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CALL FOR PAPER for EKAW'2000
 12th International Conference on Knowledge Engineering and Knowledge
Management,
Juan-les-Pins, French Riviera, October 2-6, 2000.


EKAW'2000 (12th International Conference on Knowledge Engineering and
Knowledge Management) aims at gathering researchers working on any area
concerning methods, techniques and tools for the construction and the
exploitation of knowledge-intensive systems and for knowledge management.

Papers are welcome on the following topics (not exclusive):


       Languages and frameworks for knowledge engineering and knowledge
management.
       Tools and techniques for knowledge engineering and knowledge management.
       Acquiring knowledge through machine learning, data-mining and knowledge
discovery in databases.
       Knowledge management, enterprise modeling and corporate memories.
       Methods and techniques for reuse of knowledge and knowledge models, in
particular related to the construction, use, and maintenance of supporting
libraries of problem-solving methods and ontologies.
       Terminology, ontologies and knowledge acquisition from texts
       Knowledge engineering and knowledge management over the Internet.
       Exploitation of Intranet for knowledge engineering and knowledge
management
       Integration of knowledge from different groups in an organization
       Knowledge sharing between different groups in an organization (possibly
via Internet/Intranet)
       Cooperative (possibly WWW-based) building, adaptation and evolution of
a corporate memory
       WWW-based repositories for sharable ontologies and reusable
problem-solving methods
       WWW-based terminology servers
       Agent-oriented approaches to knowledge engineering and management.
       Use of knowledge engineering approaches for intelligent information
integration, knowledge retrieval and meta-content descriptions.
       Evaluation of methods, techniques and tools for knowledge engineering
and knowledge management.


Submission Procedure

Authors should submit by March 15, 2000, a full paper electronically either as
a postscript, html or pdf file by emailing the corresponding URL. In addition,
authors should submit an ascii version of their title page by email.
 Submission address : [log in to unmask]



Submission Format

The first page of submitted papers should include: title, author names,
affiliations, postal addresses, electronic mail addresses, telephone and fax
numbers for all authors, and a brief abstract. All correspondence will be sent
to the author designed as contact person in the electronic title page.

Submissions should not exceed 6000 words and should be printed on A4 paper
with at least 1 inch margins on all sides. Notice that authors using
LaTeX may already use the Springer style files.


International Program Committee of EKAW'2000


Chairs and main organizers

       Rose DIENG, INRIA-Sophia-Antipolis (F)
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       Olivier CORBY, INRIA-Sophia-Antipolis (F)

Program Committee

       Stuart AITKEN, University of Glasgow (UK)
       Hans AKKERMANS, University of Twente (NL)
       Nathalie AUSSENAC, IRIT- CNRS Toulouse (F)
       Richard BENJAMINS, University of Amsterdam (NL)
       Jeff BRADSHAW , Boeing Corp. (USA)
       Joost BREUKER, University of Amsterdam (NL)
       John DOMINGUE, Open University (UK)
       Dieter FENSEL, Free University of Amsterdam (NL)
       Jean-Gabriel GANASCIA, LAFORIA-University Paris VI (F)
       Yolanda GIL, ISI, University of Southern California (USA)
       Asuncion GOMEZ-PEREZ, Universidad Politecnica de Madrid (ES)
       Nicola GUARINO, National Research Council (I)
       Udo HAHN, University of Freiburg (G)
       Frank van HARMELEN, Free University Amsterdam (NL)
       Rob KREMER, University of Calgary (CA)
       Franck MAURER, University of Calgary (CA)
       Riichiro MIZOGUCHI, Osaka University (JP)
       Martin MOLINA, Technical University of Madrid (ES)
       Enrico MOTTA, Open University (UK)
       Mark MUSEN, Stanford University (USA)
       Enric PLAZA I CERVERA , Spanish Scientific Research Council, CSIC (ES)
       Ulrich REIMER, Swiss Life (CH)
       Chantal REYNAUD, University of Nanterre, University of Paris-Sud (F)
       François ROUSSELOT, LIIA-ENSAIS, University of Strasbourg (F)
       Marie-Christine ROUSSET, University of Paris-Sud (F)
       Franz SCHMALHOFER, DFKI, Kaiserslautern (G)
       Guus SCHREIBER, University of Amsterdam (NL)
       Nigel SHADBOLT, University of Southampton (UK)
       Derek SLEEMAN, University of Aberdeen (UK)
       Rudi STUDER, University of Karlsruhe (G)
       Jan TREUR, Free University Amsterdam (NL)
       Andre VALENTE, ISI, University of Southern California (USA)
       Thomas WETTER, University of Heidelberg (G)
      
Organization committee

       Olivier CORBY, INRIA-Sophia-Antipolis, F
       Rose DIENG, INRIA-Sophia-Antipolis, F
       Monique SIMONETTI, INRIA-Sophia-Antipolis, F


Important dates

 Submission deadline: March 15, 2000
 Notification of acceptance: May 1, 2000
 Camera ready copy and author registration: June 15, 2000
 Conference: October 2-6, 2000




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