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Conference on Intentional Forgetting in Organisations and Work
Settings
The topic of the conference is "Work and information processing in
the work
environment 4.0.: requirements concerning learning, relearning and
forgetting". We are inviting all interested researchers to submit
their
contributions to our Conference on Intentional Forgetting in an
organisational
context. The conference will be held in Potsdam, Germany on the
11th and 12th
of September. It addresses a multi- and cross-disciplinary
audience on the
topic of intentional forgetting in context of work and
organisation. This
notion is also carried by our keynote speakers. Amit Jain
(Singapore) will
talk from an organisational perspective on forgetting and
knowledge
deprecation while Michael Andersen (Cambridge) will address
forgetting from a
neuro-science perspective. Contributions can therefore cover a
broad range of
topics.
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Topics of Interest
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This topic is related to a wide range of disciplines and fields.
We are
interested in the exchange of ideas between lines of research.
Knowledge
creation and organizational learning relies on the cognitive
capacity of an
organization, its members and its information systems. Processing
new signals
from the environment and generating new meaningful information is
one key
factor for successful management. However, with the increasing
amount of
information within and outside the organization, this process can
slow down or
lead to contradicting results. Organizational learning is
distorted.
forgetting unused, obsolete and contradicting information is
therefore the key
of an efficient learning process as it frees up this capacity.
The mechanisms of successful forgetting are widely unknown in the
context of
work and organisation and a new and emerging field of research.
Also the
impact of forgetting on organizations is unclear, this ranges from
the
organizational consequences, the power balance to legal questions
such as
compliance. This call for paper therefore addresses a range of
topics
including, but not limited to:
Psychology:
- Surpression of memories and directed/motivated and intentional
forgetting
- Learning capacity and forgetting capacity
- Work-environment
Computer science:
- Semantics and forgetting in knowledge representation
- Learning and forgetting in neural networks
- Should artificial intelligence be able to forget?
- Cleaning and updating knowledge bases
- Interface design
- Selecting and archiving unused data
Organization science:
- Reorganizing organizations through intentional forgetting (i.e.
restricting
fallback to old routines)
- Forgetting and remembering of critical incidents.
- Can the organization remember, what individuals forgot?
Legal perspective:
- Are organizations allowed to forget?
- The right to be forgotten - Data Governance
- Defining selection criteria to comply and forget.
Sociological perspective:
- Can I dare to forget - a power perspective.
- Referring to what was forgotten - views on reconstructing the
past.
- Collective Information Selection - Defining unnecessary
information as a
social process
- Cultural Memory
Business Information Systems
- Modelling forgetting in knowledge intensive processes
- Automated forgetting in information systems (i.e. in ontology
based
knowledge bases)
- Computer aided forgetting (i.e. information selection and
extinction)
- Learning and forgetting environments (i.e. design of
distraction-free
physical and virtual learning spaces)
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Submission Instructions
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We welcome and encourage the submission of high-quality, original
papers,
which are not being submitted simultaneously for publication
elsewhere. All
contributions should be written in English. We have a two step
submission
process. Prior to the conference we will assess the quality of the
contribution by an abstract (1 page). The final paper will be due
after the
conference in order to include comments from the audience to
enhance the
quality. Final papers should not exceed 12 pages plus
bibliography.
Abstract and paper submission is electronic via the conference
website
www.lswi.de/forgetting
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Proceedings
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All excepted papers will be published in an open-access
proceeding. At least
one author of each accepted paper is required to register and
attend the
conference to present the work.
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Important Dates
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Abstract Submission by 15. July 2018
Notification to authors by 01. August 2018
Conference 11./12. September 2018
Final Papers due 30. September 2018
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