Knowledge Based Systems (KBS) have been successfully developed in various domains based on techniques and tools from Knowledge Engineering (KE). The classic KE approach to system modelling uses mostly symbolic logic-based symbolic knowledge representation methods, which are more specific from Artificial Intelligence (AI) in a broad sense, that has recently included computational intelligence techniques. Since most of the implementations of today KBS are software based, Software Engineering (SE) methods and tools play an important role in their development. Moreover, recent developments in SE emphasize the importance of the use of formalized symbolic representations in the software development process.

The eight workshop on Knowledge Engineering and Software Engineering (KESE8) is held at the ECAI 2012 (THE European Conference on Artificial Intelligence) organized by European Coordinating Committee for Artificial Intelligence in Montpellier, France, and wants to bring together researchers and practitioners from both fields of software engineering and knowledge engineering, as well as the Semantic Web community. 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 German Conference on Artificial Intelligence (KI) since 2005 and on the Spanish AI Conference in 2011. 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, management and analysis
• Business Processes modelling in KE and SE
• Practical knowledge representation and discovery techniques in software engineering
• Agent-oriented software engineering
• Knowledge base management in KE systems
• Evaluation and verification of KBS
• Practical tools for KBS engineering
• Process models in KE applications
• Software requirements and design for KBS applications
• Declarative, logic-based, including constraint programming approaches in SE

Call for Tool Presentations

We are also strongly interested in tool presentations, so we regularly encourage the submission of tool presentation papers, i.e., system descriptions that clearly show the interaction between knowledge engineering and software engineering research.

1. 19 Feb 2012: 1st call for papers sent
2. 28 May 2012: workshop paper submission deadline
3. 28 Jun 2012: notification on workshop paper acceptance
4. 07 Jul 2012: camera ready papers
5. 22 Jul 2012: workshop proceedings to be sent to workshop chair

The official KESE8 CfP: Call for Papers

The KESE 8 flyer will be available soon.

Papers should be formatted according to the Springer LNCS guidelines. The length of each paper should not exceed 10 pages (including figures and references), see: http://ftp.springer.de/pub/tex/latex/llncs/latex2e/llncs2e.zip All papers must be written in English and submitted in PDF format. Submissions will be made via EasyChair.

Please submit your paper via EasyChair (http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=kese8).

The one-day workshop will be held with presentations of accepted papers. English is the official language of the workshop. The submitted papers will be reviewed by three members of the program committee. A comfortable time slot for discussions will be given. Accepted contributions will appear as CEUR Workshop Proceedings (CEUR-WS.org).

• G. J. Nalepa, AGH UST Krakow gjn@agh.edu.pl
• J. Cañadas, University of Almeria jjcanada@ual.es
• J. Baumeister, University Würzburg joba@uni-wuerzburg.de

• Isabel María del Águila, University of Almeria, Spain
• Klaus-Dieter Althoff, University Hildesheim, Germany
• Joachim Baumeister, University Würzburg, Germany
• Joaquín Cañadas, University of Almeria, Spain
• Jesualdo Tomás Fernández-Breis, University of Murcia, Spain
• Adrian Giurca, BTU Cottbus, Germany
• José M. Juarez, University of Murcia, Spain
• Jason Jung, Yeungnam University, Korea
• Rainer Knauf, TU Ilmenau, Germany
• Carmen Martínez-Cruz, University of Jaen, Spain
• Emilia Mendes, University of Auckland, New Zealand
• Grzegorz J. Nalepa, AGH University of Science and Technology, Krakow, Poland
• José Palma, University of Murcia, Spain
• José del Sagrado, University of Almeria, Spain
• Dietmar Seipel, University Würzburg, Germany
• Rafael Valencia-García, University of Murcia, Spain

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See ECAI 2012 site