SIG KM NEWSLETTER Issue February 2004 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@dwm.uni-hildesheim.de TABLE OF CONTENTS 1. Call for Workshop Proposals: 3rd Conference Professional Knowledge Management: Experiences and Visions (WM'2005) 2. Call for Papers: 2nd Workshop on Knowledge Management for Distributed Agile Processes: Models, Techniques, and Infrastructure (KMDAP 2004) 3. Call for Papers: First European Workshop on Chance Discovery (EWCD-04) 4. Call for Papers: Agent-Mediated Knowledge Management (AMKM-04) 5. Call for Papers: COOP'04 Workshop on Knowledge Interaction and Knowledge Management 6. Call for Papers: 7th European Conference on Case-Based Reasoning (ECCBR'2004) 7. Call for Papers: 3rd International Conference on Ontologies, Databases, and Applications of Semantics for Large Scale Information Systems 8. Call for Papers: 14th International Conference on Knowledge Engineering and Management EKAW 2004 9. Call for Papers: ECAI'2004 Workshop on Knowledge Management and Organizational Memories 10. Call for Papers: 27th German Conference on Artificial Intelligence ......................................................................... *sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm* ......................................................................... 1. Call for Workshop Proposals: 3rd Conference Professional Knowledge Management: Experiences and Visions (WM'2005) CALL FOR WORKSHOP PROPOSALS 3rd Conference Professional Knowledge Management: Experiences and Visions WM'2005 April 10-13, 2005, Kaiserslautern, Germany http://wm2005.iese.fraunhofer.de Submission Deadline: April 15, 2004 CONFERENCE PROFESSIONAL KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT -------------------------------------------- Professional Knowledge Management is imperative for the success of enterprises. One decisive factor for the success of KM projects is the coordination of elements such as corporate culture, enterprise organization, human resource management, and information and communication technology. The adequate alignment and balancing of these factors is currently little understood - especially the role of IT, which is often regarded only as an implementation tool, though it can be a driver by making new KM solutions possible. The conference will bring together representatives of practical and research fields for discussing experiences, professional applications and visions through presentations, workshops, tutorials, and an accompanying industry exhibition. The main focus of the conference is placed on the realization of KM strategies with the aid of innovative IT solutions, such as intelligent access to organizational memories, or integration of business processes and KM. Also of interest are holistic/integrative attempts of KM that deal with issues raised by the integration of people, organizations, and IT. WORKSHOP PROPOSALS ------------------ We invite proposals for workshops to be held at the WM'2005 conference. A workshop should focus on a limited knowledge management topic and should enable the discussion of new ideas, the exchange of experiences, or the presentation of new results. Workshops can last from half a day to 1,5 days. Workshops should not be organized as a mini-conference; instead, plenty of time should be allocated for discussions. The workshop language can be either English or German. It is intended to publish all accepted workshop contributions in a joined proceedings volume within the series "Lecture Notes in Computer Science" of Springer. For each workshop, a maximum number of pages will be allocated. Depending on the workshop language, the published papers can be either in English or German. Workshop proposals should have a length of three pages and should address the following issues: - Workshop title - Description of the topic (this section can be further used for the call-for-papers) - Explanation of why the topic is important - Characterization of the intended audience and, if possible, list of potential participants - Duration of the workshop - Description of the workshop structure. Please indicate the balance between time allocated for presentations and time allocated for discussions. - Workshop language - Please explain how the presentations will be selected by the organizers. - Name, postal addresses, e-mail addresses, telephone and fax numbers of the workshop organization committee. - A short statement concerning the organizer's previous experience in organizing workshops. Workshop proposals must be submitted electronically, via e-mail (Postscript or PDF) in German or English language by April 15, 2004 to the following address: wm2005@iese.fraunhofer.de If a workshop proposal is accepted, the workshop organizers are fully responsible for the further organization. Particularly, the organizers will write and distribute the call for papers, they will create and maintain a web page for the workshop, evaluate and select the workshop contributions, and ensure the in-time delivery of the properly formatted camera-ready copies of the papers. The workshop organizes must point out in the call-for-papers that all workshop participants have to register for the WM2005 conference. IMPORTANT DATES --------------- All workshops will have to follow the timetable shown below: Submission of workshop proposals: April 15,2004 Notification of acceptance or rejection of the proposal: May 24,2004 Call-for-papers and Web page due: June 11,2004 Submission deadline for workshop contributions: September 17,2004 Notification of acceptance or rejection of the papers: October 25,2004 Camera-ready copy of the papers due: December 2,2004 Workshops at WM2005 in Kaiserslautern, Germany: April 10.-13,2005 CONFERENCE CHAIRS ----------------- - PD Dr. Klaus-Dieter Althoff, Fraunhofer Institute for Experimental Software Engineering, Kaiserslautern - Prof. Dr. Andreas Dengel, German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence, Kaiserslautern WORKSHOP ORGANIZATION --------------------- - Prof. Dr. Ralph Bergmann, University of Hildesheim CONFERENCE MANAGEMENT --------------------- - Markus Nick, Fraunhofer Institute for Experimental Software Engineering, Kaiserslautern - Dr. Thomas Roth-Berghofer, German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence, Kaiserslautern - Christine Harms, ccHa ......................................................................... *sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm* ......................................................................... 