SIG KM NEWSLETTER Issue April 2005 Newsletter of the German Special Interest Group on Knowledge Management www.fgwm.de Subscribe or unsubscribe via http://www.fgwm.de Send contributions to: fgwm'at'wi2.uni-trier.de TABLE OF CONTENTS 1. GI-Querschnittsfachausschuss Modellierung (in German) 2. Call for Papers:Knowledge Management / Organizational Memory Implementation and other Issues 3. Call for Papers: Workshop on Knowledge Engineering and Software Engineering 4. Call for Papers: Workshop Wissensmanagement in der Softwareentwicklung (in German) 5. Call for Papers (ICCBR-Workshop): Case-Based Reasoning in the Health Sciences 6. Call for Papers (ICCBR-Workshop): Textual Case-Based Reasoning 7. Call for Papers (ICCBR-Workshop): Computer Gaming and Simulation Environments 8. Call for Papers (ICCBR-Workshop): Workshop on Similarities - Processes - Workflows ......................................................................... *sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm* ......................................................................... 1. GI-Querschnittsfachausschuss Modellierung Liebe Mitglieder der Fachgruppe Wissensmanagement, wir möchten Sie auf den GI-Querschnittsfachausschuss Modellierung hinweisen, wo die Fachgruppe WM zusammen mit anderen Fachgruppen Mitglied ist: http://www.gi-modellierung.de/ Insbesondere können Sie sich dort unter der Rubrik "Mailingliste" in verschiedene Mailverteiler zum Thema "Modellierung" eintragen. Mit besten Grüssen Die Fachgruppenleitung ......................................................................... *sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm* ......................................................................... 2. Call for Papers:Knowledge Management / Organizational Memory Implementation and other Issues CALL FOR PAPERS Knowledge Management / Organizational Memory Implementation and other Issues Knowledge Management Systems Track Thirty-ninth Annual Hawai'i International Conference on System Sciences January 4 - 7, 2006 Hyatt Regency, Kauai Additional detail may be found on HICSS primary web site: http://www.hicss.hawaii.edu Knowledge Management Systems Track weblog: http://gcc.upb.de/HICSS Research into successful knowledge management and organizational learning implementation indicates that these initiatives necessitate a sound understanding of organizational culture and relationships, human social interactions, and communication. To create learning organization requires a cultural shift in both individuals and organizations. Before successful information systems can be implemented to support knowledge management and organizational learning in an organization, appropriate cultural foundations must be put in place. This may necessitate cultural change initiatives. This mini-track explores research into strategies and stories that relate to these cultural initiatives. In addition, the track will be used to explore the identifying of the bodies of knowledge that define the current state of research in knowledge management, organizational memory, and organizational learning. Possible Paper Topics: - Case studies of knowledge management and organizational memory systems - Effectiveness of knowledge management/organizational memory systems - Other issues affecting the design, construction, implementation, and use of knowledge management/organizational memory systems - Knowledge management/organizational memory systems for small and medium enterprises - Methodologies and processes for developing knowledge management and/or organizational memory systems=20 - Considerations of the human-machine split in organizational memory and knowledge management processes - Global issues in knowledge management, organizational memory, and organizational learning - Knowledge management strategy - Organizational effectiveness due to knowledge management/ organizational memory/ organizational learning and knowledge and organizational memory use - Knowledge management, organizational memory, and organizational learning metrics MINITRACK COORDINATORS Murray Jennex (Primary Contact) Information and Decision Science San Diego State University San Diego, CA 92182 Phone: 760-966-0548 Fax: 760-722-2668 mjennex@mail.sdsu.edu Murphjen@aol.com Stefan Smolnik Information Systems 2 European Business School International University Schloss Reichartshausen D-65375 Oestrich-Winkel, Germany Phone: +49-6723-991-248 Fax: +49-6723-991-255 Stefan.Smolnik@ebs.edu Stefan.Smolnik@notes.upb.de Susan Gasson College of Information Science and Technology Drexel University 3141 Chestnut Street Philadelphia PA 