SKDM 2012 - International Workshop on Social Knowledge Discovery and Management(SKDM 2012)

With the popularity of social media (e.g., Facebook, Twitter, Yahoo Answer, etc.), some sort of on-the-fly experience is learned and obtained by daily users. This type of experience can, in addition, be recognized as a particular way to cultivate domain knowledge. One typical instance is solution-finding. People rather search for the web (i.e., social environment) to see if someone who meets same, or similar, issues that he/she is dealing with and comes up with the solutions rather than find one in a traditional way. This not only reveals that the problems are about to be solved but the process that knowledge is discovered based upon the experiences from other publics. That is being said that the paradigms, such as social computing and multimedia networking, have changed the behaviors of human beings. Knowledge discovery is the process of automatic extraction of interesting and useful knowledge from very large data, whereas knowledge management consists of a range of strategies and practices to identify, create, represent, distribute, and enable the adoption of novel insights and experiences for decision making. Issues regarding knowledge discovery and management become critical needs to be investigated. Various considerations should be carefully identified from both theoretical and practical perspectives to ensure the successful incorporation of these technologies. This workshop aims at providing a forum to discuss problems, current studies, and solutions on how the knowledge is discovered and managed in a socialized environment to facilitate human-centric support. Researchers are encouraged to share achievements, experiments, and ideas with international participants, and furthermore, look forward to map out the research directions and collaboration in the future. Participants, around 20 to 30, are expected to join the event during the period of main conference.