Dear Gustaf Neumann,

The International Conference on Knowledge Management and Information Sharing (KMIS 2012 - http://www.kmis.ic3k.org/) has an open call for papers, whose deadline is scheduled for April 17, 2012. We hope you can participate in this conference by submitting a paper reflecting your current research.

KMIS 2012 will be held in Barcelona, Spain, October 4 - 7, 2012.

The conference will be sponsored by the Institute for Systems and Technologies of Information, Control and Communication (INSTICC) and held in cooperation with the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI). INSTICC is Member of the Foundation for Intelligent Physical Agents (FIPA), Workflow Management Coalition (WfMC) and Object Management Group (OMG). 

Knowledge Management (KM) is a discipline concerned with the analysis and technical support of practices used in an organization to identify, create, represent, distribute and enable the adoption and leveraging of good practices embedded in collaborative settings and, in particular, in organizational processes. Effective knowledge management is an increasingly important source of competitive advantage, and a key to the success of contemporary organizations, bolstering the collective expertise of its employees and partners.
Information Sharing (IS) is a term used for a long time in the information technology (IT) lexicon, related to data exchange, communication protocols and technological infrastructures. Although standardization is indeed an essential element for sharing information, IS effectiveness requires going beyond the syntactic nature of IT and delve into the human functions involved in the semantic, pragmatic and social levels of organizational semiotics.
The two areas are intertwined as information sharing is the foundation for knowledge management. 

KMIS 2012 is co-located with two related conferences in a joint conference (IC3K - http://www.ic3k.org/) format, namely: 
- Knowledge Discovery and Information Retrieval (http://www.kdir.ic3k.org/)
- Knowledge Engineering and Ontology Development (http://www.keod.ic3k.org/)
Registration to one conference allows free access to all conferences.

KMIS is interested in promoting high quality research as it can be confirmed by last year acceptance rates, where from 134 submissions, 8% were accepted as full papers. Additionally, 21% were presented as short papers and 17% as posters.

Submitted papers will be subject to a double-blind review process. All accepted papers (full, short and posters) will be published in the conference proceedings, under an ISBN reference, on paper and on CD-ROM support. CKEI
A short list of presented papers will be selected so that revised and extended versions of these papers will be published by Springer-Verlag in a CCIS Series book.

The proceedings will be submitted for indexation by Thomson Reuters Conference Proceedings Citation Index (ISI), INSPEC, DBLP and EI (Elsevier Index).
All papers presented at the conference venue will be available at the SciTePress Digital Library (http://www.scitepress.org/DigitalLibrary/). SciTePress is member of CrossRef (http://www.crossref.org/).

Best paper awards will be distributed during the conference closing session. Please check the website for further information (http://www.kmis.ic3k.org/BestPaperAward.aspx).

Workshops, Special Sessions, Tutorials as well as Demonstrations dedicated to other technical/scientific topics are also envisaged: companies interested in presenting their products/methodologies or researchers interested in holding a tutorial are invited to contact the conference secretariat. Workshop chairs and Special Session chairs will benefit from logistics support and other types of support, including secretariat and financial support, to facilitate the development of a valid idea.

Please check further details at the KMIS conference website (http://www.kmis.ic3k.org/). 
Should you have any question please don't hesitate contacting me.


Kind regards,
Vera Coelho   
KMIS Secretariat

Av. D.Manuel I, 27A 2.Esq.
2910-595 Setubal, Portugal
Tel.: +351 265 100 033
Fax: +44 203 014 8639
Email: kmis.secretariat@insticc.org


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CALL FOR PAPERS

International Conference on Knowledge Management and Information Sharing
KMIS website: http://www.kmis.ic3k.org/


October 4 - 7, 2012
Barcelona, Spain

In Cooperation with: AAAI
Sponsored by: INSTICC
INSTICC is Member of: FIPA, WfMC and OMG


IMPORTANT DATES:
  Regular Paper Submission: April 17, 2012
  Authors Notification (regular papers): June 12, 2012
  Final Regular Paper Submission and Registration: July 4, 2012


PROGRAM CHAIR:
Kecheng Liu, University of Reading, United Kingdom 

PROGRAM COMMITTEE:
Please check the program committee members at http://www.kmis.ic3k.org/ProgramCommittee.aspx
  

CONFERENCE TOPICS:

    Requirements Engineering
    Enterprise Information Systems
    Business Process Management
    Metadata and Structured Documents
    Digital Libraries
    Best Practices & Communities of Practice
    Business Intelligence & CRM
    Communication, Collaboration and Information Sharing
    Interoperability
    Information Security
    Impact Measurement of Knowledge Management
    Tools and Technology for Knowledge Management
    Knowledge Management Projects
    Organizational Memories
    Organizational Semiotics
    Learning Organization & Organizational Learning
    Intelligent Information Systems
    Social Networks and the Psychological Dimension
    Intellectual Capital
    Studies, Metrics & Benchmarks
    Innovation Facilitation
    KM strategies and Implementations
    e-Government
    E-Learning

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