SIG KM NEWSLETTER Issue March 2009 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: 5th Conference Professional Knowledge Management (WM 2009), March 25 - 27, 2009, Solothurn 2. Call for Papers: ICCBR'09 Workshops WS1 Human-centered CBR, deadline: March 27 WS2 WebCBR, deadline: April 17 WS3 Computer games, deadline: April 25 WS4 Uncertainty, KD, & Similarity, deadline: April 23 WS5 CBR in the Health Sciences, deadline April 15 WS6 Computer Cooking Contest, deadline April 24 3. Call for Papers: International Conference on Knowledge Management and Information Sharing (KMIS 2009), Deadline: April 21 4. Call for Papers: CBR Session @ IICAI'09, Deadline: April 10 5. Call for Papers: 32nd Annual Conference on Artificial Intelligence (KI'09), Deadline: April 9 6. Call for Papers: 5th Workshop on Knowledge Engineering and Software Engineering (KESE 2009) @ KI'09, Deadline: June 8 7. Call for Papers: Workshop "Intelligente Methoden in der Medizin" @ INFORMATIK 2009 (in German), Deadline: April 26 ......................................................................... *sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm* ......................................................................... CALL FOR PARTICIPATION 5th Conference Professional Knowledge Management Experiences and Visions 25th of March to 27th of March, Solothurn http://www.km-conference2009.org The Conference on Professional Knowledge Management 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. We want to invite both practitioners and scientists to the knowledge marketplace in Solothurn in order to exchange experiences, to discuss current problems and challenges as well as to learn from each other. We provide participants with 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. This year's 5th conference will be organized by the SIG Knowledge Management and the German Modelling Community of the Gesellschaft für Informatik e.V. and the Institute for Information Systems of the University of Applied Sciences Northwestern Switzerland. The KM conference programme includes on Friday, March 27, 2009 the Joint 5th German Workshop on Experience Management and Enterprise Search (GWEM-ES'09) ......................................................................... *sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm* ......................................................................... CALL FOR WORKSHOP PAPERS 8th International Conference on Case-Based Reasoning July 20 - 23, 2009, Seattle, Washington, USA http://www.iccbr.org/iccbr09/ WS1: HCCBR: Human-Centered Case-Based Reasoning Co-chairs: Jörg Cassens, Anders Kofod-Petersen, Thomas Roth-Berghofer This workshop aims to bring together researchers and practitioners exploring human aspects of the design, implementation, and use of intelligent systems, from a broad range of areas, to share their problems and methodologies across different research and application areas. The workshop will examine methods, mechanisms, and techniques to keep the human in the centre of attention during the whole lifecycle of an intelligent system, from initial problem description through to knowledge acquisition and modelling and on to interactive use and maintenance. It aims to explore issues of human centered design, development, and application of case-based reasoning systems as well as the utilisation of case-based reasoning in human-centered computing. WS2: WebCBR-09:Reasoning from Experiences on the Web Co-chairs: Derek Bridge, Enric Plaza, Nirmalie Wiratunga The WebCBR workshop promotes Case-Based Reasoning (CBR) as a means to advance web technology in two ways. Firstly by enabling better exploitation of explicit yet unstructured experiential web content and secondly by harnessing web usage experiences to improve browsing and searching. We aim to provide a forum for the discussion of trends, research issues and practical experiences on the role of CBR in reasoning with web-related content. WS3: Case-Based Reasoning for Computer Games Co-chairs: Luc Lamontagne, Pedro González Calero The motivation for this workshop is to encourage the exchange of information and ideas about CBR as it is embedded within and provides support for computer gaming environments. Computer games are receiving increasing attention as a means for testing CBR concepts and to extend current CBR paradigms (e.g. real-time issues, uncertainty, online learning). The workshop will provide a medium of exchange for information on games-related CBR research and provide an opportunity for participants to demonstrate some game-related CBR prototypes and hence to illustrate some of the challenges and issues faced by CBR researchers. WS4: Uncertainty, Knowledge Discovery and Similarity in Case-Based Reasoning Co-chairs: Kerstin Bach, Eyke Hüllermeier, Miltos Petridis, Michael Richter, and Rosina Weber Case-based reasoning must face the challenge to deal with uncertain, incomplete, and vague information, which leads to the need of suitable methods for modeling and reasoning under uncertainty, appropriately complemented by tools for learning and knowledge discovery. The objective of this workshop is to provide an opportunity for exchanging ideas related to the application of various techniques of uncertainty management, knowledge discovery, and similarity in CBR. WS5: CBR in the Health Sciences Co-chairs: Cindy Marling, Stefania Montani This workshop will be the seventh in a serious of highly productive workshops on CBR in the health sciences, which have been held at every ICCBR and ECCBR since 2003. It will provide a forum for identifying important contributions and opportunities for research on the application of CBR to the health sciences. In addition the workshop will promote the systematic study of how to apply CBR to the health sciences and provide the opportunity to showcase applications of CBR in the health sciences. WS6: Computer Cooking Contest Workshop Co-chairs: Mirjam Minor, Armin Stahl, David Leake The Computer Cooking Contest (CCC) workshop is part of the Cookery Contest. This workshop will facilitate the presentation and discussion of the technical descriptions of the contest finalists. Paper submissions can only be made by teams participating in the CCC qualifying examination which requires running software. The workshop, however, is open to all ICCBR'09 attendees. Further Information For additional details, please contact the ICCBR'09 workshop coordinator:Sarah Jane Delany sarahjane dot delany at dit dot ie ......................................................................... *sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm* ......................................................................... International Conference on Knowledge Management and Information Sharing (KMIS 2009) http://www.kmis.ic3k.org Madeira, Portugal * 6-8 October 2009 IMPORTANT DATES: Regular Paper Submission: April 21, 2009 Authors Notification: June 16, 2009 Final Paper Submission and Registration: June 30, 2009 Sponsored by INSTICC DVKD CONFERENCE TOPICS: - Metadata and structured documents - Digital libraries - Best practices & communities of practice - Business intelligence & CRM - Communication, collaboration and information sharing - Interoperability - Information security - Impact measurement of knowledge management - Tools and technology for knowledge management - Knowledge management projects - E-Learning, e-training and executive training - Organizational memories - Organizational semiotics - Learning organization & organizational learning - Content management & digital rights management - Intelligent information systems - Social networks and the psychological dimension - Intellectual capital - K-Economy, k-community and k-enterprise - Studies, metrics & benchmarks - Innovation facilitation - KM strategies and implementations This meeting will take place yearly, bringing together top researchers and practitioners in knowledge technologies, especially those related to KMIS main topic areas. The conference is co-located with two related conferences in a joint conference format, namely: - Knowledge Discovery and Information Retrieval (http://www.kdir.ic3k.org/) - Knowledge Engineering and Ontology Development (http://www.keod.ic3k.org/) Registration to one conference allows free access to all conferences. The technical program will include a number of Keynote Lectures to be delivered by distinguished world-class researchers, including: - David Jensen, University of Massachusetts Amherst, U.S.A. - Dan Kirsch, Knowledge Management Professional Society (KMPro), U.S.A. - Justin Zhan, Carnegie Mellon University, U.S.A. - Steffen Staab, University of Koblenz, Germany. [List not yet complete] Submitted papers will be subject to a double-blind review process. All accepted papers will be published in the conference proceedings, under an ISBN reference, in paper and in CD-ROM support. Additionally, a selection of the best papers of the conference may be published in a book, by Springer. Best paper awards will also be distributed during the conference. The conference proceedings will be indexed in several major indices. Special sessions are also