[Sigkm-l] Deadline Extension: Workshop on Knowledge Management for Distributed Agile Processes (KMDAP '05) @ WM '05

Tue Sep 7 09:49:47 EDT 2004

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***  Extended submission deadline: October 3, 2004  ***

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                             CALL FOR PAPERS

                             2nd Workshop on

         Knowledge Management for Distributed Agile Processes:
                 Models, Techniques, and Infrastructure
                                (KMDAP '05)

                         held in conjunction with

       3rd Conference Professional Knowledge Management (WM2005):
                          Experiences and Visions
                Kaiserslautern, Germany, April 11.-13, 2005

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    Up-to-date information on the workshop can be found at
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Workshop Description
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Knowledge Management (KM) is currently receiving increasing attention in
diverse areas such as medicine and systems engineering. Here, special
focus is put on process-oriented Knowledge Management, where abstract
activity descriptions serve as the primary means to capture, organize,
and distribute knowledge items that are relevant during individual,
current process steps. Most approaches developed so far rely on static
processes as well as on documents indexed by formalized meta-data and
additional ontologies. However, these approaches are inadequate for
highly dynamic and volatile processes, whose steps cannot be planned in
advance, and during which new, unanticipated "knowledge needs"
frequently arise. Such processes handle mostly informal documents and
rely on face-to-face communication between participants. Typical
examples of such processes occur in domains like medical diagnostics and
disaster management.

The main goals of this workshop are to bring together practitioners and
researchers from the areas of Knowledge Management and Agile Processes
from different domains to discuss the current state of ongoing research
efforts and to share their practical experiences with adaptation of
modern Knowledge Management techniques by agile teams.

Topics of Interest
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Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following areas:
  -  How to remain agile while applying KM techniques relying on explicit
     knowledge representation?
  -  KM techniques that help making processes more agile
  -  KM to improve agile processes (self-adaptive processes)
  -  Integrating BPM approaches and agile process enactment
  -  Non-Stop(24h) distributed knowledge creation and capture
  -  Capture and representation of dynamic work contexts
  -  Collaborative ontology construction and mediation
  -  Knowledge assets of agile teams
  -  Knowledge elicitation in distributed agile processes
  -  Proactive, just-in-time knowledge distribution
  -  Cooperative adaptation of knowledge in agile processes
  -  Semantic Web technologies aiding agile processes
  -  Peer-to-Peer Knowledge Management

Concerning the notion of agility, a number of interpretations have been
developed by different industries (e.g., see [2] for the Software
Industry). For the purpose of this workshop, we adopt the encompassing
view from [1], where business agility is defined as "the ability to
demonstrate flexible, efficient and swift responses to changing
circumstances by maximizing [the utilization of] physical and human
resources."

   1.  Gartner UK Ltd.: "The Age of Agility", Report prepared by Gartner
       for BT, July 2002
   2.  http://www.agilemanifesto.org

Paper Submission
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Papers must be submitted in English following the Springer LNCS format,
which is the format required for the final camera-ready copy, with a
maximum of 8 pages. Authors' instructions along with LaTeX and Word
macro files are available on the web at
http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html.

All authors of accepted papers must transfer their copyrights to
Springer. Please email a PDF or Postscript version of your contribution
to Harald Holz (harald.holz at dfki.de).

Publication
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It is intended to publish all accepted papers in a joined conference
proceedings volume of the WM2005 within the "Lecture Notes in Computer
Science" series of Springer. Depending on the number of accepted papers
and the review results, papers will be published as full papers (8
pages) or short papers (4 pages). At least one author of an accepted
paper must register for the WM2005 conference before the deadline for
camera-ready-copies of the papers. Otherwise the paper will not be
published.

Important Dates
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  Paper submission deadline:          October 3, 2004
  Notification of acceptance:         November 1, 2004
  Camera-ready copies of papers due:  November 22, 2004
  Workshop at WM 2005 in
  Kaiserslautern, Germany:            April 11.-13, 2005

Organizing Committee
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  Harald Holz, DFKI GmbH, Germany
  Heiko Maus, DFKI GmbH, Germany
  Naoyuki Nomura, Ricoh Company Ltd., Japan
  Martin Schaaf, University of Hildesheim, Germany

Program Committee
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  Klaus-Dieter Althoff, University of Hildesheim, Germany
  Dimitris Apostolou, Planet Ernst & Young, Greece
  Torgeir Dingsøyr, SINTEF ICT, Norway
  Ludger v. Elst, DFKI GmbH, Germany
  Knut Hinkelmann, University of Applied Sciences Solothurn, Switzerland
  Frank Maurer, University of Calgary, Canada
  Heinz-Jürgen Müller, Berufsakademie Mannheim, Germany
  Dirk Ramhorst, Siemens Business Services, Germany
  Steffen Staab, Karlsruhe University, Germany
  Heiner Stuckenschmidt, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, The Netherlands
  Oliver Thomas, Institute for Information Systems (IWi), Germany
  Klaus Tochtermann, Know-Center Graz, Austria
  Bidjan Tschaitschian, empolis GmbH, Germany
  Rosina Weber, Drexel University, USA
  Oliver Wendel, Pylon, Germany
  Hideo Yamazaki, NRI, Japan

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For further questions/suggestions, please contact:

Dr. Harald Holz
DFKI GmbH
Erwin-Schrödinger-Str. 57
67663 Kaiserslautern, Germany
Tel: +49 631 205-3461
Fax: +49 631 205-3210
E-Mail: harald.holz at dfki.de

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Dr. Harald Holz
German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI) GmbH
Erwin-Schroedinger-Strasse 57, 67663 Kaiserslautern, Germany

Phone: (++49) +631 205 3461          mailto: Harald.Holz at dfki.de
Fax:   (++49) +631 205 4910

WWW: http://www.dfki.uni-kl.de/~holz/
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