[Apologies for multiple submissions]
PAKM2000:
Third International Conference on
Practical Aspects of Knowledge Management
30-31 October, 2000
Basel, Switzerland
http://research.swisslife.ch/pakm2000
-- Call for Papers --
Sponsored and supported by:
ACM SIGGROUP (approval pending)
SGAICO (Swiss Group for Artificial Intelligence and
Cognitive Science)
Special Interest Group "Knowledge Management"
of the German Informatics Society
Rentenanstalt / Swiss Life
Aims and scope of the conference
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To succeed in the accelerating business pace of the "internet age",
companies 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 as well as the proper business side.
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,
PAKM2000 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
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The overall theme of PAKM2000 are 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 and not 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 situatedness 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:
* Building and maintaining an inventory of the knowledge available
in the organization (with people, in files, databases,
documents)
o setting up appropriate communication links between people,
groups, departments to communicate what skills and knowledge
they have
o meta information systems
* Bringing the knowledge existing somewhere inside or outside
the organization to those places where it is needed
o aligning organizational structures towards a knowledge
sharing community
o group support systems
o decision support systems, just-in-time knowledge delivery
systems, electronic performance support systems
o information retrieval: interest profiles,
information filtering, automatic text understanding,
searching the world wide web, personal web agents
* Making sure that available knowledge is reused and not reinvented
o documentation and annotation of knowledge to facilitate its
being assimilated by people who did not provide it
o ontologies and enterprise data models to provide a common
terminological framework
o automatic text summarization to facilitate selection of
relevant texts
o group support systems
o automatic indexing and abstracting of texts
* Capturing and securing knowledge to avoid it from getting lost
o designing business processes such that knowledge generated
in ongoing work is easily and immediately captured
o implementing lessons learned processes
o organizational memories: knowledge integration,
knowledge sharing, versioning, contexts,
high-level modelling languages for non-computer scientists
o knowledge extraction from texts
* Developing new knowledge
o organizational measures for supporting and stimulating
innovation
o information systems for supporting creative processes
(exploration of data spaces, visualization tools, etc.)
o data mining (from data, text, and the web)
Important dates
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Submission of papers by June, 30, 2000
Acceptance notices mailed by August, 18, 2000
Final, camera-ready papers due by September, 22, 2000
Submission format
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Full papers may have up to 12 pages, short papers up to 6 pages,
both in an 11 point font and single-spaced. We accept either
electronic submission in Postscript, PDF or Word format, or paper
submissions (in 4 copies) to the following address:
Ulrich Reimer
Swiss Life
Information Systems Research Group
Postfach
CH-8022 Zurich, Switzerland
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Special journal issue
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Selected papers from the conference will be considered for
publication in a special issue of the International Journal of
Intelligent Systems in Accounting, Finance and Management.
Program committee
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Co-chairs:
Dirk Mahling (Primix, Inc., USA)
Ulrich Reimer (Swiss Life, Switzerland)
Members:
V. Richard Benjamins (Univ. of Amsterdam, The Netherlands; Intelligent
Software Components (iSOCO) S.A., Spain )
Manfred Jeusfeld (University of Tilburg, The Netherlands)
Frank Maurer (University of Calgary, Canada)
Brian (Bo) Newman (Founder, Knowledge Management Forum, USA)
Daniel O'Leary (University of Southern California, USA)
Steffen Staab (University of Karlsruhe, Germany)
Rudi Studer (University of Karlsruhe, Germany)
Ulrich Thiel (GMD-IPSI, Germany)
Gertjan van Heijst (CIBIT, The Netherlands)
Georg von Krogh (University of St. Gallen, Switzerland)
Karl M. Wiig (Knowledge Research Institute, USA)
Michael Wolf (UBS, Switzerland)
-- to be extended --
Organization
Ulrich Reimer (Swiss Life, Switzerland)
Conference secretariat
Annemarie Nicolet (SI, Switzerland)
The Venue
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Basel, a city canton with nearly 200,000 people and 2000 years of
history, is located at the elbow of the Rhine on the borders of
France and Germany. It is easily reached by train, air (EuroAirport
Basel-Mulhouse-Freiburg), or car.
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