Knowledge Science, Engineering and Management Second Internation
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Subseries of Lecture Notes in Computer Science
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Zili Zhang Jörg Siekmann (Eds.)
Knowledge Science, Engineering and Management Second International Conference, KSEM 2007 Melbourne, Australia, November 28-30, 2007 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 Zili Zhang Deakin University School of Engineering and Information Technology Geelong, VIC 3217, Australia E-mail: [email protected] Jörg Siekmann German Research Center of Artificial Intelligence (DFKI), Germany E-mail: [email protected]
Library of Congress Control Number: Applied for
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 3-540-76718-5 Springer Berlin Heidelberg New York 978-3-540-76718-3 Springer Berlin Heidelberg New York
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Preface
The second international conference on Knowledge Science, Engineering and Management (KSEM2007) was held in picturesque Melbourne, Australia, during November 28–30 2007, and hosted by Deakin University. 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. Recent years have seen the growing importance of the synergism of knowledge science, engineering and management to provide stronger support for complex problem solving and decision making. KSEM aims at bridging the three areas and promoting their synergism. KSEM2007 attracted 124 submissions from 21 countries/regions around the world. All submitted papers were reviewed by at least two PC members or external reviewers. The review process was very selective. From the 124 submissions, 42 (33.8%) were accepted as regular papers, and another 28 (22.6%) as short papers. Authors of accepted papers came from 16 countries/regions. This volume of the proceedings contains the abstracts of five invited talks, two of them with extended versions, and all the regular and short papers. The regular papers were cat
