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Invited speakers: Brian Gaines and Mildred Shaw

Introduction
Topics of Interest
Participation and Submission of Papers
Important Dates
Instructions for Paper Submission
Workshop Organisers
Program Committee
Technical Program of PKAW and Technical Program of ALT)
List of accepted papers
Registration Form (Please print this form and fax or mail it to the designated address by 24 November 2000)
Local information, Hotels, etc (this is the equally valid and useful info for the co-located Workshop ALT00)

The objective of this workshop is to assemble theoreticians and practitioners concerned with developing methods and systems that assist the knowledge acquisition process and assessing the suitability of such methods. Thus, the workshop includes all aspects of eliciting, acquiring, modeling and managing knowledge, and their role in the construction of knowledge-intensive systems. Knowledge acquisition still remains the bottleneck for building a knowledge based system. Reuse and sharing of knowledge bases are major issues and no satisfactory solutions have been agreed upon yet. There is a wide range of research. Much of the work in this field has been knowledge acquisition from human experts. The advent of the age of digital information has brought the problem of data overload. Our ability to analyze and understand massive datasets lags far behind our ability to gather and store the data. A new generation of computational techniques and tools is required to support the acquisition of useful knowledge from the rapidly growing volume of data. All of these are to be discussed in this workshop.

This workshop offers an opportunity to draw together both aspects of dealing with the situated nature of human knowledge and expertise and of developing methods that depend more on their algorithmic adequacy than on the expertise of the knowledge engineer.

Papers are invited in all aspects of knowledge acquisition for knowledge-based systems, including (but not restricted to):
 
• Fundamental views on knowledge that affect the knowledge acquisition process and the use of knowledge in knowledge engineering
• Algorithmic approaches to knowledge acquisition
• Tools and techniques for knowledge acquisition, knowledge maintenance and knowledge validation
• Evaluation of knowledge acquisition techniques, tools and methods
• Knowledge acquisition, machine learning and knowledge discovery
• Languages and frameworks for knowledge and knowledge modeling
• Integration of knowledge acquisition techniques with wider information systems or decision support systems
• Methods and techniques for sharing and reusing knowledge
• Distributed knowledge acquisition through infrastructures such as the Internet

Despite the more open nature of this workshop the major goal remains to encourage vigorous interaction and exchange of ideas. Consequently, the workshop participation will be kept small - less than 40 participants. Persons not submitting papers can also request to participate. Authors are invited to formulate an issue that would be useful to discuss. Software demonstrations related to presented papers are also encouraged.

The submissions will be reviewed by members of the program committee. Accepted papers will be published in the proceedings and distributed at the workshop as well as on the WWW. Authors will retain copyright of their papers.

For more information about the workshop, please contact the Workshop Chairs.

• Papers due by: 5 September 2000
• Notification of Acceptance: October 20, 2000
• Camera-ready version of Final paper due: November 24, 2000
• Date of Workshop: December 11-13, 2000

Instructions for Paper Submission
 

Papers describing original research or practical experiences from building knowledge-based systems should be submitted in Postscript or pdf format. We expect papers to be 10 to 20 pages in length. They should be printed in 12pt font for normal text. The text area should be 22cm x 16cm and centered on each page.
For submission, authors should send an e-mail to Achim Hoffmann with the paper title, name of all authors and a URL from which the paper can be accessed. The subject should be: "PKAW2000 submission". The e-mail must be received by 28 August 2000.

It is planned to invite authors of selected papers to contribute to an edited volume to be published by a commercial publisher in 2001.

Registration fee for the workshop, which includes proceedings, light lunches and coffee/tea:
Regular: A$ 400 (including harbour cruise banquet ticket)
Student: A$ 200( excluding harbour cruise banquet ticket)
More details will be available soon.