KMIS 2014 - International Conference on Knowledge Management and Information Sharing

Knowledge Management (KM) is a discipline concerned with the analysis and technical support of practices used in an organization to identify, create, represent, distribute and enable the adoption and leveraging of good practices embedded in collaborative settings and, in particular, in organizational processes. Effective knowledge management is an increasingly important source of competitive advantage, and a key to the success of contemporary organizations, bolstering the collective expertise of its employees and partners.
There are several perspectives on KM, but all share the same core components, namely: People, Processes and Technology. Some take a techno-centric focus, in order to enhance knowledge integration and creation; some take an organizational focus, in order to optimize organization design and workflows; some take an ecological focus, where the important aspects are related to people interaction, knowledge and environmental factors as a complex adaptive system similar to a natural ecosystem.
Information Sharing (IS) is a term used for a long time in the information technology (IT) lexicon, related to data exchange, communication protocols and technological infrastructures. Although standardization is indeed an essential element for sharing information, IS effectiveness requires going beyond the syntactic nature of IT and delve into the human functions involved in the semantic, pragmatic and social levels of organizational semiotics.
The two areas are intertwined as information sharing is the foundation for knowledge management. KMIS aims at becoming a major meeting point for researchers and practitioners interested in the study and application of all perspectives of Knowledge Management and Information Sharing.
CONFERENCE TOPICS
E-Learning
Organizational semiotics
e-Government
Digital libraries
Interoperability
Enterprise Information Systems
Metadata and structured documents
Best practices & communities of practice
Business intelligence & CRM
Communication, collaboration and information sharing
Impact measurement of knowledge management
Tools and technology for knowledge management
Knowledge management projects
Organizational memories
Learning organization & organizational learning
Intelligent information systems
Social networks and the psychological dimension
Intellectual capital
Studies, metrics & benchmarks
Innovation facilitation
KM strategies and implementations
Information security
Business Process Management
Requirements Engineering
IC3K KEYNOTE SPEAKERS
Domenico Talia, University of Calabria and ICAR-CNR, Italy
Sonia Bergamaschi, DII - Università di Modena e Reggio Emilia, Italy
Michele Missikoff, IASI-CNR, Italy
PAPER SUBMISSION
Authors should submit a paper in English, carefully checked for correct grammar and spelling, addressing one or several of the conference areas or topics. Each paper should clearly indicate the nature of its technical/scientific contribution, and the problems, domains or environments to which it is applicable. To facilitate the double-blind paper evaluation method, authors are kindly requested to produce and provide the paper WITHOUT any reference to any of the authors, including the authors’ personal details, the acknowledgments section of the paper and any other reference that may disclose the authors’ identity.
Only original papers should be submitted. Authors are advised to read INSTICC's ethical norms regarding plagiarism and self-plagiarism thoroughly before submitting and must make sure that their submissions do not substantially overlap work which has been published elsewhere or simultaneously submitted to a journal or another conference with proceedings. Papers that contain any form of plagiarism will be rejected without reviews.
Authors can submit their work in the form of a Regular Paper, representing completed and validated research, or as a Position Paper, portraying a short report of work in progress or an arguable opinion about an issue discussing ideas, facts, situations, methods, procedures or results of scientific research focused on one of the conference topic areas. All papers must be submitted through the online submission platform PRIMORIS and should follow the instructions and templates that can be found under Guidelines and Templates. After the paper submission has been successfully completed, authors will receive an automatic confirmation e-mail.
PUBLICATIONS
All accepted papers will be published in the conference proceedings, under an ISBN reference, on paper and on CD-ROM support.
SCITEPRESS is a member of CrossRef (http://www.crossref.org/).
All papers presented at the conference venue will be available at the SCITEPRESS Digital Library.
A short list of presented papers will be selected so that revised and extended versions of these papers will be published by Springer-Verlag in a CCIS Series book .
The proceedings will be submitted for indexation by Thomson Reuters Conference Proceedings Citation Index (ISI), INSPEC, DBLP, EI (Elsevier Index) and Scopus.
IMPORTANT DATES
Conference Date: 21 - 24 October, 2014
Regular Papers
Paper Submission: April 22, 2014
Authors Notification: July 14, 2014
Camera Ready and Registration: July 29, 2014
Position Papers
Paper Submission: June 23, 2014
Authors Notification: July 25, 2014
Camera Ready and Registration: August 14, 2014
SECRETARIAT
KMIS Secretariat
Address: Av. D. Manuel I, 27A, 2º esq.
