19th Conference on Knowledge Acquisition and Management (KAM’13)
Kraków, Poland, September 8-11, 2013
We have the pleasure to invite you to contribute to and participate in the conference "Knowledge Acquisition and Management" (KAM'13). The predecessor of the KAM conference has been organized for the first time in 1992, as a venue for scientists and practitioners to address different aspects of usage of advanced information technologies in management, with focus on intelligent techniques and knowledge management. In 2003 the conference changed somewhat its focus and was organized for the first under its current name. Furthermore, the KAM conference became an international event, with participants from around the world. The aim of the conference is to create possibility of presenting and discussing approaches, methods, techniques and tools in the knowledge acquisition and the knowledge management areas. We expect that the conference will enable exchange of information and experiences, and delve into current trends of methodological, technological and implementation aspects of knowledge acquisition and management processes.
Topics
The following group topics, concerning both theory and applications, will be included (unavoidably incomplete):
- Data mining and knowledge discovery from databases and data warehouses
- Methods and tools for knowledge acquisition
- New emerging technologies for management
- Organizing the knowledge centers
- Knowledge creation and validation
- Knowledge dynamics and machine learning
- Distance learning and knowledge sharing
- Knowledge representation models
- Management of enterprise knowledge versus personal knowledge
- Knowledge managers and workers
- Knowledge coaching
- Knowledge diffusion
- Knowledge engineering and software engineering
- Managerial knowledge evolution
- Knowledge grid and social networks
- Knowledge modeling and visualization
- Knowledge management and e-government
- Business Intelligence environment for supporting knowledge management
- Knowledge management in virtual agents
Paper Submission, Publication and Indexation
- Authors should submit full papers in English (as Postscript, PDF, MSWord, or ODF file).
- The total length of a paper must not exceed 8 pages IEEE style (including tables, figures and references). IEEE style templates are available here.
- Papers will be refereed and accepted on the basis of their scientific merit and relevance to the conference.
- Submitted papers must be unpublished and not under review in any other conference or journal (submissions that violate this requirement will be regarded as self-plagiarism).
- Organizers reserve right to move accepted papers between FedCSIS events.
- Only papers presented at the conference will be included in the IEEE Xplore® database and submitted for indexation.
- Proceedings of the FedCSIS 2012 conference were indexed in the Thomson Reuters - Conference Proceedings Citation Index, where they will also be submitted in 2013.
- Furthermore, FedCSIS proceedings will be submitted for indexation to: DBLP Computer Science Bibliography, Inspec, Scirus, and other repositories.
- Extended versions of selected papers presented during the conference may be published as Special Issue(s) of journal(s)to be announced later.
Important Dates
- Paper submission: May 21, 2013
- Author notification: June 21, 2013
- Registration opening (regular registration fee): July 5, 2013
- Final paper submission system opening: July 5, 2013
- Submission of the final version of the paper deadline: July 12, 2013
- Deadline for fee payment to assure paper publication: August 12, 2013
- Higher registration fee comes to effect: August 25, 2013
- Conference date: September 8-11, 2013