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We have EXTENDED the DEADLINE for paper submissions to I-KNOW 05, the 5th International Conference on Knowledge Management. THE NEW DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSIONS IS *** 7 February 2005 ***.

Special tracks address the following topics: - Business Process Oriented Knowledge Infrastructures (http://www.i-know.at/BPOKI) - Integrating Working and Learning in Business (http://www.i-know.at/IWL) - Knowledge and Information Visualization (http://www.i-know.at/KIV) - Knowledge Discovery and Semantic Technologies (http://www.i-know.at/KDaST) - Knowledge Sharing in Research and Higher Education (http://www.i-know.at/KSR)

Further topics may include but are not limited to the following areas: - Knowledge Audits, Benchmarks, Maturity Measures - Knowledge Management Case Studies - Knowledge Communication - Collaboration And Knowledge Sharing - Knowledge-Based IT Infrastructures - Knowledge Portals - Metadata in Knowledge Management - Distributed Knowledge Management - Peer-to-Peer Knowledge Management - Digital Rights in Knowledge Management - Personalization - Semantic Technologies

Especially relevant for SIGIR may be our Special Track on Knowledge Discovery and Semantic Technologies, which addresses the following topics:

* Knowledge discovery and web mining techniques * Knowledge discovery from unstructured and multimedia data * Clustering and classification techniques * Ontologies and knowledge representation * Multimedia and cross media retrieval * Information and knowledge extraction * Information summarization * Modelling and retrieval of semantic metadata * Knowledge discovery in the semantic web * Semantic Agent Technologies * Intelligent network agents * Natural language processing * Topic detection and tracking

Please visit http://www.i-know.at, for more information about the conference and the call for papers.

Best regards,

Klaus Tochtermann I-KNOW Conference Chair