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CALL FOR PAPERS
20th International Conference on Knowledge Engineering and Knowledge Management (EKAW 2016)

19-23 November 2016, Bologna, Italy
Abstract submission: July 8, 2016
Paper submission: July 15, 2016

Web site: http://ekaw2016.cs.unibo.it/

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The 20th International Conference on Knowledge Engineering and Knowledge Management is concerned with the impact of time and space on the representation of knowledge. Knowledge engineering has mostly been about creating static, universal representations. Yet the world is rarely static: everything changes, including the models, and real world systems need to evolve along with the surrounding world. Also, what makes some representations valid in some contexts may make them invalid elsewhere (e.g., jurisdiction for laws). 

The special focus of this year's EKAW is "evolving knowledge", which concerns all aspects of the management and acquisition of knowledge representations of evolving, contextual, and local models. This includes change management, trend detection, model evolution, streaming data and stream reasoning, event processing, time-and space dependent models, contextual and local knowledge representations, etc. 

EKAW 2016 will put a special emphasis on the evolvability and localization of knowledge and the correct usage of these limits.


== PROCEEDINGS == 

The proceedings of the research and in-use track will be published by Springer Verlag in the LNCS series.


== TOPICS OF INTEREST == 

EKAW 2016 welcomes papers dealing with theoretical, methodological, experimental, and application-oriented aspects of knowledge engineering and knowledge management. 
In particular, but not exclusively, we solicit papers about methods, tools and methodologies relevant with regard to the following topics:



== TYPE OF PAPERS == 

We will accept different types of papers. The papers will all have the same status and follow the same formatting guidelines in the proceedings but will receive special treatment during the reviewing phase. In particular, each paper type will be subject to its own evaluation criteria. The Programme Committee will also make sure that there is a reasonable balance of the paper types accepted. At submission time the paper has to be clearly identified as belonging to one of the following categories.



== IMPORTANT DATES == 



== SUBMISSIONS == 

Pre-submission of abstracts is a strict requirement. All papers and abstracts have to be submitted electronically via http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ekaw2016.
All research and in-use submissions must be in English, and no longer than 15 pages. Papers that exceed this limit will be rejected without review.
Submissions must be either in PDF or in HTML, formatted in the style of the Springer Publications format for Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS). For details on the LNCS style, see Springer's Author Instructions (http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-6-793341-0). For details on the HTML format, see the HTML submission guide (http://ekaw2016.cs.unibo.it/?q=html-submission-guide).


== ORGANIZATION == 

General chair

Program chairs