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The biennial International Conference on Knowledge Engineering and Knowledge Management (EKAW), formerly the European Knowledge Acquisition Workshop (EKAW) series ¹⁾, is concerned with all aspects of eliciting, acquiring, modeling and managing knowledge, and its role in the construction of knowledge-intensive systems and services for the semantic web, knowledge management, e-business, natural language processing, intelligent information integration, etc.

EKWA is held alternately with K-CAP – the International Conference on Knowledge Capture.

Of Special “Knowledge Management” interest:

• Conference Themes:
  • 2012: Knowledge Engineering and Knowledge Management that matters
  • 2002: Knowledge Engineering and Knowledge Management: Ontologies and the Semantic Web
  • 2000: Knowledge Engineering and Knowledge Management: Methods, Models, and Tools
• Workshops:
  • 2024: Workshop on Knowledge Management for Numerical Modeling, Measurement & Simulation (KNUMS)
  • 2022: Knowledge Management for Law (KM4LAW)
  • 2014/2016: International Workshop on Educational Knowledge Management (EKM)
  • 2004: Application of Language and Semantic Technologies to support Knowledge Management Processes (LSTKM); Knowledge Management and Semantic Web
  • 2002: Knowledge Management through Corporate Semantic Webs (OMAS)
  • 2000: Common Approaches in Knowledge Management
• Sessions:
  • 2002: Knowledge Management
  • 2000: Knowledge Management & E-Commerce
  • 1997: Knowledge Management
• Invited Talks:
  • 1999: Knowledge Management and Reengineering
  • 1997: Collaborative Knowledge Management: Building Organizational Memory through On-line Knowledge Work

Conference History:

24th Int’l Conference EKAW 2024, November 26-28, 2024, Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Special Conference Theme: Knowledge in the Age of Language Models (LMs)
(Host: Human-Centered Data Analytics Research Group, CWI National Research Institute for Mathematics and Computer Science, Dutch Research Council; Digital Humanities Research Lab, KNAW Humanities Cluster)

Pre-conference Workshops:
KNUMS – First Workshop on Knowledge Management for Numerical Modeling, Measurement & Simulation
X-TAIL – eXtraction and eXploitation of long-TAIL Knowledge with LLMs and KGs
ELMKE – Workshop on Evaluation of Language Models in Knowledge Engineering
K-MiN – First Workshop on Structured Knowledge in Newsrooms

Pre-conference Tutorials:
Conversational Knowledge Capture Using the KNOW Ontology
MUHAI – Enabling Meaning and Understanding in Human-centric AI
Tutorial on Creating and Accessing Knowledge Graphs for Action Parameterisation
Semantic Knowledge Modeling – Ontologies & Vocabularies

Conference Sessions:
Knowledge Validation
Knowledge Acquisition and Completion
Language Models
Natural Language Processing
Domain Specific Knowledge Graphs

Keynotes:
Is the Search Engine of the Future a Chatbot?
An hitchhiker’s guide to Ontology

23rd Int’l Conference EKAW 2022, 26-29 September 2022, Free Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Bolzano, Italy / Virtual venue

Special Conference Theme: Ethical and Trustworthy Knowledge Engineering
(Host: Research Centre on Knowledge and Data (KRDB), Faculty of Computer Science, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano)

Note: Free virtual attendance to selected presentations only

Pre-conference Workshops:
Knowledge Management for Law (KM4LAW)
1st Workshop on Fairness, Accountability, and Transparency in Misinformation Management (MisFAccT) (CANCELLED)

Pre-conference Tutorials:
Trends in Terminology Generation and Modelling

Conference Sessions:
n.a.