2. Call for Papers: 2nd Workshop on Knowledge Management for Distributed Agile Processes: Models, Techniques, and Infrastructure (KMDAP 2004) CALL FOR PAPERS 2nd Workshop on Knowledge Management for Distributed Agile Processes: Models, Techniques, and Infrastructure (KMDAP 2004) (held in conjunction with WETICE 2004) June 14-16, 2004, Modena, Italy http://www.dwm.uni-hildesheim.de/homes/schaaf/WETICE04/ Knowledge Management (KM) is currently receiving increasing attention in diverse areas such as medicine and systems engineering. Here, special focus is put on process-oriented Knowledge Management, where abstract activity descriptions serve as the primary means to capture, organize, and distribute knowledge items that are relevant during individual, actual process steps. Most approaches developed so far rely on static processes as well as on documents indexed by formalized meta-data and additional ontologies. However, these approaches are inadequate for highly dynamic and volatile processes, whose steps cannot be planned in advance, and during which new, unanticipated "knowledge needs" frequently arise. Such processes handle mostly informal documents and rely on face-to-face communication between participants. Typical examples of such processes occur in domains like medical diagnostics and disaster management. TOPICS OF INTEREST ------------------ The main goals of this workshop are to bring together practitioners and researchers from the areas of Knowledge Management and Agile Processes from different domains to discuss the current state of ongoing research efforts and to share their practical experiences with adaptation of modern Knowledge Management techniques by agile teams. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following areas * How to remain agile while applying KM techniques relying on explicit knowledge representation? * KM techniques that help making processes more agile * KM to improve agile processes (self-adaptive processes) * Collaborative ontology construction and mediation * Knowledge assets of agile teams * Knowledge elicitation in distributed agile processes * Proactive knowledge distribution * Cooperative adaptation of knowledge in agile processes * Semantic Web technologies aiding agile processes * Peer-to-Peer Knowledge Management In the context of this workshop, our notion of distribution is a wide one, encompassing any situation where direct face-to-face communication between (current or former) process participants is somehow inhibited. Concerning the notion of agility, a number of interpretations have been developed by different industries (e.g., see [2] for the Software Industry). For the purpose of this workshop, we adopt the encompassing view from [1], where business agility is defined as "the ability to demonstrate flexible, efficient and swift responses to changing circumstances by maximizing [the utilization of] physical and human resources." 1. Gartner UK Ltd.: "The Age of Agility", Report prepared by Gartner for BT, July 2002 2. http://www.agilemanifesto.org PAPER SUBMISSIONS ----------------- Papers (maximum: 6 pages in 10-pt Times, single-spaced) can be submitted for review in PDF or RTF format. Papers longer than 6 pages will not be reviewed. Please submit your papers via e-mail to Andrea Freßmann E-mail: fressmann@dwm.uni-hildesheim.de Authors will be requested to take part in the peer review process and will be asked to review other submissions. In order to ensure an anonymous review process, please try to avoid including any information in the body of the paper or references that would identify the authors or their institutions. Instead, please provide the names and contact information of the authors in your submission e-mail. This information can also be added to the final camera-ready version for publication at a later stage. PUBLICATIONS ------------ Accepted papers will be published in the post-conference proceedings (publisher: the IEEE Computer Press). Final camera-ready copies may not exceed six pages and must conform to the IEEE Computer Society Press Proceedings Author Guidelines, http://www.computer.org/cspress/instruct.htm Each accepted paper should have at least one author register and present the paper at WETICE-2004 to get the paper published in the Proceedings. IMPORTANT DATES --------------- Deadline for paper submission: March 1, 2004 Decision to paper authors: April 12, 2004 Final version of accepted papers due to IEEE: May 21, 2004 Advance Registration discount by: May 21, 2004 WETICE-2004 Workshops and On-site registration: June 14-16, 2004 TENTATIVE PROGRAM COMMITTEE --------------------------- Klaus-Dieter Althoff Fraunhofer Institute for Experimental Software Engineering (IESE) Ralph Bergmann University of Hildesheim Institute for Mathematics and Applied Computer Science Mattheo Bonifacio ITC-IRST, Trento, Italy Ansgar Bernardi German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI), GmbH Knowledge Management Group Fred Freitas Universidade Católica de Santos, Brasil Andrea Freßmann University of Hildesheim Institute for Mathematics and Applied Computer Science Mehmet Göker Kaidara Software Inc. Harald Holz University of Kaiserslautern, Department of Computer Science Eduardo Mena Universidad de Zaragoza, Spain Charles Petrie Stanford University, Stanford Networking Research Center (SNRC), USA Alun Preece University of Aberdeen, United Kingdom Martin Schaaf University of Hildesheim Institute for Mathematics and Applied Computer Science Steffen Staab University of Karlsruhe (TH), Institute AIFB Markus Strohmaier Know-Center Graz, Wissensmanagement & Unternehmensgedächtnisse Heiner Stuckenschmidt Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam Ingo Timm Center for Computing Technologies, University of Bremen Rosina Weber College of Information Science and Technology, Drexel University, Philadelphia, USA ......................................................................... *sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm* ......................................................................... 3. Call for Papers: First European Workshop on Chance Discovery (EWCD-04) CALL FOR PAPERS First European Workshop on Chance Discovery (EWCD-04) We are pleased to invite submissions to the First European Workshop on Chance Discovery (EWCD-04) that will take place in August in Valencia, Spain, as part of the European Conference of Artificial Intelligence 2004. http://www.dsic.upv.es/ecai2004/ Brief description of the workshop content ----------------------------------------- In a number of different areas, researchers in Artificial Intelligence became recently interested in events or situations that affect human decision making in that they are viewed as opportunities or risks. A chance is such a rare event or a situation, which provides opportunities or risks for human decision making or problem solving. Noticing such an event is described as discovery of a chance. Therefore Chance Discovery can be characterized in terms of - becoming aware of a chance and - explaining its significance. In this sense, the discovery of a chance is emphasized in contrast to discovery by chance. The essential aspect of a chance is that it can be the seed of new and significant changes in the near future. Generally this means that being aware of a rare or novel important event without ignoring it as noise is essential for future success. Therefore we invite contributions of theories and methodologies on - Identifying rare or novel events - Becoming aware of significant events - Predicting future trends - Integrating knowledge of significant events with existing knowledge - Explaining and evaluating events where decision makers still have to become aware of its significance (hidden