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                       Newsletter of the
         GI Special Interest Group Knowledge Management
              (Fachgruppe Wissensmanagement FGWM)

                      http://www.fgwm.de 

              Issue 2010-09/10 / 161 subscribers

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Editorial
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Dear reader,

Our community workshop at LWA 2010 was despite its small size a 
successful event for its participants. Thanks to all who came to 
Kassel. It was nice to meet new people and to reconnect :-)

The next important event is WM 2011 in Innsbruck. I hope you are busy 
finishing your submission for one of the workshops, e.g. GWEM or POP.
But be sure to check the other workshops, too.

Take care,

Thomas Roth-Berghofer
editor SIGKM newsletter 


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TABLE OF CONTENTS

1. Last Call for Papers: 6th Conference Professional Knowledge
  Management 2011 (WM 2011), http://wm-konferenz2011.org
  Submission deadline: 24 October 2010

2. Last Call for Papers: GWEM 2011 - 6th German Workshop on Experience 
  Management @ WM 2011, http://gwem2011.workshop.hm
  Submission deadline: 24 October 2010

3. Last Call for Papers: POP11 - Putting ontologies into practise 
  @ WM 2011, http://web.fhnw.ch/plattformen/pop11/
  Submission deadline: 24 October 2010  

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The CfPs for the 6th Conference on Professional Knowledge Management 
(WM2011) have been announced on the conference website 
 http://www.wm-konferenz2011.org/workshopsEN.html. 

As a multi-track conference, WM2011 covers a wide range of topics 
around professional knowledge management. The workshops are:

* CKME2011 - 3rd Workshop on the Convergence of Knowledge Management 
 and E-Learning: http://www.wm-konferenz2011.org/ckme.html
* E20success - Enterprise 2.0 - Mehr Erfolg mit Web 2.0 im Unternehmen:
 http://www.wm-konferenz2011.org/e20success.html
* eHR-KM - First International Workshop on Knowledge Management and 
 e-Human Resources Practices for Innovation:
 http://www.wm-konferenz2011.org/ehrkm.html
* ERWIN'11 - Einflussfaktoren und Erfolgsbewertung des 
 Wissensmanagements: http://www.wm-konferenz2011.org/erwin.html
* GWEM2011 - 6th German Workshop on Experience Management:
 http://www.wm-konferenz2011.org/gwem.html
* IKMS2011 - 3rd Workshop on Integrated Knowledge Management Systems:
 http://www.wm-konferenz2011.org/ikms.html
* MBC2011 - Management by Competence: Wissens- und Kompetenzmanagement 
 in dynamischen Unternehmen: http://www.wm-konferenz2011.org/mbc.html
* MSKWM2011 - Motivationale, soziale und kulturelle Aspekte im 
 Wissensmanagement: http://www.wm-konferenz2011.org/mskwm.html
* POP11 - Putting Ontologies into Practice: 
 http://www.wm-konferenz2011.org/pop.html
* PROWM2011 - Prozessorientiertes Wissensmanagement 2011:
 http://www.wm-konferenz2011.org/prowm.html
* SAKM'2011 - Workshop on Behavioral Aspects of Situational 
 Applications & Knowledge Mashups:
 http://www.wm-konferenz2011.org/sakm.html
* WME20 - Knowing 2.0 - Leitet Enterprise 2.0 eine neue Generation des 
 Wissensmanagements ein?: http://www.wm-konferenz2011.org/wme.html
* WMINDIG2011 - Interdisziplinäre und indigene Methodenvielfalt im 
 Wissensmanagement <http://www.wm-konferenz2011.org/wmindig.html
* WMKEP2011 - Wissensmanagement in kollaborativen Entscheidungsprozessen:
 http://www.wm-konferenz2011.org/wmkep.html

Submission of papers
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We are looking forward to your submission in English of up to 8 pages in 
Postscript format (PDF). All submitted papers must be aligned with the 
author's guideline for 'Lecture Notes in Informatics' 
 http://www.gi-ev.de/service/publikationen/lni.html, 
edited by the Gesellschaft für Informatik. Please submit your paper to 
the respective track of the EasyChair conference system:
 http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=wm2011.

Important Dates
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* Submission of workshop papers: 24 October 2010
* Notification of authors about acceptance/rejection: 30 November 2010
* Submission of camera-ready papers: 31 December 2010
* Workshops at WM2011 21 to 23 February 2011


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GWEM 2011 - 6th German Workshop on Experience Management @ WM 2011
http://gwem2011.workshop.hm

Efficient utilization of experience is gaining in importance since 
expertise, "know how", applied knowledge can be assessed as one of the 
most important resources and the key issue for successfully competing 
organizations in almost every sector of economy. In the context of this 
workshop as well as the workshops previously held in this series, 
'experience' is mainly considered as a form of knowledge obtained during 
the solution of problems. Therefore, similar but not identical issues 
from approaches developed in Knowledge Management, all aspects of the 
whole lifecycle of 'experience' are in the focus of this workshop: 
Analyzing, modeling, storing, retrieving, developing, and reusing 
experience are major challenges to Experience Management (EM) and hence 
can be in the center of contributions to this workshop. Based on these 
lifecycle-oriented issues, aspects of applying EM in "real world" 
scenarios (e.g. in manufacturing industry, commerce etc.) coming from 
a variety of scientific communities are as well of great interest.

Hence, besides the traditionally strong focus of this workshop series 
on the design, development and integration of intelligent systems and 
methods for managing experience, subjects relevant in Experience 
Management may be contributed by different communities from computer 
science (e.g., aspects of collaborative/"Web 2.0" techniques in the 
development/use/distribution of experiences), mathematics (e.g., 
analysis and design of algorithms from machine learning, CBR, network 
analysis), social science (e.g. modeling and analysis of usage and 
development of experience in networks, acceptance of experience-based 
derived solutions), and business administration/economics (e.g., 
assessing the economic value of EM in enterprises).

