SWKM2008

SWKM2008
Social Web and Knowledge Management
Subevent of	WWW2008
Start	April 22 2008 8:30 (iCal)
End	April 22 2008 12:00
Homepage:	SWKM2008 site
Location
City:	Beijing
Country:	People's Republic of China
Important dates
Papers due:	January 21 2008
Submissions due:	January 21 2008
Notification:	February 18 2008
Camera ready due:	March 1 2008

The social web, the most interesting part of the Web 2.0, aims at bringing people together and facilitating richer interaction among them. It is characterized by a strong focus on communities where people share experiences, information and knowledge, meet and discuss, or do business together. The social web challenges will be studied in this workshop from two perspectives: knowledge management and social web search and mining.

Knowledge management systems focus on knowledge and experience sharing. They enhance organization capabilities by externalizing knowledge of its employees and combine them in novel forms. Therefore, there is a common interest in social structures as well as social computing in both fields. The social web can be the common underlying platform for novel and web-based knowledge management systems. It breaks up rigid processes and enables much richer interaction possibilities and creativity. In this workshop we will bring together people from the areas of social web technologies, semantic systems, and knowledge management. We would like to study synergies between social computing, social web, semantic systems, and knowledge management and provide a look at the current state of the art in the area.

Topics of interest

Main topics of interest in the areas of Social Semantic Web and Knowledge Management include but are not limited to:

• Knowledge management and social web
• Flexible processes for knowledge management on social web
• Wikis, blogs and other means for information sharing
• Semantics and social web
• Personalization and User Modeling in semantic wikis, blogs, and other web 2.0 applications
• Personalized Search in Social Web
• Reasoning on the social web
• Reason maintenance and social web
• Text and media extraction, clustering and classification and social web
• Privacy and security for knowledge management and social web
• Theoretical models of communities on social web
• Discovering social structures and communities
• Evolution and temporal analysis of online social networks
• Integration of heterogeneous social web applications
• Applications of social web

Organising committee

• Peter Dolog, Computer Science Department, Aalborg University, Denmark
• Sebastian Schaffert, Salzburg Research, Austria
• Markus Krötzsch, Institut AIFB, Universität Karlsruhe (TH), Germany
• Denny Vrandecic, Institut AIFB, Universität Karlsruhe (TH), Germany

Program committee

• Harith Alani, University of Southampton, UK
• Anupriya Ankolekar, HP Labs, Palo Alto, USA
• Francois Bry, LMU Munich, Germany
• John Davies, BT, Ipswich, UK
• Norbert Eisinger, LMU Munich, Germany
• Hans-Jörg Happel, FZI, Karlsruhe, Germany
• Tom Heath, Open University, UK
• Martin Hepp, STI Innsbruck, University of Innsbruck, Austria
• Nick Kings, BT, Ipswich, UK
• Hong-Gee Kim, Seoul National University, South Korea
• Qing Li, City University of Hong Kong, China
• Peter Mika, Yahoo! Research, Barcelona, Spain
• Peter Axel Nielsen, AAU Aalborg, Denmark
• Natasha Noy, Stanford University, USA
• Eyal Oren, VU Amsterdam, The Netherlands
• Valentina Presutti, Institute of Cognitive Sciences and Technology (CNR), Italy
• Timothy K. Shih, Tamkang University, Taiwan
• Elena Simperl, STI Innsbruck, University of Innsbruck, Austria
• Pavel Smrz, BUT Brno, Czech Republic
• York Sure, SAP Research, CAC Karlsruhe, Germany
• Hideaki Takeda, Tokyo Research Institute, Japan
• Marcel Tilly, European Microsoft Innovation Center, Aachen, Germany
• Tania Tudorache, Stanford University, USA