event). These contributions may be made from but not restricted to perspectives that are informed by Artificial Intelligence, Economics, Operation Research, Mathematics and Psychology. Of particular interest are - the analysis of human behaviour and complex systems - the analysis of interactions between individuals or groups and the environment, - the development of intelligent support tools for Chance Discovery based on this interaction analysis - the development of the logical foundations of Chance Discovery, and -identifying the characteristics of a chance. Further more we invite applications of these theories and methods. Examples of previous applications include - intelligent Web design and Web search, - computer-based training, and - team-work support. - creativity support - product design, - sales support, - side-effects of new drugs, - forecasting, - marketing, All these applications have in common that decision-makers became aware of the significance of a rare event and did not ignore it as noise. They rather used it to create new trends that were more effective than predictions, which were based exclusively on past observational patterns. Chance Discovery has been well established at conferences and with a number of workshops and publications in the U.S. and Asia: - Three international workshops (in cooperation with the Annual Conference of the Japanese Society of AI 2001, the Pacific Rim International AI conference 2002, and the 10th International Conference on Human Computer Interaction 2003), - The AAAI Fall Symposium of Chance Discovery 2003, Cape Cod. - Several international conferences with special sessions on Chance Discovery. - Two special issues of the New Generation Computing journal - A book "Chance Discovery" edited by Yukio Ohsawa and Peter McBurney, New York: Springer Publishers. - Additional books are already in preparation. - The Chance Discovery Consortium has been founded in Japan and is currently being extended to Europe In particular the AAAI and PRICAI workshop have highlighted the considerable interest of the AI community in this topic. Important dates: --------------- 26 March 2004 Submission deadline 30 April 2004 Notifying authors about acceptance 28 May 2004 Submitting camera-ready proceedings to the Chance Discovery Workshop Chair Program Committee: ------------------ Ruediger Oehlmann, UK (Co-Chair) Kingston University London School of Comp. and Inform. Systems Cognitive Science Laboratory Penrhyn Road Kingston upon Thames. KT1 2EE, UK email: R.Oehlmann@kingston.ac.uk Akinori Abe, Japan (Co-Chair) ATR Intelligent Robotics & Communication Labs. 2-2-2, Hikaridai, Seika-cho Soraku-gun, Kyoto 619-0288 JAPAN email : ave@ultimaVI.arc.net.my Klaus-Dieter Althoff, Germany althoff@iese.fhg.de David Bergner, USA bergner@stanford.edu dbergner@mail.arc.nasa.gov Renate Fruchter, USA fruchter@stanford.edu David E. Goldberg, USA deg@uiuc.edu Henrik J. Jensen, UK h.jensen@imperial.ac.uk Chengyu Krystian Ji, Australia krystianj@cse.unsw.edu.au John Kontos, Greece ikontos2003@yahoo.com Lorenzo Magnani, Italy lmagnani@cc.gatech.edu Peter McBurney, UK p.j.mcburney@csc.liv.ac.uk Yukio Ohsawa, Japan osawa@gssm.otsuka.tsukuba.ac.jp Enrico Plaza i Cervera, Spain enric@iiia.csic.es Hiroko Shoji, Japan hiroko@da2.so-net.ne.jp Katsutoshi Yada, Japan yada@ipcku.kansai-u.ac.jp Ikuko Yairi, Japan yairi@crl.go.jp Place and time -------------- The exact place and time for the workshop will be announced as soon as they become available. ECAI will take place in the Campus of the Universidad Politenica de Valencia in Valencia, Spain, from August 22 to August 27. Paper format, paper limit, and submission address ------------------------------------------------- The paper format should follow the LNCS style guidelines of Springer Publishers: http://www.springeronline.com/sgw/cda/frontpage/0,10735,5-164-2-72376-0,00.html The paper should not exceed 10 pages and should be sent by email before the submission deadline to the following address: Ruediger Oehlmann, UK (Co-Chair) Kingston University London School of Computing and Information Systems Cognitive Science Laboratory Penrhyn Road Kingston upon Thames. KT1 2EE, UK email: R.Oehlmann@kingston.ac.uk We hope to receive many submissions of high quality. In this case we intend to publish selected papers as a book. ......................................................................... *sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm* ......................................................................... 4. Call for Papers: Agent-Mediated Knowledge Management (AMKM-04) CALL FOR PAPERS ECAI 2004 Workshop Agent-Mediated Knowledge Management (AMKM-04) August 22-27, 2004, Universidad Politecnica de Valencia (Spain) http://www.dfki.uni-kl.de/~elst/AMKM2004/index.html Deadlines & Submission Format ----------------------------- Submission of papers 01. April 2004 Author notification 01. May 2004 Camera ready papers 01. June 2004 We invite the electronic submission of technical papers adhering to the ECAI main conference layout instructions which can be found here: http://www.dsic.upv.es/ecai2004/cfp/style/style.html Full papers should have a length of up to 10 pages and should be sent in PDF format by e-mail to elst@dfki.de. Those interested in participating without a full paper should send a two-page extended abstract or statement of interest describing their AMKM-related work and areas of interest. Statements of interest may discuss work in any stage of development, from concepts and future directions up to finished work. Please use the full paper template also for preparing extended abstracts. We explicitly invite system demonstrations which might be announced / accompanied by either a full paper or an extended abstract. Motivation ---------- Knowledge Management (KM) is a predominant trend in business in the recent years. It is not only an important field of application for AI and Semantic Web technologies, such as CBR for Intelligent Lessons-Learned Systems, or Text Classification for Information Push services; 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 plus collaboration support like CSCW systems, and personalized information services. Typical characteristics of 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 technology has 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 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. In this workshop we invite contributions which illustrate methodological, technical and application aspects of Agent-mediated Knowledge Management. Topics of interest include: * Methodology for AMKM o Analysis and Design Methods for AMKM Systems o Relationship between AMKM and Agent-oriented Software Engineering o Relationship between AMKM and Business Engineering Methods * Functionalities in AMKM Systems o Distributed Organizational Memories o Ontology Negotiation and Ontology Lifecycle Management o Agents for Group Formation and Awareness o Agents for Supporting Social Processes (Trust, Reputation) o Agent-based Workflow in the KM Context o Collaborative Information Retrieval o Emergent Semantics and Pervasive Semantics * Implementation