[Apologies for multiple submissions]


                        -- Call for Participation --


           The Second International Conference on Practical Aspects
                       of Knowledge Management (PAKM98)
                             29-30 October, 1998
                             Basel, Switzerland
                  http://research.swisslife.ch/pakm98.html

                                Supported by
   SGAICO (Swiss Group for Artificial Intelligence and Cognitive
Science)
                                  and the
    Special Interest Group "Knowledge Engineering" of the German
Informatics
                                   Society

                                Sponsored by
                         Swiss Life   and    UBS



Conference Programme:

Invited talks:

Patricia Seemann (Group 21, Switzerland):
Building an Intellectual Capital Strategy at the Corporate Level

Matthias Jarke (Aachen University of Technology, Germany):
Experience-Based Knowledge Management:
How to Capitalize on Failures and Missed Opportunities


Paper presentations:

Aaltonen, P. / Ikaealko, H. / Ventae, M.
(Helsinki University of Technology, Finland):
Transfer of Knowledge from University to Client Organisations

Alworth, D. / Frost, E.
(OGCI Management, USA; BP Exploration, Inc., USA):
A Practical Approach Bridging Individual Learning and Organizational
Learning:
A Look at Organizational Learning in the E&P Industry

Apostolou, D. / Mentzas, G.
(National Technical University of Athens, Greece):
Managing Corporate Knowledge:
A Comparative Analysis of Experiences in Consulting Firms

Ballim, A. / Karacapilidis, N.
(Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne, Switzerland):
Modeling Discourse Acts in Computer-Assisted Collaborative Decision
Making

Benjamins, R. / Fensel, D. / Gomez Perez, A.
(University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands; University of Karlsruhe,
Germany;
Technical University of Madrid, Spain):
Knowledge Management through Ontologies

Bettoni, M.C. / Ottiger, R. / Todesco, R.
(Polytechnical of Basel, Switzerland):
KnowPort: A Personal Knowledge Portfolio Tool

Connor, D. (Xerox Professional Services, USA):
Helping Clients Harness Knowledge to Drive Innovation

Crossley, M. / Davies, N.J. / McGrath, A.J. / Rejman-Greene, M.A.Z.
(BT Laboratories, UK):
The Knowledge Garden

Feldman, R. / Fresko, M. / Hirsh, H. / Aumann, Y. / Kinar, Y. /
Liphstat, O. /
Schler, Y. / Rajman, M. (Bar-Ilan University, Israel; Rutgers
University, USA;
Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne, Switzerland):
Knowledge Management: A Text Mining Approach

Hollocks, B.W. (Bournemouth University, UK):
The Role of Models in Leveraging Information

Huber, H. (USU AG, Germany):
Supporting Document Search by Collaboratively Maintained Search
Knowledge

Koivula, A. / Pankakoski, M. (Helsinki University of Technology,
Finland):
Knowledge Product and Management Consulting

Koskiniemi, M.S. / Wilson, L.T.
(Buckman Laboratories, USA; LearnerFirst, Inc., USA):
Buckman Lab's Work Profiles Software Program

Lehner, F. / Maier, R. / Klosa, O. (University of Regensburg, Germany):
Organisational Memory Systems:
Application of Advanced Database & Network Technologies in Organisations

Lenz, M. (Humboldt University Berlin, Germany):
Managing the Knowledge Contained in Technical Documents

Lueg, C. (University of Zuerich, Switzerland):
Considering Collaborative Filtering as Groupware:
Experiences and Lessons Learned

Macintosh, A. / Filby, I. / Kingston, J. / Tate, A.
(University of Edinburgh, UK):
Knowledge Asset Road Maps

Mahe, S. / Rieu, Ch.
(Lab. LLP/CESALP, France; KSB Pompes Guinard Energie, France):
A Pull Approach to Knowledge Management:
Using IS as a Knowledge Indicator to Help People Know when
to Look for Knowledge Reuse

Mentzas, G. / Apostolou, D.
(National Technical University of Athens, Greece):
Towards a Holistic Knowledge Leveraging Infrastructure:
The KNOWNET Approach

Nakata, K. / Voss, A. / Juhnke, M. / Kreifelts, Th.
(German National Research Center for Information Technology, Germany):
Collaborative Concept Extraction and Management

Roepnack, A. / Schindler, M. / Schwan, Th.
(University of St. Gallen, Switzerland):
Concepts of the Enterprise Knowledge Medium

Stanoevska, K. / Hombrecher, A. / Handschuh, S. / Schmid, B.
(University of St. Gallen, Switzerland):
Efficient Information Retrieval: Tools for Knowledge Management

Struck, T. / Lindsay, J. / Baber, C.
(University of Birmingham, UK):
Evaluation of the Management of Knowledge in Cardiovascular Perfusion
Using the KIPP-Model

Wiig, K. (Knowledge Research Institute, Inc., USA):
Perspectives on Introducing Knowledge Management into the Enterprise

Wilson, O. / Sellens, C. (CMG, Ltd., UK):
The CMG Knowledge Intranet



For registration and further information see
http://research.swisslife.ch/pakm98.html


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