SIG KM NEWSLETTER Issue January 2006 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 Papers: First IEEE Workshop on Flexibility in Process-aware Information Systems (ProFlex 2006) 2. Call for Papers: AAAI-06 Workshop on Modeling and Retrieval of Context (MRC2006) 3. Call for Tutorial and Workshop Proposals: 15th International Conference on Knowledge Engineering and Knowledge Management (EKAW 2006) 4. PhD Position at DFKI (in German) 5. Research Assistant Position at Technical University in Darmstadt ......................................................................... *sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm* ......................................................................... Call for Papers First IEEE Workshop on Flexibility in Process-aware Information Systems (ProFlex 2006) http://wi.wu-wien.ac.at/~mendling/proflex/ In conjunction with the WETICE 2006, 26th-28th June 2006 Manchester (UK), http://wetice.co.umist.ac.uk/ The economic success of an enterprise more and more depends on its ability to flexibly and quickly react to changes, e.g., in its market, technology or legal environment. For this reason companies are developing a growing interest in new concepts, systems, and solutions which help them to flexibly align their organization and their business processes to new requirements and to optimize interactions with customers and business partners. While there has been major progress in disciplines that are interested in structured and unstructured business processes, the agile enterprise is still a vision. Agility in this context refers to the ability of an enterprise to rapidly set up new business processes and projects in order to quickly adapt to changes in the environment and aligning its existing information systems to support them. In order to meet its business objectives, the agile enterprise continuously re-aligns its business processes as well as the interactions with its partners and customers to meet the current requirements. The goal of this workshop is to bring together practitioners and researchers from different communities such as BPM, software engineering, artificial intelligence, and CSCW/Groupware who share an interest in flexibility of process-aware information systems and team support. The workshop aims at discussing the current state of ongoing research and sharing practical experiences. Submitted papers will be evaluated on the basis of significance, originality and technical quality. Papers should clearly establish the research contribution and the relation to previous research. The workshop will also provide opportunity for demonstration sessions, where participant can present advanced prototypes based on their research. Workshop topics include on the one hand: adaptive processes, agile management of business processes, case handling, configurable processes, dynamic composition of processes, emergent workflows, knowledge-intensive processes, process-aware groupware, process evolution, workflow escalation and compliance management, process mining and learning, workflow flexibility, and, on the other hand, solutions related to these topics in terms of: architectures, methods and tools, user interface, policy management, security, semantics. Important Dates Submission: 10 February 2006 Notification: 07 April 2006 Final Version: 12 May 2006 Workshop: 26 - 28 June 2006 Location Manchester, UK, 26 - 28 June 2006, in conjunction with WETICE 2006. Program Committee Co-Chairs Barbara Weber, University of Innsbruck, Austria Jan Mendling, WU Vienna, Austria Manfred Reichert, University of Twente, The Netherlands Program Committee (to be completed) Wil van der Aalst, TU Eindhoven, The Netherlands Ralph Bergmann, University of Trier, Germany Peter Dadam, University of Ulm, Germany Schahram Dustdar, TU Wien, Austria Andrea Freßmann, University of Trier, Germay Avigdor Gal, Technion, Israel Dimka Karastoyanova, University of Stuttgart Richard Lenz, University of Marburg, Germany Heiko Maus, DFKI Kaiserslautern, Germany Gil Regev, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale, Lausanne, Switzerland Hajo Reijers, TU Eindhoven, The Netherlands Stefanie Rinderle, University of Ulm, Germany Michael Rosemann, QUT Brisbane, Australia Shazia Sadiq, University of Queensland, Australia Karsten Schulz, SAP Research, Australia Pnina Soffer, University of Haifa, Israel Mathias Weske, HPI Potsdam, Germany Werner Wild, Evolution Consulting, Austria Andreas Wombacher, University of Twente, The Netherlands Submission of Papers Papers must be written in English. Each paper will be reviewed by at least three program committee members. Papers should contain original contributions not published or submitted elsewhere, and references to related state-of-the-art work. Authors of accepted papers must present the paper at WETICE in order have the paper included in the post-conference proceedings published by the IEEE Computer Press. Papers must follow the IEEE format and can contain up to six pages (including figures, tables and references). Papers should include a title, the name and affiliation of each author, an abstract of up to 150 words and no more than eight keywords. All submissions should be electronic (in PDF). ......................................................................... *sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm* ......................................................................... CALL FOR PAPERS for the AAAI-06 Workshop on MODELING AND RETRIEVAL OF CONTEXT (MRC2006) A Two-Day Workshop to be Held at National Conference on Artificial Intelligence AAAI-06 16-17 July 2006, Boston, USA MRC 2006 is the Third International MRC Workshop http://mrc2006.workshop.hm/ Paper submission deadline: March 31st, 2006 