Conference Topics:
Knowledge Engineering and Acquisition
Knowledge Management and Governance
Ethical and Trustworthy Knowledge Engineering
Social and Cognitive Aspects of Knowledge Engineering
Knowledge Discovery
Applications in specific domains

Keynotes:
The QLever SPARQL engine
A shift in our research focus: from knowledge acquisition to knowledge augmentation
Knowledge for the era of accelerated discovery

22nd Int’l Conference EKAW 2020, 16-18 September 2020, Free Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Bolzano, Italy Virtual venue

Special Conference Theme: Ethical and Trustworthy Knowledge Engineering
(Host: Research Centre on Knowledge and Data (KRDB), Faculty of Computer Science, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano; In conjunction with the Bolzano Summer of Knowledge (BOSK 2020) – A Month of Knowledge in September 2020)

Note: The conference was originally scheduled for 16-20 September 2020,

Pre-conference Workshops: (Sep 16)
Joint Ontology WOrkshops (JOWO) – w. FOIS and ICBO workshops; 5th International Workshop on Ontology Modularity, Contextuality, and Evolution (WOMoCoE); Workshop on Scalable Knowledge Graph Engineering (SKALE)

Keynotes:
Preferences: Representing, Reasoning & Ethics; Fact Checking and Knowledge Graphs; Integrating human expert knowledge and NLP tools for real-world applications

Co-located events:
International Conference on Formal Ontology in Information Systems (FOIS); International Conference on Biomedical Ontologies (ICBO); 5th Interdisciplinary School on Applied Ontology (ISAO); 6th Joint Ontology Workshops (JOWO); 2020: International Workshop on Semantic Web and Ontology Design for Cultural Heritage (SWODCH); 27th International Symposium on Temporal Representation and Reasoning (TIME), etc

21th Int’l Conference EKAW 2018, 13-16 November 2018, Inria Nancy – Grand-Est, Nancy, France

Special Conference Theme: Knowledge and Artificial Intelligence
(Host: Institut national de recherche en informatique et en automatique, Nancy – Grand-Est)

Pre-conference Tutorials: (Nov 12)
Learning from knowledge graphs; Catching up with ontological engineering To git-commit and beyond

Pre-conference Workshops: (Nov 12)
Doctoral Consortium; Symbolic methods for data-interlinking

Conference Sessions:
Alignments and Graph Partitioning; Knowledge Engineering; Network and Knowledge Graphs; Knowledge Discovery; Applications; Knowledge Representation and Reasoning; Queries and SPARQL

Keynotes:
Incomplete Knowledge and Collective Decision Making; Guess What You Don’t Know: Towards an Evolutionary Epistemology of Ontology Learning; Entity-centric information access for high-end semantitc applications; The Discovery of Spatial Knowledge from Images and Language

20th Int’l Conference EKAW 2016, 19-23 November 2016, University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy

(Host: University of Bologna, Department of Computer Science and Engineering)

Pre-conference Tutorials: (Nov 19-20)
Modeling, Generating and Publishing knowledge as Linked Data; Mapping Management and Expressive Ontologies in Ontology-Based Data Access

Pre-conference Workshops: (Nov 19-20)
Doctoral Workshop; International Workshop on Educational Knowledge Management (EKM); Workshop on Legal Knowledge and the Semantic Web (LK&SW); First Drift-a-LOD Workshop: Detection, Representation and Management of Concept Drift in Linked Open Data; 13th OWL: Experiences and Directions Workshop and 5th OWL reasoner evaluation workshop

Conference Sessions:
Querying and managing data; NLP and multilinguality; Ontologies, schemas and ontology evaluation; Entity detection, matching and evolution; Learning and evolving ontologies and mappings; Crowdsourcing and recommendation; Ontology engineering; Applications of machine learning; Information extraction and knowledge acquisition; Poster & Demo

Keynotes:
Towards an Embedded Theory of Truth; From data to knowledge: trust and ethics in symbiotic AI/human systems; How much are our representations of knowledge influenced by our languages?

