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Achim Hoffmann



                                Call for Papers

        PKAW 2000: The 2000 Pacific Rim Knowledge Acquisition Workshop

              Venue: Holiday Inn, Coogee Beach, Sydney, Australia

                      Date : Sydney, December 11-13, 2000

                           Co-located with ALT 2000

                 (http://www.cse.unsw.edu.au/~achim/PKAW2000)


Paper submission DEADLINE: 28 August 2000.





Contents

      Introduction
      Topics of Interest
      Participation and Submission of Papers
      Important Dates
      Instructions for Paper Submission
      Workshop Organisers
      Program Committee

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Introduction

      The objective of this workshop is to assemble theoreticians and
      practitioners concerned with developing methods and systems that assist
      the knowledge acquisition process and assessing the suitability of such
      methods. Thus, the workshop includes all aspects of eliciting,
      acquiring, modeling and managing knowledge, and their role in the
      construction of knowledge-intensive systems. Knowledge acquisition
      still remains the bottleneck for building a knowledge based system.
      Reuse and sharing of knowledge bases are major issues and no
      satisfactory solutions have been agreed upon yet. There is a wide range
      of research. Much of the work in this field has been knowledge
      acquisition from human experts. The advent of the age of digital
      information has brought the problem of data overload. Our ability to
      analyze and understand massive datasets lags far behind our ability to
      gather and store the data. A new generation of computational techniques
      and tools is required to support the acquisition of useful knowledge
      from the rapidly growing volume of data. All of these are to be
      discussed in this workshop.

      This workshop offers an opportunity to draw together both aspects of
      dealing with the situated nature of human knowledge and expertise and
      of developing methods that depend more on their algorithmic adequacy
      than on the expertise of the knowledge engineer.

Topics of Interest

      Papers are invited in all aspects of knowledge acquisition for
      knowledge-based systems, including (but not restricted to):

    * Fundamental views on knowledge that affect the knowledge acquisition
      process and the use of knowledge in knowledge engineering
    * Algorithmic approaches to knowledge acquisition
    * Tools and techniques for knowledge acquisition, knowledge maintenance
      and knowledge validation
    * Evaluation of knowledge acquisition techniques, tools and methods
    * Knowledge acquisition, machine learning and knowledge discovery
    * Languages and frameworks for knowledge and knowledge modeling
    * Integration of knowledge acquisition techniques with wider information
      systems or decision support systems
    * Methods and techniques for sharing and reusing knowledge
    * Distributed knowledge acquisition through infrastructures such as the
      Internet

Participation and Submission of Papers

      Despite the more open nature of this workshop the major goal remains to
      encourage vigorous interaction and exchange of ideas. Consequently, the
      workshop participation will be kept small - less than 40 participants.
      Persons not submitting papers can also request to participate. Authors
      are invited to formulate an issue that would be useful to discuss.
      Software demonstrations related to presented papers are also
      encouraged.

      The submissions will be reviewed by members of the program committee.
      Accepted papers will be published in the proceedings and distributed at
      the workshop as well as on the WWW. Authors will retain copyright of
      their papers.

      For more information about the workshop, please contact the Workshop
      Chairs.

Important Dates

    * Papers due by: August 28, 2000
    * Notification of Acceptance: October 20, 2000
    * Camera-ready version of Final paper due: November 20, 2000
    * Date of Workshop: December 11-13, 2000

Instructions for Paper Submission


      Papers describing original research or practical experiences from
      building knowledge-based systems should be submitted in Postscript
      or pdf format. We expect papers to be between 10 and 20 pages of length.
      They should be printed in 12pt font for normal text. The text area
      should be 22cm x 16cm and centered on each page.
      For submission, authors should send an e-mail to Achim Hoffmann
      with the paper title, name of all authors and a URL from which the
      paper can be accessed. The subject should be: "PKAW2000 submission".
      The e-mail must be received by 28 August 2000.


Workshop and Program Committee Chairs:

      Paul Compton (University of New South Wales, Australia)
         E-mail: compton@cse.unsw.edu.au
      Achim Hoffmann (University of New South Wales, Australia)
         E-mail: achim@cse.unsw.edu.au
      Hiroshi Motoda (Osaka University, Japan)
         E-mail: motoda@ar.sanken.osaka-u.ac.jp
      Takahira Yamaguchi (Shizuoka University, Japan)
         E-mail: yamaguti@cs.inf.shizuoka.ac.jp


Program Committee

      Ghassan Beydoun (University of New South Wales, Australia)
      Bob Colomb (University of Queensland, Australia)
      John Debenham (CSIRO and University of Technology, Sydney, Australia)
      Rose Dieng (INRIA, France)
      Dieter Fensel (University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands)
      Udo Hahn (Freiburg University, Germany)
      Noriaki Izumi (Shizuoka University, Japan)
      Byeong Kang (University of Tasmania, Australia)
      Hideto Kazawa (NTT, Japan)
      Yasuhiko Kitamura (Osaka City University, Japan)
      Maria Lee (CSIRO, Australia)
      Rodrigo Martinez (Spain)
      Tim Menzies (NASA, USA)
      Toshiro Minami (Kyushu University & Fujitsu Laboratories Limited, Japan)
      Enrico Motta (Open University, UK)
      Frank Puppe (University of Wuerzburg, Germany)
      Ulrich Reimer (Suisse Life, Switzerland)
      Debbie Richards (Macquarie University, Australia)
      Shusaku Tsumoto (Shimane Medical University, Japan)
      Seiji Yamada (Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan)

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