SIG KM NEWSLETTER Issue February 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. Call for Participation: 3rd Conference Professional Knowledge Management: Experiences and Visions (WM'2005) 2. Call for Papers: Second International Workshop on Peer-to-Peer Knowledge Management (P2PKM) 3. Call for Papers: Formal Ontologies Meet Industry 4. Call for Papers: Sixth International Workshop on Theory and Applications of Knowledge MAnagement (TAKMA 2005) 5. Two open positions at the University of Trier (in German) ......................................................................... *sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm* ......................................................................... 1. Call for Participation: 3rd Conference Professional Knowledge Management: Experiences and Visions (WM'2005) EARLY REGISTRATION DEADLINE : February 28, 2005!!!! CALL FOR PARTICIPATION 3rd Conference Professional Knowledge Management: Experiences and Visions WM'2005 April 10-13, 2005, Kaiserslautern, Germany http://wm-konferenz.de/ 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. INVITED TALKS ------------- Wissen + Können + X Prof. Dr. Klaus Kornwachs, Technische Universität Cottbus Remarks on Knowledge Management Studies in Japan Dr. Naoyuki Nomura, Ricoh Company Ltd. Actor Model and Knowledge Management Systems: Social Interaction as a Framework for Knowledge Integration Prof. Dr. Irma Becerra-Fernandez, Florida International University KI-Methoden in Wissensmanagement-Systemen und deren Relevanz für das Wissensmanagement" Dr. Andreas Günter, HITeC e.V., Universität Hamburg Just-in-Time Knowledge Management: The Knowledge Sifter Approach Larry Kerschberg, E-Center for E-Business, Department of Information and Software Engineering, George Mason University, Fairfax, USA WORKSHOP --------- The following 15 workshops will take place at the conference. For details see http://wm-konferenz.de/ - 1st Workshop on Intelligent Office Appliances: Knowledge-Appliances in the Office of the Future (IOA 2005) - Learning Software Organizations Workshop 2005 (LSO 2005) - 1st Workshop on Learner-Oriented Knowledge Management & KM-oriented E-Learning (LOKMOL 2005) - Workshop on Peer-to-Peer and Agent Infrastructures for Knowledge Management (PAIKM 2005) - Workshop on Modelling and Analysis of Knowledge Intensive Business Processes (KiBP 2005) - Third German Workshop on Experience Management (GWEM 2005) - Current Aspects of Knowledge Management in Medicine (KMM05) - Knowledge Management in International Professional Services Firms (KMIPSF 2005) - 2nd Workshop on Knowledge Management for Distributed Agile Processes: Models, Techniques, and Infrastructure (KMDAP 2005) - Knowledge Management and Business Intelligence (KMBI 2005) - Workshop on IT Tools for Knowledge Management Systems: Applicability, Usability, and Benefits (KMTOOLS) - Semantic Model Integration (SMI05) - Second International Workshop on Philosophy and Informatics (WSPI 2005) - Workshop on Information Just-in-Time: Seeking a New Knowledge Management Paradigm(WIJIT2005) - Wissensmanagement in kleinen und mittleren Unternehmen: Integration von HR und IT Perspektiven (WMKMU 2005) TUTORIALS --------- T1: Industrielles Wissensmanagement mit Fallbasiertem Schließen Prof. Dr. Ralph Bergmann, Universität Trier Dr. Mehmet H. Göker, PricewaterhouseCoopers San Jose T2: Systematische Nutzung von Wissen in Geschäftsprozessen – Modellierung und Analyse wissensintensiver Geschäftsprozesse Prof. Dr. Norbert Gronau, Universität Potsdam Dipl.-Ing. Claudia Müller, Universität Potsdam M. Sc. Wi.-Inform. Julian Bahrs, Universität Potsdam T3: Referenzmodellgestütztes Wissensmanagement - Wissensorientierte Analyse, Gestaltung und Unterstützung von Geschäftsprozessen in kleinen und mittleren Unternehmen Dr. Thomas Mühlbradt, GOM Gesellschaft für Organisationsentwicklung und Mediengestaltung mbH Aachen T4: Methoden zur engen Integration von Arbeiten und Lernen - Ansätze zur Integration von Wissensmanagement und eLearning Dr. Stefanie Lindstaedt, Know-Center Graz Dipl.Psych. Tobias Ley, Know-Center Graz T5: Ontologien und Semantic Web Technologien für das Wissensmanagement Dr. York Sure, Universität Karlsruhe Dipl. Wi.-Ing. Hans Peter Schnurr, Ontoprise GmbH Karlsruhe T6: Wissensmanagementsysteme Prof. Dr. Ronald Maier, Universität Halle Dipl. Wirtsch.-Inf. Thomas Hädrich T7: Praktische Erfahrungen bei der Wissensbewertung und Wissensbilanzierung in Unternehmen Claus Nagel, EBIS GmbH Hof T8: Human Resource Management und WM Dipl.