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Co-chairs:
Dimitris
Karagiannis, University of Vienna, Austria [dk@dke.univie.ac.at]
Ulrich Reimer, Business
Operation Systems, Switzerland [ulrich.reimer@bauer-partner.com]
Main contact for
further information:
Dimitris Karagiannis
University of Vienna
Department of Knowledge Engineering
Brünner Str. 72
A-1210 Vienna, Austria
Tel.: +43-1-4277-38481;
Fax: +43-1-4277-38484
Email: dk@dke.univie.ac.at
Aims and scope
of the conference
To succeed in the accelerating
business pace of the "internet age", organisations must efficiently
leverage their most valuable and under-leveraged resource: the intellectual
capital of their highly educated, skilled, and experienced employees. The
compression of communication cycles and the omnipresence of information forces
enterprises to seek a faster return on knowledge - knowledge that ages rapidly
in a market place brimming with innovation. One of the most important
prerequisites in achieving this return is the systematic management of the key
success factor "knowledge" - previously left to manage itself "somehow".
Thus next-generation business solutions must be focussed on supporting the
creation of value by adding knowledge-rich components as an integral part to the
work process. Therefore, an integrated approach is needed which combines issues
from a large array of fields, originating from quite different areas such as
business and organization sciences, cognitive sciences, and computer science.
The PAKM Conference Series
acknowledges the above situation and offers a communication forum and meeting
ground for practitioners and researchers engaged in developing and deploying
advanced business solutions for the management of knowledge and intellectual
capital. We seek attendance and contributions from practitioners, researchers,
and developers who work at the leading edge of Knowledge Management, pursuing
integrated approaches which consider both, the technological side, business side
and the organisational and cultural issues. PAKM is a forum for people to share their views, to
exchange ideas, to develop new insights, and to envision completely new kinds of
solutions to Knowledge Management problems. Like its predecessors, PAKM2002 will
provide ample time for interaction and discussion.
By explicitly addressing
interdisciplinary approaches to Knowledge Management, the PAKM conference offers
a unique and new kind of forum.
Contributions
sought
The overall theme of PAKM2002 is next-generation business solutions and the role information technology can play
in them. Thus, we seek original contributions in the triangle of business and
organization sciences, cognitive sciences, and computer science that describe a
true advancement in the state of the art of Knowledge Management:
- Business and organization
sciences give the overall framework in which to develop a knowledge
management approach, which is first of all a business solution rather than an
information technology solution.
- Cognitive sciences help to
design a knowledge management solution such that it fits smoothly with the
cognitive capabilities of the people involved and is optimally embedded in
their work context - or, to phrase it differently, to ensure the
appropriateness of the knowledge management approach.
- Computer science provides the
technology needed to build the information systems which are often required
to make certain aspects of a knowledge management solution work.
Contributions to PAKM should show
how the approach presented takes all of those three aspects into account.
Additionally, paper submissions must clearly describe the (real-world) problem
being tackled and point out the added value of solving that problem. The paper
should give a clear description how the problem is solved and it should further
make clear in which aspects the suggested approach is a new one.
Submitted papers may be full
papers with up to 12 pages and 30 minutes presentation time, or short papers
with up to 6 pages and 20 minutes time for presentation. All accepted papers
will be presented at the conference.
