SIG KM NEWSLETTER Issue May 2010 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. Election results of management board SIG KM 2. Call for Papers: Practical Aspects of Knowledge Management: PAKM 2010 deadline: May 21 3. Call for Papers: FGWM @ LWA 2010, deadline: July 1 ......................................................................... *sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm* ......................................................................... The recent election of the management board of the Special Interest Group on Knowledge Management (Fachgruppe Wissensmanagement) - in short FGWM - of the German Society of Computer Science (GI) has gained a turnout of 61 voters! The following persons have been elected and form the new management board: Joachim Baumeister Ralph Bergmann Ronald Maier Mirjam Minor (chair) Ulrich Reimer (deputy chair) Bodo Rieger Thomas Roth-Berghofer (mailing list) Gerhard Schwabe Thanks to all voters! And many thanks to the former board members Steffen Staab and York Sure for their work! ......................................................................... *sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm* ......................................................................... Practical Aspects of Knowledge Management: PAKM 2010 ============================================= November 10-12, 2010 Philadelphia - USA The Eighth Conference on Practical Aspects of Knowledge Management ****** ACCESS OUR WEBSITE FOR MORE INFO ****** http://www.ischool.drexel.edu/PAKM2010/ Or email us at: pakm2010@easychair.org YOU CAN ALSO FOLLOW US ON TWITTER AND FACEBOOK ************* CALL FOR PAPERS ************* Submission due: 21 May 2010 Conference: 10 to 12 November 2010 Workshops: 10 November 2010 Scientific Program: 11-12 November 2010 *** SUBMISSIONS ARE OPEN *** PUBLICATIONS: CONFERENCE AND JOURNALS ======================================== PAKM 2010 is offering an opportunity for accepted papers to be published in LNCS/LNAI in the series name Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence ( www.springer.com/lncs) on an issue of Practical Aspects of Knowledge Management. Authors of best papers may be invited to submit an extended version to a special issue of a journal. *** Best papers in Applied AI and KM will be invited to submit an extended version for a special issue in Intelligent Systems in Accounting, Finance & Management. *** Best papers in general areas may be invited to submit an extended version for the International Journal of Knowledge Management. CONFIRMED INVITED SPEAKERS ========================= 11 NOVEMBER 2010 ************************** Jay Liebowitz University of Maryland 12 NOVEMBER 2010 ************************** Larry Prusak Former Executive Director of the Institute for Knowledge Management SUBMISSIONS ============= 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 and/or the scientific benefits of the suggested solutions for a knowledge management task of an organization or community. Furthermore, papers should emphasize the novel aspects of the suggested approach. Submissions will be anonymous and subject to blind reviews. Submission web page: http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=pakm2010 Below is a not exhaustive list of topics that will be considered: 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 storage and representation Knowledge utilization - content-oriented retrieval - question answering - integration of knowledge and business processes - graphical user interfaces for retrieving and - visualizing knowledge - semantic web Developing new knowledge - innovation management - ontology management and development - communities of practice Knowledge Measurement and evaluation - evaluation of knowledge management systems - measuring the benefits of KM solutions - measuring the cost of KM solutions, knowledge access - measuring the benefits of knowledge access - proportions and relative cost of knowledge cycles - cost of missing knowledge Competitive intelligence How to store and retrieve shared knowledge Using digital libraries Collective intelligence and knowledge management Knowledge fusion Theoretical models for KM Experimental designs to test KM tasks and approaches IMPORTANT DATES ================= Papers Due: 21-May-10 Notification of acceptance: 1-Jul-10 Camera-ready Due: 12-Aug-10 SUBMISSION FORMAT =================== Papers MUST be submitted in Springer LNCS format, with a maximum of 12 pages. Authors' instructions are available on the web at http://www.springer.com/east/home/computer/lncs?SGWID=5-164-12-73062-0 AIMS AND SCOPE =============== The PAKM Conference Series offers a communication forum and meeting ground for practitioners and researchers. The conference focus is on developing and deploying advanced business solutions for the management of knowledge in organizations and other communities that can benefit from its methods. This year's conference we will pay particular attention to the innovations on the interaction between Business, Computer Science, Information Systems, and Library and Information Science. PAKM is a forum for people to share their views, to exchange novel ideas, to develop new