Call for papers

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 and Semantic Web Services 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.

Important Dates

• Submission deadline : September, 23th

• Notification : October, 3rd

• Final date for camera-ready copy : October, 16th 

Submission

You are invited to submit full length papers, not exceeding 8 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)

- Journal of Information Assurance and Security (JIAS) (ISSN 1554-1010)

- International Journal of Computanional Intelligence Research (ISSN 0973-1873)

- International Journal for Infonomics (IJI) (ISSN 1742-4712)

- International Journal of Internet Technology and Secured Transactions (IJITST) (ISSN 1748-569X)

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.
Please ensure that your submission is formatted using this template.
Send your paper in format pdf to Davy.Monticolo@ensgsi.inpl-nancy.
fr or in the SITIS Website : http://www2.u-bourgogne.fr/SITIS/11/

Topics

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

• Tools and techniques for knowledge acquisition, knowledge update and knowledge validation
• Semantic web inference methodologies
• Semantic 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 

Workshop Organizers

Workshop Chairs: 
• Davy Monticolo, Polytechnical Institute of Lorraine (France)
Contact Point: Davy Monticolo (Davy.Monticolo@ensgsi.inpl-nancy.fr)
• Inaya Lahoud, University of Technology UTBM (France)

Workshop Co-Chairs:

• Christophe Petit, University of Technology UTBM (France)


Publicity Chair:
• Ezendu Ariwa, London Metropolitan University, United Kingdom

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
• David Faure, Thales R&T, France

• 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
• Jean-Philippe Kotowicz, INSA Rouen, France

• 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
• Nathalie Chaignaud, INSA Rouen, 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