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******************** August 6, 2001, Seattle ********************** 
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Workshop Summary : 
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Workshop on Knowledge Management and Organizational Memories
(Submisson deadline : February 15, 2001)

Knowledge Management (KM) is one of the key progress factors in
organizations. It involves explicit and persistent representation of
knowledge of (geographically) dispersed groups of people in the
organization, so as to improve the activities of the organization.
Although KM is an issue in human resource management and enterprise
organization beyond any specific technology questions, there are
important aspects that can be supported or even enabled by intelligent
information systems. Especially AI and related fields provide solutions
for important parts of the overall KM problem:

- Identification and analysis of a company's knowledge-intensive work 
processes (e.g., product design or strategic planning). Knowledge 
Engineering and Enterprise Modeling techniques can contribute to this 
topic. The analysis of information flow and involved knowledge sources
allows to identify shortcomings of business processes, and to specify
requirements on potential IT support. 

- 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, aimed at enhancing its access and reuse, is called 
"corporate memory" or "organizational memory" (OM). It is regarded as the 
central prerequisite for IT support of Knowledge Management and is the 
means for knowledge conservation, distribution, and reuse. An OM enables 
organizational learning and continuous process improvement. 

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 or corporate memory or organizational memory. 

Examples of interesting topics are: 
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- Dimensions of knowledge management: organization, competence, 
methodology... 
- Enterprise modeling 
- Artificial Intelligence methods or techniques for construction of 
computational corporate memories (knowledge bases, case bases, intelligent 
documentary systems, agent-based systems...) 
- Business Intelligence Solutions for KM 
- Intranet Solutions for KM 
- Document Management Solutions for KM 
- MultiMedia solutions for KM 
- Content Management solutions for KM 
- Architectures for KM/OM systems 
- Integration of formal and informal knowledge in KM/OM 
- 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 
- Building and Exploiting a Corporate Semantic Web 
WWW-based repositories for sharable ontologies and reusable 
problem-solving methods 
- WWW-based terminology servers 
- Assessment of concrete applications for knowledge management 
- Case studies of building KM/OM in enterprises 
- Active, context-dependent knowledge supply 



Workshop organizing committee 
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John Debenham 
Rose Dieng (Co-Chair) 
Knut Hinkelmann 
Ann Macintosh 
Nada Matta (Co-Chair) 
Ulrich Reimer 
Carla Simone 


Program committee 
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Jean-Paul Barth�s (UTC-Compi�gne, France) 
John Debenham, University of Technology, (Sydney, Australia) 
John Domingue, Open University, (UK) 
Jean-Louis Ermine CEA & Univ. de Troyes, (France) 
J�r�me Euzenat, INRIA Rh�ne-Alpes (Grenoble, France) 
Fabien Gandon, INRIA-Sophia-Antipolis (France) 
Robert Jasper (USA) 
Myriam Lewkowicz, Tech-CICO, UTT (Troyes, France) 
Frank Maurer, University of Calgary (Canada) 
Myriam Ribi�re (France) 
David G. Schwartz, Bar-Ilan University (Israel) 
Carla Simone, University of Torino (Italy) 
Rudi Studer, University of Karlsruhe, (Germany) 
Mike Uschold, Boeing (USA) 
Gertjan van Heijst, CIBIT (Utrecht, The Netherlands) 
Manuel Zacklad, Tech-CICO, UTT (Troyes, France) 


Submission format 
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Contributions are invited in the form of a full paper (max. 20 pages).
The title page should include name, affiliation, and e-mail address of
the contributor. Papers will be judged on their contribution to the
discussion, and some will be selected for presentation. Papers have to
be submitted electronically (in PostScript or HTML or pdf) to
Rose.Dieng@sophia.inria.fr and Nada.Matta@univ-troyes.fr. The
proceedings will be published on the WWW and as a report.
 

Important dates 
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Submission deadline: February 15, 2001 
Notification of acceptance: March 15, 2001 
Camera (Web)-ready: April 15, 2001 
Workshop: August 6, 2001

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