SIG KM NEWSLETTER Issue July 2007 Newsletter of the German Special Interest Group on Knowledge Management www.fgwm.de Subscribe or unsubscribe via http://www.fgwm.de Send contributions to: 'bergmann' or 'minor' at 'uni-trier.de' TABLE OF CONTENTS 1. Call for Participation: 7th International Conference on Case-Based Reasoning ICCBR 2007 2. Call for Papers: Workshop on Artificial Intelligence Methods for Ambient Intelligence to be held at AmI'07 3. Call for Workshops, Tutorials & Papers: ACM International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces (IUI08) 4. 3rd International Workshop on Learner-Oriented Knowledge Management & KM-Oriented E-Learning (LOKMOL 2007) 5. Research Assistant (Wiss. Mitarbeiter/in, BAT IIa) at the Knowledge Engineering & Bioinformatics group (Philipps Univ. Marburg, Germany) 6. 1 PhD & 1 PostDoc Position: Semantic Web, Folksonomies, Semantic Multimedia (ISWeb, Univ. Koblenz, Germany) 7. Research Assistant (Wiss. Mitarbeiter/in, BAT IIa): Machine Learning and Data Mining (Knowledge Engineering Group, TU Darmstadt, Germany) ......................................................................... *sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm* ......................................................................... ICCBR 2007 Call for Participation Seventh International Conference on Case-Based Reasoning Belfast, Northern Ireland, 13-16 August 2007 www.iccbr.org/iccbr07 Please note that the EARLY (cheaper!) registration deadline is on JULY 23, 2007 When you make your travel plans, please note that the conference offers a full schedule on Thursday, August 16. See summary schedule below. Summary schedule is available: http://www.iccbr.org/iccbr07/conf_prog.html Detailed schedule to come soon. SUMMARY SCHEDULE Sunday, August 12 6:00 pm Bus tour of Belfast, http://www.belfastcitysightseeing.com Monday, August 13: Registration Opening Invited speaker: David W. Aha, Naval Research Laboratory, USA "Addressing Perceptions of CBR" Plenary Session: 5 oral presentations CBR Research outside ICCBR and ECCBR Posters Welcome Reception Tuesday, August 14 Registration Keynote speaker: Larry Kerschberg, George Mason University, USA "The Role of XML Databases in Intelligent Search and CBR" Industry Program CBR Applications outside ICCBR and ECCBR Plenary Session: 5 oral presentations Gala Dinner Wednesday, August 15 Registration Invited Workshop Talk: Bernadette Bouchon-Meunier, Universite Pierre et Marie Curie, France Workshops Program Committee Meeting Thursday, August 16 Registration Invited Speaker: Eva Armengol, Institut d'Investigacio en Intel.ligencia Artificial, Spain "Usages of generalization in CBR" Workshop Summaries Keynote Talk: Hans-Dieter Burkhard, Humboldt University, Germany "Cases in Robotic Soccer" Plenary Session: 5 oral presentations Informal social (pub tour) ......................................................................... *sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm* ......................................................................... CALL FOR PAPERS Workshop on Artificial Intelligence Methods for Ambient Intelligence at the European Conference on Ambient Intelligence (AmI'07) Darmstadt, Germany, November 7 - 10, 2007 www.ami-07.org/workshops.html Ambient Intelligence (AmI) is the vision of our future environment. It will be surrounded by various kinds of interfaces supported by computing and networking technology providing an intelligent, seamless and non-obtrusive assistance to the humans. The ambient environment will be aware of the presence and identity of the humans, it will be able to communicate in multi-modal form and to anticipate the humans' goals and needs in order to provide best possible assistance to them. This broad vision addresses all areas of human life, such as home, work, health care, travel and leisure activities. Within the interdisciplinary research aiming at approaching this vision, Artificial Intelligence (AI) provides a rich set of methods for implementing the "intelligence bit" of the AmI vision. Speech recognition, image interpretation, learning (from user interaction), reasoning (about users' goals and intensions) and planning (appropriate user interaction) are core features of AmI to which AI can contribute significantly. The goal of this workshop is to make a step forward towards a common understanding of how AI can contribute to the AmI vision and how to align AI