The 5th International Conference on Knowledge Science, Engineering and Management (KSEM 2011)

December 12-14, 2011
University of California, Irvine, USA


*********IMPORTANT DATES*******************

Submission Due: June 1, 2011
Author Notification: August 1, 2011
Conference Dates: December 12-14, 2011


*********Conference Scope*********

The 2011 International Conference on Knowledge Science, Engineering and Management
provides a leading international forum for the sharing of views, ideas and original
work among researchers, practitioners and developers to enlighten new insights into
KSEM-related areas. The conference attracts numerous high quality, state-of-the-art
research papers from all over the world. KSEM2011 to be held in Irvine, California, USA
is the fifth in the conference series, following four successful events in Guilin, China
(KSEM’06), Melbourne, Australia (KSEM’07), Vienna, Austria (KSEM’09) and Belfast,
Northern Ireland (KSEM’10).


*********PAPER SUBMISSION/Area of Interest*********

You are invited to submit papers that are original and not yet published. The topics
of interest include but are not limited to:

Knowledge Science
- Knowledge representation and reasoning
- Logics of knowledge;
- Formal analysis of knowledge;
- Knowledge complexity and knowledge metrics
- Reasoning about knowledge in the presence of inconsistency, incompleteness, context-dependency
- Commonsense knowledge and uncertainty in knowledge
- Cognitive foundations of knowledge
- Knowledge in complex systems and multi-agent systems
- Formal ontology

Knowledge Engineering
- Knowledge extraction
- Knowledge integration
- Knowledge-based software engineering
- Knowledge-based systems in life sciences
- Conceptual modeling in knowledge-based systems
- Semantic database systems and semantic Web
- Content engineering and ontological engineering
- Implementation issues in KBS
Service-oriented Knowledge Engineering
Geo-knowledge Engineering

Knowledge Management
- Knowledge creation and acquisition
- Knowledge verification and validation
- Knowledge dissemination
- Knowledge management systems
- Organizational ontology
- Data mining and knowledge discovery
- Organizational memory
- Organizational learning
- Knowledge management strategies and practices
- Knowledge management applications
Sustainable Knowledge Management
Cloud Computing and Knowledge Management
Green-IT Knowledge Management

Prospective participants are requested to electronically submit full papers of their
work (12 pages). In accordance with the previous conferences the organizers of
KSEM’2011 will publish the conference proceedings with Springer in the Lecture
Notes in Artificial Intelligence (LNAI) series. Selected papers will be considered,
via standard reviewing procedures, to appear in special issues of several SCI-indexed
international journals.


*********Organizing Committee*********

General Chair
Kwei-Jay Lin Univ. of California, Irvine, USA

Local Arrangement Chair
Weiran Nie Univ. of California, Irvine, USA

Program Co-Chairs
Hui Xiong Rutgers Univ., USA
W.B. Lee The Hong Kong Polytechnic Univ., Hong Kong, China
Nicola Guarino Lab. for Applied Ontology, ISTC-CNR Trento, Italy

Publicity Co-Chairs
Junjie Wu Beihang Univ., China
Chiara Renso KDD Lab, ISTI-CNR Pisa, Italy
Vandana Janeja University of Maryland, Baltimore County, USA


*********STEERING COMMITTEE*********

David Bell Queen’s Univ. Belfast, UK
Cungen Cao Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
Dimitris Karagiannis Univ. of Vienna, Austria
Zhi Jin Peking Univ., China
Jérome Lang Univ. Paul Sabatier, France
Yoshiteru Nakamori JAIST, Japan
Jorg Siekmann DFKI, Germany
Eric Tsui The Hong Kong Polytechnic Univ., Hong Kong, China
Zongtuo Wang Dalian Science and Technology Univ., China
Kwok Kee Wei City Univ. of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China
Mingsheng Ying Tsinghua Univ., China
Zili Zhang Southwest Univ., China
Ruqian Lu (Honorary Chair) Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
Chengqi Zhang (Chair) Univ. of Technology, Sydney, Australia


*********CONTACT US*********

E-Mail: ksem2011@gmail.com
Website: http://link.eecs.uci.edu/conferences/ksem2011
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