[Asis-l] CFP: ICKM 2015

[Hara, Noriko]

[Apologies for cross-postings]

                       CALL  FOR  PAPERS
            Paper Submission Deadline:  May 31, 2015

                            ICKM'15
       11th International Conference on Knowledge Management
           November 4-6, 2015, I-Site Namba, Osaka, JAPAN
                 http://ickm.kis.osakafu-u.ac.jp

Important Dates [General Session]
  Full / Short Papers due: May 31, 2015
  Poster Papers due: May 31, 2015
  Notification (Full / Short / Poster papers): June 30, 2015
  Camera-ready papers due: July 20, 2015
(CFPs of Theme-based Organized Sessions will appear in the conference
Web.)

Publications
 All the accepted papers will be published in proceedings. Authors of
 accepted distinguished full papers will be invited to submit
 extended versions of the papers for consideration of publication
 ‘Journal of Information and knowledge management (JIKW)’ or
 ‘International Journal of Knowledge and Web Intelligence (IJKWI)’.

Paper categories (Note the revised page limits):
 - Full paper (8-10 pages)
 - Short paper (4-6 pages)
 - Poster paper (2-3 pages)

All the accepted papers are eligible for the competitions of:
 - Best Overall Paper Award
 - Best Young Researcher Paper Award (restricted to papers whose
   first authors are under 35 years old)

In addition, all the accepted poster papers are eligible for the
competition of
 - Best Poster Award(s).

Topics of Interests
 Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following:

Innovation and the Knowledge Economy
  - Innovative Approaches to Knowledge Management
  - Knowledge in Innovation Processes
  - Knowledge Management and Business Model Innovation
  - Knowledge Management for Social Change and Innovation
  - Open Innovation
  - Ethical Issues in Knowledge Economy
  - Knowledge Workers
  - Operating in the Knowledge Economy
  - Ranking Knowledge Economies
Knowledge Management Tools and Technologies
  - Knowledge Discovery and Data Warehousing
  - Knowledge Management Taxonomies
  - Knowledge Relationship Discovery
  - Knowledge and Information Visualization
  - Emerging Web Technologies and Web 2.0 Tools
  - Knowledge Management and Game Theory
  - Mobile Technology
  - Semantic Technologies and Ontology
  - Social Networking Software
  - Wikis, Twitter, Blogs and Social Tagging Services
Competitive Intelligence
  - Collective Intelligence
  - Competitive Analysis Techniques
  - Competitive Intelligence Education
  - Competitive Intelligence Methodologies and Applications
  - Competitive Intelligence Organizational Models
  - Competitive Intelligence Tools
  - Competitive Strategies
  - Synergy between Knowledge Management and Competitive Intelligence
Collaboration, Knowledge Creation and Sharing
  - Collaborative ICT in the Knowledge Society
  - Communities of Practice
  - Knowledge Cafés
  - Knowledge Management and Collaboration
  - Knowledge Networks
  - Narratives, Stories and Anecdotes for Knowledge Transfer
Knowledge Management Strategies & Implementations
  - Creating Knowledge for Decision Making
  - Competitive Advantage of Knowledge Management
  - Evaluation of Knowledge Management
  - Intellectual Capital and Knowledge Management
  - Inter-organizational Knowledge Flow
  - Just-in-Time Knowledge Management
  - Knowledge Audits
  - Knowledge Management Models
  - Knowledge Management Strategy Formulation
  - Organizational Learning
  - Adaptation of Knowledge Management in different industries
  - Case studies of Knowledge Management Implementation
  - Interdisciplinary Research and Collaboration
Knowledge Management Education
  - Knowledge Management Concepts
  - Knowledge Management Curricula
  - Knowledge Management Philosophical Underpinnings
  - Knowledge Management Theories

ICKM 2015 will be a flagship conference in the research area of
knowledge management. It consists of the General Session and Organized
Sessions on specialized themes, each of which is organized by a
program committee. In addition, the conference will include invited
speakers and keynote speakers. Researchers, practioners, graduate or
undergraduate students and businesspersons are invited to participate
in all aspects of the conference.

International Conference on Knowledge Management (ICKM) provides
researchers and practitioners from all over the world a forum for
discussion and exchange of ideas concerning theoretical and
practical aspects of Knowledge Management.

History
  Since the first ICKM was held in Singapore in 2004, subsequent
  conferences have been held in Charlotte, North Carolina,
  U.S.A. (2005); Greenwich, London, U.K. (2006); Vienna, Austria
  (2007); Columbus, Ohio, U.S.A. (2008); Hong Kong (2009);
  Pittsburgh, U.S.A (2010); Johannesburg, South Africa (2012);
  Montreal, Canada (2013); and Antalya, Turkey (2014). 

PC Chairs
  Suliman M. Hawamdeh (University of North Texas, USA)
  Toyohide Watanabe (Nagoya Industrial Science Research Institute, Japan)
  Kazuhisa Seta (Osaka Prefecture University, Japan)