Intelligent systems have been successfully developed in various domains based on techniques and tools from the fields of knowledge engineering and software engineering. Thus, declarative software engineering techniques have been established in many areas, such as knowledge systems, logic programming, constraint programming, and lately in the context of the Semantic Web and business rules.

The fifth workshop on Knowledge Engineering and Software Engineering (KESE 2009) is held at the KI-2009 in Paderborn, Germany, and wants to bring together researchers and practitioners from both fields of software engineering and artificial intelligence. The intention is to give ample space for exchanging latest research results as well as knowledge about practical experience. This year we also encourage to submit tool presentations, i.e., system descriptions that clearly show the interaction between knowledge engineering and software engineering research and practice. The previous KESE Workshops were held at the KI-2008, KI-2007, KI-2006, and KI-2005. See the KESE workshop series page for more information.

Topics of interest include but are not limited to:

• Knowledge and software engineering for the Semantic Web
• Ontologies in practical knowledge and software engineering
• Business Rules design and management
• Knowledge representation, reasoning and management
• Practical knowledge representation and discovery techniques in software engineering
• Agent-oriented software engineering
• Database and knowledge base management in AI systems
• Evaluation and verification of intelligent systems
• Practical tools for intelligent systems
• Process models in AI applications
• Declarative, logic-based approaches
• Constraint programming approaches

Call for Tool Presentations

This year we also strongly encourage the submission of tool presentation papers, i.e., system descriptions that clearly show the interaction between knowledge engineering and software engineering research and practice. Such papers could be shorter, and have to be explicitly identified as tool presentation.

Papers should be formatted according to the Springer LNCS guidelines. The length should not exceed 12 pages for regular papers and 6 pages for short papers (including figures and references). All papers must be written in English and submitted in PDF format. Please submit your paper via EasyChair (will be announced).

The submitted papers will be reviewed by at least two members of the program committee. A comfortable time slot for discussions will be given. The proceedings will be published as a technical report, and as CEUR Workshop Proceedings (CEUR-WS.org).

The KESE2008 workshop will take place at the 32nd German AI Conference KI-2009. The important dates are as follows:

KESE2008 Workshop Chairs:

• G. J. Nalepa, AGH UST Krakow, Poland, gjn@agh.edu.pl
• J. Baumeister, University of Würzburg, Germany, joba@uni-wuerzburg.de

Program Committee:

• K.-D. Althoff, University Hildesheim, Germany
• J. Baumeister, University Würzburg, Germany
• S. Bibi, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece
• J. Canadas, University of Almeria, Spain
• U. Geske, FhG FIRST, Berlin, Germany
• A. Giurca, BTU Cottbus, Germany
• R. Knauf, TU Ilmenau, Germany
• G. J. Nalepa, AGH UST, Krakow, Poland
• F. Puppe, University Würzburg, Germany
• D. Seipel, University Würzburg, Germany
• I. Stamelos, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki,Greece
• G. Weiss, SCCH, Austria