************************************* Call for Papers & Participation ************************************* -------------------------------------------------- Workshop on Knowledge Management and Philosophy -------------------------------------------------- Part of WM 2003, April 2.-4. 2003, Luzern -------------------------------------------------- http://www.dfki.uni-kl.de/~klein/philosophy_and_KM -------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------------------------------- DEADLINE: September 30, 2002 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Target groups ============= Scientists from the transdisciplinary halo around Knowledge Management, especially from philosophy and computer science. Practitioners from the fields of Information Management and Knowledge Management, e.g. consultants, software vendors, and software departments of information systems and information tools, as well as CKOs and KM-workers in companies. Workshop-languages are German and English. Goals ===== For centuries philosophy has been a mine of ideas used to fertilize other disciplines, such as mathematics or physics. Recently, Knowledge Management (German: Wissensmanagement -> WM) is being academically pursued in diverse disciplines and is gaining increasing importance in all business activities. However the multidisciplinarity of the approaches and the complexity of the notion of knowledge raise many issues, which are often simply ignored or treated offhandedly. Also there is the danger, that the notion of Knowledge Management is misused, becomes a mere marketing label and one looses track from the ambitious goal. On the other hand, for millennia, philosophy --as the mother of sciences-- addressed the notion of knowledge, the generation of knowledge, its transfer, with its prospects and limitations. What, then, seems better than systematically examining the potential of contributions of philosophy to Knowledge Management and search for mutual promotion and synergy? The philosophical notion of ontology, which gained considerable impact in the information sciences, was an analogous success story. The goal of the workshop is to identify the influence and potential of philosophy for the theory and practice of Knowledge Management, along the lines of specific questions and scenarios. Topics ====== We are looking for contributions, which propose new solutions or approaches, or which identify conceptual problems or open questions and which thus advance the concern of Knowledge Management transdisciplinarily. Talks could possibly be related to one of the aspects of the following, non-exclusive list: · Relation between data, information, knowledge (e.g. presentation versus representation) · Types of knowledge and their transition (e.g. explication of implicit knowledge) · Knowledge as structure and process (e.g. knowledge base and problem solving) · Knowledge as notion of systems and models (e.g. parametrizing and contextualizing of knowledge) · Philosophical theories and Knowledge Management (e.g. constructivism, pragmatism) · Epistemology versus Ontology(ies) in Knowledge Management · Knowledge Management and mediality · Potential and limitations of current Knowledge Management approaches Submissions =========== · Full Papers discuss innovative problems from one of the areas sketched above on a max. of 8 pages. Papers with a philosophical core should try to clearly identify their main theses and contributions to practicitioners questions, and should be easy to understand also for workshop participants with little philosophical training. Descriptions of practical application problems should try to identify the generic aspects of the problem, to enable the transferability of the discussed problem, while not blurring precise points for problem-oriented discussions.. · Statements of interest (max. 1 page) should describe the motivation of a workshop participant, his background and context of interest, proposed questions and issues and/or expected results. Detailed formatting guidelines can be found at "Einreichungen" on the WM2003-Homepage (http://wm2003.aifb.uni-karlsruhe.de). Please mail a PDF or POSTSCRIPT-version (zipped) of your paper to bertin.klein@dfki.de and do not hesitate to contact me for questions: Bertin Klein DFKI GmbH FB Wissensmanagement Postfach 2080 D-67608 Kaiserslautern Tel.:++49-631-205-3450 Important dates =============== 30. September 2002 Deadline for the submission of contributions 15. November 2002 Notification of acceptance 1. Februar 2003 Deadline for final version Workshop schedule ================= The schedule will be published later on the WM2003-Homepage: http://wm2003.aifb.uni-karlsruhe.de/ Organizing Committee ==================== Dr. Klaus Freyberg Munich Reinsurance Company, Leopoldstrasse 36, D-80791 München, KFreyberg@munichre.com Bertin Klein DFKI GmbH FB Wissensmanagement, Postfach 2080, D-67608 Kaiserslautern, bertin.klein@dfki.de Prof. Dr. Hans-Joachim Petsche Institut für Philosophie der Universität Potsdam, Am Neuen Palais 10, D-14469 Potsdam, petsche@rz.uni-potsdam.de Program Comittee ================ Stefan Heyd Vorstand der Münchener Rückversicherung Prof. Dr. John Erpenbeck Arbeitsgemeinschaft Betriebliche Weiterbildungsforschung e.V. Prof. Dr. Klaus Kornwachs Technische Universität Cottbus Lehrstuhl Technikphilosophie Thomas Roth-Berghofer Deutsches Forschungszentrum für Künstliche Intelligenz GmbH Prof. Dr. Heinz Jürgen Müller Berufsakademie Mannheim Fachbereich Informationstechnik