http://www.inria.fr/acacia/WORKSHOPS/ECAI2002-OM/call.html
Welcome to the
ECAI'02 Workshop
on
Knowledge Management and Organizational Memories
Lyon (France) - July 22, 2002
Call for papers:
Knowledge Management (KM) is one of the key progress factors in organizations.
It involves explicit and persistent representation of knowledge of (geographically)
dispersed groups of people in the organization, so as to improve the activities
of the organization. Although KM is an issue in human resource management
and enterprise organization beyond any specific technology questions,
there are important aspects that can be supported or even enabled
by intelligent information systems. Especially AI and related fields
provide solutions for important parts of the overall KM problem.
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Identification and analysis of a company's knowledge-intensive work processes
(e.g., product design or strategic planning). Knowledge Engineering and
Enterprise Modeling techniques can contribute to this topic. The analysis
of information flow and involved knowledge sources allows to identify
shortcomings of business processes, and to specify requirements on potential
IT support.
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In an organization, know-how may relate to problem solving expertise in
functional disciplines, experiences of human resources, and project experiences
in terms of project management issues, design technical issues and lessons
learned. The coherent integration of this dispersed know-how in a corporation,
aimed at enhancing its access and reuse, is called "corporate memory" or
"organizational memory" (OM). It is regarded as the central prerequisite
for IT support of Knowledge Management and is the means for knowledge conservation,
distribution, and reuse. An OM enables organizational learning and
continuous process improvement.
Activities underlying knowledge management in an organization can comprise
detection of needs, construction, distribution, use and maintenance of
the corporate memory. It demands abilities to manage disparate know-how
and heterogeneous viewpoints, to make it accessible and suitable for adequate
members of the organization. When the organization knowledge is distributed
on several experts and documents in different locations all over the world,
the Internet or an Intranet inside the organization and World Wide Web
(WWW) techniques can be a privileged means for acquisition, modelling,
management of this distributed knowledge. Papers are welcome in any area
concerning knowledge management or corporate memory or organizational
memory.
Examples of interesting topics are:
Dimensions of knowledge management: organization, competence, methodology...
Enterprise modeling
Artificial Intelligence methods or techniques for construction of computational
corporate memories (knowledge bases, case bases, intelligent documentary
systems,
agent-based systems...)
Business Intelligence Solutions for KM
Intranet Solutions for KM
Document Management Solutions for KM
MultiMedia solutions for KM
Content Management solutions for KM
Architectures for KM/OM systems
Integration of formal and informal knowledge in KM/OM
Integration of knowledge from different groups in an organization
Knowledge sharing between different groups in an organization (possibly
via Internet/Intranet)
Cooperative (possibly WWW-based) building, adaptation and evolution of
a corporate memory
Building and Exploiting a Corporate Semantic Web
WWW-based repositories for sharable ontologies and reusable problem-solving
methods
WWW-based terminology servers
Assessment of concrete applications for knowledge management
Case studies of building KM/OM in enterprises
Active, context-dependent knowledge supply
Important dates
Submission deadline: |
March 29, 2002 |
Notification of acceptance: |
April 22, 2002 |
Camera (Web)-ready: |
May 15, 2002 |
Workshop: |
July 22, 2002 |
Submission format
Contributions are invited in the form of a full paper (max. 20 pages).
The title page should include name, affiliation, and e-mail address of
the contributor. Papers will be judged on their contribution to the discussion,
and some will be selected for presentation. Papers have to be submitted
electronically (in PostScript or HTML or pdf) to OM2002@sophia.inria.fr
The proceedings will be published on the WWW and as a report.
Workshop organizing committee
Jean-Paul Barthès
Université de Technologie de Compiègne
BP 20529, F-60205 Compiègne
Tel +33 3 44 23 44 66
Fax +33 3 44 23 46 33
E-mail: Jean-Paul Barthes <barthes@utc.fr>
Rose Dieng-Kuntz (co-chair)
Address: INRIA Acacia Project, 2004 route des Lucioles, BP 93
06902 Sophia-Antipolis Cedex FRANCE
Phone: +33 4 92 38 78 10
FAX: +33 4 92 38 77 83
E-mail: Rose.Dieng@sophia.inria.fr
Knut Hinkelmann
Address: University of Applied Sciences Solothurn
Riggenbachstrasse 16
CH-4600 Olten
Phone: +41-(0)62-286 00 80 Fax: +41-(0)62-296 65 01
Email: knut.hinkelmann@fhso.ch
Ann Macintosh
Address: International Teledemocracy Centre
Napier University
10 Colinton Road
Edinburgh, EH10 5DT
Telephone: +44 (0) 131 455 2421 Fax: +44 (0) 131 455 2282
Email: A.Macintosh@napier.ac.uk
Nada Matta (co-chair)
Address: Université de Technologie de Troyes (GSID/Tech-CICO)
12, rue Marie Curie BP. 2060,
10010 Troyes Cedex France
Tel: (+33) 3 25 71 58 65
E-mail:nada.matta@univ-troyes.fr
WWW: http://www.inria.fr/acacia/personnel/nmatta/nada.html
Ulrich Reimer
Address: Swiss Life Information Systems Research Group Postfach CH-8022
Zurich, Switzerland
Phone: +41 1 7114061
FAX: +41 1 7116913
E-mail: Ulrich.Reimer@swisslife.ch
Carla Simone
Department of Informatics, Systems and Communication
University of Milano-Bicocca(Italy)
phone: +39 011 6706736
fax: +39 011 751603
E-mail: simone@di.unito.it
Program committee
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Mark Ackerman, University of California, Irvine (USA)
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Hans Akkermans, Free University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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Richard Benjamins, Isoco, Spain
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Joost Breuker, University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands
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John Debenham, University of Technology, (Sydney, Australia)
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John Domingue, Open University, (UK)
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Jean-Louis Ermine, Tech-CICO, UTT (Paris, France)
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Jérôme Euzenat, INRIA Rhône-Alpes (Grenoble, France)
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Fabien Gandon, INRIA-Sophia-Antipolis (France)
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Tom Gruber, Intraspect (USA)
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Robert Jasper (USA)
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Gilles Kassel, LARIA, université d'Amiens (France)
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Myriam Lewkowicz, Tech-CICO, UTT (Troyes, France)
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Dirk Mahling, University of Pittsburgh (USA)
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Frank Maurer, University of Calgary (Canada)
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Myriam Ribière (France)
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David G. Schwartz, Bar-Ilan University (Israel)
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Nigel Shadboldt, University of Southampton, UK
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Steffen Staab, University of Karlsruhe, (Germany)
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Rudi Studer, University of Karlsruhe, (Germany)
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Gertjan van Heijst, CIBIT (Utrecht, The Netherlands)
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Manuel Zacklad, Tech-CICO, UTT (Troyes, France)