[dbjapan] Deadline Extension: eKNOW 2012 || January 30 - February 4, 2012 - Valencia, Spain

[Jaime Lloret Mauri <jlloret [at] dcom.upv.es>]

INVITATION:

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Please consider to contribute to and/or forward to the appropriate
groups the following opportunity to submit and publish original
scientific results in eKNOW 2012.
The submission deadline is extended to September 16, 2011.
In addition, authors of selected papers will be invited to submit
extended article versions to one of the IARIA Journals:
http://www.iariajournals.org
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============== eKNOW 2012 | Call for Papers ===============

CALL FOR PAPERS, TUTORIALS, PANELS

eKNOW 2012: The Fourth International Conference on Information, Process,
and Knowledge Management

January 30 - February 4, 2012 - Valencia, Spain

General page: http://www.iaria.org/conferences2012/eKNOW12.html

Call for Papers: http://www.iaria.org/conferences2012/CfPeKNOW12.html

- regular papers
- short papers (work in progress)
- posters
- ideas

Submission page: http://www.iaria.org/conferences2012/SubmiteKNOW12.html

Submission deadline: September 16, 2011

Sponsored by IARIA, www.iaria.org

Extended versions of selected papers will be published in IARIA
Journals: http://www.iariajournals.org

Please note the Poster Forum and Work in Progress options.

The topics suggested by the conference can be discussed in term of
concepts, state of the art, research, standards, implementations,
running experiments, applications, and industrial case studies. Authors
are invited to submit complete unpublished papers, which are not under
review in any other conference or journal in the following, but not
limited to, topic areas.

All tracks are open to both research and industry contributions, in
terms of Regular papers, Posters, Work in progress,
Technical/marketing/business presentations, Demos, Tutorials, and Panels.

Before submission, please check and conform with the Editorial rules:
http://www.iaria.org/editorialrules.html

eKNOW 2012 Topics (topics and submission details: see CfP on the site)

Knowledge fundamentals
Knowledge acquisition, processing, and management; Linguistic knowledge
representation; Knowledge modeling and virtualization; Types of
knowledge: structural, behavioral, relationships, etc.; Knowledge
representation: visual-picture, connectionist model, semi-structured [a
la workflow], structured/formal; Knowledge acquisition status: potential
new knowledge, guessed semantics, confirmed semantics, auditing
confirmed semantics, etc.; Knowledge update: probable insertion,
validated insertion, auditing the insertion periodically based on new
knowledge, etc.

Knowledge identification and discovery
Mining for knowledge; Knowledge identification: semantic-ID, etc.;
Knowledge discovery: how to express knowledge requests?, how to find
knowledge?, etc.; Knowledge refinement: after many acquisitions, former
knowledge can change semantically or structurally, etc.; Knowledge
clustering

Knowledge management systems
Knowledge data systems; Industrial systems; Context-aware and
self-management systems; Imprecision/Uncertainty/Incompleteness in
databases; Cognitive science and knowledge agent-based systems;
Databases and mobility in databases; Zero-knowledge systems; Expert
systems; Tutoring systems; Digital libraries

Knowledge semantics processing and ontology
Dynamic knowledge ontology; Collaborative knowledge ontology; Knowledge
matching; Contextual reasoning; Tools for knowledge ontology;
Context-based information extraction; Knowledge trading systems;
Knowledge exchange portals; Cognitive sytems and knowledge processing;
Human aspects in knowledge processing

Process analysis and modeling
Analysis and development of business architectures; Data mining and
information retrieval for business processes; Business process
modelling; Business process composition; Analysis and management
lifecycle; Reasoning on business processes; Optimization of business
processes; Adaptive business processes; Business process reengineering;
Integration of processes; Process discovery; Business process quality;
Resource allocation

Process management
Criteria for measurement of business process models; Monitoring business
processes; Business process visualization; Management of business
process integration; On-demand business transformation; Performance
measurement; Conformance and risk management; Prediction; Business
transformation; Packaged industry applications; Industry solutions

Information management
Informational mining/retrieval/classification; Geographic and spatial
data Infrastructures; Information technologies; Information management
systems; Information ethics and legal evaluations; Optimization and
information technology; Organizational information systems

Decision support systems
Multi-criteria decision theory; Artificial intelligence; Adaptive design
for decision support systems; Support technologies: knowledge-driven,
data-driven, model-driven, and geographically-driven systems; Support
methods: artificial neural networks, fuzzy logic, and
genetic/evolutionary algorithms; Modeling, interfaces, and performance;
Applications using decision support systems

Committee:
http://www.iaria.org/conferences2012/ComeKNOW12.html
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