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                             Call for Papers 
The IJCAI-01 Workshop on Knowledge Management and Organizational Memory,

to be held at the International Joint Conference on Artificial 
Intelligence (IJCAI-2001)

******************** August 6, 2001, Seattle ********************** 
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You can find also the call on : 
http://www.inria.fr/acacia/WORKSHOPS/IJCAI2001-OM/call.html

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 

 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

 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. 

Workshop organizing committee
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John Debenham 
Address: Faculty of Information Technology, University of Technology, Sydney 
PO Box 123 Broadway NSW 2007, Australia 
Phone:  +61-2-9514-1837 
Fax : +61-2-9514-1807 
E-mail:  debenham@it.uts.edu.au 

Rose Dieng (Co-Chair) 
Address: INRIA Acacia Project, 2004 route des Lucioles, BP 93 
06902 Sophia-Antipolis Cedex FRANCE 
Phone:  +33 4 92 38 78 10 
Fax:  +33 4 92 38 77 83 
E-mail:  Rose.Dieng@sophia.inria.fr 

Knut Hinkelmann 
Address: University of Applied Sciences Solothurn 
Riggenbachstrasse 16 
CH-4600 Olten 
Phone: +41-(0)62-286 00 80   Fax: +41-(0)62-296 65 01 
Email: knut.hinkelmann@fhso.ch 

Ann Macintosh 
Address: International Teledemocracy Centre 
Napier University 
10 Colinton Road 
Edinburgh, EH10 5DT 
United Kingdom 
Phone: ++44 (0) 131 455 2421 
FAax +44 (0) 131 455 2282 
E-mail: A.Macintosh@napier.ac.uk 
URL:  http://www.teledemocracy.org 

Nada Matta (Co-Chair) 
Address: Universit� de Technologie de Troyes (GSID/Tech-CICO) 
12, rue Marie Curie BP. 2060, 
10010 Troyes Cedex France 
Tel: (+33) 3 25 71 58 65 
E-mail:nada.matta@univ-troyes.fr 
WWW: http://www.inria.fr/acacia/personnel/nmatta/nada.html 

Ulrich Reimer 
Address: Swiss Life Information Systems Research Group Postfach 
CH-8022 Zurich, Switzerland 
Phone: +41 1 7114061 
FAX: +41 1 7116913 
E-mail: Ulrich.Reimer@swisslife.ch 

Carla Simone 
Dipartimento di Informatica - Universita' di Torino 
Corso Svizzera 185 - 10149 Torino (Italy) 
phone: +39 011 6706736 
fax: +39 011 751603 
E-mail: simone@di.unito.it 

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)

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