The 2013 International Conference on Knowledge Science, Engineering and Management (KSEM2013)
http://ksem.dlut.edu.cn/
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Call for Papers
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The 2013 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. KSEM2013 to be held in Dalian, China is the sixth in the conference series, following five successful
events in Guilin, China (KSEM2006), Melbourne, Australia (KSEM2007), Vienna, Austria (KSEM2009), Belfast, Northern Ireland (KSEM2010), and Irvine, USA (KSEM 2011).

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Important Dates
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Submission Due: February 28, 2013
Author Notification: April 15, 2013
Camera-ready: April 30, 2013
Early registration: April 30, 2013
Conference Dates: August 10-12, 2013

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Main Topics (not limited to)
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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

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Publications
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Proceedings:
In accordance with the previous conferences, the KSEM 2013 proceedings will be published by the Springer-Verlag in the Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence series.
Special Issues:
Selected papers with excellent quality will be extended and then included in a special issue to be published in the International Journal of Knowledge and Systems
Science (IJKSS), International Journal of Software Engineering and Knowledge Engineering (IJSEKE), and others.

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General Co-Chairs
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Prof. Yanzhong Dang
Dalian University of Technology, China
Prof. Maria Gini
University of Minnesota - Twin Cities, US

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Program Co-Chairs
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Prof. Geoff Webb
Monash University, Australia
Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery, Editor-in-Chief
Prof. Jiangning Wu
Dalian University of Technology, China

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Contact Us
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Dr. Guangfei Yang
Institute of Systems Engineering, Faculty of Management and Economics, Dalian University of Technology, Dalian 116023, China
Email: ksem2013@dlut.edu.cn
Tel: +86-411-84707917 Fax: +86-411-84707425