KSEM 2018 will be held in Changchun, China on August 17-19, 2018. KSEM is in the list of CCF (China Computer Federation) recommended Conferences (C series, Artificial Intelligence).

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. The conference committee invites submissions of applied or theoretical research and application-oriented papers on all topics of KSEM. Topics include, but are not limited to the following:

Knowledge Science
 Knowledge representation and reasoning
 Logics of knowledge; formal analysis of knowledge; reasoning about knowledge
 Knowledge complexity and knowledge metrics
 Commonsense knowledge; nonmonotonic reasoning
 Uncertainty in knowledge (randomness, fuzziness, roughness, vagueness, etc.)
 Reasoning about knowledge in the presence of inconsistency, incompleteness, context-dependency, etc.
 Belief revision and update
 Cognitive foundations of knowledge
 Knowledge in complex systems (e.g. economical and quantum systems)
 Game-theoretical aspects of knowledge; knowledge in multiagent systems
 Formal ontology
Knowledge Engineering
 Knowledge extraction from texts/big data/Web
 Knowledge discovery from very large databases
 Knowledge integration
 Knowledge-based software engineering
 Knowledge-based systems in life sciences
 Conceptual modelling in knowledge-based systems
 Semantic database systems
 Semantic Web
 Content engineering
 Ontological engineering
 Knowledge engineering applications
Knowledge Management
 Knowledge creation and acquisition
 Knowledge verification and validation
 Knowledge dissemination
 Knowledge management systems
 Organizational ontology
 Organizational memory
 Organizational learning
 Knowledge management strategies and practices
 Knowledge management applications

**Key Dates**
Papers due: Apr 29, 2018
Notification due: May 27, 2018
Camera due: Jun 10, 2018
Conference date: Aug 17-19, 2018

**Paper Submissions**
Papers must be submitted electronically as a PDF file through EasyChair conference management system at: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ksem2018.

All papers will be reviewed by the Program Committee on the basis of technical quality, relevance, originality, significance, and clarity. All paper submissions will be handled electronically. Papers that do not comply with the Submission Guidelines will be rejected without review. Please note:
 All papers should be submitted electronically in PDF no longer than 12 pages. Please use the Springer LNCS style as described from http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html
 At least one author of each accepted paper is required to register and present at the conference.