19104-2875 Phone: 215-895-6398 Fax: 215-895-2494 sgasson@cis.drexel.edu IMPORTANT DEADLINES Abstracts - Authors may contact Minitrack Chairs for guidance and indication of appropriate content at anytime. June 15 - Authors submit full papers to the Peer Review System, following Author Instructions found on the HICSS web site (www.hicss.hawaii.edu). All papers will be submitted in double column publication format and limited to 10 pages including diagrams and references. Papers undergo a double-blind review. August 15 - Acceptance/Rejection notices are sent to Authors via the Peer Review System. September 15 - Authors submit Final Version of papers At least one author of each paper must register by this date with specific plans to attend the conference to present the paper. Early Registration fee $525 applies. October 2 - General Registration fee $575 applies until December 10. December 10 - Deadline to guarantee your hotel room reservation at conference rate. - Deadline to receive conference registration refund. - Late registration fee $675 applies. 2006 CONFERENCE VENUE Hyatt Regency Kauai 1571 Poipu Road Koloa, Kauai HI 96756 1-808-742-1234 http://Kauai.hyatt.com ......................................................................... *sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm* ......................................................................... 3. Call for Papers: Workshop on Knowledge Engineering and Software Engineering Knowledge Engineering and Software Engineering http://www.ai-wuerzburg.de/research/KESE2005 Workshop at the 28th German Conference on Artificial Intelligence (KI-2005) September 11-14, 2005 Bonn, Germany Aims and Scope -------------- Intelligent systems have been successfully developed in many domains over the last years. The process of building such systems is based on techniques and tools from the fields of knowledge engineering and software engineering, which have influenced each other. Thus, declarative software engineering techniques have been established in various areas, such as knowledge systems, logic programming, constraint programming, and lately in the context of the Semantic Web. The workshop on Knowledge Engineering and Software Engineering (KESE 2005) wants to bring together researchers and practitioners from the fields of software engineering and artificial intelligence. The intention is to give ample space for exchanging latest research results as well as knowledge about practical experience. Topics of Interest ------------------ Topics of interest include but are not limited to: * AI methods in software/knowledge engineering - Engineering the Semantic Web - Knowledge and experience management - Declarative, logic-based approaches - Constraint programming - Agent-oriented software engineering * Knowledge/software engineering methods in AI - Database and knowledge base management in AI systems (knowledge systems, deductive databases) - Tools for intelligent systems - Evaluation of (intelligent) systems: verification, validation, assessment - Issues of maintenance - Process models Important Dates --------------- Deadline for Submission: July 04, 2005 Notification of Authors: July 27, 2005 Final Versions of Papers: August 10, 2005 Workshop: September 11, 2005 Submission Details ------------------ Papers should be formated according to the Lecture Notes in Informatics (LNI) guidelines (http://www.gi-ev.de/LNI) of the GI. The length of each paper should not exceed 12 pages (including figures and references). All papers must be written in English and submitted in PDF format. The submission process will be electronical (the submission link will be announced). For further questions regarding the paper submission please send an email to one of the workshop organizers. Organization ------------ The one-day workshop will be held with presentations of the accepted papers. A comfortable time slot for discussions will be given. The submitted papers will be reviewed by at least two members of the program committee. The proceedings will be published as a technical report ("Technische Berichte" of University Koblenz-Landau), and it is considered to publish a selection of extended papers after a post-workshop review process. Workshop Organizers ------------------- Dietmar Seipel, University W=FCrzburg Joachim Baumeister, University W=FCrzburg Program Committee ----------------- Klaus-Dieter Althoff, University Hildesheim Christoph Beierle, FernUniversitaet Hagen Ulrich Geske, FhG FIRST, Berlin Nicola Henze, University Hannover Otthein Herzog, University Bremen Rainer Knauf, TU Ilmenau Frank Puppe, University Wuerzburg Steffen Staab, University of Koblenz-Landau Gerhard Weiss, TU Muenchen ......................................................................... *sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm* ......................................................................... 