4th Workshop on
Knowledge Engineering and Software Engineering
KESE 2008
at the 31st German Conference on Artificial Intelligence

http://kese.ia.agh.edu.pl

Aims and Scope
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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 fourth workshop on Knowledge Engineering and Software Engineering (KESE 2008) 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. The previous KESE Workshops were held at the KI-2007, KI-2006 and KI-2005.

Topics of Interest
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Topics of interest include but are not limited to:
* AI in software/knowledge engineering
 - Knowledge and experience management
 - Declarative, logic-based approaches
 - Constraint programming
 - Agent-oriented software engineering
 - Issues of maintenance
 - Business Rules
* Knowledge/software engineering in AI
 - Engineering the Semantic Web
 - Database and knowledge base management in AI systems
 - Tools for intelligent systems
 - Evaluation of (intelligent) systems
 - Process models

Intended Audience
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We expect researchers and practitioners from the areas of knowledge engineering and software engineering. No limitation on the number of participants is planned.
 
Submission Details
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Papers should be formatted according to the Springer LNCS guidelines. The length of each paper should not exceed 12 pages for regular papers and 6 pages for short papers (including figures and references). 
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.
All papers must be written in English and submitted in PDF format.

Important dates
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Paper submission deadline:          June 6, 2008
Notification of paper acceptance:   July 6, 2008
Camera ready copy submission:       July 28, 2008

Organization
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The one-day workshop will be held with presentations of accepted papers; 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).

Workshop Chairs
   G. J. Nalepa, AGH UST Krakow
	gjn@agh.edu.pl
   J. Baumeister, University Würzburg 
	baumeister@informatik.uni-wuerzburg.de 

Program Committee (tentative)
   K.-D. Althoff, University Hildesheim, Germany
   J. Baumeister, University Würzburg, Germany 
   J. Canadas, University of Almería, 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
   G. Weiß, SCCH, Austria