PAKM 2010 - 8th International Conference on Practical Aspects of Knowledge Management (PAKM 2010)

November 10-12, 2010 Philadelphia - USA

The Eighth Conference on

Practical Aspects of Knowledge Management

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CALL FOR PAPERS

Submission due extended to 15 June 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=pakm201...

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: 01-Jun-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?SG...

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 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
Lönnqvist Antti, Finland
Irma Becerra-Fernandez, USA
Ansgar Bernardi, Germany
Nick Bontis, Canada
Chaomei Chen, USA
Belinha De Abreu, USA
Stefan Decker, Ireland
Kemal Delic, USA
Juan Dodero, Spain
Joaquim Filipe, Portugal
Peter Funk, Sweden
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
Vadake Narayanan, 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
Mary-Anne Williams, Australia
Takahira Yamaguchi, Japan
Lisl Zach, USA

CHAIRS AND ORGANIZATION


PROGRAM CHAIRS

- Rosina Weber, iSchool -AT- 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