4. Call for Papers: Workshop Wissensmanagement in der Softwareentwicklung (in German) Ankuendigung eines Workshops im Rahmen der GI Tagung Informatik 2005 Wissensmanagement in der Softwareentwicklung (WMSE05) Beschreibung ------------ Auch nach 30 Jahren kämpft das Software Engineering noch mit Problemen wie z. B. verspäteten Terminen, überzogenen Budgetplanungen und an Kundenanforderungen vorbeientwickelten Systemen. Die berühmte "Silver Bullet", oft zitiert und vermeintlich in Form von CASE-Tools, Objektorientierter Programmierung und Entwicklungsmodellen gefunden, ist nicht in Sicht. Stand zu Beginn des Software Engineerings noch die Auseinandersetzung mit gravierenden Qualitätsmängeln im Vordergrund, so erweisen sich seit den 90er Jahren zunehmend die Aufgaben des Projektmanagements als relevant. Das Software Engineering kann als eine Mischung zwischen der Softwarekonstruktion und dem Management von Softwareprojekten aufgefasst werden. Im Rahmen dieses Workshops soll der Umgang mit Wissen in der Softwareentwicklung untersucht werden. Unterschiedlichste Probleme, welche in der Software Entwicklung auftreten, könnten durch den gerichteten und dokumentierten Einsatz von Wissen gelöst werden. Die Übertragung von Wissensmanagementkonzepten auf den Bereich der Softwareentwicklung steht jedoch noch am Anfang. Konzepte, die sowohl das stillschweigende Wissen von Entwicklern zum Beispiel in Form von Programmierfähigkeiten und Architekturentwurfswissen, aber auch explizites Wissen zum Beispiel über durchgeführte Projekte, Entwicklungsaufträge und Kundenanforderungen erfassen, sind für die Verbesserung des Software Engineering von Bedeutung. Dieser Workshop soll als Forum dienen, Anwender dieser Ansätze miteinander in Kontakt zu bringen und Erfahrungen auszutauschen. Themenüberblick --------------- Ziel ist es, die Gelegenheit zu schaffen, sowohl einen Überblick über die aktuellen Forschungsansätze, als auch eine vertiefte Diskussion über spezielle Bereiche zu erhalten. Es sollen dabei sowohl aktuelle als auch zukünftige Lösungen einer Unterstützung des Software Engineering durch gezieltes Wissensmanagement vorgestellt und diskutiert werden. Mögliche Themen für Einreichungen sind im Folgenden genannt: - Softwareentwicklung als wissensintensiver Prozess - Wissensarten und -typen in der Softwareentwicklung - Prozessreifegrad: Was für Prozessverbesserungen sind durch den Einsatz von Wissensmanagement möglich? - Integration von Wissensmanagement in Softwareentwicklungsmodelle - Dokumentation von Entwicklerwissen - Techniken des Wissensmanagement mit speziellem Fokus auf die Softwareentwicklung (CBR, Experience Factory, Expertise Location, Debriefing, Technology Experience Packages) - Benötigtes Wissen für die Nutzung von Softwarekomponenten - Post-Mortem-Analyse und Fallstudien in Softwareentwicklungsprojekten - Kontrollierte Experimente und andere Techniken des Experimentellen Software Engineering zum Wissenserwerb Nicht genannte Themen, welche sich direkt auf das Wissensmanagement in der Softwareentwicklung beziehen, werden selbstverständlich auch berücksichtigt. Adressaten ---------- Dieser Workshop richtet sich sowohl an Wissenschaftler als auch an Entwickler und Anwender, die sich mit dem Themengebiet des Wissens in der Softwareentwicklung und dessen Ausprägungen beschäftigen. Fokussiert werden dabei theoretische Konzepte als auch praktische Lösungen, die idealer Weise durch Fallstudien begleitet wurden. Termine ------- Die folgenden Deadlines sind zu beachten: 29.04.2005 Einreichung von Beiträgen an die Workshopleitung 27.05.2005 Benachrichtigung über Annahme oder Ablehnung 24.06.2005 Abgabe der fertigen Druckvorlage bei der Workshopleitung Beiträge -------- Akzeptiert werden Beiträge von maximal 5 Seiten Umfang. Die Beiträge sind bis zum 29. April 2005 in elektronischer Form als PDF-Datei an mathias.uslar (at) offis.de zu senden. Die eingereichten Beiträge werden jeweils durch mindestens zwei unabhängige Gutachter aus dem Programmkomitee anonym bewertet. Akzeptierte Beiträge werden in der GI-Edition "Lecture Notes in Informatics" veröffentlicht. Beachten Sie daher bereits bei der Ersteinreichung unbedingt die Autorenrichtlinien der GI-Edition: "Lecture Notes in Informatics", die nachzulesen sind unter http://www.gi-ev.de/LNI/autorenrichtlinien/. Von mindestens einem Autoren eines jeden Beitrages wird die Bereitschaft erwartet, sich zur Tagung anzumelden und sich die gesamte Tagungsdauer freizuhalten. Workshopbeiträge werden sowohl in deutscher, als auch in englischer Sprache akzeptiert. Der Workshop selbst wird in deutscher Sprache stattfinden. Workshop-Organisation --------------------- Für Fragen und Anregungen stehen Ihnen die Organisatoren gerne bereit: Prof. Dr. Wilhelm Hasselbring, Universität Oldenburg/OFFIS Prof. Dr.