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                              CALL FOR PAPERS

        AAAI Spring Symposium, Stanford University, March 24-26, 1997

                Artificial Intelligence in Knowledge Management

Knowledge Management (KM) is a topic of growing interest to large
organizations.
It comprises activities focused on the organization acquiring knowledge from
many sources, including its own experience and from that of others, and
on the effective application of that knowledge to fulfill the mission of
the organization.

The knowledge management community has been eclectic in drawing from many
sources for its methodologies and tools. Typical approaches to the management
of knowledge are based on concept maps, hypermedia and object-oriented
databases. Techniques developed in artificial intelligence for knowledge
acquisition, representation and discovery are seen as relevant to KM.
However, there is as yet no unified underlying theory for KM, and the
scale of the problem in large organizations is such that most existing
AI tools cannot be applied in their current implementations.

The objective of this symposium is to bring together KM practitioners
and applied AI specialists from KA, KR and KDD, and attempt to formulate
the potential role of various AI sub-disciplines in knowledge management.

Submissions are requested from those with in-depth knowledge and experience
in AI topics relevant to knowledge management. Papers and presentations
should address the issues of the requirements and foundations for KM, the
applicability of existing AI theories, methodologies and tools to KM, and
the future development of KM in relation to AI. Of particular interest are
requirements analyses from those responsible for the development and
implementation of knowledge management systems.

Ongoing information on the symposium will be available through the web
at <http://ksi.cpsc.ucalgary.ca/AIKM97/>.

Submission Information

Potential attendees should submit either a paper (not exceeding 5000 words),
a summary of an ongoing development or lessons learnt, or a statement of
interest (not exceeding 1000 words). All submissions should be electronic
in postscript to <ftp://ksi.cpsc.ucalgary.ca/incoming> entitled by the
submitter's name with email to gaines@cpsc.ucalgary.ca giving the title,
authors, affiliation and abstract of the submission.

Deadline for submission is October 25, 1996.

Organizing Committee

Rose Dieng (INRIA, France),
Brian R. Gaines (Co-Chair, University of Calgary, Canada),
Gertjan van Heijst (Kenniscentrum CIBIT, The Netherlands),
Dickson Lukose (University of New England, Australia),
Frank Maurer (University of Kaiserslautern, Germany),
Mark A. Musen (Co-Chair, Stanford University, USA),
Ramasamy Uthurusamy (Co-Chair, General Motors, USA).