th The 15 International Conference on Knowledge Engineering and Knowledge Management (2006), held on October 6-10, 2006 in Pod? ebrady, Czech Republic, followed a long tradition of European Knowledge Acquisition Workshops (from 1987), whicheventuallyacquiredtheformatofconference(in2000)whilekeeping their open-minded and interactive spirit. During the nearly 20 year lifespan of the series, the discipline of knowledge engineering (KE) evolved greatly. While knowledge acquisition (KA) techniques dominated in the very ?rst years, formal approaches to knowledge-based inf- ence and variousnew...

If you are sitting in a basement room without a view not to mention the bars in front of the windows and writing a book, then you better have good company. I had the best company you could imagine. Waltraud Hiltl, Katja Markert, Martin Romacker, Klemens Schnattinger, Andreas Klee and I shared very little o?ce space, but plenty of chocolate, co?ee, champagne, and enthusiasm for our research. North German coolness and creativity sprang mostly from my colleagues in the second ?oor. I learned a lot from and laughed a lot with Nobi Br]oker, Susanne (Sue) Schacht, Manfred Klenner, Peter Neuhaus,...

This volume establishes a new quality standard for software products, and increased efficiency in their development, by applying findings in the field of logic to mainstream software development and its languages. It covers both domain and software modeling.

This volume establishes a new quality standard for software products, and increased efficiency in their development, by applying findings in the field of logic to mainstream software development and its languages. It covers both domain and software modeling.