Track: Knowledge Management Systems
Minitrack: Knowledge Management Tools, Technologies,
--------------- Mashups, and Design Approaches

The objective of this minitrack is to develop the architecture of knowledge management systems to support organizations facing changing environments. Organizational decision-making and learning are people-intensive processes. Individuals learn and share what they have learned with those "nearby" them, who in turn share knowledge with others. In this manner, knowledge propagates or "spirals" throughout the organization and beyond (Nonaka 1994, 1998; Nonaka and Takeuchi, 1995). This growth of knowledge and the understanding it brings enable organizations to react quickly to changing environments, a necessity for survival. However, because these needs are so strongly based in the social perspective, we believe that technological support of these systems should have a foundation that can recognize the social aspects of knowledge creation and use (see, for example, Brown and Duguid 2000).

Researchers and practitioners interested in submitting papers to this minitrack are encouraged to explore knowledge management architectures, tools, and mashups - for example as related to supporting knowledge use and transfer or to organizational learning, particularly from a design science perspective. We welcome a wide range of approaches that focus on architectural design for KM or learning organizations.

Topics and research areas include, but are not limited to:
* Methodologies, tools, processes, technologies for developing KM and/or Organizational Memory Systems
* Empirical studies of designing and using KM tools and systems
* Systems design for social knowledge creation and use, e.g. social software system architectures
* KM tools that map, track, or visualize social networks to facilitate knowledge sharing
* Evaluation of knowledge retrieval and representation methods
* Using semantic technologies to implement knowledge retrieval and representation
* Developing processes and systems for knowledge visualization techniques
* Designing for data, information, knowledge, and learning
* Learning-based systems design
* Knowledge Management Systems Design for Wicked Problems; Ethics and Aesthetics; Inquiring Organizations; and Learning Organizations
* Design of technological support for Implementing Churchman's Inquiring Systems; Inquiring Organizations; and Learning Organizations

Co-chairs:
Stefan Smolnik (Primary Contact)
Information Systems 2
European Business School (EBS)
International University Schloss Reichartshausen
Rheingaustr. 165375 Oestrich-Winkel, Germany
Phone: +49-6723-991-2
Fax: +49-6723-991-259
Email: stefan.smolnik@ebs.edu
URL: http://www.ebs.edu/is2

Nassim Belbaly
GSCM Montpellier Business School
2300, Avenue des Moulins34185 Montpellier Cedex 4, France
Phone: +33-4-6710-2516
Fax: +33-4-6745-1356
Email: n.belbaly@supco-montpellier.fr

Richard Orwig
Accounting and Information Systems
Weis School of Business
Susquehanna University
514 University Ave., Selinsgrove, PA 17870, USA
Phone: +1-570-372-4380
Email: orwig@susqu.edu