[ ARCHIVE ] International Workshop On Community-Based Evolution of Knowledge-Intensive Systems

Monterrey, Mexico, Nov 9 - 14, 2008

Proceedings published by Springer Verlag


WORKSHOP THEME

COMBEK seeks to address the need for research that explores and embraces the novel, difficult but crucial issue of adapting knowledge resources to their user communities, and vice versa, as a fundamental property of knowledge-intensive internet systems. Through a deep understanding of the real-time, community-driven, evolution of so-called ontologies, a knowledge-intensive system can be made operationally relevant and sustainable over long periods of time.

By addressing the notion of “community” in this way, COMBEK hopes to innovate the science of ontology engineering and unlock the expected (and unavoidable) paradigm shift in knowledge-based and community-driven systems. Such a paradigm would affect knowledge sharing and communication across diverse communities in business, industry, and society. We are further convinced that being a part of the OnTheMove conferences will turn a spotlight on the scientific issues addressed in COMBEK, making them visible and attractive to industry.


WORKSHOP GOALS

COMBEK is ready to transcend the current, narrow “ontology engineering” view on the change management of knowledge structures that is at the heart today’s knowledge-intensive systems. We will consider stakeholder communities as integral factors in the continuous evolution of the knowledge-intensive systems in which they collaborate. By bringing together researchers from different domains, COMBEK aims to advance research on a very broad spectrum of needs, opportunities, and solutions. COMBEK will be a forum for the discussion of next-generation knowledge-intensive systems and radically new approaches in knowledge evolution.

  
TOPICS OF INTEREST

COMBEK goes wider than current practice by accepting explorations of new and alternative approaches from multiple relevant disciplines, including, but not limited to:

  • collaborative knowledge engineering
  • pragmatic web / pragmatic semantic unification
  • community-driven knowledge acquisition and sharing
  • ontology negotiation and argumentation
  • community-driven ontology evolution management
  • change impact analysis
  • lexical resources for ontology representation and disambiguation
  • context and ontologies
  • computer-mediated communication theories
  • community/communication modeling and discourse analysis
  • computer-supported cooperative work
  • human-computer confluence and interaction
  • social network analysis
  • community participation incentives
  • emergent semantics in communities
  • social tagging systems
  • learning ontology from folksonomies
  • applications and analysis of large online communities

COMBEK will provide a forum in which practitioners and researchers can meet, and exchange research and implementation ideas and results. It will give practitioners and researchers an opportunity to present their work and to take part in open discussions. Relevant topics include (but are not limited to) theoretical or empirical exploration and position papers on theory and method, as well as tool demonstrations, realistic case studies, and experience reports.


ORGANISATION COMMITTEE

Pieter De Leenheer (primary contact)
Vrije Universiteit Brussel STARLab
Pleinlaan 2, 1050 BRUSSEL, Belgium
Tel: +32 2 629 37 50
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Martin Hepp
E-Business and Web Science Research Group
Bundeswehr University, Germany
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Amit Sheth
Kno.e.sis Center
Wright State University, USA
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Program Committee Members

Hugo Liu - MIT Media Labs, USA
Natalya Noy - Stanford Center for Biomedical Informatics Research, USA
Munindar Singh - North Carolina State University, USA
Dragan Gasevic - Athabasca University, Canada
Juan-Carlos Fernandez-Ramil - University of Mons-Hainaut, Belgium / Open University, Milton Keynes, UK
Christopher Thomas - Kno.e.sis Center, Wright State University, USA
Andreas Schmidt - FZI Karlsruhe, Germany
Alicia Diaz - Universidad Nacional de La Plata - LIFIA, Argentina
Tom Mens - University of Mons-Hainaut, Belgium
Mark Aakhus - Rutgers University School of Communication, Information, and Library Studie, USA
Filippo Lanubile - University of Bari, Italy
Aldo de Moor - Community Sense, The Netherlands
Igor Mozetic - Jozef-Stefan Institute, Slovenia
Davide Eynard - Politecnico di Milano, Italy
Tanguy Coenen - STARLab, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium
Stijn Christiaens - STARLab, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium
Siorpaes Katharina - SEBIS, STI, University of Innsbruck, Austria
Marta Sabou - Knowledge Media Institute, UK
Denny Vrandecic - AIFB, Germany
Konstantinos Kotis - AI-Lab , research group at University of the Aegean, Greece
Valentin Zacharias - FZI Karlsruhe, Germany
Handschuh Siegfried - DERI Galway, Ireland
Breslin John - DERI Galway, Ireland