SIG KM NEWSLETTER Issue June 2003 Newsletter of the German Special Interest Group on Knowledge Management http://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 Papers: Workshop on Knowledge and Experience Management (FGWM'03) 2. Call for Papers: Workshop der Fachgruppe Maschinelles Lernen, Wissenentdeckung, Data Mining (FGML'03) (in Germany) 3. Call for Participation: 4. Oldenburger Fachtagung Wissensmanagement (in Germany) 4. Call for Papers: Biomedical Ontologies 5. Call for Papers: Fourth International ICSC Symposium on Engineering of Intelligent Systems (EIS 2004) 6. Call for Papers: KCAP-03 Workshops 7. Postdoctoral Research Positions at the University of Namur, Belgium ......................................................................... *sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm* ......................................................................... 1. Call for Papers: Workshop on Knowledge and Experience Management (FGWM'03) DEADLINE APPROACHING: June 22, 2003 !!!! FGWM 2003 --------- Workshop on Knowledge and Experience Management to be held as part of the Workshop Week "Teaching-Learning-Knowledge-Adaptivity" (LLWA) http://km.aifb.uni-karlsruhe.de/ws/LLWA/fgwm October 6 - 8, 2003 Karlsruhe, Germany The goal of this workshop, which will be held in conjunction with the annual meeting of the "Fachgruppe Wissensmanagement der GI" (http://www.fgwm.de/) is to provide an interdisciplinary forum for researchers and practitioners for exchanging ideas and innovative applications around knowledge and experience management. We welcome contributions about current research from these or adjacent areas. In contrast to other workshops, we strongly encourage submissions describing ongoing research efforts that would usually considered to be too premature. In order to stimulate interesting discussions, such submissions should be at least well organized and clearly written. Topics of Interest ------------------ - Applications of Knowledge and Experience Management (Corporate Memories, E-Commerce, WWW, Design, Tutoring/eLearning, Robotic, Medicine, etc.) - "Lessons-Learned" for IT-based Knowledge Management solutions - Integration of Knowledge Management and Business Processes - Agile approaches to Knowledge Management - Knowledge Representation (Ontologies, Similarity, Retrieval, Adaptation knowledge, etc.) - Authoring and Maintenance Support Systems - Just-In-Time Retrieval and Just-In-Time Knowledge Capturing - Methods for Knowledge and Experience Retrieval (Case-Based Reasoning, Logic-based approaches, Text-based approaches etc.) Important Dates --------------- June 22: Deadline for paper submissions and demo/poster announcements July 25 : Final version of accepted submissions October 6.-8: Workshop Knowledge and Experience Management Submissions ----------- Please send your submission either as PS or PDF file via email to: to fgwm03@dwm.uni-hildesheim.de Submissions should not exceed 8 pages in length and should follow the formatting instructions at: http://km.aifb.uni-karlsruhe.de/ws/LLWA/paperstyle/llwa03-submit.pdf Organization ------------ Ralph Bergmann, Universität Hildesheim (bergmann@dwm.uni-hildesheim.de) Martin Schaaf, Universität Hildesheim (schaaf@dwm.uni-hildesheim.de) Program Committee ----------------- Andreas Abecker, FZI Karlsruhe Klaus-Dieter Althoff, Fraunhofer IESE Ralph Bergmann, Universität Hildesheim Harald Holz, Universität Kaiserslautern Ioannis Iglezakis, DaimlerChrysler, Ulm Mirjam Minor, Humboldt Universität Berlin Markus Nick, Fraunhofer IESE Uli Reimer, Business Operation Systems, Kreuzlingen Thomas Roth-Berghofer, DFKI, Kaiserslautern Martin Schaaf, Universität Hildesheim Rainer Schmidt, Universität Rostock Sascha Schmitt, SAP AG Steffen Staab, Universität Karlsruhe Armin Stahl, Universität Kaiserslautern ......................................................................... *sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm* ......................................................................... 