-Inform. (FH) Ernst Biesalski, DaimlerChrysler Werk Wörth Dr. Andreas Abecker, FZI Forschungszentrum Informatik Karlsruhe 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 Trier TUTORIAL ORGANIZATION --------------------- - Dr. Andreas Abecker, FZI Forschungszentrum Informatik Karlsruhe 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: Second International Workshop on Peer-to-Peer Knowledge Management (P2PKM) Call for Papers Second International Workshop on Peer-to-Peer Knowledge Management (P2PKM) www.p2pkm.org July 17, 2005 – San Diego, CA, USA co-located with MobiQuitous 2005 (www.mobiquitous.org) Scope ----- Peer-to-Peer (P2P) architectures are intended to allow autonomous peers to interoperate in a decentralized, distributed manner for fulfilling individual and/or common goals. Peers have equivalent capabilities in providing other peers with data and/or services. Confederations of peers may be forged or broken opportunistically through the choices made by individual peers. The overall performance of a P2P network emerges from local point-to-point interactions of (all) peers on the network. The P2P paradigm in general offers a prospect of robustness, scalability and availability of large pool of storage and computational resources. The approach has been shown to be effective for basic but essential tasks such as file sharing. P2P, however, offers opportunities not addressed in existing architectures. They include the creation, maintenance, exchange, acquisition, and use of knowledge by peers. Because they are autonomous, peers can represent knowledge in a number of diverse forms, e.g. contexts, knowledge bases, files, databases, etc. In order to facilitate the interoperation, peers may agree on a shared conceptualization of a knowledge domain in the form of, for instance, ontology, and collectively maintain it over time. Apart from this, peers should be able to locate other peers, having required pieces of information and/or providing required services; agree on the meaning of the pieces of information (service delivery protocols) they want to exchange; and interoperate, based on the reached agreement, in a meaningful, purpose-driven way. The P2PKM workshop is intended to serve as an active forum for researchers and practitioners, where they will have the possibility to exchange and discuss novel ideas, research results and experiences, laying in the intersection of the P2P, Knowledge Management (KM), Semantic Web, databases, pervasive computing, agents, as well as other related fields. Topics of Interest ----------------- Topics of interest include and are not limited to: - Methodologies to analyze, design and deploy distributed KM solutions; - Data models and distributed query languages; - Meta-data representation and management; - Semantic Web and P2P KM systems; - Semantic web services to support P2P KM; - Semantics-driven peer coordination mechanisms; - Protocols, algorithms and techniques to support semantic interoperability; - Role of ontologies in P2P KM systems; - Distributed knowledge discovery; - Trust and reputation as means to support knowledge acquisition; - Agent-mediated KM; - P2P and databases; - P2P KM in location- and context-aware environments; - Mobile and ubiquitous P2P KM; - P2P to support (virtual) communities of practice and interest networks; - Organizational impacts of P2P technologies, and social adoption of distributed technologies; - P2P KM system architectures, infrastructure and middleware; - Experience with deployed systems, performance evaluation and benchmarking; Important Dates --------------- Submission deadline: May 6th, 2005 Acceptance notification: May 31st, 2005 Camera ready due: June 27th, 2005 Submission ---------- We invite the submission of high quality technical papers. The submitted papers should be formatted as close as possible to the Springer LNCS style and must not exceed 12 pages including figures and references. Interested authors should submit their papers at the EDAS site within the submission deadline. PDF format is preferred, but other formats (PS, DOC) are also acceptable. Accepted papers will be published in the CEUR workshop electronic proceedings, and hardcopies of the proceedings will be handed out at the workshop. At least one author of each accepted paper must attend the workshop to present their work. The authors of the best papers (dealing with issues related to semantics) will be invited to submit an extended version of their paper for a special issue of the LNCS Journal of Data Semantics. Invited Talks ------------- Bernard Traversat, SUN Microsystems, USA Title: "JXTA(tm): Beyond P2P File Sharing, The Emergence of Knowledge Addressable Networks" Matteo Bonifacio, ITC-Irst, Italy Title: "Beyond the Centralized Approach to Knowledge Management: the Emergence of Distributed Knowledge Management" Organization ------------ Organizing Committee: - Dave