19th Int’l Conference EKAW 2014, 24-28 November 2014, Linköping, Sweden

(Host: Linköping University, Database and Web Information Systems Group)

Pre-conference Tutorials: (Nov 24-25)
K4D: Managing and sharing knowledge in rural parts of the world; Language Resources and Linked Data

Pre-conference Workshops: (Nov 24-25)
Doctoral Consortium; International Workshop on Visualizations and User Interfaces for Knowledge Engineering and Linked Data Analytics (VISUAL); International Workshop on Educational Knowledge Management (EKM1); 6th International Workshop on Acquisition, Representation and Reasoning about Context with Logic (ARCOE-Logic); 3rd International Workshop on Semantic Web Enterprise Adoption and Best Practice (WaSABi, CANCELLED)

Conference Sessions:
Knowledge and Data Integration; Semantics; Knowledge Engineering: Applications; Ontology: Usage and Visualization; Reasoning, Inference and Search; Knowledge Extraction and Learning; Knowledge Engineering: Methods; Linked Data; Demos and Posters

Keynotes:
Ontology Design Patterns for Large-Scale Data Interchange and Discovery; Ontology engineering for and by the masses: are we already there?; Concepts in motion

18th Int’l Conference EKAW 2012, 8-12 October 2012, Galway City, Ireland

Conference Theme: Knowledge Engineering and Knowledge Management that matters
(Host: National University of Ireland Galway, Digital Enterprise Research Institute)

Pre-conference Tutorials: (Oct 8-9)
Formal Concept Analysis; Linked Science 2012 (TOLSCI2012); Data Modeling and Knowledge Engineering for the Internet of Things; The Web of Data for E-Commerce in Brief; Semantic Content Management with Interactive Knowledge Stack

Pre-conference Workshops: (Oct 8-9)
Doctoral Symposium; 1st International Workshop on Debugging Ontologies and Ontology Mappings (WoDOOM); Capturing and Refining Knowledge in the Medical Domain (K-MED); Intelligent Exploration of Semantic Data (IESD); Ontology Engineering in a Data-driven World (OEDW); Semantic Web and Information Extraction (SWAIE)

Conference Sessions:
Position Papers; Research Papers; Natural Language Processing; Linked Data; Ontology Engineering and Evaluation; Social and Cognitive Aspects of Knowledge Representation; Applications of Knowledge Engineering; Posters & Demos

Keynotes:
From Ontologies to Web Ontologies: Lessons learned from Conceptual Modeling for the WWW; Building Enterprise Ontologies: Report from the trenches…; Practical Semantics In The Pharmaceutical Industry – The Open PHACTS Project

17th Int’l Conference EKAW 2010, 11-15 October 2010, Gulbenkian Foundation, Lisbon, Portugal

Conference Theme: Knowledge Engineering and Knowledge Management by the Masses
(Host: Instituto de Engenharia de Sistemas e Computadores: Investigação e Desenvolvimento em Lisboa)

Pre-/Post-conference Tutorials: (Oct 11/15)
Ontology Learning from Folksonomies; Implementation of Large Scale Knowledge Infrastructures in Organisations Using Semantics; Knowledge Acquisition from Social Networking Sites – Liberate the Potential for Developing Intelligent Applications

Pre-/Post-conference Workshops: (Oct 11/15)
Context, Information and Ontologies (CIAO); Personal Semantic Data (PSD); Open Knowledge Models (OKM); Ontology Quality; Reuse and Adaptation of Ontologies and Terminologies; Knowledge Injection into and Extraction from Linked Data (KIELD)

Conference Sessions:
Knowledge Engineering; Knowledge Acquisition; Collaboration in Knowledge Engineering; Knowledge Engineering: Patterns; Social Aspects / Tagging; Semantic Web / Web of Data / Linked Data; Ontology Evolution / Refinement; Knowledge Access; Annotation / Retrieval / Natural Language Processing; Short Paper Pecha Kucha; Poster & Demo Session

Invited Takls:
New Frontiers for Knowledge Engineering and Management: Embedding Knowledge Technologies in Everyday’s Devices; Social Media and Attention; Using Linked Data to describe the natural world

16th Int’l Conference EKAW 2008, 29 September – 3 October 2008, Acitrezza, Catania, Italy

Conference Theme: Knowledge Engineering: Practice and Patterns
(Host: National Research Council, Institute for Cognitive Science and Technology, Semantic Technology Laboratory)

