[ecoop-info] CfP: Knowledge Management stream in EURO XXII

[Dimitris Apostolou]

(apologies for cross-postings)

CALL FOR PAPERS
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"Knowledge Management" Stream
in EURO XXII - 2007 European Conference on Operational Research
Prague, Czech Republic, July 8-11, 2007

Selected papers of the Stream will be published in a Special Issue entitled 
"Knowledge, Learning and Innovation Management: Synergies and Opportunities"

in International Journal of Knowledge and Learning (IJKL) 
Guest Editors: Dimitris Apostolou, Gregoris Mentzas

URLs: 
http://euro2007.vse.cz/ 
http://dsslab.cs.unipi.gr/cfp/kmineuro2007.htm
http://www.imu.iccs.gr/events/kmineuro2007/


IMPORTANT DATES
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Deadline for abstract submission: February 28, 2007 
Notification of acceptance (EURO abstracts): March 28, 2007 
Deadline for early registration: April 15, 2007 
Deadline for article submission: June 13, 2007 
EURO Conference: July 8-11, 2007 
Notification of acceptance (IJKL articles): December 17, 2007 
IJKL special issue: scheduled for Q3 2008 


AIM AND SCOPE
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Given the significance of knowledge in the society and economy of our era,
four significant challenges formulate the justification of the conference
stream and special issue: 

1. Knowledge management has been accepted as a critical enabler aiming to
increase organizational performance by better use of intellectual assets.
Emerging technologies such as semantic technologies, web 2.0 and social
computing, personal information management systems, advanced information
classification, clustering and retrieval algorithms open-up new pathways for
knowledge management research and applications. In parallel, typical
management-driven knowledge management approaches give way to informal
employee networks and other workplace practices supported by flexible
collaboration tools such as wikis that increasingly prove more successful at
turning knowledge into action. 

2. E-learning has rapidly emerged as a major area for discussion and
activity within the human resource departments of organizations, public and
private. ICT technologies are used to provide access to and manage the
processes of learning. Up to this point, most elearning has been consumed by
learners in the form of full, off-the-shelf, or slightly customized courses.
However, users need new ways to efficiently turn their proprietary knowledge
into effective elearning content. Furthermore, organizations need mechanisms
for managing and delivering elearning content in a digestible form to the
end user who can immediately apply it to perform better, to help speed
individuals' time to performance and perpetuate organizational success. 

3. Facilitating innovation is increasingly acknowledged as a key factor for
competitive advantage. Existing working environments mainly focus on
supporting traditional working paradigms of linear workflows by providing
Information Systems for planning, scheduling and executing tasks. However,
in order to achieve continuous innovation and thus create persistent
competitive advantage, organizations need to increase their capacity for
carrying out open-ended and nonlinear problem solving, involving a wide
participation of people in knowledge-rich environments. This must be
supported by new paradigms of Information Systems for managing the knowledge
transfer, the social dynamics, and the decision processes involved in the
front-end of innovation. 

4. In parallel, the Semantic Web vision has spawn critical research in
knowledge engineering and representation methodologies, languages and tools.
Semantic Web technologies provide mechanisms for structuring Web information
resources with the use of metadata and support the delegation of tasks to
software agents. Ontologies constitute a critical item in this research area
since they provide shared semantics, thus enabling a higher degree of
semantic interoperability. The 'expression of meaning' and the
'representation of context' relate directly to numerous open issues within
knowledge management, e-learning and innovation management systems. 

The scope of the call includes knowledge management for personal, social,
organizational and inter-organizational applications, knowledge engineering
and Semantic Web technologies to information systems, as well as group
support systems and social software and the diverse underlying data storage
and knowledge representation aspects. 

Papers dealing with issues that touch more than one of the above mentioned
aspects are especially sought. This is intended to initiate a dialog between
the knowledge, learning and innovation management communities. 

The EURO XXII conference is the leading European event of researchers and
professionals in Operational Research. The "Knowledge Management" Stream
intends to provides a venue for researchers who are addressing the above
problems to present their work in a high quality environment.


TOPICS OF INTEREST
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Research, position and experience papers are welcomed. Topics of interest
include, but are not limited to:

- Knowledge-based tools and techniques for knowledge, learning and
innovation management
- Applications and engineering of ontologies for knowledge, learning and
innovation management information systems 
- Knowledge, learning and innovation management information systems
integration through ontologies and semantic metadata
- Design and modeling of knowledge, learning object and innovation-related
repositories
- Management of semantic metadata related to knowledge, learning objects and
innovation-related information objects
- Knowledge, learning and innovation as service approaches
- Business modeling and enterprise processes in support of knowledge,
leaning and innovation management
- Innovative approaches to learning and innovation such as gaming
approaches, and game-like Human Computer Interaction
- Use of social computing and Web 2.0 technologies to enhance knowledge
access, sharing and re-use as well as collaboration
- Approaches for raising the level of security and trust in information
systems and repositories for knowledge, learning and innovation management


SUBMISSION OF PAPERS
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Paper abstracts should be submitted electronically to the EURO XXII
management system (http://euro2007.vse.cz) according to the guidelines
posted there. 

At least one author of each accepted abstract is expected to participate in
the conference and present his/her work. Informal proceedings including
accepted abstracts will be distributed on site. 

Accepted papers will be considered for publication in a special issue of the
International Journal of Knowledge and Learning (IJKL), scheduled for the
third quarter of 2008. Authors of accepted EURO abstracts will be invited to
submit full articles (a typical size is between 7000 and 9000 words) and a
number of 6-8 papers will be selected for the special issue after a second
review round.

STREAM ORGANIZING COMMITTEE
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Dimitris Apostolou, Univ. Piraeus, Greece (stream organizer) 
Albert Angehrn, INSEAD, France 
Gregoris Mentzas, National Technical University of Athens, Greece 
Tomas Sabol, Technical University of Košice, Slovak Republic 
Andreas Abecker, Forschungszentrum Informatik, Germany