2. Call for Papers: Workshop der Fachgruppe Maschinelles Lernen, Wissenentdeckung, Data Mining (FGML'03) DEADLINE APPROACHING: June 22, 2003 !!!! FGML 2003 --------- Treffen der Fachgruppe Maschinelles Lernen, Wissenentdeckung, Data Mining der Gesellschaft für Informatik Karlsruhe, 6. - 8. Oktober 2003 http://km.aifb.uni-karlsruhe.de/ws/LLWA/fgml Das Treffen der GI-Fachgruppe 1.1.3 maschinelles Lernen, dass dieses Jahr in Karlsruhe stattfindet, bietet ein Diskussionsforum für alle, die sich mit der Entwicklung, Analyse und Anwendung von Methoden der Wissensentdeckung, des maschinellen Lernens und des Data Mining beschäftigen. Auf der FGML 2003 sollen Arbeiten vorgestellt werden, die sich mit empirischen, theoretischen und interdisziplinären Fragestellungen in allen Bereichen der Wissensentdeckung, des maschinellen Lernens und des Data Mining beschäftigen, also z.B. - Induktives Lernen, - Abduktion, - Künstliche Neuronale Netze, - Support Vector Machines, - Kognitive Modelle des Lernens, - Erklärungsbasiertes Lernen, - Genetische Algorithmen, - Lernen und Problemlösen, - Lernende Prozess-Steuerung, - Reinforcement Learning, - Analoges Lernen, - Fallbasiertes Schließen, - Computational Learning Theory, - Formale Modelle des Lernens, - Graphentheoretische Ansätze des Lernens, - Induktive Logische Programmierung, - Data Mining, - Knowledge Discovery in Databases, - Vorverarbeitung von Daten, - Merkmalsgenerierung, - Multistrategy Learning, - Modellselektion, - Revision von Theorien, - Statistische Ansätze, - Programmsynthese und Fertigkeitslernen, - Fuzzy-Regelgenerierung, - Mustererkennung, - Semantic Web Mining, - Text Mining - Anwendungen. Termine ------- 22. Juni: Einreichung von Papieren, Anmeldung von Demos, Postern. 25. Juli: Überarbeitete Fassung der Fachbeiträge 6.-8. Oktober: FGML 2003 Veranstalter der FGML 2003 -------------------------- Gerd Stumme, AIFB Universität Karlsruhe Andreas Hotho, AIFB Universität Karlsruhe Email: fgml03@aifb.uni-karlsruhe.de ......................................................................... *sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm* ......................................................................... 3. Call for Participation: 4. Oldenburger Fachtagung Wissensmanagement 4. Oldenburger Fachtagung Wissensmanagement 11.-12. Juni 2003 Universität Oldenburg, Germany Am 11. und 12. Juni 2003 findet die 4. Oldenburger Fachtagung Wissensmanagement statt, zu der wir Sie recht herzlich einladen möchten. Die diesjährige Veranstaltung, die wegen des großen Interesses und der Themenvielfalt erstmals an zwei Tagen stattfindet, informiert über Konzepte, Potenziale und Werkzeuge. Neben namhaften Keynote Speakers werden Referenten aus Wirtschaft und Wissenschaft in die Themen Organisation, Technik und Humanorientierung des Wissensmanagement einführen. Parallel zur Vortragsreihe gibt es eine Ausstellung und Workshops zu den Themen "Modellierung und Analyse wissensintensiver Geschäftsprozesse" sowie "Konzeption und Einführung von Wissensmanagementportalen". Workshop-Angebote ----------------- 1. Modellierung und Analyse wissensintensiver Geschäftsprozesse Im Workshop erfolgt eine Einführung in die Modellierung wissensintensiver Geschäftsprozesse mit der Knowledge Modeler Description Language. An Praxisbeispielen wird gezeigt, wie aus dieser Modellierung Schwachstellen in der Wissensverarbeitung abgeleitet und Maßnahmen entwickelt werden können. Wissensmanagement trägt so unmittelbar zur Steigerung von Wirtschaftlichkeit und Wettbewerbsfähigkeit bei. Veranstalter: AG Wissensmanagement der Universität Oldenburg Kostenbeitrag: je Teilnehmer 30 EUR inkl. Workshopunterlagen 2. Konzeption und Einführung von Wissensmanagementportalen am Beispiel der altavier Portal-Suite Komplexe Infrastrukturen im Bereich von Intra-, Extra- und Internet für das Wissensmanagement können nicht ad-hoc aufgebaut werden. Der Workshop stellt Implementierungsmethoden aus Projekten dar. Die Abbildung offener bzw. vorstrukturierter Wissensobjekte, von Navigations- und Suchmechanismen und die semantische Vernetzung von Inhalten stehen im Vordergrund. Veranstalter: altavier GmbH, Berlin Kostenbeitrag: Kostenfrei Anmeldung --------- bitte bis zum 06. Juni 2003 per Fax an (0441) 9722 - 111 per E-Mail an