Managing Knowledge in a World of Networks

Steffen Staab

ISBN 10: 3540463631 / ISBN 13: 9783540463634

Published by Springer, Springer Sep 2006, 2006

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This item is printed on demand - Print on Demand Titel. Neuware -th The 15 International Conference on Knowledge Engineering and Knowledge Management (2006), held on October 6-10, 2006 in Pod ebrady,Czech Republic, followed a long tradition of European Knowledge Acquisition Workshops (from 1987),whicheventuallyacquiredtheformatofconference(in2000)whilekeeping their open-minded and interactive spirit. During the nearly 20 year lifespan of the series, the discipline of knowledge engineering (KE) evolved greatly. While knowledge acquisition (KA) techniques dominated in the very rst years, formal approaches to knowledge-based inf- ence and variousnew streamssuch as knowledgediscoveryfrom data/textslater cameinto play. During thelate1990sandafterwards,EKAWbecamea founding community for ontology and Semantic Web Research, which was also re ected in the sub-titles of the 2002 and 2004 editions: ¿Ontologies and the Semantic Web¿ and ¿Engineering Knowledge in the Age of the Semantic Web,¿ resp- tively. The 2006 edition, in turn, only slightly refocussed this trend. Its sub-title is ¿Managing Knowledge in a World of Networks,¿ which re ects the fact that semantics typically arises not only as a result of explicit engineering activities (as in Semantic Web) but also emerges from interaction of a high number of interconnected documents, ontological concepts, software applications and ¿ especially ¿ human users. The importance given to the interconnection of - man users in a sense loops back to the knowledge acquisition roots of EKAW and its ¿holistic¿ view of knowledge engineering.Springer-Verlag KG, Sachsenplatz 4-6, 1201 Wien 420 pp. Englisch.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Managing Knowledge in a World of Networks
• Publisher: Springer, Springer Sep 2006
• Publication Date: 2006
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 3540463631
• ISBN 13: 9783540463634
• Binding: Taschenbuch
• Condition: Neu
• Dimensions: 235W x 155H x 23D millimeters 235 millimeters width by 155 millimeters height by 23 millimeters depth
• Weight: 633 grams

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th The 15 International Conference on Knowledge Engineering and Knowledge Management (2006), held on October 6-10, 2006 in Pod? ebrady,Czech Republic, followed a long tradition of European Knowledge Acquisition Workshops (from 1987),whicheventuallyacquiredtheformatofconference(in2000)whilekeeping their open-minded and interactive spirit. During the nearly 20 year lifespan of the series, the discipline of knowledge engineering (KE) evolved greatly. While knowledge acquisition (KA) techniques dominated in the very ?rst years, formal approaches to knowledge-based inf- ence and variousnew streamssuch as knowledgediscoveryfrom data/textslater cameinto play. During thelate1990sandafterwards,EKAWbecamea founding community for ontology and Semantic Web Research, which was also re?ected in the sub-titles of the 2002 and 2004 editions: “Ontologies and the Semantic Web” and “Engineering Knowledge in the Age of the Semantic Web,” resp- tively. The 2006 edition, in turn, only slightly refocussed this trend. Its sub-title is “Managing Knowledge in a World of Networks,” which re?ects the fact that semantics typically arises not only as a result of explicit engineering activities (as in Semantic Web) but also emerges from interaction of a high number of interconnected documents, ontological concepts, software applications and ― especially ― human users. The importance given to the interconnection of - man users in a sense loops back to the knowledge acquisition roots of EKAW and its ‘holistic’ view of knowledge engineering.