2910-595 Setúbal - Portugal
Tel.: +351 265 100 033
Fax: +44 203 014 8813
e-mail: kmis.secretariat-AT-insticc.org
Web: http://www.kmis.ic3k.org/
IC3K CONFERENCE CHAIR
Joaquim Filipe, Polytechnic Institute of Setúbal / INSTICC, Portugal
PROGRAM CHAIR
Kecheng Liu, University of Reading, United Kingdom
PROGRAM COMMITTEE
Marie-Helene Abel, HEUDIASYC CNRS UMR, University of Compiègne, France
Mustafa Alshawi, University of Salford, United Kingdom
Miriam C. Bergue Alves, Institute of Aeronautics and Space, Brazil
Ioannis Anagnostopoulos, University of Central Greece, Greece
Rangachari Anand, IBM T. J. Watson Research Center, United States
Ralph Bergmann, University of Trier, Germany
Gülçin Büyüközkan, Galatasaray University, Turkey
Elsa Cardoso, ISCTE, Portugal
Joao Carlos Amaro Ferreira, ISEL, Portugal
Marcello Castellano, Politecnico di Bari, Italy
Xiaoyu Chen, SKLSDE, Beihang University, China
Roger Chiang, University of Cincinnati, United States
Dickson K. W. Chiu, Dickson Computer Systems, Hong Kong
Byron Choi, Hong Kong Baptist University, Hong Kong
Giulio Concas, Università di Cagliari, Italy
José Cordeiro, Polytechnic Institute of Setúbal / INSTICC, Portugal
Dominique Decouchant, LIG de Grenoble, France & UAM Cuajimalpa, Mexico
Mariagrazia Dotoli, Politecnico di Bari, Italy
Ian Douglas, Florida State University, United States
Martin Dzbor, Knowledge Media Institute, United States
Alan Eardley, Staffordshire University, United Kingdom
Elsa Estevez, United Nations University , Macau
Madjid Fathi, University of Siegen , Germany
Joan-Francesc Fondevila-Gascón, CECABLE (Centre d'Estudis sobre el Cable), UAO and UOC, Spain
Anna Goy, University of Torino, Italy
Francesco Guerra, University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Italy
Renata Guizzardi, Federal University of Espirito Santo (UFES), Brazil
Anne Håkansson, KTH, Sweden
Felix Hamza-Lup, Armstrong Atlantic State University, United States
Jennifer Harding, Loughborough University, United Kingdom
Mounira Harzallah, LINA, France
Wendy Hui Wang, Stevens Institute of Technology, United States
Jane Hunter, University of Queensland, Australia
Anca Daniela Ionita, University Politehnica of Bucharest, Romania
Roberto J. Rodrigues, eHealthStrategies, United States
Nikos Karacapilidis, University of Patras & CTI, Greece
Radoslaw Katarzyniak, Wroclaw University of Technology, Poland
Dan Kirsch, Knowledge Management Professional Society (KMPro), United States
Mieczyslaw Klopotek, Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland
Michael Koenig, Long Island University, United States
Helmut Krcmar, Technische Universität München, Germany
Leandro Krug Wives, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil
Elise Lavoué, Université Jean Moulin Lyon 3, France
Juhnyoung Lee, IBM T. J. Watson Research Center, United States
Guoliang Li, Tsinghua University, China
Heide Lukosch, Delft University of Technology, Netherlands
Nada Matta, University of Technology of Troyes, France
Christine Michel, INSA-Lyon, Laboratoire LIRIS, France
Michael Milakovich, University of Miami, United States
Masoud Mohammadian, University of Canberra, Australia
Owen Molloy, National University of Ireland, Galway, Ireland
Reagan Moore, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, United States
Jean-Henry Morin, University of Geneva, Switzerland
Augusta Maria Paci, Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, Italy
Wilma Penzo, University of Bologna, Italy
Milly Perry, The Open University, Israel
Arkalgud Ramaprasad, University of Miami, United States
Edie Rasmussen, University of British Columbia, Canada
Marina Ribaudo, Università di Genova, Italy
Reinhard Riedl , Bern University of Applied Sciences, Switzerland
George Samaras, University of Cyprus, Cyprus
Vaclav Snasel, VSB - Technical University of Ostrava, Czech Republic
Paolo Spagnoletti, LUISS Guido Carli University, Italy
Marilde Terezinha Prado Santos, Federal University of São Carlos - UFSCar, Brazil
Bhavani Thuraisingham, University of Texas at Dallas, United States
Esaú Villatoro Tello, Universidad Autonoma Metropolitana (UAM), Mexico
Robert Warren, Carleton University, Canada
Rosina Weber, iSchool at Drexel, United States
Martin Wessner, Fraunhofer IESE, Germany
Uffe K. Wiil, University of Southern Denmark, Denmark
Andreas Wombacher, University of Twente, Netherlands
John Zeleznikow, Victoria University, Australia
Daniel Dajun Zeng, Chinese Academy of Sciences & U. of Arizona, United States