Abstract | Preface It is our great honor and pleasure to introduce the Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Knowledge Engineering and Applications (ICKEA2017). The event will be held in Imperial College London, United Kingdom, from 21st to 23rd October, 2017. One of the meaningful and valuable dimensions of this conference is the way it brings together a large group of researchers, scientists, academics, and engineers in the field from all over the world, and enable discussions and debate of relevant issues, challenges, opportunities and research findings. ICKEA2017 will provide an excellent platform for the participants to share brilliant ideas of original research, and to build international links. We deliver our promise on helping create a bright picture and charming landscape for knowledge engineering and applications. The responses to the call-for-papers were enthusiastic. We received over 90 submissions from 33 countries, including UK, USA, China, United Arab Emirates, Malaysia, India, Japan, Kosovo, Korea, Slovenia, Morocco, Philippines, Vietnam, Germany, Peru, Egypt, Czech Republic, Indonesia, Israel, Norway, Switzerland, Pakistan, Romania, Italy, Nigeria, Mexico, Thailand, Turkey, Ireland, Russia, Bahrain, South Africa, and Palestine. Those manuscripts provide a wide spectrum of research in various areas such as advanced knowledge technologies, knowledge relationship discovery, knowledge representation and reasoning, knowledge services, knowledge visualization, and more. Due to the constraint of the capacity and suitability of the topics, only 42 submissions were accepted as full papers for presentation in ICKEA2017. We would like to express our gratitude and appreciation to the authors for their contributions. Many thanks go as well to all of the reviewers who helped us maintain the high quality of manuscripts included in the Proceedings published by IEEE. We also express our sincere thanks to the members of the organizing team for their hard work. We wish that all the authors and delegates find ICKEA2017 interesting, exciting and inspiring. We also wish that our guests will enjoy their stay in London in this wonderful and fruitful autumn. Finally, our continuing success of this conference series indicates that a good plan can now proceed with full confidence for the next year’s event. Conference Chair of ICKEA2017 Shuliang Li On behalf of the ICKEA2017 Conference Committees |
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