Robertson, University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom - Ilya Zaihrayeu (chair), ITC-Irst, Italy Steering Committee: - Matteo Bonifacio, ITC-Irst, Italy - Fausto Giunchiglia, University of Trento, Italy - Ilya Zaihrayeu, ITC-Irst, Italy Program Committee: - John Domingue, Knowledge Media Institute, Open University, UK - Dieter Fensel, University of Innsbruck, Austria - Zachary G. Ives, University of Pennsylvania, USA - Chiara Ghidini, ITC-Irst, Italy - Manfred Hauswirth, EPFL, Switzerland - Manolis Koubarakis, Technical University of Crete, Greece - Gabriel Kuper, University of Trento, Italy - Stefanie Lindstaedt, Austria's Competence Center for KM, Austria - Maurizio Marchese, University of Trento, Italy - Mark Maybury, MITRE Corporation, USA - Gianluca Moro, Univ. of Bologna, Italy - Wolfgang Nejdl, L3S and University of Hannover, Germany - Terry Paine, University of Southampton - Paulo Pinheiro da Silva, Univ. of Stanford, USA - Christoph Schmitz, Universität Kassel, Germany - Carles Sierra, Autonomous University of Barcelona, Spain - Steffen Staab, University of Koblenz, Germany - Heiner Stuckenschmidt, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, the Netherlands - Bernard Traversat, SUN Microsystems, USA - Eric Tsui, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong - Frank van Harmelen, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, the Netherlands - Wamberto Vasconcelos, Univ. of Aberdeen, UK - Chris Walton, Univ. of Edinburgh, UK Further Information ------------------ For further information, please send an e-mail to: zaihrayeu@itc.it or visit www.p2pkm.org ......................................................................... *sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm* ......................................................................... 3. Call for Papers: Formal Ontologies Meet Industry Call for Papers Formal Ontologies Meet Industry http://fandango.cs.unitn.it/fomi/ June 9-10, 2005 Lake of Garda, Verona (Italy) This event is jointly organized and supported by: - University of Verona - Creactive Consulting S.r.l., Affi - Laboratory for Applied Ontology, ISTC-CNR, Trento Description =========== Modeling corporate knowledge is one of the most attractive themes in applied research and it has been an important motivation for several areas of investigations like distributed systems and knowledge management. Clearly, the business world considers this issue of strategic relevance and keeps paying particular attention to it because many theoretical results have already been proved effectiveness in real applications like data warehouse construction, information infrastructure definition, and all processes and applications of knowledge management. These knowledge models in industry aim at providing a framework for information and knowledge sharing, reliable information exchange, meaning negotiation and coordination between distinct organizations or among members of the same one. With the application of new methodologies and techniques in the everyday practice and the accessibility of new theoretical results in this area, developing new tools based on more sophisticated frameworks has become a common need. This is an important reason for the increasing interest in the employment of formal ontologies in fields like medicine, engineering, financial and legal systems, and other business practices. Objectives ========== The workshop is a forum to meet and discuss problems, solutions, perspectives and research directions for researchers and practitioners. We welcome papers or project descriptions that aim at applying formal ontologies in industry. In particular, - theoretical studies on formal ontologies committed to provide sound bases for industrial applications and to allow formal representation of corporate knowledge; - business experiences on case studies that single out concrete problems and possible solutions; the experience analysis should provide useful insights on social and strategic aspects that might be relevant in the creation and deployment of formal ontologies as well as useful criteria or methods to evaluate ontologies and their effectiveness in applications. Proceedings =========== A selection of the best papers accepted at the workshop will be considered for publication in a special track of the international journal 'Applied Ontology'. Topics of Interest ================== Topics of interest include (but are not limited to): - ontology methodologies in business practice; - ontologies and corporate knowledge; - ontologies adaptation within organizations; - formalization of the know-how; - representation of artifacts and design; - representation of functionalities; - representation