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Subseries of Lecture Notes in Computer Science

4092

Jérôme Lang Fangzhen Lin Ju Wang (Eds.)

Knowledge Science, Engineering and Management First International Conference, KSEM 2006 Guilin, China, August 5-8, 2006 Proceedings

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Series Editors Jaime G. Carbonell, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, USA Jörg Siekmann, University of Saarland, Saarbrücken, Germany Volume Editors Jérôme Lang IRIT, Université Paul Sabatier 31062 Toulouse Cedex, France E-mail: [email protected] Fangzhen Lin Hong Kong University of Science and Technology Department of Computer Science Clear Water Bay, Kowloon, Hong Kong, China E-mail: fl[email protected] Ju Wang Guangxi Normal University Guilin, China E-mail: [email protected]

Library of Congress Control Number: 2006930098

CR Subject Classification (1998): I.2.6, I.2, H.2.8, H.3-5, F.2.2, K.3 LNCS Sublibrary: SL 7 – Artificial Intelligence ISSN ISBN-10 ISBN-13

0302-9743 3-540-37033-1 Springer Berlin Heidelberg New York 978-3-540-37033-8 Springer Berlin Heidelberg New York

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Preface

This volume contains the papers accepted for presentation at KSEM 2006, the First International Conference on Knowledge Science, Engineering and Management, held in Guilin, Guangxi, China, August 5-8, 2006. The aim of this interdisciplinary conference is to provide a forum for researchers in the broad areas of knowledge science, knowledge engineering, and knowledge management to exchange ideas and to report state-of-the-art research results. While each of these three broad areas has had dedicated conferences, so far there has been no event bringing together researchers from all three areas, and KSEM aims at filling this gap. The technical program of KSEM 2006 comprised four invited talks, given by Thomas Eiter, Ruqian Lu, Yoshiteru Nakamori, and Kwok Kee Wei, and 51 refereed contributions selected by the Program Committee out of 450 submissions. Finally, the program included two tutorials, given by Paul Buitelaar and Michael Thielscher. This conference was initiated by Ruqian Lu, in conjunction with his project on Non-Canonical Knowledge Processing funded by the Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC) as a Major Research Initiative. There is