Context-sensitive processing plays a crucial role in many modern intelligent IT applications. Contextual concerns affect reasoning, decision-making, and adaptation for a wide range of areas including not only mobile and ubiquitous computing, but also areas such as collaboration support, information sharing, workflow, health care, personal digital assistants, adaptive games, and e-learning. Future advances will depend on the ability to represent and manipulate information about a rich range of contextual factors, including not only physical characteristics of the task environment, but other aspects such as knowledge states (of both the application and user), emotions, and so on. Numerous methods are currently being brought to bear to address these issues (e.g., machine learning, logical reasoning, object relationship models, and ontologies), but are being pursued in divergent communities with limited interactions. This workshop aims to bring together researchers and practitioners exploring issues and approaches for context-sensitive systems, from a broad range of areas, to share their problems and techniques across different research and application areas. The workshop will examine issues and advances in methods for structured storage of contextual information, for retrieving and exploiting this information, and for integrating context and application knowledge. GOALS AND AUDIENCE This workshop aims to bring together researchers and practitioners exploring issues and approaches for context-sensitive systems, from a broad range of areas, to share their problems and techniques across different research and application areas. The workshop will examine, discuss, and explore issues and advances in methods for structured storage of contextual information, for retrieving and exploiting this information, and for integrating context and application knowledge. Besides contributed papers and invited talks, this workshop will offer organized and open spaces for targeted discussions, and demonstrations of cutting-edge systems. TOPICS OF INTEREST Areas of interest include, but are not limited to: * Generic and specific context models * Explicit representations * Retrieval of context and context information * Context-based retrieval, reasoning, and situation matching * Context-awareness in applications and their evaluation * Explanation and context * Information blurring * Context-focusing and context-switching * Context aquisition and management * Learning and context SUBMISSIONS AND STYLE Workshop submissions will be electronic, in pdf format only, using a submission system on the workshop website. Papers must be written in English and not exceed 5 pages in the AAAI two-column format. At least one author of each accepted paper must register for the workshop and present the contribution in order to be published in the workshop proceedings. Attendance is limited to active participants only. Those wishing to participate providing a live system demonstration should submit a proposal. A separate call for demos will be posted for details at the workshop website. Those wishing to participate without paper or demo submission should submit a brief synopsis of their relevant work by April 17, 2006. IMPORTANT DATES Submission of papers: March 31st, 2006 Notification: April 24th, 2006 Camera ready copies: May 17th, 2006 AAAI-06 workshops: July 16-17, 2006 WORKSHOP SCHEDULE The schedule will be made available on the workshop's website in due time. WORKSHOP CHAIRS Stefan Schulz, mailto:schulz@sce.carleton.ca Carleton University, Canada David B. Leake, mailto:leake@cs.indiana.edu Indiana University, USA Thomas R. Roth-Berghofer, mailto:trb@dfki.uni-kl.de DFKI GmbH / TU Kaiserslautern, Germany DEMO CHAIR Sven Schwarz, mailto:schwarz@dfki.uni-kl.de DFKI GmbH, Kaiserslautern, Germany PROGRAM COMMITTEE Agnar Aamodt, Norwegian University of Science and Technology Carlos Bento, University of Coimbra, Portugal Paolo Bouquet, University of Trento, Italy Shannon Bradshaw, University of Iowa, USA Patrick Brezillon, University of Paris, France Andreas Dengel, DFKI GmbH, Germany Anind Dey, Intel Research Berkeley, USA Babak Esfandiari, Carleton University, Canada Fausto Giunchiglia, University of Trento, Italy Avelino Gonzalez, University of Central Florida, USA Jeroen Keppens, King's College London, United Kingdom Mohamed Khedr, Arab Academy for Science and Technology, Egypt Thomas Kunz, Carleton University, Canada Kristof Van Laerhoven, Lancaster University, United Kingdom Ana G. Maguitman, Indiana University, USA Heiko Maus, DFKI GmbH, Germany Deborah L. McGuinness, Stanford University, USA Markus Nick, IESE, Germany Enrico Rukzio, University of Munich, Germany Thomas Strang, DLR, Germany Rich Thomason, University of Michigan, USA Roy Turner, University of Maine, USA Christopher Welty, IBM Watson Research Center, New York, USA ......................................................................... *sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm* ......................................................................... 