of knowledge and business processes; - linguistic representation in organizational knowledge; - linguistic problems in organizational standard code and codification processes; - enterprise modeling; - ontology evaluation; - ontology changes and developments within organizations; - representation of business services; - ontologies and electronic catalogs; - ontologies and e-commerce; - ontologies and marketing; - ontologies in the practice of engineering; - ontologies in the practice of medical sciences; - ontologies in finance. We also encourage submissions which relate research results from close areas connected to the workshop topics. Important dates =============== Workshop: June 9-10, 2005 Deadline for paper submissions: March 4th, 2005 Notification of acceptance: April 4th, 2005 Camera ready submission: May 2nd, 2005 Submission ========== We invite two types of submissions in any of the topics of interest to the workshop: 1. Technical papers Maximum 10 pages, excluding title page and bibliography. 2. Short position papers Maximum 4 pages, excluding title page and bibliography. Submitted papers will be peer-reviewed and selected on the basis of technical quality, relevance of the described experiences (depending on the type of submission), and clarity of the presentation for the workshop. In particular, we insist the paper to be written for a wide audience. Accepted papers will be presented at the workshop, and published as proceedings. All papers should be electronically submitted in PDF format to Roberta Cuel at: cuel@sci.univr.it If electronic submission is not possible, please contact Roberta Cuel at ph. +39-045-802-7908 (or at cuel@sci.univr.it) for further instructions. Workshop Organising Committee ============================= Roberta Cuel (University of Verona -- cuel@sci.univr.it) Francesco Bellomi (University of Verona -- bellomi@sci.univr.it) Roberta Ferrario (LOA ISTC-CNR -- ferrario@loa-cnr.it) Program Committee (to be completed) =================================== Chair Matteo Cristani (University of Verona -- cristani@univr.it) Nicola Guarino (LOA-CNR, Italy -- guarino@loa-cnr.it) Stefano Borgo (LOA-CNR, Italy -- borgo@loa-cnr.it) Miltiadis Lytras (Athens University of Economics & Business, Greece -- mdl@aueb.gr) York Sure (Institut AIFB Universitaet Karlsruhe, Germany -- sure@aifb.uni-karlsruhe.de) Paulo Leitão (Polytechnic Institute of BraganÁa, Portugal -- pleitao@ipb.pt) ......................................................................... *sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm* ......................................................................... 4. Call for Papers: Sixth International Workshop on Theory and Applications of Knowledge MAnagement (TAKMA 2005) Call for Papers Sixth International Workshop on Theory and Applications of Knowledge MAnagement (TAKMA 2005) in conjunction with DEXA 2005 Copenhagen, Denmark 22-26 August 2005 Knowledge management is as much about questioning individual and organisational assumptions as it is about sharing what is already known. This makes knowledge within an organisation one of the most important assets. Knowledge Management is a field which must be investigated by academic researchers together with developers and users from the industry and public administration. Therefore researchers and practitioners are encouraged to submit papers to the TAKMA 2005 workshop addressing aspects of the TAKMA theme. Topics of TAKMA workshops include (but are not limited to) the following aspects: * Knowledge Visualisation * Extracting Knowledge from Documents * Knowledge Dissemination using Intranets/Extranets * Knowledge Integration * Support Tools for Developing New Knowledge * Methods and techniques supporting Knowledge Management * Organisational Learning * Building Organisational Memories * Interaction between Workflow and Knowledge Management * Collaborative and Co-operative Knowledge Management * Knowledge Management Technology Environments * HCI Processes in Knowledge Management * Usability Evaluation of KM Systems * Case studies and good practices * Measuring the benefits of KM Important Dates --------------- Submission of papers: 25 February 2005 Notification of acceptance: 8 April 2005 Camera-ready copies: 15 May 2005 Submission Details ------------------- Authors are invited to submit research contributions or practical experience reports in English (not more than 4000 words or 5 pages in IEEE format). Accepted are postscript, pdf or word format via email to Simone C. Stumpf (stumpf@cs.orst.edu). The papers accepted for TAKMA 05 will be published in the IEEE workshop proceedings of DEXA 05. Organisational Committee Workshop Chair Simone C. Stumpf, Oregon State