forum-wm@offis.de per Internet unter http://www.wi-ol.de per Post an: OFFIS, Stichwort: Fachtagung Wissensmanagement, Escherweg 2,26121 Oldenburg Teilnehmergebühr ---------------- Beide Tage 150 Euro Ein Tag 100 Euro Konferenzdinner 40 Euro Workshop 1 30 Euro Workshop 2 --- Die Teilnehmergebühr beinhaltet Essen, Getränke und Tagungsband. Veranstalter ------------ OFFIS e.V. F&E-Bereich Betriebliches Informations- und Wissensmanagement Universität Oldenburg - Abteilung Wirtschaftsinformatik Ansprechpartner: Andre Kalisch Tel.: (04 41) 7 98 - 4474 Fax: (04 41) 7 98 - 4472 E-Mail: forum-wm@offis.de Weiter Informationen unter: www.wi-ol.de ......................................................................... *sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm* ......................................................................... 4. Call for Papers: Biomedical Ontologies Call for Papers and Posters Biomedical Ontologies at the Pacific Symposium on Biocomputing 2004 January 6-10, 2004 The Fairmont Orchid, Big Island of Hawaii As we celebrate the 50th anniversary of the description of the structure of DNA, biology is evolving from a science of organisms and molecules to a science of information. In modern biology, massive amounts of data are produced resulting, for example, from sequencing the genome of many organisms and studying gene expression under various conditions. In turn, there has been a shift from hypothesis-driven experiments to data-driven experiments. Ontologies provide a conceptualization of a domain that can be shared among diverse groups of researchers and health care professionals and used computationally for multiple purposes. Biologic knowledge is evolving so rapidly that it is difficult for most scientists to assimilate and integrate the new information with their existing knowledge. Promoting the creation and use of ontologies for the field and linking to other ontologies in related domains holds the promise of assisting those working in biomedical disciplines and thus making more rapid scientific progress. This session would welcome papers that discuss: * Biomedical ontology creation and use * Reasoning about the biomedical domain based on ontological knowledge * Use and development of ontologies to support natural language processing (NLP) * Ontologies in support of knowledge discovery * Intelligent agent technologies and associated ontologies * Scalability and versioning of biomedical ontologies * Linking and aligning multiple ontologies * Use of ontologies to bridge heterogeneous information resources (e.g., to connect genotype to gene expression and ultimately to clinical medicine, drug discoveries, etc.) * Advances in ontology languages and related technologies as applied to bioinformatics and biomedical problems * Other research associated with bioinformatics and biomedical ontologies Session co-chairs ----------------- * Olivier Bodenreider (contact person) National Library of Medicine olivier@nlm.nih.gov * Joyce A. Mitchell University of Missouri, Columbia and National Library of Medicine MitchellJo@health.missouri.edu * Alexa T. McCray National Library of Medicine mccray@nlm.nih.gov Submission information ---------------------- Papers and Posters The core of the conference consists of rigorously peer-reviewed full-length papers reporting on original work. Accepted papers will be published in a hard-bound archival proceedings, and the best of these will be presented orally to the entire conference. Researchers wishing to present their research without official publication are encouraged to submit a one page abstract by November 1, 2003, and present their work in the poster sessions. Important dates --------------- * Paper submissions due: July 14, 2003 * Notification of paper acceptance: September 8, 2003 * Final paper deadline: September 22, 2003 * Abstract deadline: November 1, 2003 * Meeting: January 6-10, 2004 Paper format ------------ All papers must be submitted to russ.altman@stanford.edu in electronic format. The file formats we accept are: Adobe Acrobat (*.pdf) and Microsoft Word documents (*.doc). Attached files should be named with the last