Knowledge Management and Semantic Web for Engineering Design, Sunday October 28, 2007, Whistler, BC, Canada

[We apologize for multiple receptions]


  Workshop on Knowledge Management and Semantic Web for Engineering Design


    Sunday October 28, 2007 pm
    (Whistler, BC, Canada)

(more details on: 
http://www-sop.inria.fr/acacia/WORKSHOPS/KW4ED-KCAP2007/index.html)



*Session #1* Knowledge Representation and Semantic Web
Bruno Antunes, Nuno Seco, and Paul Gomes (University of Coimbra, Portugal)
Knowledge Acquisition and Management using Semantic Web Technologies: An 
Application in Software Development
Hacene Cherfi, Olivier Corby, and Cyril Masia-Tissot
RDF(S) and SPARQL Expressiveness in Engineering Design Patterns
*Session #2* Multimedia Analysis and Virtual Reality

*Keynote Speaker:** Ioannis Kompatsiaris*
Centre for Research and Technology Hellas Thermi-Thessaloniki, Greece
Ontologies and Machine Learning for Semantic Multimedia Analysis
Takayuki Baba, Susumu Endo, Shuichi Shiitani, Yusuke Uehara, Daiki 
Masumoto, and Shigemi Nagata (Fujitsu Laboratories Ltd, Japan)
An Interactive Image Mining System for Engineering Design and Manufacture
Matthias Strauchmann, Tina Haase, Emmanuel Jamin, Hacene Cherfi, Mikel 
Renteria, and Cyril Masia-Tissot
Coaction of Semantic Technology and Virtual Reality in an Integrated 
Engineering Environment
*Session #3* Text Mining and Data Mining

*Keynote Speaker:** Paul Buitelaar*
DFKI GmbH, Language Technology Lab & Competence Center Semantic Web - 
Saarbrucken, Germany
Text Mining Support in Semantic Metadata Extraction
Monika Zakova, Filip Zelezny, Petr Kremen, Cyril Masia-Tissot, and Nada 
Lavrac
Relational Data Mining through Propositionalization and Subsequent 
Propositional Learning for Semantic Virtual Engineering
*Open session* Panel Discussion


  About Invited Speakers

The KW4ED invited speakers are:

*[homepage] Prof. Paul Buitelaar* <http://www.dfki.de/%7Epaulb/> (From 
DFKI - Germany) one of the specialists in language technologies and 
semantics and also interested recently in: Inference for Automatic 
Annotation and Retrieval of Multimedia Contents.

*[homepage] Dr Yiannis Kompatsiaris* <http://www.iti.gr/%7Eikom/> (Head 
of Multimedia knowledge group, from Centre for Research and Technology 
Hellas Thermi-Thessaloniki, Greece) heavily involved in the EU Project 
*AceMedia* and has research activities mainly in Multimedia Technologies 
which fit naturally well with KW4ED workshop contents (engineering 
design with VR)

-- 
Fabien - http://ns.inria.fr/fabien.gandon/