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I-Know 2006 Special Track on

Business Process Oriented Knowledge Infrastructures 2006 (BPOKI'06)

Wednesday, 6th September 2006, Graz, Austria

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


Call for Papers for the I-KNOW'06 Special Track on Business Process
Oriented Knowledge
Infrastructures (BPOKI'06).


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. 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 and development for 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 Procedure

Please submit your contribution via http://www.i-know.at/submission. In case of
problems or
questions concerning the submission of papers, please contact the track chairs
at
bpoki@... via email.

Important Dates

* 03 April 2006 - Submission of full paper (8 pages)
* 22 May 2006 - Notification of acceptance
* 26 June 2006 - Revised camera-ready paper (8 pages)
* 06 September 2006 - BPOKI'06 special track

Publication

Accepted papers will be published within the I-KNOW '06 conference proceedings
in cooperation with
J.UKM and Springer Co. Pub.

Additional Information

For additional information please consult the I-KNOW '06 conference website at
http://www.i-know.at
or the website of the special track on Business Process Oriented Knowledge
Infrastructures at
http://www.i-know.at/BPOKI or contact the BPOKI organizers at
bpoki@... via email.

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 Centre for knowledge
management. The
organization team of the special track on Business Process Oriented Knowledge
Infrastructures
consists of following people:

* Markus Strohmaier, mstrohm@...
* Stefanie Lindstaedt, slind@...
* Manuel Fischer, mfischer@...

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
* Andreas Oberweis, University of Karlsruhe, Germany
* Gil Regev, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland
* Michael Rosemann, University of Queensland, Australia
* Eric Yu, University of Toronto, Canada


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Dr. Markus Strohmaier
Knowledge Management
Know-Center Graz
Inffeldgasse 21a, 8010 Graz, Austria
e-mail: mstrohm@...
Tel: +43 316 873 9268 Fax: +43 316 873 9252
Website: http://www.know-center.at