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WS1 will be merged with WS5 and WS4 will be merged with WS2. WS3 has been canceled. So when going to registration page, you should not select workshop #3. |
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Papers must be formatted in the style of the Springer Publications format for LNCS. Use Author Guideline. The length of each paper should not exceed 12 pages. Short papers with 6 or less pages are also welcome. Send your papers to each workshop chairs. About WS2, please refer to paper submission in WS2 descriptions.
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| Workshop 1: Knowledge Networks: Discovering network structure and patterns using Social Network Analysis |
Workshop descriptionDuring the last decade, knowledge has become a key consideration in our economies and it is heavily associated with innovation. Alongside this, so-called knowledge networks have arguably come to play a central role in organizations. These networks, which are built on social relations between employees, might serve various purposes such as collaborative problem solving, seeking advice, or developing competences by learning from peers. Recently, the network perspective has gained interest in the domain of knowledge networks and involves the study of the structure and patterns of knowledge networks. These studies rely heavily on theory and tools from social network analysis that has already a longstanding tradition in the sociology domain. The tools and techniques developed in this domain can be fruitfully applied in the field of knowledge networks. These techniques and tools can be used as (1) assessment tools and (2) research instruments. As an assessment tool, social network analysis can be used to visualize and analyze for instance the advice seeking relations in an organization. Through visual inspection of the sociogram and by calculating network metrics such as average shortest path, connectedness or centralization, it is possible to detect potential bottlenecks in the advice seeking network of the organization. However, there is not much consensus yet about the network metrics that should be used. Furthermore, there is hardly any benchmark data available to determine e.g. if a certain value for the average shortest path is too high or not. Finally, in many cases it is not known what the structure of an ideal knowledge network looks like and how a particular instance of a knowledge network is deviating from that ideal state. Secondly, social network analysis can also be used as a research instrument to study how the structure and patterns of knowledge networks are related to other variables such as task, group and organizational performance or to demographic data of people in the network. Much of the research so far has focused on a limited number of network metrics that are typically studied individually: interaction effects are neglected. Furthermore, group level performance also did not receive much attention yet. Regardless of how social network analysis is used, in both cases it is necessary to collect social network data. This is typically done using interviews and/or surveys, which is a labor intensive task. Recently, also other ways of collecting network data have been explored such as mining e-mail traffic (only header or also content information) or the archives of online community forums. The advantage of this way of data collection is that it is less labour intensive and at the same time offers to do longitudinal analysis for studying the dynamics of knowledge networks. However, there has not been much research that studies if communication networks, i.e. e-mail traffic, actually resemble knowledge networks. The workshop aims to bring together researchers from different disciplines that are interested in the application of social network analysis tools and techniques in knowledge network research. As such, the workshop provides a platform: 1) to elaborate on frequently used and emerging research questions and 2) to evaluate methodology used and, 3) to compare results of different research settings. We welcome both theoretical and empirical papers that employ diverse methodologies and philosophical perspectives. Suggested topics (but not limited to this list)
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Currently we are investigating if there is a possibility to publish the best papers in a special issue of a journal, e.g. Journal of Knowledge Management or Knowledge Management Research and Practice. |
| Workshop 2: Integrating Taxonomies and Folksonomies for Enhanced Knowledge Navigation (ITFEKN 2008) |
Workshop ObjectivesThe Integrating Taxonomies and Folksonomies for Enhanced Knowledge Navigation (ITFEKN 2008) workshop is the international workshop on advances to synergy folksonomy and taxonomy to create a hybrid with benefits for enhanced knowledge navigation. This workshop is to be held in conjunction with 7th International Conference on Practical Aspects of Knowledge Management (PAKM2008). Taxonomy is a top-down communication model, which it is commonly used in information systems particularly for content management and knowledge management systems. However, it does not cater for the prevailing context of the captured information to support knowledge navigation, search and retrieval. In addition, knowledge seekers usually are posited with their experiences with the Internet, email, phone and mobile hand-held devices. These experiences will undoubtedly affect the knowledge seekers behavior in navigating and searching knowledge from knowledge repositories. With the emergence of Web 2.0, social tagging software on web sites has seen the mass creation of personalized tags for marking user-generated content (UGC). Such tags, called folksonomy are uncontrolled, non-hierarchical, incomplete, possibly redundant and even inconsistent. However, folksonomy are easy to encode, dynamic, abundant, and reflect the prevailing context and norms of the creators and the environment. Therefore, integrating folksonomy into taxonomy will create new navigational facets to support enhanced knowledge navigations to improve knowledge searching, retrieval and navigation in a dynamic environment. The aim of this workshop is to encourage activities in this topic and to bring together world-wide researchers to discuss current challenges on integrating folksonomies and taxonomies to support knowledge searching, retrieval, and navigation. A formal framework or benchmark for evaluating taxonomy and folksonomy integration frameworks will also be discussed at this workshop. Paper are solicited on, but not limited to the following topics:
