Description

9th International Conference on Knowledge Management and Knowledge Technologies

Introduction

I-KNOW '09 is part of the I-KNOW conference series and will be held concurrently with the I-SEMANTICS' 09 - International Conference on Semantic Systems. I-KNOW reflects the increasing importance and convergence of knowledge management and knowledge technologies. It aims at bridging the gaps between the various communities and their technology fields.

Now in its ninth year, I-KNOW has a tradition of bringing together Europe´s leading researchers and practitioners involved in knowledge management. Attracting more than 500 attendees, I-KNOW is the premier conference on knowledge management in Europe. I-KNOW provides a perfect opportunity to stay abreast of the latest developments in the field. The novelty and the quality of the accepted contributions are ensured by a high-calibre program committee featuring international experts on a broad range of knowledge management topics. 

MATURE Contributions

MATURE will have a strong presence at the conference. In addition to TU Graz as consortium partner and Know-Center Graz as associate partner organizing the conference, there will be several scientific contributions:

• Christine Kunzmann, Andreas Schmidt, Volker Braun, David Czech, Benjamin Fletschinger, Silke Kohler, Verena Lüber: Integrating Motivational Aspects into the Design of Informal Learning Support in Organizations
• Sally-Anne Barnes, Jenny Bimrose, Alan Brown, Daniela Feldkamp, Andreas Kaschig, Christine Kunzmann, Ronald Maier, Tobias Nelkner, Alexander Sandow, Stefan Thalmann: Knowledge Maturing at Workplaces of Knowledge Workers: Results of an Ethnographically Informed Study
• Simone Braun: Semantics to the Bookmarks: A Review of Social Semantic Bookmarking Systems 
• Andreas Martin, Roman Brun: Applying Organizational Learning to Enterprise Knowledge Maturing
   
• Uwe V. Riss, Hans Friedrich Witschel, Roman Brun, Barbara Thönssen: What is Organizational Knowledge Maturing and How Can It Be Assessed?
• Ying Du, Uwe V. Riss, Liming Chen, Ernie Ong, Phlip Taylor, David Patterson, Hui Wang: Work Experience Reuse in Pattern Based Task Management
• Michael Kohlegger, Ronald Maier, Stefan Thalmann: Understanding maturity models. Results of a Structured Content Analysis
• John Cook, Andrew Ravenscroft, Carl Smith: User-Centered Requirements Processes for Context Sensitive, Knowledge Maturing, Mobile Dialogues
   

Submissions

I-KNOW ‘09 invites the submission of original contributions from academic, public and industrial/commercial sectors. The conference focus is on application-oriented research with emphasis on information technologies for knowledge management and new management tools and methods. We welcome papers which present methods, tools, technologies best practices and case studies.

Topics include (but are not limited to):

Basics and Theories

• Methods for Knowledge Management
• Models for Knowledge Management
• Knowledge Management Systems and Applications

Knowledge Work Support

• Knowledge Services and Mash-Ups
• User Context Detection and Attention Metadata
• Creation and Maintenance of User Profiles
• Task Management and Task Mining
• Community and Collaboration Services
• Social Network Analysis
• Informal Learning at the Workplace
• Personal Information Management
• Tags, Folksonomies, and Ontologies
• Knowledge Representation and Modelling Methods
   

Knowledge Services

• SOA
• Web Services
• Orchestration of Semantic Services
• Quality of Service in Semantic Services
• Service Chain Analysis

Knowledge Relationship Discovery
 

• Cross-Media Search and Retrieval
• Ontology Lifecycle Algorithm and Methods
• Graph Mining and Statistical Relational Learning
• Text and Knowledge Mining
• Semantic Interoperability
• Salability Aspects and Parallel Algorithms in Knowledge Relationship Discovery
• Evolution and Alignment of Knowledge Structures
• Semantic Integration of distributed Knowledge Repositories 

Knowledge Visualization

• Visualisation of search results, text and multimedia corpora
• Visualisation of knowledge, concepts, relationships and information structures
• Visualisation of temporal and spatial data
• Human computer interfaces for knowledge and information visualisation
• Visual Analytics for Knowledge Relationship Discover

Innovative Approaches to Knowledge Management

• Emergent Technologies for Knowledge Management
• Agile Approaches to Knowledge Management
• Peer-to-Peer Knowledge Management
• Distributed Software Architectures for Knowledge Management Systems

Knowledge Management and Web 2.0

• Web 2.0-facilitated Knowledge Management
• Web 2.0 for Knowledge Transfer, Sharing and Diffusion
• Web 2.0 for Collaboration Support
• Case Studies and Best Practises
• Empirical Studies
• User Experience Studies

Conference Chairs 

• Klaus Tochtermann, Know-Center and Graz University of Technology, Austria
• Hermann Maurer, Graz University of Technology, Austria

Program Chairs

• Stefanie Lindstaedt, Know-Center and Graz University of Technology, Austria
• Michael Granitzer, Know-Center and Graz University of Technology, Austria
• Horst Bischof, Graz University of Technology, Austria
• Werner Haas, Joanneum Research, Austria
• Dietrich Albert, University of Graz, Austria

All accepted papers of I-KNOW '09 will appear in the printed conference proceedings.
Selected papers will also be invited for an extension to be published as journal publication in J.UCS.  

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