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.
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.
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 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.
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.
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.
Brian R. Gaines, University of Calgary, gaines@cpsc.ucalgary.ca
Mark A. Musen, Stanford University, musen@camis.stanford.edu (KAW96)