Paper SubmissionAuthors are invited to submit original and unpublished research papers. Paper submissions should be limited to a maximum of 8 pages in the Springer LNCS format. Please refer to the Springer LNCS web site for the paper formatting instructions. Preferred formats are Microsoft Word or PDF. Papers should be submitted via email to Professor Eric Tsui, the Workshop Chair. Papers submitted to the workshop will undergo a peer-review process. At least one author of the accepted paper is required to attend the workshop and present the paper. Workshop Chairs
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InquiriesFor more information on ITFEKN Workshop, contact Professor Eric Tsui at Eric.Tsui@polyu.edu.hk. |
| Workshop 4: Technologies for Knowledge Management |
Short description of the workshop and its goalsWhile attempts to exactly define and explain terms such as knowledge and tacit still stir up much discussion, the practicalities of today's highly technical contexts require immediate technological solutions for Knowledge Management (KM). This workshop's main goals are to gather researchers and practitioners to discuss the challenges, state of the art, and potential answers that technology can provide to solve KM problems. We are particularly interested in technological solutions that are enhanced with objective evaluations. Technology offers multiple opportunities to demonstrate a solution's effectiveness in contrast to many human-based solutions that are widely untested. Technological solutions can also solve problems that are essentially of human-oriented nature such as cultural problems, like expert locator systems and algorithms to identify collaborators. Knowledge engineering (KE) is the field of study concerned with manipulating forms of computational knowledge into representations that computer systems can then use to reason with to solve problems. Although research in KE has much to offer to KM, in practice, most knowledge managers are still ignorant of its potential and benefits. We encourage any contributions that can help prevent redundant efforts and that can help merge the fields of KE and KM together towards jointly creating effective and efficient real world solutions. Proposed workshop durationThis workshop is planned for a full-day. We expect to have at least three groups of submissions to include in three sessions of presentations, each session to be followed by a group discussion. We also plan to invite interested participants to co-author a paper describing workshop conclusions. List of topics coveredThe chairs welcome contributions on the use of principled technologies for performing any knowledge tasks such as knowledge sharing, leveraging, understanding, discovering; serving any communities such as inquiring organizations, communities of practice, communities of scientists. We encourage submissions including methods that include, but are not limited to:
We encourage contributions that describe advances in these technological areas and also those that present important open questions for future research derived from practical applications. Exhaustive surveys that illustrate the benefits of use of technology for KM are also welcome. Program committee
Description of workshop historyAlthough not part of a series, there were important workshops that have focused on closely related issues in the past, namely on synergies between technologies such as case-based reasoning and KM (AAAI-99 co-chairs David W. Aha et al.) and on intelligent lessons-learned systems (AAAI-2000 co-chairs David W. Aha and Rosina Weber). Contact
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| Workshop 5: Knowledge Management for Service Innovation |
Short Description of the Workshop and Its GoalsGlobal economy has turned out to be a service-oriented economy, in addition to the fact that the economy is going along with more digitized information and knowledge. In Japan's case, for example, more than 70% of GDP has been created by service sectors recently, and the ratio is still going up. Furthermore, industry sectors are also getting into "servicizing" to create new additional values and cost reduction, not from product but from service relating to the product. The trend of the service-oriented economy would be the same in most of the countries worldwide. However, the problem we are facing to the service-oriented economy emerges due to the uncertainness of service management and the low productivity of service businesses in general. The purpose of this workshop is to discuss how to provide a solution or an insight to improve the situation as "service innovation", and to discuss framework and/or design process of service innovation working with knowledge management. The goal of the workshop is to provide a common view of the knowledge management framework that will support service innovation for the service-oriented economy. List of Topics Covered
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