15th International Conference on Knowledge Engineering and Knowledge Management - EKAW Podebrady (near Prague), Czech Republic http://ekaw.vse.cz/ Call for Tutorial and Workshop Proposals Submission: April 1st 2006 Notification: April 12th 2006 Workshop/Tutorial Notes: August 21st 2006 Conference: October 2nd-6th 2006 The 15th International Conference on Knowledge Engineering and Knowledge Management is concerned with all aspects of eliciting, acquiring, modelling, managing and exploiting knowledge, and the role of these aspects in the construction of knowledge-intensive systems and services. We seek high quality proposals for tutorials and workshops about topics related to the conference. Of particular interest are proposals that address one of the following areas - Principles and Practice of Knowledge Modelling - Evaluation and Benchmarking of Tools for Knowledge Acquisition and Knowledge Modelling - (Semi-)Automatic Knowledge Acquisition from Data using techniques from machine learning and text-, speech or image understanding - Knowledge in Distributed and Interconnected Domains such as the web, grid environments agent- or P2P systems - Applications of Ontologies and Knowledge Modelling, for example in e-Science, e-Commerce or Knowledge Management. EKAW 2006 is located in the Czech Republic and aims at a better integration of Researchers from East European countries in the EKAW community. In this context, we particularly encourage proposals from Eastern European countries and such proposals that directly address relevant communities in Eastern Europe. Proposals should be sent to heiner@informatik.uni-mannheim.de by April 1st 2006 and contain a concise description of the proposed tutorial/workshop covering the following aspects on no more than 5 pages. - title and description of the workshop topic - Contact information and short CV of the proposers - relation to the topic of the conference - Workshop proposals: information about potential attendees and previous or related workshops - Tutorial proposals: Short outline of the schedule Contact: Heiner Stuckenschmidt University of Mannheim heiner@informatik.uni-mannheim.de http://ki.informatik.uni-mannheim.de ......................................................................... *sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm* ......................................................................... Stellenausschreibung Das Deutsche Forschungszentrum fuer Kuenstliche Intelligenz GmbH (DFKI) sucht zum fruehestmoeglichen Zeitpunkt eine(n) Wissenschaftliche/n Mitarbeiter/in fuer den Forschungsbereich "Wissensmanagement". Unser Bereich befasst sich mit innovativen Loesungen zur effizienten Unterstuetzung des Managements von Daten, Information und Wissen im Unternehmen. Dabei liegen unsere besonderen Staerken auf den Gebieten Wissensverarbeitung und Wissensrepraesentation, Information Retrieval, Workflow Management sowie Textkategorisierung. Sie sind mit grundlegenden Fragestellungen und Arbeitsweisen der Kuenstlichen Intelligenz vertraut. Idealerweise haben Sie konzeptuelle und softwaretechnische Kenntnisse in einigen der folgenden Gebiete: Data-Mining, Information Retrieval, Semantic-Web, Web-Applikationen, Wissensrepraesentation, Ontologien und Human-Computer-Interaction. Sie haben einen Hochschulabschluss in Informatik und verfuegen Ueber gute Englischkenntnisse. Persoenlich zeichnen Sie sich durch Engagement und Eigeninitiative aus. Sie sind kommunikativ und ein Teamplayer mit Zuverlaessigkeit und Einsatzbereitschaft. Die Einarbeitung in neue Themenkomplexe ist fuer Sie eine Herausforderung. Wir bieten Ihnen die Mitarbeit in einem jungen und innovativen Team, die Arbeit an der Promotion innerhalb der wissenschaftlichen Taetigkeit, die internationale Praesentation Ihrer Arbeiten und viele Entfaltungsmoeglichkeiten. Interessiert? Dann senden Sie uns bitte Ihre aussagekraeftige Bewerbung mit dem fruehestmoeglichen Eintrittstermin an: Prof. Dr. Andreas Dengel DFKI GmbH, Postfach 20 80, 67663 Kaiserslautern oder via email: andreas.dengel@dfki.de Kaiserslautern, den 14.11.2005 ......................................................................... *sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm* ......................................................................... RESEARCH ASSISTANT FOR TEXT MINING IN THE LEGAL DOMAIN The Knowledge Engineering Group of the Department of Computer Science at the Technical University in Darmstadt, Germany has an immediate opening for a Research Assistant (Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter, BAT IIa) in the area of Text Mining In The Legal Domain. The opening is for the EU project ALIS (Automated Legal Intelligence System). Our main task in this project is the development, implementation, and thorough evaluation of an information retrieval and extraction system for legal domains that bridges the gap between juridical documents and the logical and game-theoretical formalisms that will be explored in the course of this project. REQUIREMENTS The ideal candidate should have a good knowledge of * text mining * logical foundations of Artificial Intelligence * legal information systems. Research experience in at least one of these areas is required. Ability to autonomously collaborate with an international team of researchers is also expected from the successful candidate. POSITION The position can be filled immediately and is for three years (ending December 31st, 2008). Remuneration is according to German public service pay scale BAT IIa. Applicants are given an opportunity to work on their doctoral/postdoctoral studies. The Darmstadt University of Technology aims to increase the number of female personnel, and women candidates are strongly encouraged to apply. Also given equal qualifications, handicapped persons will be treated preferentially. APPLICATION Deadline for applications: *31 January 2006*. Please send your application (incl. CV, publications list (if available), and a brief research statement) to the address below: Prof. Dr. Johannes Fürnkranz Technische Universität Darmstadt FB Informatik / FG Knowledge Engineering Hochschulstraße 10 D-64289 Darmstadt Germany http://www.ke.informatik.tu-darmstadt.de mailto:ke@informatik.tu-darmstadt.de ......................................................................... *sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm* .........................................................................