Knowledge Engineering (KE) refers to all technical, scientific and social aspects involved in building, maintaining and using knowledge-based systems. KE is a multidisciplinary field, bringing in concepts and methods from several computer science domains such as artificial intelligence, databases, expert systems, decision support systems and geographic information systems. From the software development point of view, KE uses principles that are strongly related to software engineering. KE is also related to mathematical logic, as well as strongly involved in cognitive science and socio-cognitive engineering where the knowledge is produced by socio-cognitive aggregates (mainly humans) and is structured according to our understanding of how human reasoning and logic works. Currently, KE is strongly related to the construction of shared knowledge bases or conceptual frameworks, often designated as ontologies.
Ontology Development aims at building reusable semantic structures that can be informal vocabularies, catalogs, glossaries as well as more complex finite formal structures representing the entities within a domain and the relationships between those entities. Ontologies, have been gaining interest and acceptance in computational audiences : formal ontologies are a form of software, thus software development methodologies can be adapted to serve ontology development. A wide range of applications is emerging, especially given the current web emphasis, including library science, ontology-enhanced search, e-commerce and configuration.
KEOD aims at becoming a major meeting point for researchers and practitioners interested in the study and development of methodologies and technologies for Knowledge Engineering and Ontology Development.

› Knowledge Representation
› Knowledge Acquisition
› Context Modeling and Management
› Reflection and Metadata Approaches
› Decision Support Systems
› Expert Systems
› Ontology Engineering
› Networked Ontologies
› Semantic Web
› Process Knowledge and Semantic Services
› Ontology Sharing and Reuse
› Ontology Matching and Alignment
› Knowledge Reengineering
› AI Programming
› Intelligent Problem Solving
› Natural Language Processing
› Human-machine Cooperation
› e-Business and Interoperability Issues
› Intelligent Multi-agent Systems
› Applications and Case-studies
› Domain Analysis and Modeling
› Metamodelling
› Mobile Access to Knowledge Systems
› Knowledge Engineering Education

› Rudi Studer, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Germany

Authors should submit an original paper in English, carefully checked for correct grammar and spelling, using the on-line submission procedure. The initial submission must have between 3 to 13 pages otherwise it will be rejected without review. Please check the paper formats page so you may be aware of the accepted paper page limits.
The guidelines for paper formatting provided at the conference web ought to be used for all submitted papers. The preferred submission format is the same as the camera-ready format. Please check and carefully follow the instructions and templates provided. Each paper should clearly indicate the nature of its technical/scientific contribution, and the problems, domains or environments to which it is applicable.

Papers that are out of the conference scope or contain any form of plagiarism will be rejected without reviews. Please read INSTICC's ethical norms regarding plagiarism and self-plagiarism.

Remarks about the on-line submission procedure:
1. A "double-blind" paper evaluation method will be used. To facilitate that, the authors are kindly requested to produce and provide the paper, WITHOUT any reference to any of the authors. This means that is necessary to remove the authors personal details, the acknowledgements section and any reference that may disclose the authors identity.
LaTeX/PS/PDF/DOC/DOCX/RTF format are accepted.
2. The web submission procedure automatically sends an acknowledgement, by e-mail, to the contact author.

Paper submission types:
Regular Paper Submission
A regular paper presents a work where the research is completed or almost finished. It does not necessary means that the acceptance is as a full paper. It may be accepted as a "full paper" (30 min. oral presentation) , a "short paper" (20 min. oral presentation) or a "poster".

Position Paper Submission
A position paper presents an arguable opinion about an issue. The goal of a position paper is to convince the audience that your opinion is valid and worth listening to, without the need to present completed research work and/or validated results. It is, nevertheless, important to support your argument with evidence to ensure the validity of your claims. A position paper may be a short report and discussion of ideas, facts, situations, methods, procedures or results of scientific research (bibliographic, experimental, theoretical, or other) focused on one of the conference topic areas. The acceptance of a position paper is restricted to the categories of "short paper" or "poster", i.e. a position paper is not a candidate to acceptance as "full paper".

Camera-ready:
After the reviewing process is completed, the contact author (the author who submits the paper) of each paper will be notified of the result, by e-mail. The authors are required to follow the reviews in order to improve their paper before the camera-ready submission.

All accepted papers will be published in the conference proceedings, under an ISBN reference, on paper and on CD-ROM support.
A short list of presented papers will be selected so that revised and extended versions of these papers will be published by Springer-Verlag in a CCIS Series book.
The proceedings of KEOD 2009 and KEOD 2010 will be indexed by DBLP. Indexation of KEOD 2009 and KEOD 2010 proceedings by Conference Proceedings Citation Index, INSPEC and EI is awaiting confirmation.

› Conference date: 25-28 October, 2010

› Regular Paper Submission: June 04, 2010 (deadline expired)
› Authors Notification (regular papers): July 09, 2010 (deadline expired)
› Final Regular Paper Submission and Registration: July 27, 2010

› Position Paper Submission: June 28, 2010 (deadline expired)
› Authors Notification (position papers): July 20, 2010 (deadline expired)
› Final Position Paper Submission and Registration: July 30, 2010

KEOD Secretariat
Address: Av. D. Manuel I, 27A, 2º esq.
             2910-595 Setúbal - Portugal
Tel.: +351 265 100 033
Fax: +44 203 014 8639
e-mail: keod.secretariat@insticc.org
Web: http://www.keod.ic3k.org/

The conference will be held at the Hotel Sidi Saler, Valencia, Spain.
The Hotel is situated right next to the beach, near the Albufera Nature Park and Lake. It is surrounded by pine forests and offers a unique environment in which you can relax, walk, jog or enjoy bicycle riding.
The Sidi Saler is located just 21 km from the airport and 15 km from Valencia, a modern and dynamic city with a beautiful historic centre.