name of the first author (e.g. altman.pdf or altman.doc). Hardcopy submissions or unprocessed TEX or LATEX files will be rejected without review. Each paper must be accompanied by a cover letter. The cover letter must state the following: * The email address of the corresponding author * The specific PSB session that should review the paper or abstract * The submitted paper contains original, unpublished results, and is not currently under consideration elsewhere. * All co-authors concur with the contents of the paper. Submitted papers are limited to twelve (12) pages in our publication format. Please format your paper according to instructions found at: http://www.smi.stanford.edu/projects/helix/psb-online/psb-submit/. If figures can not be easily resized and placed precisely in the text, then it should be clear that with appropriate modifications, the total manuscript length would be within the page limit. Color pictures can be printed at the expense of the authors. The fee is $500 per page of color pictures, payable at the time of camera ready submission. Contact ------- Contact Russ Altman (russ.altman@stanford.edu) for additional information about paper submission requirements. ......................................................................... *sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm* ......................................................................... 5. Call for Papers: Fourth International ICSC Symposium on Engineering of Intelligent Systems (EIS 2004) Call for Papers Fourth International ICSC Symposium on Engineering of Intelligent Systems (EIS 2004) in collaboration with the University of Madeira, Funchal Island of Madeira, Portugal February 29 - March 2, 2004 Honorary Chairman: Erkki Oja, Finland Organizing Committee -------------------- General Chair: Ana Isabel Portugal de Almada Cardoso, Madeira Vice Chair: Tatjana Welzer, University of Maribor, Slovenia Scientific Program Chair: Marjan Druzovec, University of Maribor, Slovenia The problem of engineering of intelligent systems is in fact the science of transferring the methodologies, the knowledge and the experiences from the area of artificial intelligence into the daily life, either directly through the applications or indirectly through basic or applied research. The conference originated in order to provide a wide forum in which the latest developments in the field could be discussed; so the participants from all countries are warmly welcome. The scope of the conference as indicated by its topics has been updated to reflect the recent rapid development of the intelligent systems, such as in the area of control systems, decision support systems or artificial life, to mention only a few. The previous very successful conferences in the series were held in 1998 on Tenerife Island, Spain, in 2000 in Paisley, Scotland, and in 2002 in Malaga, Spain. The success of the previous conferences and the achieved high standard will be reflected also in the coming conference. TOPICS THEORY ------------- Artificial Immune Systems; Artificial Life; Case based Reasoning; Data Mining; Chaos; Clustering; Constraint Satisfaction and Constraint Programming; Expert Systems; Evolutionary Computation; Fuzzy Clustering; Fuzzy Control; Fuzzy learning; Fuzzy Modelling; Hybrid Systems; Intelligent Agents; Reasoning with Intervals; Knowledge Extraction; Machine Learning; Model based Reasoning; Multi Agent Systems; Neural Networks; Qualitative Reasoning; Wavelets TOPICS APPLICATIONS ------------------- Concurrent Engineering; Condition Monitoring and Control; Damage Assessment; Data Mining and Knowledge Extraction; Design; Emerging Organizational Forms; Fault Detection; Hardware Implementations; Image Processing and Computer Vision; Industrial Diagnostics; Management; Medicine Robotics; Mobile robots; Monitoring and Control; Multimedia; Natural Language Processing; Pattern Recognition; Product Development; Resource Allocation; Remote Sensing; Robotics; Security; Sensors fusion; Signal Processing; Speech Processing and Recognition; Teledetection; Teleoperation Important Dates --------------- Submission Deadline August 15, 2003 Notification September 15, 2003 Early registration September 20 - October 10, 2003 Final Manuscripts + registration by October 15, 2003 Conference: February 29 - March 3, 2004 Additional information will be available on our home page http://www.icsc-naiso.org/ ......................................................................... *sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm* ......................................................................... 