SIG KM NEWSLETTER Issue May 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. Minutes of the Annual Meeting of the "Fachgruppe Wissensmanagement der GI" Held in Conjunction with WM 2007 (in German) 2. Final Call for Workshop Papers: 7th International Conference on Case-Based Reasoning ICCBR 2007 (deadline: May 14) 3. Call for Papers Workshop "Wissens- und Erfahrungsmanagement" (in German) to be held in conjunction with LWA 2007, September 24 - 26 4. Final Call for Papers: Fourth International Workshop on Modeling and Reasoning in Context (MRC) to be held at CONTEXT 07 (deadline: May 15) 5. Call for Papers KNOWLEDGE ENGINEERING AND SOFTWARE ENGINEERING 3rd Workshop at the KI-2007, Sep 10-13, 2007, Osnabrueck, Germany 6. Call for Papers Foundations of Artificial Intelligence 2007 (FAInt-07) Workshop at KI 2007, Osnabrueck, September 10th, 2007 7. Job opening in Intelligent Health-Care Monitoring Systems (deadline: May 12) ......................................................................... *sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm* ......................................................................... Minutes of the Annual Meeting of the "Fachgruppe Wissensmanagement der GI" which took place on THURSDAY, MARCH 29, 2007, in Potsdam (www.wm-tagung.de): Veranstaltungen, welche die FGWM im vergangenen Jahr durchgefuehrt hat, bzw. an denen sie beteiligt war: - FGWM Workshop auf der LWA, Oktober 2006 (Hildesheim) - ECCBR, September 06 (Tuerkei) - Wissensmanagement-Track auf der Multikonferenz Wirtschaftsinformatik, Februar 2006 (Passau) - Wissensmanagement-Track auf der Wirtschaftsinformatik 2007, Februar/Maerz 2007 (Karlsruhe) - Modellierung 2006 sowie im Rahmen dieser Tagung ein Workshop "Modellierung fuer Wissensmanagement", Maerz 2006 (Innsbruck) - EKAW-2006 - 15th Int. Conf. on Knowledge Engineering and Knowledge Management: Managing Knowledge in a World of Networks, Oktober 2006 (Podebrady, Czech Republic) - Workshop Meta Modelling & Ontologies (WoMM), Oktober 2006 (Karlsruhe) Geplante Aktivitaeten: - FGWM Workshop auf der LAW07 in Halle, 24.-26.9.2007 - Organisation der ECCBR 2008 (September 2008 in Trier) - Modellierung 2008 (12.-14.3.2008 in Berlin) - WM2009 - voraussichtlich: Wissensmanagement-Track auf der MKWI 2008 - voraussichtlich: ISWC2008 (Karlsruhe) Verschiedenes: - Eine Diskussion ergab, dass es sinnvoll sei, die GWEM und die LSO in Zukunft zusammenzulegen, da viele Parallelen bestehen und es fuer die Veranstaltungen wenig Einreichungen gegeben hat. Die Entscheidung darueber bleibt jedoch bei den Veranstaltern. - Der FGWM-Workshop (im Rahmen der LWA) findet zukuenftig jaehrlich statt. Er soll primaer dem Community Building dienen sowie ein Forum sein, laufende Arbeiten zu praesentieren. Es soll ab nun aber auch ausdruecklich moeglich sein, dort auch schon veroeffentlichte Beitraege einzureichen (mit entsprechendem Vermerk). So haben Teilnehmer, die nicht auf einer der Hauptkonferenzen waren, die Moeglichkeit, solche Vortraege zu hoeren. Ferner entschaerft sich somit etwas die Situation, genuegend gute Beitraege zu bekommen. Jedoch sollten Einreichungen ueber laufende Arbeiten durch solche "Hauptbeitraege" nicht abgelehnt werden. - Wir wollen versuchen, die Semantic Web Community (die in der FGWM ja auch im Leitungsgremium vertreten ist), wieder vermehrt in die FG-Aktivitaeten einzubinden. So waere es schoen, wenn das Thema Semantic Web z.B. auf dem FGWM-Workshop, der Modellierung 2008 und der WM 2009 vertreten sein wird. - Die GWEM wird auch in Zukunft im Rahmen der WM-Tagung durchgefuehrt. ......................................................................... *sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm* ......................................................................... === === Call for Workshop Submissions: ICCBR 2007 Workshop Program === === The Seventh International Conference on Case Based Reasoning [ http://www.iccbr.org/iccbr07/ ] August 15, 2007, Belfast, UK === Workshops === [Workshop 1]: Case Based Reasoning and Context Awareness (http://crypt.ucd.ie/cacoa) [Workshop 2]: Case Based Reasoning in the Health Sciences (http://faculty.washington.edu/ibichind/iccbr07/) [Workshop 3]: Textual Case-Based Reasoning: Beyond Retrieval (http://tcbr.dei.uc.pt/) [Workshop 5]: Knowledge Discovery and Similarity (http://www.sis.uncc.edu/~davils/iccbr07kds/iccbr07-kds-ws.html) === Extended Deadline === May 14, 2007: Deadline for workshop paper submissions WS 1, 2, 3, 5 The submission for WS 4 is already closed. ......................................................................... *sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm* ......................................................................... WORKSHOP "Wissens- und Erfahrungsmanagement" auf der LWA 2007 - Lernen-Wissen-Adaption, 24.-26.9.2007 http://lwa07.informatik.uni-halle.de Dieser Workshop findet im Rahmen des Treffens der Fachgruppe Wissensmanagement der GI (http://www.fgwm.de) statt und soll ein interdisziplinaeres Forum sowohl fuer Wissenschaftler als auch Praktiker bereitzustellen. Der Austausch von innovativen Ideen und praktischen Anwendungen aus dem Bereich des Wissens- und Erfahrungsmanagements ist das gewuenschte Ziel dieses Workshops. Willkommen sind daher Einreichungen aus der aktuellen Forschung aus diesen und angrenzenden Gebieten. Dabei sind auch Beitraege von Interesse, die den Stand gegenwaertiger Arbeiten und noch nicht umfassend erforschter Ansaetze beschreiben, somit also einen vorlaeufigen Charakter haben. Diese sollten jedoch hinreichend klar und strukturiert beschrieben sein, um als Grundlage fuer interessante Diskussionen zwischen den Teilnehmern zu dienen. MOEGLICHE THEMENGEBIETE * Ansaetze zur Erfahrungs- und Wissenssuche & Wissensintegration * Anwendungen des Wissens- und Erfahrungsmanagements * (Semantic) Web Services fuer das Wissensmanagement * Agile Ansaetze zum Wissensmanagement * Agentenbasiertes & Peer-to-Peer Wissensmanagement * Just-In-Time Retrieval und Just-In-Time Knowledge Capturing * Wissensrepraesentationsformen * Autoren- und Wartungsunterstuetzung * Evaluation von Wissensmanagement-Systemen * Praktische Erfahrungen mit IT-gestuetzten Ansaetzen * Integration von Wissensmanagement und Geschaeftsprozessen EINREICHUNGEN Einreichungen senden Sie bitte im PDF Format und unter Verwendung der LWA Formatvorlage per email an fgwm07@informatik.uni-wuerzburg.de. Eine Laenge von 8 Seiten sollte nicht -A|berschritten werden. Bei Fragen koennen Sie gerne per email (fgwm07@informatik.uni-wuerzburg.de) mit uns Kontakt aufnehmen. TERMINE 07.07.2007 Einreichung der Beitraege (per email an fgwm07@informatik.uni-wuerzburg.de) 30.08.2007 Einreichung der endgueltigen Druckversion 24.09.2007 Workshop "Wissens- und Erfahrungsmanagement" auf der LWA PROGRAMMKOMITEE Klaus-Dieter Althoff, Universitaet Hildesheim Joachim Baumeister (Org.), Universitaet Wuerzburg Ralph Bergmann, Universitaet Trier Harald Holz, DFKI GmbH Ioannis Iglezakis, DaimlerChrysler AG Michael Kohlhase, Jacobs University Bremen Mirjam Minor, Universitaet Trier Markus Nick, Fraunhofer IESE Ulrich Reimer, FHS St. Gallen Bodo Rieger, Universitaet Osnabrueck Thomas Roth-Berghofer, DFKI GmbH Martin Schaaf (Org.), Universitaet Hildesheim Rainer Schmidt, Universitaet Rostock Gerhard Schwabe, Universitaet Zuerich Steffen Staab, Universitaet Koblenz-Landau York Sure, AIFB Universitaet Karlsruhe ......................................................................... *sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm* ......................................................................... Final Call for Papers MRC 2007 Fourth International Workshop on Modeling and Reasoning in Context To be held at CONTEXT 07, Roskilde, Denmark, 20-24 August 2007 Submission deadline: May 15, 2007 http://mrc2007.workshop.hm/ ================================================================================ Context sensitive processing plays a key role in many modern IT applications, with context-awareness and context-based reasoning essential not only for mobile and ubiquitous computing, but also for a wide range of other areas such as collaborative software, web engineering, personal digital assistants, information sharing, health care workflow and patient control, adaptive games,and e-Learning solutions. From an intelligent systems perspective, one of the challenges is to integrate context with other types of knowledge as an additional major source for reasoning, decision-making, and adaptation and to form a coherent and versatile architecture. There is a common understanding that achieving desired behaviour from intelligent systems will depend on the ability to represent and manipulate information about a rich range of contextual factors. These factors may include not only physical characteristics of the task environment, but many other aspects such as the knowledge states (of both the application and user), emotions, etc. This representation and reasoning problem present research challenges to which methodologies derived amongst others from artificial intelligence, knowledge management, human-computer interaction, and psychology can contribute solutions. One specific problem is to deal with uncertainty on different levels, from interpretation of uncertain sensor input data up to identification of contexts with fuzzy borders. Another issue is how to integrate findings from the social sciences and psychology into the design of context aware systems and how to build psychologically plausible knowledge models. A third aspect is the ability of the system to use explanations, both as a part of its reasoning and as a means of communication with the user. ================================================================================ Workshop Objectives ================================================================================ The major goal of the workshop is to bring researchers from both industry and academia, and representatives from different communities together to study, understand, and explore issues of development and application of IT systems utilising context. MRC aims to provide a forum for scientists and practitioners exploring modelling and reasoning 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 mechanisms and techniques for structured storage of contextual information, effective ways to retrieve it, and methods for enabling integration of context and application knowledge. Besides contributed papers, this workshop will offer organised and open spaces for targeted discussions. We note that the previous MRC meetings were all held in conjunction with conferences on artificial intelligence and computer science. Holding MRC 2007 at CONTEXT 2007 has the additional goal of reaching out to other relevant disciplines and will facilitate collaboration between different fields. ================================================================================ Topics of Interest ================================================================================ Areas of interest include, but are not limited to: - Generic and specific context models - Explicit representations - Representation of and reasoning with uncertainty - Retrieval of context and context information - Context-based retrieval and reasoning - Socio-technical issues - Context awareness and context-sensitivity - Context awareness in applications - Evaluation of context-aware applications - Explanation and context - Mobile context - Information aging - Context focusing and context switching - Context management ================================================================================ Submissions ================================================================================ Workshop submissions will be electronic, in PDF format only, using the EasyChair submission system. Paper submission will be opened in the middle of March 2007. Paper length should not exceed 12 pages in the Springer LNCS format. Guidelines and templates are available on the web at: http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html Papers will be published in accompanying proceedings. Provided that the quantity and quality of submissions justifies a book or special journal issue on context aware systems, authors of accepted papers will be invited to submit extended versions for such a publication. All workshop participants must register both for this workshop and the main CONTEXT 07 conference. At least one author of each accepted paper must attend the workshop. ================================================================================ Organisation ================================================================================ Workshop Organisers Contact: mrc2007@idi.ntnu.no Anders Kofod-Petersen Department of Computer and Information Science Norwegian University of Science and Technology Joerg Cassens Department of Computer and Information Science Norwegian University of Science and Technology David B. Leake Computer Science Department Indiana University, USA Stefan Schulz The e-Spirit Company, Germany Program Committee - Agnar Aamodt, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway - Steven Bogaerts, Indiana University, USA - Patrick Brezillon, University Paris 6, France - Hans-Dieter Burkhard, Humboldt University Berlin, Germany - Lorcan Coyle, University College Dublin, Ireland - Mehmet H. Goeker, PricewaterhouseCoopers, USA - Dominik Heckmann, Saarland University, Germany - Eyke Huellermeier, University of Magedeburg, Germany - Ana G. Maguitman, Universidad Nacional del Sur, Bahia Blanca, Argentina - Marius Mikalsen, SINTEF, Norway - Sven Schwarz, DFKI, Germany - Enric Plaza, Artificial Intelligence Research Institute, Catalonia, Spain - Thomas R. Roth-Berghofer, DFKI, Germany - Santtu Toivonen, VTT, Finland ================================================================================ Submission deadline: May 15, 2007 http://mrc2007.workshop.hm/ ......................................................................... *sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm* ......................................................................... KNOWLEDGE ENGINEERING AND SOFTWARE ENGINEERING 3rd Workshop at the 30th German Conference on Artificial Intelligence (KI-2007) Sep 10-13, 2007, Osnabrueck, Germany http://ki.informatik.uni-wuerzburg.de/KESE AIMS AND SCOPE Intelligent systems have been successfully developed in various domains over the last years. The process of building such systems is 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. The third workshop on Knowledge Engineering and Software Engineering (KESE 2007) wants to bring together researchers and practitioners from both fields of software engineering and artificial intelligence. The intention is to give ample space for exchanging latest research results as well as knowledge about practical experience. The previous workshops on Knowledge Engineering and Software Engineering were held at the KI-2006 and KI-2005. Topics of interest include but are not limited to: * AI methods in software/knowledge engineering * Knowledge and experience management * Declarative, logic-based approaches * Constraint programming * Agent-oriented software engineering * Issues of maintenance * Knowledge/software engineering methods in AI * Collaborative engineering of the Semantic Web * Database and knowledge base management in AI systems (knowledge systems, deductive databases) * Tools for intelligent systems * Evaluation of (intelligent) systems: verification, validation, assessment * Process models IMPORTANT DATES Deadline for Submissions: June, 1 2007 Notification of Authors: July, 1 2007 Final Versions of Papers: August, 1 2007 Workshop: September, 10 2007 SUBMISSION DETAILS Papers should be formated 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). All papers must be written in English and submitted in PDF format. The submission process will be electronical. Please email your submission to one of the workshop organizers. ORGANIZATION The one-day workshop will be held with presentations of the accepted papers. A comfortable time slot for discussions will be given. The submitted papers will be reviewed by at least two members of the program committee. The proceedings will be published as a technical report, and it is considered to publish a selection of extended papers after a post-workshop review process. COMITTEE Klaus-Dieter Althoff, University of Hildesheim, Germany Joachim Baumeister (org.), University of Wuerzburg Joaquin Caqadas, Universidad De Almerma, Spain Ulrich Geske, FhG FIRST, Berlin, Germany Rainer Knauf, TU Ilmenau, Germany Grzegorz J. Nalepa, AGH University, Poland Frank Puppe, University of Wuerzburg Dietmar Seipel (org.), University of W|rzburg Gerhard Weiss, SCCH, Austria ......................................................................... *sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm* ......................................................................... THIRD CALL FOR PAPERS Foundations of Artificial Intelligence 2007 (FAInt-07) Workshop at KI 2007, Osnabrueck, September 10th, 2007 http://logic.aifb.uni-karlsruhe.de/wiki/FAInt-07 ==Important Dates== Submission deadline: June 8th, 2007 Notification of acceptance: July 13th, 2007 Camera-ready versions due: July 27th, 2007 ==Keynote speaker== Wolfgang Maass, TU Graz: The difficult search for intelligence in neural circuits ==Organisers== * Pascal Hitzler, AIFB, Universitaet Karlsruhe * Thomas Roth-Berghofer, DFKI Kaiserslautern * Sebastian Rudolph, AIFB, Universitaet Karlsruhe Contact: Sebastian Rudolph, sru@aifb.uni-karlsruhe.de ==Submissions== Submitted papers, which have to be in English, must not exceed 15 pages in Springer LNCS style and must be submitted in pdf format. Submission is via email to sru@aifb.uni-karlsruhe.de. At least one author per accepted paper must register for the workshop and present the contribution. Papers will be published in the workshop proceedings, which will appear online as CEUR Workshop Proceedings (bearing an ISSN number). Authors of best papers will be invited to submit extended versions to a special issue