The annual workshop “Fachgruppe Wissensmanagement (SIG Knowledge Management)” is organized by the Special Interest Group on Knowledge Management of the German Informatics society (GI), which aims at enabling and promoting the exchange of inn ovative ideas and practical applications in the field of knowledge and experience management.
September 12-14, 2016 at Hasso Plattner Institute, Potsdam, Germany
All submissions of current research from this and adjacent areas are welcome, in particular, work in progress contributions. The latter can serve as a basis for interesting discussions among the participants and provide young researchers with feedback. We also invite researchers to contribute to the workshop by resubmitting conference papers to share their ideas with the research community.
Workshop Chair
Program Committee
- Joachim Baumeister, denkbares GmbH
- Axel Benjamins, University of Osnabrück
- Ralph Bergmann, University of Trier
- Susanne Durst, University of Skövde School of Business
- Michael Fellmann, University of Osnabrück, Institute of Information Management and Corperate Governance
- Dimitris Karagiannis, University of Vienna
- Andrea Kohlhase, University of Applied Scinces Neu-Ulm
- Michael Kohlhase, KWARC
- Michael Leyer, University of Rostock
- Alke Martens, University of Rostock, Institute of Computer Science, IEF
- Mirjam Minor, Goethe University Frankfurt
- Miltos Petridis, CEM Brighton University
- Ulrich Reimer, University of Applied Sciences St. Gallen
- Jochen Reutelshöfer, denkbares GmbH
- Bodo Rieger, University of Osnabrück Management Support and Information Systems
- Thomas Roth-Berghofer, School of Computing and Engineering, University of West London
- Kurt Sandkuhl, University of Rostock
- Christian Severin Sauer, University of West London
- Sahar Vahdati, University of Bonn
Organization
The contact person for all questions regarding the organization of the workshop is Sebastian Furth (sebastian.furth(at)denkbares.com).
Topics of Interest
Submissions from all areas contributing to the development and application of intelligent knowledge and experience management systems are welcome. We explicitly encourage paper submissions that are not mainstream but from communities within mathematics, social sciences or economics in order to obtain a more interdisciplinary view on the subject.
Topics of interest include but are not limited to:
- Experience & knowledge search and knowledge integration approaches: case-based reasoning, logic-based approaches, text-based approaches, collaborative filtering, semantic portals, agile approaches (e.g. wikis/blogs, Web 2.0, recommender systems), etc.
- Applications of knowledge and experience management (corporate memories, e-commerce, design, tutoring/e-learning, e-government, software engineering, robotics, medicine, etc.)
- Big Data and Knowledge Management (KM)
- Knowledge and resource management in embedded systems
- (Semantic) Web Services for KM
- Agent-based & Peer-to-Peer KM
- Methods for knowledge extraction
- Just-in-time retrieval and just-in-time knowledge capturing
- Knowledge representation (ontologies, similarity, retrieval, adaptive knowledge, etc.)
- Support of authoring and maintenance processes (change management, requirements tracing, (distributed) version control, etc.)
- Design and evaluation of KM systems
- Practical experiences (“lessons learned”) with IT aided KM approaches
- Integration of KM and business processes
- Introspection and explanation capabilities of KM systems
- Application of Linked Data
- Innovation through knowledge connection and exchange Combination of KM with other systems and concepts (e.g. Decision Support, Business Intelligence, etc.)
Official workshop languages are German and English. In particular, contributions can be in English or German but presentations should be in English to ensure that English speaking participants can always follow.
Please have a look at the “WM-Workshop Manifesto” below for convincing reasons to submit to and participate in the WM-Workshop.
Intended Audience
The target group includes researchers and practitioners who are interested in developing, applying and analyzing knowledge and experience management systems as well as applicable scenarios. The workshop is also a great and affordable platform for young researchers to present their work to a larger group of researchers and get valuable feedback.
Submission Guidelines
Submissions should be alternatively:
- up to 4 pages long for short papers,
- 4 to 8 pages long for full papers or PhD proposals,
- up to 1 page summaries for resubmissions recently published at other renowned conferences.
All contributions must be submitted via EasyChair. Please select the track "Fachgruppe Wissensmanagement (SIG Knowledge Management)" when submitting your paper. The publication of the conference proceedings will be with CEUR Workshop Proceedings. All papers should be formatted with Springer LNCS. All workshop participants have to register for the LWDA 2016 conference.
Important Dates
Submission of papers: June 30, 2016
Notification of acceptance: July 15, 2016
Camera-ready copy: August 15, 2016
Workshop WM@LWDA: September 12-14, 2016
Workshop Manifesto
The SIG Knowledge Management (Fachgruppe Wissensmanagement, in short FGWM) of the German Informatics Society (GI) annually organizes a workshop within the LWDA workshop series. The SIG compiled a list of reasons why attendance to that workshop is attractive and why it is unique among the many existing conferences and workshops on topics related to knowledge management.
The workshop is not a mini-conference but a real workshop because
- there is ample discussion time for each of the presented papers,
- it gives the opportunity to present work in progress, possibly in its early stages only,
- there is the possibility for break-out sessions on topics to be discussed more deeply.
Therefore the workshop provides the opportunity for young researchers (even excellent master students) to
- present and discuss preliminary work,
- get feedback on their work from a larger audience with people having quite different viewpoints,
- get accustomed to presenting and defending their work at scientific events.
The workshop is a forum for testing the viability of new ideas (by junior as well as senior researchers) before more effort and resources are put into these ideas.
Since the workshop attracts students as well as senior members of the community it plays a vital role in
- fostering the next generation of researchers (like a doctoral symposium but across institutions),
- helping to maintain a high quality of PhD work,
- recruiting research staff (master students looking for PhD positions, PhD students looking for postdoc positions).
- The workshop is enriched by including a few top-notch papers already presented at international venues. Since nobody can attend all relevant conferences any more this is a good opportunity to catch up on missed papers.
- The workshop is the forum for connecting with the German knowledge management community.
- Last but not least, the workshop has a very low participation fee and is thus much more affordable than pre-conference workshops which can usually only be attended when also registering to the main conference (with the full conference fee).
A statement from a young researcher why she finds the workshop series attractive
The workshop offers a unique opportunity for the promotion of young researchers. With its low participation fee and the informal nature it provides a platform for young PhD students and advanced MSc students to present their projects and theses to a larger audience. It is thus an excellent opportunity to gain first experiences in scientific practice and exchange. The possibility to take part in scientific discourse already at an early stage is very valuable to young researchers. In the field of knowledge management, this is a unique feature of the FGWM workshop. Besides getting useful feedback on their work from senior researchers outside their own research group, young researchers profit from an exchange of experiences with fellow PhD students from other universities.
A statement from a senior researcher why he finds the workshop series attractive
The FGWM workshop provides senior researchers not only with a platform for presenting their own research interests and discuss presented work, but also offers the opportunity to share best practices on PhD supervision among different universities and research institutions. Senior researchers can pass along experience on project proposal writing, project management, and evaluation. At this venue senior researchers are easily approachable and can help with issues PhD students might not want to discuss with their supervisors. Further, students can easily investigate career opportunities in academia.
