Knowledge Engineering Workshop
The Knowledge Engineering Workshop will be held on December 23-25, 2011 in Barcelona, Spain. The workshop will cover the latest developments in areas related to the building, maintaining and development of knowledge-based systems.

The workshop will cover the following topics:
- knowledge engineering in business intelligence applications
- artificial intelligence
- NoSQL databases
- data mining
- expert systems
- decision support systems
- and geographic information systems (GIS)
The following aspects of the knowledge engineering essential for the development of a knowledge-based system will be discussed at the co-located workshop:
- Assessment of the problem
- Development of a knowledge-based system shell/structure
- Acquisition and structuring of the related information, knowledge and specific preferences (IPK model)
- Implementation of the structured knowledge into knowledge bases
- Testing and validation of the inserted knowledge
- Integration and maintenance of the system
- Revision and evaluation of the system.