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Last Call for Papers: KSEM 2016
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The 9th International Conference on Knowledge Science, Engineering and Management (KSEM)
http://ksem2016.org/

October 5-7, 2016
Passau, Germany
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IMPORTANT DATES:

Paper submission deadline: July 4, 2016 (extended)
Reviews due: August 7, 2016 (extended)
Paper acceptance notifications: August 12, 2016 (extended)
Camera ready papers due: September 1, 2016 (rigid deadline)
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KSEM 2016 will be the ninth in this series, which builds on the success of eight events of International Conference on Knowledge Science, Engineering and Management in Guilin, China (KSEM 2006); Melbourne, Australia (KSEM 2007); Vienna, Austria (KSEM 2009); Belfast, UK (KSEM 2010); Irvine, USA (KSEM 2011); Dalian, China (KSEM 2013), Sibiu, Romania (KSEM 2014) and Chongqing, China (KSEM 2015).

The conference will provide space for discussion on scientific as well as practice-oriented contributions and promote the exchange of experiences, ideas and opinions among all participants. An important aim is to identify problems and topics with high practical relevance.

Submissions can address one of the following four main topics: Knowledge science, knowledge engineering, knowledge management and knowledge services. The conference will accept various contributions types:

Scientific contributions should not exceed twelve pages including abstract, figures and references. Please include a 150 word abstract and 3-6 keywords best describing the paper. Submissions should be formatted according to the guidelines of Lecture Notes in Computer Science or Artificial Intelligence at Springer Publishing Group. Author instructions can be downloaded at www.springer.com/computer/lncs/lncs+authors
Practice-oriented contributions can be sumitted as short contribution (six pages) or long contribution (twelve pages).
Poster contributions:��Please submit a short description of maximum two pages.

Scientific contributions will be published by Springer in the LNAI series. Practice-oriented contributions and poster contributions will be included in a conference brochure provided to all conference participants in print.

Please submit your contribution for peer-review through EasyChair system: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ksem2016. Please note, that in order to support blind review process, authors name(s) should not appear in the body of the paper and abstract.

Further information concerning submission topics, deadlines and other helpful inforamtion can be obtained on http://ksem2016.org/.

Looking forward to meet you here in Passau,

Franz Lehner and Nora Fteimi

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KSEM Local organizing Chair
University of Passau - Germany
Chair of Information Systems
E-Mail: ksem@ksem2016.org
Web: http://ksem2016.org