Knowledge Science, Engineering and Management Third Internationa
This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Third International Conference on Knowledge Science, Engineering and Management, KSEM 2009, held in Vienna, Austria, in November 2009. The 42 revised full papers and 2 discussion panels presented were
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Subseries of Lecture Notes in Computer Science
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Dimitris Karagiannis Zhi Jin (Eds.)
Knowledge Science, Engineering and Management Third International Conference, KSEM 2009 Vienna, Austria, November 25-27, 2009 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 Dimitris Karagiannis University of Vienna, Faculty of Computer Science Institute for Knowledge and Business Engineering Brünner Straße 72, 1210 Vienna, Austria E-mail: [email protected] Zhi Jin Peking University School of Electronic Engineering and Computer Science No. 5 Yiheyuan Road, Beijing 100871, China E-mail: [email protected]
Library of Congress Control Number: 2009939077
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 3-642-10487-8 Springer Berlin Heidelberg New York 978-3-642-10487-9 Springer Berlin Heidelberg New York
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Preface
Following two successful events in Guilin, People’s Republic of China (KSEM 2006) and in Melbourne, Australia (KSEM 2007) the third event in this conference series was held for the first time in Europe, namely, in Vienna, Austria. KSEM 2009 aimed to be a communication platform and meeting ground for research on knowledge science, engineering and management, attracting high-quality, state-of-the-art publications from all over the world. It offers an exceptional opportunity for presenting original work, technological advances, practical problems and concerns of the research community. The importance of studying “knowledge” from different viewpoints such as science, engineering and management has been widely acknowledged. The accelerating pace of the "Internet age" challenges organizations to compress communication and innovation cycles to achieve a faster return on investment for knowledge. Thus, next-generation business solutions must be focused on supporting the creation of value by adding knowledge-rich components as an integral part to the work process. Therefore, an integrated approach is needed, which combines issues
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