The fourth International Conference on Knowledge Science, Engineering and Management (KSEM`2010)

1-3 September 2010, Belfast, Northern Ireland, UK
http://www.ulster.ac.uk/ksem2010

*Important dates


Paper submission: 30 March, 2010
Author notification: 15 May, 2010
Camera-ready: 30 May, 2010
Early registration: 30 May, 2010


KSEM is an international conference for research on knowledge science, engineering and management, which attracts high quality, state-of-the-art research papers from all over the world. The conference provides a forum for researchers, practitioners and developers to present original work, to share their views, to exchange ideas and to develop new insights into KSEM-related areas. KSEM2010 will be held in Belfast, Northern Ireland, and is the fourth in the conference series, following three successful events in Guilin, China (KSEM'06), Melbourne, Australia (KSEM'07) and Vienna, Austria (KSEM’09). You are invited to submit papers that are original and not yet published. The topics of interest include but are not limited to:


*Knowledge science


Knowledge representation and reasoning
Logics of knowledge;
Formal analysis of knowledge;
Knowledge complexity and knowledge metrics
Reasoning about knowledge in the presence of inconsistency, incompleteness, context-dependency
Commonsense knowledge and uncertainty in knowledge
Cognitive foundations of knowledge
Knowledge in complex systems and multi-agent systems
Formal ontology


*Knowledge engineering

Knowledge extraction
Knowledge integration
Knowledge fusion
Knowledge-based software engineering
Knowledge-based systems in life sciences
Conceptual modelling in knowledge-based systems
Semantic database systems and semantic Web
Content engineering and ontological engineering
Implementation issues in KBS

*Knowledge management

Knowledge creation and acquisition
Knowledge verification and validation
Knowledge dissemination
Knowledge management systems
Organizational ontology
Data mining and knowledge discovery
Organizational memory
Organizational learning
Knowledge management strategies and practices
Knowledge management applications

*Paper Submission:

Prospective participants are requested to electronically submit full papers of their work (12 pages). In accordance with the previous conferences the organisers of KSEM’2010 will publish the conference proceedings with Springer in the Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence (LNAI) series.

*General conference co-chairs

Bryan Scotney, University of Ulster, UK
Zhi Jin, Peking University, China

*Programme co-chairs
Yaxin Bi, University of Ulster, UK
Mary-Anne Williams, University of Technology, Sydney, Australia

*Steering committee members

David Bell, Queen’s University Belfast, UK
Cungen Cao, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
Dimitris Karagiannis, University of Vienna, Austria
Jérome Lang, University Paul Sabatier, France
Yoshiteru Nakamori, JAIST, Japan
Jorg Siekmann, DFKI, Germany
Eric Tsui, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong
Zongtuo Wang, Dalian Science and Technology University, China
Kwok Kee Wei, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
Mingsheng Ying, Tsinghua University, China
Ruqian Lu, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
Chengqi Zhang, University of Technology, Sydney, Australia

*Local organization committee (University of Ulster)
James Uhomoibhi (chair)
Hui Wang (co-chair)


*Contact details

Yaxin Bi
School of Computing and Mathematics
Faculty of Computing and Engineering
University of Ulster
Northern Ireland, UK
Tel: +44 (0)28 90366582
Fax: +44 (0)28 9036 66216
Email:ksem2010@ulster.ac.uk