research with it. For this purpose we solicit contributions of the following kind: Papers describing the application of AI methods in any kind of AmI scenario. These contributions should clearly describe the application scenario, the AI method(s) used and their purpose, and which of the particular difficulties in AmI are addressed in this work. Papers addressing the relationship between AI and AmI in general, including architectures and models for AmI systems based on AI principles. Submissions We solicit papers of up to 10 pages, written in English language, which should conform to the Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) style. All submitted papers will be reviewed by at least two members of the program committee and selected according to their significance to the workshop, their originality, quality, and potential impact. The accepted papers will be published in a proceedings volume. We also intend to publish extended versions of selected papers in a Journal volume. To submit a paper, please visit the workshop web page. Workshop Format The workshop will take place at November 10, 2007 as a full-day workshop. It is open to all interested AmI-07 conference participants. One author from each accepted paper will be required to attend the workshop to present their work. This implies the registration at the AmI-07 conference.  Timetable August 20, 2007 Submission Deadline September 20, 2007 Notification of Acceptance October 30, 2007 Final Papers Due November 7 or 10, 2007 Workshop at Ami'07  in Darmstadt, Germany Workshop Chairs Ralph Bergmann, University of Trier Klaus-Dieter Althoff, University of Hildesheim Klaus Schmid, University of Hildesheim Ulrich Furbach, University of Koblenz-Landau Program Committee Juan Carlos August, University of Ulster, U.K. Michael Berger, Siemens, Germany Iryna Gurevych, TU Darmstadt, Germany Otthein Herzog, Uni Bremen, Germany Thomas Kirste, Uni Rostock, Germany Gerd Kortuem, Uni Lancaster, U.K. Ramon López de Mántaras, IIIA, Barcelona Max Mühlhäuser, TU Darmstadt, Germany Jörg Müller, TU Clausthal, Germany Markus Nick, Fraunhofer IESE, Germany Mihaela Ulieru, The University of New Brunswick, Canada Reiner Wichert, Fraunhofer IGD, Germany Volker Wulf, Uni Siegen, Germany ......................................................................... *sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm* ......................................................................... Announcement of the ACM International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces (IUI08) - Canary Islands, Spain, January 13th-16th 2008 IUI 2008 will focus on **interface innovation**. We're most interested in truly new ideas about how people and computers could interact. If you've got a new idea about how to make interfaces smarter, easier to use, and more effective, we want to hear it! We are inviting proposals and research papers in several categories: Due Date Monday Oct 1 '07 Long and Short Papers Monday Aug 27 '07 Workshop and Tutorial Proposals General Chair: Steffen Staab Universitat Koblenz-Landau, Germany Program Chairs: Jeffrey Bradshaw Institute of Human and Machine Cognition, U.S.A. Henry Lieberman Media Lab, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, U.S.A. For more information, please visit the conference website: http://www.iuiconf.org/ Why submit to IUI? ------------------ IUI is where the community of people interested in Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) meets the Artificial Intelligence (AI) community. We're also very interested in contributions from related fields, such as psychology, cognitive science, computer graphics, the arts, etc. Unlike traditional AI, our focus is not so much to make the computer smart all by itself, but to make the interaction between computers and people smarter. Unlike traditional HCI, we're more willing to consider solutions that involve large amounts of knowledge, heuristics, and emerging technologies such as natural language understanding or gesture recognition. The IUI conference gives you a chance to present and to see work in an intimate, focused, no-nonsense event. It is large enough to be diverse and lively (we expect 150-200 people), but small enough to avoid the circus-like atmosphere of conferences with thousands of people. The vast majority of the attendees are actively involved with conceiving and developing cutting-edge interfaces leading to a