CIKM

It is our great pleasure to welcome you to the 2012 International Workshop on Web-scale Knowledge Representation, Retrieval, and Reasoning (Web-KR 2012), co-located with the 21st ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM 2012) at Hawaii, USA. This workshop is the third version in the workshop series under the title of "Webscale Knowledge Representation, Retrieval, and Reasoning (Web-KR)".

Web-KR 2012 continues its mission to take grand challenges for KR in the Web age (such as scalability, inconsistency, uncertainty and dynamics). It brings together researchers from the Web, Artificial Intelligence (AI), High Performance Computing, Cognitive Science, Knowledge Management, and Machine Learning to discuss all issues of Web-KR in a synergistic setting. We hope to motivate different thoughts and solutions from researchers in these different fields and they can learn from each other.

The call for papers attracted submissions from Switzerland, Germany, and the United States. The Web-KR 2012 program committee accepted 3 papers that cover different interesting and important topics, including uncertainty in Web knowledge representation and retrieval, parallel Web knowledge processing, and Web mining of knowledge with sequential patterns. In addition, this year, we have co-located Web-KR with the City Data Management 2012 workshop. We are delighted to have the opportunity to discuss the problem of managing big city data in the Web age with researchers from the Urban Computing field.