The 18th International Conference on Knowledge Engineering and Knowledge Management is concerned with all aspects of eliciting, acquiring, modeling and managing knowledge, and its role in the construction of knowledge-intensive systems and services for the semantic web, knowledge management, e-business, natural language processing, intelligent information integration, etc. The focus of the 18th edition of EKAW will be on "Knowledge Engineering and Knowledge Management that matters".
Besides a research track, EKAW will feature a tutorial, workshop and a doctoral symposium program, as well as a poster and demo track. The proceedings of the conference will be published by Springer Verlag in the LNCS series. Poster notes and workshop/tutorial notes will be published separately in a companion booklet.
The conference will take place in Galway, Ireland at the Aula Maxima located in the National University of Ireland, Galway Quadrangle from October 8-12, 2012.

Important Dates:
- Abstract Submission:
April 18th, 2012 April 30th, 2012
- Full Paper Submission:
April 25th, 2012 May 4th, 2012
- Notification:
June 6th, 2012
- Camera-Ready:
June 30th, 2012
- Tutorial Submission:
May 16th, 2012
- Workshop Submission:
April 30th, 2012
- Demo Submission:
July 2nd, 2012
- Demo Notification:
July 23rd, 2012
- Demo Camera-Ready Version:
August 4th, 2012
- Poster Submission:
August 13th, 2012
- Poster Notification:
September 3rd, 2012