WDKE is a space for the dissemination of scientific and professional academic activity in the area of data and knowledge engineering, including presentations of extended abstracts and posters and invited talks.

1. Submission Guidelines
Authors are invited to submit short papers of 4-6 pages that report results of scientific research. High quality survey papers are also acceptable. Papers must be written in English and should be submitted through the EasyChair platform. All papers must be original and not simultaneously submitted to another journal or conference.

The submitted papers will be reviewed by an international program committee. Authors of accepted papers will be required to design a poster for the presentation of the paper, the format will be sent to the authors of accepted papers. Download the template of short papers at: https://wdke.disc.cl/call-for-papers/

2. List of Topics
WDKE will accept research works and applications in the subject of data and knowledge engineering, mainly on but not limited to:
- Big Data
- Deep Learning
- Intelligent systems
- Data Science Project Management
- Data Analytics
- Web/Data mining
- Machine Learning
- Knowledge Representation
- Expert Systems
- Data Visualization
- Computer Vision

3. Important dates
Submission Deadline: August 06, 2018.
Author Notification: August 21, 2018.
Camera Ready: September 01, 2018.

4. Organizing Committee
- Brian Keith, brian.keith@ucn.cl, Universidad Católica del Norte, Chie
- Claudio Meneses, cmeneses@ucn.cl, Universidad Católica del Norte, Chile
- Diego Urrutia, durrutia@ucn.cl, Universidad Católica del Norte, Chile
- Juan Bekios, juan.bekios@ucn.cl, Universidad Católica del Norte, Chile
- Víctor Flores, vflores@ucn.cl, Universidad Católica del Norte, Chile.

5. Publication
WDKE2018 proceedings will be published in the workshop website and the authors of the two best accepted and effectively presented short papers will be invited to submit a 10-page full paper as candidate for publication in a special issue of the INGENIARE journal (indexed Scopus/Scielo Chile).

6. Venue
The workshop will be held at Universidad Arturo Prat in Iquique, Chile as part of the INFONOR-Chile 2018. For more information please visit: https://infonor2018.inf.unap.cl

7. Contact
All questions about submissions should be emailed to Brian Keith (brian.keith@ucn.cl).