********************************************************************* Call for Papers The IJCAI-01 Workshop on Knowledge Management and Organizational Memory, to be held at the International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI-2001) ******************** August 6, 2001, Seattle ********************** ********************************************************************* You can find also the call on : http://www.inria.fr/acacia/WORKSHOPS/IJCAI2001-OM/call.html Workshop Summary : -------------------------------- Workshop on Knowledge Management and Organizational Memories (Submisson deadline : February 15, 2001) 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. - 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. 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: February 15, 2001 Notification of acceptance: March 15, 2001 Camera (Web)-ready: April 15, 2001 Workshop: August 6, 2001 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 Rose.Dieng@sophia.inria.fr and nada.matta@univ-troyes.fr. The proceedings will be published on the WWW and as a report. Workshop organizing committee ------------------------------------------------ John Debenham Address: Faculty of Information Technology, University of Technology, Sydney PO Box 123 Broadway NSW 2007, Australia Phone: +61-2-9514-1837 Fax : +61-2-9514-1807 E-mail: debenham@it.uts.edu.au 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: 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 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 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 Program committee ----------------------------- Jean-Paul Barthès (UTC-Compiègne, France) John Debenham, University of Technology, (Sydney, Australia) John Domingue, Open University, (UK) Jean-Louis Ermine CEA & Univ. de Troyes, (France) Jérôme Euzenat, INRIA Rhône-Alpes (Grenoble, France) Fabien Gandon, INRIA-Sophia-Antipolis (France) Robert Jasper (USA) Myriam Lewkowicz, Tech-CICO, UTT (Troyes, France) Frank Maurer, University of Calgary (Canada) Myriam Ribière (France) David G. Schwartz, Bar-Ilan University (Israel) Carla Simone, University of Torino (Italy) Rudi Studer, University of Karlsruhe, (Germany) Mike Uschold, Boeing (USA) Gertjan van Heijst, CIBIT (Utrecht, The Netherlands) Manuel Zacklad, Tech-CICO, UTT (Troyes, France) -------------------------- 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 http://w3-tech.univ-troyes.fr ---------------------------