-Ing. Norbert Gronau, Universität Potsdam Dipl.-Inform. Eike Thaden, OFFIS Dipl.-Inform. Mathias Uslar, OFFIS Kontaktadresse für Fragen und Einreichungen: Mathias.Uslar (at) offis.de Tel.: +49 441-9722 128 Fax: +49 441-9722 102 Programmkomitee --------------- Klaus-Dieter Althoff, Universität Hildesheim, Data and Knowledge Management Group Andrea Back, Universität St. Gallen, Institut für Wirtschaftsinformatik Andreas Birk, sd&m AG Torgeir Dingsøyr, SINTEF Norway, Informasjons- og kommunikasjonsteknologi (IKT) Norbert Gronau, Universität Potsdam, Lehrstuhl Wirtschaftsinformatik Wilhelm Hasselbring, Universität Oldenburg, Lehrstuhl für Software Engineering Franz Lehner, Universität Passau, Lehrstuhl für Wirtschaftsinformatik Ronald Maier, Universität Halle, Lehrstuhl für Wirtschaftsinformatik Markus Nick, Fraunhofer IESE Kaiserslautern, Experience-based Systems and Processes (ESP) Ralf Reussner, DFG Gruppe "Palladio", Universität Oldenburg Kurt Schneider, Universität Hannover, Lehrstuhl für Software Engineering Mathias Weske, Hasso-Plattner-Institut, Business Process Technology Unter http://wmse05.informatik.uni-oldenburg.de finden sie stets die neusten Informationen sowie den aktuellen Cfp. Für die Teilnahme am Workshop ist eine Anmeldung zur INFORMATIK 2005 erforderlich. Weitere Informationen zur INFORMATIK 2005 erhalten Sie unter www.informatik2005.de. ......................................................................... *sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm* ......................................................................... 5. Call for Papers (ICCBR-Workshop): Case-Based Reasoning in the Health Sciences Workshop on CBR in the Health Sciences The Sixth International Conference on Case-Based Reasoning (ICCBR-05) Chicago, Illinois, USA August 24, 2005 There has been an explosion of interest in health sciences applications of CBR, not only in the traditional CBR in Medicine domain, but also in bioinformatics, enabling home health care technologies, CBR integration, and synergies between CBR and knowledge discovery. This is the third in a series of exciting workshops, the first two of which were held at ICCBR-03, in Trondheim, Norway, and at ECCBR-04, in Madrid, Spain. Work from the previous workshops will be featured in an upcoming special issue of Artificial Intelligence in Medicine (Elsevier). A special issue of Computational Intelligence on CBR in the Health Sciences is also planned, to feature work from this workshop as well as other outstanding work in the field. The goals of this workshop are to: * provide a forum for identifying important contributions and opportunities for research on the application of CBR to the health sciences * promote the systematic study of how to apply CBR to the health sciences * showcase applications of CBR in the health sciences Some of the technical issues addressed, and potential outcomes of the workshop, are to identify preferred types and domains of applications, challenges specific to applying CBR to the health sciences, and guidelines to better develop CBR systems in this domain. We welcome all those interested in the problems and promise of CBR in the health sciences, whether or not they have participated in past workshops. Topics of interest include (but are not limited to): * Integration of CBR in health care environments * CBR in medical decision-support systems * CBR in medical imaging * CBR in enabling technologies for those with physical disabilities or chronic health problems * CBR and knowledge discovery in medicine and the health sciences * Cognitive approaches to applying CBR to medicine * Theoretical framework for CBR in medical reasoning * CBR in bioinformatics * CBR and evidence-based medicine Paper presentations will be interspersed with discussions in which we characterize, categorize, and discuss the benefits of specific CBR applications in the health sciences. A wrap-up round table discussion will summarize the lessons learnt, issues identified, and future directions. Submission Requirements PostScript (compressed and uuencoded) or PDF paper submissions should be formatted according to Springer LNCS