Jan L. G. Dietz, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands

Rocio Abascal Mena, Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana − Cuajimalpa., Mexico
Alia Abdelmoty, Cardiff University, United Kingdom
Andreas Abecker, FZI Forschungszentrum Informatik Karlsruhe, Germany
Masanori Akiyoshi, Graduate School of Information Science and Technology, Osaka University, Japan
Arnulfo Alanis Garza, Instituto Tecnologico de Tijuana, Mexico
Yuan An, Drexel University, United States
Francisco Antunes, Institute of Computer and Systems Engineering of Coimbra, Portugal
Marie-aude Aufaure, Ecole Centrale Paris, France
Choorackulam Alexander Augustine, Young Men's Christian Association, Trivandrum,Kerala, India, India
Teresa M.A. Basile, Università degli Studi di Bari, Italy
Maroua Bouzid, GREYC-CNRS, France
Rafik Braham, ISITCom, Tunisia
Patrick Brezillon, LIP6 - University Pierre et Marie Curie (Paris 6), France
Vladimír Bureš, University of Hradec Kralove, Czech Republic
José Laurindo Campos dos Santos, National Institute for Amazon Research, Brazil
Núria Casellas, Institute of Law and Technology-Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Spain
Yixin Chen, University of Mississippi, United States
Ruth Cobos, Universidad Autonoma de Madrid, Spain
Samuel Cruz-Lara, LORIA / INRIA Nancy Grand Est - Nancy-Université, France
Alfredo Cuzzocrea, University of Calabria, Italy
Pawel Drozda, University of Warmia and Mazury, Poland
Magdalini Eirinaki, San José State University, United States
Simon Fong, University of Macau, Macau
Johannes Fuernkranz, TU Darmstadt, Germany
Fabien Gandon, INRIA, France
Raul Garcia-Castro, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain
Faiez Gargouri, ISIMS, Tunisia
Paolo Giorgini, University of Trento, Italy
Maria Paula Gonzalez, Universidad Nacional del Sur, Argentina
Guido Governatori, NICTA, Australia
Stephan Grimm, FZI , University of Karlsruhe, Germany
Sven Groppe, University of Lübeck, Germany
Katerina Kabassi, Tei of the Ionian Islands, Greece
C. Maria Keet, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy
Katia Lida Kermanidis, Ionian University, Greece
Tetsuo Kinoshita, Research Institute of Electrical Communication, Tohoku University, Japan
Mare Koit, University of Tartu, Estonia
Zora Konjovic, Faculty of Technical Sciences, University of Novi Sad, Serbia
Pavel Kordik, Czech Technical University in Prague, Faculty of Information Technologies, Czech Republic
Axel Korthaus, Queensland University of Technology, Australia
Patrick Lambrix, Linköping University, Sweden
Jiang Lei, University of Toronto, Canada
Ming Li, National Key Lab for Novel Software Technology, Nanjing University, China
Antoni Ligeza, AGH University of Science and Technology, Poland
Munir Merdan, Vienna University of Technology, Austria
Malgorzata Mochol, T-Systems Multimedia Solutions GmbH, Germany
Ralf Möller, Hamburg University of Technology, Germany
Claude Moulin, CNRS Heudiasyc, University of Compiègne, France
Kazumi Nakamatsu, University of Hyogo, Japan
Keiichi Nakata, University of Reading, United Kingdom
Roberto Navigli, Università di Roma "La Sapienza", Italy
Nan Niu, Mississippi State University, United States
Yanuar Nugroho, University of Manchester, United Kingdom
Adrian Paschke, Freie Universität Berlin, Germany
Maria Teresa Pazienza, University of Rome, Tor Vergata, Italy
Emilia PECHEANU, University Dunarea de Jos of Galati, Romania
Mihail Popescu, University of Missouri-Columbia, United States
Juha Puustjärvi, Helsinki University of Technology, Finland
Rong Qu, University of Nottingham, United Kingdom
Domenico Redavid, University of Bari, Italy
Thomas Reineking, University of Bremen, Germany
Dominique Renaud, LICIA, France
François Rousselot, LGECO LICIA, France
Maria Theresia Semmelrock-Picej, Klagenfurt University, Austria
Nuno Silva, ISEP/GECAD, Portugal
Kiril Simov, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Bulgaria
Anna Stavrianou, Laboratoire ERIC, Université Lyon 2, France
Mari Carmen Suárez-Figueroa, Ontology Engineering Group, UPM, Spain
Christos Tatsiopoulos, University of Patras, Greece
Annette Ten Teije, VU University of Amsterdam, Netherlands
Orazio Tomarchio, University of Catania, Italy
Rafael Valencia-Garcia, University of Murcia, Spain
Stefan van der Elst, KE-works Knowledge Engineering, Netherlands
Iraklis Varlamis, Harokopio University of Athens, Greece
Cristina Vicente-Chicote, Universidad Politécnica de Cartagena, Spain
Bruno Volckaert, Ghent University, Belgium
Sebastian Wandelt, Hamburg University of Technology, Germany
HaiFeng Wang, Baidu Inc., China
Franz Wotawa, Technische Universität Graz, Austria
Yue Xu, Queensland University of Technology, Australia
Slawomir Zadrozny, Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland
Gian Piero Zarri, University Paris-Est/Paris12, France
Jinglan Zhang, Queensland University of Technology, Australia
Shichao Zhang, Guangxi Normal University, Australia

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