Papers may address one or more of
the following topics, or any other topic as long as it fits into the overall
conference theme:
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Building
and maintaining an inventory of the knowledge available in the
organization (with people, in files, databases, documents)
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setting
up appropriate communication links between people, groups,
departments to communicate what skills and knowledge they have |
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meta
information systems |
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information
systems in the examples of associated fields |
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Bringing
the knowledge existing somewhere inside or outside the organization to
those places where it is needed
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aligning
organizational structures towards a knowledge sharing community |
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group
support systems |
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decision
support systems, just-in-time knowledge delivery systems,
electronic performance support systems |
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information
retrieval: interest profiles, information filtering, automatic
text understanding, searching the world wide web, personal web
agents |
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Making
sure that available knowledge is reused and not reinvented
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documentation
and annotation of knowledge to facilitate it being assimilated
by people who did not provide it |
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ontologies
and enterprise data models to provide a common terminological
framework |
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automatic
text summarization to facilitate selection of relevant texts |
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group
support systems |
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automatic
indexing and abstracting of texts |
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Capturing
and securing knowledge to avoid it from getting lost
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designing
business processes such that knowledge generated in ongoing work
is easily and immediately captured |
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implementing
lessons learned processes |
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organizational
memories: knowledge integration, knowledge sharing, versioning,
contexts, high-level modelling languages for non-computer
scientists |
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knowledge
extraction from texts |
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Developing
new knowledge
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organizational
measures for supporting and stimulating innovation |
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information
systems for supporting creative processes (exploration of data
spaces, visualization tools, etc.) |
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data
mining (from data, text, and the web) |
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Important dates:
Submission of papers by August, 4, 2002
Acceptance notices mailed by September, 22, 2002
Final, camera-ready papers due by October, 28, 2002
Submission format:
The proceedings of the PAKM2002 will be published in LNCS/LNAI
in the series "Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence". Papers should
not be longer than 12 pages. For the manuscript layout, please look to the Authors
Instructions subpage, where answers to most of the technical questions can
be found.
As the LNCS/LNAI is published, in parallel to the printed books, in full-text
electronic version the complete electronic version of the paper is needed in
addition to the printed paper. Four copies of the printed paper should be sent
to:
Dimitris Karagiannis
University of Vienna
Department of Knowledge Engineering
Brünner Str. 72
1210 Vienna, Austria
Special journal issue:
Selected papers from the conference will be considered for
publication in a special issue of the International Jounal of Intelligent
Systems in Accounting, Finance and Management
Program committee:
Co-chairs
Dimitris Karagiannis, University of Vienna, Austria
Ulrich Reimer, Swiss Life, Switzerland
Members
Irma Becerra-Fernandez, Florida International University, USA
V. Richard Benjamins, iSOCO, Intelligent Software Components S.A., Spain
Rose Dieng, INRIA, France
Juan Manuel Dodero, iSOCO, Intelligent Software Components S.A., Spain
Joaquim Filipe, Escola Superior Tecnologia Setubal, Portugal
Norbert Gronau, University of Oldenburg, Germany
Udo Hahn, University of Freiburg, Germany
Knut Hinkelmann, FH Solothurn, Switzerland
Werner Hoffmann, Österreichisches Controller-Institut, Austria
Gerold Jasch, IBM Central Europe Region, Austria
Manfred Jeusfeld, Tilburg University, Netherlands
Ann Macintosh, Napier University, UK
Frank Maurer, University of Calgary, Canada
Hermann Maurer, Technical University Graz, Austria
Heinz-Juergen Mueller, University of Cooperative Education Mannheim, Germany
Brian (Bo) Newman, Founder, The Knowledge Management Forum, USA
Dan O’Leary, University of Southern California, USA
Bodo Rieger, University of Osnabrueck, Germany
Roy Rajkumar, Cranfield University, UK
Beat Schmid, University of St. Gallen, Switzerland
Heinz Schmidt, Philips Austria, Austria
Ulrich Schmidt, PricewaterhouseCoopers Unternehmensberatung GmbH, Germany
Steffen Staab, University of Karlsruhe, Germany
Rudi Studer, University of Karlsruhe, Germany
A Min Tjoa, Technical University of Vienna, Austria
Ulrich Thiel, GMD-IPSI, Germany
Klaus Tochtermann, Know Center Graz, Austria
Eric Tsui, Computer Sciences Corporation, Australia
Rosina Weber, Drexel University, USA
Karl M. Wiig, Knowledge Research Institute, USA
Michael Wolf, UBS, Switzerland |
