_________________________________________________________________ SIG KM NEWSLETTER Issue August 2002 Newsletter of the German Special Interest Group on Knowledge Management http://www.fgwm.de Subscribe or unsubscribe via http://www.fgwm.de Send contributions to: fgwm@dwm.uni-hildesheim.de _________________________________________________________________ TABLE OF CONTENTS 1. About the SIG KM Newsletter 2. Second Conference "Professional Knowledge Management", 2003 3. 4th Workshop Knowledge Management in Electronic Government, 2003 4. Atlantic Web Intelligence Conference, 2003 5. AAAI Spring Symposium on Agent-Mediated Knowledge Management, 2003 6. New Book: Knowledge Management and Organizational Memories 7. New Book: Experience Management 8. University Research Positions at Robert Gordon University 9. PhD Positon at the Research Center of Information Technologies at the University of Karlsruhe, Germany _________________________________________________________________ 1. About the SIG KM Newsletter The Special Interest Group on Knowledge Management is part of the German Society for Computer Science (GI). SIG KM addresses computer science methods for capturing, development, utilization, and maintenance of knowledge for organizations and networks of people. The focus is on scientific foundations and practical applications. The current SIG KM was newly aligned in 2001 through a merge of the former SIGs on Knowledge Management and Case-Based Reasoning. As a result of this merge the former Case-Based Reasoning Newsletter has now opened up to knowledge management in general. This is the first issue of this newsletter. The newsletter publishes - Announcements about workshops and conferences - Information about new books, web resources, or other important publications - Job offers for academic positions - All other information relevant for researches interested in knowledge management Submit contributions to the newsletter in English language to fgwm@dwm.uni-hildesheim.de _________________________________________________________________ 2. Second Conference "Professional Knowledge Management" 2003 Conference "Professional Knowledge Management" 2003 (wm2003) Luzern, Swiss April 2-4, 2003 http://wm2003.aifb.uni-karlsruhe.de The conference brings together people from industry and research to share experiences and to discuss professional applications and future visions on all aspects of knowledge management. The conference consists of invited talks, workshops, tutorials, and an industry exhibition. The following workshops will take place and now call for submissions. 1. Ontologie-basiertes Wissensmanagement (WOW 2003) 2. Learning Software Organizations (LSO 2003) 3. Integration von Wissensmanagement und Management Support Systems - Konzepte, Standards, Werkzeuge und Anwendungen 4. Wissensmanagement mit Unternehmensportalen 5. Adaptive E-Learning and Metadata 6. Experience Management (GWEM 2003) 7. Modellierung wissensintensiver Geschäftsprozesse 8. Wissenskultur - Die Integration des Menschen in System und Organisation des Wissensmanagements 9. Wissensmanagement und Philosophie 10. Bewertung von Wissensmanagementprojekten 11. Human Resource Management 12. Workshop zu den sozialen Aspekten des Wissensmanagements The workshop language is German or English, depending on the individual workshop. A detailed call for papers for each of the workshops is available at: http://wm2003.aifb.uni-karlsruhe.de The paper submission deadline for all workshops is September 30, 2002 _________________________________________________________________ 3. Call for Papers 4th Workshop Knowledge Management in Electronic Government (KMGov2003) Greece, May 26- 28, 2003 http://falcon.ifs.uni-linz.ac.at/KMGov2003/ The annual international workshops on "Knowledge Management in e-Government" bring together academics and practitioners to discuss and disseminate ideas, concepts and experiences on the many perspectives and issues that deserve at tention when developing e-Government systems and KM solutions for the public sector. Contributions should address issues like: * concepts of knowledge management and knowledge engineering for the public sector * transparency of knowledge & knowledge management in e-Government and e-Democracy * the various fields and domains of knowledge in e-Government (e.g. environment protection, legal information, citizen information, etc.) * empirical studies and analysis of different knowledge existing in the public sector * eliciting the needs for KM in the public sector * organisational learning and case-based reasoning approaches in e-Government * case studies and best practice experiences on distributed knowledge and knowledge management in e-Government * (alternative) design concepts and practices for government and