6. Call for Papers: KCAP-03 Workshops KCAP-03 Workshops http://sern.ucalgary.ca/ksi/K-CAP/K-CAP2003/ The K-CAP 2003 Program Committee is happy to announce that five workshops have been accepted for the Workshop Program for K-CAP 2003, to be held in Sanibel, Florida, USA. Workshops will be held on October 25 and 26th, 2003, immediately after the end of the main conference. Note that this year K-CAP'2003 is held in conjunction with the 2nd International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC2003). K-CAP workshops will provide an informal setting where workshop participants will have the opportunity to discuss specific technical topics in an atmosphere that fosters the active exchange of ideas. Our aim for the workshop programme is to promote and collect multidisciplinary research directions and potentially interesting technologies for efficiently capturing knowledge from a variety of sources. To encourage interaction and a broad exchange of ideas, each workshop will be limited to 30 participants and ample time will be allotted for general discussion. The K-CAP-03 Workshop Programme ------------------------------- Knowledge Markup and Semantic Annotation Siegfried Handschuh, Karlsruhe University, Germany (contact person), Marja-Riitta Koivunen, W3C, Rose Dieng-Kuntz, INRIA, France, Steffen Staab, Karlsruhe University, Germany. Knowledge Management and the Semantic Web Rose Dieng-Kuntz, INRIA, France (co-chair and contact person), Fabien Gandon, Carnegie Mellon University, USA (co-chair), Philippe Perez, Atos Origin, France, Joel Quinqueton, LIRMM, France, Paola Turci, University of Parma, Italy. Information Visualization in Knowledge Capture Technologies Neil A. Ernst, University of Victoria, Canada (contact person), Margaret-Anne Storey, University of Victoria, Canada. Distributed and Collaborative Knowledge Capture Tim Chklovski, Information Sciences Institute, USC, USA (contact person), Push Singh, Media Lab, MIT, USA. This workshop will be linked to the workshop "Capturing Knowledge from Domain Experts: Progress and Prospects" Capturing Knowledge from Domain Experts: Progress and Prospects Derek Sleeman, University of Aberdeen, UK (contact person). Yolanda Gil, ISI, USA. This workshop will be linked with the Workshop on "Distributed and Collaborative Knowledge Capture" The specific details on the deadlines and format for workshop papers is given in the individual workshop website. Any questions regarding the overall structure of the workshops can be addressed to John Domingue (j.b.domingue@open.ac.uk). Questions on an individual workshop should be addressed to the workshop chairs. Conference home page: http://sern.ucalgary.ca/ksi/K-CAP/K-CAP2003/ ......................................................................... *sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm* ......................................................................... 7. Postdoctoral Research Positions at the University of Namur, Belgium Postdoctoral Research Positions at the University of Namur, Belgium Five postdoctoral research positions are be available in six research areas at the University of Namur, among which, two are in computer science: - Cognitive and semantic approaches to building large concept graphs - Agent-oriented features All the details concerning these positions are available at http://www.fundp.ac.be/recherche/PostDoc_FUNDP_CERUNA_2003.pdf Note in particular that the application deadline is June 6 2003. ......................................................................... *sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm* .........................................................................