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EKAW 2020 FINAL CALL FOR PAPERS
Part of the Bolzano Summer of Knowledge 2020
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UPDATES FOR ORGANISATION OF EKAW 2020
Responding to the current health crisis, the new
submission deadline for abstracts has been set to May 25, and
full papers are due June 1.
EKAW 2020 will happen 16-20 September 2020 as a
virtual event.
Please note further:
- The organisation team of EKAW 2020 is committed to
publishing the EKAW proceedings with Springer in 2020.
- EKAW will happen as a virtual conference, physical
attendance of authors of accepted papers at EKAW will therefore
not be required.
- Keynote Speakers are confirmed as virtual
events.
- The call for (virtual) Posters & Demos is
forthcoming.
- Participation/Publishing at EKAW will be at a
heavily discounted fee (announced soon).
Important New Dates:
* Abstract Submission: May 25
* Paper Submission: June 1
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KEYNOTE SPEAKERS:
* Axel-Cyrille Ngonga Ngomo (Paderborn University,
Germany)
* Toby Walsh (University of New South Wales,
Australia)
* Diana Maynard (University of Sheffield, United
Kingdom)
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WORKSHOPS
There will be two workshops at EKAW 2020: the 5th
International Workshop on Ontology Modularity, Contextuality,
and Evolution (WOMoCoE), and the Workshop on Scalable Knowledge
Graph Engineering (SKALE). See more details in the Accepted
Workshops page:
https://ekaw2020.inf.unibz.it/accepted-workshops
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RESEARCH, IN-USE AND POSITION PAPERS
The 22nd International Conference on Knowledge
Engineering and Knowledge Management concerns all aspects of
eliciting, acquiring, modeling and managing knowledge, and the
role of knowledge in the construction of systems and services
for the semantic web, knowledge management, e-business, natural
language processing, intelligent information integration, and so
on.
The special theme of EKAW 2020 is "Ethical and
Trustworthy Knowledge Engineering". While recent reported
breaches relate predominantly to machine learning systems, it is
not impossible to envision ethical breaches in knowledge
engineering more broadly and, conversely, devise methods and
techniques to ensure no or minimal harm in knowledge
acquisition, modelling, and knowledge-driven information
systems. EKAW 2020 will put a special emphasis on the importance
of Knowledge Engineering and Knowledge Management to keep
fostering trustworthy systems.
PROCEEDINGS
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The proceedings of the research track will be
published by Springer Verlag in the Lecture Notes in Artificial
Intelligence series (
http://www.springer.com/lncs).
TOPICS OF INTEREST
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EKAW 2020 welcomes papers dealing with theoretical,
methodological, experimental, and application-oriented aspects
of knowledge engineering and knowledge management.
In particular, but not exclusively, we solicit
papers about methods, tools and methodologies on the following
topics:
- Ethical and Trustworthy Knowledge Engineering
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Ethics and trust in automated reasoning
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Algorithmic transparency and explanations for knowledge-based
systems
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Knowledge and ethics
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Ontologies for trust and ethics
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Trust and privacy in knowledge representation
- Knowledge Engineering and Acquisition
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Tools and methodologies for ontology engineering
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Ontology design patterns
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Ontology localisation
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Multilinguality in ontologies
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Ontology alignment
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Knowledge authoring and semantic annotation
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Knowledge acquisition from non-ontological resources (thesauri,
folksonomies, etc.)
