Apologies for cross-postings. Please forward to interested colleagues and mailing lists. ************************************************************ CALL FOR PAPERS, WORKSHOPS, TUTORIALS, POSTERS AND DEMOS K-CAP 2009: The Fifth International Conference on Knowledge Capture Crowne Plaza Redondo Beach & Marina Hotel, California, USA 1-4 September, 2009 http://kcap09.stanford.edu ************************************************************ In today's knowledge-driven world, effective access to and use of information is a key enabler for progress. Modern technologies not only are themselves knowledge-intensive technologies, but also produce enormous amounts of new information that we must process and aggregate. These technologies require knowledge capture, which involve the extraction of useful knowledge from vast and diverse sources of information as well as its acquisition directly from users. Driven by the demands for knowledge-based applications and the unprecedented availability of information on the Web, the study of knowledge capture has a renewed importance. Researchers that work in the area of knowledge capture traditionally belong to several distinct research communities, including knowledge engineering, machine learning, natural language processing, human-computer interaction, artificial intelligence and the Semantic Web. K-CAP 2009 will provide a forum that brings together members of disparate research communities that are interested in efficiently capturing knowledge from a variety of sources and in creating representations that can be useful for reasoning, analysis, and other forms of machine processing. We solicit high-quality research papers for publication and presentation at our conference. Our aim is to promote multidisciplinary research that could lead to a new generation of tools and methodologies for knowledge capture. K-CAP 2009 follows on the success of four previous conferences in 2007 (Whistler, Canada), in 2005 (Banff, Canada), in 2003 (Florida, USA), and 2001 (Victoria, Canada). The Fifth International Conference on Knowledge Capture, K-CAP 2009 will feature Invited Talks, Technical Papers, Workshops, Posters and Demos on a range of topics including: * Knowledge acquisition tools * Authoring tools * Knowledge extraction systems * Knowledge management environments * Knowledge capture for the Semantic Web * Collaborative and social approaches to knowledge management and acquisition * Learning apprentices * Mixed-initiative planning and decision-support tools * Acquisition of problem-solving knowledge * Knowledge-based markup techniques * Advice taking systems * Knowledge engineering and modeling methodologies IMPORTANT DATES Technical papers --------------------- Papers due: April 15, 2009 Author notification: May 31, 2009 Camera-ready copy due: June 30, 2009 Workshops -------------- Workshop proposals due: February 16, 2009 Notification of workshop acceptance: March 15, 2009 K-CAP 2009 workshops: September 1, 2009 Tutorials ----------- Tutorial proposals due: February 16, 2009 Notification of tutorial acceptance: March 15, 2009 K-CAP 2009 tutorials: September 1, 2009 Posters and demos ------------------------ Poster and demo submissions: June 15, 2009 Author notifications: July 5, 2009 Technical papers Complete formatting instructions (including Microsoft Word and Latex templates) are available on the conference website. Briefly, submitted papers should be 8 pages, two columns, 10-point Times Roman (or equivalent), and "US letter" page-size. Posters and demo descriptions Complete formatting instructions (including Microsoft Word and Latex templates) are available on the conference website. Briefly, submitted papers should be 2 pages, two columns, 10-point Times Roman (or equivalent), and "US letter" page-size. ABOUT THE VENUE The conference will be held in the beautiful Crowne Plaza Redondo Beach & Marina Hotel, which is only 7 miles (11.2 km) away from the Los Angeles International Airport (LAX). The location is only steps from the Redondo Beach and the bike path that runs along the South Bay in Los Angeles. Also within walking distance is a marina that offers opportunities for fishing, sailing, and free outdoor concerts. The marina has many restaurants, a water park, and seal flocks. K-CAP 2009 ORGANIZING COMMITTEE General Chair: Yolanda Gil, USC Information Sciences Institute, USA Program Chair: Natasha Noy, Stanford University, USA Workshops and Tutorials Chair: Andreas Hotho, University of Kassel, Germany Technology Chair: Tania Tudorache, Stanford University, USA K-CAP 2009 PROGRAM COMMITTEE Eugene Agichtein (Emory University, US) Harith Alani (University of Southampton, UK) Cecilia Aragon (Lawrence Berkeley Lab, US) Lora Aroyo (Free University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands) Ken Barker (University of Texas, US) Joachim Baumeister (University of Würzburg, Germany) Bettina Berendt (K.U.Leuven, Germany) Paul Buitelaar (DFKI, Germany) Mark Burstein (BBN, US) Vinay Chaudhri (SRI International, US) Philipp Cimiano (University of Karlsruhe, Germany) Peter Clark (Boeing, US) Oscar Corcho (Polytechnic University of Madrid, Spain) Martin Dzbor (KMi, Open University, UK) James Fan (IBM Research, US) George Ferguson (University of Rochester, US) Ken Forbus (Northwestern University, US) Aldo Gangemi (Italian National Research Council, Italy) John Gennari (University of Washington, US) Asun Gomez-Perez (Polytechnic University of Madrid, Spain) Mark Greaves (Vulcan, US) Bettina Hoser (University of Karlsruhe, Germany) Jane Hunter (The University of Queensland, Australia) Robert Jaeschke (University of Kassel, Germany) Jihie Kim (USC/ISI, US) Ross King (University of Wales at Aberystwyth, UK) Tolga Konik (Stanford University, US) Rob Kremer (University of Calgary, Canada) Ugur Kuter (University of Maryland, College Park, US) Juergen Lerner (University of Konstanz, Germany) James Lester (North Carolina State University, US) Henry Lieberman (MIT Media Laboratory, US) Peter Mika (Yahoo, Spain) Vibhu Mittal (Google, US) Riichiro Mizoguchi (Osaka University, Japan) Enrico Motta (The Open University, UK) Claudia Müller (University of Stuttgart, Germany) Mark Musen (Stanford University, US) Karen Myers (SRI International, US) Tomas Nordlander (University College Cork, Ireland) Tim Oates (University of Maryland Baltimore County, US) Alan Rector (University of Manchester, UK) Charles Rich (Worcester Polytechnic Institute, US) Harald Sack (University of Potsdam, Germany) Gianni Semeraro (University of Bari, Italy) Jude Shavlik (University of Wisconsin-Madison, US) Candy Sidner (BAE Systems, US) Richard Sproat (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, US) Markus Strohmaier (Graz University of Technology, Austria) Gerd Stumme (University of Kassel, Germany) Prasad Tadepalli (Oregon State University, US) Valentina Tamma (University of Liverpool, UK) Dan Tecuci (University of Texas, US) Annette ten Teije (Free University Amsterdam, the Netherlands) Bob Wielinga (University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands) Michael Witbrock (Cycorp, US) Peter Yeh (Accenture, US) K-CAP STEERING COMMITTEE Peter Clark (Boeing Company) Ken Forbus (Northwestern University) Yolanda Gil (USC) Rob Kremer (University of Calgary) Mark Musen (Stanford University) Jude Shavlik (University of Wisconsin at Madison) Derek Sleeman (University of Aberdeen)