[Asis-l] CFP: HICSS Information and Communication Technologies in support of Knowledge Management

[Caroline Haythornthwaite]

Below please find a call for papers for a minitrack at the Hawai'i
International Conference on Systems Science, January 2005, on Information
and Communication Technologies in support of Knowledge Management,
Organizational Memory, and Organization Learning.

Please forward to appropriate lists and colleagues.

This minitrack was put together to address alternate views of knowledge
management (KM), e.g., ideas that challenge knowledge-based systems'
concepts of knowledge "codification" and "transfer", and studies that pay
attention to situated knowledge. We seek papers that examine the processes
associated with knowledge creation, sharing, communication, recognition,
evaluation and internalization, and their implications for the use of ICTs,
as well as presentation of alternate kinds of knowledge management systems.
We are interested in submissions addressing social studies of science (and
e-science), education (and online learning, online education systems),
library and information science, as well as management and
business-organization studies. We welcome papers that explore what is shared
as well as what is not shared in defining the role and significance of ICTs
in the knowledge-sharing process. Finally, we are interested in studies and
presentations of applications such as collaboratories which provide a mix of
means of communicating, storing and retrieving information in support of
knowledge processes. We are looking for both thoughtful, informed empirical
studies as well as strong theoretical that present rich conceptualizations
of how ICTs may support knowledge sharing.

Questions can be addressed to me Caroline Haythornthwaite
(haythorn at uiuc.edu), or to either of the other co-chairs: Saonee Sarker (
ssarker at wsu.edu), and Susan Gasson (sgasson at cis.drexel.edu)

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CALL FOR PAPERS

Hawai'i International Conference on Systems Science, Hilton Waikoloa
Village, Big Island of Hawaii, January 3-6, 2005
(http://www.hicss.hawaii.edu/)

We invite submissions for a minitrack on

Information and Communication Technologies in support of Knowledge
Management, Organizational Memory, and Organization Learning (KM/OM/OL).

Abstracts to minitrack co-chairs March 31, 2004 Full papers to minitrack
co-chairs June 15, 2004

Details of the KM/OM/OL cluster can be found here:
http://www.hicss.hawaii.edu/Hicss38/foscfp.htm#***CLUSTER***

 Minitrack Co-Chairs Saonee Sarker (Primary Contact) Washington State
University ssarker at wsu.edu

Susan Gasson Drexel University sgasson at cis.drexel.edu

Caroline Haythornthwaite University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
haythorn at uiuc.edu

Information And Communication Technologies In Support Of Km/Om/Ol

This minitrack looks at technical issues and tools for building and
supporting knowledge management, organizational memory, and organizational
learning systems including the use of information and communication
technologies (ICTs) to support the sharing of knowledge between individuals,
groups, and organizations in a variety of contexts (e.g., collocated,
distributed nationally or internationally). In addition, we welcome studies
with implications on social/technical design of systems enabling knowledge
sharing. We encourage papers that explore the role of information and
communication technologies (e.g., knowledge management systems, digital
libraries, online learning environments, intranets, etc.) in
mediating/facilitating knowledge sharing. Papers that generate new paradigms
and present alternatives to the knowledge-based systems' concepts of
knowledge "codification" and "transfer" are of interest. Potential topics
include:


-- How ICTs affect knowledge sharing.
-- Knowledge characteristics in ICT-mediated collaboration.
-- ICT design attributes that facilitate or constrain effective knowledge
sharing.
-- The role of ICTs in facilitating collaborative work.
-- Tools and technologies for developing KM/OM/OL oriented Systems
-- Capture, storage, search, retrieval, and use of knowledge and
organizational memory
-- Development and use of taxonomies, ontologies, and knowledge/topic maps
-- Development and implementation of Knowledge networks
-- Developing processes and systems for visualizing knowledge
-- New paradigms for KM.

Dates

March 31, 2004: Abstracts to be submitted to Minitrack Chairsfor guidance
and indication of appropriate content.

June 15, 2004: Authors submit full manuscripts to Minitrack Chairs. Contact
the chairs in advance for specific submission instructions.

August 15, 2004: Minitrack Chairs send notices of accepted manuscripts to
Authors. (Note: Acceptance may be conditional; revisions may be requested
for final acceptance of paper.)

October 1, 2004: Deadline for Authors to submit the final version of their
accepted papers electronically for publication. At least one author of each
paper must have registered to attend the conference by this date.

December 10, 2004: All conference registrations and payments are due. On
site registration fee applies after this date. No refunds after this date.


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Caroline Haythornthwaite
Graduate School of Library and Information Science
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign