This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Knowledge Engineering and Knowledge Management, EKAW 2004, held in Whittleburg Hall, UK in October 2004.
The 30 revised full papers and 21 revised short papers were carefully reviewed and selected from numerous submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on ontologies: mappings and translations; ontologies: problems and applications; ontologies: trust and e-learning; ontology maintenance; applications to medicine; portals; knowledge acquisition; Web services and problem solving; and searching, browsing, and knowledge acquisition.