*** KSEM 2019: Call for Papers *** ========================================================================================== The 12th International Conference on Knowledge Science, Engineering and Management (KSEM2019) August 28-30, 2019, Athens, Greece URL: http://ksem2019.unipi.gr/ Submission System: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ksem2019 ========================================================================================== -----~*******~-------- Important Dates -----~*******~-------- Paper Submission Due (updated): Friday, May 3rd, 2019 (firm deadline) Notification Due (updated): May 20, 2019 Early Registration Due: June 03, 2019 Camera Ready Due (updated): June 05, 2019 Conference: August 28-30, 2019 -----~*******~-------- Conference Scope -----~*******~-------- The 12th International Conference on Knowledge Science, Engineering and Management (KSEM 2019) will be held in Athens, Greece on August 28-30, 2019. KSEM 2019 is the twelfth in this series, which builds on the success of eleven previous events of the International Conference on Knowledge Science, Engineering and Management in Guilin, China (2006); Melbourne, Australia (2007); Vienna, Austria (2009); Belfast, UK (2010); Irvine, USA (2011); Dalian, China (2013); Sibiu, Romania (2014); Chongqing, China (2015); Passau, Germany (2016); Melbourne, Australia (2017); and Changchun, China (2018). 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. -----~*******~-------- Topics of Interest -----~*******~-------- The conference committee invites submissions of applied or theoretical research as well as of application-oriented papers on all the topics of KSEM. Topics include, but are not limited to the following: ** Knowledge Science ** - Knowledge representation and reasoning - Logics of knowledge; formal analysis of knowledge; reasoning about knowledge - Knowledge complexity and knowledge metrics - Common sense knowledge; non-monotonic reasoning - Uncertainty in knowledge (randomness, fuzziness, roughness, vagueness) - Machine learning - Integration of machine learning and knowledge representation - Reasoning about knowledge in the presence of inconsistency, incompleteness and context-dependency - Belief revision and updates - Cognitive foundations of knowledge - Knowledge in complex systems (e.g. economical and quantum systems) - Game-theoretical aspects of knowledge; knowledge in multi-agent systems - Formal ontologies ** Knowledge Engineering ** - Knowledge extraction from texts/big data/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 and ontological engineering - Knowledge engineering applications ** Knowledge Management ** - Knowledge creation and acquisition - Knowledge verification and validation - Knowledge dissemination - Knowledge management systems - Knowledge and data integration - Knowledge adaptation - Knowledge management best practices and applications ** Knowledge Graphs ** - Probabilistic Knowledge Graphs - Knowledge graph construction - Knowledge graph query - Knowledge graph storage, query and management - Knowledge graph embedding - Knowledge graph completion - Knowledge graph link prediction - Knowledge graph applications - Learning on knowledge graphs -----~*******~-------- Paper Submission -----~*******~-------- Papers must be submitted electronically as a PDF file through the EasyChair conference management system at: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ksem2019 All the papers will be reviewed by the Program Committee on the basis of technical quality, relevance, originality, significance, and clarity. All paper submissions will be handled electronically. Please note: (1) All papers should be submitted electronically in PDF and be no longer than 12 pages. Please use the Springer LNCS style as described in http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html (2) Papers longer than 12 pages will be charged an extra publication fee of 80€ per page. (3) Short papers (6-8 pages) are also accepted. It should be clearly indicated in the title of the paper submission. (4) A limited number of poster papers will be accepted. These should not be shorter than 4 pages. Accepted poster papers will not be orally presented. (5) At least one author of each accepted paper is required to register (regular registration) and present the paper at the conference. -----~*******~-------- Publication -----~*******~-------- All accepted and presented papers will be included in the KSEM 2019 proceedings to be published by Springer in its Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence (LNAI) series (pending approval from Spinger). The KSEM 2019 proceedings will be available on-line through the SpringerLink Digital Library, readily accessible by all the subscribing libraries around the world. Selected top quality papers accepted and presented in the KSEM 2019 will be invited for extension for various special issues of some international journals. -----~*******~-------- Steering Committee -----~*******~-------- - Ruqian Lu (Honorary Chair), Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China - Chengqi Zhang (Past Chair), University of Technology, Sydney, Australia - Hui Xiong (Chair), Rutgers University, New Jersey, US - Dimitris Karagiannis (Deputy Chair), University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria - David Bell, Queen’s University, Belfast, UK - Yaxin Bi, Ulster University, Belfast, UK - Cungen Cao, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China - Zhi Jin, Peking University, Beijing, China - Kwok Kee Wei, National University of Singapore, Singapore, Singapore - Claudiu Kifor, Sibiu University, Sibiu, Romania - Jerome, Lang, Paul Sabatier University, Toulouse, France - Gang Li, Deakin University, Victoria, Australia - Yoshiteru Nakamori, JAIST, Nomi, Japan - Jorg Siekmann, German Research Centre of Artificial Intelligence, Berlin, Germany - Eric Tsui, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hung Hom, Hong Kong - Zongtuo Wang, Dalian Science and Technology University, Dalian, China - Martin Wirsing, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universit?t M?nchen, Munich, Germany - Bo Yang, Jilin University, Changchun, China - Mingsheng Ying, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China - Zili Zhang, Southwest University, Chongqing, China -----~*******~-------- General Co-Chairs -----~*******~-------- - Gang Li, Deakin University, Geelong, Australia - Dimitris Plexousakis, University of Crete and FORTH, Heraklion, Greece -----~*******~-------- Program Committee Co-Chairs -----~*******~-------- - Dimitris, Karagiannis, University of Vienna,Vienna, Austria - Dimitris Apostolou, University of Piraeus, Piraeus, Greece - Christos Douligeris, University of Piraeus, Piraeus, Greece -----~*******~-------- Program Committee -----~*******~-------- - Klaus-Dieter Althoff, DFKI / University of Hildesheim, Hildesheim, Germany - Serge Autexier, DFKI, Kaiserslautern, Germany - Massimo Benerecetti, University of Naples Federico II, Naples, Italy - Salem Benferhat, University of Artois, Lens, France - Paolo Bouquet, University of Trento, Trento, Italy - Remus Brad, Lucian Blaga University of Sibiu, Sibiu, Romania - Robert Andrei Buchmann, Babe-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca, Romania - Hechang Chen, Jilin University, Changchun, China - Paolo Ciancarini, University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy - Ireneusz Czarnowski, Gdynia Maritime University, Gdynia, Poland - Richard Dapoigny, LISTIC/Polytech'Savoie, Annecy, France - Yong Deng, Southwest University, Chongqing, China - Josep Domingo-Ferrer, Universitat Rovira i Virgili, Tarragona, Spain - Dieter Fensel, University of Innsbruck, Innsbruck, Austria - Hans-Georg Fill, University of Bamberg, Bamberg, Germany - Yanjie Fu, Missouri University of Science and Technology, Rolla, USA - Chiara Ghidini, FBK Trento, Trento, Italy - Fausto Giunchiglia, University of Trento, Trento, Italy - Knut Hinkelmann, FHNW University of Applied Sciences and Arts, Olten, Switzerland - Zhisheng Huang, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Amsterdam, Netherlands - Van Nam Huynh, JAIST, Nomi, Japan - Tan Jianlong, Institute of Information Engineering, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China - Fang Jin, Texas Tech University, Lubbock, USA - Zhi Jin, Peking University, Beijing, China - Mouna Kamel, IRIT - University Paul Sabatier - Toulouse, Toulouse, France - Krzysztof Kluza, AGH UST, Kraków, Poland - Konstantinos Kotis, University of Piraeus, Piraeus, Greece - Yong Lai, Jilin University, Changchun, China - Gang Li, Deakin University, Geelong, Australia - Ge Li, Peking University, Beijing, China - Huayu Li, UNCC, Charlotte, USA - Li Li, Southwest University, Chongqing, China - Qian Li, Institute of Information Engineering, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China - Ximing Li, Jilin University, Changchun, China - Bin Liu, IBM TJ Watson Research Center, Yorktown Heights, USA - Junming