Call for Participation

Tenth Knowledge Acquisition Workshop -- KAW'96

Banff, Alberta, Canada

November 9 through November 14, 1996

Draft Papers Due May 31, 1996

The objective of the annual knowledge-acquisition workshops is to provide a forum for those developing theories, methods, systems, and empirical studies that relate to the process of building intelligent systems of all kinds.

To encourage vigorous interaction and exchange of ideas, the workshop will be kept small--to about 40 participants. The format is designed to develop extensive discussions and continuing collaboration on significant issues; thus, the majority of the workshop will be devoted to activities within small working groups that each will meet for one or two days, in parallel with other workshop activities over the course of the week. In plenary sessions, we will attempt to define the state of the art and future research needs. General attendance will be limited to those submitting their work, one author per paper.

The meeting is structured to support specialist subgroups that will have their own working agendas, as well as plenary meetings for general knowledge exchange. In addition to the submission of papers, we welcome proposals for new specialist sessions and minitracks that may include a small number of invited participants who can help investigators in the area of knowledge acquisition to form bridges with other research communities.

Tracks

Nine sessions or minitracks have so far been scheduled for the workshop. The corresponding topics, and the organizers of the sessions, are as follows:

1. Distributed knowledge modeling over the Internet
       Frank Maurer          maurer@informatik.uni-kl.de (U Kaiserslautern)
       Henrik Eriksson       her@ida.liu.se              (Linkoping U)

2. Corporate memory and enterprise modeling
       Rose Dieng            Rose.Dieng@sophia.inria.fr  (INRIA-Sophia)
       Johan Vanwelkenhuysen jvanwelk@sidartha.inria.fr  (INRIA-Sophia)

3. Shareable and reusable ontologies
      Gertjan van Heijst     gertjan@swi.psy.uva.nl      (U of Amsterdam)
      Nicola Guarino         guarino@ladseb.pd.cnr.it    (NRC, Italy)

4. Shareable and reusable problem-solving methods
      Dieter Fensel          dieter@swi.psy.uva.nl       (U of Karlshue)
      Richard Benjamins      richard@swi.psy.uva.nl      (U of Amsterdam)
      B. Chandrasekaran      chandra@cis.ohio-state.edu  (Ohio State Univ)

5. Knowledge acquisition from natural language
      Fernando Gomez         gomez@eola.cs.ucf.edu       (U Central Florida)

6. Agent-oriented approaches to knowledge engineering
      Frances Brazier        frances@cs.vu.nl            (Free U of Amsterdam)
      Jan Treur              treur@cs.vu.nl              (Free U of Amsterdam)

7. KA for temporal reasoning and planning
      Yuval Shahar           shahar@camis.stanford.edu   (Stanford U)
      Samson Tu              tu@camis.stanford.edu       (Stanford U)

8. Knowledge Modelling using Conceptual Graphs
      Dickson Lukose         lukose@peirce.une.edu.au    (U of New England)
      Guy Mineau             mineau@ift.ulaval.ca        (Universite Laval)

9. System demonstrations -- Sun, Mac, PC and Internet
      Rob Kremer             kremer@cpsc.ucalgary.ca     (U Calgary)

Individuals who feel they have a new perspective to offer which does not fit into a specialist session are also invited to submit papers. Such papers are especially welcome, but will be expected to offer significant new insights.

Submission of Papers

Draft papers (up to 20 pages) should be sent electronically to Brian Gaines before May 31, 1996. Acceptance and revision notices will be e-mailed by July 31, 1996. Revised papers (20 pages) should be submitted by September 30, 1996, so that hardcopies may be bound together for distribution at the workshop.

The KAW96 proceedings will also be published on the World Wide Web and a web version of the paper will also be required. See the final submission format for details of formats for both web and paper versions.

Authors who submit papers to the workshop will be expected to help with the refereeing of papers submitted by other individuals.

Submission and review of papers, and coordination of all aspects of the meeting, will be through the Internet. Papers should be transmitted in postscript or common document processor format (e.g., Microsoft Word) by FTP to:

ftp://ksi.cpsc.ucalgary.ca/incoming

with an email note to gaines@cpsc.ucalgary.ca when the paper is transferred. This note should also include the title, authors, affiliation and abstract for purposes of a web index.

Authors should indicate appropriate sessions/minitracks for each submission. If there is uncertainty regarding the optimum track for a paper, authors should contact the chairs of the track that seems closest, preferably in advance of the submission deadline. Depending on the range of papers received, some tracks may be collapsed whereas other tracks may be added in advance of the workshop.

Demonstrations

Demonstrations of software systens will be an important feature of the workshop, and a range of high-performance workstations will be provided. Authors submitting to this track should contact Rob Kremer (kremer@cpsc.ucalgary.ca) about the logistics of setting up demonstrations and showing videos.

Graduate Student Awards

Participation by graduate students is particularly encouraged. There will be a number of awards for reduced conference fees to full-time graduate students whose papers are accepted. If appropriate, please indicate that you wish to apply for such an award when you submit a paper.

Further Information

The world-wide web (WWW) will be used to coordinate the meeting and to provide further details of the tracks, paper formats, conference arrangements, and so on. Please see the main KAW page for ongoing information about the workshop.

Workshop co-chairs:

Brian R. Gaines, University of Calgary, gaines@cpsc.ucalgary.ca

Mark A. Musen, Stanford University, musen@camis.stanford.edu (KAW96)


gaines@cpsc.ucalgary.ca 27-May-96