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3rd International Workshop on Software Knowledge - SKY 2012

4 October, 2012 - Barcelona, Spain

In conjunction with the International Joint Conference on Knowledge Discovery, Knowledge Engineering and Knowledge Management - IC3K 2012


Co-chairs
Iaakov Exman
JCE - Jerusalem College of Engineering
Israel

Juan Llorens
Carlos III of Madrid University
Spain


Call for Papers
Anabel Fraga
Carlos III of Madrid University
Spain

Scope
"Software Knowledge" – in short SKY – means that software in its higher abstraction levels is a new kind of knowledge, Runnable Knowledge.
Thus, the classes and relationships of a software UML diagram are easily viewed as the classes and relationships of a knowledge ontology.
For further details visit SoftwareKnowledge.org
The main theme of the SKY2012 Workshop is Between Software Models and Ontologies.
We mean rigorous and precise transformations back and forth between Software System Models and their respective Runnable Knowledge given by Ontologies.

The Workshop main objective is to offer rigorous transitions between high-level abstractions found in software models and suitably modified knowledge ontologies.
Among its goals we aim at a quantitative and generic measure of meaning, based upon graph models such as ontologies.
Topics of Interest
Software-Knowledge is the highest of a software hierarchy of abstraction levels.
Thinking Software as Knowledge opens the possibility to apply Knowledge processes, models, and tools to improve Software discovery, development, management and deep understanding.

Software Knowledge is a runnable expression of meaning.
We refer to the observation that running facilitates understanding in a very general sense. A high-brow example is the need to read again and again poetry to understand its meaning. A more down to earth instance is the debugging process, where one runs and breaks at desired points to understand the reason of software failures.

SKY2012 topics of relevance include but are not limited to:

Software-Knowledge Hierarchy and Operations
  • Software-Knowledge selectivity and traceability
  • Software-Knowledge Sharing: Meta-models, interchange formats, and tools
  • Knowledge Driven Architecture and Engineering
Software-Knowledge Runnability and Meaning
  • Software-Knowledge representation and modeling
  • Semantic Software Representations (SKOS, Ontologies, and more)
  • Semantics above and beyond design patterns
  • Runnable and testable knowledge representations
  • Web dynamics and interestingness
  • Ontologies in complex systems
Expected Outcomes
Expected outcomes of the SKY2012 Workshop are:

⇒ A continuing effort to standardize a Software-Knowledge representation consisting of software modeling language encompassing semantics as first class objects.

⇒ Proposals for quantitative expressions of meaning based upon graph models.

PROGRAM COMMITTEE MEMBERS

Hernan Astudillo, Informática, UniversidadTécnica Federico Santa María, Chile
Sidney Bailin, Independent Researcher, United States
Rachel Ben-Elyahu-zohari, Software Engineering, Jerusalem College of Engineering, Israel
Dragan Djuric, Department of Software Engineering, University of Belgrade, Serbia
Shlomi Dolev, Computer Science, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel
Yishai Feldman, , Israel
Michael Fink, Institute of Information Systems, Vienna University of Technology, Austria
Bill Frakes, Independent Researcher, United States
Jose M. Fuentes, Reuse Company, Spain
Gonzalo Genova, Computer Science and Engineering Department, Carlos III University of Madrid, Spain
Paulo Gomes, Departamento De Engenharia Informática, Cisuc - Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal
Donald Kraft, Computer Science, Colorado Technical University, United States
Jorge Morato, Carlos III University of Madrid, Spain
José A. Moreiro González, Biblioteconomía y Documentación, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain
Rubén Prieto-Diaz, Independent Researcher, United States
Gil Regev, EPFL-IC-LAMS, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland
David Rine, Volgenau School of Information Technology and Engineering, George Mason University, United States
Fernando Silva Parreiras, Faculty of Business Sciences, FUMEC University, Brazil
Michal Smialek, Warsaw University of Technology, Poland
Daniel Speicher, Computer Science III, University of Bonn, Germany
Reuven Yagel, Software Engineering, Azrieli - The Jerusalem College of Engineering, Israel

Invited Speakers
Following the tradition established in previous years, SKY'2012 invites recognized researchers to deliver invited talks in the workshop:

Dr. Hugo Zaragoza – founding CEO of Websays

Exploiting Extraction Technology for Search Applications

Abstract
Information Extraction and Parsing technology allows us to transform natural language text into rich representations that enable new forms of search an data analysis. However, many challenges need to be overcome in multiple areas: extraction and machine learning, adaptation and use of ontological information, indexing and querying performance, and interface design. I will discuss these challenges illustrating with examples of my own work at Yahoo! Research and Websays.

Brief Bio
Hugo Zaragoza is founding CEO at Websays, a start-up specializing in online reputation and opinion mining. Before this Hugo led the Natural Language Retrieval group at Yahoo! Research Barcelona. He is interested in the applications of machine learning (ML) and natural language processing (NLP) for information retrieval (IR), Web search, and information access in general. Before joining Yahoo!, Hugo worked at Microsoft Research mostly on probabilistic ranking methods for corporate and web search, but also on document classification, expert finding, relevance feedback, and dialogue generation for games. He also collaborated with Microsoft product groups MSN-Search (now Bing) and SharePoint. Prior to Microsoft Research, Hugo taught computer science and completed a Ph.D. at the LIP6 (U. Paris 6).

PAPER SUBMISSION

Prospective authors are invited to submit papers in any of the topics listed above.
Instructions for preparing the manuscript (in Word and Latex formats) are available at: Paper Templates
Please also check the Guidelines and Templates.
Papers should be submitted electronically via the web-based submission system at: http://www.insticc.org/Primoris
Publication
All accepted papers will be published in the workshop proceedings book and on CD-ROM support, under an ISBN reference
All papers presented at the conference venue will be available at the SciTePress Digital Library (http://www.scitepress.org/DigitalLibrary/).
SciTePress is member of CrossRef (http://www.crossref.org/).
Registration Information
At least one author of an accepted paper must register for the workshop, and the registration fees received by July 24, 2012, in order to have the paper published in the workshop proceedings book.
Previous Editions
For information on SKY'2010 and SKY'2011 please visit the SoftwareKnowledge.org web site.

SECRETARIAT CONTACTS

IC3K Workshops - SKY 2012
e-mail: ic3k.secretariat@insticc.org
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