CALL FOR PAPERS KEPT2007 Knowledge Engineering: Principles and Techniques The First International Conference Babes-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca, Romania June 6-8, 2007 http://www.cs.ubbcluj.ro/kept2007/ Important dates ---------------- Submission deadline: February 10, 2007 Notification of acceptance: March 10, 2007 Camera-ready copy due: April 10, 2007 Conference dates: June 6-8, 2007 Please note that the refereeing and publication schedule does not permit any delays in these dates. Topics ------- Conference topics include, but are not limited to: *Knowledge in computational linguistics -Corpora as knowledge bases; -Word-sense disambiguation; -Linguistic tools in Information retrieval and Information extraction; -Machine learning for natural languages; -Text summarization and Text entailment; -Discourse and Dialogue; -Linguistic and mathematical models of language; -Text mining; -Multi-lingual processing, machine translation; -Linguistic components of information systems; -Theoretical and application-oriented subjects related to NLP. *Knowledge processing and discovery -Natural Computing; -Metaheuristics; -Machine learning; -Agent based systems. *Knowledge Database Systems -Knowledge representation and processing; -Databases; -Data Mining; -WEB services; -Middleware and web technologies; -Semantic web; -Grid architecture; -Colaborative systems. *Knowledge in software engineering -Software design; -Formal verification; -Automated reasoning; -Paralel and concurent programming; -Ontologies; -Knowledge based applications. Submission of Papers --------------------- Authors should prepare submissions in English, of up to 8 pages, figures, examples and references included. Guidelines and LATEX style sheets are available online, at the web site: http://www.cs.ubbcluj.ro/kept2007/. All papers will be submitted electronically in PDF format at the address kept2007@cs.ubbcluj.ro Papers will be reviewed by two members of the program committee. By April 10, 2007 the accepted and corrected papers will be submitted in PDF and .tex format. Proceedings will be distributed at the conference. Authors of accepted papers are expected to present their work at the Conference. Aims -------- The aim of KEPT2007 is to serve as a forum to present current and future work as well as to exchange research ideas in the domain. Invited lectures --------------------- The list of conference invited lecturers will be available online, on the conference web site. Regular updates will be posted as well. Organizing Committee --------------------- Chairs: Militon Frentiu (Babes-Bolyai University) Horia F. Pop (Babes-Bolyai University) Doina Tatar (Babes-Bolyai University) Members: Lehel Csato (Babes-Bolyai University) Zsolt Darvay (Babes-Bolyai University) Dan Dumitrescu (Babes-Bolyai University) Mihaela Lupea (Babes-Bolyai University) Andreea Mihis (Babes-Bolyai University) Alin Mihaila (Babes-Bolyai University) Stefan Nitchi (Babes-Bolyai University) Dragos Petrascu (Babes-Bolyai University) Judit Robu (Babes-Bolyai University) Gabriela Serban (Babes-Bolyai University) Adrian Sterca (Babes-Bolyai University) Leon Tambulea (Babes-Bolyai University) Secretariat: Laura Diosan (Babes-Bolyai University) Dana Lupsa (Babes-Bolyai University) Vladiela Petrascu (Babes-Bolyai University) Andreea Sabau (Babes-Bolyai University) Program Committee ------------------ Aith Abraham (Seul University, Republic of Korea) Florian Boian (Babes-Bolyai University) Alexandru Cicortas (Vest University of Timisoara) Dan Cristea ("A.I. Cuza" University, Iasi) Andras Csomai (University of North Texas, USA) Sergiu Cataranciuc (Chisineu University, Moldova) Kalyanmoy Deb (Kanpur University) Dan Dumitrescu (Babes-Bolyai University) Calin Enachescu ("Petru Maior" University, Targu Mures) Militon Frentiu (Babes-Bolyai University) Gheorghe Grigoras ("A.I. Cuza" University, Iasi) Diana Inkpen (University of Ottawa, Canada) Zoltan Kasa (Babes-Bolyai University) Alain Lecomte (University Paris 8, France) Dorel Lucanu ("A.I. Cuza" University, Iasi) Henri Luchian ("A.I. Cuza" University, Iasi) Daniela Marinescu (Brasov University) Rada Mihalcea (University of North Texas, USA) Ruslan Mitkov (University of Wolverhampton, UK) Grigore Moldovan (Babes-Bolyai University) Simona Motogna (Babes-Bolyai University) Traian Munteanu (Marseillle University, France) Viorel Negru (Vest University of Timisoara) Virginia Niculescu (Babes-Bolyai University) Stefan Nitchi (Babes-Bolyai University) Constantin Orasan (University of Wolverhampton, UK) Gheorghe Paun (Academia Romana) Bazil Parv (Babes-Bolyai University) Dana Petcu (Vest University of Timisoara) Horia F. Pop (Babes-Bolyai University) Mike Preuss (Dortmund University, Germany) Gabriela Serban (Babes-Bolyai University) Gheorghe Stefanescu (Bucharest University) Emma Tamaianu-Morita (Babes-Bolyai University) Doina Tatar (Babes-Bolyai University) Teodor Toadere (Babes-Bolyai University) Ioan Tomescu (Bucharest University) Leon Tambulea (Babes-Bolyai University) Daniela Zaharie (Vest University of Timisoara)