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Call for Papers
KMIS is sponsored by INSTICC – Institute for Systems and Technologies of Information, Control and Communication
Scope

Knowledge Management (KM) is a discipline concerned with the analysis and technical support of practices used in an organization to identify, create, represent, distribute and enable the adoption and leveraging of good practices embedded in collaborative settings and, in particular, in organizational processes. Effective knowledge management is an increasingly important source of competitive advantage, and a key to the success of contemporary organizations, bolstering the collective expertise of its employees and partners.
There are several perspectives on KM, but all share the same core components, namely: People, Processes and Technology. Some take a techno-centric focus, in order to enhance knowledge integration and creation; some take an organizational focus, in order to optimize organization design and workflows; some take an ecological focus, where the important aspects are related to people interaction, knowledge and environmental factors as a complex adaptive system similar to a natural ecosystem.
Information Sharing (IS) is a term used for a long time in the information technology (IT) lexicon, related to data exchange, communication protocols and technological infrastructures. Although standardization is indeed an essential element for sharing information, IS effectiveness requires going beyond the syntactic nature of IT and delve into the human functions involved in the semantic, pragmatic and social levels of organizational semiotics.
The two areas are intertwined as information sharing is the foundation for knowledge management. KMIS aims at becoming a major meeting point for researchers and practitioners interested in the study and application of all perspectives of Knowledge Management and Information Sharing.

Conference Topics

  • Requirements Engineering
  • Enterprise Information Systems
  • Business Process Management
  • Metadata and structured documents
  • Digital libraries
  • Best practices & communities of practice
  • Business intelligence & CRM
  • Communication, collaboration and information sharing
  • Interoperability
  • Information security
  • Impact measurement of knowledge management
  • Tools and technology for knowledge management
  • Knowledge management projects
  • Organizational memories
  • Organizational semiotics
  • Learning organization & organizational learning
  • Intelligent information systems
  • Social networks and the psychological dimension
  • Intellectual capital
  • Studies, metrics & benchmarks
  • Innovation facilitation
  • KM strategies and implementations
  • e-Government
  • E-Learning
IC3K Keynote Speaker
Daniel O'Leary, University of Southern California, United States
Paper Submission

Authors should submit an original paper in English, carefully checked for correct grammar and spelling, using the on-line submission procedure. The initial submission must have between 3 to 13 pages otherwise it will be rejected without review. Please check the paper formats page so you may be aware of the accepted paper page limits.
The guidelines for paper formatting provided at the conference web ought to be used for all submitted papers. The preferred submission format is the same as the camera-ready format. Please check and carefully follow the instructions and templates provided. Each paper should clearly indicate the nature of its technical/scientific contribution, and the problems, domains or environments to which it is applicable.

Papers that are out of the conference scope or contain any form of plagiarism will be rejected without reviews. Please read INSTICC's ethical norms regarding plagiarism and self-plagiarism.

Remarks about the on-line submission procedure:
1. A "double-blind" paper evaluation method will be used. To facilitate that, the authors are kindly requested to produce and provide the paper, WITHOUT any reference to any of the authors. This means that is necessary to remove the authors personal details, the acknowledgements section and any reference that may disclose the authors identity.
LaTeX/PS/PDF/DOC/DOCX/RTF format are accepted.
2. The web submission procedure automatically sends an acknowledgement, by e-mail, to the contact author.

Paper submission types:
Regular Paper Submission
A regular paper presents a work where the research is completed or almost finished. It does not necessary means that the acceptance is as a full paper. It may be accepted as a "full paper" (30 min. oral presentation) , a "short paper" (20 min. oral presentation) or a "poster".

Position Paper Submission
A position paper presents an arguable opinion about an issue. The goal of a position paper is to convince the audience that your opinion is valid and worth listening to, without the need to present completed research work and/or validated results. It is, nevertheless, important to support your argument with evidence to ensure the validity of your claims. A position paper may be a short report and discussion of ideas, facts, situations, methods, procedures or results of scientific research (bibliographic, experimental, theoretical, or other) focused on one of the conference topic areas. The acceptance of a position paper is restricted to the categories of "short paper" or "poster", i.e. a position paper is not a candidate to acceptance as "full paper".

Camera-ready:
After the reviewing process is completed, the contact author (the author who submits the paper) of each paper will be notified of the result, by e-mail. The authors are required to follow the reviews in order to improve their paper before the camera-ready submission.

Publications

All accepted papers (full, short and posters) will be published in the conference proceedings, under an ISBN reference, on paper and on CD-ROM support.
All papers presented at the conference venue will be available at the SciTePress Digital Library (http://www.scitepress.org/DigitalLibrary/).
SciTePress is member of CrossRef (http://www.crossref.org/).
A short list of presented papers will be selected so that revised and extended versions of these papers will be published by Springer-Verlag in a CCIS Series book.
The proceedings will be submitted for indexation by Thomson Reuters Conference Proceedings Citation Index (ISI), INSPEC, DBLP and EI (Elsevier Index).

Important Dates

Conference Date: 4 - 7 October, 2012

Regular Paper Submission: April 17, 2012
Authors Notification (regular papers): June 12, 2012
Final Regular Paper Submission and Registration: July 4, 2012
Secretariat

KMIS Secretariat
Address: Av. D. Manuel I, 27A, 2º esq.
             2910-595 Setúbal - Portugal
Tel.: +351 265 100 033
Fax: +44 203 014 8639
e-mail: kmis.secretariat@insticc.org
Web: http://www.kmis.ic3k.org/

Venue

The conference will be held at the Barceló Sants Hotel Barcelona, Spain.
The new Barceló Sants hotel is now taking off. Get ready to enjoy a unique trip in our completely renovated Orbital Rooms.
Located just on top of “Sants Estation” (now Sants Orbital Station), it has direct access to AVE (high speed train), metro and train network.  

PROGRAM CHAIR

Kecheng Liu, University of Reading, United Kingdom

Program Committee

Marie-Helene Abel, HEUDIASYC CNRS UMR, University of Compiègne, France
Miriam C. Bergue Alves, Institute of Aeronautics and Space, Brazil
Alessio Bechini, University of Pisa, Italy
Steve Beitzel, Applied Communication Sciences, United States
Ying  Chen , IBM Almaden Research Lab, United States
Xiaoyu Chen, State Key Laboratory of Software Development Environment, China
Reynold Cheng, University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
Giulio Concas, Università di Cagliari, Italy
Dominique Decouchant, LIG de Grenoble, France & UAM Cuajimalpa, Mexico
Mariagrazia Dotoli, Politecnico di Bari, Italy
Zamira Dzhusupova, United Nations Univesrity - International Institute for Software Technology , Macau
Elsa Estevez, United Nations University , Macau
Susana Falcão, Universidade Autonoma de Lisboa, Portugal
Joan-Francesc Fondevila-Gascón, CECABLE (Centre d'Estudis sobre el Cable), UAO and UOC, Spain
Anna Goy, University of Torino, Italy
Song Han, Curtin University, Australia
Wendy Hui Wang, Stevens Institute of Technology, United States
Anca Daniela Ionita, University Politehnica of Bucharest, Romania
Leandro Krug Wives, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil
Elise Lavoué, Université Jean Moulin Lyon 3, France
Nada Matta, University of Technology of Troyes, France
Sonia  Mendoza, CINVESTAV-IPN, Mexico
Owen Molloy, National University of Ireland, Galway, Ireland
Augusta Maria Paci, Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, Italy
Marina Ribaudo, Università di Genova, Italy