virtual administrations * technical aspects on knowledge flow and information retrieval in e-Government * human factors and usability issues in knowledge management for e-Government * CSCW, Groupware and other knowledge management tools supporting knowledge working communities in the public sector * differences in KM for the public vs. private sector * implicatons of powerful knowledge management tools for the work of the public sector * studies on cost/benefit of knowledge management in the public sector * evaluation means, quality measures and feasibility studies on knowledge management systems * cultural, social and political issues on knowledge management in e-Government Please e-mail your submission (approx. 10 pages A4, single-spaced, 12 pt.) to Maria Wimmer ( mw@ifs.uni-linz.ac.at ). Important dates: - One page abstracts are due by October 15, 2002 (optional but recommended). - Full paper submissions are due by December 1, 2002. - Notification of acceptance by January 15, 2003. - Camera-ready papers (up to 12 pages) are due by March 15, 2002. The accepted papers will be published in the proceedings of the workshop by Trauner Druck under the copyright of IFIP. _________________________________________________________________ 4. Call for Papers: Atlantic Web Intelligence Conference (AWIC'03) Atlantic Web Intelligence Conference First Call for Papers 5-7 May 2003, Madrid, Spain http://nova.ls.fi.upm.es/AWIC03 The 2003 Atlantic Web Intelligence Conference brings together scientists, engineers, computer users, and students to exchange and share their experiences, new ideas, and research results about all aspects (theory, applications and tools) of Artificial Intelligence Techniques applied to Web Based Systems, and discuss the practical challenges encountered and the solutions adopted. The conference will cover a broad set of Artificial Intelligence Techniques, such as (but not restricted to): - Agents - Artificial Life - Case Based Reasoning - Fuzzy Logic - Genetic Algorithms - Genetic Programming - Knowledge Based Systems - Multivalued Logic - Neural Networks - Ontologies - Probabilistic and Evidential Reasoning - Reinforced Learning - Rough Sets - Semantic Networks applied to the corresponding problem(s) of a Web Based System such as (but not restricted to): - Art of Web Design - Automatic Web Content Design and production - Automatic Web Page Generation - Conversational Systems - Customer/User Profiling and Clustering - Electronic Marketplaces - E-mail and SMS filtering and production - Information Retrieval - Negotiation Systems - Price Dynamics and Pricing Algorithms - Purchasing Behaviour - Recommender Systems - Remembrance Systems - Security, Privacy, Integrity and Trust - Virtual Hosts and Virtual Agents - Web Browsing and Exploration - Web Merchandising, Marketing and Publishing - Web Personalisation - Web-Log Mining The ACWI'03 will be organized in collaboration with the International Conference on Web Intelligence, an official technical forum of the Web Intelligence Consortium (WIC) . Paper Submission ---------------- We solicit research and experience papers as well as research-in-progress and practitioner reports applying Artificial Intelligence techniques to a Web Based System problem in any of the areas listed above. Please include a cover page (1st page) containing paper title, authors (indicate primary contact person), address, affiliation, e-mail address, phone number, fax number, topic area of your paper. The 2nd page starts off with paper title, abstract, keywords (5-7), and text. The program committee will review each submission and judge it with respect to its originality, significance, and relevance. Accepted papers will be published in the conference proceedings. Submissions, refereeing, and all correspondence will be conducted by e-mail. Send your full paper (not to exceed 15 double-spaced pages) via e-mail as an attachment document (not part of your e-mail) either in Word, postscript, or PDF format. Send your full papers to either of the Program Co-Chairs. Note: All presented papers will be reviewed for possible journal submission. After the conference, authors of carefuly selected papers will be invited to submit extended versions of their presented papers for publication in a special issue on Web Intelligence of a journal or an edited volume to be published by Springer-Verlag (both pending of confirmation). Tutorials/Workshops/Panels -------------------------- Send your proposal (3-4 pages) to any of the Tutorials Chairs via e-mail to the conference's Secretary. It should include a description of the tutorial and an outline of the material to be presented, and the qualifications of the presenter. A tutorial is usually 3 hours long. Important Dates --------------- Abstract