CFP

Call for Papers PKAW 2002: The 2002 Pacific Rim Knowledge Acquisition Workshop in PRICAI 2002 August 18-19, 2002 National Center of Sciences, Tokyo, Japan

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, discovering, 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 are 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.

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 and knowledge maintenance
• Evaluation of knowledge acquisition techniques, tools and methods
• Active mining (*)
• Knowledge discovery and machine learning
• Knowledge modeling and ontologies
• Methods and techniques for sharing and reusing knowledge
• Integration of knowledge acquisition techniques with wider information systems or decision support systems
• Software agents for knowledge acquisition
• 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. Authors are invited to formulate an issue that would be useful to discuss. Software demonstrations related to presented papers are also encouraged.

Instructions for Paper Submission: We encourage submission in Springer Lecture Notes Series format. The length of papers is recommended to be 10 to 15 pages long with this format. (See the Springer LNCS home page: http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html) For submission, authors should send an e-mail to Takahira Yamaguchi with the paper title, name of all authors and the paper body (as one of PDF, PS and Word files). The subject should be: "PKAW2002 submission".

Important Dates:

• June 14, 2002: Submission deadline of papers
• July 14, 2002: Notification of acceptance of papers.
• July 28, 2002: Deadline for camera-ready papers
• August 18-19, 2002: Workshop

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

Paul Compton (University of New South Wales, Australia) E-mail: compton@cse.unsw.edu.au