Knowledge Engineering and Knowledge Management 18th Internationa

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 18th International Conference on Knowledge Engineering and Knowledge Management, EKAW 2012, held in Galway City, Ireland, in October 2012. The 44 revised full papers were carefully reviewed and selecte

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NAI Founding Series Editor Joerg Siekmann DFKI and Saarland University, Saarbrücken, Germany

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Annette ten Teije Johanna Völker Siegfried Handschuh Heiner Stuckenschmidt Mathieu d’Acquin Andriy Nikolov Nathalie Aussenac-Gilles Nathalie Hernandez (Eds.)

Knowledge Engineering and Knowledge Management 18th International Conference, EKAW 2012 Galway City, Ireland, October 8-12, 2012 Proceedings

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Series Editors Randy Goebel, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada Jörg Siekmann, University of Saarland, Saarbrücken, Germany Wolfgang Wahlster, DFKI and University of Saarland, Saarbrücken, Germany Volume Editors Annette ten Teije VU University Amsterdam, The Netherlands E-mail: [email protected] Johanna Völker Heiner Stuckenschmidt University of Mannheim, Germany E-mail: {johanna, heiner}@informatik.uni-mannheim.de Siegfried Handschuh National University of Ireland, Galway, Ireland E-mail: [email protected] Mathieu d’Acquin Andriy Nikolov The Open University, Milton Keynes, UK E-mail: {m.dacquin, a.nikolov}@open.ac.uk Nathalie Aussenac-Gilles Nathalie Hernandez Université de Toulouse, France E-mail: {aussenac, hernandez}@irit.fr ISSN 0302-9743 e-ISSN 1611-3349 e-ISBN 978-3-642-33876-2 ISBN 978-3-642-33875-5 DOI 10.1007/978-3-642-33876-2 Springer Heidelberg Dordrecht London New York Library of Congress Control Number: 2012947926 CR Subject Classification (1998): I.2, H.4, H.3, J.1, C.2, H.2.8, H.5, D.2 LNCS Sublibrary: SL 7 – Artificial Intelligence © Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2012 This work is subject to copyright. All rights are reserved, whether the whole or part of the material is concerned, specifically the rights of translation, reprinting, re-use of illustrations, recitation, broadcasting, reproduction on microfilms or in any other way, and storage in data banks. Duplication of this publication or parts thereof is permitted only under the provisions of the German Copyright Law of September 9, 1965, in its current version, and permission for use must always be obtained from Springer. Violations are liable to prosecution under the German Copyright Law. The use of general descriptive names, registered names, trademarks, etc. in this publication does not imply, even in the absence of a specific statement, that such names are exempt from the relevant protective laws and regulations and therefore free for general use. Typesetting: Camera-ready by author, data conversion by Scientific Publishing Services, Chennai, India Printed on acid-free paper Springer is part of Springer Science+Business Media (www.springer.com)

Preface

This volume contains the proceedings of the 18th International Conference on Knowledge Engineering and Knowledge Management (EKAW 2012), held October 8–12, 2012 in Galway City, Ireland, 25 years after the first ‘European Knowledge Acquisition Workshop’, which took place at Reading University in the UK in 1987. We took this anniversary as an opportunity to ask ourselves what impact 25 years of research in the area had had on practical applications and we announced this year’s event