Schedule of the
10TH Banff Knowledge Acquisition for Knowledge-Based Systems Workshop


Saturday

Saturday, Nov.9 Registration & Reception

4.00 - 5.30 Elbow Room/Points West: Registration

8.00 Elbow Room/Points West: Registration/Reception: Welcome and announcements

Sunday

Sunday, Nov.10 Plenary Sessions in morning, Tracks in afternoon, Posters/Demos in evening

8.30 - 9.00 Conclave: Workshop Welcome and Introductions

9.00 - 10.30 Conclave: Shareable and Reusable Ontologies

Toward Distributed Use of Large-Scale Ontologies (Bill Swartout, USC/Information Sciences Institute, USA)

Engineering Ontologies (Hans Akkermans, Netherlands Energy Research Foundation ECN, The Netherlands)

Towards Principled Core Ontologies (Andre Valente, USC/Information Sciences Institute, USA)

Discussion

10.30 - 11.00 Break (back of Conclave)

11.00 - 12.30 Conclave: Shareable and Reusable Problem-solving Methods

Specification and Verification of Knowledge-Based Systems and Assumptions in Model-Based Diagnosis (Dieter Fensel, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands)

Applying a Library of Problem Solving Methods on a Real-Life Task (Piet-Hein Speel, Unilever Research Laboratory Vlaardingen, The Netherlands)

Parametric Design Problem Solving (Enrico Motta, The Open University, UK)

Discussion

12.30 - 2.00 Lunch (Restaurant on first floor)

2.00 - 3.30 Tracks

Conclave: Shareable and Reusable Problem-solving Methods

Elbow Room: Shareable and Reusable Ontologies

Points West: Distributed Knowledge Modeling over the Internet

3.30 - 4.00 Break (back of Conclave)

4.00 - 5.30 Tracks

Conclave: Shareable and Reusable Problem-solving Methods

Elbow Room: Shareable and Reusable Ontologies

Points West: Distributed Knowledge Modeling over the Internet

5.30 Poster setup time

8.00 - 10.00 Elbow Room/Points West: Poster reception, posters, videos, demos

Monday

Monday, Nov.11 Plenary Sessions in morning, Tracks in afternoon, Sisyphus in evening

9.00 - 10.30 Conclave: Knowledge Modeling

The Ontolingua Server: a Tool for Collaborative Ontology Construction (Adam Farquhar, Stanford University, USA)

MODEL-ECS: Executable Conceptual Modelling Language (Dickson Lukose, The University of New England, Australia)

Corporate memory through cooperative creation of knowledge bases and hyper-documents (Jérôme Euzenat, INRIA Rhône-Alpes, France)

Discussion

10.30 - 11.00 Break (back of Conclave)

11.00 - 12.30 Conclave: Planning, Agents and Cognition

Knowledge Acquisition, Validation, and Maintenance in a Planning System for Automated Image Processing (Steve A. Chien, JPL, California Institute of Technology, USA)

Software Agents Based on Formal KL-Models (Josefina Sierra Santibáñez, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain)

Assessing Responses to Situated Cognition (Tim Menzies, The University of New South Wales, Australia)

Discussion

12.30 - 2.00 Lunch (Restaurant on first floor)

2.00 - 3.30 Tracks

Conclave: Knowledge Acquisition for Temporal Reasoning and Planning

Elbow Room: Knowledge Acquisition from Natural Language

Points West: Corporate Memory and Enterprise Modeling

3.30 - 4.00 Break (back of Conclave)

4.00 - 5.30 Tracks

Conclave: Knowledge Acquisition for Temporal Reasoning and Planning

Elbow Room: Knowledge Engineering

Points West: Corporate Memory and Enterprise Modeling

8.00 - 10.00 Elbow Room/Points West: Sisyphus reception, Sisyphus, posters, videos, demos

Tuesday

Tuesday, Nov.12 Plenary Sessions in morning, Tourism in afternoon

9.00 - 10.30 Conclave: The Future of Knowledge Acquisition

Mark Musen (Chair), B. Chandrasekaran, N. Shadbolt, B. Wielinga

Discussion

10.30 - 11.00 Break (back of Conclave)

11.00 - 13.00 Conclave: Requirements Engineering and Knowledge Engineering

Kate's Story: from RE to KE, and Back Again (Stephen Fickas, University of Oregon, USA)

Meta models for Requirements Engineering (Matthias Jarke, RWTH Aachen, Germany)

Discussion

13.00 Lunch (Restaurant on first floor)

Free afternoon for tourism

Wednesday

Wednesday, Nov.13 Tracks in morning, Groups in afternoon, Banquet in evening

9.00 - 10.30 Tracks

Conclave: Agent-Oriented Approaches to Knowledge Engineering

Elbow Room: Shareable and Reusable Problem-solving Methods

Points West: Corporate Memory and Enterprise Modeling

10.30 - 11.00 Break (back of Conclave)

11.00 - 12.30 Tracks

Conclave: Agent-Oriented Approaches to Knowledge Engineering

Elbow Room: Problem-solving Methods and the Internet

12.30 - 2.00 Lunch and Program Committee Meeting (Restaurant on first floor)

2.00 - 3.30 Group meetings

3.30 - 4.00 Break (back of Conclave)

4.00 - 5.30 Group meetings

7.00 Banquet (in Conclave)

Thursday

Thursday, Nov.14 Wrap-up

9.00 - 10.30 Conclave: Synthesis by co-chairs of major issues in tracks

10.30 - 11.00 Break (back of Conclave)

11.00 - 12.00 Conclave: Planning meeting - KA directions, activities, collaborations, future KAWs, EKAWs, JKAWs

12.00 Farewell Lunch (Restaurant on first floor)


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