high and fast impact of research results presented at IUI. It brings together people from academics, industry, and nonprofits. As an ACM conference, papers appear in the ACM Digital Library and citation indices. There will also be a journal publication path for selected papers. It's a single track conference, so you don't have to miss anything. And it's always in a beautiful place, in January! IUI topics include, but are not limited to: - Natural language and speech input and ouput; - Example and programming based interfaces; - Personalization, collaboration, and recommender systems; - Interfaces that learn, teach, provide feedback, or adapt to the user; - AI techniques such as planning and reasoning in interfaces; - Knowledge-based systems; - Intelligent Visualization; - Gesture, attention, and face recognition; - Affective computing, social computing, and aesthetic computing; - Ubiquitous computing, ambient computing, and tangible computing; - Novel methods for, and novel results of, evaluating intelligent user interfaces. ......................................................................... *sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm* ......................................................................... ====================================================================================== Call for Papers 3rd International Workshop on Learner-Oriented Knowledge Management & KM-Oriented E-Learning (LOKMOL 2007) "Using Context and Web2.0 Approaches to Bridge the Gap" Workshop affiliated to the European Conference on Technology Enhanced Learning (EC-TEL 2007) 17 September - 20 September 2007, Crete, Greece. http://www.dfki.de/~memmel/lokmol2007 ====================================================================================== MOTIVATION AND BACKGROUND In spite of the close relationship between learning and knowledge, there is still a lack of cooperation between the fields of e-Learning and Knowledge Management (KM). Accordingly, LOKMOL 2005 brought together researchers and developers to discuss about the perceived connections between KM and e-Learning that are not yet sufficiently operationalised, i.e., the integration-ideas are rarely implemented in practice. The discussions showed that KM addresses learning mostly as part of knowledge sharing processes and focuses on specific forms of informal learning (e.g., learning in a community of practice) or on providing access to learning resources or experts. Last year, the focus lied on the use of techniques and applications arising in the Web2.0 context: e.g., social software that enables individuals to tag content and act both as producers and consumers of content. So far, these technologies seem to have a positive impact in terms of community building, knowledge sharing, and content creation - even if their success hasn't been empirically proven. First questions arose during the workshop, to what degree these systems (e.g., Weblogs, Wikis, XML/RSS based content syndication and aggregation) support certain learning processes. Technology-enhanced learning approaches develop more and more towards responsive environments that are embedded into the working process of individuals and existing organizational structures. Research has shown so far, that we have to cope with the challenge of gathering, describing, and using resources as well as context (information) about their creation and (re)use in order to drive the integration of KM and e-Learning technologies. Research has already been tackling the domain of context, for example related to context description, context matching, or context-based information delivery, but still needs a better integration into KM and e-Learning. The aim of this year's workshop is to bring together experts who are willing to share their experience about their work about the (re-)use and repurposing of arbitrary types of existing resources and who provide insights about how context could help to develop forthcoming technology-enhanced approaches that integrate KM and e-Learning solutions for strategic as well as individual and (in-)formal competence development. The workshop is based on the insight that KM technologies need to take into account findings from social sciences such as pedagogy or psychology, to be effective in terms of learning and that learning can profit from KM technologies. In fact, there is a gap between well organised, but monolithic and inert e-Learning