Managing Knowledge In A World Of Networks: 15th International Conference, Ekaw 2006, Podebrady, Czech Republic, October 6-10, 2006, Proceedings (lecture Notes In Computer Science)

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 15th International Conference on Knowledge Engineering and Knowledge Management, EKAW 2006, held in Podebrady, Czech Republic in October 2006. The 17 revised full papers and 16 revised short papers presented together with 2 invited talks were carefully reviewed and selected from 119 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on knowledge acquisition, ontology engineering, ontology learning, ontology mapping and evolution, semantic search, user interfaces, knowledge discovery, semantics from networks and crowds, and applications. Information And Influence In Social Networks / Andrzej Nowak, Robin Vallacher And Wieslaw Bartkowski -- Learning, Logic, And Probability : A Unified View / Pedro Domingos -- Karacas : Knowledge Acquisition With Repertory Grids And Formal Concept Analysis For Dialog System Construction / Hilke Garbe, Claudia Janssen, Claus Mobus, Heiko Seebold And Holger De Vries -- Capturing Quantified Constraints In Fol, Through Interaction With A Relationship Graph / Peter M.d. Gray And Graham J.l. Kemp -- Assisting Domain Experts To Formulate And Solve Constraint Satisfaction Problems / Derek Sleeman And Stuart Chalmers -- Knowledge Acquisition Evaluation Using Simulated Experts / Tri M. Cao And Paul Compton -- Stochastic Foundations For The Case-driven Acquisition Of Classification Rules / Megan Vazey -- From Natural Language To Formal Proof Goal / Ruud Stegers, Annette Ten Teije And Frank Van Harmelen -- Reuse : Revisiting Sisyphus-vt / Derek Sleeman, Trevor Runcie And Peter Gray -- Role Organization Model In Hozo / Eiichi Sunagawa, Kouji Kozaki, Yoshinobu Kitamura And Riichiro Mizoguchi -- Verification And Refactoring Of Ontologies With Rules / Joachim Baumeister And Dietmar Seipel -- Ontology Selection For The Real Semantic Web : How To Cover The Queen's Birthday Dinner? / Marta Sabou, Vanessa Lopez And Enrico Motta -- Ontology Engineering, Scientific Method And The Research Agenda / Hans Akkermans And Jaap Gordijn -- Ontology Enrichment Through Automatic Semantic Annotation Of On-line Glossaries / Roberto Navigli And Paola Velardi -- Discovering Semantic Sibling Groups From Web Documents With Xtreem-sg / Marko Bruzel And Myra Spiliopoulov -- Designing And Evaluating Patterns For Ontology Enrichment From Texts / Nathalie Aussenac-gilles And Marie-paule Jacques -- Semantic Metrics / Bo Hu, Yannis Kalfoglou, Harith Alani, David Dupplaw, Paul Lewis And Nigel Shadbolt -- Matching Unstructured Vocabularies Using A Background Ontology / Zharko Aleksovski, Michel Klein, Warner Ten Kate And Frank Van Harmelen -- Distributed Multi-contextual Ontology Evolution -- A Step Towards Semantic Autonomy / Maciej Zurawski -- An Evaluation Method For Ontology Complexity Analysis In Ontology Evolution / Dalu Zhang, Chuan Ye And Zhe Yang -- Semantic Search Components : A Blueprint For Effective Query Language Interfaces / Victoria Uren And Enrico Motta -- Semsearch : A Search Engine For The Semantic Web / Yuangui Lei, Victoria Uren And Enrico Motta -- Rich Personal Semantic Web Clients : Scenario And A Prototype / G. Tummarello, C. Morbidoni, M. Nucci, F. Piazza And P. Puliti -- I[superscript 2]dee : An Integrated And Interactive Data Exploration Environment Used For Ontology Design / Fabien Jalabert, Sylvie Ranwez, Vincent Derozier And Michel Crampes -- Evaluating A Thesaurus Browser For An Audio-visual Archive / Veronique Malaise, Lora Aroyo, Hennie Brugman, Luit Gazendam, Annemieke De Jong, Christian Negru And Guus Schreiber -- Frequent Pattern Discovery From Owl Dlp Knowledge Bases / Joanna Jozefowska, Agnieszka Lawrynowicz And Tomasz Lukaszewski -- Engineering And Learning Of Adaptation Knowledge In Case-based Reasoning / Amelie Cordier, Beatrice Fuchs And Alain Mille -- A Methodological View On Knowledge-intensive Subgroup Discovery / Martin Atzmueller And Frank Puppe -- Iterative Bayesian Network Implementation By Using Annotated Association Rules / Clement Faure, Sylvie Delprat, Jean-francois Boulicaut And Alain Mille -- Multilayered Semantic Social Network Modeling By Ontology-based User Profiles Clustering : Application To Collaborative Filtering / Ivan Cantador And Pablo Castells -- Towards Knowledge Management Based On Harnessing Collective Intelligence On The Web / Koji Zettsu And Yasushi Kiyoki -- A Formal Approach To Qualitative Reasoning On Topological Properties Of Networks / Andrea Rodriguez And Claudio Gutierrez -- Towards A Knowledge Ecosystem / Piercarlo Slavazza, Roberto Fonti, Massimo Ferraro, Christian Biasuzzi And Luca Gilardoni -- A Tool For Management And Reuse Of Software Design Knowledge / Paulo Gomes And Andre Leitao -- The Odesew Platform As A Tool For Managing Eu Projects : The Knowledge Web Case Study / Asuncion Gomez-perez, Angel Lopez-cima, M. Carmen Suarez-figueroa And Oscar Corcho. Steffen Staab, Vojtěch Svátek (eds.). Includes Bibliographical References And Index. Also Issued Online. Th The 15 International Conference on Knowledge Engineering and Knowledge Management (2006), held on October 6-10, 2006 in Pod? ebrady, Czech Republic, followed a long tradition of European Knowledge Acquisition Workshops (from 1987), whicheventuallyacquiredtheformatofconference(in2000)whilekeeping their open-minded and interactive spirit. During the nearly 20 year lifespan of the series, the discipline of knowledge engineering (KE) evolved greatly. While knowledge acquisition (KA) techniques dominated in the very?rst years, formal approaches to knowledge-based inf- ence and variousnew streamssuch as knowledgediscoveryfrom data/textslater cameinto play. During thelate1990sandafterwards, EKAWbecamea founding community for ontology and Semantic Web Research, which was also re?ected in the sub-titles of the 2002 and 2004 editions: "Ontologies and the Semantic Web" and "Engineering Knowledge in the Age of the Semantic Web," resp- tively. The 2006 edition, in turn, only slightly refocussed this trend. Its sub-title is "Managing Knowledge in a World of Networks," which re?ects the fact that semantics typically arises not only as a result of explicit engineering activities (as in Semantic Web) but also emerges from interaction of a high number of interconnected documents, ontological concepts, software applications and -- especially -- human users. The importance given to the interconnection of - man users in a sense loops back to the knowledge acquisition roots of EKAW and its 'holistic' view of knowledge engineering