[DL] PAKM2008: Call for Papers and Call for Workshops

[Ulrich Reimer]

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PAKM2008: 7th International Conference on Practical Aspects of Knowledge 
Management

http://pakm2008.comp.ae.keio.ac.jp/

Hiyoshi Campus, Keio University, Japan
Nov. 21 -- 23, 2008

Call for Papers: Submission deadline is 15, July 2008
Call for Workshop Proposals: --> Extended submission deadline is 15, 
July 2008

Motivation

The PAKM Conference Series offers a communication forum and meeting 
ground for practitioners and researchers in developing and deploying 
advanced business solutions for the management of knowledge in 
organizations. PAKM is a forum for people to share their views, to 
exchange ideas, to develop new insights, and to envision completely new 
kinds of solutions to Knowledge Management problems.

The topics will cover all relevant aspects of knowledge management. We 
invite practitioners and researchers from all over the world to submit 
papers. We are looking forward to a conference which will address a wide 
spectrum of topics from a variety of perspectives.

Call for Papers
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PAKM2008 addresses all aspects of Knowledge Management and their role in 
next-generation business solutions. We seek original contributions in 
the triangle of business and organization sciences, cognitive science, 
and computer science that represent a true advancement beyond the 
state-of-the-art of Knowledge Management.

Business and organization sciences provide the overall framework for 
developing a knowledge management approach with a focus on the business 
aspects rather than on information technology aspects.
Computer science provides the tools needed to build the information 
systems that are often required to make certain aspects of a knowledge 
management solution work.
Cognitive science helps to design knowledge management solutions in line 
with the cognitive capabilities of the people involved and optimally 
embedded in their work context.

We wish to encourage the submission of contributions that espouse an 
interdisciplinary approach, which will therefore be favored over 
one-dimensional papers.

Apart from a clear description of the real-world problems they address, 
papers must point out the business benefits of the suggested solutions. 
Furthermore, papers should emphasize the novel aspects of the suggested 
approach. Papers may address one or more of the following topics or any 
other topic as long as it fits into the overall conference theme:

Building and maintaining knowledge inventories
Knowledge directories
Knowledge modeling
Automatic creation of meta data
Knowledge integration

Collaboration and knowledge sharing
Knowledge sharing communities
Social software
Knowledge sharing and collaboration platforms
Integration of processes across organizational boundaries

Capturing and securing knowledge
Knowledge capturing within business processes
Knowledge acquisition, lessons learned, debriefing
Organizational memories

Knowledge utilization
Content-oriented retrieval
Question answering
Integration of knowledge and business processes
Graphical user interfaces for retrieving and visualizing knowledge

Developing new knowledge
Innovation management
Ontology learning and development
Knowledge mining (from data, text and the Web)
Communities of practice

Knowledge Measurement
Measuring the benefits of knowledge management solutions
Benchmarking
Intellectual capital

Important Dates:

Submissions: 15, July 2008
Notification: 15, August 2008
Camera-Ready: 30, August 2008

Submission

Please submit your contribution by uploading it to the PAKM2008 
conference management system. To do this go to the following URL and 
register as a new user: http://www.easychair.org/PAKM2008/.
As soon as your password has been sent to your email address you can log 
in and upload your paper. If you have any questions you can contact us 
at: pakm2008 at ae.keio.ac.jp/ /

Program Committee:
(TBA)

Keio University
Department of Administration Engineering
3-14-1 Hiyoshi Kohoku-ku Yokohama 223-8522, Japan
Phone: +81 45 566 1614
Fax: +81 45 566 1617
E-Mail: pakm2008 at ae.keio.ac.jp <mailto:pakm2008 at ae.keio.ac.jp>

Call for Workshop Proposals
---------------------------

The PAKM 2008 Program Committee invites proposals for workshops to be 
held the day preceding the main conference, i.e. on November 21, 2008. 
PAKM 2008 workshops must be related to the topics of the main conference 
(see the call for papers for a detailed list of topics).

Submission Guidelines
Each submission of a proposed workshop (max two A4 pages in PDF
format) should describe:
- workshop title
- short description of the workshop and its goals
- proposed workshop duration (half-day or full-day workshop)
- list of topics covered
- preliminary program committee with specified chair(s)
- description of workshop history (if the proposed workshop is part of a 
workshop series)

Submissions should be sent to the following e-mail address:
ulrich.reimer at fhsg.ch

Important dates
- July 15, 2008 -- submission deadline for workshop proposals
- July 25, 2008 -- acceptance notification

-- 
Prof. Dr. habil. Ulrich Reimer
University of Applied Sciences St. Gallen
Institute for Information and Process Management
Head of Research and Technology Transfer
Teufener Strasse 2
CH-9000 St. Gallen
Switzerland

Email: ulrich.reimer at fhsg.ch
Tel.: +41 71 228 7659
Fax: +41 71 228 6339
Web: www.fhsg.ch/ipm
    www.inf.uni-konstanz.de/~reimer