Previous Invited Speakers
The researchers below were distinguished invited speakers at previous IC3K conferences.
We are indebted to them for their contribution to heighten the conference level.
2023 | 2022 | 2021 | 2020 | 2019 | 2018 | 2017 | 2016 | 2015 | 2014 | 2013 | 2012 | 2011 | 2010 | 2009
2023
Time Series Machine Learning 
Tony Bagnall, University of Southampton, United Kingdom Combining Entity Resolution and Query Answering in Ontologies Domenico Lembo, Sapienza Università di Roma, Italy Deep Reinforcement Learning for Creating Advanced Humanoid Robotic Soccer Skills Luís Paulo Reis, University of Porto, Portugal Recommendation Systems in Scholarly Publishing Yannis Manolopoulos, School of Pure and Applied Sciences, Open University of Cyprus, Cyprus
2022
Relations, Events, and Explanation Giancarlo Guizzardi, Free University of Bolzano-Bozen, Italy and University of Twente, Netherlands Self-Reflective Hybrid Intelligence: Combining Human with Artificial Intelligence and Logic Catholijn Jonker, Delft University of Technology, Netherlands Probabilistic Graphical Models: On Reasoning, Learning, and Revision Rudolf Kruse, Otto von Guericke University Magdeburg, Germany
2021
Leveraging Knowledge from Humans and from Data: Why Requirements Engineering (Still) Matters Eric Yu, University of Toronto, Canada Integrating Big Data, Data Science and Cyber Security with Applications in Cloud and Internet of Things Bhavani Thuraisingham, University of Texas at Dallas, United States Validity Concerns for Evaluating Algorithms Jan Mendling, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Germany Designing Knowledge Enabled Systems for Interdisciplinary Settings Deborah L. McGuinness, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, United States
2020
Context-aware Knowledge Management for Socio-Cyber-Physical Systems: New Trends towards Human-machine Collective Intelligence Alexander Smirnov, SPC RAS, Russian Federation From Activity- to Data-centric Approaches to Business Process Management: Challenges, Technologies, Applications Manfred Reichert, Ulm University, Germany Hybrid Intelligence: AI Systems That Collaborate with People Instead of Replacing Them Frank van Harmelen, The Hybrid Intelligence Center & Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Netherlands Persistent Identification for Interoperable Data Management and Preservation Stefan Decker, RWTH Aachen University, Germany
2019
The Two Pillars Robert Pergl, Czech Technical University in Prague, Czech Republic Digitalization: A Meeting Point of Knowledge Management and Enterprise Engineering Eduard Babkin, National Research University “Higher School of Economics”, Russian Federation Kandinsky Patterns Heimo Müller, Medical University of Graz, Austria The Revolution of Telcom via Small Satellites Kayyali Mohamed, International Federation of Global & Green Information Communication Technology, United States
2018
The AI System DLV: Ontologies, Reasoning, and More Nicola Leone, University of Calabria, Italy Knowledge Graph for Public Safety: Construction, Reasoning and Case StudiesXindong Wu, Mininglamp Software Systems, China and University of Louisiana at Lafayette, United States Building a Self-service IoT Analytics Toolbox: Basics, Models and Lessons Learned Rudi Studer, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany From Image Understanding to Text Description and Return - Deep Learning Paradigms for Annotation and RetrievalRita Cucchiara, University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Italy Conceptual Modelling and Web Applications: How to Make it a Right Partnership? Oscar Pastor, Universidad Politécnica de Valencia, Spain
2017
Knowledge Engineering through Process Mining - The Practice Linda Terlouw, ICRIS Consultancy, Antwerp Management School, Avans University of Applied Sciences, Nyenrode Business University, Netherlands The Role of Software Operation Knowledge in Software Ecosystems Slinger Jansen, Utrecht University, Netherlands Type-2 Fuzzy Systems for Human Decision Making Jonathan Garibaldi, University of Nottingham, United Kingdom Using Ontologies to Deploy Work Flows: An Approach to Clinical Guideline Execution Paulo Novais, Universidade do Minho, Portugal
2016
Mining Satellite Images for Census Data Collection: A Study Using the Google Static Maps Service Frans Coenen, University of Liverpool, United Kingdom STEALTH: Modeling Coevolutionary Dynamics of Tax Evasion and Auditing Una-May O'Reilly, MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, United States From Open Data to Knowledge: Capitalizing Experiences Marijn Janssen, Delft University of Technology, Netherlands Horizon 2020’s SME InstrumentDaniel Chirtes, Independent Researcher, Romania