of AMKM Systems o Architectures and Platforms for Socially Enabled Agents o Distributed KR&R for Socially Enabled Agents o Semantic Web methods for AMKM o User Modeling for Agent Mediated Social Processes o Human-Computer Interaction in AMKM (Ontology Visualization, Web Design Guidelines for Knowledge Navigation, User Interfaces for KM) o Practical application examples for (aspects of) AMKM systems * Basic Research Questions for AMKM o Benefits and reasons for the application of the agent paradigm to KM o Organizational implications of agent use in KM (e.g., with respect to risks and responsibilities) o Formal models for AMKM o Relationships to other research paradigms like P2P or Grid computing, Semantic Web and Semantic Web Services, or mobile computing and mobile KM o Evaluation of KM and AMKM systems Predecessor Event ----------------- The first AMKM workshop (AMKM-2003) was organized as a AAAI Spring Symposium at Stanford University. Revised and additional papers (including an introduction / overview on AMKM) are available as Volume 2926 of the Springer LNAI Series. Workshop Organizers ------------------- Andreas Abecker Forschungszentrum Informatik (FZI) Karlsruhe Haid-und-Neu-Str. 10-14, D-76131 Karlsruhe, Germany Phone: ++49 (0)721 9654 802 Fax: ++49 (0)721 9654 803 E-Mail: abecker@fzi.de Ludger van Elst German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI) GmbH Knowledge Management Department Postfach 2080, D-67608 Kaiserslautern, Germany Phone: ++49 (0) 631 205 3474 Fax: ++49 (0) 631 205 3210 E-Mail: elst@dfki.de Virginia Dignum University of Utrecht, Intelligent Systems Group P.O. Box 80089, 3508 TB Utrecht, The Netherlands Phone: ++31 (0) 30 253 4432 Fax: ++31 (0) 30 351 3791 E-Mail: virginia@cs.uu.nl (preliminary) Program Committee ------------------------------- Juergen Angele, University of Innsbruck & Ontoprise GmbH Paolo Bouquet, University of Trento Rose Dieng, INRIA, Sophia-Antipolis Fabien Gandon, INRIA Sophia Antipolis Renata Guizzardi, University of Twente Grigoris Mentzas, National Technical University of Athens Pietro Panzarasa, Queen Mary University of London Anna Perini, ITC-IRST York Sure, University of Karlsruhe Walt Truszkowski, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center Gerard Vreeswijk, University of Utrecht ......................................................................... *sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm* ......................................................................... 5. Call for Papers: COOP'04 Workshop on Knowledge Interaction and Knowledge Management CALL FOR PAPERS COOP'04 Workshop on Knowledge Interaction and Knowledge Management French Riviera - May 11, 2004 http://tech-web-n2/coop/callworkshop.htm Knowledge management is often studied from the point of view of knowledge as an object which has to be clarified, archived, spread, shared. But there is another point of view in which we want to focus during this workshop, which is knowledge in action, or "knowing", instead of "knowledge", as (Cook, Brown, 1999) or (Pfeffer, Sutton, 1999) make the distinction. We thus fit in a historical current initiated by (Bannon, Kuutti, 1996), who used to distinguish a passive and an active or constructuve view of Organizational Memory. We could then say that we adopt a Social approach of Knowledge Management (Erickson, Kellogg, 2001), contrary to other works which deal with information problems. In other words we could claim stopping to think in terms of knowledge management, and starting to think in terms of supporting the larger social context in which knowledge management is embedded. In this pragmatic knowing perspective, we are interested in knowledge used in action, or knowledge as a part of action. Conversations take an important role in knowledge sharing (Fitzpatrick, 1996), and could be analyzed as a source for sense-making, or a means for apprenticeship. Results of interaction have also to be analyzed and classified. We then propose to deal with interaction and knowledge management by interesting in three kinds of problematics: - Interaction as a means for sense-making: storytelling, language structuring, social distribution across a network, taxonomy of interaction acts... - Interaction as a learning process, as Lave and Wenger noted in communities of practice (Lave, Wenger, 1991): knowledge elaboration in a community, knowledge reuse from a community to an other, ... - Boundary objects of interaction: shared binders which structure apprenticeship, Computer-Mediated-Communication tools, role of online multi-users environments within which users can engage socially with one another, structuring level of these environments, social functions of documents as mediators of social activity (Brown, Duguid, 1995), text indexation, ontologies, Socio-Semantic Web, annotation tools, ... We invite authors to submit a long abstract (4 pages), indicating how their work contributes to one of these three problematics listed above. We encourage submissions both from computer and human science disciplines (CSCW, Organization science, Linguistic, Sociology, ...), which could be equally based on empirical studies, conceptual statements, or tool proposition, for instance. The workshop is aimed to be a high communicative meeting place. So one of the main goals is to bring together researchers working on similar topics, but from different communities (sociology, linguistic, and organization science as well as in computer science). In order to achieve these goals, talks should be no longer than 10 minutes. Each author will be encouraged to read another accepted paper and to comment on it after the original talk was given. That gives a thesis and an antithesis which will help to start the discussion. If some topics turn out to be of high interest, we will schedule working groups to allow further discussions. The presentations will be gathered by themes. At the end of each theme, there will be a general discussion. Important dates --------------- Submission deadline:February, 23, 2004 !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Notification of acceptance:March, 22, 2004 Camera (Web)-ready (authors) April, 12, 2004 Camera (Web)-ready (organizers)April, 26, 2004 Workshop:May, 11, 2004 Submission format ----------------- Contributions are invited in the form of a long abstract paper (max. 4 pages). The title page should include name, affiliation, e-mail address of the contributor(s), and finally one of the three problematics listed above(sense-making, learning, boundary objects). Papers will be judged on their contribution to the discussion, and some will be selected for presentation. Papers have to be submitted electronically (in Word, HTML or PDF) to myriam.lewkowicz@utt.fr. The proceedings will be published on the WWW and as a report. Workshop co-chairs ------------------ Myriam Lewkowicz (Technical University of Troyes) E-mail: myriam.lewkowicz@utt.fr Volker Wulf (University of Siegen and Fraunhofer FIT) E-mail : volker.wulf@fit.fraunhofer.de Program committee ----------------- M. Baker, Universite de Lyon2 (Lyon, France) C. Brassac, Université Nancy2 (Nancy, France) A. Giboin, INRIA (Sophia-Antipolis, France) R. Klamma, RWTH (Aachen, Deutschland) M. Klann, Fraunhofer FIT (Sankt Augustin, Deutschland) M. Marcoccia, UTT (Troyes, France) V. Pipek, University of Oulu (Oulu, Finland) E. Soulier, UTT (Troyes, France) M. Rohde, International Institute for Socio-Informatics (Bonn, Deutschland) M. Zacklad, UTT (Troyes, France) ......................................................................... *sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm* ......................................................................... 