University, USA Program Committee Andreas Abecker, FZI, Germany Alfs T. Berztiss, University of Pittsburgh, USA Vincenza Carchiolo, University of Catania, Italy John Debenham, University of Technology, Australia Kemal A. Delic, Hewlet Packard Corporation, France Virginia Dignum, Utrecht University, The Netherlands Alvaro A.A. Fernandes, University of Manchester, United Kingdom Simone Heftberger, University of Linz, Austria Peter H. Jones, REDESIGN RESEARCH, USA Dimitris Karagiannis, Universität Wien, Austria Alessandro Longheu, University of Catania, Italy Michele Malgeri, University of Catania, Italy Drakoulis Martakos, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece Janet McDonnell, University of Greenwich, United Kingdom Claire McInerney, Rutgers University, USA Paul Mulholland, The Open University, United Kingdom Oscar Pastor Lopez, Valencia University of Technology, Spain Ulrich Reimer, Swiss Life Rentenanstalt, Switzerland Erwin Schaumlechner, Tiscover AG, Austria Michael Schlüter, Germany Steffen Staab, Universität Karlsruhe, Germany Markus Stolze, IBM Zürich Research Laboratory, Switzerland A Min Tjoa, TU Wien, Austria Roland Traunmüller, University of Linz, Austria Charalampos Vassiliou, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece Roland Wagner, Universität Linz, Austria Maria Wimmer, University of Linz, Austria Further information on the workshop is available at http://web.engr.oregonstate.edu/~stumpf/TAKMA.html Information on the workshop location and the DEXA conference clusters is available at the DEXA main page (www.dexa.org). ......................................................................... *sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm* ......................................................................... 5. Two open positions at the University of Trier (in German) An der Universität Trier sind am Lehrstuhl für Wirtschaftsinformatik II (Prof. R. Bergmann) im Rahmen des BMBF Projektes URANOS zwei Stellen zu besetzen für eine/einen wissenschaftliche/r Mitarbeiter/in (BAT IIa) und für eine/einen wissenschaftliche/r Mitarbeiter/in (BAT Ib) Voraussetzungen (für die BAT IIa Stelle): - abgeschlossenes Hochschulstudium der Wirtschaftsinformatik oder Informatik (oder vergleichbar) - gute Programmierfertigkeiten in Java - Grundkenntnisse in mindestens einem der Bereiche Wissensrepräsentation, Requirementsengineering, Workflowmanagement - Bereitschaft, sich in den Bereich des Entwurfs nanoelektronischer Systeme einzuarbeiten - Teamfähigkeit, gute Kommunikationsfähigkeit, Bereitschaft zum verantwortungsbewussten selbst-ständigen Arbeiten Zusätzliche Voraussetzungen (für die BAT Ib Stelle): - abgeschlossene Promotion - Projekterfahrung Aufgaben im Projekt: URANOS (Analysemethoden für den Entwurf anwendungsrobuster nanoelektronischer Systeme) ist ein interdisziplinäres BMBF-Projekt mit 8 akademischen und industriellen Partnern, in dem es um Erforschung von Entwurfsmethoden für nanoelektronische Systeme geht. Das Gesamtziel d es Projektes ist die Erfassung und Einbeziehung von Anwendungsbedingungen in frühen Entwurfsphasen des Chipentwurfs und beinhaltet die Berücksichtigung unvollständig definierter funktionaler Anforderungen. Die Arbeiten, die im Rahmen dieses Projektes an der Universität Trier durchgeführt werden sollen bestehen in der Untersuchung wissensbasierter Ansätze und Ansätzen aus dem Requirementsengineerung zur Erfassung und Repräsentation von Applikationsanforderungen für nanoelektronische Systeme. Ansätze zum Anforderungsmanagement sollen entwickelt werden sowie Verfahren zur Repräsentation und Ausführung von Designworkflows. Die technische Realisierung soll auf dem am Lehrstuhl bereits entwickelten dynamischen Workflowsystem CAKE, welches in JAVA implementiert ist, aufbauen. Das Projekt und die damit verbundenen beiden Stellen haben eine Laufzeit von drei Jahren. Es wird erwartet und angestrebt, dass der/die Bewerber/innen für die Bat IIa Stelle im Zusammenhang mit dem Projekt eine Dissertation anfertigt. Der Stelleninhaber der Bat 1b Stelle soll zusätzlich die Funktion eines Co-Projektleiters übernehmen. Die Universität Trier hält es für erforderlich, den Anteil von Frauen zu erhöhen. Frauen sollen bei gleichwertiger Qualifikation bevorzugt berücksichtigt werden. Schwerbehinderte werden bei gleicher Eignung bevorzugt. Kontakt: Interessierte Bewerber richten bitte Ihre schriftlicher Bewerbung bis spätestens 09.03.2005 per Email an Prof. Dr. Ralph Bergmann WWW: http://www.wi2.uni-trier.de ......................................................................... *sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm* .........................................................................