The biennial PAKM Conference Series o?ers a communication platform and meeting ground for practitioners and researchers involved in developing and deploying advanced business solutions for the management of knowledge in - ganizations. PAKM is a forum for people to share their views, exchange ideas, develop new insights, and envision completely new kinds of knowledge mana- ment solutions. PAKM2008, the7thInternationalConferenceonPracticalAspectsofKno- edge Management, was held in Yokohama, Japan, for the ?rst time. Although all past PAKM conferences were held in Europe (Basel and Vienna), the PAKM Steering Committee decided two yearsago that the PAKM conferenceshould be "on tour" it should be organized by di?erent people and be hosted in di?erent places all over the world. For this year's conference we received 62 submissions from 23 countries and 3 reviewers were assigned to one paper from the members of the Program C- mittee and the additional reviewers. Thus 23 good papers were selected. They cover a great variety of approaches to knowledge management, which tackle the topic from many di?erent angles. It is this very diversity that makes PAKM unique, while at the same time focusing on the one issue of managing knowledge within organizations. Many people were involved in setting up PAKM 2008. We would like to express our warm thanks to everybody who contributed to making it a success.

This volume contains the papers selected for presentation at the 2nd Inter- tional Workshop on Active Mining (AM 2003) which was organized in conju- tion with the 14th International Symposium on Methodologies for Intelligent Systems (ISMIS 2003), held in Maebashi City, Japan, 28-31 October, 2003. The workshop was organized by the Maebashi Institute of Technology in - operation with the Japanese Society for Arti?cial Intelligence. It was sponsored by the Maebashi Institute of Technology, the Maebashi Convention Bureau, the Maebashi City Government, the Gunma Prefecture Government, JSAI SIGKBS (Japanese Arti?cial Intelligence Society, Special Interest Group on Knowledge- Based Systems), a Grant-in-Aid for Scienti?c Research on Priority Areas (No. 759) "Implementation of Active Mining in the Era of Information Flood," US AFOSR/AOARD, the Web Intelligence Consortium (Japan), the Gunma Inf- mation Service Industry Association, and Ryomo Systems Co., Ltd. ISMIS is a conference series that was started in 1986 in Knoxville, Tennessee. SincethenithasbeenheldinCharlotte(NorthCarolina), Knoxville(Tennessee), Torin (Italy), Trondheim (Norway), Warsaw (Poland), Zakopane (Poland), and Lyon (France). The objective of this workshop was to gather researchers as well as prac- tioners who are working on various research ?elds of active mining, share ha- learned experiences, and shed light on the future development of active mining.

This book constitutes the proceedings of the 4th Joint International Semantic Technology Conference, JIST 2014, held in Chiang Mai, Thailand, in November 2014. The theme of the JIST 2014 conference was "Open Data and Semantic Technology". JIST 2014 conference consisted of main technical tracks including regular paper track (full and short papers), in-use track and special track, poster and demo session, two workshops and four tutorials. The 32 papers in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 71 submissions. The paper topics are divided into eight categories: ontology and reasoning, linked data, learning and discovery, rdf and sparql, ontological engineering, semantic social Web, search and querying and applications of semantic technology.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Active Media Technology, AMT 2012, held in Macau, China, in December 2012. The 65 revised full papers were carefully reviewed and selected from a numerous submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on awareness multi-agent systems, data mining, ontology mining, web reasoning, social applications of active media, human-centered computing, personalization and adaptation, smart digital art and e-learning.