Dear Sir/Madam, [Apologies if you received multiple copies of the following message.] Call For Papers First International Conference on Knowledge Science, Engineering and Management (KSEM'2006) August 5-8, 2006 Guilin City, China http://www.cs.ust.hk/ksem06 Co-located with PRICAI'2006 (http://www.csse.monash.edu.au/pricai06) The aim of this interdisciplinary conference is to provide a forum for researchers in the broad areas of knowledge science, knowledge engineering, and knowledge management to exchange ideas and to report state of the art research results. We invite submissions 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; reasoning about knowledge - Knowledge complexity and knowledge metrics - Commonsense knowledge; nonmonotonic reasoning - Uncertainty in knowledge (randomness, fuzziness, roughness, vagueness, etc.) - Reasoning about knowledge in the presence of inconsistency, incompleteness, context-dependency, etc. - Belief revision and update - Cognitive foundations of knowledge - Knowledge in complex systems (e.g. economical and quantum systems) - Game-theoretical aspects of knowledge; knowledge in multiagent systems - Formal ontology * Knowledge Engineering - Knowledge and information extraction from databases and Web - Knowledge discovery from very large databases - Knowledge integration - Knowledge-based software engineering - Knowledge-based systems in life sciences - Conceptual modelling in knowledge-based systems - Semantic database systems - Semantic Web - Content engineering - Ontological engineering - Implementation issues in KBS * 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 Important Dates Paper submission deadline March 10, 2006 Notification of acceptance April 28, 2006 Camera-ready paper due date May 15, 2006 Conference August 5-8, 2006 Paper Submission Papers must be submitted electronically as a PDF file through the conference web site http://www.cs.ust.hk/ksem06 Paper Length and Format Submissions must not exceed thirteen (13) pages including title page, references, and figures. They must be formatted according to the Springer LNCS/LNAI instructions (see http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html). Conference Proceedings The conference proceedings will be published by Springer-Verlag as an LNAI. Conference Co-Chairs Joerg Siekmann (German Research Centre of Artificial Intelligence, Germany) Chengqi Zhang (University of Technology, Sydney, Australia) Organizing Chair Ju Wang (Guangxi Normal University, China) Publicity Co-Chairs Shuigeng Zhou (Fudan University, China) Zili Zhang (Deakin University, Australia) Sponsorship Chair: Ke Liu (National Natural Science Foundation of China) Tutorial Chair: Cungen Cao (Chinese Academy of Sciences, China) Advisory Committee Andreas Dengel, Chair, German Research Center for AI, Germany David Bell, Queen's University, UK Didier Dubois, IRIT/UPS, Toulouse, France Michael Gelfond, Texas Tech University, USA Hector Levesque, University of Toronto, Canada Ruqian Lu, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China Yoav Shoham, Stanford University, USA Bo Zhang, Qinghua University, China Program Committee Program Chairs Jerome Lang (IRIT/UPS, Toulouse, France) Fangzhen Lin (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, China) Area Chairs Mingsheng Ying (Knowledge Science), Tsinghua University, Beijing, China Shan Wang (Knowledge Engineering), Renmin University of China, China Huaiqing Wang (Knowledge Management), City University of Hong Kong, China Members Eugene Agichtein, Microsoft Research, USA Klaus Dieter Althoff, University of Hildesheim, Germany Eyal Amir, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, USA Grigoris Antoniou, FORTH, Greece Nathalie Aussenac, IRIT-CNRS, France Cungen Cao, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China Xiaoping Chen, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei,China Yin Chen, South China Normal University, China John Debenham, University of Technology, Sydney, Australia Jim Delgrande, Simon Fraser University, Canada Xiaotie Deng, City University of Hong Kong, China Rose Dieng-Kuntz, INRIA - Sophia Antipolis, France Chabane Djeraba, University of Science and Technology of Lille, France Patrick Doherty, Linkoping University, Sweden Xiaoying Dong, Peking University, China Xiaoyong Du, Renmin University of China, China Martin Dzbor, Open University, UK Thomas Eiter, Technische Universitat Wien, Austria Hector Geffner, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Spain Giangiacomo Gerla, University of Salerno, Italy Lluis Godo, Artificial Intelligence Research Institute, SSR, Spain Nicola Guarino, LOA-CNR, Trento, Italy Andreas Herzig, IRIT, CNRS / Universite Paul Sabatier, France Wiebe van der Hoek, University of Liverpool, UK Zhisheng Huang, Vrije University Amsterdam, the Netherlands Anthony Hunter, University College London, UK David Israel, SRI International, USA Zhi Jin, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China Gabriele Kern-Isberner, Universitat Dortmund, Germany Ron Kowk, City University of Hong Kong Andre Kushniruk, University of Victoria, Canada James Kwok, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, China Qing Li, City University of Hong Kong, China Stephen Liao, City University of Hong Kong, China Paolo Liberatore, Universita di Roma 'La Sapienza', Italy Zuoquan Lin, Peking University, China Chunnian Liu, Beijing University of Technology, China Dayou Liu, Jilin University, China Weiru Liu, Queen's University Belfast,UK Zongmin Ma, Northeastern University, China Chris Manning, University of Queensland, Australia Jiye Mao, Renmin University of China, China Pierre Marquis, Universite d'Artois, France John-Jules Meyer, Utrecht University, The Netherlands Vibhu Mittal, Google, Inc., USA Kenneth S Murray, SRI International, USA Abhaya Nayak, Macquarie University, Sydney ,Australia Ewa Orlowska, Institute of Telecommunications, Poland Maurice Pagnucco, University of New South Wales, Australia Fiora Pirri, Universita di Roma 'La Sapienza', Italy Ulrich Reimer, University of Applied Sciences St. Gallen, Switzerland Marie-Christine Rousset, Universite de Grenoble, France Ken Satoh, National Institute of Informatics, Japan Torsten Schaub, Universitat Potsdam, Germany Choon Ling Sia, City University of Hong Kong, China H. Stuckenschmidt, Vrije University Amsterdam, The Netherlands Kaile Su, Zhongshan University, China Katia Sycara, Carnegie Mellon University, USA Leon van der Torre, CWI, Amsterdam, The Netherlands Mirek Truszczynski, University of Kentucky, USA Laure Vieu, IRIT-CNRS (France) and LOA-CNR (Italy) Guoren Wang, Northeasten University, China Ju Wang, Guangxi Normal University, China Kewen Wang, Griffith University, Australia Mary-Anne Williams, University of Technology, Sydney, Australia Mike Wooldridge, University of Liverpool, UK Dongming Xu, University of Queensland, Australia Jia-Huai You, University of Alberta, Canada Chunxia Zhang, Beijing Institute of Technology, China Dongmo Zhang, University of Western Sydney, Australia Mingyi Zhang, Guizhou Academy of Sciences, China Shichao Zhang, Guangxi Normal University, China Yan Zhang, University of Western Sydney, Australia Aoying Zhou, Fudan University, China Xiaofang Zhou, University of Queesland, Australia Zhi-Hua Zhou, Nanjing University, China Zhaohui Zhu, Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, China Meiyun Zuo, Renmin University of China, China