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Call for Papers
i-KNOW – 11th International Conference on
Knowledge Management and Knowledge Technologies
7–9 September 2011, Graz, Austria
http://www.i-know.at/
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Important Dates:

31 March 2011: Submission of the full papers
30 April 2011: Notification of acceptance
31 May 2011: Camera ready version
7 Sept.-9 Sept. 2011: i-KNOW 2011 Conference

Introduction

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 eleventh year, i-KNOW has a tradition of bringing together Europe´s leading researchers and practitioners involved in knowledge management. Attracting more than 500 international 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. i-KNOW 2011 will be held concurrently with the I-SEMANTICS 2011- International Conference on Semantic Systems.

Submissions and Conference Proceedings

i-KNOW 2011 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. Selected papers will appear in a special issue of J.UCS - Journal of Universal Computer Science. Conference proceedings will be published separately. The publication media is currently under negotiation and will be announced in subsequent call for papers. For details about paper submission please visit http://i-know.tugraz.at/i-science/paper-submission.

Conference topics include (but are not limited to):

I. Knowledge Management

* Theories for Knowledge Management
* Concepts for Knowledge Management
* Models for Knowledge Management
* Innovative Approaches to Knowledge Management
* Evaluations and Use Case Studies of Knowledge Management

II. Knowledge Discovery

* Information Retrieval and Search Visualization
* Semantic Enhanced Knowledge Discovery
* Knowledge Discovery in the Future Internet
* Information Quality on the Web
* Knowledge Relationship Discovery and Statistical Relational Learning
* Large Scale Knowledge Discovery
* Text Mining & Semantic Enrichment

III. Knowledge Services

* User context detection and activity logging
* User profile modeling and maintenance
* Context-aware recommendation
* Collaborative knowledge construction and modeling
* Collaborative knowledge maturing
* Knowledge sharing and communication
... which are based on Knowledge Technologies such as
* Web 2.0 and Future Internet
* Social Network Analysis
* Adaptive, context-aware systems
* Semantic technologies
* Mobile computing approaches
* Web-services, SOA, service orchestration
* knowledge mash-ups
* Linked-open data
* Trust & privacy approaches

IV. Social Media

* Models of propagation and influence in twitter, blogs and social tagging systems
* Models of expertise and trust in twitter, wikis, newsgroups, question and answering systems
* Agent-based models of social media
* Models of emergent social media properties
* Cooperation and collaboration models
* Modeling social media users and their motivations and goals
* Architectural and framework models
* User modeling and behavioral models
* Social Media Engineering

V. Enterprise 2.0 and Social Web

* Enterprise 2.0
* Corporate Web 2.0
* Social Networking (Services) and the Enterprise
* Wikis, (Micro-)Blogs and the Enterprise
* Computer-Mediated Communication and Computer-Supported Collaborative Work with Social Media
* Communities and Social Media
* Knowledge Transfer, Sharing and Diffusion with Social Media
* Knowledge Management in the Future Internet of People, Content and Knowledge
* Knowledge Management and Business Model Innovation
* Web 2.0 and Viral Marketing

Conference Chairs

Stefanie Lindstaedt, Know-Center and Graz University of Technology, Austria
Michael Granitzer, Know-Center and Graz University of Technology, Austria

Program Chairs

Wolfgang Kienreich, Know-Center, Austria
Horst Bischof, Graz University of Technology, Austria
Werner Haas, Joanneum Research, Austria
Dietrich Albert, University of Graz, Austria