Submission & Tutorial Proposal 15th November 2002 Full Paper Submission 10th January 2003 Tutorial Acceptance 10th January 2003 Acceptance Notification 20th February 2003 Camera-Ready Papers & Pre-registration 15th March 2003 _________________________________________________________________ 5. Call for Papers & Participation AAAI Spring Symposium on Agent-Mediated Knowledge Management (AMKM-03) March 24-26, 2003, Stanford University Knowledge Management (KM) has been a predominant trend in business in the recent years. Not only is Knowledge Management an important field of application for AI and related techniques, such as CBR technology for intelligent lessons-learned systems, it also provides new challenges to the AI community, like context-aware knowledge delivery. Scaling-up research prototypes to real-world solutions usually requires an application-driven integration of several basic technologies, e.g., ontologies for knowledge sharing and reuse, collaboration support like CSCW systems, and personalized information services. Typical characteristics to be dealt with in such an integration are manifold logically and physically dispersed actors and knowledge sources, different degrees of formalization of knowledge, different kinds of (web-based) services and (legacy) systems, conflicts between local (individual) and global (group or organizational) goals. Agent approaches have already been successfully employed for many partial solutions within the overall picture: Agent-based workflow, cooperative information gathering, intelligent information integration, or personal information agents are established techniques in this area. In order to cope with the inherent complexity of a more comprehensive solution, the concept of Agent-mediated Knowledge Management (AMKM) deals with collective aspects of the domain in an attempt to cope with the conflict between desired order and actual behavior in dynamic environments. AMKM introduces a social layer, which structures the society of agents by defining specific roles and possible interactions between them. Topics of Interest In this symposium we invite contributions which illustrate methodological, technical and application aspects of Agent-mediated Knowledge Management. Topics of interest are - Methodology for AMKM - Analysis and Design Methods for AMKM Systems - Relationship between AMKM and General Agent-oriented Software Engineering - Relationship between AMKM and Business Engineering Methods - Functionalities in AMKM Systems - Distributed Organizational Memories - Ontology Negotiation and Ontology Lifecycle Management - Agents for Group Formation and Awareness - Agents for Supporting Social Processes (Trust, Reputation) - Agent-based Workflow in the KM Context - Collaborative Information Retrieval - Implementation of AMKM Systems - Architectures and Platforms for Socially Enabled Agents - Distributed KR&R for Socially Enabled Agents - User Modeling for Agent Mediated Social Processes - Practical application examples for (aspects of) AMKM systems - Basic Research Questions for AMKM - Benefits and reasons for the application of the agent paradigm to KM - Organizational Implications of Agent Use in KM - Formal models for AMKM Types of Submission Those interested in participating should send a three-page extended abstract describing their related work and areas of interest. Submissions may discuss work in any stage of development, from concepts and future directions to finished work. Alternatively, full papers up to 8 pages may be submitted. Full papers have to be complemented by a one-page expression of interest from those authors who intend to participate in the symposium. PDF-submissions in AAAI format should be sent to elst@dfki.de. For formatting instructions see http://www.aaai.org/Publications/instructions.html and http://www.aaai.org/Publications/Author/macros-link.html. Admission to the symposium is decided upon at least two reviews of the abstracts. Important Dates Deadline for abstracts and full papers: October 4, 2002 Notification of acceptance: November 8, 2002 Deadline for final versions of abstracts and papers: January 20, 2003 Symposium: March 24-26, 2003 Send your submission to elst@dfki.de. For latest information in the Symposium check the AMKM-03 web page. _________________________________________________________________ 6. New Book: Knowledge Management and Organizational Memories Knowledge Management and Organizational Memories edited by Rose Dieng-Kuntz and Nada Matta Kluwer Academic Publishers, Boston Hardbound, ISBN 0-7923-7659-5 July 2002, 240 pp. EUR 110.00 / USD 95.00 / GBP 67.00 See http://www.wkap.nl/prod/b/0-7923-7659-5 _________________________________________________________________ 7. New Book: Experience Management Experience Management: Foundations, Development Methodology, and Internet-Based Applications by Ralph Bergmann Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence, Vol 2432, Springer August 2002. 