format, with a maximum of ten pages. Author's instructions along with LaTeX and Word macro files are available at http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html. We will not accept papers that are exact duplicates of others, but we welcome papers that are modifications of them that focus on CBR in the Health Sciences. For example, submissions summarizing previously published material relating to this workshop's topic are welcomed. In your submissions and finalized papers, please cite the other publication and indicate clearly its relationship to this workshop's paper. Please upload submissions to the electronic submission site: http://faculty.washington.edu/ibichind/iccbr05wk/submission, or Email submissions to Isabelle Bichindaritz at ibichind@u.washington.edu. Dates * Submission Deadline: May 11, 2005 * Notification Date: June 10, 2005 * Camera-Ready Deadline: July 1, 2005 * Workshop Date: August 24, 2005 Workshop Web Site Information about this Workshop is available at http://oucsace.cs.ohiou.edu/~marling/iccbr05/workshop.html Workshop Committee Isabelle Bichindaritz (Co-Chair), University of Washington, USA, ibichind@u.washington.edu Cindy Marling (Co-Chair), Ohio University, USA, marling@ohio.edu Agnar Aamodt, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway, agnar.aamodt@idi.ntnu.no Ricardo Bellazzi, University of Pavia, Italy, riccardo.bellazzi@unipv.it Susan Craw, The Robert Gordon University, Scotland, UK, s.craw@comp.rgu.ac.uk Peter Funk, Malardalen University, Sweden, peter.funk@mdh.se Daniel Hennessy, University of Pittsburgh, USA, hennessy@cs.pitt.edu Igor Jurisica, Ontario Cancer Institute, Canada, juris@ai.utoronto.ca Jean Lieber, Loria, France lieber@loria.fr Stefania Montani, Universita del Piemonte Orientale, Italy, stefania@mfn.unipmn.it Stefan V. Pantazi, University of Victoria, Canada, spantazi@uvic.ca Petra Perner, Institute of Computer Vision and Applied Computer Sciences, Germany, ibaiperner@aol.com Rainer Schmidt, Institut fur Medizinische Informatik und Biometrie, Germany rainer.schmidt@medizin.uni-rostock.de Derek Sleeman, University of Aberdeen, Scotland, UK sleeman@csd.abdn.ac.uk ......................................................................... *sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm* ......................................................................... 6. Call for Papers (ICCBR-Workshop): Textual Case-Based Reasoning TCBR@ICCBR05 Textual Case-Based Reasoning Workshop at the 6th International Conference on Case-Based Reasoning The Sixth International Conference on Case-Based Reasoning (ICCBR-05) Chicago, Illinois, USA August 24, 2005 DESCRIPTION Textual CBR is an increasingly important CBR sub-discipline. Textual CBR techniques can facilitate rapid construction of CBR systems by reducing or eliminating the task of feature-design in domains in which raw cases consist of free or semi-structured text. Moreover, many tasks, such as question answering, are inherently language-based. For such tasks, retaining a textual case representation may be more effective than engineering a feature representation that is intermediate between text queries and text solutions. In addition, textual CBR can provide information extraction or other language analysis tools to assist in engineering feature-based cases. Accelerating growth in the number and size of incident report, lessons-learned, and other unstructured or semi-structured text collections insures that textual CBR will continue to increase in importance. The goal of this workshop will be to provide a forum for discussion of trends, developments, research issues, and practical experience in textual case-based reasoning. A particular focus of the workshop will be development of data repositories and other shared resources for research and development of textual CBR systems. Topics will include, but not be limited to, the following: * Range and scope of applicability: What characteristics of a domain determine whether it is amenable to textual CBR techniques? * Representation issues: What representations should textual cases be mapped into, and when should cases be manipulated as raw text documents? * Segmentation and case extraction. * Conversational CBR. * Reuse and adaptation of textual cases. * The relationship between textual CBR and related technologies, such as text mining, question-answering and dialogue systems, and human-language technology. * Case studies of textual CBR systems. * Indexing and retrieval of textual cases. * Automated extraction of lexical and taxonomic information from cases. * Testing and evaluation methodologies