material such as courseware on the one hand and dynamic and flexible knowledge bases that are often not able to activate learning processes on the other hand. An integration of KM and e-Learning, especially by using context-based technologies, could dramatically change today's understanding of further education towards lifelong learning fed by dynamically changing public and organizational knowledge repositories. This workshop will continue the series of LOKMOL workshops and will build upon the results of the previous ones. GOALS AND WORKSHOP QUESTIONS The LOKMOL workshops is organised around three main types of questions, which have shown up as a good motivation and structure for discussion in the previous workshops. * Methods: Which pedagogical approaches are suitable to facilitate learning from (heterogeneous) knowledge repositories? How can KM systems be enhanced to suit the learners' needs as well as pedagogical principles such as informal and self-directed learning? What kind of pedagogical theories, principles, and methods can be applied to compose learning material (semi-) automatically from knowledge chunks? In which way can context and Web2.0 approaches support current learning methods? * Standards and technologies: Up to what extend do current KM and e-Learning technologies and standards (e.g., IMS Learning Design, SCORM reference model, LOM, Semantic Web standards) support an integration of learning and KM? What are the requirements of KM technologies in order to support personalisation by addressing the learners' needs and individual learning processes? What kind of technologies exist that combine stored knowledge (e.g., resources existing in the World Wide Web) to learning material based on, e.g., instructional design models or didactic concepts? Which KM technologies, especially the ones focusing on the support of technical and organizational components, are useful to support professional e-Learning? How did context-based technologies influence e-Learning so far? How do Web2.0 technologies such as lightweight APIs enabling Mashups of existing services support the integration of KM and e-Learning? * Empirical results and studies: Which empirical findings demonstrate the efficiency and effectiveness of learning material created in accordance with these methods and technologies? Are there any studies that describe the success or failures of the application of context and Web2.0 approaches in e-Learning? POSSIBLE TOPIC AREAS * incorporating arbitrary types of resources for KM and e-Learning: metadata concepts to represent resources and different views; (re-)using resources from heterogeneous repositories; frameworks and techniques to repurpose resources; * context of creation, (re-)use and repurposing of resources: representing and visualizing content; tracking context; contextual attention metadata; matching contexts; exploiting context information (e.g., for adaptation and personalisation); * connecting content and components: using (lightweight) semantic descriptions such as micro-formats to enable data exchange and interoperability; services and service-oriented architectures; mashups; * users as content consumers and producers: collaborative knowledge building and sharing; tools and architectures for authoring, annotating, storing and retrieving of user generated content; aspects of quality assurance; use of Wikis, Blogs, social bookmarking tools and folksonomies; encouraging user participation; establishing self-sustained communities; TARGET GROUPS The workshop intends to bring together researchers and practitioners from relevant communities (technology enhanced learning, knowledge management, knowledge representation, information systems, personalisation, user modeling, psychology and pedagogy, etc.) to share their knowledge, results and expertise about their research on cross-disciplinary research approaches for e-Learning. In more detail, the workshop aims to discuss how suitable technologies (e.g., Web2.0, context-based methods) and designs can be used to integrate e-Learning with KM more efficiently and effectively. The workshop language will be English. SUBMISSIONS Each submission must explicitly address at least one of the questions above (the fulfilment of this requirement will be part of the review process). During the workshop all presenters will have the opportunity to state their individual contribution to these questions. In summary sessions