APOLOGIES FOR CROSS-POSTINGS ------------------------------------------------------ Call for Papers: Special Issue of Knowledge Management Research & Practice Journal "Knowledge as an Object: Perspectives, usefulness, challenges for Knowledge Management" See http://www.palgrave-journals.com/kmrp/kmrp_cfp_knowledge-as-object-jun2011.p... OR http://www.palgrave-journals.com/kmrp/index.html GUEST EDITORS Ettore Bolisani, Department of Management and Engineering, University of Padua, Italy - ettore.bolisani@unipd.it Stefano Borgo, Institute of Cognitive Sciences and Technologies, CNR, Italy - borgo@loa-cnr.it Alessandro Oltramari, Psychology Department, Carnegie Mellon University Pittsburgh - aoltrama@andrew.cmu.edu TOPICS include, but are not limited to, the following: * KM epistemology, theoretical issues and conceptual analysis of knowledge objects * informal models of knowledge objects * formal or semi-formal models of knowledge objects (mathematical theories, formal ontologies, terminologies and thesauri, semantic networks, etc.) * practical implications of the use of knowledge objects in KM * knowledge objects and the issues of knowledge transfer and knowledge sharing IMPORTANT DATES . Abstract Submission deadline: 29th July 2011 . Selection of abstracts; invitation to submit a full paper: 19th August 2011 . Full papers due: 31st October 2011 . Notification of acceptance/rejection: 19th December 2011 . Revised papers due: 27th January 2012 . (if needed) Final review: 24th February 2012 . (if needed) Final revision by authors: 16th March 2012 . Publication: expected in Knowledge Management Research & Practice Volume 10 Issue 3, September 2012 ------------------- Ettore Bolisani, PhD Associate Professor DTG - Department of Management and Engineering University of Padua Stradella San Nicola, 3 - 36100 Vicenza (Italy) phone: +39 0444 998725 fax: +39 0444 998888 mobile: +39 3346957510 website: http://static.gest.unipd.it/labtesi/eb-homepage.htm