere in knowledge engineering and management
Collaborative and social approaches to knowledge management and acquisition