=============================================================================== Call for Papers I-KNOW\' 09 9th International Conference on Knowledge Management and Knowledge Technologies http://www.i-know.at 2 - 4 September 2009, messecongress|graz, Austria =============================================================================== Important Dates: - Paper Submission Deadline: 9 March 2009 - Notification of Acceptance: April 2009 - Submission of Camera-Ready Paper: May 2009 - I-KNOW \'09 Conference: 2-4 September 2009 Introduction I-KNOW \'09 will be held concurrently with the I-SEMANTICS\' 09 - International Conference on Semantic Systems. I-KNOW reflects the increasing importance and convergence of knowledge management and knowledge technologies and aims at bridging the gaps between the various communities and their technology fields. Now in its ninth year, I-KNOW has a tradition of bringing together Europe´s leading researchers and practitioners involved in knowledge management. Attracting more than 500 attendees, I-KNOW is the premier conference on knowledge management and knowledge technologies in Europe. I-KNOW provides a perfect opportunity to stay abreast of the latest developments in these fields. The novelty and quality of the accepted contributions are ensured by a high-level program committee featuring international experts on a broad range of knowledge management topics. Submissions and Conference Proceedings I-KNOW ‘09 invites the submission of original contributions from academic, public and industrial/commercial sectors. The conference focus is on application-oriented research with emphasis on information technologies for knowledge management and new management tools and methods. We welcome papers which present methods, tools, technologies best practices, and case studies. All accepted papers of I-KNOW \'09 will appear in the printed conference proceedings. Selected papers will also be invited for an extension to be published as journal publication in J.UCS. Conference topics include (but are not limited to): Basics and Theories - Methods for Knowledge Management - Models for Knowledge Management - Knowledge Management Systems and Applications Knowledge Work Support - Knowledge Services and Mash-Ups - User Context Detection and Attention Metadata - Creation and Maintenance of User Profiles - Task Management and Task Mining - Community and Collaboration Services - Social Network Analysis - Informal Learning at the Workplace - Personal Information Management - Tags, Folksonomies, and Ontologies - Knowledge Representation and Modelling Methods Knowledge Services - SOA - Web Services - Orchestration of Semantic Services - Quality of Service in Semantic Services - Service Chain Analysis Knowledge Relationship Discovery - Cross-Media Search and Retrieval - Ontology Lifecycle Algorithm and Methods - Graph Mining and Statistical Relational Learning - Text and Knowledge Mining - Semantic Interoperability - Salability Aspects and Parallel Algorithms in Knowledge Relationship Discovery - Evolution and Alignment of Knowledge Structures - Semantic Integration of distributed Knowledge Repositories Knowledge Visualization - Visualisation of search results, text and multimedia corpora - Visualisation of knowledge, concepts, relationships and information structures - Visualisation of temporal and spatial data - Human computer interfaces for knowledge and information visualisation - Visual Analytics for Knowledge Relationship Discovery Innovative Approaches to Knowledge Management - Emergent Technologies for Knowledge Management - Agile Approaches to Knowledge Management - Peer-to-Peer Knowledge Management - Distributed Software Architectures for Knowledge Management Systems Knowledge Management and Web 2.0 - Web 2.0-facilitated Knowledge Management - Web 2.0 for Knowledge Transfer, Sharing and Diffusion - Web 2.0 for Collaboration Support - Case Studies and Best Practises - Empirical Studies - User Experience Studies Conference Chairs Klaus Tochtermann, Know-Center and Graz University of Technology, Austria Hermann Maurer, Graz University of Technology, Austria Program Chairs Stefanie Lindstaedt, Know-Center and Graz University of Technology, Austria Michael Granitzer, Know-Center and Graz University of Technology, Austria Horst Bischof, Graz University of Technology, Austria Werner Haas, Joanneum Research, Austria Dietrich Albert, University of Graz, Austria Preliminary Program Commitee Raffaele De Amicis, Fondazione Graphitech, Italy Jean-Yves Blaise, Centre national de la recherche scientifique, France Remo Burkhard, ETH Zurich, Switzerland Richard Chbeir, Bourgogne University, France Giuseppe Conti, Fondazione Graphitech, Italy Ulrike Cress, Knowledge Media Research Institute Tübingen, Germany Andreas Dengel, DFKI, Germany Mario Döller, University of Passau, Germany Heinz Dreher, Curtin University of Technology, Australia Erik Duval, University of Leuven, Belgium Martin Eppler, University of Lugano, Switzerland Joaquim Filipe, School of Technology of Setubal, Portugal Tom Heath, Talis, UK Barbara Kieslinger, Centre for Social Innovation (ZSI), Austria Ralf Klamma, RWTH Aachen, Germany Jörn Kohlhammer, Fraunhofer IGD, Germany Rob Koper, Open University of the Netherlands, Netherlands Harald Kosch, University of Passau, Germany Narayanan Kulathuramaiyer, UNIMAS University, Malaysien Franz Lehner, University of Passau, Germany Sheng-Tun Li, National Cheng-Kung University, Taiwan Dickson Lukose, MIMOS, Malaysia Mathias Lux, Alpen Adria University Klagenfurt, Germany Ronald Maier, University of Innsbruck, Austria Kathrine Maillet, Institut Telecom SudParis, France Robert Meersman, Free University of Brussels, Belgium Ambjörn Naeve, Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden Wolfgang Nejdl, L3S, Germany Tomas Pitner, Masaryk University of Brno, Czek Republic Wolfgang Prinz, RWTH Aachen and Fraunhofer FIT, Germany Martin Potthast, Bauhaus University Weimar, Germany Uwe Riss, SAP Research, Germany Marc Rittberger, DIPF - German Institute for International Educational Research, Germany Ramon Sabater, University of Murcia, Spain Kurt Schneider, University of Hannover, Germany Ursula Schneider, University of Graz, Austria Luciano Serafini, Fondazione Bruno Kessler (FBK-IRST), Italy Marc Spaniol, Germany Benno Stein, Bauhaus University Weimar Rudi Studer, University of Karlsruhe, Germany Jim Thomas, Pacific Northwest Laboratory, USA Robert Tolksdorf, Free University of Berlin, Germany Ivan Tomek, Acadia University, Canada Sofia Tsekeridou, Athens IT Excellence Center, Greece Eric Tsui, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, China Bodo Urban, Frauhofer IGD, Germany Wibke Weber, Hochschule der Medien, Stuttgart, Germany Martin Wolpers, Fraunhofer FIT, Germany Yunwen Ye, Software Research Associates, Inc., Japan Volker Zimmermann, imc AG, Germany