7th Workshop on
Knowledge Engineering and Software Engineering KESE7
at the Conference of the Spanish Association for Artificial Intelligence (CAEPIA 2011 http://www.caepia11.es/index.php?lang=en)
http://kese.ia.agh.edu.pl

Aims and Scope
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Intelligent systems have been successfully developed in various domains based on techniques and tools from the fields of knowledge engineering and software engineering. Thus, declarative software engineering techniques have been established in many areas, such as knowledge systems, logic programming, constraint programming, and lately in the context of the Semantic Web and business rules.

The seventh workshop on Knowledge Engineering and Software Engineering (KESE7) is held at the Conference of the Spanish Association for Artificial Intelligence (CAEPIA 2011, http://www.caepia11.es/index.php?lang=en) in La Laguna (Tenerife), Spain, and wants to bring together researchers and practitioners from fields of software engineering and artificial intelligence, as well as the Semantic Web community. The intention is to give ample space for exchanging latest research results as well as knowledge about practical experience. The previous KESE Workshops were annually organized at the German Conference on Artificial Intelligence (KI) since 2005.

Topics of Interest
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Topics of interest include but are not limited to:
* Knowledge and software engineering for the Semantic Web
* Ontologies in practical knowledge and software engineering
* Business Rules design and management
* Practical knowledge representation and discovery techniques in software engineering
* Agent-oriented software engineering
* Database and knowledge base management in AI systems
* Evaluation and verification of intelligent systems
* Practical tools for intelligent systems engineering
* Process models in AI applications
* Software requirements and design for AI applications
* AI approaches in software engineering process
* Declarative, logic-based approaches
* Constraint programming approaches

Intended Audience
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We expect researchers and practitioners from the areas of knowledge and software engineering, and the Semantic Web. No limitation on the number of participants is planned.

Submission Details
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Papers should be formatted according to the Springer LNCS guidelines. The length of each paper should not exceed 10 pages (including figures and references), see: ftp.springer.de/pub/tex/latex/llncs/latex2e/llncs2e.zip
All papers must be written in English and submitted in PDF format. According to the review process requirement of CAEPIA proceedings, papers must be submitted in anonymized form. This means that author names and organization, references, acknowledgements, and any other information that might identify the authors shall be removed from the submitted version of the papers. Submissions will be made via EasyChair: http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=caepia2011

Important dates
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Paper submission deadline: May 6, 2011
Notification of paper acceptance: June 30, 2011
Camera ready copy submission: July 31, 2011
One day Workshop: Nov. 7-11, 2011

Call for Tool Presentations
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This year we also strongly encourage the submission of tool presentation papers, i.e., system descriptions that clearly show the interaction between research and practice. Such papers have to be explicitly identified as tool presentation.

Organization
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The one-day workshop will be held with presentations of accepted papers. English is the official language of the workshop. The submitted papers will be reviewed by three members of the program committee using a double blind-review process. A comfortable time slot for discussions will be given. Accepted contributions will be published in the two volumes of the CAEPIA'11 proceedings: one published by Springer (LNAI series) containing a selection of the best papers and one published by Spanish Association for Artificial Intelligence with the rest of the accepted papers.
It is planned that accepted contributions to KESE7 also appear as CEUR Workshop Proceedings (CEUR-WS.org) (pending).

Workshop organizers
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J. Cañadas, University of Almeria (jjcanada@ual.es)
G. J. Nalepa, AGH UST Krakow (gjn@agh.edu.pl)
J. Baumeister, University Würzburg (joba@uni-wuerzburg.de)

Program Committee
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I. del Águila, University of Almeria, Spain
K.-D. Althoff, University Hildesheim, Germany
A. B. Bailón, University of Granada, Spain
J. Baumeister, University Würzburg, Germany
F. Bienvenido, University of Almeria, Spain
I. Blanco, University of Granada, Spain
M. Campos, University of Murcia, Spain
J. Cañadas, University of Almeria, Spain
J. T. Fernandez-Breis, University of Murcia, Spain
A. Giurca, Brandenburg University of Technology at Cottbus, Germany
F. Guil, University of Almeria, Spain
J. M. Juarez, University of Murcia, Spain
J. Jung, Yeungnam University, Korea
R. Knauf, TU Ilmenau, Germany
C. Martínez-Cruz, University of Jaen, Spain
G. J. Nalepa, AGH UST, Krakow, Poland
J. Palma, University of Murcia, Spain
F. Puppe, University Wurzburg, Germany
J. del Sagrado, University of Almeria, Spain
D. Seipel, University Würzburg, Germany
F. Silva Parreiras, University of Koblenz-Landau, Germany
I. Stamelos, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece
R. Valencia-García, University of Murcia, Spain