Sixteenth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence
IJCAI-99
City Conference Center, Stockholm, Sweden, Monday, August 2, 1999
IJCAI Workshop on
Knowledge Management and Organizational Memories
Call for Papers
http://www-sop.inria.fr/acacia/WORKSHOPS/IJCAI99-OM/
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Knowledge Management (KM) is one of the key progress factors in
organizations. It involves explicit and persistent representation of
knowledge of (geographically) dispersed groups of people in the
organization, so as to improve the activities of the organization.
Although KM is an issue in human resource management and enterprise
organization beyond any specific technology questions, there are
important aspects that can be supported or even enabled by
intelligent information systems. Especially AI and related fields
provide solutions for important parts of the overall KM problem.
Identification and analysis of a company's knowledge-intensive
work processes (e.g., product design or strategic planning). Knowledge
Engineering and Enterprise Modeling techniques can contribute to this
topic. The analysis of information flow and involved knowledge sources
allows to identify shortcomings of business processes, and to specify
requirements on potential IT support.
In an organization, know-how may relate to problem solving
expertise infunctional disciplines, experiences of human resources,
and project experiences in terms of project management issues, design
technical issues and lessons learned. The coherent integration of this
dispersed know-how in a corporation, aimed at enhancing its access and
reuse, is called "corporate memory" or "organizational memory" (OM).
It is regarded as the central prerequisite for IT support of
Knowledge Management and is the means for knowledge conservation,
distribution, and reuse. An OM enables organizational learning and
continuous process improvement.
Activities underlying knowledge management in an organization can
comprise detection of needs, construction, distribution, use and
maintenance of the corporate memory. It demands abilities to manage
disparate know-how and heterogeneous viewpoints, to make it accessible
and suitable for adequate members of the organization. When the
organization knowledge isdistributed on several experts and documents
in different locations all over the world, the Internet or an Intranet
inside the organization and World Wide Web (WWW) techniques can be a
privileged means for acquisition, modelling, management of this
distributed knowledge. Papers are welcome in any area concerning
knowledge management or corporate memory or organizational memory.
Topics of interest include:
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- Dimensions of knowledge management: organization, competence,
methodology, ...
- Enterprise modeling
- Artificial Intelligence methods or techniques for construction
of computational corporate memories (knowledge bases, case
bases, intelligent documentary systems, agent-based
systems...)
- Business Intelligence Solutions for KM
- Intranet Solutions for KM
- Document Management Solutions for KM
- MultiMedia solutions for KM
- Content Management solutions for KM
- Architectures for KM/OM systems
- Integration of formal and informal knowledge in KM/OM
- Integration of knowledge from different groups in an
organization
- Knowledge sharing between different groups in an organization
(possibly via Internet/Intranet)
- Cooperative (possibly WWW-based) building, adaptation and
evolution of a corporate memory
- WWW-based repositories for sharable ontologies and reusable
problem-solving methods
- WWW-based terminology servers
- Assessment of concrete applications for knowledge management
- Case studies of building KM/OM in enterprises
- Active, context-dependent knowledge supply
Important dates
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Submission deadline: March 15, 1999
Notification of acceptance: April 27, 1999
Camera (Web)-ready: May 27, 1999
Workshop: July 31-August 2 1999
Submission Procedure
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Contributions are invited in the form of a full paper (max. 20
pages). The title page should include name, affiliation, and e-mail
address of the contributor. Papers will be judged on their
contribution to the discussion, and some will be selected for
presentation.
Papers have to be submitted electronically (in PostScript and HTML) to
the contact persons : [log in to unmask] or
[log in to unmask] The proceedings will be published on the
WWW and as a report.
We plan to schedule a demonstration session during the workshop. So
demonstrations (industrial or research prototypes) are also welcome.
Organizing committee
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Andreas Abecker
Address: DFKI GmbH, Postfach 2080, D-67608
Kaiserslautern, Germany
Phone: +49 631 205-3456
FAX: +49 631 205-3210
E-mail: [log in to unmask]
WWW: http://www.dfki.uni-kl.de/~aabecker/
John Debenham
Address: Computing Sciences, University of Technology,
Sydney
PO Box 123, Broadway, NSW 2007, Australia
Phone: +61 2 330 1837
FAX: +61 2 330 1898
E-mail: [log in to unmask]
Stefan Decker
Address:Universität Karlsruhe, Institut AIFB, D-76128
Karlsruhe, Germany
Phone: +49 721-608 6589
FAX: +49 721-693 717
E-mail:[log in to unmask]
WWW: http://www.aifb.uni-karlsruhe.de/~sde
Rose Dieng (Co-Chair)
Address: INRIA Acacia Project, 2004 route des Lucioles, BP 93
06902 Sophia-Antipolis Cedex FRANCE
Phone: +33 4 92 38 78 10
FAX: +33 4 92 38 77 83
E-mail: [log in to unmask]
Daniel E. O'Leary
Address: University of Southern California, 3660 Trousdale
Parkway, Los Angeles,CA 90089-1421
Phone: +1 213-740-4856
FAX: +1 213-747-2815
E-mail: [log in to unmask]
WWW: http://www-rcf.usc.edu/~oleary
Ann Macintosh
Address: Artificial Intelligence Applications Institute
The University of Edinburgh 80 South Bridge Edinburgh EH1 1HN
United Kingdom
Phone: +44 131 650 2732
FAX: +44 131 650 6513
E-mail: [log in to unmask]
Nada Matta (Co-Chair)
Address: INRIA-ACACIA BP. 93, 2004 Route des Lucioles,
Sophia-Antipolis, France
Phone: +33 4 92 38 78 73
FAX: +33 4 92 38 77 83
E-mail: [log in to unmask]
WWW: http://www.inria.fr/acacia/personnel/nmatta/nada.html
Ulrich Reimer
Address: Swiss Life Information Systems Research Group
Postfach CH-8022 Zurich, Switzerland
Phone: +41 1 7114061
FAX: +41 1 7116913
E-mail: [log in to unmask]
Program committee
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Jérôme Euzenat, INRIA Rhône-Alpes (Grenoble, France)
Knut Hinkelmann, DFKI (Kaiserslautern, Germany)
Frank Maurer, University of Calgary (Canada)
Myriam Ribiere, INRIA-ACACIA (Sophia-Antipolis, France)
Rudi Studer, University of Karlsruhe, (Germany)
Mark Ackerman, University of California, Irvine (USA)
Jeff Conklin, Corporate memory systems (USA)
Carla Simone, University of Torino (Italy)
Rose Dieng, INRIA-ACACIA (Sophia-Antipolis, France)
Nada Matta, INRIA-ACACIA (Sophia-Antipolis, France)
Andreas Abecker, DFKI Gmbh (Kaiserslautern, Germany)
John Debenham, University of Technlology (Sydney, Australia)
Stefen Decker, AIFB University of Karlsruhe (Karlsruhe,
Germany)
Daniel O'Leary, University of South California (Los Angeles,
USA)
Ann Macintosh, University of Edinburgh (Edinburgh, UK)
Ulrich Reimer, Swiss Life Information Systems Research Group
( Zurich, Switzerland)
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