Knowledge Engineering and Knowledge Management

by Dieng, Rose; Corby, Olivier

• ISBN13: 9783540411192
• ISBN10: 3540411194
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2000-10-01
• Publisher: Springer Verlag

Summary

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Knowledge Engineering and Knowledge Management, EKAW 2000, held in Juan-les-Pins, France in October 2000.The 28 revised full papers and six revised short papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from a high number of high-quality submissions. The book offers topical sections on knowledge modeling languages and tools, ontologies, knowledge acquisition from texts, machine learning, knowledge management and electronic commerce, problem solving methods, knowledge representation, validation, evaluation and certification, and methodologies.

Table of Contents

Knowledge Modelling Languages and Tools
OIL in a Nutshell	1	(16)
Dieter Fensel
Ian Horrocks
Frank Van Harmelen
Stefan Decker
Michael Erdmann
Michel Klein
The Knowledge Model of Protege-2000: Combining Interoperability and Flexibility	17	(16)
Natalya Fridman Noy
Ray W. Fergerson
Mark A. Musen
A Case Study in Using Protege-2000 as a Tool for CommonKADS	33	(16)
Guus Schreiber
Monica Crubezy
Mark Musen
The MOKA Modelling Language (Short Paper)	49	(8)
Richard Brimble
Florence Sellini
Mdωσ: A Modelling Language to Build a Formal Ontology in Either Description Logics or Conceptual Graphs (Short Paper)	57	(8)
Jerome Nobecourt
Brigitte Beibow
Ontologies
Ontology's Crossed Life Cycles	65	(15)
Mariano Fernandez Lopez
Asuncion Gomez Perez
Maria Dolores Rojas Amaya
A Roadmap to Ontology Specification Languages	80	(17)
Oscar Corcho
Asuncion Gomez Perez
A Formal Ontology of Properties	97	(16)
Nicola Guarino
Christopher Welty
Construction and Deployment of a Plant Ontology	113	(16)
Riichiro Mizoguchi
Kouji Kozaki
Toshinobu Sano
Yoshinobu Kitamura
The Role of Ontologies for an Effective and Unambiguous Dissemination of Clinical Guidelines	129	(11)
Domenico M. Pisanelli
Aldo Gangemi
Geri Steve
Supporting Inheritance Mechanisms in Ontology Representation	140	(16)
Valentina A. M. Tamma
Trevor J. M. Bench-Capon
Conflict Resolution in the Collaborative Design of Terminological Knowledge Bases	156	(16)
Gilles Falquet
Claire-Lise Mottaz Jiang
Knowledge Acquisition from Texts
Revisiting Ontology Design: A Methodology Based on Corpus Analysis	172	(17)
Nathalie Aussenac-Gilles
Brigitte Biebow
Sylvie Szulman
Mining Ontologies from Text	189	(14)
Alexander Maedche
Steffen Staab
SVETLAN' or How to Classify Words Using Their Context	203	(14)
Gael De Chalendar
Brigitte Grau
Machine Learning
KIDS: An Iterative Algorithm to Organize Relational Knowledge	217	(16)
Isabelle Bournaud
Melanie Courtine
Jean-Daniel Zucker
Informed Selection of Training Examples for Knowledge Refinement	233	(16)
Nirmalie Wiratunga
Susan Craw
Experiences with a Generic Refinement Toolkit (Short Paper)	249	(8)
Robin Boswell
Susan Craw
Knowledge Management & E-Commerce
What's in an Electronic Business Model?	257	(17)
Jaap Gordijn
Hans Akkermans
Hans Van Vliet
Chinese Encyclopaedias and Balinese Cockfights - Lessons for Business Process Change and Knowledge Management	274	(14)
Antony Bryant
Using Problem-Solving Models to Design Efficient Cooperative Knowledge-Management Systems Based on Formalization and Traceability of Argumentation (Short Paper)	288	(8)
Myriam Lewkowicz
Manuel Zacklad
Integrating Textual Knowledge and Formal Knowledge for Improving Traceability (Short Paper)	296	(8)
Farid Cerbah
Jerome Euzenat
Knowledge Management by Reusing Experience (Short Paper)	304	(8)
Sabine Delaitre
Sabine Moisan
Problem-Solving Methods
Integrating Knowledge-Based Configuration Systems by Sharing Functional Architectures	312	(16)
Alexander Felfernig
Gerhard Friedrich
Dietmar Jannach
Markus Zanker
The Nature of Knowledge in an Abductive Event Calculus Planner	328	(16)
Leliane Nunes De Barros
Paulo E. Santos
Adapting Tableaux for Classification (Short Paper)	344	(8)
Machiel G. Jansen
Guus Th. Schreiber
Bob J. Wielinga
Knowledge Representation
Conceptual Information Systems Discussed through an IT-Security Tool	352	(14)
Klaus Becker
Gerd Stumme
Rudolf Wille
Uta Wille
Monika Zickwolff
Translations of Ripple Down Rules into Logic Formalisms	366	(14)
Rex B. H. Kwok
Generalising Ripple-Down Rules (Short Paper)	380	(7)
Paul Compton
Debbie Richards
Validation, Evaluation and Certification
Monitoring Knowledge Acquisition Instead of Evaluating Knowledge Bases	387	(16)
Ghassan Beydoun
Achim Hoffmann
Torture Tests: A Quantitative Analysis for the Robustness of Knowledge-Based Systems	403	(16)
Perry Groot
Frank Van Harmelen
Annette Ten Teije
Certifying KBSs: Using CommonKADS to Provide Supporting Evidence for Fitness for Purpose of KBSs	419	(16)
Kieron O'Hara
Nigel Shadbolt
Jeni Tennison
Methodologies
Kinesys, a Participative Approach to the Design of Knowledge Systems	435	(14)
Aurelien Slodzian
An Organizational Semiotics Model for Multi-agent Systems Design (Short Paper)	449	(8)
Joaquim Filipe
Author Index	457