for textual CBR systems. * Corpora and repositories for textual cases. WORKSHOP FORMAT This half-day workshop will start with an invited talk on The Role of Generative Ontologies in Textual CBR, speaker is Kalyan Moy Gupta; followed by paper presentations, a panel, and a concluding discussion period among participants to delineate conclusions and potential future efforts. This workshop is open to all interested conference participants, but may be limited by available room facilities. SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS Papers MUST be submitted in Springer LNCS format, with a maximum of 10 pages. Authors' instructions along with LaTeX and Word macro files are available on the web at http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html. Extended abstracts that outline relevant research activities, publications, and goals for participation should be submitted using the same LNCS format. Please limit extended abstracts to 2 pages. Submit papers in pdf or ps formats using the following link: http://www.zerosolution.com/tcbr_at_iccbr05/ IMPORTANT DATES May 11, 2005: Deadline for workshop paper and abstract submission June 10, 2005: Notification of acceptance for workshop papers July 1, 2005: Camera ready copy due August 24, 2005: Workshop WORKSHOP COMMITTEE David Aha, NRL, US Kevin D Ashley, University of Pittsburg, US L. Karl Branting (co-chair), BAE Systems, Inc. Stefanie Bruninghaus Luc Lamontagne, Universite Laval, CA Rosina Weber (co-chair), Drexel University FOR ANY QUESTIONS, PLEASE CONTACT WORKSHOP CO-CHAIRS Dr. Rosina Weber (co-chair) College of Info Science & Technology Drexel University 3141 Chestnut Street Philadelphia, PA 19104 United States +1 215 895-2494 FAX +1 215 869 8121 Cell Rosina.Weber@drexel.edu http://www.pages.drexel.edu/~rw37/ L. Karl Branting (co-chair) BAE Systems, Inc. 6315 Hillside Court Columbia, MD 21046 United States +1 410 309-9633 ext 2069 Voice +1 410 309-9370 FAX +1 919 349-0080 Cell karl.branting@baesystems.com http://www.karlbranting.net ......................................................................... *sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm* ......................................................................... 7. Call for Papers (ICCBR-Workshop): Computer Gaming and Simulation Environments Call for Papers/Participation - Computer Gaming and Simulation Environments The Sixth International Conference on Case-Based Reasoning (ICCBR-05) Chicago, Illinois, USA August 24, 2005 Description The traditions of Case-Based Reasoning are rich in the art of story telling, and many of the story environments in modern fancy are wrought in the worlds of computer games. Increasing attention is currently being given to developing support for the creation and exercise of complex gaming and simulation environments in order to support both entertainment and serious organizational goals. As gaming and simulation environments strive for increasing realism, they are converging with traditional organizational modeling approaches for training and scenario-based decision support. The goal of this workshop is to encourage the study, development, integration, and evaluation of CBR approaches on tasks from complex games. These challenging performance tasks are characterized by huge search spaces, uncertainty, opportunities for coordination/teaming, and (frequently) multi-agent adversarial conditions. They are also often amenable to knowledge-intensive case-based (and other) learning approaches. We want to encourage dialog among researchers with a variety of backgrounds and a common interest in case-based approaches. This workshop will yield an understanding of state-of-the-art approaches for performing well in complex gaming environments, and research issues that require additional attention. Complex games make good domain environments for studying many aspects of Case-Based Reasoning research, and appropriate simulators can serve as excellent platforms for addressing challenging problems. These environments can be used to focus research and development for a variety of CBR focus areas. They can also enable comparative (and competitive) assessment within focus areas. We have particular interest in games with large search spaces (e.g., real-time and turn-based strategy games, role-playing games), which are challenging for current CBR approaches. Topics relevant to this workshop include, but are not limited to: * Case-based learning techniques for game playing * Creativity and dynamic story / gameplay generation and control * Meta-level reasoning and representations for player decision