The 10th International Conference on Knowledge Science, Engineering and Management (KSEM2017)
August 19-20, 2017, Melbourne, Australia

URL: http://www.ksem2017.conferences.academy/
Submission System: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ksem2017
KSEM Site: http://www.ksem.info

Important Dates

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Paper Submission Due: Apr 30, 2017
Notification Due: May 28, 2017
Camera Ready Due: Jun 11, 2017
Conference: August 19-20, 2017

Conference Scope
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KSEM 2017 will be co-located with the flagship international AI conference — IJCAI 2017, and be held in Melbourne, Australia on August 19-20, 2017.

KSEM 2017 is the tenth in this series, which builds on the success of nine events of International Conference on Knowledge Science, Engineering and Management in Guilin, China (KSEM 2006); Melbourne, Australia (KSEM 2007); Vienna, Austria (KSEM 2009); Belfast, UK (KSEM 2010); Irvine, USA (KSEM 2011);  Dalian, China (KSEM 2013); Sibiu, Romania (KSEM 2014); Chongqing, China (KSEM2015) and Passau, Germany (KSEM 2016).

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
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The conference committee invites submissions of applied or theoretical research and application-oriented papers on all 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
- Commonsense knowledge; non-monotonic 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 multi agent systems
- Formal ontology

** 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 engineering
- Ontological engineering
- Knowledge engineering applications

** Knowledge Management **
- Knowledge creation and acquisition
- Knowledge verification and validation
- Knowledge dissemination
- Knowledge management systems
- Organizational ontology
- Organizational memory
- Organizational learning
- Knowledge management strategies and practices
- Knowledge management applications

Paper Submissions
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Papers must be submitted electronically as a PDF file through EasyChair conference management system at:
https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ksem2017

All 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 no longer than 12 pages. 
     Please use the Springer LNCS style as described from http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html

(2) At least one author of each accepted paper is required to register and present at the conference.

Publication
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In accordance with the previous conferences in this series, the KSEM 2017 proceedings will be published by the Springer Verlag in the Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence (LNAI) series.

Selected top quality papers accepted and presented in the KSEM 2017 will be invited for extension for the special issues of some international journals.

Steering Committee
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- Ruqian Lu (Honorary Chair), Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
- Chengqi Zhang (Past Chair), University of Technology, Sydney, Australia
- Hui Xiong (Chair), the State University of New Jersey, Rutgers, USA
- Dimitris Karagiannis (Deputy Chair), University of Vienna, Austria
- David Bell, Queen’s University, Belfast, UK
- Yaxin Bi, Ulster University, Belfast, UK
- Cungen Cao, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
- Zhi Jin, Peking University, China
- Claudiu Kifor, Sibiu University, Romania
- Jérome Lang, University Paul Sabatier, France
- Yoshiteru Nakamori, JAIST, Japan
- Jorg Siekmann, German Research Centre of Artificial Intelligence, Germany
- Eric Tsui, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong
- Zongtuo Wang, Dalian Science and Technology University, China
- Kwok Kee Wei, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
- Martin Wirsing, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Germany
- Mingsheng Ying, Tsinghua University, China
- Zili Zhang, Southwest University, China

General Co-Chairs
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- Michael Blumenstein, University of Technology, Sydney, Australia
- Zili Zhang, Southwest University, China
- Zhi Jin, Peking University, China

Program Committee Co-Chairs
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- Gang Li, Deakin University, Australia
- Yong Ge, University of Arizona, United States

Publicity Co-Chairs
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- Elena-Teodora Miron, University of Vienna, Austria
- Ge Li, Peking University, China

Further Information
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For all inquiries, please contact
- Gang Li (gang.li@deakin.edu.au)
- Shaowu Liu (swliuproxy@gmail.com)