EKAW 2022 - Call for workshops and tutorials



23rd International Conference on Knowledge Engineering and Knowledge Management (EKAW 2022) (https://ekaw2022.inf.unibz.it/) will take place in Bozen-Bolzano, Italy, 26-29 September 2022.


The International Conference on Knowledge Engineering and Knowledge Management (EKAW) is concerned with all aspects of eliciting, acquiring, modeling, and managing knowledge, as well as its role, in the construction of knowledge-intensive systems and services for the semantic web, knowledge management, e-business, natural language processing, intelligent information integration, etc.


Besides the regular conference tracks, EKAW will host a number of workshops and tutorials. Our workshops provide an informal setting where participants have the opportunity to discuss specific technical topics in an atmosphere that fosters the active exchange of ideas. Tutorials will enable attendees to fully appreciate current issues, main schools of thought, and possible application areas.


Topics of Interest



In order to meet these goals, workshop/tutorial proposals should address topics that satisfy the following criteria:

- their topic falls within the general scope of EKAW 2022 (see: https://ekaw2022.inf.unibz.it/cfp/);

- there is a clear focus on a specific technology, problem or application;

- there is a sufficiently large community interested in the topic.


Submission Guidelines


Proposals should be submitted via EasyChair at: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ekaw 2022


Submissions should be a single PDF file of no more than 5 pages, specifying "Workshop Proposal" or "Tutorial Proposal" as their topic, and should contain the following information.


Workshop proposals:

• Title.

• Abstract (200 words).

• Motivation on why the topic is of particular interest at this time and its relation to the main conference topics.

• Workshop format, discussing the mix of events such as paper presentations, invited talks, panels, and general discussion.

• Intended audience and expected number of participants.

• List of (potential) members of the program committee.

• Indication of whether the workshop should be considered for a half-day or full-day.

• The tentative dates (submission, notification, camera-ready deadline, etc.)

• Past versions of the workshop, including URLs as well as the number of submissions and acceptance rates.

• Details of the organizers (name, affiliation, email address, homepage) and a short CV.

• We strongly advise having more than one organizer, preferably from different institutions, bringing different perspectives to the workshop topic. We encourage the workshop organizers to strive for gender and location diversity in the organization and program committee.

• We welcome and will prioritize, on-site workshops with creative structures and organizations that attract various types of contributions and ensure rich interactions.


Tutorial proposals:

• Title.

• Abstract (200 words).

• Relation to the conference topics, i.e. why it will be of interest to the conference attendants.

• If the tutorial, or a very similar tutorial, has been given elsewhere, an explanation of the benefit of presenting it again to the EKAW community.

• Overview of content, description of the aims, presentation style, potential/preferred prerequisite knowledge.

• Indication on whether the tutorial should be considered for a half-day or full-day.

• Intended audience and expected number of participants.

• Audio-visual or technical requirements and any special room requirements (for hands-on sessions, any software needed and download sites must be provided by the tutorial presenters).

• Details of the presenters (name, affiliation, email address, homepage) and short CV including also their expertise, experiences in teaching and in tutorial presentation.


Workshop Organisers’ Responsibilities

The organizers of accepted workshops are expected to:

• prepare a workshop webpage (linked to the official EKAW website) containing the call for papers and detailed information about the workshop organization and timelines

• be responsible for the workshop publicity

• be responsible for their own reviewing process, and decide upon the final program content.

• be responsible for compiling the camera-ready papers by the 19th of September. Proceedings will be published in a joint electronic proceedings volume (e.g. on the CEUR-WS website)

• schedule, attend, and coordinate their entire workshop.


Tutorial Organisers’ Responsibilities

The proposers of accepted tutorials are expected to:

• prepare a tutorial webpage (linked to the official EKAW website) containing detailed information about the tutorial

• prepare the tutorial materials

• publicity distribute materials to participants

• schedule, attend, and coordinate their tutorial.


Important Dates

- Proposals will be evaluated on a rolling basis until: 13 May 2022 [Extended]


Suggested Timeline for Workshops and tutorials

- Workshop/Tutorial website up and calls: 3 weeks after notification

- Deadline to submit Papers to Workshops: 20 July 2022

- Acceptance of Papers for Workshops: 20 August 2022

- Provide camera-ready versions and CEUR copyright signed forms: 19 September 2022

- Workshop/Tutorial day: 26 September 2022

- EKAW 2022 days: 26-29 September 2022


Chairs

• Davide Ceolin (Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica, Amsterdam, The Netherlands)

• María Poveda-Villalón (Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain)


Contact:

ekaw2022@easychair.org