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CALL FOR PAPERS

1st Workshop on

Knowledge Management for Distributed Agile Processes:
Models, Techniques, and Infrastructure
(KMDAP '03)

for the

Twelfth IEEE International Workshops on Enabling Technologies:
Infrastructure for Collaborative Enterprises (WET ICE '03).

June 9-11, 2003, University of Linz, Linz, Austria

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Up-to-date information on the workshop can be found at

http://www.dwm.uni-hildesheim.de/homes/schaaf/WETICE03/
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Workshop Description
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Knowledge Management (KM) is currently receiving increasing attention in
diverse areas such as medicine and systems engineering. Here, special focus
is put on process-oriented Knowledge Management, where abstract activity
descriptions serve as the primary means to capture, organize, and
distribute knowledge items that are relevant during individual, actual
process steps. Most approaches developed so far rely on static processes as
well as on documents indexed by formalized meta-data and additional
ontologies. However, these approaches are inadequate for highly dynamic and
volatile processes, whose steps cannot be planned in advance, and during
which new, unanticipated "knowledge needs" frequently arise. Such processes
handle mostly informal documents and rely on face-to-face communication
between participants. Typical examples of such processes occur in domains
like medical diagnostics and disaster management.

In Software Engineering, the realization that software development
processes are inherently dynamic inspired an entire new discipline focusing
on "Agile Software Development Processes". These human-centered
methodologies are being increasingly applied in the past couple of years.
However, trading off explicit knowledge captured in documentation for tacit
interpersonal knowledge poses new challenges, especially in the case of
distributed settings, where support by proper Knowledge Management
techniques is essential.

The main goals of this workshop are to bring together practitioners and
researchers from the areas of Knowledge Management and Agile Processes from
different domains to discuss the current state of ongoing research efforts
and to share their practical experiences with adaptation of modern
Knowledge Management techniques by agile teams.

Topics of Interest
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Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following areas:

- Knowledge management support systems for agile teams
- How to remain agile while applying KM techniques relying on explicit
knowledge representation?
- KM techniques that help making processes more agile
- KM to improve agile processes (self-adaptive processes)
- Collaborative ontology construction and mediation
- Knowledge assets of agile teams
- Knowledge elicitation in distributed agile processes
- Proactive knowledge distribution
- Cooperative adaptation of knowledge in agile processes
- Managing tacit knowledge
- Inter-project knowledge integration and management
- Knowledge visualization for agile teams
- Knowledge annealing

In the context of this workshop, our notion of distribution is a wide
one, encompassing any situation where direct face-to-face communication
between (current or former) process participants is somehow inhibited.

Concerning the notion of agility, a number of interpretations have been
developed by different industries (e.g., see [2] for the Software Industry).
For the purpose of this workshop, we adopt the encompassing view from [1],
where business agility is defined as "the ability to demonstrate flexible,
efficient and swift responses to changing circumstances by maximizing
physical and human resources."

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[1] Gartner UK Ltd.: "The Age of Agility", Report prepared by Gartner for
BT, July 2002
[2] http://www.agilemanifesto.org

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Paper Submission
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Papers (maximum: 6 pages in 10-pt Times, single-spaced) can be submitted
for review in PDF or RTF format. Papers longer than 6 pages will not be
reviewed.

Please submit your papers via e-mail to

Harald Holz
e-mail: holz@informatik.uni-kl.de

Authors will be requested to take part in the peer review process and
will be asked to review other submissions. In order to ensure an
anonymous review process, please try to avoid including any information
in the body of the paper or references that would identify the authors or
their institutions. Instead, please provide the names and contact
information of the authors in your submission e-mail. This information can
also be added to the final camera-ready version for publication at a later
stage.
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Publication
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Accepted papers will be published in the post-conference proceedings
(publisher: the IEEE Computer Press). Final camera-ready copies may not
exceed six pages and must conform to the IEEE Computer Society Press
Proceedings Author Guidelines, http://www.computer.org/cspress/instruct.htm

Each accepted paper should have at least one author register and present
the paper at WETICE-2003 to get the paper published in the Proceedings.

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Important Dates
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Paper submission deadline: March 7, 2003
Notification of acceptance: April 11, 2003
Final camera ready copies of accepted papers
due to IEEE: May 16, 2003
Advance registration by: May 16, 2003
Workshop: June 9-11, 2003

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Workshop Location
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Linz is the Upper Austrian state capital, third largest city in Austria,
and located on both sides of the Danube. For more information on Linz,
please see:

http://www.hotelreservationandinformation.com/cityguide.phtml?city=Linz&stateprovince=&country=Austria

For more information on Austria, please see:
http://www.austria-tourism.at/index_e.html

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Organizing Committee
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Harald Holz, University of Kaiserslautern, Germany
Grigori Melnik, University of Calgary, Canada
Martin Schaaf, University of Hildesheim, Germany

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Program Committee
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Klaus-Dieter Althoff, Fraunhofer Institute for Experimental Software
Engineering (IESE), Germany
Ralph Bergmann, University of Hildesheim, Germany
Ansgar Bernardi, German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence
(DFKI) GmbH, Germany
Ward Cunningham, Cunningham & Cunningham, Inc., USA
Mehmet Goeker, Kaidara Software Inc., USA
Scott Henninger, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, USA
Frank Maurer, University of Calgary, Canada
Charles Petrie, Stanford University, USA
Michael M. Richter, University of Kaiserslautern, Germany
Steffen Staab, University of Karlsruhe (TH), Germany
Laurie Williams, North Carolina State University, USA

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Please contact Harald Holz (holz@informatik.uni-kl.de) with questions and or suggestions.

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