Liu, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, USA - Li Liu, Chongqing University, Chongqing, China - Shaowu Liu, University of Technology Sydney, Ultimo, Australia - Weiru Liu, University of Bristol, Bristol, UK - Xudong Luo, Guangxi Normal University, Guilin, China - Bo Ma, Xinjiang Technical Institute of Physics & Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Urumqi, China - Stewart Massie, Robert Gordon University, Aberdeen, UK - Maheswari N, VIT University, Chennai Campus, Chennai, India - Oleg Okun, Cognizant Technology Solutions GmbH, Teaneck, USA - Dantong Ouyang, Jilin University, Changchun, China - Guilin Qi, Southeast University, Nanjing, China - Sven-Volker Rehm, WHU - Otto Beisheim School of Management, Vallendar, Germany - Ulrich Reimer, FHS St.Gallen, University of Applied Sciences, St. Gallen, Switzerland - Luciano Serafini, FBK Trento, Trento, Italy - Leslie Sikos, University of South Australia, Adelaide, Australia - Leilei Sun, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China - Yanni Velegrakis, University of Trento, Trento, Italy - Lucian Vintan, Lucian Blaga University of Sibiu, Sibiu, Romania - Daniel Volovici, Lucian Blaga University of Sibiu, Sibiu, Romania - Huy Quan Vu, Victoria University, Melbourne, Australia - Hongtao Wang, North China Electric Power University, Beijing, China - Kewen Wang, Griffith University, Logan City, Australia - Zhichao Wang, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China - Martin Wirsing, Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, Munich, Germany - Robert Woitsch, BOC Asset Management GmbH, Wien, Austria - Le Wu, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, China - Zhiang Wu, Nanjing University of Finance and Economics, Nanjing, China - Tong Xu, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, China - Ziqi Yan, Beijing Jiaotong University, Beijing, China - Bo Yang, Jilin University, Changchun, China - Jingyuan Yang, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, USA - Feng Yi, Institute of Information Engineering, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China - Qingtian Zeng, Shandong University of Science and Technology, Qingdao, China - Chunxia Zhang, Beijing Institute of Technology, Beijing, China - Le Zhang, Sichuan University, Chengdu, China - Songmao Zhang, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China - Zili Zhang, Southwest University, Chongqing, China - Hongke Zhao, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, China - Jiali Zuo, Jiangxi Normal University, Nanchang, China -----~*******~-------- Keynote, Invited Speakers and Workshop Committee Co-Chairs -----~*******~-------- - Yannis Manolopoulos, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki,Greece - Vassilis Plagianakos, University of Thessaly, Lamia, Greece -----~*******~-------- Publication Committee Co-Chairs -----~*******~-------- - Dimitris Kallergis, University of West Attica and University of Piraeus, Piraeus, Greece - Themistoklis Panayiotopoulos University of Piraeus, Piraeus, Greece -----~*******~-------- Publicity Committee Co-Chairs -----~*******~-------- - Shaowu Liu, University of Technology, Sydney, Australia - Ergina Kavallieratou, University of the Aegean, Greece - Yannis Theodoridis, University of Piraeus, Piraeus, Greece - Yonggang Zhang, Jilin University, China -----~*******~-------- Finance and Registration Chair -----~*******~-------- - Theodoros Karvounidis, University of Piraeus, Piraeus, Greece -----~*******~-------- Local Organization Committee -----~*******~-------- - Roza Mavropodi (Chair), University of Pireaus, Pireaus, Greece - Epi Angelaki, University of Pireaus, Pireaus, Greece - Panagiotis Drakoulogkonas, University of Pireaus, Pireaus, Greece - Zacharenia Garofalaki, University of Pireaus, Pireaus, Greece - Panos Gotsiopoulos, University of Pireaus, Pireaus, Greece - Apostolos Karalis, University of Pireaus, Pireaus, Greece - Dimitris Kotsifakos, University of Pireaus, Pireaus, Greece - Eleni Seralidou, University of Pireaus, Pireaus, Greece - Dimitra Tzoumpa, University of Pireaus, Pireaus, Greece - Vassilis Vasilakopoulos, University of Pireaus, Pireaus, Greece Technical co-sponsorhip Greek Computer Society (www.epy.gr) Hellenic Conference on Artificial Intelligence (www.eetn.gr) -----~*******~-------- Further Information -----~*******~-------- For all inquiries, please contact: - Local Organization Committee - (ksem2019@unipi.gr) - Christos Douligeris, University of Piraeus, Piraeus, Greece (cdoulig@unipi.gr)