Knowledge Management by Case-Based Reasoning:
                Experience Management as Reuse of Knowledge
                               (GWCBR 2001)

Workshop at WM 2001, Baden-Baden (http://wm2001.aifb.uni-karlsruhe.de/)
(First German conference on Knowledge Management - Experiences and
Visions)


Final Call for Papers
---------------------

( An online version of this call is accessible at
  http://wwwagr.informatik.uni-kl.de/~gwcbr/cfp.html )

Recent research tendencies show that  Case-Based Reasoning (CBR)
technology
is increasingly employed for problems from the area of Knowledge
Management
(KM).  Thus, Knowledge Management opens  itself as an application area 
for
CBR of high  current interest.  Certain problems  from KM have already
been
successfully addressed by using CBR technology,  such as product
experience
bases,  help desk systems, and user  profiling  and product
recommendations
for E-Commerce.

However,  Knowledge  Management offers  more fields  for  the employment
of
Case-Based  Reasoning  techniques that require   more fundamental
research. 
Some of these fields have been  in the focus  of recent research
activities
including Interactive Knowledge Management, maintenance of experience
(i.e.
cases), and suitable knowledge  representations  (e.g. textual CBR).  
With
the background of this development the workshop is intended to establish
an
interdisciplinary discussion platform.  It should  cast light on the
mutual
competencies and needs of the two research areas.

This  is the 9th workshop  in the course of the  annual  German Workshop
on
Case-Based Reasoning  (GWCBR).  It  is  co-located with  WM 2001 to
support
current research directions of both CBR an KM.


Topics for Contributions
------------------------

We   appreciate submissions from  both  areas   of CBR   and KM.  
However,
contributions   explicitly addressing both  points of  view  are
preferred. 
Topics of interest include but are not limited to:

  - Applications of CBR for KM (Best Practices, Lessons Learned, etc.)
  - Embedding CBR-based tools in business processes
  - Just-in-time retrieval and just-in-time knowledge capturing
  - Querying techniques
  - Reuse of Knowledge and Experience
  - Knowledge Representation for CBR and KM
  - Transformation of knowledge representations for queries and cases 
  - Textual CBR
  - Limitations of CBR for KM


Submission Format and Procedure
-------------------------------

Submissions may have a  maximum length of  12  A4 pages.  Please  send
your
submissions via E-Mail mailto:gwcbr@cbr-web.org or contact:

  Ivo Vollrath
  Universität Kaiserslautern
  AG Richter
  Postfach 3049
  67618 Kaiserslautern, Germany

  Tel.: +49 631 205-3291
  Fax: +49 631 205-3357


Important Dates
---------------

     Nov. 17, 2000 : Submission deadline for contributions (EXTENDED
DEADLINE)
     Dec. 18, 2000 : Notification of acceptance
      Feb. 1, 2001 : Submission deadline for final camera ready copies
  Mar. 14-15, 2001 : Workshop


Organizing Committee
--------------------

  - Ulrich Reimer (Swiss Life, Co-Chair)
  - Sascha Schmitt (Univ. Kaiserslautern, Co-Chair)
  - Ivo Vollrath (Univ. Kaiserslautern, Co-Chair)
  - Klaus-Dieter Althoff (Fraunhofer, IESE)
  - Brigitte Bartsch-Spörl (BSR Consulting)
  - Ralph Bergmann (Univ. Kaiserslautern)
  - Mehmet Göker (DaimlerChrysler)
  - Frank Maurer (Univ. of Calgary)
  - Mirjam Minor (Humboldt Univ. Berlin)
  - Franz Schmalhofer (DFKI)
  - Rainer Schmidt (Univ. Rostock)
  - Jürgen Schumacher (tec:inno GmbH)
  - Alexander Seitz (Univ. Ulm)
  - Steffen Staab (Univ. Karlsruhe)
  - Markus Stolze (IBM Forschungslabor)
  - Angi Voss (GMD)
  - Roland Wagner (Univ. Linz)
  - Michael Wolf (UBS)