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Semi-automatic knowledge acquisition, e.g., ontology learning
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Collaborative knowledge acquisition and formalisation
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Mining the Semantic Web and the Web of Data
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Ontology evaluation and metrics
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Uncertainty and vagueness in knowledge representation
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Dealing with dynamic, distributed and emerging knowledge
- Knowledge Management
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Methodologies and tools for knowledge management
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Knowledge sharing and distribution, collaboration
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Best practices and lessons learned from case studies
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Provenance and trust in knowledge management
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FAIR data and knowledge
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Methods for accelerating take-up of knowledge management
technologies
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Corporate memories for knowledge management
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Knowledge evolution, maintenance and preservation
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Incentives for human knowledge acquisition and data quality
improvement (e.g. games with a purpose)
- Social and Cognitive Aspects of Knowledge
Representation
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Similarity and analogy-based reasoning
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Knowledge representation inspired by cognitive science
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Synergies between humans and machines
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Knowledge emerging from user interaction and networks
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Knowledge ecosystems
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Expert finding, e.g., by social network analysis
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Collaborative and social approaches to knowledge management and
acquisition
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Crowdsourcing in knowledge management
- Knowledge discovery
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Mining patterns and association rules
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Mining complex data: numbers, sequences, trees, graphs
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Formal Concept Analysis and extensions
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Numerical data mining methods and knowledge processing
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Mining the web of data for knowledge construction
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Text mining and ontology engineering
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Classification and clustering for knowledge management
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Symbolic and sub-symbolic learning machine learning
- Applications in specific domains such as:
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eGovernment and public administration
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Life sciences, health and medicine
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Humanities and Social Sciences
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Automotive and manufacturing industry
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Cultural heritage
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Digital libraries
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Geosciences
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ICT4D (Knowledge in the developing world)
TYPE OF PAPERS
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We will accept different types of papers. The papers
will all have the same status and follow the same formatting
guidelines in the proceedings but will receive special treatment
during the reviewing phase. In particular, each paper type will
be subject to its own evaluation criteria. The Programme
Committee will also make sure that there is a reasonable balance
of the paper types accepted. At submission time the paper has to
be clearly identified as belonging to one of the following
categories.
* Research papers: These are standard papers
presenting a novel method, technique or analysis with
appropriate empirical or other types of evaluation as a
proof-of-concept. The main evaluation criteria here will be
originality, technical soundness and validation.
* In-use papers: Here we are expecting papers
describing applications of knowledge management and engineering
in real environments. Applications need to address a
sufficiently interesting and challenging problem on real-world
datasets, involving many users, etc. The focus is less on the
originality of the approach and more on presenting systems that
solve a significant problem while addressing the particular
challenges that come with the use of real-world data.
Evaluations are essential for this type of paper and should
involve a representative subset of the actual users of the
system.
* Position papers: We invite researchers to also
publish position papers, which describe novel and innovative
ideas. Position papers may also comprise an analysis of
currently unsolved problems, or review these problems from a new
perspective, in order to contribute to a better understanding of
these problems in the research community. We expect that such
papers will guide future research by highlighting critical
assumptions, motivating the difficulty of a certain problem or
explaining why current techniques are not sufficient, possibly
corroborated by quantitative and qualitative arguments.
IMPORTANT DATES
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* Abstract deadline: May 25, 2020
* Submission deadline: June 1, 2020
* Notification of acceptance: August 1, 2020
* Camera-ready paper: August 14, 2020
* Conference days: September 16-20, 2020
All submission deadlines are 23:59:59 Hawaii Time.
SUBMISSIONS
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All submissions for research, in-use, and position
papers must be in English, and no longer than 15 pages
*including bibliography*. Papers that exceed this limit will be
rejected without review.
Submissions must be in PDF, formatted in the style
of the Springer Publications format for Lecture Notes in
Computer Science (LNCS). For details on the LNCS style, see
Springer's Author Instructions.
ORGANISATION
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General Chairs
* Oliver Kutz (Free University of Bozen-Bolzano,
Italy)
* Rafael Penaloza (University of Milano-Bicocca,
Italy)
Program Chairs
* Michel Dumontier (Maastricht University, the
Netherlands)
* Maria Keet (University of Cape Town, South Africa)
Workshop Chairs
* Anastasia Dimou (Ghent University, Belgium)
* Karl Hammar (Jonkoping University, Sweden)
Posters & Demos Chairs
* Daniel Garijo (University of Southern California,
USA)
* Agnieszka Lawrynowicz (Poznan University of
Technology, Poland)
Publicity Chair
* Rafael Goncalves (Stanford University, USA)
Local Committee
* Pietro Galliani (Free University of Bozen-Bolzano,
Italy)
* Guendalina Righetti (Free University of
Bozen-Bolzano, Italy)
* Nicolas Troquard (Free University of
Bozen-Bolzano, Italy)