insights, and to envision, propose and demonstrate new kinds of solutions and new organizational methods and/or tools to Knowledge Management problems. Management in companies deals with many things: people, energy, materials, etc. The management integrates them as a whole system and organizes the flow between the parts efficiently. In some companies, the same is done with knowledge. What methods are available and how well this integration of knowledge is understood? Libraries and universities are examples of organizations where knowledge plays a major role within management. What methods are available to integrate knowledge (e.g., curricula, expertise, centers of excellence, programs) with people and other resources in libraries and universities? The topics will cover relevant and applicable 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. We seek original contributions in the business and organization sciences, cognitive science, library and information science, information systems 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. Library and information science analyzes how to organize and understand knowledge for the benefit of the users. PROGRAM COMMITTEE =================== Eileen Abels, USA David Aha, USA Klaus-Dieter Althoff, Germany Yuan An, USA Irma Becerra-Fernandez, USA Nick Bontis, Canada Chaomei Chen, USA Belinha De Abreu, USA Stefan Decker, Ireland Kemal Delic, USA Juan Dodero, Spain Joaquim Filipe, Portugal Fabien Gandon, France Enrico Giunchiglia, Italy Norbert Gronau, Germany Siegfried Handschuh, Ireland Remko Helms, The Netherlands Knut Hinkelmann, Switzerland Achim Hoffmann, Australia Byeong-ho Kang, Australia Murray Jennex, USA Dimitris Karagiannis, Austria Larry Kerschberg, USA David Leake, USA Jay Liebowitz, USA Ana Maguitman, Argentina Ronald Maier, Austria Mark Maybury, USA Karim Moustaghfir, Morocco Hector Munoz, USA Daniel O'Leary, USA Jung-Ran Park, USA Sven Rehm, Germany Ulrich Reimer, Switzerland Debbie Richards, Australia Bodo Rieger Germany Gerold Riempp, Germany Stefan Smolnik, Germany Steffen Staab, Germany Rudi Studer, Germany Ulrich Thiel Germany A Min Tjoa Austria Eric Tsui, China Andre Valente, United States Ian Watson New Zealand Frithjof Weber, Germany Takahira Yamaguchi, Japan Lisl Zach, USA CHAIRS AND ORGANIZATION ========================= PROGRAM CHAIRS - Rosina Weber, iSchool @ Drexel University, USA - Michael Richter, University of Kaiserslautern, Germany CONFERENCE CHAIR - Rosina Weber, Drexel University, USA WORKSHOPS CHAIR - Siegfried Handschuh, National University of Ireland, Ireland WEBMASTER - Robin Naughton, Drexel University, USA LOCAL COMMITTEE - Ilya Waldstein, Drexel University, USA STEERING COMMITTEE ==================== STEERING COMMITTEE CHAIRS - Dimitris Karagiannis, University of Vienna, Austria - Ulrich Reimer, University of Applied Sciences St. Gallen, Switzerland STEERING COMMITTEE MEMBERS - Irma Becerra-Fernandez, Florida International University, USA - John Davies, British Telecom, UK - Michael Huhns, University of South Carolina, USA - Daniel O'Leary, University of Southern California, USA - Eric Tsui, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, China - Mary-Anne Williams, The University of Technology, Sydney, Australia - Takahira Yamaguchi, Keio University, Japan ......................................................................... *sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm* ......................................................................... Workshop FGWM @ LWA 2010 October 4 - 6, 2010, Kassel http://www.kde.cs.uni-kassel.de/conf/lwa10/wm _________________________________________________________________________ The annual workshop "Knowledge and Experience Management" is organised by the Special Interest Group on Knowledge Management (Fachgruppe Wissensmanagement, in short FGWM) of the German Informatics society (GI) . It is an interdisciplinary forum for both, scientists and practitioners. Its goals is to enable and further the exchange of innovative ideas and practical applications in the field of knowledge and experience management. Submissions from current research out of these and adjacent areas are welcome. Moreover, contributions that describe work in progress or approaches that have not yet been investigated comprehensively are of special interest. Even provisional approaches should, however, be described sufficiently clearly and structured, in order to serve as a basis for interesting discussions among the participants. The SIG compiled a manifesto (see below) to which the organisers and the programme committee are obliged. Topics of interest * Experience/knowledge search and knowledge integration approaches (case-based reasoning, logic-based approaches, text-based approaches, semantic portals/wikis/blogs, Web 2.0, etc.) * Applications of knowledge and experience management (corporate memories, e-commerce, design, tutoring/e-learning, e-government, software engineering, robotics, medicine, etc.) * (Semantic) Web Services for knowledge management * Agile approaches within the knowledge management domain * Agent-based & Peer-to-Peer knowledge management * Just-in-time retrieval and just-in-time knowledge capturing * Ways of