Knowledge Engineering and Knowledge Management. Methods, Models, and Tools: 12th International Conference, EKAW 2000, Juan-les-Pins, France, October 2 [Paperback]

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Knowledge Engineering and Knowledge Management, EKAW 2000, held in Juan-les-Pins, France in October 2000.
The 28 revised full papers and six revised short papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from a high number of high-quality submissions. The book offers topical sections on knowledge modeling languages and tools, ontologies, knowledge acquisition from texts, machine learning, knowledge management and electronic commerce, problem solving methods, knowledge representation, validation, evaluation and certification, and methodologies.
Knowledge Modelling Languages and Tools.- OIL in a Nutshell.- The Knowledge Model of Prot?g?-2000: Combining Interoperability and Flexibility.- A Case Study in Using Prot?g?-2000 as a Tool for CommonKADS.- The MOKA Modelling Language.- Md??: A Modelling Language to Build a Formal Ontology in Either Description Logics or Conceptual Graphs.- Ontologies.- Ontologys Crossed Life Cycles.- A Roadmap to Ontology Specification Languages.- A Formal Ontology of Properties.- Construction and Deployment of a Plant Ontology.- The Role of Ontologies for an Effective and Unambiguous Dissemination of Clinical Guidelines.- Supporting Inheritance Mechanisms in Ontology Representation.- Conflict Resolution in the Collaborative Design of Terminological Knowledge Bases.- Knowledge Acquisition from Texts.- Revisiting Ontology Design: A Method Based on Corpus Analysis.- Mining Ontologies from Text.- SVETLAN Or How to Classify Words Using Their Context.- Machine Learning.- KIDS: An Iterative Algorithm to Organize Relational Knowledge.- Informed Selection of Training Examples for Knowledge Refinement.- Experiences with a Generic Refinement Toolkit.- Knowledge Management & E-Commerce.- Whats in an Electronic Business Model?.- Chinese Encyclopaedias and Balinese Cockfights - Lessons for Business Process Change and Knowledge Management.- Ulé