SIG KM NEWSLETTER Issue October 2003 Newsletter of the German Special Interest Group on Knowledge Management www.fgwm.de Subscribe or unsubscribe via http://www.fgwm.de Send contributions to: fgwm@dwm.uni-hildesheim.de TABLE OF CONTENTS 1. Call for Papers: Multi-Conference on Business Information Systems 2. Conference Announcement (in German): Modellierung 2004 3. Conference Announcement: International FLAIRS Conference 2004 4. Online Proceedings of FGWM 03 Workshop available 5. Research Positions at the University of Sheffild ......................................................................... *sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm* ......................................................................... 1. Call for Papers: Multi-Conference on Business Information Systems Multi-Conference on Business Information Systems March 9-11,2004, Essen, Germany http://kom.wi-inf.uni-essen.de/mkwi04/ In addition to the large bi-annual business informatics conference, the bi-annual multi-conference has become a regular and established event. It provides scientists, practitioners as well as students a platform to discuss the latest trends in their disciplines. The speciality and distinguishing feature of the multi-conference is openness to all kinds of initiatives. Different working groups and organisations cover various often highly relevant and hot topics and thus enrich the conference with a wide spectrum of interesting sub-conferences, tutorials and workshops. The positive experiences from Siegen and Nürnberg encourage us to prepare an equally interesting and comprehensive offer. The organisers from University of Duisburg-Essen offer the organisational premises and the management for the Multi-conference on Business Informatics 2004 from 9th to 11th March 2004 in Essen. The conference tracks begin on 9th of March at 13:00 and ends on 11th of March at 15:00. Tutorials and similar events may also begin on March 9th in the morning. Numerous initiators have proposed an exciting mix of highly attractive events which are presented in an integrated form in this brochure. The following 18 tracks seek for your attention and passion: - MobIS Modelling of Business Information Systems - Reference Modelling - E-Business - Standardisation and Integration - Communities in E-Business - Quantitative methods in ERP und SCM - Business Intelligence - Knowledge Supply and Information Logistics in Enterprises and Networked Organizations - Organisational Intelligence - Mobile und Collaborative Business: Ambience - Mobile Business Systems - Mobile Support of Business Processes - Techniques and Applications for Mobile Commerce (TAMoCo) - Agent Technology in Business Applications - Information Systems in Industry and Trade - Information Systems in the Financal Services Industry - Co-ordination in Value Creation networks - E-Learning: Models, Instruments, Experiences - Software Product Lines Deadlines (for all tracks) 10th of November 2003 Submission of papers 1st of December 2003 Notice of Acceptance 1st of January 2004 Submission of manuscripts Notice: the dealine to submit the papers has been extended to 10th of November 2003, except for MobIS. The deadline for the MobIS track is the 7th of November 2003. ......................................................................... *sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm* ......................................................................... 2. Conference Announcement (in German): Modellierung 2004 Konferenz Modellierung 2004 Gemeinsame Konferenz von zwoelf Fachgruppen der GI 24.-26. März 2004 Marburg http://www4.in.tum.de/modellierung2004/ Gegenstand und Zielsetzung Die Modellierung gehoert zu den Kernaufgaben der Informatik sowie ihrer Nachbardisziplinen. Entsprechend vielschichtig und facettenreich sind die vorgeschlagenen Konzepte und Abstraktionen zur Modellbildung. Dennoch hat sich mittlerweile ein gewisser Kanon von Modellarten herausgebildet. Es zeichnet sich derzeit ab, dass der Einsatz von Modellen in der Software- und Systementwicklung auf Basis von verbesserten Techniken und Werkzeugen enorm verbessert werden kann. Die seit 1998 bestehende Tagungsreihe "Modellierung" hat es sich zum Ziel gesetzt, ein Forum für den interdisziplinaeren Austausch von Ansaetzen und Erfahrungen im Bereich der Modellierung zu bieten und so die Verwendung von Modellen weiter zu etablieren. Ein wesentliches Ziel der Konferenz ist es daher, die Kenntnisse und Faehigkeiten der deutschsprachigen Forschung und Industrie zu buendeln, wie dies derzeit in aehnlicher Form im Ausland bereits geschieht. Die "Modellierung 2004" bietet Wissenschaftlern und Praktikern erneut die Gelegenheit, Innovationen zu präsentieren, Gemeinsamkeiten und Unterschiede der verwendeten Modellierungsansätzen herauszuarbeiten und gegenseitigen Erfahrungsaustausch zu pflegen. Um diesen Anspruch zu unterstreichen, bietet die Konferenz * Raum fuer Diskussionen, * ein Industrieforum, * Workshops (und Fachgruppentreffen), * eine Poster-Ausstellung und * Tutorien. Kontakt: info@modellierung2004.de ......................................................................... *sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm* ......................................................................... 3. Conference Announcement: International FLAIRS Conference 2004 The 17th International FLAIRS Conference Special Track on Case-Based Reasoning http://www.cs.indiana.edu/~raja/flairs04 Palms South Beach Hotel Miami Beach, Florida, USA May 17-19, 2004 Following successful special tracks on Case-Based Reasoning at FLAIRS over the past three years, we are inviting papers for the Fourth Special Track on CBR at the 17th International FLAIRS Conference. This forum is intended to gather AI researchers and practitioners with an interest in CBR to present and discuss developments in CBR theory and application. Submissions are solicited on CBR topics, including but not limited to: -Foundations of CBR -Methods for CBR (e.g., representation, indexing, retrieval, adaptation) -Evaluation methods for CBR systems and integrations -Practical applications of CBR -Textual CBR -CBR and creativity -CBR and design -Distributed CBR -Case base maintenance -Spatio-temporal CBR -CBR in the health sciences -CBR integrations -Case-based planning Program Committee ----------------- David W. Aha, Naval Research Laboratory (USA) Klaus-Dieter Althoff, Fraunhofer Institute for Experimental Software Engineering (Germany) Stefanie Brüninghaus, University of Pittsburgh (USA) Robin Burke, DePaul University (USA) Bill Cheetham, GE Research (USA) Michael Cox, Wright State University (USA) Pedro Gonzalez, Universidad Complutense de Madrid (Spain) Christiane Gresse von Wangenheim, Universidade do Vale do Itaja (Brazil) David B. Leake, Indiana University (USA) Lorraine McGinty, University College Dublin (Ireland) Hector Munoz-Avila, Lehigh University (USA) Raja Sooriamurthi, Indiana University (USA) Ian Watson, University of Auckland, (New Zealand) Rosina Weber, Drexel University (USA) David Wilson, University of North Carolina, Charlotte (USA) Contact ------- Communication regarding the CBR special track should be addressed to: David C. Wilson Dept. of Software and Information Systems UNC, Charlotte 9201 University City Blvd. Charlotte, NC 28223 USA davils@uncc.edu phone: +1 704 687 5498 fax: +1 704 687 4893 Raja Sooriamurthi Information Systems Department Kelley School of Business Indiana University Bloomington, IN 47405 USA raja@indiana.edu phone: +1 812 855-4254 fax: +1 812 855-4950 FLAIRS-2004 Invited Speakers ---------------------------- Justine Cassell (MIT) Edward Feigenbaum (Stanford University) Jim Hendler (University of Maryland) Tom Mitchell (CMU) ......................................................................... *sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm* ......................................................................... 4. Online Proceedings of FGWM 03 Workshop available The German Workshop on Knowledge and Experience Management (FGWM 2003) was held during October 6 - 8, 2003 in Karlsruhe as part of the LLWA Workshop series. All papers of this workshop are available on the Web at: http://km.aifb.uni-karlsruhe.de/ws/LLWA/fgwm/index_eng_html ......................................................................... *sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm* ......................................................................... 5. Research Positions at the University of Sheffild The department of Computer Science in the University of Sheffield is now creating around 5 new research posts in the field of language processing, knowledge management and the semantic web. Please see http://gate.ac.uk/jobs.html for more details. Dr. Hamish Cunningham Senior Research Scientist Department of Computer Science University of Sheffield ......................................................................... *sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm* .........................................................................