6. Call for Papers: 7th European Conference on Case-Based Reasoning (ECCBR'2004) CALL FOR PAPERS 7th European Conference on Case-Based Reasoning Madrid, Spain 30 August - 2 September 2004 http://www.idt.mdh.se/eccbr/ ECCBR 2004 is the 7th European Conference on Case-Based Reasoning following a series of successful European conferences/workshops. This four-day conference will be held in Madrid, Spain, hosted by Complutense University. The ECCBR Industry Day starts the program, followed on the second day by workshops devoted to specific areas of interest to the CBR community. The remaining two days feature invited talks, presentations and posters on both theoretical and applied research in CBR. Announcements concerning these events will be posted at the website. Submission Topics ----------------- The ECCBR 2004 Program Committee invites submissions of original research and application papers on all aspects of Case-Based Reasoning. Example submission areas include, but are not limited to: * Case and knowledge representation, acquisition, modeling, visualization, maintenance and management for CBR * CBR system design issues (e.g., indexing, retrieval, similarity assessment, and adaptation) * System architectures and integration of CBR with other methods * Collaborative agent architectures involving CBR * Learning and knowledge acquisition for CBR knowledge containers * Analogical reasoning, cognitive models, and creative reasoning approaches based on CBR * Formal, empirical, and psychological evaluations of CBR models and systems * Methodologies for developing CBR applications * Lazy- (case/instance/memory-based) learning methods * Case-based approaches to planning, scheduling, design and robot navigation * Applications of CBR (e.g., in customer support, education, electronic commerce, pattern recognition, image processing, legal reasoning, manufacturing and medicine) * Adaptive interfaces, user modeling, customization and personalization using CBR * CBR-related areas (e.g., corporate memories, decision support, information retrieval, knowledge discovery, semantic web, data mining, knowledge and experience management, software reuse and engineering redesign) * Computer models of case-based argumentation * Intelligent tutoring systems teaching or employing CBR Papers may be accepted for presentation as talks, or as posters. Proceedings ----------- All accepted papers will appear in the conference proceedings published by Springer Verlag in the Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence series (www.springer.de/comp/lncs/index.html). Important Dates --------------- March 5, 2004 Paper Submission Deadline April 30, 2004 Acceptance notification May 21, 2004 Camera-ready copy due Conference Chair ---------------- Pedro A. Gonzalez Calero, Univ. Complutense de Madrid, Spain (pedro@sip.ucm.es) Peter Funk, Mälardalen University, Sweden (peter.funk@mdh.se) Workshop chair -------------- Pablo Gervás, Univ. Complutense de Madrid, Spain (pgervas@sip.ucm.es) Kalyan Moy Gupta (gupta@aic.nrl.navy.mil) Industry Day Chair ------------------ Francicsco Martin, iSOCO (fmartin@cs.orst.edu) Mehmet Goker, Kaidara (mgoker@kaidara.com) Review Criteria --------------- Submissions must be identified as either *research* or *application* papers and will be reviewed using criteria appropriate to their category. Review criteria for research papers will include scientific significance, originality, technical quality, and clarity. Review criteria for application papers will include practical or economic significance, potential to lead to more powerful technology, technical quality, and clarity. Submission Procedure -------------------- Authors must submit a full paper plus a title page by the submission date. The title page must include: name(s) of the author(s); address, phone number, fax number and email of the contact person; title and abstract of the paper; a set of keywords; a statement whether the submission is to be reviewed as a research paper or an application paper. The title page, the abstract and the text of the paper must be submitted electronically through the ECCBR web site. Details will follow. We will acknowledge receipt of your paper. If you fail to receive an acknowledgment within two days of submission, please contact eccbr@idt.mdh.se immediately. Note: Since Springer s LNCS/LNAI series is now published in parallel in both paper and electronic formats all papers submitted to ECCBR2004 must be submitted in electronic format. Submission Format ----------------- Papers MUST be submitted in Springer LNCS format, which is the format required for the final camera ready copy, with a maximum of 15 pages. Authors instructions along with LaTeX and Word macro files are available on the web at http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html. All authors of accepted papers must transfer their copyrights to Springer. Multiple Submission Policy -------------------------- Papers submitted to other conferences or journals must state this fact on the title page. If a paper will appear in another conference or journal, it must be withdrawn from ECCBR2004 before 30 April 2004. This restriction does not apply to papers appearing in proceedings of specialized workshops. Author Registration Policy -------------------------- In order for a paper to appear in the proceedings, at least one of the authors must register for the conference by the deadline for camera-ready copy (21 May 2004). Program Committee Members ------------------------- Agnar Aamodt (Norwegian University of Science and Technology) David W. Aha (Naval Research Laboratory, USA) Klaus-Dieter Althoff (Fraunhofer IESE, Germany) Paolo Avesani (ITC-IRST, Italy) Ralph Bergmann (University of Hildesheim, Germany) Isabelle Bichindaritz (University of Washington, USA) Enrico Blanzieri Universita di Torino, Italy) Derek Bridge (University Colledge Cork, Ireland) Robin Burke (DePaul University, USA) Susan Craw (The Robert Gordon University, Scotland) Pádraig Cunningham (Tinity College Dublin, Ireland) Belén Díaz-Agudo (Univ. Complutense de Madrid, Spain) Boi Faltings (EPFL Lausanne, Switzerland) Peter Funk (Mälardalen University, Sweden) Mehmet Goker (Kaidara Software Inc., USA) Pedro A. González-Calero (Univ. Complutense de Madrid, Spain) Jacek Jarmulak (Ingenuity Inc, San Jose) David Leake (Indiana University, USA) Brian Lees (University of Paisley, Scotland) Michel Manago (Kaidara Software S.A., France) Bruce McLaren (University of Pittsburgh) Ramon López de Màntaras (IIIA-CSIC, Spain) Cindy Marling (Ohio University, USA) David