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Selected papers of the Stream will be published in a Special Issue entitled"Knowledge, Learning and Innovation Management: Synergies and Opportunities"of the International Journal of Knowledge and Learning (IJKL)Guest Editors: Dimitris Apostolou, Gregoris Mentzas and Dimitris Despotis |
Given the significance of knowledge in the society and economy of our era, four significant challenges formulate the justification of the conference stream and special issue:
Knowledge management has been accepted as a critical enabler aiming to increase organizational performance by better use of intellectual assets. Emerging technologies such as semantic technologies, web 2.0 and social computing, personal information management systems, advanced information classification, clustering and retrieval algorithms open-up new pathways for knowledge management research and applications. In parallel, typical management-driven knowledge management approaches give way to informal employee networks and other workplace practices supported by flexible collaboration tools such as wikis that increasingly prove more successful at turning knowledge into action.
E-learning has rapidly emerged as a major area for discussion and activity within the human resource departments of organizations, public and private. ICT technologies are used to provide access to and manage the processes of learning. Up to this point, most elearning has been consumed by learners in the form of full, off-the-shelf, or slightly customized courses. However, users need new ways to efficiently turn their proprietary knowledge into effective elearning content. Furthermore, organizations need mechanisms for managing and delivering elearning content in a digestible form to the end user who can immediately apply it to perform better, to help speed individuals’ time to performance and perpetuate organizational success.
Facilitating innovation is increasingly acknowledged as a key factor for competitive advantage. Existing working environments mainly focus on supporting traditional working paradigms of linear workflows by providing Information Systems for planning, scheduling and executing tasks. However, in order to achieve continuous innovation and thus create persistent competitive advantage, organizations need to increase their capacity for carrying out open-ended and nonlinear problem solving, involving a wide participation of people in knowledge-rich environments. This must be supported by new paradigms of Information Systems for managing the knowledge transfer, the social dynamics, and the decision processes involved in the front-end of innovation.
In parallel, the Semantic Web vision has spawn critical research in knowledge engineering and representation methodologies, languages and tools. Semantic Web technologies provide mechanisms for structuring Web information resources with the use of metadata and support the delegation of tasks to software agents. Ontologies constitute a critical item in this research area since they provide shared semantics, thus enabling a higher degree of semantic interoperability. The 'expression of meaning' and the ‘representation of context’ relate directly to numerous open issues within knowledge management, e-learning and innovation management systems.
The scope of the call includes knowledge management for personal, social, organizational and inter-organizational applications, knowledge engineering and Semantic Web technologies to information systems, as well as group support systems and social software and the diverse underlying data storage and knowledge representation aspects.
Papers dealing with issues that touch more than one of the above mentioned aspects are especially sought. This is intended to initiate a dialog between the knowledge, learning and innovation management communities.
The EURO XXII conference is the leading European event of researchers and professionals in Operational Research. The "Knowledge Management" Stream intends to provides a venue for researchers who are addressing the above problems to present their work in a high quality environment.
Research, position and experience papers are welcomed. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
Paper abstracts should be submitted electronically to the EURO XXII management system (http://euro2007.vse.cz) according to the guidelines posted there.
At least one author of each accepted abstract is expected to participate in the conference and present his/her work. Informal proceedings including accepted abstracts will be distributed on site.
Accepted papers will be considered for publication in a special issue of the International Journal of Knowledge and Learning (IJKL), scheduled for the third quarter of 2008. Authors of accepted EURO abstracts will be invited to submit full articles (a typical size is between 7000 and 9000 words) and a number of 6-8 papers will be selected for the special issue after a second review round.
Dimitris Apostolou, Univ. Piraeus, Greece (stream organizer)
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Dimitris Apostolou, Univ. Piraeus, Greece Decision Support Systems Laboratory, Department of Informatics, University of Piraeus |
