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       KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT AND KNOWLEDGE DISTRIBUTION
                      THROUGH THE INTERNET

                          at the KAW-98

      http://sern.cpsc.ucalgary.ca/~maurer/KAW98/KMatKAW98Call.html

                Draft Papers Due October 31, 1997


TRACK DESCRIPTION

Knowledge Management is one of the key progress factors in
organizations.  It involves capitalization and exploitation of
knowledge of (geographically) dispersed groups of people in the
organization, so as to improve the activities of the organization.

In an organization, know-how may relate to problem solving expertise
in functional disciplines, experiences of human resources, and project
experiences in terms of project management issues, design technical
issues and lessons learned. The coherent integration of this dispersed
know-how in a corporation is called "corporate memory".

Activities underlying knowledge management in an organization can
comprise detection of needs, construction, distribution, use and
maintenance of the corporate memory. It demands abilities to manage
disparate know-how and heterogeneous viewpoints, to make it accessible
and suitable for adequate members of the organization.When the
organization knowledge is distributed on several experts and documents
in different locations all over the world, the Internet or an Intranet
inside the organization and World Wide Web (WWW) techniques can be a
privileged means for acquisition, modelling, management of this
distributed knowledge. Papers are welcome in any area concerning
knowledge management, corporate memory and knowledge distribution via
Internet / Intranet. Examples of interesting topics are: 

   - Enterprise modeling
   - Dimensions of knowledge management: organization, competence,
     methodology...
   - Artificial Intelligence methods or techniques for construction
     of computational corporate memories (knowledge bases, case bases,
     intelligent documentary systems, agent-based systems...)
   - Integration of knowledge from different groups in an organization
   - Knowledge sharing between different groups in an organization
     (possibly via Internet/Intranet)
   - Cooperative (possibly WWW-based) building, adaptation and evolution
     of a corporate memory
   - WWW-based repositories for sharable ontologies and reusable
     problem-solving methods
   - WWW-based terminology servers
   - Assessment of concrete applications for knowledge management
   - Managing process knowledge


TRACK ORGANIZERS

Rose Dieng          Rose.Dieng@sophia.inria.fr    INRIA-Sophia
Henrik Eriksson     her@ida.liu.se                Linkoping U
Knut Hinkelmann     hinkelma@dfki.uni-kl.de       DFKI Kaiserslautern
Frank Maurer        maurer@cpsc.ucalgary.ca       U Calgary
R. Uthurusamy       samy@iss.gm.com               General Motors



SUBMISSION OF PAPERS

Draft papers (up to 20 pages) should be sent electronically to Brian
Gaines before October 31, 1997. Acceptance and revision notices will
be e-mailed by December 31, 1997. Revised papers (up to 20 pages) must
be submitted by February 28, 1998, so that hardcopies may be bound
together for distribution at the workshop. Authors who submit papers
to the workshop will be expected to help with the refereeing of papers
submitted by other individuals.

Submission and review of papers, and coordination of all aspects of
the meeting, will be through the Internet. The proccedings will be
published on the World Wide Web and the preferred form of submission
is HTML.  To submit a paper, simply e-mail the corresponding URL
togaines@cpsc.ucalgary.ca.  Alternatively, FTP a tar file to
ftp://ksi.cpsc.ucalgary.ca/incoming (with an email note to
gaines@cpsc.ucalgary.ca when the paper is transferred). It is
preferable if the submission is as close as possible in format to that
required for the final proceedings.  See the KAW-98 page
(http://ksi.cpsc.ucalgary.ca/KAW/KAW98/KAW98Call.html) for details of
formats for both web and paper versions.

Authors should indicate appropriate sessions/minitracks for each
submission.  If there is uncertainty regarding the optimum track for a
paper, authors should contact the chairs of the track that seems
closest, preferably in advance of the submission deadline. Depending
on the range of papers received, some tracks may be collapsed whereas
other tracks may be added in advance of the workshop.


FURTHER INFORMATION

The world-wide web (WWW) will be used to coordinate the meeting and to
provide further details of the tracks, paper formats, conference
arrangements, and so on. Please see the main KAW-98 page
(http://ksi.cpsc.ucalgary.ca/KAW/KAW98/KAW98Call.html) for ongoing
information about the workshop.