Call for papers for KSEM`2010

The fourth International Conference on Knowledge Science, Engineering and Management (KSEM`2010) 1-3 September 2010, Belfast, Northern Ireland, UK http://www.ulster.ac.uk/ksem2010 Important dates Paper submission: 30 March, 2010 Author notification: 15 May, 2010 Camera-ready: 30 May, 2010 Early registration: 30 May, 2010 KSEM is an international conference for research on knowledge science, engineering and management, which attracts high quality, state-of-the-art research papers from all over the world. The conference provides a forum for researchers, practitioners and developers to present original work, to share their views, to exchange ideas and to develop new insights into KSEM-related areas. KSEM2010 will be held in Belfast, Northern Ireland, and is the fourth in the conference series, following three successful events in Guilin, China (KSEM'06), Melbourne, Australia (KSEM'07) and Vienna, Austria (KSEM’09). You are invited to submit papers that are original and not yet published. The topics of interest include but are not limited to: Knowledge science Knowledge representation and reasoning Logics of knowledge; Formal analysis of knowledge; Knowledge complexity and knowledge metrics Reasoning about knowledge in the presence of inconsistency, incompleteness, context-dependency Commonsense knowledge and uncertainty in knowledge Cognitive foundations of knowledge Knowledge in complex systems and multi-agent systems Formal ontology Knowledge engineering Knowledge extraction Knowledge integration Knowledge fusion Knowledge-based software engineering Knowledge-based systems in life sciences Conceptual modelling in knowledge-based systems Semantic database systems and semantic Web Content engineering and ontological engineering Implementation issues in KBS Knowledge management Knowledge creation and acquisition Knowledge verification and validation Knowledge dissemination Knowledge management systems Organizational ontology Data mining and knowledge discovery Organizational memory Organizational learning Knowledge management strategies and practices Knowledge management applications Paper Submission: Prospective participants are requested to electronically submit full papers of their work (12 pages). In accordance with the previous conferences the organisers of KSEM’2010 will publish the conference proceedings with Springer in the Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence (LNAI) series. General conference co-chairs Bryan Scotney, University of Ulster, UK Zhi Jin, Peking University, China Programme co-chairs Yaxin Bi, University of Ulster, UK Mary-Anne Williams, University of Technology, Sydney, Australia Steering committee members David Bell, Queen’s University Belfast, UK Cungen Cao, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China Dimitris Karagiannis, University of Vienna, Austria Jérome Lang, University Paul Sabatier, France Yoshiteru Nakamori, JAIST, Japan Jorg Siekmann, DFKI, Germany Eric Tsui, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong Zongtuo Wang, Dalian Science and Technology University, China Kwok Kee Wei, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong Mingsheng Ying, Tsinghua University, China Ruqian Lu, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China Chengqi Zhang, University of Technology, Sydney, Australia Local organization committee (University of Ulster) James Uhomoibhi (chair) Hui Wang (co-chair) Contact details Yaxin Bi School of Computing and Mathematics Faculty of Computing and Engineering University of Ulster Northern Ireland, UK Tel: +44 (0)28 90366582 Fax: +44 (0)28 9036 66216 Email:ksem2010@ulster.ac.uk Sponsors: