SIG KM NEWSLETTER

                            Issue May 2008

           Newsletter of the German Special Interest Group on
                          Knowledge Management

                               www.fgwm.de

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                            TABLE OF CONTENTS

1. Call for Workshop Papers: ECCBR'08
   WS1: Knowledge Discobery and Similarity, deadline: June 6
   WS2: Case-Based Reasoning and Context-Awareness, deadline: June 6
   WS3: Uncertainty and Knowledge Discovery, deadline: June 22
   WS4: CBR in the Health Sciences, deadline: June 14
   WS5: Computer Cooking Contest, deadline: June 2

2. Call for Papers: FGWM 2008 (in German), deadline: June 6

3. Call for Papers: HICCS-42 MINITRACK on Knowledge Management/Organizational 
   Memory Success and Performance Measurements and MINITRACK on Knowledge 
   Management Tools, Technologies, Mashups, and Design Approaches
   deadline: June 15

4. Call for Papers: Workshop on Mash-Up Personal Learning Environments 
   (MUPPLE'08), deadline: July 1

5. Call for Papers and Workshop Proposals PAKM'08
   deadlines: June 30 (WS proposals), July 15 (conference papers)

6. Research Assistant (13 TV-L) Koblenz - Metawissen, Provenance (in German)

7. GESIS position in conjunction with W3 position at Univ. Koblenz-Landau 
   (in German)

8. W3 position "Künstliche Intelligenz" at University of Bremen (in German)

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  CALL FOR WORKSHOP PAPERS

  9th European Conference on Case-Based Reasoning
  ECCBR 2008
  1-4 September 2008, Trier (Germany)
  
  http://2008.eccbr.org/



WS1 Knowledge Discovery and Similarity 
co-chairs: Kerstin Bach, Miltos Petridis
submission deadline: June 6, 2008

The workshop on "Knowledge Discovery and Similarity in Case Based Reasoning" 
addresses various techniques utilized for building and maintaining CBR-based 
systems e.g. data mining, machine learning, and knowledge discovery. The focus 
is on application-oriented approaches like reuse of knowledge, automated 
extraction of knowledge sources (from the WWW, from semi-structured documents, 
etc.), adaptation of knowledge vocabulary, multilingual textual or mixed
content types CBR approaches, maintenance of adaptation knowledge, or usage 
of feedback.


WS2 Case-Based Reasoning and Context-Awareness 
co-chairs: Jan-Oliver Deutsch, Jens Mänz, Sven Schwarz, Jörg Cassens
submission deadline: June 6, 2008

CBR in general, and knowledge intensive CBR in particular, appears to be a 
promising candidate for reasoning about situations and behavior in an ambient 
intelligent setting enabling context awareness statically (by domain-specific 
vocabulary and similarity models) as well as dynamically (by memorizing new 
cases and thereby improving its ability to adapt to new situations). The 
workshop on "Case-Based Reasoning and Context-Awareness" addresses 
interdisciplinary contributions from the area CBR and Context Awareness for 
Ambient Intelligence from a technical or human-directed viewpoint.


WS3 Uncertainty and Knowledge Discovery 
co-chairs: Eyke Hüllermeier, Michael Richter, Rosina Weber
submission deadline: June 22, 2008

CBR applications must deal with with uncertain, incomplete, and vague 
information. The organizers of the workshop on "Uncertainty and Knowledge 
Discovery in CBR" encourage contributions on advancements in reasoning under 
uncertainty, knowledge discovery, and soft computing. This includes (but is 
not limited to) Bayesian methods, fuzzy sets, possibility theory, evidence 
theory, similarity assessment and adaptation, or instance-based and case-based 
learning.


WS4 CBR in the Health Sciences 
co-chairs: Isabelle Bichindaritz, Stefania Montani
submission deadline: June 14, 2008

For the application of CBR to the medicine domain, the workshop on "CBR in the 
Health Sciences" provides a forum for identifying important contributions and 
opportunities for research on the application of CBR to health sciences, 
promoting the systematic study of how to apply CBR in this area, and 
discussing about showcase applications. Topics of interest are, beside others, 
integration of CBR in health care environments, CBR in medical decision-support
systems, CBR in medical imaging, or CBR in bioinformatics.

WS5 Computer Cooking Contest Workshop 
co-chairs: Ralph Traphöner, Mirjam Minor, Armin Stahl
submission deadline: June 2, 2008, only in conjunction with a running 
CCC system

Who says that only human beings are able to cook delicious meals? We aim to 
teach our computers the haute cuisine and therefore we need your creativity 
and ideas! Come to the ECCBR'08 in Trier and participate in the Computer 
Cooking Contest (CCC)! Write your own software application for the live 
competition that will take place at September 1, 2008. Show that your program 
is more creative than the average kitchen user. Let your computer's recipe 
creations be evaluated by a professional cook and an international jury of 
scientists. The Computer Cooking Contest (CCC) workshop is for the 
presentation and discussion of the technical descriptions of the 
finalists. Paper submissions are to be made only by teams participating at the 
CCC qualifying examination with a running software. The workshop is open for 
the whole ECCBR audience.

For further information, please contact the ECCBR'08 workshop coordinator:
Martin Schaaf
Email: eccbr-ws2008 'at' uni-trier.de

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FGWM 2008
Workshop "Wissens- und Erfahrungsmanagement"
der Fachgruppe Wissensmangement
http://lwa08.informatik.uni-wuerzburg.de
6.-8. Oktober 2008

Dieser Workshop findet im Rahmen des Treffens der Fachgruppe
Wissensmanagement der GI (http://www.fgwm.de) statt und soll
ein interdisziplinäres Forum sowohl für Wissenschaftler als auch
Praktiker bereitstellen. Der Austausch von innovativen Ideen
und praktischen Anwendungen aus dem Bereich des Wissens- und
Erfahrungsmanagements ist das gewünschte Ziel dieses Workshops.

Willkommen sind daher Einreichungen aus der aktuellen Forschung
aus diesen und angrenzenden Gebieten. Dabei sind auch Beiträge
von Interesse, die den Stand gegenwärtiger Arbeiten und noch
nicht umfassend erforschter Ansätze beschreiben, somit also einen
vorläufigen Charakter haben. Diese sollten jedoch hinreichend klar
und strukturiert beschrieben sein, um als Grundlage für
interessante Diskussionen zwischen den Teilnehmern zu dienen.

** Mögliche Themengebiete **

   * Ansätze zur Erfahrungs- und Wissenssuche & Wissensintegration
     (Case-Based Reasoning, Logik-basierte Ansätze,
      Text-basierte Ansätze, Semantische Portale etc.)
   * Anwendungen des Wissens- und Erfahrungsmanagements
     (Corporate Memories, E- Commerce , Design, Tutoring/e-Learning,
      e-Government , Software Engineering, Robotik, Medizin, etc.)
   * (Semantik) Web Services für das Wissensmanagement
   * Agile Ansätze im Wissensmanagement
   * Agentenbasiertes & Peer-to-Peer Wissensmanagement
   * Just-In-Time Retrieval und Just-In-Time Knowledge Capturing
   * Wissensrepräsentationsformen
     (Ontologien, Ähnlichkeit, Retrieval, Adaptionswissen, etc.)
   * Autoren- und Wartungsunterstützung
     (Änderungsmanagement, Requirement tracking,
     (verteilte) Versionskontrolle, etc.)
   * Evaluation von Wissensmanagement-Systemen
   * Praktische Erfahrungen ("Lessons-Learned") mit
     IT-gestützten Ansätzen
   * Integration von Wissensmanagement und Geschäftsprozessen

** Einreichung von Beiträgen **

Beiträge können Sie im PDF Format und unter Verwendung der LWA
Formatvorlagen über das EasyChair System
(http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=fgwm08) einreichen.
Die Länge von 8 Seiten sollte nicht überschritten werden. Bei
Fragen können Sie gerne per email mit uns Kontakt aufnehmen.

** Termine **

06.06.2008: Einreichung der Beiträge
07.07.2008: Benachrichtigung der Autoren
15.08.2008: Einreichung der endgültigen Druckversion
6.-8.10.2008: FGWM Workshop in Würzburg


** Organisation **

Normen Müller, Jacobs University, Bremen, n.mueller@jacobs-university.de
Joachim Baumeister, Universität Würzburg, joba@uni-wuerzburg.de

** Programmkomitee **

   * Klaus-Dieter Althoff, Universität Hildesheim
   * Ralph Bergmann, Universität Trier
   * Ioannis Iglezakis, Daimler
   * Michael Kohlhase, Jacobs University
   * Mirjam Minor, Universität Trier
   * Markus Nick, Empolis
   * Ulrich Reimer, FHS St. Gallen
   * Thomas Roth-Berghofer, DFKI GmbH
   * Rainer Schmidt, Universität Rostock
   * Gerhard Schwabe, Universität Zürich
   * Steffen Staab, Universität Koblenz-Landau
   * Max Völkel, Universität Karlsruhe

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CALL FOR PAPERS
Forty-Second Annual  Hawai'i International Conference on System Sciences 
(HICSS-42)
January 5 - 8, 2009 (Monday-Thursday)
Hilton Waikoloa Village Resort and Spa on the Big Island 
(www.hiltonwaikoloavillage.com)

Track: Knowledge Management Systems

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MINITRACK: Knowledge Management/Organizational Memory Success and 
Performance Measurements

Research into knowledge management, organizational memories, and 
organizational learning has been affected by investigations such as 
implementation aspects, system developments, or knowledge flows during a 
number of years. Therefore, a high maturity level of knowledge management 
research has been achieved. However, organizational knowledge management 
initiatives are more and more faced with budget cuts and justification demands 
due to intense competition in today's business environments. The influences of 
the rapid pace of globalization and of the ongoing liberalization of national 
and international markets lead to the emergence of increased pressure on 
existing companies. Project managers of knowledge management initiatives like 
Chief Knowledge Officers need to justify their budgets and thus are in need of 
qualitative and quantitative evidence of the initiatives' success. This 
minitrack explores research into strategies, methodologies, and stories that 
relate to measure this success. In addition, this minitrack will be used to 
explore the bodies of performance measurements that define the current state 
of research in measuring knowledge management, organizational memory, and 
organizational learning success.

Topics and research areas include, but are not limited to:
* Frameworks and models for assessing knowledge management and/or 
  organizational memory systems
* Methodologies and processes for measuring knowledge management and/or 
  organizational memory success and performance
* Impact of knowledge management strategy, organization, systems, culture, 
  and other issues on knowledge management/organizational memory success
* Organizational effectiveness/efficiency due to knowledge 
  management/organizational memory/organizational learning, knowledge and 
  organizational memory use
* Knowledge management, organizational memory, and organizational learning 
  metrics
* Knowledge management, organizational memory, and organizational learning 
  success factors and key performance indicators
* Benchmarking of knowledge management/organizational memory initiatives
* Case studies of knowledge management and organizational memory success and 
  performance measurements
* Measuring knowledge management and/or organizational memory performance in 
  global organizations and globally dispersed communities
* Effectiveness and/or efficiency of knowledge management/organizational 
  memory systems
* Modeling and measuring the impact of social software on knowledge management 
  performance
* Defining knowledge management and organizational memory success

Co-chairs:
Murray Jennex (Primary Contact)
Information and Decision Science
San Diego State University San Diego, CA, USA
Phone: +1-760-966-0548
Fax: +1-760-722-2668
Email: Murphjen<at>aol.com, mjennex<at>mail.sdsu.edu

Stefan Smolnik
Institute of Research on Information Systems
European Business School (EBS)
International University Schloss Reichartshausen
Rheingaustr. 165375 Oestrich-Winkel, Germany
Phone: +49-6723-991-246
Fax: +49-6723-991-259
Email: stefan.smolnik<at>ebs.edu
URL: http://www.ebs.edu/iris

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MINITRACK: Knowledge Management Tools, Technologies, Mashups, and Design 
Approaches

The objective of this minitrack is to develop the architecture of knowledge 
management systems to support organizations facing changing environments. 
Organizational decision-making and learning are people-intensive processes. 
Individuals learn and share what they have learned with those "nearby" them, 
who in turn share knowledge with others. In this manner, knowledge propagates 
or "spirals" throughout the organization and beyond (Nonaka 1994, 1998; Nonaka 
and Takeuchi, 1995). This growth of knowledge and the understanding it brings 
enable organizations to react quickly to changing environments, a necessity 
for survival. However, because these needs are so strongly based in the social 
perspective, we believe that technological support of these systems should 
have a foundation that can recognize the social aspects of knowledge creation 
and use (see, for example, Brown and Duguid 2000).

Researchers and practitioners interested in submitting papers to this minitrack
are encouraged to explore knowledge management architectures, tools, and 
mashups - for example as related to supporting knowledge use and transfer or 
to organizational learning, particularly from a design science perspective. We 
welcome a wide range of approaches that focus on architectural design for KM 
or learning organizations.

Topics and research areas include, but are not limited to:
* Methodologies, tools, processes, technologies for developing KM and/or 
  Organizational Memory Systems
* Empirical studies of designing and using KM tools and systems
* Systems design for social knowledge creation and use, e.g. social software 
  system architectures
* KM tools that map, track, or visualize social networks to facilitate 
  knowledge sharing
* Evaluation of knowledge retrieval and representation methods
* Using semantic technologies to implement knowledge retrieval and 
  representation
* Developing processes and systems for knowledge visualization techniques
* Designing for data, information, knowledge, and learning
* Learning-based systems design
* Knowledge Management Systems Design for Wicked Problems; Ethics and 
  Aesthetics; Inquiring Organizations; and Learning Organizations
* Design of technological support for Implementing Churchman's Inquiring 
  Systems; Inquiring Organizations; and Learning Organizations

Co-chairs:
Stefan Smolnik (Primary Contact)
Institute of Research on Information Systems
European Business School (EBS)
International University Schloss Reichartshausen
Rheingaustr. 165375 Oestrich-Winkel, Germany
Phone: +49-6723-991-246
Fax: +49-6723-991-259
Email: stefan.smolnik<at>ebs.edu
URL: http://www.ebs.edu/iris

Nassim Belbaly
GSCM Montpellier Business School
2300, Avenue des Moulins34185 Montpellier Cedex 4, France
Phone: +33-4-6710-2516
Fax: +33-4-6745-1356
Email: n.belbaly<at>supco-montpellier.fr

Richard Orwig
Accounting and Information Systems
Weis School of Business
Susquehanna University
514 University Ave., Selinsgrove, PA 17870, USA
Phone: +1-570-372-4380
Email: orwig<at>susqu.edu

HICSS conferences are devoted to the most relevant advances in the information,
computer, and system sciences, and encompass developments in both theory and 
practice. Accepted papers may be theoretical, conceptual, tutorial or 
descriptive in nature. Those selected for presentation will be published in 
the Conference Proceedings published by the IEEE Computer Society. Submissions
must not have been previously published or be under submission elsewhere; all
submissions undergo a double-blind peer referee process.

Important Deadlines:
* From now to June 1 [Optional]: Prepare Abstracts. Then, contact Minitrack 
  Chairs for guidance and indication of appropriate content.
* June 15: Authors submit full papers by this date, following the author 
  instructions (http://www.hicss.hawaii.edu/hicss_42/authorinstruction.htm). 
  All papers will be submitted in double column publication format and limited 
  to 10 pages including diagrams and references. HICSS papers undergo a 
  double-blind review (June15 - August15).
* August 15: Acceptance notices are sent to Authors. At this time, at least 
  one author of an accepted paper should begin visa, fiscal and travel 
  arrangements to attend the conference to present the paper.
* September 15: Authors submit Final Version of papers following submission 
  instructions posted on the HICSS website. At least one author of each paper 
  must register by this date with specific plans to attend the conference.
* October 2: Papers without at least one registered author will be pulled from 
  the publication process; authors will be notified.

Instructions for Paper Submission:
* Submit your full manuscript by June 15, and if accepted, submit the Final 
  Version by Sept 15, according to detailed instructions posted on the HICSS 
  website.
* An individual may be listed as author or as a co-author on a maximum of 6 
  submitted papers. Authors may not be added after submission unless approved 
  by the appropriate Track Chair.
* HICSS papers must contain original material not previously published, nor 
  currently submitted elsewhere.
* Do not submit the manuscript to more than one Minitrack Chair. If you are 
  unsure of which Minitrack is appropriate, please submit an abstract to the 
  Track Chair(s) for guidance.
* HICSS will conduct double-blind reviews of each submitted paper. Therefore, 
  author name(s) are not to be included on the manuscript during the June 15 
  submission process.

Additional details may be found on HICSS primary website: 
http://www.hicss.hawaii.edu

Mirror site: http://www.is.cityu.edu.hk/hicss/

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   CALL FOR PAPERS: Workshop on Mash-Up 
   Personal Learning Environments (MUPPLE'08)


   at the 3rd European Conference on 
   Technology Enhanced Learning (EC-TEL08)
   in Maastricht, The Netherlands, 
   September 17-19, 2008


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RATIONALE

A change in perspective can be certified in the recent years
to technology-enhanced learning research and development:
More and more learning applications on the web are putting 
the learner centre stage, not the organisation. They empower
learners with capabilities to customize and even construct
their own personal learning environments (PLEs).

These PLEs typically consist of distributed web-applications 
and services that support system-spanning collaborative and 
individual learning activities in formal as well as informal 
settings.

Technologically speaking, this shift manifests in a learning
web where information is distributed across sites and 
activities can easily encompass the use of a greater number
of pages and services offered through web-based learning 
applications. Mash-ups, the 'frankensteining' of software 
artefacts and data, have emerged to be the software
development approach for these long-tail and perpetual-beta 
niche markets. Core technologies facilitating this paradigm 
shift are Ajax, javascript-based widget-collections, and 
microformats that help to glue together public web APIs
in individual applications.

In a wide range of European IST-funded research projects
such as iCamp, LTfLL, LUISA, Palette, and TENcompetence
a rising passion for these technologies can be identified.

This workshop therefore serves as a forum to bring together 
researchers and developers from these projects and an open
public that have an interest in understanding and engineering 
mash-up personal learning environments (MUPPLEs).


TOPICS OF INTEREST (but not limited to):

     * Architectures: 
       e.g. from cross-domain java scripting 
       up to to embedding of pedagogy

     * Learning Models: 
       e.g. Activity Models, Environment 
       Design Models, including their theoretical bases

     * Learning Services: 
       e.g. Concepts and Demonstrators for recombinable 
       learning services

     * Authoring: 
       e.g. editors, user-interfaces for mash-up creation,
       drag&drop mash-up creation, in-place editing



     * Data formats: 
       e.g. microformats, new data models for 
       fragmented data such as streaming data, recombination models 
       needed to establish data interoperability

     * User Interfaces: 
       Concepts, Metaphors, Workflows

     * Mash-Up Strategies: 
       cooperative, value-chain oriented, master 
       and slave 

     * Development Methodologies: for building and sustaining communities 
       and services, including analyses of success factors, constraints,  
       characteristics of user uptake including long-tail requirements 
       engineering and software development


WORKSHOP FORMAT

The aim of this workshop is to bring together the various research
and development groups in technology-enhanced learning that currently
focus on the development of the next generation learning environments --
learning environments that put the individuum centre stage and empower 
learners with design capabilities by deploying modern mash-up principles 
to establish system-spanning interoperability.

As this approach is rather young, the workshop seeks to attract 
both 
research results and work in progress in order to chart out 
the current state-of-the-art of MUPPLEs in TEL and to define
main enablers and future challenges. Naturally, it will serve
as a forum for establishing new collaborations.

Using the presentations as impulses and continuing post-talk
debates, the workshop will conclude the day with an open discussion
exchanging ideas, summing up, and defining a medium- to 
long-term research agenda.

The workshop is supported by the European Commission as a concertation
activity between especially the European Projects iCamp, LUISA, 
LTfLL, Palette, and TENcompetence.


SUBMISSIONS

Authors are invited to submit original unpublished research as full
papers (8 pages), work-in-progress as short papers (max. 4 pages) or
position statements (max. 2 pages). All submitted papers will be peer-
reviewed by at least three members of the program committee for
originality, significance, clarity, and quality.

The workshop proceedings will be published online as part of the 
CEUR Workshop proceedings series. http://CEUR-WS.org is a recognized 
ISSN publication series, with ISSN 1613-0073. Furthermore, the two 
best papers of the workshop will be published in a special issue of 
the International Journal of Technology Enhanced Learning (IJTEL, 
http://www.inderscience.com/browse/index.php?journalCODE=ijtel).

Authors should use the Springer LNCS format (http://www.springer.com/
lncs). For camera-ready format instructions, please see "For Authors"
nstructions at http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html.

All questions and submissions should be sent to: 
mupple08 @ alice.wu-wien.ac.at


IMPORTANT DATES

     * Paper Submission: July 1st, 2008
     * Results Notification: August 1st, 2008
     * Camera Ready Submission: August 31, 2008
     * Workshop Date: September 17, 2008


PROGRAMME COMMITTEE

     * Abelardo Pardo (University Carlos III de Madrid, Spain)
     * Ajith Ranabahu (Wright State University, Ohio)
     * Dai Griffith (University of Bolton, UK)
     * Denis Gillet (EPFL, Switzerland)
     * Effie Law (University of Leicester, United Kingdom)
     * Fabrizio Giorgini (Giunti, Italy)
     * Felix Moedritscher (Vienna University of Economics and
       Business Administration, Austria)
     * Graham Atwell (Pontydysgu, United Kingdom)
     * Gytis Cibulskis (Kaunas Technical University, Lithuania)
     * Mart Laanpere (Tallinn University, Estonia)
     * Martin Wolpers (Fraunhofer FIT, Germany)
     * Mohamed Amine Chatti (RWTH Aachen, Germany)
     * Nikos Karacapilidis (University of Patras, Greece)
     * Scott Wilson (University of Bolton, United Kingdom)
     * Stephane Sire (EPFL, Switzerland)
     * Tony Hirst (Open University, UK)


ORGANISERS

     * Fridolin Wild (Vienna University of Economics and 
       Business Administration, Austria)
     * Matthias Palmer (University of Upsala, Sweden)
     * Marco Kalz (Open University, The Netherlands)


ABOUT EC-TEL07

After two successful EC-TEL conferences in 2006 and 2007,
the Third European Conference on Technology Enhanced Learning 
provides a unique forum for all research related to TEL, 
among them education, psychology, and computer science.
The contributions will cover the design of innovative environments, 
the implementation of new technological solutions, results of 
empirical studies on socio-cognitive processes in learning, and
field studies regarding the use of technologies in context.

EC-TEL is a competitive and broad forum for TEL research in 
Europe and beyond. In its specialised accompanying workshops and 
the highlighting main conference programme, EC-TEL08 provides 
unique networking possibilities for participating researchers
throughout the week and includes project meetings and discussions 
for ongoing and new research activities supported by the European
Commission. See http://www.ectel08.org/ for details.
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PAKM2008: 7th International Conference on Practical Aspects of 
Knowledge Management

http://pakm2008.comp.ae.keio.ac.jp/

Hiyoshi Campus, Keio University, Japan
Nov. 21 -- 23, 2008


Call for Papers & Call for Workshop Proposals (see the end of this topic)

Motivation

The PAKM Conference Series offers a communication forum and meeting ground for 
practitioners and researchers in developing and deploying advanced business 
solutions for the management of knowledge in organizations. PAKM is a forum 
for people to share their views, to exchange ideas, to develop new insights, 
and to envision completely new kinds of solutions to Knowledge Management 
problems.

The topics will cover all relevant aspects of knowledge management. We invite 
practitioners and researchers from all over the world to submit papers. We are
 looking forward to a conference which will address a wide spectrum of topics 
from a variety of perspectives.


Call for Papers

PAKM2008 addresses all aspects of Knowledge Management and their role in 
next-generation business solutions. We seek original contributions in the 
triangle of business and organization sciences, cognitive science, and 
computer science that represent a true advancement beyond the state-of-the-art 
of Knowledge Management.

Business and organization sciences provide the overall framework for 
developing a knowledge management approach with a focus on the business 
aspects rather than on information technology aspects.
Computer science provides the tools needed to build the information systems 
that are often required to make certain aspects of a knowledge management 
solution work.
Cognitive science helps to design knowledge management solutions in line with 
the cognitive capabilities of the people involved and optimally embedded in 
their work context.

We wish to encourage the submission of contributions that espouse an 
interdisciplinary approach, which will therefore be favored over 
one-dimensional papers.

Apart from a clear description of the real-world problems they address, papers 
must point out the business benefits of the suggested solutions. Furthermore, 
papers should emphasize the novel aspects of the suggested approach. Papers 
may address one or more of the following topics or any other topic as long as 
it fits into the overall conference theme:

Building and maintaining knowledge inventories
Knowledge directories
Knowledge modeling
Automatic creation of meta data
Knowledge integration

Collaboration and knowledge sharing
Knowledge sharing communities
Social software
Knowledge sharing and collaboration platforms
Integration of processes across organizational boundaries

Capturing and securing knowledge
Knowledge capturing within business processes
Knowledge acquisition, lessons learned, debriefing
Organizational memories

Knowledge utilization
Content-oriented retrieval
Question answering
Integration of knowledge and business processes
Graphical user interfaces for retrieving and visualizing knowledge

Developing new knowledge
Innovation management
Ontology learning and development
Knowledge mining (from data, text and the Web)
Communities of practice

Knowledge Measurement
Measuring the benefits of knowledge management solutions
Benchmarking
Intellectual capital

Important Dates:

Submissions: 15, July 2008
Notification: 15, August 2008
Camera-Ready: 30, August 2008


Submission

Please submit your contribution by uploading it to the PAKM2008 conference 
management system. To do this go to the following URL and register as a new 
user: http://www.easychair.org/PAKM2008/.
As soon as your password has been sent to your email address you can log in 
and upload your paper. If you have any questions you can contact us at: 
pakm2008@ae.keio.ac.jp/ /

Program Committee:
(TBA)

Keio University
Department of Administration Engineering
3-14-1 Hiyoshi Kohoku-ku Yokohama 223-8522, Japan
Phone: +81 45 566 1614
Fax: +81 45 566 1617
E-Mail: pakm2008@ae.keio.ac.jp <mailto:pakm2008@ae.keio.ac.jp>



PAKM 2008: Call for Workshop Proposals

The PAKM 2008 Program Committee invites proposals for workshops to be held the 
day preceding the main conference, i.e. on November 21, 2008. PAKM 2008 
workshops must be related to the topics of the main conference (see the call 
for papers for a detailed list of topics).

Submission Guidelines
Each submission of a proposed workshop (max two A4 pages in PDF
format) should describe:
- workshop title
- short description of the workshop and its goals
- proposed workshop duration (half-day or full-day workshop)
- list of topics covered
- preliminary program committee with specified chair(s)
- description of workshop history (if the proposed workshop is part of a 
  workshop series)

Submissions should be sent to the following e-mail address:
ulrich.reimer 'at' fhsg.ch

Important dates
- June 30, 2008 -- submission deadline for workshop proposals
- July 15, 2008 -- acceptance notification


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Im Fachbereich 4: Informatik am Campus Koblenz in der Arbeitsgruppe 
Informationssysteme und Semantic Web (Prof. Staab) ist folgende Stelle 
befristet zu besetzen:
 

1 Wissenschaftliche/r Mitarbeiter/in (EGr. 13 TV-L), ganztags, im Projekt 
X-Media
 

X-Media erforscht und testet Werkzeuge für das Wissensmanagement mit 
Multimedia-Daten. Auf der ausgeschriebenen Stelle werde Anfragesprachen und 
Methoden für Datenbanken und Semantic Web untersucht, um Metawissen wie 
Herkunft, Sicherheit oder Wahrscheinlichkeit von Fakten abzuleiten.

Wir suchen: Einen Absolventen (w/m) mit einem sehr guten Diplom- oder 
Masterabschluss, der intelligent und kreativ ist, sich wissenschaftlich 
profilieren and promovieren möchte und bereits an mindestens einem der Themen 
gearbeitet hat, die für die Stelle relevant sind.

Wir bieten: Eine kreative, vielseitige Arbeitsgruppe, Unterstützung beim 
Publizieren auf international hochrangigen Konferenzen, Unterstützung bei 
Promotion oder Habilitation, einen neuen, technisch hervorragend 
ausgestatteten Campus, sowie einen der lebenswertesten Orte in Deutschland.

Weitere Details finden Sie unter http://isweb.uni-koblenz.de/. Bewerber/innen 
senden ihre Unterlagen bis zum 20. Juni 2008 per E-Mail an Frau Werger 
(werger 'at' uni-koblenz.de).

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Gesellschaft Sozialwissenschaftlicher Infrastruktureinrichtungen e.V. 
GESIS

In einem gemeinsamen Berufungsverfahren von GESIS mit der Universität 
Koblenz-Landau ist die Stelle einer/eines

Wissenschaftlichen Leiterin/Leiters
der Abteilung Informationelle Prozesse in den Sozialwissenschaften

zum 1. April 2009 zunächst auf die Dauer von fünf Jahren zu besetzen.

Gleichzeitig erfolgt die Berufung auf eine entsprechend befristete 
Universitätsprofessur (W3) am Fachbereich Informatik der Universität 
Koblenz-Landau.

Nach Ablauf der fünf Jahre ist eine Entfristung möglich. Die Modalitäten der 
Ausgestaltung der Position werden zwischen den Beteiligten einvernehmlich 
abgestimmt. An der Universität ist eine Lehrverpflichtung von zwei SWS für die 
Dauer der Bestellung vorgesehen. Die Einstellungsvoraussetzungen für die 
Professur an der Universität Koblenz-Landau richten sich nach den Bestimmungen 
des Landeshochschulgesetzes Rheinland-Pfalz.

GESIS (www.gesis.org) ist eine international renommierte 
sozialwissenschaftliche Infrastruktureinrichtung. Sie erbringt 
forschungsbasierte Dienstleistungen für die Sozialwissenschaften. Mit ihrer 
Grundlagenforschung entwickelt und verbessert sie sozialwissenschaftliche 
Untersuchungsansätze und Forschungsinstrumente. Kernaufgabe der Abteilung 
"Informationelle Prozesse in den Sozialwissenschaften" ist die Forschung und 
Entwicklung zu allen Fragen der GESIS-IT, die zu einer Verbesserung der 
Produktgestaltung und des Wissenstransfers der GESIS dienen. Dazu zählen u. a. 
das elektronische Publizieren, die Weiterentwicklung von Informationsportalen 
und neue Konzepte der Inhaltserschließung und der Integration heterogener 
Informationsangebote, die weltweit erstellt und angeboten werden.

Die Bewerberinnen/Bewerber sollen international ausgewiesene Informatikerinnen/
Informatiker mit den Schwerpunkten Web-Retrieval, Information Retrieval, 
Semantic Web und/oder Softwareergonomie sein. Erfahrung bei der Einwerbung von 
Drittmitteln aus nationalen und internationalen Forschungsförderungsprogrammen,
 Erfahrungen im Wissenschaftsmanagement sowie in Personalführung sind 
Voraussetzung.

GESIS und die Universität Koblenz-Landau streben eine Erhöhung des Anteils von 
Frauen an wissenschaftlichem Führungspersonal an und fordern deshalb 
qualifizierte Frauen nachdrücklich auf, sich zu bewerben. Schwerbehinderte 
haben bei gleicher Eignung, Befähigung und fachlicher Leistung Vorrang vor 
gesetzlich nicht bevorrechtigten Bewerberinnen und Bewerbern.

Bewerbungen mit den üblichen Unterlagen werden erbeten an:
Gesellschaft Sozialwissenschaftlicher Infrastruktureinrichtungen e.V. GESIS

Präsident
Bachemer Str. 40
50931 Köln



Bewerbungsschluss: 20.06.2008
	
erschienen in : Die Zeit, 21.5.2008

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An der Universität Bremen ist im Fachbereich 3 Mathematik / Informatik

    die Professur

    Bes. Gr.  W3

    im Beamtenverhältnis auf Lebenszeit

für das Fachgebiet

Künstliche Intelligenz
(Nachfolge Prof. Herzog)
Kennziffer  P 663/08
möglichst zum 1.10.2008 zu besetzen.

Die künftige Stelleninhaberin / der künftige Stelleninhaber soll an der 
Universität Bremen das Gebiet Künstliche Intelligenz in Forschung und Lehre 
vertreten und in mehreren der folgenden Gebiete wissenschaftlich hervorragend 
ausgewiesen sein:

- Grundlagen der Künstlichen Intelligenz,
- Modellbasierte Diagnose, Wissensbasierte Systeme,
- Maschinelles Lernen, Data Mining,
- Wissensrepräsentation, Ontologien,
- Planerkennung, Plangenerierung,
- Bildverstehen, Videoanalyse, Video Abstracting, Multimedia Retrieval,
- Anwendungen der KI in der Logistik,
- Mobile Anwendungen, Wearable Computing.

Sie / er soll in den Studiengängen der Informatik, Digitalen Medien und 
Systems Engineering Lehr­veranstaltungen in den Grundsemestern und spezielle 
Kurse in fortgeschrittenen Semestern anbieten, insbesondere auch in Form des 
Projekt­studiums. Bereitschaft zu hochschuldidaktischer Weiterbildung, 
Initiativen und Experimentierfreude in der Lehre sowie Beiträge zur 
Internationalisierung der Universität Bremen werden erwartet.

In der Universität Bremen sind u.a. das Technologie-Zentrum Informatik (TZI), 
das Research Cluster for Dynamics in Logistics (LogDynamics), die 
DFG-Sonderforschungsbereiche SFB 637 Selbststeuerung logistischer Prozesse und 
SFB/TR 8 Spatial Cognition angesiedelt. Assoziiert sind das Institut für 
Informations­management Bremen (ifib) und das DFKI-Labor Bremen. Die Mitarbeit 
im TZI wird erwartet. Die Kooperation mit den übrigen Einrichtungen ist 
ausdrücklich erwünscht.

Die Universität erwartet von der Stelleninhaberin / dem Stelleninhaber, unter 
der Leitung des derzeitigen Stelleninhabers stehende Projekte 
eigenverantwortlich fortzuführen, durch Einwerbung von Drittmitteln zur 
Forschungsfinanzierung beizutragen sowie sich an Forschung und 
Technologietransfer zu beteiligen.

Die Universitäten Bremen und Oldenburg sind durch einen Kooperationsvertrag 
verbunden; die aktive Mitarbeit an dieser Kooperation, im OFFIS-TZI e.V. sowie 
die Kooperation mit der Jacobs University Bremen ist erwünscht.

Einstellungsvoraussetzungen sind ein einschlägiges abgeschlossenes 
Hochschulstudium, eine heraus­ragende einschlägige Promotion, weitere 
wissenschaftliche Leistungen, Erfahrung in der Führung einer großen 
Forschungsgruppe, Leistungen im Technologietransfer, sowie didaktisches 
Engagement.

Die Universität Bremen strebt eine Erhöhung des Anteils von Frauen im 
Wissenschaftsbereich an. Sie beteiligt sich deshalb u.a. an dem vom BMBF 
ausgeschriebenen Professorinnenprogramm und fordert Wissenschaftlerinnen 
nachdrücklich auf, sich zu bewerben.

Schwerbehinderten Bewerberinnen / Bewerbern wird bei im Wesentlichen gleicher 
fachlicher und persönlicher Eignung der Vorrang gegeben.

Nähere Auskünfte erteilt der Dekan des FB 3 Mathematik / Informatik, Prof. 
Christian Freksa (dekan@fb3.uni-bremen.de).


Bewerbungen mit den üblichen Unterlagen sind bis zum 30.05.2008 unter Angabe 
der o. g. Kennziffer zu richten an:

Universität Bremen
Fachbereich 3
Mathematik und Informatik
Postfach 330 440
28334 Bremen
	

 

Zusätzlich wird darum gebeten, die Bewerbungsunterlagen in elektronischer Form 
(mögl. im .pdf-Format) an folgende Adresse zu senden: 
p663-08@fb3.uni-bremen.de

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