EKAW2006

event in series::EKAW2006 is the title:=15th International Conference on Knowledge Engineering and Knowledge Management Managing Knowledge in a World of Networks, located in has location city::Podebrady, has location country::Czech Republic.

For more information, see web site:=http://ekaw.vse.cz/.

Important Dates
paper deadline:=April 21th, 2006
 * Research paper submission deadline

Notification:=May 31st, 2006
 * Notification of acceptance for research paper submissions
 * Notification of acceptance for industrial track papers submissions

poster deadline:=June 15th, 2006 demo paper deadline:=June 15th, 2006
 * Deadline for poster submissions
 * Deadline for demo paper submissions

camera ready due:=June 30th, 2006
 * Receipt of camera-ready research papers
 * Receipt of industrial track papers

Notification:=July 15th, 2006
 * Notification of acceptance for poster submissions
 * Notification of acceptance for demo submissions

camera ready due:=August 21st, 2006
 * Receipt of camera-ready tutorial notes
 * Receipt of camera-ready workshops notes
 * Receipt of camera-ready poster abstracts
 * Receipt of camera-ready demo abstracts

October 2-6, 2006
 * EKAW'06 Conference

Topics of Interest

 * Ontologies and the Semantic Web
 * Semantics for Grid and Web Services
 * Knowledge and Social Networks
 * Knowledge Management
 * Knowledge Acquisition and Modeling

General information
Authors should submit a full paper electronically as a PDF file via the onlinesubmission facility accessible at http://ekaw2006.confmaster.net/.All submissions should be formatted according to the Springer LNCS style.Maximal length of submissions is as follows:• Research papers and industrial track papers: 16 pages• (Extended abstracts for) Posters and demos: 2 pagesSubmission of research papers and industrial track papers should be preceded withsubmission of a short abstract (using the online submission facility) - this will easethe reviewer assignment.Note that submission of posters and demos will only be possible from June 1, 2006.At least one author of accepted paper must register for the conference.

Instructions for using the submission facility
The corresponding author first has to register to the site. Then s/he can log in and fillin the information about the paper. For research/industrial track submissions, theabstract can be sent without accompanying PDF file first.

chairs
Conference Co-chairs: Steffen Staab, University of Koblenz-Landau, Germany Vojtech Svatek, University of Economics, Prague, Czech Republic

Workshop and Tutorial Chair: Heiner Stuckenschmidt, University of Mannheim, Germany

Poster Chair: Helena Sofia Pinto, Technical University of Lisbon, Portugal

Demo Chair: Martin Labsky, University of Economics, Prague, Czech Republic

Programme Committee
Karl ABERER, EPFL (CH) Hans AKKERMANS, Free University of Amsterdam (NL) Stuart AITKEN, U Edinburgh (UK) Nathalie AUSSENAC-GILLES, IRIT- CNRS Toulouse (FR) Richard BENJAMINS, iSOCO (ES) Paulo BOUQUET, U Trento (IT) Joost BREUKER, University of Amsterdam (NL) Philipp CIMIANO, University of Karlsruhe (DE) Olivier CORBY, INRIA-Sophia-Antipolis (FR) Paul COMPTON, University of New South Wales (AU) Stefan DECKER, DERI Ireland (IR) Rose DIENG, INRIA-Sophia-Antipolis (FR) John DOMINGUE, Open University (UK) Martin DZBOR, The Open University (UK) Jerôme EUZENAT, INRIA Rhône-Alpes (FR) Dieter FENSEL, University Of Innsbruck (AT) Aldo GANGEMI, ISTC-CNR (IT) Jennifer GOLBECK, University of Maryland (US) Asun GOMEZ-PEREZ, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid (ES) Marko GROBELNIK, JSI (SL) Udo HAHN, Jena University (DE) Michele MISSIKOFF, CNR (IT) Riichiro MIZOGUCHI, Osaka University (JP) Enrico MOTTA, The Open University (UK) Mark MUSEN, Stanford University (US) Enric PLAZA I CERVERA, Spanish Scientific Research Council, CSIC (ES) Alun PREECE, University of Aberdeen (UK) Alan RECTOR, University of Manchester (UK)