support * Reasoning in dynamic physical worlds * Interface standards for developing AI/gaming systems * Tools for integrating CBR techniques and gaming simulators * Case-based explanation in simulation environments * CBR approaches for training simulators * CBR integrated with simulators for educational applications * Adversary and adversarial strategy recognition and modeling * Case-based planning techniques for large-scale environments * Interactive tools for situation assessment * Distributed / multi-agent game AI coordination and collaboration * Social reasoning among virtual gaming agents * Representations for planning and decision making * Natural language generation/interpretation in games * Simulating character emotions * Evaluation techniques on complex gaming tasks * Lessons learned in CBR/gaming investigations * Surveys on state-of-the-art CBR/gaming approaches Challenge Problems Conducting research in gaming and simulation environments is often difficult, because integrating systems with gaming simulators can be a time-intensive process. Therefore, we will define and implement a small number of Challenge Problems in gaming simulators integrated with TIELT, a freely available test bed that researchers can use to access these simulators (along with some integrated AI systems). Participants are welcome to address these problems in their submissions, or to use TIELT as needed to otherwise support their research goals. (Depending on the level of participation, we may group contributions that involve these Challenge Problems and/or conduct a short poster session involving them.) Participation This workshop will be held on 24 August 2005 as part of the ICCBR 2005 workshop series in Chicago. This workshop is open to all interested conference participants, but may be limited by available room facilities. We plan to include an invited speaker to summarize recent work in this area, and will also invite papers from a small but diverse set of contributors to this area. The Organizing Committee will select a subset of the submitted papers for oral presentation. In addition, we will arrange a panel that addresses popular interests among the participants. Finally, time will be reserved for presenting the Challenge Problem results and a demonstration session. Submission Process We invite submissions (max 6 pages), in the same format as ICCBR'05 papers, related to the topic of this workshop. Accepted submissions will be given a time slot for oral presentation or given space in a poster session. We encourage TIELT-related submissions, even if they are limited to a description of planned work. We ask participants who do not plan to submit a paper to instead submit a one-page description of their interests (using the format mentioned above). Submissions should be emailed to the two co-chairs: * david dot aha at nrl dot navy dot mil * davils at uncc dot edu Important Dates April 15, 2005 - Announcement of Challenge Problem(s) details May 11, 2005 - Deadline for workshop paper submission May 15, 2005 - Code for Challenge Problem(s) made available June 10, 2005 - Notification of acceptance for workshop papers July 1, 2005 - Camera ready copy due August 10, 2005 - Final Challenge Problem results due August 24, 2005 - Workshop held at ICCBR-05 Organizing Committee David W. Aha, Naval Research Laboratory (USA) (Co-Chair) David C. Wilson, University of North Carolina at Charlotte (USA) (Co-Chair) Paolo Avesani, IRST (Italy) Isabelle Bichindaritz, University of Washington at Tacoma (USA) Padraig Cunningham, Trinity College (Ireland) Dan Fu, Stottler-Henke Associates, Inc. (USA) Peter Funk, Malardalen University (Sweden) Thomas Gabel, University of Osnabrueck (Germany) Ashok Goel, Georgia Institute of Technology (USA) Pedro Gonzalez Calero, Universidad Complutense de Madrid (Spain) John Hastings, University of Nebraska at Kearney (USA) Sushil Louis, University of Nevada, Reno (USA) Santi Onta–—n Villar, Spanish Council for Scientific Research (Spain) Ruck Thawonmas, Ritsumeikan University (Japan) Ian Watson, University of Auckland (New Zealand) ......................................................................... *sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm* ......................................................................... 8. Call for Papers (ICCBR-Workshop): Workshop on Similarities - Processes - Workflows Call for Papers Workshop on Similarities - Processes - Workflows to be held in conjunction with the 6th International Conference on Case-Based Reasoning (ICCBR2005) Chicago, USA, August 23.