Invited Talks -- On Representational Issues About Combinations of Classical Theories with Nonmonotonic Rules -- Towards a Software/Knowware Co-engineering -- Modeling and Evaluation of Technology Creation Process in Academia -- Knowledge Management Systems (KMS) Continuance in Organizations: A Social Relational Perspective -- Regular Papers -- Modelling the Interaction Between Objects: Roles as Affordances -- Knowledge Acquisition for Diagnosis in Cellular Networks Based on Bayesian Networks -- Building Conceptual Knowledge for Managing Learning Paths in e-Learning -- Measuring Similarity in the Semantic Representation of Moving Objects in Video -- A Case Study for CTL Model Update -- Modeling Strategic Beliefs with Outsmarting Belief Systems -- Marker-Passing Inference in the Scone Knowledge-Base System -- Hyper Tableaux — The Third Version -- A Service-Oriented Group Awareness Model and Its Implementation -- An Outline of a Formal Ontology of Genres -- An OWL-Based Approach for RBAC with Negative Authorization -- LCS: A Linguistic Combination System for Ontology Matching -- Framework for Collaborative Knowledge Sharing and Recommendation Based on Taxonomic Partial Reputations -- On Text Mining Algorithms for Automated Maintenance of Hierarchical Knowledge Directory -- Using Word Clusters to Detect Similar Web Documents -- Construction of Concept Lattices Based on Indiscernibility Matrices -- Selection of Materialized Relations in Ontology Repository Management System -- Combining Topological and Directional Information: First Results -- Measuring Conflict Between Possibilistic Uncertain Information Through Belief Function Theory -- WWW Information Integration Oriented Classification Ontology Integrating Approach -- Configurations for Inference Between Causal Statements -- Taking Levi Identity Seriously: A Plea for Iterated Belief Contraction -- Description and Generation of Computational Agents -- Knowledge Capability: A Definition and Research Model -- Quota-Based Merging Operators for Stratified Knowledge Bases -- Enumerating Minimal Explanations by Minimal Hitting Set Computation -- Observation-Based Logic of Knowledge, Belief, Desire and Intention -- Repairing Inconsistent XML Documents -- A Framework for Automated Test Generation in Intelligent Tutoring Systems -- A Study on Knowledge Creation Support in a Japanese Research Institute -- Identity Conditions for Ontological Analysis -- Knowledge Update in a Knowledge-Based Dynamic Scheduling Decision System -- Knowledge Contribution in the Online Virtual Community: Capability and Motivation -- Effective Large Scale Ontology Mapping -- A Comparative Study on Representing Units in Chinese Text Clustering -- A Description Method of Ontology Change Management Using Pi-Calculus -- On Constructing Environment Ontology for Semantic Web Services -- Knowledge Reduction in Incomplete Systems Based on ?–Tolerance Relation -- An Extension Rule Based First-Order Theorem Prover -- An Extended Meta-model for Workflow Resource Model -- Knowledge Reduction Based on Evidence Reasoning Theory in Ordered Information Systems -- A Novel Maximum Distribution Reduction Algorithm for Inconsistent Decision Tables -- An ICA-Based Multivariate Discretization Algorithm -- An Empirical Study of What Drives Users to Share Knowledge in Virtual Communities -- A Method for Evaluating the Knowledge Transfer Ability in Organization -- Information Extraction from Semi-structured Web Documents -- Si-SEEKER: Ontology-Based Semantic Search over Databases -- Efficient Computation of Multi-feature Data Cubes -- NKIMathE – A Multi-purpose Knowledge Management Environment for Mathematical Concepts -- Linguistic Knowledge Representation and Automatic Acquisition Based on a Combination of Ontology with Statistical Method -- Toward Formalizing Usefulness in Propositional Language.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the First International Conference on Knowledge Science, Engineering and Management, KSEM 2006, held in Guilin, China in August 2006 in conjunction with PRICAI 2006. The 51 revised full papers and 57 revised short papers presented together with 4 invited talks were carefully reviewed and selected from 450 submissions. The papers provide a wealth of new ideas and report current research results in the broad areas of knowledge science, knowledge engineering, and knowledge management.