This is a reminder that there is only one week left for the submission of extended abstracts (max 1000 words) for the KMAC2000 conference: "Knowledge Management Beyond The Hype: Looking Towards The New Millennium". Contributions from academics and practitioners are equally welcome. The conference is to be held at Aston Business School, Aston University, Birmingham, UK on 16 -19 July 2000, organised by the Knowledge Management Research Group of Aston University, in conjunction with the UK Operational Research Society. Keynote speakers are Huber, Nonaka, Parlby, Rapley. Extended abstracts should be submitted to one of the co-chairs either as 3 hard copies or (preferably) as e-mail attachments in Word for Windows format, no later than 15 November 1999. For further details see: http://knowledge-mgt.abs.aston.ac.uk/kmac2000.htm or e-mail [log in to unmask] or [log in to unmask] (Dr.) John S. Edwards Operations & Information Management Group Aston Business School Aston University Aston Triangle Birmingham B4 7ET U.K. Tel: +44 (0)121 359 3611 x5029 Fax: +44 (0)121 359 5271 %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%