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                     CALL FOR PAPERS

                    KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT AND KNOWLEDGE DISTRIBUTION 
                               THROUGH THE INTERNET 
                                at the KAW-99 
(Twelth Workshop on  Knowledge Acquisition, Modeling, and Management) 
Voyager Inn, Banff, Canada, October 16-22, 1999)


TRACK DESCRIPTION

Knowledge Management 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. 

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". 

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, corporate memory and knowledge distribution via 
Internet / Intranet. Examples of interesting topics are: 
  

        Enterprise modeling 
        Dimensions of knowledge management: organization, 
competence,methodology...
        Artificial Intelligence methods or techniques for construction of 
computational corporate memories (knowledge bases, case bases, intelligent 
documentary systems, agent-based systems...)
        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 
        Knowledge management for software development 
       Software development for knowledge management systems 
        Assessment of concrete applications for knowledge management 

TRACK ORGANIZERS

Stefan Decker       Stefan.Decker@aifb.uni-karlsruhe.de   Universität 
Karlsruhe
Rose Dieng          Rose.Dieng@sophia.inria.fr    INRIA-Sophia-Antipolis 
Knut Hinkelmann     hinkelma@dfki.uni-kl.de       INSIDERS GmbH, Germany 
Nada Matta          Nada.Matta@sophia.inria.fr    INRIA-Sophia-Antipolis 
Frank Maurer        maurer@cpsc.ucalgary.ca       U Calgary 

SUBMISSION OF PAPERS 

Draft papers (up to 20 pages) should be sent electronically to Rob 
Kremer before May 31, 1999.  Acceptance and revision notices will be 
e-mailed by July 31, 1999.  Revised papers (up to 20 pages) must be 
submitted by September 15, 1999, so that hardcopies may be bound 
together for distribution at the workshop.  Authors who submit papers to 
the workshop will be expected to help with the refereeing of papers 
submitted by other individuals. 

Submission and review of papers, and coordination of all aspects of the 
meeting, will be through the Internet.  The proceedings will be 
published on the World Wide Web and the only form of submission is 
HTML.  The paper should be converted to a single HTML file, not split by 
section.  For LaTeX, use the switch: latex2html -split 0 to achieve 
this.  Please do not use style sheets. 

To submit a paper, simply e-mail the corresponding URL to 
kremer@cpsc.ucalgary.ca.  It is preferable if the submission is as close 
as possible in format to that required for the final proceedings.  See 
the final submission format for details of formats for both web and 
paper versions. 


  3. DEADLINES
 
 May 31, 1999              Submission deadline
 July 31, 1999             Reviews dealine
 September 15, 1999        Camera-ready version
 October 16-22             Workshop