these contributions will be collected and evaluated by the audience. Contributions submitted should not exceed 4 pages for short papers and 8 pages for long papers: * short papers: short descriptions of ongoing or beginning work, topics for discussion, position papers, thesis descriptions. Length: up to 4 pages (including references) * full papers: full papers are detailed descriptions of scientific work. Length: up to 8 pages (including references) The submitted papers should be written in English and be formatted according to the Springer LNCS guidelines (have a look at http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html). Please email a PDF or POSTSCRIPT version (zipped) of your contribution to lokmol[at]dfki.uni-kl.de or contact: Martin Memmel German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence DFKI GmbH Erwin-Schrödinger-Straße 57 67663 Kaiserslautern Germany DFKI GmbH Tel: +49-631-20575-121 Fax: +49-631-20575-103 PUBLICATION Workshop papers will be published as EC-TEL workshop proceedings will be published on-line as part of the CEUR Workshop proceedings series. CEUR-WS.org is a recognized ISSN publication series, ISSN 1613-0073. This does not prevent you to have papers presented elsewhere as you retain the copyright. The following prerequisites have to be met to get the paper published: * All workshop participants have to register for the EC-TEL 2007 conference. * At least one author of an accepted paper must register for the EC-TEL 2007 conference before the deadline for camera-ready-copies of the papers (August 15, 2007). Otherwise the paper will not be published. IMPORTANT DATES * Submission of contributions July 21, 2007 * Notification of authors regarding acceptance/rejection August 4, 2007 * Camera-ready copy of the papers due August 15, 2007 * Workshop at EC-TEL 2007 in Crete, Greece September 16, 2007 (pending) * EC-TEL 2007 September 17-20, 2007 WORKSHOP ORGANISERS Martin Memmel, German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence GmbH (DFKI), Trippstader Straße 122, 67663 Kaiserslautern, Germany martin.memmel[at]dfki.uni-kl.de Eric Ras, Fraunhofer Institute for Experimental Software Engineering, Fraunhofer-Platz 1, 67663 Kaiserslautern, Germany eric.ras[at]iese.fraunhofer.de Martin Wolpers, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Celestijnenlaan 200A, 3001 Leuven, Belgium martin.wolpers[at]cs.kuleuven.be Don't hesitate to contact us if there are any problems or questions. PROGRAM COMMITTEE Andrea Back, University of St. Gallen, Switzerland Nicola Henze, L3S, Hannover, Germany (tbc) Ralf Klamma, RWTH Aaachen, Germany Katrina Leyking, IWI, Saarbrücken, Germany Stefanie Lindstaedt, Know-Center, Graz, Austria Wolfgang Nejdl, L3S, Hannover, Germany (tbc) Gabi Reinmann, Universität Augsburg, Germany Andreas Schmidt, Forschungszentrum Informatik, Karlsruhe, Germany Klaus Tochtermann, Know-Center Graz, Austria (tbc) Stephan Weibelzahl, National College of Ireland, Ireland David Wiley, Utah State University, USA (tbc) Volker Zimmermann, IMC AG, Germany ......................................................................... *sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm* ......................................................................... Im Fachbereich Mathematik und Informatik, Arbeitsgruppe Prof. Dr. Hüllermeier, der Philipps-Universität Marburg ist ab 01.09.2007 befristet auf 2 Jahre mit der Möglichkeit der Verlängerung eine Stelle für eine/n Wissenschaftliche/n Mitarbeiter/in zu besetzen. Die Vergütung erfolgt nach Verg.-Gr. IIa BAT. Gemäß § 8 Abs. 2 Satz 1 HGlG sind Vollzeitstellen grundsätzlich teilbar. Es handelt sich um eine befristet zu besetzende Förderstelle, die - im Rahmen der zugewiesenen Aufgaben - auch die Möglichkeit zur wissenschaftlichen Weiterqualifizierung bietet. Hierfür steht ein Drittel der Arbeitszeit zur Verfügung. Zu den Aufgaben zählen wissenschaftliche Dienstleistungen zur Organisation, Vorbereitung und Durchführung von Forschung und Lehre gem. § 77 Abs. 1 HHG, einschließlich der Mithilfe bei der Durchführung von Übungen, Seminaren und Praktika innerhalb der Informatik. Forschungsarbeiten auf den Gebieten Maschinelles Lernen und Data Mining, Knowledge Engineering, Bioinformatik. Vorausgesetzt wird ein mit überdurchschnittlichen Noten abgeschlossenes Hochschulstudium in Informatik, Mathematik oder einem verwandten Fach (z.B. Bioinformatik) bzw. eine ausgezeichnete