393 pp., Softcover ISBN 3-540-44191-3 EUR 46,00 See: http://link.springer-ny.com/link/service/series/0558/tocs/t2432.htm _________________________________________________________________ 8. University Research Positions at Robert Gordon University University Research Positions The Robert Gordon University Aberdeen, Scotland, UK The University has 20 research positions (fellowships, senior fellowships and professorships) available which will enable the recipients to develop and undertake personal programmes of research, subject to meeting University and School strategic objectives. A new, 1.5 million pounds, purpose-designed Computing Technologies Research Centre is currently under construction, and will provide a superb computing research environment, incorporating the latest innovations in technology. The newly established SmartWeb Technology Centre (www.scms.rgu.ac.uk/smartweb) will be located within the Centre. The School of Computing has recently re-organised its research into groups as follows: o Knowledge-based Systems o Computational Intelligence (including Machine Learning) o Information Retrieval and Interaction o Graphics and Image Processing o Mathematics for Computing Information on the School's research can be found at: http://www.scms.rgu.ac.uk/research. The Knowledge Based Systems group is an established research strength whose focus is the development of methodologies, technologies and software tools to facilitate the engineering of knowledge based systems. The group's interests encompass: knowledge modelling; knowledge acquisition, refinement, and maintenance; CBR systems; and the development of novel intelligent systems technologies for constraint satisfaction problems, engineering redesign, product formulation, decision support systems, Web agents, and bioinformatics. The Computational Intelligence group's work on symbolic Machine Learning is particularly directed to Bioinformatics. An important use for these intelligent technologies is to provide "smart"ness for the novel types of Web-based systems and services developed by the SmartWeb Technologies Centre. We would welcome your application for these University Research Fellowships that provide a huge opportunity to strengthen the already strong research base of the School, and give an unparalleled opportunity for the appointees to undertake computing research. To register an interest please submit to the Human Resources Department a full academic CV and an executive summary statement of how your research interests and experience would contribute to the work of one/more research groups in the School or complement existing research areas. Please quote reference number RDI-1 in any correspondence and send it to The Human Resources Department The Robert Gordon University Schoolhill Aberdeen AB10 1FR Tel: + 44 (0) 1224 262085 Fax: + 44 (0) 1224 262090 Email: staffrec@rgu.ac.uk Closing date: 30 August 2002 For further information on these posts please consult http://www.rgujobs.ac.uk/ _________________________________________________________________ 9. PhD Positon at the Research Center of Information Technologies at the University of Karlsruhe, Germany The Research Group WIM at FZI (Research Center of Information Technologies at the University of Karlsruhe) seeks applicants for a Ph.D. Position available for the EU-IST funded project SWWS (Semantic Web Enabled Web Services). Further information about the project is available at http://wim.fzi.de/wim/new_projects/#swws. Project start is September 2002. The prospective student is expected to hold a master's degree or equivalent degree (e.g. German diploma). The salary amounts to German BAT IIa (which is roughly 35.000 Euro gross income per year depending on age and marital status). Basic knowledge about the German language is a prerequisite. The project will address the development of a system that applies semantic web technology for web service discovery, configuration, comparison, and combination. In essence, the projects ultimate goal is the development of methods and tools to establish intelligent services on the Web via combining Web Service technology with Semantic Web technology (ontologies, metadata, etc.). The projects application domain is E-Business. Potential candidates may find more detailed information at http://www.fzi.de/wim or may contact and send their application to Dr. Alexander Maedche Forschungszentrum Informatik (FZI) at the University of Karlsruhe Haid-und-Neu Strasse 10-14 76131 Karlsruhe, Germany Tel.: ++49 721 9654-802 Fax.: ++49 721 9654-803 Email: maedche@fzi.de http://www.fzi.de/wim