McSherry (University of Ulster, Northern Ireland) Héctor Muñoz-Avila (Lehigh University, USA) Bart Netten (TNO TPD, Netherlands) Petra Perner (Institute of Computer Vision & Applied CS, Germany) Enric Plaza (IIIA-CSIC, Spain) Luigi Portinale (Universita del Piemonte Orientale, Italy) Alun Preece (University of Aberdeen) Francesco Ricci (ITC-IRST, Italy) Michael M. Richter (University of Kaiserslautern, Germany) Thomas Roth-Berghofer (University of Kaiserslautern, Germany) Rainer Schmidt (University of Rostock, Germany) Barry Smyth (University College Dublin, Ireland) Maarten van Someren (University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands) Jerzy Surma (Technical University of Wroclaw, Poland) Henry Tirri (University of Helsinki, Finland) Brigitte Trousse (INRIA Sophia Antipolis, France) Ian Watson (AI-CBR University of Aukland, New Zealand) Rosina Weber (Drexel University, USA) Stephan Wess (empolis knowledge management) David C. Wilson (University College Dublin, Ireland) Nirmalie Wiratunga (The Robert Gordon University, Scotland) ......................................................................... *sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm* ......................................................................... 7. Call for Papers: 3rd International Conference on Ontologies, Databases, and Applications of Semantics for Large Scale Information Systems CALL FOR PAPERS 3rd International Conference on ONTOLOGIES, DATABASES, AND APPLICATIONS OF SEMANTICS FOR LARGE SCALE INFORMATION SYSTEMS (ODBASE) Larnaca, Cyprus, Oct 25-29, 2004 http://www.cs.rmit.edu.au/fedconf Proceedings will be published by Springer Verlag The conference on Ontologies, DataBases, and Applications of Semantics for Large Scale Information Systems (ODBASE'04) provides a forum on ontologies and data semantics that is inclusive of the many computing disciplines involved in developing the "semantic" web. In order to draw a highly diverse body of researchers and practitioners, ODBASE'04 is part of the Federated Symposium Event "On the Move to Meaningful Internet Systems 2004" that co-locates three conferences: Data and Web Semantics (ODBASE'04); Distributed Objects, Infrastructure and Enabling Technology and Internet Computing (DOA'04); and Workflow, Cooperation, and Interoperability (CoopIS'04). Of particular relevance to ODBASE 2004 are papers that bridge traditional boundaries between disciplines such as databases, artificial intelligence, networking, computational linguistics, and mobile computing. ODBASE 2004 also encourages the submission of research and practical experience papers concerning scale issues in ontology management, information integration, and data mining, as well as papers that examine the information needs of various applications, including electronic commerce, electronic government, mobile systems, and bioinformatics. ODBASE 2004 will consider two categories of papers: research and experience. Research papers must contain novel, unpublished results. Experience papers must describe existing, real-world scale systems; preference will be given to papers that describe software products or systems that are in wide experimental use. Specific areas of interest to ODBASE'04 include but are not limited to: Management of Semantically-Expressive Information * Knowledge Acquisition and Representation * Ontology Languages and Specification * Ontology Extraction, Learning and Evolution * Hypertext, Multimedia, and Hypermedia Data Management * Semi-Structured Data * Management and Integration of Large Ontology Bases * Data Integration * Semantic Middleware * Information Dissemination * Searching and Managing Dynamic Contents * Self-organization in Information Systems * Information Retrieval * Terminology Management * Data Filtering, Cleansing, and Summarization * Metadata Management * Data and Web Mining * Security * Information Quality Applications, Evaluations, and Experiences * Media Archives and Digital Libraries * Enterprise-wide Information Systems * Web-based Information Systems * Location-Dependent Information Services * Web Services * Intelligent Information Agents * Electronic Commerce * Electronic Government * Scientific Databases * Bioinformatics * Ubiquitous and Mobile Information Systems IMPORTANT DATES * Abstract Submission Deadline: May 30, 2004 * Paper Submission Deadline: June 15, 2004 * Acceptance Notification: July 31, 2004 * Final Version Due: August 20, 2004 * Conference: October 25-29, 2004 SUBMISSION GUIDELINES All submitted papers will be carefully evaluated based on originality, significance, technical soundness, and clarity of expression. All submissions must be in English. Research and experience submissions must not exceed 8,000 words. Submissions must clearly identify the nature of the paper as research or experience. Submissions can either be in Postscript, MS Word, or Pdf format and should be done through the following URL: http://www.cs.rmit.edu.au/fedconf/odbase/2004/papers/submit/ The final proceedings will be published by Springer Verlag as LNCS (Lecture Notes in Computer Science). Author instructions can be found at: http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html Failure to commit to presentation at the conference automatically excludes a paper from the proceedings. ORGANISATION COMMITTEE General Co-Chairs (fedconf@cs.rmit.edu.au) * Robert Meersman, VU Brussels, Belgium * Zahir Tari, RMIT University, Australia Program Committee Co-Chairs (odbase2004@cs.rmit.edu.au) * Tiziana Catarci, Università di Roma "La Sapienza", Italy * Katia Sycara, Carnegie Mellon University, USA Local Organising Chair * Skevos Evripidou, University of Cyprus Publicity Chair * Laura Bright, Oregon Graduate Institute, Oregon, USA Program Committee Members * Karl Aberer (EPFL Lausanne) * Sonia Bergamaschi (Univ. of Modena, Italy) * Alex Borgida (Rutgers University, USA) * Chris Bussler (DERI) * Isabel Cruz (Univ. of Illinois at Chicago, USA) * Mike Dean (BBN) * Stefan Decker (ISI) * Skevos Evripidou (Uni of Cyprus) * Jérôme Euzenat (INRIA) * Tim Finin (Univ. of Maryland Baltimore County) * Avigdor Gal (Technion - Israel Institute of Technology) * Carole Goble (Univ. of Manchester) * Nicola Guarino (ISTC-CNR) * Mohamed-Said Hacid (Université Claude Bernard Lyon, France) * Ian Horrocks (U of Manchester) * Arantza Illaramendi (Basque Country University, Spain) * Vipul Kashyap (NIH) * Michael Kifer (Stony Brook University) * Roger (Buzz) King (University of Colorado, USA) * Wolfgang Klas (Univ. of Vienna) * Matthias Klusch (dfki) * Harumi Kuno (HP) * Yannis Labrou (Fujitsu, USA) * Maurizio Lenzerini (Università di Roma "La Sapienza") * Murali Mani (Worcester Polytechnic Institute) * Leo Mark (Georgia Tech) * David Martin (SRI) * Michele Missikoff (CNR) * Pavlos Moraitis (University of Cyprus) * Maria Orlowska (University of Queensland, Australia) * Massimo Paolucci (CMU) * Bijan Parsia (University of Maryland) * Adam Pease (Teknowledge) * Shazia Sadiq (University of Queensland) * Stefano Spaccapietra (EPFL, Switzerland) * Naveen Srinivasan (CMU) * Steffen Staab (University of Karlsruhe, Germany) * Rudi Studer (University of Karlsruhe, Germany) * Sergio Tessaris (Free Univ. of Bozen) * Paola Velardi (Univ. of Roma "La Sapienza", Italy) * Guido Vetere (IBM, Italy) * Raphael Volz (University of Karlsruhe) * Kevin Wilkinson (HP) * Stuart Williams (HP Bristol) * Guizhen Yang (University at Buffalo, USA) ......................................................................... *sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm* ......................................................................... 