-26., 2005 Objectives ~~~~~~~~~~ Processes and workflows are current hot topics. Dealing with processes and workflows involves a number of complex tasks as e.g. planning, managing, executing and adapting them. In order to support humans in these tasks, approaches from the area of Lessons-Learned as well as CBR can provide valuable support. CBR-techniques have been applied to planning in general as well as to specific processes in particular several times. Planning problems are fairly general and most of the applications assumed the classical AI assumptions: All conditions are known, clearly stated, correct, and are not up to change. However, in the process and workflow domain this is not the case and therefore new, more flexible techniques are required. The overall goal of the workshop is to collect present approaches in order to make a step towards a systematic and unified development of techniques in this area. This will be achieved by bringing together researchers in CBR and researchers and practitioners on processes and workflows in different domains. Topic of Interest We appreciate submissions from all areas contributing to the application of Lessons-Learned and CBR approaches to process and workflow domains. Topics of interest include but are not limited to: * Business processes and workflows in different domains and contexts * Software development processes * The role of Lessons-Learned and reuse techniques * Similarity and product lines * Weak workflows * Effort estimates and confidence estimation * Reuse of workflows and processes * Supporting workflow and process adaptation, e.g. o Finding a workflow or process that is most suitable for adaptation to a given task o Workflow duration estimation o Predictive control adaptation Typical technical issues are e.g.: * Finding a good representation vocabulary * Systematic treatment of similarity assessment * Determining influence factors and using them for similarity assessment * Regarding adaptation as an approximation process with respect to the similarity measure * Extending maintenance to the similarity measure * Using different similarity measures for the same processes depending on the special task Submissions ~~~~~~~~~~~ Papers must be submitted in English language and in Springer LNCS format, which is the format required for the final camera-ready copy, with a maximum of 10 pages. Authors' instructions along with LaTeX and Word macro files are available on the web at http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html. Admission is decided upon at least two reviews of the papers. Please email a PDF or Postscript version of your contribution to iccbroc@wi2.uni-trier.de. Important Dates ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ May 11, 2005 Submission deadline for workshop contributions June 10, 2005 Notification of acceptance or reject of the papers July 1, 2005 Camera- ready copy of the papers August 23.-26., 2005 Workshops at the ICCBR2005 in Chicago, USA Program Commitee ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ * Klaus-Dieter Althoff, University of Hildesheim, Germany * Irma Becerra-Fernandez, Florida International University, USA * Mehmet Goker, PricewaterhouseCoopers, San Jose * Christiane Gresse, Universdade do Vale do Itaja, Sao Jose, Brazil * Joachim Herbst, DaimlerChrysler AG, Germany * Heiko Maus, German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI) GmbH, Germany * Kerstin Maximini, University of Trier, Germany * Sascha Schmitt, SAP, Germany * Markus Strohmaier, Know-Center, Austria * Barbara Weber, University of Innsbruck, Austria Organizing Committee ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Michael M. Richter TU Kaiserslautern, FB Informatik, 67653 Kaiserslautern, Germany. richter@informatik.uni-kl.de Harald Holz German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI) GmbH, Erwin-Schroedinger-Strasse 57, 67663 Kaiserslautern, Germany, http://www.dfki.uni-kl.de/~holz/ Rainer Maximini, University of Trier, Department of Business Information Systems II, 54286 Trier, Germany, http://www.wi2.uni-trier.de/de/cms/staff/rmaximi Armin Stahl, German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI) GmbH, Erwin-Schroedinger-Strasse 57, 67663 Kaiserslautern, Germany, http://www.iupr.org/~stahl Rosina Weber, College of Information Science and Technology, Drexel University, 3141 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA, http://www.pages.drexel.edu/~rw37/ ......................................................................... *sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm* .........................................................................