KW4ED
Workshop on Knowledge Management and Semantic Web for Engineering Design

In conjunction with K-CAP 2007
28th October 2007
Whistler, British Columbia, Canada

KW4ED Workshop Program

Sunday October 28, 2007 pm

New Presentations are online



Time slot (pm)Author(s) - Title
2:00 - 2:15Welcome speech (Hacène Cherfi) - presentation of SEVENPRO project (Monika Zakova)
2:15 - 3:00Session #1 Knowledge Representation and Semantic Web (Chair Yiannis Kompatsiaris)
2:15 - 2:35Bruno Antunes, Nuno Seco, and Paulo Gomes (University of Coimbra, Portugal)
Knowledge Acquisition and Management using Semantic Web Technologies: An Application in Software Development
2:35 - 3:00Hacène Cherfi, Olivier Corby, and Cyril Masia-Tissot
RDF(S) and SPARQL Expressiveness in Engineering Design Patterns
3:00 - 4:35Session #2 Multimedia Analysis and Virtual Reality (Chair Paul Buitelaar)
3:00 - 3:45Keynote Speaker: Yiannis Kompatsiaris
Centre for Research and Technology Hellas Thermi-Thessaloniki, Greece
Ontologies and Machine Learning for Semantic Multimedia Analysis
3:45 - 4:10Takayuki 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
4:10 - 4:35Matthias Strauchmann, Tina Haase, Emmanuel Jamin, Hacène Cherfi, Mikel Renteria, and Cyril Masia-Tissot
Coaction of Semantic Technology and Virtual Reality in an Integrated Engineering Environment
4:35 - 4:50Coffee break
4:50 - 6:00Session #3 Text Mining and Data Mining (Chair Hacène Cherfi)
4:50 - 5:35Keynote Speaker: Paul Buitelaar
DFKI GmbH, Language Technology Lab & Competence Center Semantic Web - Saarbrucken, Germany
Text Mining Support in Semantic Metadata Extraction
5:35 - 6:00Monika Zakova, Filip Zelezny, Petr Kremen, Cyril Masia-Tissot, and Nada Lavrac
Relational Data Mining through Propositionalization and Subsequent Propositional Learning for Semantic Virtual Engineering
6:00 - 6:30Open session Panel Discussion - Introduction by Hacène Cherfi.

About Invited Speakers

The KW4ED invited speakers are:

[homepage] Dr Paul Buitelaar (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 (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 virtual reality)

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