invited. If you'd like to take the opportunity to gather your R&D project group or hold a meeting within the scope of IC3K at the conference venue, please contact the secretariat. Special session papers will be included in the conference proceedings. Kind regards, Vera Coelho KMIS/IC3K Secretariat Email: kmis.secretariat at insticc dot org Web: http://www.kmis.ic3k.org ......................................................................... *sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm* ......................................................................... Special Session on Case-Based Reasoning at the 4th Indian International Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IICAI-09) on December 16-18 2009 in Tumkur (near Bangalore): http://www.iiconference.org/iicai09/cbr.html A Special Session on Case-Based Reasoning will be held during the 4th Indian International Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IICAI-09). This session is intended to gather AI researchers and practitioners with an interest in Case-Based Reasoning (CBR) to present and discuss the developments in CBR theory and applications. Submissions are solicited on CBR topics, including but not limited to: CBR Foundations: * Indexing, retrieval, adaptation and explanations. * Case and knowledge representation, acquisition, modeling, visualization, maintenance and management for CBR. CBR Architectures, Methodologies and Applications: * CBR in the semantic web, web services and grid computing. * CBR and education. * Textual CBR. * CBR and creativity. * CBR in Healthcare. * CBR for specific tasks such as: planning, design, workflow management. * CBR and Human Computer Interaction: adaptive interfaces, user modeling,customization and personalization. * Knowledge Intensive CBR with Ontologies. * Evaluations of CBR: formal and empirical. Paper Submission and Publication: Authors are encouraged to submit the papers for this session as an email attachment to the Session Chairs given below. The papers should be in MSWORD, PDF, or PS format and should be formatted according to the Springer Lecture Notes instructions. The length of a paper should not exceed 20 pages. Shorter papers or papers on the work currently in progress are also welcome. The first page of the paper should contain the title, name(s) of the authors, affiliations, the postal and email addresses, and at least 3 keywords appropriate to the content of the paper. Further information regarding the paper submission can be obtained from the conference website too. Each paper will be peer reviewed by at least two experts in the topical area. All accepted papers will be published in the conference proceedings, under the title of the session. And best papers will be published in a journal. You may contact the General Chair of the conference for any additional information. Deadlines: April 10, 2009: Paper manuscripts due. May 25, 2009 : Notification of acceptance. July 6 2009 : Camera ready papers and Pre-registration due. December 16-18, 2009: Special Session and the IICAI-09 Conference. Session Chair: Prof. Hector Gomez Gauchia, Ph.D. Department of Software Engineering and Artificial Intelligence Universidad Complutense 28040 - Madrid, Spain Web: http://gaia.fdi.ucm.es/people/hector Email: iicai09.cbr [at] gmail.com ......................................................................... *sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm* ......................................................................... *** CALL FOR PAPERS *** 32nd Annual Conference on Artificial Intelligence KI 2009 University of Paderborn, Germany September 15 - 18 http://ki2009.uni-paderborn.de This conference aims to gather researchers and developers from academic fields and industries worldwide to share their research results covering all aspects of artificial intelligence. It will be an international forum for discussions on recent progress in different fields of artificial intelligence including, but not limited to: * Agents * AI and engineering * Case-Based Reasoning * Cognitive modeling * Cognitive systems * Constraint satisfaction * Deduction * Evolutionary computation * Games and interactive entertainment * Graphics and AI * History and philosophical foundations of AI * Human-machine-interaction * Knowledge acquisition * Knowledge representation and reasoning * Knowledge and Experience Management * Machine learning and data-mining * Model-based systems * Natural language processing * Neural networks * Ontologies * Planning and scheduling * Reasoning under uncertainty * Robotics * Search * Semantic web * Spatial and temporal reasoning * Vision and perception Special area chairs representing the recent topics in AI will assure that each paper finds a competent reviewer and, when accepted, an adequate session. Orthogonal to the scientific program of the conference three layers will be addressed: * AI and Automation * AI in the current excellence clusters, collaborative research centers and graduate schools, and * AI at the universities of applied sciences. This year's major theme will be the impact of AI methods and theories on the engineering domain. Nowadays, AI can be found everywhere in this field, in the production process as well as in smart products, although very often the influence of AI research remains hidden. The special focus on AI and Automation will present state-of-the-art topics and will help to bridge the gap between academia and industrial applications. Besides the main conference program, it is a good tradition of the KI conferences to have a wide range of workshops and tutorials that allow practitioners in the field to exchange knowledge and ideas. Last but not least, there will be ample opportunity to talk to colleagues and friends. Coffee breaks and an interesting social program will provide lots of opportunities for networking and will make the conference the community event. The program committee cordially invites you to participate in the KI 2009 in one or more ways: if you want to present your work, join some of the workshops or attend the main conference, whatever your intentions might be you are welcome in Paderborn to the 32nd Annual Conference on Artificial Intelligence. General Chair Bärbel Mertsching Key Dates Feb 20, 2009 Workshop proposal Apr 09, 2009 Paper submission Jun 12, 2009 Acceptance notification Jul 31, 2009 Early registration Sep 15 - 18, 2009 KI 2009 ......................................................................... *sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm* ......................................................................... +++ Call for Papers +++ 5th Workshop on Knowledge Engineering and Software Engineering KESE 2009 at the 32nd German Conference on Artificial Intelligence http://kese.ia.agh.edu.pl Aims and Scope ============== Intelligent systems have been successfully developed in various domains based on techniques and tools from the fields of knowledge engineering and software engineering. Thus, declarative software engineering techniques have been established in many areas, such as knowledge systems, logic programming, constraint programming, and lately in the context of the Semantic Web and business rules. The fifth workshop on Knowledge Engineering and Software Engineering (KESE 2009) wants to bring together researchers and practitioners from fields of software engineering and artificial intelligence, as well as the Semantic Web community. The intention is to give ample space for exchanging latest research results as well as knowledge about practical experience. Topics of Interest ================== Topics of interest include but are not limited to: - Knowledge and software engineering for the Semantic Web - Ontologies in practical knowledge and software engineering - Business Rules design and management - Knowledge representation, reasoning and management - Practical knowledge representation and discovery techniques in software engineering - Agent-oriented software engineering - Database and knowledge base management in AI systems - Evaluation and verification of intelligent systems - Practical tools for intelligent systems - Process models in AI applications - Declarative, logic-based approaches - Constraint programming approaches Submission Details ================== Papers should be formatted according to the Springer LNCS guidelines. The length of each paper should not exceed 12 pages for regular papers and 6 pages for short papers (including figures and references), see: ftp.springer.de/pub/tex/latex/llncs/latex2e/llncs2e.zip All papers must be written in English and submitted in PDF format with the A4 paper size explicitly set in LaTeX. Submissions will be made via EasyChair: http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=kese2009. Important dates =============== Paper submission deadline: June 8, 2009 Notification of paper acceptance: July 8, 2009 Camera ready copy submission: July 27, 2009 Call for Tool Presentations =========================== This year we also strongly encourage the submission of tool presentation papers, i.e., system descriptions that clearly show the interaction between research and practice. Such papers could be shorter, and have to be explicitly identified as tool presentation. Organization ============ The one-day workshop will be held with presentations of accepted papers. The submitted papers will be reviewed by at least two members of the program committee. A comfortable time slot for discussions will be given. The proceedings will be published as a technical report before the workshop, and as CEUR Workshop Proceedings (CEUR-WS.org) later on. Workshop Chairs G. J. Nalepa, AGH UST Krakow J. Baumeister, University WÃŒrzburg Program Committee (tentative) K.