KEOD 2013: 5th International Conference on Knowledge Engineering and Ontology Development

The International Conference on Knowledge Engineering and Ontology Development (KEOD 2013 - http://www.keod.ic3k.org/) has an open call for papers, whose deadline is scheduled for March 12, 2013. We hope you can participate in this conference by submitting a paper reflecting your current research. KEOD 2013 will be held in Vilamoura, Portugal, September 19 - 22, 2013.
The conference will be sponsored by the Institute for Systems and Technologies of Information, Control and Communication (INSTICC) and held in cooperation with the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) and ACM SIGMIS - ACM Special Interest Group on Management Information Systems. INSTICC is Member of the Foundation for Intelligent Physical Agents (FIPA), Workflow  Management Coalition (WfMC) and Object Management Group (OMG).
Knowledge Engineering (KE) refers to all technical, scientific and social as-pects involved in building, maintaining and using knowledge-based systems. KE is a multidisciplinary field, bringing in concepts and methods from several computer science domains such as artificial intelligence, databases, expert systems, decision support systems and geographic information systems.
Ontology Development (OD) aims at building reusable semantic structures that can be informal vocabularies, catalogs, glossaries as well as more complex finite formal structures representing the entities within a domain and the relationships between those entities. Ontologies, have been gaining interest and acceptance in computational audiences: formal ontologies are a form of
software, thus software development methodologies can be adapted to serve ontology development. A wide range of applications is emerging, especially given the current web emphasis,  including library science, ontology-enhanced search, e-commerce and business process design.
We would like to highlight the presence of the following keynote speakers:
Alan Eardley, Staffordshire University, United Kingdom
David Aveiro, University of Madeira, Portugal
(list not yet complete)
KEOD is interested in promoting high quality research as it can be confirmed by last year acceptance rates, where from 118 submissions, 13% were accepted as full papers. Additionally, 26% were presented as short papers and 20% as posters.
Submitted papers will be subject to a double-blind review process. All accepted papers will be published in the conference proceedings, under an ISBN reference, on paper and on CD-ROM support.
A short list of presented papers will be selected so that revised and extended versions of these papers will be published by Springer-Verlag in a CCIS Series book.
The proceedings will be submitted for indexation by Thomson Reuters Conference Proceedings Citation Index (ISI), INSPEC, DBLP and EI (Elsevier Index).
All papers presented at the conference venue will be available at the SCITEPRESS Digital Library (http://www.scitepress.org/DigitalLibrary/). SCITEPRESS is member of CrossRef (http://www.crossref.org/).
Best paper awards will be distributed during the conference closing session.
Please check the website for further information (http://www.keod.ic3k.org/BestPaperAward.aspx).
Workshops, Special Sessions, Tutorials as well as Demonstrations dedicated to other technical/scientific topics are also envisaged: companies interested in presenting their   products/methodologies or researchers interested in holding a tutorial are invited to contact the conference secretariat. Workshop chairs and Special Session chairs will benefit from logistics support and other types of support, including secretariat and financial support, to facilitate the development of a valid idea.
KEOD 2013 is co-located with two related conferences in a joint conference (IC3K - http://www.ic3k.org/) format, namely:
- Knowledge Discovery and Information Retrieval (http://www.kdir.ic3k.org/)
- Knowledge Management and Information Sharing (http://www.kmis.ic3k.org/)
Registration to one conference allows free access to all conferences.
Please check further details at the KEOD conference website (http://www.keod.ic3k.org/).
In Cooperation with: ACM and ACM SIGMIS Sponsored by: INSTICC INSTICC is Member of: FIPA, WfMC and OMG
IMPORTANT DATES:
  Regular Paper Submission: March 12, 2013
  Authors Notification (regular papers): May 13, 2013
  Final Regular Paper Submission and Registration: June 4, 2013
PROGRAM CHAIR:
Jan Dietz, Delft University of Technology, Netherlands
PROGRAM COMMITTEE:
Please check the program committee members at http://www.keod.ic3k.org/ProgramCommittee.aspx
CONFERENCE TOPICS:
    Ontology Engineering
    Decision Support Systems
    Semantic Web
    Natural language processing
    Intelligent Problem Solving
    Knowledge Acquisition
    Knowledge Representation
    Information Integration
    Expert Systems
    Metamodelling
    Human-Machine Cooperation
    Process knowledge and semantic services
    Knowledge reengineering
    AI programming
    Applications and case-studies
    Ontology matching and alignment
    Ontology sharing and reuse
    Context Analysis and Modeling
    Domain Analysis and Modeling
    Education and Training Issues
    Enterprise Ontology