2015
On Smart Data, Decisions and Processes Jan Vanthienen, KU Leuven, Belgium Business Ethics as Personal Ethics João D. Neves, Universidade Católica Portuguesa (UCP), Portugal Formal Ontology, Patterns and Anti-Patterns for Next-Generation Conceptual Modeling Giancarlo Guizzardi, Federal University of Espirito Santo, Brazil/ (LOA), Institute for Cognitive Science and Technology, (CNR), Italy Ontology-based Systems Engineering - The Smart Way of Realizing Complex Systems Ralf Bogusch, , Germany
2014
Big Data Mining Services and Distributed Knowledge Discovery Applications on Clouds Domenico Talia, University of Calabria and Fuzhou University, Italy Big Data Integration - State of the Art & Challenges Sonia Bergamaschi, DIEF - University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Italy No Knowledge Without Processes - Process Mining as a Tool to Find Out What People and Organizations Really Do Wil Van Der Aalst, Technische Universiteit Eindhoven, Netherlands A Research Journey into Enterprise Governance of IT Wim Van Grembergen, University of Antwerp, Belgium Bridging the Emotional Gap - From Objective Representations to Subjective Interpretations Marie-Jeanne Lesot, Independent Researcher, France Towards an Ontology of Software Nicola Guarino, Independent Researcher, Italy
2013
Negotiated Work-based Learning and Organisational Learning – The Relationship between Individual and Organisational Knowledge Management Alan Eardley, Staffordshire University, United Kingdom Enterprise Ontology and DEMO – Benefits, Core Concepts and a Case-study David Aveiro, University of Madeira / Madeira-ITI, Portugal Information Fusion - An Appealing Avenue for Robust Knowledge Discovery in Multi-Source EnvironmentsBelur V. Dasarathy, Independent Researcher, United States Mastering Data-Intensive Collaboration and Decision Making Nikos Karacapilidis, University of Patras, Greece
2012
Enterprise Ontologies - Emerging Issues from the Internet of Things and Social Media Daniel O'Leary, University of Southern California, United States Extracting Semantically Enriched Events from the Literature Sophia Ananiadou, University of Manchester, United Kingdom Parallel Coordinates: Visual Multidimensional Geometry and Its Applications Alfred Inselberg, Tel Aviv University, Israel Internet of Things – Towards New Frontiers of Knowledge Management Florian Michahelles, , Switzerland
2011
KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT AND E-LEARNING: PUTTING THEORY INTO PRACTICE Jay Liebowitz, University of Maryland University College, United States ACCELERATING SCIENTISTS' KNOWLEDGE TURNS Carole Goble, University of Manchester, United Kingdom PROBABILISTIC MODELING, PROJECTION PURSUIT AND BLIND SOURCE SEPARATIONMayer Aladjem, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel PRINCIPLES FOR KNOWLEDGE ENGINEERING ON THE WEB Guus Schreiber, VU University Amsterdam, Netherlands INTELLECTUALLY MANAGING ORGANIZED COMPLEXITY Jan G. Dietz, Delft University of Technology, Netherlands
2010
CHARACTERISATION, FORMALISATION AND REUSE OF KNOWLEDGE - Models, Methods and Application CasesAlain Bernard, Ecole Centrale de Nantes, France CONCEPTUAL MODELING FOR THE HUMAN GENOME CHALLENGEOscar Pastor, Universidad Politécnica de Valencia, Spain EXTRACTING KNOWLEDGE FROM COMPLEX DATA BY SYMBOLIC DATA ANALYSISEdwin Diday, CEREMADE, Université Paris Dauphine, France PROCESS-ORIENTED SEMANTIC WEB SEARCH - USING LIGHTWEIGHT SEMANTIC MODELS FOR SUPPORTING THE SEARCH PROCESSRudi Studer, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Germany ACTIONABLE MINING OF LARGE, MULTI-RELATIONAL DATA USING LOCALIZED PREDICTIVE MODELSJoydeep Ghosh, University of Texas at Austin, United States
2009
KNOWLEDGE DISCOVERY BY DESIGN David Jensen, University of Massachusetts Amherst, United States NETWORKED ONTOLOGIES Steffen Staab, University of Koblenz-Landau, Germany THE SEMANTIC DESKTOP AS A MEANS FOR PERSONAL INFORMATION MANAGEMENT Andreas Dengel, German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI GmbH), Germany MODELLING UNCERTAINTIES IN ADVANCED KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENTMadjid Fathi, University of Siegen, Germany PRIVACY-PRESERVING COLLABORATIVE DATA MINING Justin Zhan, North Carolina A&T State University, United States