The 1st International Symposium on Knowledge Management and E-Learning (KMEL 2011)
8-10 December 2011, Hong Kong
http://www.cse.cuhk.edu.hk/~kwchiu/kmel2011.htm

Important dates
Sept 1, 2011 - Paper submission deadline
Sept 30, 2011 - Notice of acceptance
Oct 15, 2011 - Camera-ready copies and author registration

Fierce competition, globalization, and dynamic economy have forced organizations to search for new ways to improve competitive advantage. In pursuance of this, knowledge is seen as the core resource and learning is viewed as the important process. It is crucial for organizations to enhance the capabilities for effective learning and knowledge management (KM), especially via using information and communication technologies in the digital economy.

The creation, operation, and evolution of such research and practice raise concerns that range from high-level requirements and policy modeling through to the deployment of specific implementation technologies and paradigms, and involve a wide and ever-growing range of methods, tools, and technologies. They also cover a broad spectrum of vertical domains, industry segments, and even government sectors.

This event intentionally seeks educators, researchers, scientists, engineers, industry people, policy makers, decision makers, and others who have insight, vision, and understanding of the big challenges in Knowledge Management and E-Learning (KM&EL).

The best papers to be recommended for publication in a special issue of international journal:

IJSSOE: http://www.igi-global.com/Bookstore/TitleDetails.aspx?TitleId=1155

The symposium papers will be published as a separated post-conference volume by LNCS (Lecture Notes in Computer Science).

Topics of interest include but are not limited to the theoretical, technical, or empirical aspects of the following:

Principles, theories, models, challenges, legal, and social issues of KM&EL
Knowledge management and learning strategies
Knowledge management and action research
Knowledge construction in e-learning
Knowledge modeling and visualization
Knowledge-based learning systems
Learning and knowledge portals
Web-based learning and teaching
Strategies for e-learning development
E-learning design, usability, and evaluation
E-learning in the workplace
Web-based training
Electronic performance support systems
Web-based learning and knowledge communities
Computer supported collaborative learning
Human-Computer interaction
Ontologies and Semantic Web for KM&EL
Agent based technologies and emerging Web computing paradigms for KM&EL, e.g., cloud computing
Recommendation, personalization, operation, and monitoring
Web-based knowledge management
Decision models and decision support systems
Intelligent web-based enterprise information systems
Service marketing, data mining, and relationship management issues
Trust, reputation, security, and privacy issues
Location and pervasive intelligence for KM&EL
Business process and workflow management for KM&EL

Submission

Submitted papers will be carefully evaluated and refereed based on originality, significance, technical soundness, and clarity of exposition. All submitted papers MUST be formatted according to the author guidelines provided by Springer and MUST NOT be longer than 10 pages. All papers MUST be submitted electronically through the following website:
http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=kmel2011

Symposium Co-chairs

Dickson K. W. Chiu, Dickson Computer Systems, Hong Kong (dicksonchiu@ieee.org)
Maggie M. Wang, Faculty of Education, University of Hong Kong (magwang@hku.hk)


Program Committee (To be confirmed)

Jean H.Y. Lai, The University of Hong Kong
Xiaochun Cheng, Middlesex University, United Kingdom
Irene Y.L. Chen, National Changhua University of Education, Taiwan
Sabine Graf, Athabasca University, Canada
Alexandra I. Cristea, University of Warwick, United Kingdom
Kiyoshi Nakabayashi, Chiba Institute of Technology
Eugenia M.W. NG, Hong Kong Institute of Education, Hong Kong
Ming-Hsiung Ying, Chung-Hua University, Taiwan
Mudasser F. Wyne, National University, United States
Michael Chau, The University of Hong Kong
Eleanna Kafeza, Athens University of Economics and Business, Greece
Wendy W. Y. Hui, University of Nottingham at Ningbo, China
Patrick C.K. Hung, University of Ontario Institute of Technology, Canada
K.P. Mark, City University of Hong Kong, China
Carmen Ka Man Lam, Hong Kong Baptist University, Hong Kong
Hideyasu Sasaki, Ritsumeikan University, Japan
Ho-fung Leung, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
Huiye Ma, Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands
Chi-hung Chi, Tsing Hua University, China
Irene Kafeza, Kafeza Law Office, Greece