CfP: 8th international conference on Practical Aspects of Knowledge 
Management: PAKM 2010

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      November 10-12, 2010 Philadelphia - USA



                               The Eighth Conference on

               Practical Aspects of Knowledge Management

        http://www.ischool.drexel.edu/PAKM2010/





************* FIRST CALL FOR PAPERS *************

    



               Submission due                7 April 2010

               Conference:                       10 to 12 November 2010

               Workshops:                         10 November  2010

               Scientific Program:           11-12 November  2010





AIMS AND SCOPE

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The PAKM Conference Series offers a communication forum and meeting 
ground for practitioners and researchers. The conference focus is on 
developing and deploying advanced business solutions for the management 
of knowledge in organizations and other communities that can benefit 
from its methods.



This year's conference we will pay particular attention to the 
innovations on the interaction between Business, Computer Science, 
Information Systems, and Library and Information Science.



PAKM is a forum for people to share their views, to exchange novel 
ideas, to develop new insights, and to envision, propose and demonstrate 
new kinds of solutions and new organizational methods and/or tools to 
Knowledge Management problems.



Management in companies deals with many things: people, energy, 
materials, etc. The management integrates them as a whole system and 
organizes the flow between the parts efficiently. In some companies, the 
same is done with knowledge. What methods are available and how well 
this integration of knowledge is understood?



Libraries and universities are examples of organizations where knowledge 
plays a major role within management. What methods are available to 
integrate knowledge (e.g., curricula, expertise, centers of excellence, 
programs) with people and other resources in libraries and universities?



The topics will cover relevant and applicable 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.



We seek original contributions in the business and organization 
sciences, cognitive science, library and information science, 
information systems 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.



Library and information science analyzes how to organize and understand 
knowledge for the benefit of the users.







IMPORTANT DATES

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Papers Due:                                       7-Apr-10



Notification of acceptance:          28-May-10



Camera-ready Due:                        7-Jul-10



                             





SUBMISSIONS

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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 and/or the scientific benefits of the 
suggested solutions for a knowledge management task of an organization 
or community. Furthermore, papers should emphasize the novel aspects of 
the suggested approach.



Submissions will be anonymous and subject to blind reviews.



Submission web page:

http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=pakm2010





Below is a not exhaustive list of topics that will be considered:



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 storage and representation

Knowledge utilization

- content-oriented retrieval

- question answering

- integration of knowledge and business processes

- graphical user interfaces for retrieving and

- visualizing knowledge

- semantic web

Developing new knowledge

- innovation management

- ontology management and development

- communities of practice

Knowledge Measurement and evaluation

- evaluation of knowledge management systems

- measuring the benefits of KM solutions

- measuring the cost of KM solutions, knowledge access

- measuring the benefits of knowledge access

- proportions and relative cost of knowledge cycles

- cost of missing knowledge

Competitive intelligence

How to store and retrieve shared knowledge

Using digital libraries

Collective intelligence and knowledge management

Knowledge fusion

Theoretical models for KM

Experimental designs to test KM tasks and approaches











PROGRAM COMMITTEE

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Eileen Abels, USA

David Aha, USA

Klaus-Dieter Althoff, Germany

Yuan An, USA

Irma Becerra-Fernandez, USA

Nick Bontis, Canada

Chaomei Chen, USA

Belinha De Abreu, USA

Stefan Decker, Ireland

Kemal Delic, USA

Juan Dodero, Spain

Joaquim Filipe, Portugal

Fabien Gandon, France

Enrico Giunchiglia, Italy

Norbert Gronau, Germany

Remko Helms, The Netherlands

Knut Hinkelmann, Switzerland

Achim Hoffmann, Australia

Byeong-ho Kang, Australia

Dimitris Karagiannis, Austria

Larry Kerschberg, USA

David Leake, USA

Ana Maguitman, Argentina

Ronald Maier, Austria

Mark Maybury, USA

Kate McCain, USA

Karim Moustaghfir, Morocco

Hector Munoz, USA

Jung-Ran Park, USA

Sven Rehm, Germany

Ulrich Reimer, Switzerland

Debbie Richards, Australia

Bodo Rieger  Germany

Stefan Smolnik, Germany

Steffen Staab, Germany

Rudi Studer, Germany

Ulrich Thiel  Germany

A Min Tjoa  Austria

Eric Tsui, China

Ian Watson New Zealand

Frithjof Weber, Germany

Takahira Yamaguchi, Japan

Lisl Zach, USA











CHAIRS AND ORGANIZATION

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PROGRAM CHAIRS



- Rosina Weber, iSchool @ Drexel University, USA



- Michael Richter, University of Kaiserslautern, Germany







CONFERENCE CHAIR



- Rosina Weber, Drexel University, USA





WEBMASTER



- Robin Naughton, Drexel University, USA





LOCAL COMMITTEE



- Ilya Waldstein, Drexel University, USA







STEERING COMMITTEE

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STEERING COMMITTEE CHAIRS



- Dimitris Karagiannis, University of Vienna, Austria

- Ulrich Reimer, University of Applied Sciences St. Gallen, Switzerland





STEERING COMMITTEE MEMBERS



- Irma Becerra-Fernandez, Florida International University, USA

- John Davies, British Telecom, UK

- Rose Dieng, INRIA, France

- Michael Huhns, University of South Carolina, USA

- Daniel O'Leary, University of Southern California, USA

- Eric Tsui, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, China

- Mary-Anne Williams, The University of Technology, Sydney, Australia

- Takahira Yamaguchi, Keio University, Japan

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