8. Call for Papers: 14th International Conference on Knowledge Engineering and Management EKAW 2004 CALL FOR PAPERS 14th International Conference on Knowledge Engineering and Management EKAW 2004 Main Conference: 5-7 October 2004 Tutorials and Workshops: 8th October 2004 Whittlebury Hall, Northamptonshire, UK URL: http://kmi.open.ac.uk/ekaw2004 Important Dates --------------- Call for Papers Deadline for paper submissions: April 1st 2004 Notification of acceptance: May 1st 2004 Camera-ready copy of paper: June 1st 2004 Call for Workshop Submissions Deadline for proposals: February 15th 2004 Notification of acceptance: February 23rd 2004 Camera-ready workshop notes: September 1st 2004 Call for Tutorials Deadline for proposals: February 15th 2004 Notification of acceptance: February 23rd 2004 Camera-ready tutorial notes: September 1st 2004 Call for Posters Deadline for poster submissions: May 15th 2004 Notification of acceptance: June 1st 2004 Camera-ready copy of short paper: June 15th 2004 Call for Technology Demonstrations Deadline for demo proposals and descriptions: May 15th 2004 Notification of acceptance: June 1st 2004 Camera-ready descriptions: June 15th 2004 The 14th International Conference on Knowledge Engineering and Knowledge Management is concerned with all aspects of eliciting, acquiring, modelling and managing knowledge, and their role in the construction of knowledge-intensive systems and services for the semantic web, knowledge management, e-business, natural language processing, intelligent integration information, etc. Submissions are invited on relevant topics, including but not restricted to: A) KNOWLEDGE SERVICES AND THE SEMANTIC WEB - Knowledge Modelling, Knowledge Annotation, Knowledge Management and Knowledge Evolution on the Semantic Web - Semantic web services: Theory, Tools and Applications - Problem solving methods and semantic web services - Ontology-based wrapper technology - Semantic Portals - Human language technologies and the Semantic Web - Peer to Peer communication between semantic systems - Brokering systems - Architectures for the Semantic Web B) KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT - Methodologies and tools for Knowledge Management - Methodologies and tools for (possible distributed) corporate memory construction, evaluation and evolution - Knowledge Management Applications - Social and human factors dimensions of knowledge management - Knowledge acquisition, work place analysis and requirements engineering for knowledge modelling - Knowledge modelling and enterprise modelling - Human language technologies and Knowledge Management C) ONTOLOGIES - Languages, techniques, tools and methodologies for Knowledge Acquisition, Modelling and Management - Methods and tools for collaborative building, evolution and evaluation of ontologies - Ontology Learning from natural language, from semi-structured data and from structured data - Methodologies and tools for ontology reengineering, reuse, merging, alignment, integration and certification - Ontologies and agents - Ontologies and Information Sharing - Ontologies and Intelligent Integration Information D) KNOWLEDGE ACQUISITION and MODELLING - Advanced Knowledge modelling languages and tools - Knowledge capture through machine learning and knowledge discovery in data bases - Specific knowledge modelling issues for CBR systems, cooperative KBS, training applications - Knowledge Acquisition from texts - Evaluation of methods, techniques and tools for Knowledge Acquisition - Knowledge modelling for improving Human Computer Interaction EKAW 2004 International Programme Committee ------------------------------------------- Joint Chairs Enrico MOTTA, The Open University (UK) Nigel SHADBOLT, University of Southampton (UK) Workshop and Tutorials Chair John DOMINGUE, The Open University (UK) Poster Session Chair Nick GIBBINS, University of Southampton (UK) Technology Demonstrations Chair Martin DZBOR, The Open University (UK) Programme Committee Stuart AITKEN, University of Edinburgh (UK) Hans AKKERMANS, Free University of Amsterdam (NL) Nathalie AUSSENAC-GILLES, IRIT-CNRS Toulouse (FR) Richard BENJAMINS, ISOCO (ES) Brigitte BIEBOW, Université Paris-Nord (FR) Joost BREUKER, University of Amsterdam (NL) Fabio CIRAVEGNA, University of Sheffield (UK) Olivier CORBY, INRIA-Sophia-Antipolis (FR) Paul COMPTON, University of New South Wales (AU) Srinandan DASMAHAPATRA, University of Southampton (UK) Ying DING, University of Innsbruck (AT) Rose DIENG, INRIA-Sophia-Antipolis, (FR) John DOMINGUE, Open University (UK) Jerôme EUZENAT, INRIA Rhône-Alpes, (FR) Dieter FENSEL, University of Innsbruck (AT) Mariano FERNANDEZ-LOPEZ, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid (ES) Aldo GANGEMI, ISTC-CNR (IT) John GENNARI, University of Washington (US) Yolanda GIL, ISI, University of Southern California (US) Asun GOMEZ-PEREZ, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid (ES) Nicola GUARINO, ISTC-CNR (IT) Udo HAHN, Universitaet Freiburg (DE) Catholijn JONKER, Free University of Amsterdam (NL) Rob KREMER, University of Calgary (CA) Riichiro MIZOGUCHI, Osaka University (JP) Martin MOLINA GONZÁLEZ, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid (ES) Hiroshi MOTODA, Osaka University, (JP) Mark MUSEN, Stanford University (US) Kieron O¹HARA, University of Southampton (UK) Daniel E. O'LEARY, University of Southern California (US) Bijan PARSIA, University of Maryland (US) Enric PLAZA I CERVERA, Spanish Scientific Research Council, CSIC (ES) Alun PREECE, University of Aberdeen (UK) Ulrich REIMER, University of Konstanz (CH) Chantal REYNAUD, University of Paris-Sud (FR) François ROUSSELOT, ERIC-LIIA, ENSAIS, University of Strasbourg (FR) Marie-Christine ROUSSET, University of Paris-Sud (FR) Guus SCHREIBER, Free University of Amsterdam (NL) Derek SLEEMAN, University of Aberdeen (UK) Steffen STAAB, University of Karlsruhe (DE) Heiner STUCKENSCHMIDT, Free University of Amsterdam (NL) Rudi STUDER, University of Karlsruhe (DE) Arthur STUTT, The Open University (UK) York SURE, University of Karlsruhe (DE) Annette ten TEIJE, Free University of Amsterdam (NL) Frank VAN HARMELEN, Free University of Amsterdam (NL) Bob WIELINGA, University of Amsterdam (NL) Mike WOOLDRIDGE, University of Liverpool (UK) Zdenek ZDRAHAL, The Open University (UK) ......................................................................... *sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm* ......................................................................... 