knowledge representation (ontologies, similarity, retrieval, adaptive knowledge, etc.) * Support of authoring and maintenance processes (change management, requirements tracing, (distributed) version control, etc.) * Evaluation of knowledge management systems * Practical experiences ("lessons learned") with IT aided approaches * Integration of knowledge management and business processes * Introspection and explanation capabilities of KM systems * Linked (Open) Data Important Dates * Submission of papers: 1 July 2010 * Notification of acceptance: 1 August 2010 * Camera ready copies due: 1 September 2010 * Workshop FGWM@LWA: 4 - 6 October 2010 Organisation * Joachim Baumeister, Universit.ANdt WN|rzburg * Thomas Roth-Berghofer, DFKI GmbH, Kaiserslautern Programme Committee * Klaus-Dieter Althoff, University Hildesheim, Germany * Ralph Bergmann, University Trier, Germany * Ronald Maier, University of Innsbruck, Austria * Heiko Maus, DFKI Kaiserslautern, Germany * Markus Nick, empolis GmH, Germany * Ulrich Reimer, University of Applied Sciences St. Gallen, Switzerland * Bodo Rieger, University of Osnabrueck, Germany * Rainer Schmidt, University of Rostock, Germany * Steffen Staab, University of Koblenz-Landau, Germany * more to be announced Manifesto of the Special Interest Group Knowledge Management (FGWM) The SIG Knowledge Management (Fachgruppe Wissensmanagement, in short FGWM) of the German Informatics Society (GI) annually organises a workshop $B!H(BKnowledge and Experience Management$B!I(B within the LWA workshop series. The SIG compiled a list of reasons why attendance to that workshop is attractive and why it is unique among the many existing conferences and workshops on topics related to knowledge management. * The workshop is not a mini-conference but a real workshop because o there is ample discussion time for each of the presented papers, o it gives the opportunity to present work in progress, possibly in its early stages only, o there is the possibility for break-out sessions on topics to be discussed more deeply. * Therefore the workshop provides the opportunity for young researchers (even excellent master students) to o present and discuss preliminary work, o get feedback on their work from a larger audience with people having quite different viewpoints, o get accustomed to presenting and defending their work at scientific events. * The workshop is a forum for testing the viability of new ideas (by junior as well as senior researchers) before more effort and resources are put into them. * Since the workshop attracts students as well as senior members of the community it plays a vital role in o fostering the next generation of researchers (like a doctoral symposium but across institutions), o helping to maintain a high quality of PhD work, o recruiting research staff (master students looking for PhD positions, PhD students looking for postdoc positions). * The workshop is enriched by including a few top-notch papers already presented at international venues. Since nobody can attend all relevant conferences any more this is a good opportunity to catch up on missed papers. * The workshop is the forum for connecting with the German knowledge management community. * Last but not least, the workshop has a very low participation fee and is thus much more affordable than pre-conference workshops which can usually only be attended when also registering to the main conference (with the full conference fee). A statement from a young researcher why she finds the FGWM workshop series attractive The FGWM workshop offers a unique opportunity for the promotion of young researchers. With its low participation fee and the informal nature it provides a platform for young PhD students and advanced MSc students to present their projects and theses to a larger audience. It is thus an excellent opportunity to gain first experiences in scientific practice and exchange. The possibility to take part in scientific discourse already at an early stage, is very valuable to young researchers. In the field of knowledge management, this is a unique feature of the FGWM workshop. Besides getting useful feedback on their work from senior researchers outside their own research group, young researchers profit from an exchange of experiences with fellow PhD students from other universities. A statement from a senior researcher why he finds the FGWM workshop series attractive The FGWM workshop provides senior researchers not only with a platform for presenting their own research interests and discuss presented work, but also offers the opportunity to share best practices on PhD supervision among different universities and research institutions. Senior researchers can pass along experience on project proposal writing, project management, and evaluation. At this venue senior researchers are easily approachable and can help with issues PhD students might not want to discuss with their supervisors. Further, students can easily investigate career opportunities in academia. ......................................................................... *sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm* .........................................................................