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Track: Knowledge Management Systems
Minitrack: Web 2.0/3.0 Technologies, Mashups, KM Tools, and KMS
                   Design Approaches 
  

The objective of this minitrack is to develop the architecture of knowledge management systems (KMS) 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 Web 2.0/3.0 technologies such as mashups in the context of KMS – 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:

  • 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

  • Knowledge services and mashups

  • Web 2.0/3.0 technologies as part of KM systems

  • 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

  • Learning-based systems design

  • Knowledge Management Systems Design for (Wicked Problems, Ethics and Aesthetics, Inquiring Organizations, Learning Organizations)

  • Design of technological support for (Implementing Churchman’s Inquiring Systems, Inquiring Organizations, Learning Organizations)

 

Minitrack Co-Chair:

Stefan Smolnik (Primary Contact)
Institute of Research on Information Systems (IRIS)
European Business School (EBS)
International University Schloss Reichartshausen
Rheingaustr. 1
65375 Oestrich-Winkel
GERMANY
Phone: +49-6723-991-246
Fax: +49-6723-991-255
Email: stefan.smolnik@ebs.edu
WWW: http://www.ebs.edu/iris

Nassim Belbaly
GSCM Montpellier Business School
2300, Avenue des Moulins
34185 Montpellier Cedex 4
FRANCE
Phone: +33 (0) 4 67 10 25 16
Fax: +33(0) 4 67 45 13 56
E-mail: n.belbaly@supco-montpellier.fr

Richard Orwig
Accounting and Information Systems
Weis School of Business
Susquehanna University
514 University Ave.
Selinsgrove, PA 17870
Phone: (570) 372-4380
E-mail: orwig@susqu.edu