Promotion. Erwartet werden solide Grundlagenkenntnisse in Informatik und Mathematik sowie Spezialkenntnisse in mindestens einem der Gebiete Maschinelles Lernen, Data Mining, Knowledge Engineering, Bioinformatik. Wir fördern Frauen und fordern sie deshalb ausdrücklich zur Bewerbung auf. In Bereichen, in denen Frauen unterrepräsentiert sind, werden Frauen bei gleicher Eignung bevorzugt berücksichtigt. Bewerberinnen und Bewerber mit Kindern sind willkommen - die Philipps-Universität bekennt sich zum Ziel der familiengerechten Hochschule. Eine Reduzierung der Arbeitszeit ist grundsätzlich möglich. Schwerbehinderte Bewerberinnen/Bewerber werden bei gleicher Eignung bevorzugt. Wir bitten darum, Bewerbungsunterlagen nur in Kopie vorzulegen, da diese nach Abschluss des Verfahrens aus Kostengründen nicht zurückgesandt werden. Bewerbungs- und Vorstellungskosten werden nicht erstattet. Bewerbungsunterlagen sind bis zum 18.07.2007 unter Angabe der Kennziffer fb12-0011-wmz-2007 an den Dekan des Fachbereichs Mathematik und Informatik, Philipps-Universität Marburg, Hans-Meerwein-Straße, Lahnberge, 35032 Marburg, zu senden. ......................................................................... *sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm* ......................................................................... Im Fachbereich 4: *Informatik *am Campus *Koblenz *sind in der *Arbeitsgruppe Informationssysteme und Semantic Web** *(http://isweb.uni-koblenz.de/) im Themenumfeld *Semantic Web* zum Herbst 2007 zwei Stellen: *einer Projektleiterin/eines Projektleiters (**Entgeltgruppe 14 des TV-L), ganztags, und* *eines Wissenschaftlichen Mitarbeiters (13 TV-L), ganztags* befristet für zunächst zwei Jahre mit der Option auf Verlängerung zu besetzen. Die befristete Einstellung erfolgt auf der Grundlage der Regelungen des Hochschulrahmengesetzes (§§ 57 a-f HRG). Die Stellen werden im Rahmen von zwei grundlagenorientierten Drittmittelprojekten ausgeschrieben, die von der Europäischen Union gefördert werden. Die zu bearbeitenden Themenbereiche umfassen Ontology Learning, Web Information Retrieval und Analyse von Folksonomies sowie Analyse von Multimedia-Daten mit gemischt symbolischen und statistischen Verfahren. Wenn Sie einen sehr guten Diplom- oder Masterabschluß bzw. eine sehr gute Promotion für die Stelle der Projektleiterin/des Projektleiters in einem relevanten Themengebiet erreicht haben, sich wissenschaftlich auf internationalem Niveau weiterqualifizieren wollen und Interesse an internationaler, teamorientierter Projekt- und Forschungsarbeit haben, dann freuen wir uns über Ihre Bewerbung. Der neue Campus der Universität Koblenz-Landau bietet eine hervorragende technische Ausstattung. Frauen werden bei gleichwertiger Eignung, Befähigung und fachlicher Leistung bevorzugt berücksichtigt, soweit und solange eine Unterrepräsentanz vorliegt. Dies gilt nicht, wenn in der Person eines Bewerbers so schwerwiegende Gründe vorliegen, dass sie auch unter Beachtung des Gebotes zur Gleichstellung der Frauen überwiegen. Schwerbehinderte Bewerberinnen/Bewerber werden bei gleicher Qualifikation bevorzugt eingestellt. Bewerberinnen/Bewerber senden ihre Unterlagen bis zum *31. **Juli 2007 *per E-Mail an werger@uni-koblenz.de Auskünfte können bei Prof. Dr. Staab, 0261/2872761, staab@uni-koblenz.de eingeholt werden. ......................................................................... *sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm* ......................................................................... 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 Machine Learning and Data Mining. The ideal candidate should have a good knowledge of * text mining * logical foundations of Artificial Intelligence * legal information systems However, we will also consider strong candidates with research experience in other fields of interest of our group, which include * rule learning * preference learning * machine learning and game playing * hypertext classification The position is temporary (July 2007-December 2008). Remuneration is according to German public service pay scale BAT IIa. The full description of the opening can be found at http://www.ke.informatik.tu-darmstadt.de/jobs/ALIS_e2.html ......................................................................... *sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm* .........................................................................