[Apologies for multiple submissions]


           The Second International Conference on Practical Aspects
                       of Knowledge Management (PAKM98)
                             29-30 October, 1998
                             Basel, Switzerland
                  http://research.swisslife.ch/pakm98.html

                                Supported by
   SGAICO (Swiss Group for Artificial Intelligence and Cognitive
Science)
                                  and the
    Special Interest Group "Knowledge Engineering" of the German
Informatics
                                   Society

                                Sponsored by
                         Swiss Life   and    UBS


                        -- Call for Participation --


Conference Programme:

Invited talks:

Patricia Seemann (Group 21, Switzerland):
Building an Intellectual Capital Strategy at the Corporate Level

Matthias Jarke (Aachen University of Technology, Germany):
<Title yet to be announced>


Paper presentations:

Aaltonen, P. / Ikaealko, H. / Ventae, M.
(Helsinki University of Technology, Finland):
Transfer of Knowledge from University to Client Organisations

Alworth, D. / Frost, E.
(OGCI Management, USA; BP Exploration, Inc., USA):
A Practical Approach Bridging Individual Learning and Organizational
Learning:
A Look at Organizational Learning in the E&P Industry

Apostolou, D. / Mentzas, G.
(National Technical University of Athens, Greece):
Managing Corporate Knowledge:
A Comparative Analysis of Experiences in Consulting Firms

Ballim, A. / Karacapilidis, N.
(Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne, Switzerland):
Modeling Discourse Acts in Computer-Assisted Collaborative Decision
Making

Benjamins, R. / Fensel, D. / Gomez Perez, A.
(University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands; University of Karlsruhe,
Germany;
Technical University of Madrid, Spain):
Knowledge Management through Ontologies

Bettoni, M.C. / Ottiger, R. / Todesco, R.
(Polytechnical of Basel, Switzerland):
KnowPort: A Personal Knowledge Portfolio Tool

Connor, D. (Xerox Professional Services, USA):
Helping Clients Harness Knowledge to Drive Innovation

Crossley, M. / Davies, N.J. / McGrath, A.J. / Rejman-Greene, M.A.Z.
(BT Laboratories, UK):
The Knowledge Garden

Feldman, R. / Fresko, M. / Hirsh, H. / Aumann, Y. / Kinar, Y. /
Liphstat, O. /
Schler, Y. / Rajman, M. (Bar-Ilan University, Israel; Rutgers
University, USA;
Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne, Switzerland):
Knowledge Management: A Text Mining Approach

Hollocks, B.W. (Bournemouth University, UK):
The Role of Models in Leveraging Information

Huber, H. (USU AG, Germany):
Supporting Document Search by Collaboratively Maintained Search
Knowledge

Koivula, A. / Pankakoski, M. (Helsinki University of Technology,
Finland):
Knowledge Product and Management Consulting

Koskiniemi, M.S. / Wilson, L.T.
(Buckman Laboratories, USA; LearnerFirst, Inc., USA):
Buckman Lab's Work Profiles Software Program

Lehner, F. / Maier, R. / Klosa, O. (University of Regensburg, Germany):
Organisational Memory Systems:
Application of Advanced Database & Network Technologies in Organisations

Lenz, M. (Humboldt University Berlin, Germany):
Managing the Knowledge Contained in Technical Documents

Lueg, C. (University of Zuerich, Switzerland):
Considering Collaborative Filtering as Groupware:
Experiences and Lessons Learned

Macintosh, A. / Filby, I. / Kingston, J. / Tate, A.
(University of Edinburgh, UK):
Knowledge Asset Road Maps

Mahe, S. / Rieu, Ch.
(Lab. LLP/CESALP, France; KSB Pompes Guinard Energie, France):
A Pull Approach to Knowledge Management:
Using IS as a Knowledge Indicator to Help People Know when
to Look for Knowledge Reuse

Mentzas, G. / Apostolou, D.
(National Technical University of Athens, Greece):
Towards a Holistic Knowledge Leveraging Infrastructure:
The KNOWNET Approach

Nakata, K. / Voss, A. / Juhnke, M. / Kreifelts, Th.
(German National Research Center for Information Technology, Germany):
Collaborative Concept Extraction and Management

Roepnack, A. / Schindler, M. / Schwan, Th.
(University of St. Gallen, Switzerland):
Concepts of the Enterprise Knowledge Medium

Stanoevska, K. / Hombrecher, A. / Handschuh, S. / Schmid, B.
(University of St. Gallen, Switzerland):
Efficient Information Retrieval: Tools for Knowledge Management

Struck, T. / Lindsay, J. / Baber, C.
(University of Birmingham, UK):
Evaluation of the Management of Knowledge in Cardiovascular Perfusion
Using the KIPP-Model

Wiig, K. (Knowledge Research Institute, Inc., USA):
Perspectives on Introducing Knowledge Management into the Enterprise

Wilson, O. / Sellens, C. (CMG, Ltd., UK):
The CMG Knowledge Intranet



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Swiss Life
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