The second International Workshop on Community-Based Evolution of Knowledge-Intensive Systems (COMBEK) is held in Vilamoura, Portugal: November 1-6, 2009.
COMBEK is chaired by Pieter De Leenheer, Martin Hepp, and Amit Sheth and co-located with OnTheMove conferences 2009, co-sponsored by Collibra. Proceedings will be published by Springer Verlag.
COMBEK seeks to address the need for research that explores and embraces the novel, difficult but crucial issue of adapting knowledge resources to their user communities, and vice versa, as a fundamental property of knowledge-intensive internet systems. Through a deep understanding of the real-time, community-based, evolution of so-called ontologies, a knowledge-intensive system can be made operationally relevant and sustainable over long periods of time.
Basic principle of knowledge-intensive community systems is the co-evolution of (A) social interactions enabled by the community’s design; (B) the open applications development designated to support them; and (C) the business semantics patterns to enable semantic interoperability between these applications.
By addressing the notion of “community” in this way, COMBEK hopes to innovate the science of ontology engineering and unlock the expected (and unavoidable) paradigm shift in knowledge-based and community-driven systems. Such a paradigm would affect knowledge sharing and communication across diverse communities in business, industry, and society. We are further convinced that being a part of the OnTheMove Conferences will turn a spotlight on the scientific issues addressed in COMBEK, making them visible and attractive to industry.
HERE is the full website including the programme committee and the call for papers.