of a major journal. ==Programme Committee== * Juergen Dix, TU Clausthal, Germany * Thomas Eiter, TU Vienna, Austria * Ulrich Furbach, University of Koblenz, Germany * Dov Gabbay, King's College London, UK * Bernhard Ganter, TU Dresden, Germany * Ruth Hagengruber, Universitaet Paderborn, Germany * Hans Kamp, University of Stuttgart, Germany * Kai-Uwe Kuehnberger, University of Osnabrueck, Germany * Markus Kroetzsch, University of Karlsruhe (TH), Germany * David Leake, Indiana University Bloomington, USA * Benedikt Loewe, Universiteit van Amsterdam, The Netherlands * Claudio Masolo, LOA CNR Trento, Italy * Rainer Osswald, Fernuniversitaet Hagen, Germany * Anthony K. Seda, University College Cork, Ireland * Matthias Wendt, University of Leipzig, Germany * Guo-Qiang Zhang, CWRU Cleveland, USA ==Scope== Within the course of the last 50 years, Artificial Intelligence has developed into a major field of research with a multitude of facets and application areas. While, in general, Artificial Intelligence research is driven by applica-tion needs, it is nevertheless a fact that foundational questions and theoretical insights have always been one of the driving forces behind its development. This includes the quest for realising intelligent behaviour in artificial systems as envisioned in the early days of AI research. But it also comprises biological inspirations e.g. for robot design, artificial neural networks, or emergent intelligence, as well as logical underpinnings of automated deduc-tion and knowledge representation. Indeed, formal and foundational aspects of artificial intelligence are being studied in many sub areas in order to serve application needs. It lies in the nature of such fundamental research that a critical mass of different formal perspectives can generate a cross-fertilization of ideas and applications. We therefore intend to bring together researchers working on foundational aspects of Artificial Intelligence across different communities, in order to stimulate an exchange of ideas and methods between them. The workshop is intended for researchers which contribute to the mathematical, logical, statistical, psychological, linguistic, cognitive, philosophical, biological, and other foundations of artificial intelligence research. ......................................................................... *sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm* ......................................................................... Job Vacancy Research Associate: Intelligent Health-Care Monitoring Systems (Ref E16710) The Robert Gordon University, Aberdeen and AxSys Technology Ltd, Glasgow Salary: circa #19,000 The Robert Gordon University are seeking a research associate to work on a Knowledge Transfer Partnership (KTP) project in collaboration with AxSys Technology Ltd. The post holder will be based at AxSys and be responsible for developing an intelligent personalised health-care monitoring tool for Excelicare, an electronic patient record system (www.axsys.co.uk/excelicare/). AxSys Technology designs, develops and delivers electronic patient record software and associated services to the health sector in the UK. AxSys's main product, Excelicare, is operational in many healthcare institutions throughout UK and has also been selected as the National Generic Clinical System for the NHS in Scotland. The KTP scheme supports innovative collaboration between business and universities. Graduates are recruited into the partnership as KTP Associates to work on challenging high-profile projects. You will benefit from a Personal Development Budget of #3,500 and an additional travel budget to attend international conferences. The scheme also provides opportunities for obtaining both academic and vocational qualifications (www.ktponline.org.uk/). Candidate Profile The ideal candidate should have an honours degree (1st class or upper 2nd) or a postgraduate degree in computing or a strongly related subject. Experience with artificial intelligence, in particular data mining, machine learning or case-based reasoning, is desirable. You must have strong programming skills (preferably in VB.Net, C# or Java) and experience with Database systems (MSSQL or other DBMSs) will be useful. Position Type: Full-time, Fixed Term 2 year(s) Closing Date: 12 May 2007 For general information about RGU's computing school, visit www.comp.rgu.ac.uk Informal enquiries are welcome and should be addressed to: Dr N Wiratunga School of Computing The Robert Gordon University Aberdeen nw@comp.rgu.ac.uk