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EKAW’0615th International Conference on
Knowledge Engineering and Knowledge ManagementPoděbrady, Czech Republic
2.- 6. October 2006http://ekaw.vse.cz
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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
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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
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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
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Submitted full (28)UK 17,65
KR 16,08
FR 14,43
CN 9,00
DE 9,00
IT 7,60
NL 6,00
SK 6,00
ES 3,35
JP 3,00
PL 3,00
…
Accepted full (13)UK 7,75
NL 4,00
FR 4,00
DE 4,00
IT 3,00
JP 2,00
AU 2,00
ES 1,75
PT 1,00
PL 1,00
CN 1,00
CL 1,00
SE 0,50
Accepted all (16)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
…
Participants (17)UK 13
DE 13
FR 10
CZ 10
NL 8
IT 6
GR 5
PL 4
PT 3
…
Numbers per country
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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
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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
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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
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Social events
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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) + ???