-D. Althoff, University Hildesheim, Germany J. Baumeister, University WÃŒrzburg, Germany S. Bibi, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece J. Canadas, University of Almería, Spain U. Geske, FhG FIRST, Berlin, Germany A. Giurca, BTU Cottbus, Germany R. Knauf, TU Ilmenau, Germany G. J. Nalepa, AGH UST, Krakow, Poland F. Puppe, University WÃŒrzburg, Germany D. Seipel, University WÃŒrzburg, Germany I. Stamelos, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki,Greece G. WeiÃ�, SCCH, Austria ......................................................................... *sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm* ......................................................................... CALL FOR PAPERS Workshop "Intelligente Methoden in der Medizin" Moderne Ansätze der Informatik für die biomedizinische Forschung im Rahmen der INFORMATIK 2009 http://www.vis.uni-stuttgart.de/~klenksn/intelligente_methoden/ Im Bereich der medizinischen Forschung sind in den letzten Jahren die Datenmengen und die Komplexität der Fragestellungen kontinuierlich gestiegen. Microarrays, bildgebende Verfahren, aber auch umfangreiche Patientendatenbanken mit Langzeit Follow-Up eröffnen Möglichkeiten, die vor einigen Jahren noch undenkbar gewesen wären. Mit den Daten wachsen nun auch die Anforderungen an die Informatik und die Mathematik. Waren früher noch Programmier- und Statistikgrundkenntnisse ausreichend so wird es heute immer wichtiger, Experten aus allen beteiligten Teilgebieten einzubinden. Der Workshop soll Experten der drei Kerngebiete Medizin/Molekularbiologie, Mathematik und Informatik an einen Tisch bringen und zur interdisziplinären Diskussion anregen. Ziel dabei ist es Einblicke in den Einsatz moderner Informationstechnologien im Bereich der biomedizinischen Forschung zu bieten. Interesante Themengebiete für den Workshop sind zum Beispiel die Folgenden: * Datenerfassung * Datenhaltung * Datenauswertung * Datenpräsentation Themen für weitere Vorträge wären: Verwaltung, Integration und Visualisierung biomedizinischer Daten, Bild- und Signalverarbeitung, Mustererkennung, Machinelle Lernverfahren, Statistische Verfahren, Methodenvergleiche, Wissensrepräsentation, Visualisierung und freie Themen. Um dem Workshop thematisch einen Rahmen zu geben, haben wir zu jedem der drei Gebiete Molekularbiologie/Medizin, Mathematik und Informatik einen Experten eingeladen, der aus eigener Erfahrung den Einsatz moderner informationstechnologischer Maßnahmen im Bereich medizinischer Forschung beschreibt und motiviert: * Prof. Dr. Dominik Alscher Bedeutung von Biomedizinischem Data Mining in Tumordatenbanken für Klinik und Forschung * PD. Dr. Jürgen Dippon Interaktive statistische Auswertungen zur explorativen Thesengenerierung beim Mammakarzinom * Prof. David Zakim Knowledge based acquisition of clinical data in medical history-taking Der Workshop soll in erster Linie Informatikern und Bio- oder Medizininformatikern ein Forum geben um Meinungen untereinander aber auch mit anwesenden Medizinern und Mathematikern auszutauschen. Das erklärte Ziel des Workshops ist die Kommunikation von Experten verschiedener Fachbereiche zu ermöglichen. Daher ist die Auswahl der Vorträge so angelegt, dass auch fachfremden Tagungsteilnehmern die Möglichkeit haben Einblicke in die aktuellen Entwicklungen der Informatik im Bereich medizinischer Forschung zu erlangen. Termine 26.04.2009 Einreichung von Workshop-Beiträgen 25.05.2009 Mitteilung über Annahme/Ablehnung von Workshop-Beiträgen 01.07.2009 Abgabe der fertigen Druckvorlagen für den Tagungsband noch offen Termin des Workshops (in der Woche vom 28.9. bis 2.10.) Weitere Information finden sich auf der Workshop-Homepage: http://www.vis.uni-stuttgart.de/~klenksn/intelligente_methoden/ ......................................................................... *sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm* .........................................................................