Knowledge Engineering and Knowledge Management: Ontologies and the Semantic Web

th This volume contains the papers presented at the 13 International Conference on Knowledge Engineering and Knowledge Management (EKAW 2002) held in Sig enza, Spain, October 1-4, 2002. Papers were invited on topics related to Knowledge Acquisition, Knowledge Management, Ontologies, and the Semantic Web. A total of 110 papers were submitted. Each submission was evaluated by at least two reviewers. The selection process has resulted in the acceptance of 20 long and 14 short papers for publication and presentation at the conference; an acceptance rate of about 30%. In addition, one invited paper by a keynote speaker is included. This volume contains 8 papers on Knowledge Acquisition, 4 about Knowledge Management, 16 on Ontologies, and 6 papers about the Semantic Web. This was the second time (EKAW 2000 being the first) that the event was organized as a conference rather than as the usual workshop (hence the acronym: European Knowledge Acquisition Workshop). The large number of submissions (110 versus the usual 40-60) is an indication that the scientific community values EKAW as an important event to share experiences in the Knowledge Technology area, worthy of being organized as a prestigious international conference. Knowledge is the fuel of the upcoming Knowledge Economy. Therefore, we believe that conferences such as EKAW, that focus on Knowledge Technologies, will continue to play a major role as a platform for sharing and exchanging experiences and knowledge between key players in the area.

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Knowledge Acquisition.- Extending a Lexical Ontology by a Combination of Distributional Semantics Signatures.- Acquiring Knowledge and Numerical Data to Support CBR Retrieval.- An OO Model for Incremental Hierarchical KA.- Experiences with Modelling Issues in Building Probabilistic Networks.- IKRAFT: Interactive Knowledge Representation and Acquisition from Text.- TRELLIS: An Interactive Tool for Capturing Information Analysis and Decision Making.- Web-Based Document Management for Specialised Domains: A Preliminary Evaluation.- From Informal Knowledge to Formal Logic: A Realistic Case Study in Medical Protocols.- Knowledge Management.- KMsim: A Meta-modelling Approach and Environment for Creating Process-Oriented Knowledge Management Simulations.- Skills Management in Knowledge-Intensive Organizations.- Knowledge Acquisition and Modeling in Clinical Information Systems: A Case Study.- MEGICO: An Intelligent Knowledge Management Methodology.- Ontologies.- A Process Ontology.- Semantic Commitment for Designing Ontologies: A Proposal.- User-System Cooperation in Document Annotation Based on Information Extraction.- WebODE: An Integrated Workbench for Ontology Representation, Reasoning, and Exchange.- Some Ontology Engineering Processes and Their Supporting Technologies.- Sweetening Ontologies with DOLCE.- Turning Lead into Gold? Feeding a Formal Knowledge Base with Informal Conceptual Knowledge.- Ontology Versioning and Change Detection on the Web.- Hozo: An Environment for Building/Using Ontologies Based on a Fundamental Consideration of "Role" and "Relationship".- An Ontology-Driven Approach to Web Site Generation and Maintenance.- MAFRA - A MApping FRAmework for Distributed Ontologies.- Measuring Similarity between Ontologies.- Ontology-Mediated Business Integration.- Representation of Ontologies for Information Integration.- User-Driven Ontology Evolution Management.- Attribute Meta-properties for Formal Ontological Analysis.- Semantic Web.- Managing Reference: Ensuring Referential Integrity of Ontologies for the Semantic Web.- Alice: Assisting Online Shoppers through Ontologies and Novel Interface Metaphors.- Acquiring Configuration Knowledge Bases in the Semantic Web Using UML.- S-CREAM - Semi-automatic CREAtion of Metadata.- Tracking Changes in RDF(S) Repositories.- MnM: Ontology Driven Semi-automatic and Automatic Support for Semantic Markup.- Invited Paper.- New Tools for the Semantic Web.