Pre-conference Tutorials: (Sep 29)
NeOn Methodology: how to build ontology networks?; From shallow to deep natural language processing – a hands-on tutorial

Conference Sessions:
Knowledge Patterns and Knowledge Representation; Matching Ontologies and Data Integration; Natural Language, Knowledge Acquisition and Annotations; Ontologies; Search, Query and Interaction; Posters & Demos

Panel Discussions:
Semantic Technology Industry Panel

Keynotes:
Knowledge Patterns; Computational Semantics and Knowledge Engineering; Principles for Knowledge Engineering on the Web; Towards Semantic Search (Industry Panel)

15th Int’l Conference EKAW 2006, 2-6 October 2006, Podebrady (near Prague), Czech Republic

Conference Theme: Managing Knowledge in a World of Networks
(Host: University of Economics Prague, Department of Information and Knowledge Engineering)

Pre-/Post-conference Tutorials: (Oct 2/6)
Human Language Technology (HLT) for Knowledge Acquisition for the Semantic Web; Ontology Design Patterns

Pre-/Post-conference Workshops: (Oct 2/6)
Imperfect Knowledge Modeling (CANCELLED); Ontology Evolution and Multimedia Information Extraction (BOEMIE)

Conference Sessions:
Knowledge Discovery; Ontology Mapping and Evolution; Knowledge Acquisition; Semantic Search; User Interfaces; Semantics from Networks and Crowds; Applications; Ontology Learning; Ontology Engineering; Posters & Demos

Invited Talks:
Learning, Logic, and Probability: A Unified View; Whose knowledge? Whose questions? Whose answers? Conflicting Preconceptions for Knowledge Intensive Systems; Information and influence in social networks

14th Int’l Conference EKAW 2004, 5-8 October 2004, Whittlebury, UK

Conference Theme: Engineering Knowledge in the Age of the Semantic Web
(Host: University of Southampton, School of Electronics and Computer Science; The Open University, Knowledge Media Institute)

Post-conference Tutorials: (Oct 8)
Introduction to Ontology Development and the Protégé-OWL Environment

Post-conference Workshops: (Oct 8)
Application of Language and Semantic Technologies to support Knowledge Management Processes (LSTKM); Core Ontologies in Ontology Engineering; Knowledge Management and Semantic Web

Conference Sessions:
Ontologies: Mappings and Translation; Ontologies: Problems and Applications; Ontologies: Trust and E-learning; Ontology Maintenance; Applications to Medicine; Portals; Knowledge Acquisition; Web Services and Problem Solving Methods; Search, Browsing and Knowledge Acquisition; Posters & Demos

Invited Talks:
n.a.

13th Int’l Conference EKAW 2002, 1-4 October 2002, Sigüenza, Spain

Conference Theme: Knowledge Engineering and Knowledge Management: Ontologies and the Semantic Web
(Host: Universidad Politecnica de Madrid, Ontology Engineering Group)

Pre-conference Tutorials: (Sep 30)
Ontology-Based Information Integration (CANCELLED); Formal Concept Analysis; Formal Ontological Analysis and Conceptual Modeling

Pre-conference Workshops: (Sep 30)
Evaluation of Ontology-based Tools (EON); Ontologies for Multi-Agent Systems; Knowledge Management through Corporate Semantic Webs (OMAS)

Conference Sessions:
Knowledge Acquisition; Knowledge Management; Ontologies; Semantic Web

Invited Talks:
Understanding the Semantic Web Layer Cake; Machine Learning and Information Extraction: Lessons and Challenges; Keynote 3 n.a.

12th Int’l Conference EKAW 2000, 2-6 October 2000, Juan-les-Pins, France

Conference Theme: Knowledge Engineering and Knowledge Management: Methods, Models, and Tools
(Host: Institut national de recherche en informatique et en automatique, Sophia-Antipolis)

Pre-conference Workshops: (Oct 2)
Ontologies and Texts; Common Approaches in Knowledge Management

Conference Sessions:
Knowledge Modelling Languages and Tools; Ontologies; Knowledge Acquisition from Texts; Machine Learning; Knowledge Management & E-Commerce; Problem-Solving Methods; Knowledge Representation; Validation, Evaluation and Certification; Methodologies; Demos

Invited Talks:
The New Technologies of the Web; Semantic Precision for Web-based Interoperation

11th EKAW 1999, 26-29 May 1999, Dagstuhl Castle, Germany

(Host: University of Karlsruhe, Institute of Applied Informatics and Formal Description Methods)

Workshop Sessions:
n.a.

