Below please find a call for papers for a minitrack at the
Hawai'i International Conference on
Systems Science, January 2005, on
Information and Communication
Technologies in support of Knowledge Management, Organizational Memory,
and Organization Learning.
Please forward to appropriate lists and colleagues.
This minitrack was put together to address alternate views of
knowledge management (KM), e.g., ideas that challenge knowledge-based
systems’ concepts of knowledge "codification" and
"transfer", and studies that pay attention to situated
knowledge. We seek papers that examine the processes associated with
knowledge creation, sharing, communication, recognition, evaluation and
internalization, and their implications for the use of ICTs, as well as
presentation of alternate kinds of knowledge management systems. We are
interested in submissions addressing social studies of science (and
e-science), education (and online learning, online education systems),
library and information science, as well as management and
business-organization studies. We welcome papers that explore what is
shared as well as what is not shared in defining the role and
significance of ICTs in the knowledge-sharing process. Finally, we are
interested in studies and presentations of applications such as
collaboratories which provide a mix of means of communicating, storing
and retrieving information in support of knowledge processes. We
are looking for both thoughtful, informed empirical studies as well as
strong theoretical that present rich conceptualizations of how ICTs may
support knowledge sharing.
Questions can be addressed to me Caroline Haythornthwaite
(haythorn@uiuc.edu), or to either of the other co-chairs: Saonee Sarker
(
ssarker@wsu.edu), and Susan Gasson (sgasson@cis.drexel.edu)
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CALL FOR PAPERS
Hawai'i International
Conference on Systems Science, Hilton Waikoloa Village, Big Island of
Hawaii, January 3-6, 2005
(http://www.hicss.hawaii.edu/)
We invite submissions for a minitrack on
Information and Communication Technologies in support of Knowledge
Management, Organizational Memory, and Organization Learning (KM/OM/OL).
Abstracts to minitrack co-chairs March 31, 2004
Full papers to minitrack co-chairs June 15, 2004
Details of the KM/OM/OL cluster can be found here:
http://www.hicss.hawaii.edu/Hicss38/foscfp.htm#***CLUSTER***
Minitrack Co-Chairs
Saonee Sarker (Primary Contact)
Washington State University
ssarker@wsu.edu
Susan Gasson
Drexel University
sgasson@cis.drexel.edu
Caroline Haythornthwaite
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
haythorn@uiuc.edu
Information And Communication Technologies In Support Of
Km/Om/Ol
This minitrack looks at technical issues and tools for building and
supporting knowledge management, organizational memory, and
organizational learning systems including the use of information and
communication technologies (ICTs) to support the sharing of knowledge
between individuals, groups, and organizations in a variety of contexts
(e.g., collocated, distributed nationally or internationally). In
addition, we welcome studies with implications on social/technical design
of systems enabling knowledge sharing. We encourage papers that explore
the role of information and communication technologies (e.g., knowledge
management systems, digital libraries, online learning environments,
intranets, etc.) in mediating/facilitating knowledge sharing. Papers that
generate new paradigms and present alternatives to the knowledge-based
systems’ concepts of knowledge "codification" and
"transfer" are of interest. Potential topics include:
-- How ICTs affect knowledge sharing.
-- Knowledge characteristics in ICT-mediated collaboration.
-- ICT design attributes that facilitate or constrain effective knowledge
sharing.
-- The role of ICTs in facilitating collaborative work.
-- Tools and technologies for developing KM/OM/OL oriented Systems
-- Capture, storage, search, retrieval, and use of knowledge and
organizational memory
-- Development and use of taxonomies, ontologies, and knowledge/topic
maps
-- Development and implementation of Knowledge networks
-- Developing processes and systems for visualizing knowledge
-- New paradigms for KM.
Dates
March 31, 2004: Abstracts to be submitted to Minitrack Chairsfor guidance
and indication of appropriate content.
June 15, 2004: Authors submit full manuscripts to Minitrack Chairs.
Contact the chairs in advance for specific submission instructions.
August 15, 2004: Minitrack Chairs send notices of accepted manuscripts to
Authors. (Note: Acceptance may be conditional; revisions may be requested
for final acceptance of paper.)
October 1, 2004: Deadline for Authors to submit the final version of
their accepted papers electronically for publication. At least one author
of each paper must have registered to attend the conference by this
date.
December 10, 2004: All conference registrations and payments are due. On
site registration fee applies after this date. No refunds after this
date.
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Caroline Haythornthwaite (haythorn@uiuc.edu)
Associate Professor
Graduate School of Library and Information Science
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 501 East Daniel St.,
Champaign, IL, 61820