You can also find the call on : http://www-sop.inria.fr/acacia/WORKSHOPS/ECAI2000-OM/call.html Call for paper of : ECAI'2000 Workshop on Knowledge Management and Organizational Memories Knowledge Management (KM) is one of the key progress factors in organizations. It involves explicit and persistent representation of knowledge of (geographically) dispersed groups ofpeople in the organization, so as to improve the activities of the organization. Although KM is anissue 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. - 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. - 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. Topics of interest include: -------------------------------------- - 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 - 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 15, 2000 Notification of acceptance: April 17, 2000 Camera (Web)-ready: June 2, 2000 Workshop: August 21-22 2000 Submission Procedure: ----------------------------------- 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 the contact persons: Rose.Dieng@sophia.inria.fr and nada.matta@univ-troyes.fr. The proceedings will be published on the WWW and as a report. We plan to schedule a demonstration session during the workshop. So demonstrations (industrial or research prototypes) are also welcome. Organizing committee: --------------------------------- Stefan Decker Address: Universität Karlsruhe, Institut AIFB, D-76128 Karlsruhe, Germany Phone: +49 721-608 6589 Fax: +49 721-693 717 E-mail: stefan@db.stanford.edu WWW: http://www.aifb.uni-karlsruhe.de/~sde Rose Dieng (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: Insiders GmbH Luxemburger Str.5 D-67657 Kaiserslautern Phone: +49-631-36699-37 Fax: +49-631-36699-11 E-mail: k.hinkelmann@insiders.de Ann Macintosh Address: International Teledemocracy Centre Napier University 10 Colinton Road Edinburgh, EH10 5DT United Kingdom Phone: ++44 (0) 131 455 2421 FAax +44 (0) 131 455 2282 E-mail: A.Macintosh@napier.ac.uk URL: http://www.teledemocracy.org 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 Juergen Mueller Deutsche Telekom AG Technologiezentrum Darmstadt FE14k D-64307 Darmstadt GERMANY Phone: +49 6151 83 5682 Fax: +49 6151 83 4124 E-mail : muellerhj@tzd.telekom.de (Telekom AG) DrHJM@computer.org (Überall) Agostino Poggi Address: Dipartimento di Ingegneria dell?Informazione University of Parma Parco Area delle Scienze, 181A 43100, Parma, Italy Phone : +39 0521 905728 FAX +39 0521 905723 E-mail : poggi@ce.unipr.it URL: http://www.ce.unipr.it/people/poggi 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 Dipartimento di Informatica - Universita' di Torino Corso Svizzera 185 - 10149 Torino (Italy) phone: +39 011 6706736 fax: +39 011 751603 e-mail: simone@di.unito.it Steffen Staab Address: Institute AIFB, Karlsruhe University, D-76128 Karlsruhe, Germany Phone: +49-721-6084751 Fax: +49-721-693717 E-mail: staab@aifb.uni-karlsruhe.de WWW: http://www.aifb.uni-karlsruhe.de/~sst Program committee: ----------------------------- Hans Akkermans, University of Twente (NL) Jean-Paul Barthès (UTC-Compiègne, France) John Debenham, University of Technology, (Sydney, Australia) John Domingue, Open University, (UK) Jean-Louis Ermine, CEA, (Paris, France) Jérôme Euzenat, INRIA Rhône-Alpes (Grenoble, France) Gertjan van Heijst, CIBIT (Utrecht, The Netherlands) Robert Jaspers, Boeing, (USA) Dirk Mahling, University of Pittsburgh (USA) Frank Maurer, University of Calgary (Canada) Enrico Motta, Open University (UK) Philippe Pérez, ATOS (France) Joel Quinteton, LIRMM (France) Myriam Ribière, SRI (California, USA) David G. Schwartz, Bar-Ilan University (Israel) Rudi Studer, University of Karlsruhe, (Germany) Mike Uschold, Boeing (USA) Carla Simone, University of Torino (Italy) Stefan Decker, Universität Karlsruhe (Germany) Rose Dieng, INRIA (France) Knut Hinkelmann, GmbH (Luxemburger) Ann Macintosh, International Teledemocracy Centre (United Kingdom) Nada Matta, University of Technology of Troyes/Tech-CICO (France) Juergen Mueller, Deutsche Telekom AG (Germany) Agostino Poggi, Dipartimento di Ingegneria dell Informazione (Italy) Ulrich Reimer, Swiss Life Information Systems Research Group Postfach (Switzerland) Steffen Staab, AIFB (Germany) -------------------------- Nada Matta Universite de Technologie de Troyes (GSID/Tech-CICO) 12, rue Marie Curie BP. 2060, 10010 Troyes Cedex France Tel: (+33) 3 25 71 58 65 Fax: (+33) 3 25 71 76 98 e-mail: nada.matta@univ-troyes.fr ---------------------------