Co-located Workshops: (May 25)
International Workshop on Ontological Engineering on the Global Information Infrastructure

Invited Talks:
Knowledge Management and Reengineering; Knowledge Navigation in Networked Digital Libraries

10th EKAW 1997, 15-18 October 1997, Sant Feliu de Guíxols, Catalonia, Spain

(Host: Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, Artificial Intelligence Research Institute)

Workshop Sessions:
Knowledge Management; Ontologies; Design and Planning; Problem-Solving Methods; Ripple-Down Rules and Verification; Knowledge Acquisition from Text; Posters

Working Groups:
The status of the ongoing Sisyphus III project; Sisyphus IV Project/Experiment; Ontological Engineering Initiative (KA)² Initiative

Invited Talks:
Collaborative Knowledge Management: Building Organizational Memory through On-line Knowledge Work; The DARPA Project on High Performance Knowledge Bases (HPKB)

9th EKAW 1996, 14-17 May 1996, University of Nottingham, Nottingham, England

Focus: Advances in Knowledge Acquisition
(Organizer: University of Nottingham, Artificial Intelligence Laboratory)

Workshop Sessions:
Theoretical and General Issues; Eliciting Knowledge from Textual and Other Sources; Data Mining; Group Elicitation; Planning

Working Groups: (Discussions)
Sisyphus III experiment

8th EKAW 1994, 26-29 September 1994, Hoegaarden, Belgium

Focus: A Future for Knowledge Acquisition
(Host: Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Artificial Intelligence Laboratory)

Workshop Sessions:
Knowledge Modelling Frameworks; Generic Components; Methodology; Integrating Knowledge Acquisition and Machine Learning; Generic Components: Ontologies; Generic Components: Methods; Methodology; Knowledge Formalisation; Posters & Demos; Position Papers

Working session/groups

Special Contibitions:
On Networking, Computation, and Communication; Babies and Bathwater; Knowledge Acquisition by Human Scientist

Co-located Events: (Sep 25)
Sisyphus meeting

7th EKAW 1993, 6-10 September 1993, Toulouse & Caylus, France

Focus: Knowledge Acquisition for Knowledge-Based Systems
(Host: University Paul Sabatier, CNRS-IRIT)

Workshop Sessions:
Problem Solving Models (Building Steps; Support Tools; Comparison of Approaches); Life Cycle and Methodologies (Refinement; Methodologies; Workbenches; Elicitation Techniques)

Introductory Papers:
Modeling and Extending Expertise; Knowledge Acquisition in Dynamic Systems: How Can Logicism and Situatedness Go Together?

Co-located Events:
Closed workshop in Caylus

6th EKAW 1992, 18-22 May 1992, Heidelberg & Kaiserslautern, Germany

Focus: Current Developments in Knowledge Acquisition
(Host: University of Kaiserslautern, Department of Computer Science; German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence; IBM Germany, Scientific Center)

Workshop Sessions:
Technology Transfer; General Modelling Approaches; Knowledge Formalization and Automated Methods; Elicitation and Diagnosis of Human Knowledge; Practice and Experiences of Knowledge Acquisition

5th EKAW 1991, 20–24 May 1991, Crieff, Scotland, United Kingdom

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4th EKAW 1990, 25-29 June 1990, University of Amsterdam & Zeist, The Netherlands

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3rd EKAW 1989, 3-7 July 1989, Paris, France

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2nd EKAW 1988, 19-23 June 1988, Sankt Augustin, Germany

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1st EKAW 1987, 2-3 September 1987, University of Reading, Reading, United Kingdom

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