SIG KM NEWSLETTER Issue July 2008 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: 9th European Conference on Case-Based Reasoning (ECCBR 2008), early bird registration: July 12 2. Call for Workshop Proposals: 5th conference on Professional Knowledge Management (KM 2009), workshop proposal deadline: July 11 ......................................................................... *sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm* ......................................................................... *************************************************************** CALL FOR PARTICIPATION 9th European Conference on Case-Based Reasoning ECCBR 2008 1-4 September 2008, Trier (Germany) http://2008.eccbr.org/ EARLY BIRD REGISTRATION UNTIL JULY 12 *************************************************************** ECCBR 2008 is the 9th European Conference on Case-Based Reasoning (CBR) following a series of successful European conferences and workshops. This four-day conference will be held at the University of Trier in Germany. The conference programme will include invited talks, oral and poster presentations as well as workshops on both fundamental and applied research in CBR. Additionally, the Industry Day will focus on industrial-strength technology and industrial applications of CBR. A new element of the ECCBR programme is the Computer Cooking Contest (CCC) intended as a CBR system competition demonstrating the application of case retrieval, adaptation, and combination methods for cooking recipes. Programme Schedule (Draft) -------------------------- Sunday (August 31, 2008) ************************ 7:00 p.m. Informal get together at the Bitburger brewhouse Monday (September 1, 2008) Workshop Day & CCC ********************************************* 9:30 a.m. Opening Invited Talk of Padraig Cunningham & Barry Smyth on An Analysis of Research Themes in the CBR Conference Literature Workshops sessions Computer Cooking Contest 8:00 p.m. Welcome reception (wine tasting) at Kesselstatt Tuesday (September 2, 2008) Industry Day **************************************** Industry program Technical session with application papers Poster session 8:00 p.m. EILF community building: open source initiative meeting Wednesday (September 3, 2008) Scientific Programme including ************************************************************ The Role of CBR in the Future Internet ************************************** Invited Talk of Enric Plaza on Semantics and Experience in the Future Web Technical sessions 7:00 p.m. Conference banquet at the Orangerie in Nell's Park Thursday (September 4, 2008) Scientific Programme including CBR in Healthcare ***************************************************************************** Invited talk of Isabelle Bichindaritz on CBR in the Health Sciences: Why it Matters for the Health Sciences and for CBR Technical sessions Community meeting 4:30 p.m. Closing Programme Chairs ---------------- Klaus-Dieter Althoff, University of Hildesheim Ralph Bergmann, University of Trier Local Chair ----------- Mirjam Minor, University of Trier Industry Day Chair ------------------ Ralph Traphöner, empolis Workshop Chair -------------- Martin Schaaf, University of Hildesheim ......................................................................... *sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm* ......................................................................... Call for Workshops Proposals **************************************************************** KM2009 5th Conference on Professional Knowledge Management - Experiences and Visions - Solothurn, Switzerland 25-27th of March 2009 http://www.km-conference2009.org **************************************************************** The Conference on Professional Knowledge Management 2009 provides a broad integrative overview of organizational, cultural, social and technical aspects on knowledge management. Focus of the conference is bringing together different research disciplines and sharing experiences gained in the different areas where knowledge management is being applied. Both practitioners and scientists will be invited to visit Solothurn, Switzerland, in order to exchange experiences, to discuss current problems and challenges and learn from each other. Participants will be able get a well-founded overview of the most important trends in the area of knowledge management. Therefore our conference offers much time and space for communication. We would like to invite you to contribute actively by organizing a workshop at KM2009. There will be opportunities for half-day, one-day, and two-day workshops. Please submit your workshop proposal electronically in PDF or Postscript format. The proposal can be written in German or English and should not be submitted later than July 11th, 2008, via the conference system http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=wm2009 Each proposal should explain on 2-3 A4-pages the topic of the workshop, the potential audience (as concrete as possible), and information about the intended length. Furthermore a tentative program committee should be given. When the proposal is accepted the workshop organizers are responsible for the organization of the workshop completely including distribution of the call-for-papers, maintenance of their own web page, organization and implementation of the review process, and providing the camera-ready submissions in time. Furthermore all workshop have to follow the time schedule given below. The workshop organizers have to mention that at least one author of accepted paper have to be registered to the conference. Accepted submission will be published in a proceedings from a well-known publisher. Every workshop will have access to a given amount of pages depending on the length of the workshop. Program Structure ----------------- The conference consists of presentations and workshops, plenary sessions and a poster session which takes place during the conference program. Before the workshops on Wednesday (25th of March 2009) tutorials on current knowledge management issues are held by experts. During the workshops on Wednesday (25th of March 2009), Thursday (26th of March 2009) and Friday (27th of March 2009) current knowledge management issues will be presented and discussed and the results will be elaborated. Deadlines --------- * Submission of workshop proposals 11th of July 2008 * Notification about workshop acceptance/rejection 1st of August 2008 * Publication of the call for papers (on the organizer-website) 15th of August 2008 * Submission of workshop papers 31th of October 2008 * Notification of authors about acceptance/rejection 15th of December 2008 * Submission of camera-ready papers 16th of January 2009 * Workshops at the KM2009 25th of March to 27th of March 2009 General Chair ------------- Prof. Dr. Knut Hinkelmann Fachhochschule Nordwestschweiz Riggenbachstrasse 16 4600 Olten Tel | ++41 62 286 00 80 E-Mail | knut.hinkelmann 'at' fhnw 'dot' ch Web | http://knut.hinkelmann.ch Workshop Chair -------------- Prof. Dr. Holger Wache Fachhochschule Nordwestschweiz Riggenbachstrasse 16 4600 Olten Tel | ++41 62 286 01 71 E-Mail | holger.wache 'at' fhnw 'dot' ch Web | http://web.fhnw.ch/personenseiten/holger.wache ......................................................................... *sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm* .........................................................................