BPOKI'06 Call for Papers (CfP)

Call for Papers for the I-KNOW ‘06 Special Track on Business Process Oriented Knowledge Infrastructures 2006 (BPOKI’06)

September 6th 2006, Graz, Austria

http://www.i-know.at/BPOKI

Introduction

The I-KNOW 2006 Special Track on Business Process Oriented Knowledge Infrastructures is the third in a series. The event aims to critically discuss new theories, concepts, ideas, instruments and systems that address support for knowledge intensive business processes in organizations.

Background

Knowledge work in organisations becomes increasingly complex, interdependent and dynamic today. This development co-occurs with the emergence of sophisticated and advanced information and knowledge technologies that promise to make organizations more efficient. However, the application of these novel technologies for the effective support of knowledge workers in organizations is far from being well understood and a current research topic. The special track on Business Process Oriented Knowledge Infrastructures BPOKI’06 aims to address these challenges by increasing understanding about knowledge work, knowledge intensive business processes and technological and organizational instruments and systems for supporting them. Contributions may focus on introducing research prototypes, concepts and applications in the domain of BPOKI. Beyond that, this special track also explicitly calls for theories, hypothesis and perspectives that critically reflect on past and future research work in the area of BPOKI.

Topics include but are not limited to:

  • Identification and modeling of knowledge work and knowledge intensive business processes
  • Identification and modeling of knowledge workers' context
  • Design and development of knowledge intensive business processes and knowledge infrastructures
  • Fundamental technological instruments for business process oriented knowledge infrastructures
  • Categories, performance indexes and concepts for knowledge intensive business processes
  • Support for and improvement of knowledge intensive business processes
  • Process- and knowledge reuse in business process oriented knowledge infrastructures
  • Quality and quality attributes (including e.g. flexibility, agility, usability) in knowledge intensive business processes and knowledge infrastructures
  • Agent-oriented and domain-specific approaches to support for knowledge intensive business processes
  • Theory forming for and critical contributions to the domain of business process oriented knowledge infrastructures

Based on these topics, submissions may focus on, but are not limited to: Semantic Process and Knowledge Modeling, Workflow Management Systems, Case Based Systems, Process-Oriented Information Retrieval, User Context Identification, Process Simulation, -Mining and -Optimization, Pattern Identification and Analysis, Agile- and Agent Oriented Systems, Decision Support Systems and Knowledge Portals.

Type of Submissions

BPOKI’06 seeks contributions that introduce novel ideas and theories, conceptual frameworks, taxonomies and ontologies, technical applications and solutions, experiences as well critical arguments and discussions concerning the topics of this special track.

Target Group

The topics mentioned above equally address researchers and practitioners. BPOKI'06 aims to present and critically discuss latest work to increase understanding and gain new insights about the problem domain. The event will be held in English.

Submission Instructions and Procedure

Submissions should be handed in as full papers and should not exceed 8 pages.Please use the I-KNOW style guides (http://www.i-know.at/style_guide.html) and submit your contribution in PDF or MS Word format usinghttp://www.i-know.at/submission. In case of problems or questions concerning the submission of papers, please contact the track chairs atbpoki@know-center.at.

Important Dates

  • 3 April 2006 Submission of the full paper (8 pages)
  • 22 May 2006 Notification of acceptance
  • 26 June 2006 Camera ready paper (8 pages)

Publication

Accepted papers will be published within the I-KNOW'06 conference proceedings in cooperation with J.UKM and Springer Co. Pub. At least one author of an accepted paper must register for the I-KNOW conference before the deadline for camera-ready-copies of the papers (26 June 2006). Otherwise the paper will not be published.

Conference Organization

The 6th International Conference on Knowledge Management (I-KNOW ‘06, http://www.i-know.at) is organized by the Know-Center, Austria’s Competence Center for knowledge management. The organization team of the special track on Business Process Oriented Knowledge Infrastructures consists of the following people:

Program Committee

  • Jose Cordeiro, Polytechnic Institute of Setúbal, Portugal
  • Norbert Gronau, University of Potsdam, Germany
  • Harald Holz, German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence, Germany
  • Dimitris Karagiannis, University of Vienna, Austria
  • Ronald Maier, University of Halle-Wittenberg, Germany
  • Frank Maurer, University of Calgary, Canada
  • Jan Mendling, Vienna University of Economics and Business Administration
  • Andreas Oberweis, University of Karlsruhe, Germany
  • Gil Regev, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland
  • Manfred Reichert, University of Twente
  • Michael Rosemann, Queensland University of Technology, Australia
  • Martin Schaaf, University of Hildesheim
  • Rainer Schmidt, University of Applied Sciences Aalen
  • Eric Yu, University of Toronto, Canada

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