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EKAW 2006: Highlights from the 15th International Conference on Knowledge Engineering

The 15th International Conference on Knowledge Engineering and Knowledge Management (EKAW 2006) was held from October 2-6, 2006, in Poděbrady, Czech Republic. A notable event in the EKAW series, it attracted 119 full paper submissions with a 27.7% acceptance rate, fostering a vibrant community focused on knowledge engineering, acquisition, and modeling. The conference featured 3 invited talks, 2 tutorials, a workshop, and a session for contributed papers, alongside engaging social events, enhancing collaboration and discussion among participants from various countries.

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EKAW 2006: Highlights from the 15th International Conference on Knowledge Engineering

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  1. EKAW’0615th International Conference on Knowledge Engineering and Knowledge ManagementPoděbrady, Czech Republic 2.- 6. October 2006 http://ekaw.vse.cz

  2. 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

  3. Focus of the series • Knowledge engineering „in narrow sense“ • Knowledge Acquisition • Knowledge Modelling (ProblemSolving Methods, Ontological Engineering) • KBS design • Recently strong influence by Semantic Web topics • Special (intended) focus of the2006 edition: social and other kinds of networks

  4. 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

  5. Numbers per country 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 …

  6. 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

  7. 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

  8. 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

  9. Social events

  10. Forthcomingconferences • 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) + ???

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