The overall objective of this workshop is to provide an 
interdisciplinary forum where practitioners and researchers can 
exchange ideas, concepts and solutions concerning the design and 
implementation of Experience Management systems, present practical 
experiences from applications in any domain, and discuss future 
research directions.

Topics of Interest

Submissions from all areas contributing to the development and 
application of intelligent EM systems are welcome. We explicitly 
encourage paper submissions that are not mainstream but from 
communities within mathematics, social sciences, or economics in 
order to obtain a more interdisciplinary view on the subject. 

Suggested topics and more information: http://gwem2011.workshop.hm

Workshop Organizers
 * Kerstin Bach, University of Hildesheim
 * Thomas Roth-Berghofer, DFKI, Kaiserslautern

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                             Call for papers
            Workshop: POP11 - Putting ontologies into practise
           21st of February to 23rd of February 2011, Innsbruck
                  http://web.fhnw.ch/plattformen/pop11/

The topic

The use of ontologies has progressed from a research topic to a model 
for knowledge representation in practical applications over the last 5 
to 10 years. While the use of ontologies facilitates a wide range of 
advanced, content-oriented applications in knowledge management, a main 
bottleneck for implementing such applications is to obtain, share and 
maintain the required ontologies. Although lots of ontologies are 
available and although there has been a lot of work on ontology learning, 
ontology matching and integration, it still requires a great deal of time 
and effort to create and adapt them - and continuously update them - for 
any reallife application. These issues currently seem to be the main 
obstacles for a further spread of this technology. Moreover, many 
applications need quite focused ontologies for a specific context which 
simply do not exist and have to be created first.

A variety of quite different approaches may help to provide ontologies 
needed for advanced knowledge management applications. Besides ontology 
learning, population and integration supporting the collaborative 
engineering of ontologies by a community of domain experts is an 
important issue because it allows to better balance the overall effort 
of creating and maintaining ontologies over many people and thus raises 
the acceptance and ensures the quality of the generated ontologies. 
Moreover, while a growing number of ontologies are available on the web 
and while several ontology repositories have emerged recently, finding 
a suitable ontology and adapting it to ones needs is still time 
consuming. In particular, as ontologies are always developed with a 
specific point of view on a domain of discourse it can be very difficult 
to tweak a given ontology to a slightly different viewpoint, usually 
leading to the development of a completely new ontology. Instead, it 
would be preferable to integrate different perspectives on the same 
domain of discourse in one ontology rather than creating a complete 
new ontology each time a (slightly) different view is needed.

In this workshop we will discuss all kinds of approaches that aim at 
facilitating the (semi-) automatic and manual creation, reuse, adaption 
and maintenance of ontologies for real-life applications, i.e. support 
the management aspects of the ontology life cycle.

Topics of Interest

Submitted papers should present theoretical approaches or practical 
case studies addressing one or more of the following or related topics:

* Ontology learning 
* Ontology population 
* Ontology matching and merging 
* Ontology engineering and evolution 
* Ontology lifecycle management 
* Modularization and versioning of ontologies 
* Collaborative ontology modelling 
* Finding, reusing and adapting ontologies 
* Practical aspects of managing and maintaining ontologies in 
  organisations 
* Evaluation and quality assurance of ontologies 
* Combining ontology-based approaches with social tagging 
* Integrating ontologies with associative networks (aka lightweight 
  ontologies) 

Addressed Audience

The targeted audience includes researchers and practitioners in the 
field of ontology engineering and use. Besides paper presentations, 
this workshop will offer open spaces for targeted discussions.

Organizers

Ulrich Reimer
University of Applied Sciences Sankt Gallen
Institute for Information and Process Management
Teufener Strasse 2, CH-9000 St. Gallen
ulrich.reimer@fhsg.ch

Barbara Thönssen
University of Applied Sciences Northwestern Switzerland FHNW
Institute for Information Systems
Riggenbachstrasse 16, CH-4600 Olten, Switzerland
barbara.thoenssen@fhnw.ch

Rainer Telesko
University of Applied Sciences Northwestern Switzerland FHNW
Institute for Information Systems
Riggenbachstrasse 16, CH-4600 Olten, Switzerland
rainer.telesko@fhnw.ch

Program Committee

- Andreas Abecker FZI, Germany 
- Udo Hahn University of Jena, Germany 
- Siegfried Handschuh DERI Galway, Ireland 
- Knut Hinkelmann FHNW, Switzerland 
- Andreas Hotho University of Kassel, Germany 
- Michael Kohlhase Jacobs University, Germany 
- Emmanuela Merelli University of Camerino, Italy 
- Barbara Re University of Camerino, Italy 
- Uwe Riss SAP Research, Germany 
- Andreas Schmidt FZI, Germany 
- Hans-Peter Schnurr Ontoprise, Germany 
- Michael Sintek DFKI, Germany 
- Steffen Staab University of Koblenz-Landau, Germany 
- York Sure University of Koblenz-Landau, Germany 
- Wilfrid Utz BOC Asset Management, Austria 
- Daniela Wolff FHNW, Switzerland 

Review Process

All submissions will be subject to review by the POP11 Program 
Committee. Review criteria include originality of ideas, technical 
soundness, significance of results, and quality of presentation. 
It is intended to have three reviews per submission. Notification 
of acceptance or rejection of submitted papers will be mailed to 
the corresponding author.

Guidelines for Submission of papers

http://wm-konferenz2011.org/authorsEN.html