9. Call for Papers: ECAI'2004 Workshop on Knowledge Management and Organizational Memories CALL FOR PAPERS ECAI'2004 Workshop on Knowledge Management and Organizational Memories Valencia, August 2004 http://www.inria.fr/acacia/WORKSHOPS/ECAI2004-OM/call.html Submission deadline : April 1st, 2004 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 in functional 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 is distributed on several experts and documents in different locations all over the world, the Internet or an Intranet inside the organization and Web 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. Examples of interesting topics (but the list is not exhaustive) are: # Scenarios of knowledge management # User-centered approaches for KM & OM # Business-oriented approaches for KM & OM # Enterprise modeling for KM & OM # Knowledge-based approaches for KM & OM # Document-based approaches for KM & OM # Data-based approaches for KM & OM # Case-based approaches for KM & OM # Computer-Supported-Collaborative-Work (CSCW) approaches for KM & OM # Ontology-based approaches for KM & OM # Corporate Semantic Webs # Semantic Annotations for building and using an OM # Data mining for building and using an OM # Text mining for building and using an OM # Distributed corporate memories # Distributed Agile KM and OM # Agent-based approaches for KM & OM # Web-based approaches for KM & OM # Knowledge sharing through OMs # Intelligent information retrieval from an OM # Skills management and expertise location # Project memory and inter-project KM # Management of multiple viewpoints in an OM # OM and Communities of practice # OM and innovation # Building and using an OM for E-learning # User interaction with an OM # Contextual KM & OM for mobile users # Maintenance and evolution of a corporate memory # Evaluation of a corporate memory # Case studies and concrete OM Applications Important dates: --------------- Submission deadline: April 1, 2004 Notification of acceptance: May 7, 2004 Camera -ready paper: June 5, 2004 Workshop: August 2004 Submission format ----------------- Contributions are invited in the form of a full paper (max. 20 pages), following the formatting style for ECAI-2004. The title page should include name, affiliation, and e-mail address of the contributor. Papers will be judged according to their contribution to the discussion. They should be submitted electronically (in PostScript or pdf) to OM2004@sophia.inria.fr . The title, authors and list of keywords should also be sent in ascii by E-mail. The best papers will be published later in a book, as for the previous ECAI/IJCAI workshops on KM & OM from 1999 to 2001. Remark: All workshop participants must register for ECAI-2004 Workshop organizing committee ----------------------------- /Rose Dieng-Kuntz (co-chair)/ Address: INRIA Acacia Project, 2004 route des Lucioles, BP 93 06902 Sophia-Antipolis Cedex FRANCE E-mail: Rose.Dieng@sophia.inria.fr /Knut Hinkelmann/ Address: University of Applied Sciences Solothurn Riggenbachstrasse 16 CH-4600 Olten Email: knut.hinkelmann@fhso.ch /Ann Macintosh/ Address: International Teledemocracy Centre Napier University 10 Colinton Road Edinburgh, EH10 5DT Email: A.Macintosh@napier.ac.uk /Nada Matta (co-chair)/ Address: Université de Technologie de Troyes (GSID/Tech-CICO) 12, rue Marie Curie BP. 2060, 10010 Troyes Cedex France E-mail:nada.matta@utt.fr /Ulrich Reimer/ Address: Bauer & Partner, Esslenstr. 3 CH-8280 Kreuzlingen Switzerland E-mail: Ulrich.Reimer@bauer-partner.com /Carla Simone/ Department of Informatics, Systems and Communication University of Milano-Bicocca (Italy) E-mail: simone@di.unito.it Programme committee ------------------- * David Aha, NASA Research Laboratory (to be confirmed) * Klaus-Dieter Althoff, Fraunhofer Institute for Experimental Software Engineering (IESE) (to be confirmed) * Jean-Paul Barthès, UTC, Compiègne, France * Imed Boughzala , INT, France * Joost Breuker, University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands * Fabio Ciravegna, Sheffield University (UK) (to be confirmed) * John Domingue, Open University, (UK) * Jean-Louis Ermine, Tech-CICO, UTT (Paris, France) * Fabien Gandon, INRIA-Sophia-Antipolis (France) * Robert Jasper (Intelligent Results, USA) * Gilles Kassel, LARIA, Amiens, France * Alain Léger, France Telecom R&D, Lannion, France (to be confirmed) * Myriam Lewkowicz, Tech-CICO, UTT (Troyes, France) * Frank Maurer, University of Calgary (Canada) * Alain Mille, Université de Lyon I, France * Myriam Ribière, Motorola (France) * David G. Schwartz, Bar-Ilan University (Israel) * Steffen Staab, University of Karlsruhe, (Germany) * Gertjan van Heijst, Oryon (The Netherlands) * Manuel Zacklad, Tech-CICO, UTT (Troyes, France) ......................................................................... *sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm* ......................................................................... 10. Call for Papers: 27th German Conference on Artificial Intelligence CALL FOR PAPERS 27th GERMAN CONFERENCE ON ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE -- KI2004 -- (co-located with INFORMATIK 2004) September 20-24, Ulm, Germany http://ki2004.uni-ulm.de/ CALL FOR PAPERS The conference invites original research contributions from all areas of Artificial Intelligence. Besides work on theoretical foundations, papers on novel applications and the integration of methods are particularly welcome. As the conference will be co-located and interleaved with INFORMATIK 2004, the annual German Conference on Informatics, we aim at a particularly broad spectrum of topics and aspects. Topics The areas of interest include, but are not limited to: Agent Technology; Automated Reasoning; Case-based Reasoning; Computational Logic; Computer Vision; Cognitive Modeling; Cognitive Robotics; Configuration and Design; Constraint Reasoning; Diagnosis; Game Playing; Image Understanding; Intelligent Planning; Intelligent Scheduling; Intelligent User Interfaces; Knowledge-based Systems; Knowledge Discovery; Knowledge Management; Knowledge Representation and Ontologies; Machine Learning; Multiagent Systems; Natural Language Processing; Neural Networks; Neurosymbolic Integration; Probabilistic Reasoning; Reasoning about Actions; Reasoning under Uncertainty; Robotics and Machine Perception; Search; Semantic Web; Soft Computing; Theorem Proving; Temporal and Spatial Reasoning Submission Submission deadline is April 8. Conference submission is electronic, in pdf or postscript format. The paper submission system will be available on this website in the beginning of March. Submitted papers must not exceed 15 pages and should conform to Springer LNCS style. Papers must be written in English. The conference proceedings will be published in the Springer Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence (LNAI) Series. At least one author of each accepted paper must register for the conference and present the contribution. Further information is available on the conference website: http://ki2004.uni-ulm.de ......................................................................... *sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm* .........................................................................