Invited Talks

Fausto Giunchiglia, University of Trento, Italy

Title: "Semantic Matching: Enabling Meaningful Knowledge Management Among Peers"

Abstract: TBA

Fausto Giunchiglia is Professor of Computer Science at the University of Trento. He is a Trustee of the International Joint Conference on Artificial Conference (IJCAI) committe, was a Trustee of the European Network of Excellence on Symbolic Algebra and Deductive Systems (CALCULEMUS). Moreover, Fausto is President of the Advisory Board of International Conference on Knowledge Representation and Reasoning (KRR). He is a member of the Editorial Board of the International Journal of Autonomous Agents and MultiAgent Systems, AI Communications, the International Journal of Software Tools for Technology Transfer and the Journal of Applied Non Classical Logics. Finally, he was chair and/or member of the program committee of about a hundred of conferences, symposiums and international workshops, among them: Conference Chair of IJCAI 2005, KRR 2002, COOPIS 2001, FLOC 1999; Program Chair of KRR 2000, AIMSA 1998, SARA 1998.

Mark Maybury, the MITRE Corporation, USA

Title: "Exploitation of Digital Artifacts and Interactions to Enable Peer-to-Peer Knowledge Management"

Abstract: This invited talk will survey the automated analysis of human created digital artifacts and human computer interactions to enable peer-to-peer knowledge management. We first discuss tools to support peer and group knowledge discovery, exemplifying these in the domains of global infectious disease management (TIDES) and global social indicator analysis (SIAM). The presentation will describe automated tools for profiling individual and collective expertise (ExpertFinder) as well as organizational knowledge interactions within a distributed enterprise to detect expert communities (XperNET). We consider tools for facilitating group knowledge annotation (KEAN), learning (OWL) and search (SCOUT). Finally, we discuss our efforts to create and deploy tools for peer-to-peer knowledge communication/exchange (CVW and TrIM). We will describe the efficacy of these tools and illustrate how they collectively enable peer-to-peer knowledge management. We conclude summarizing our lessons learned and remaining challenges.

Dr. Mark Maybury is Executive Director of MITRE's Information Technology Division. Mark also serves as Executive Director of ARDA's Northeast Regional Research Center. Mark has published over sixty technical and tutorial articles and is editor of Intelligent Multimedia Interfaces (AAAI/MIT Press 1993), Intelligent Multimedia Information Retrieval (AAAI/ MIT Press 1997), New Directions in Question Answering (AAAI/ MIT Press 2004), co-editor of Readings on Intelligent User Interfaces (Morgan Kaufmann Press 1998), Advances in Text Summarization (MIT Press 1999), Advances in Knowledge Management (MIT Press 2001) and Personalized Digital Television (Kluwer Academic, 2004), and co-author of Information Storage and Retrieval (Kluwer Academic 2000). Mark was Program Chair of ACM's 1999 International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces (IUI). Mark is a member of the IUI Steering Council, a member of the Board of Directors of the Object Management Group, and Secretary/Treasurer of ACM SIGART. He serves on several international conference program committees and journal editorial boards. Dr. Maybury received his B.A. in Mathematics from the College of the Holy Cross, an M. Phil. in Computer Speech and Language Processing from Cambridge University, England, an M.B.A. from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and a Ph.D. in Artificial Intelligence from Cambridge University.