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

- 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
- E-Learning, e-training and executive training
- Organizational memories
- Organizational semiotics
- Learning organization & organizational learning
- Content management & digital rights management
- Intelligent information systems
- Social networks and the psychological dimension
- Intellectual capital
- K-Economy, k-community and k-enterprise
- Studies, metrics & benchmarks
- Innovation facilitation
- KM strategies and implementations

KEYNOTE LECTURES

- Andreas Dengel, German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI GmbH), Germany
- Madjid Fathi, University of Siegen, Germany

PUBLICATIONS

All accepted papers will be published in the conference proceedings, under an ISBN reference, in paper and in CD-ROM support.

VENUE

The conference was held at the Tivoli Madeira Hotel. The Tivoli Madeira is a truly stunning property located 5 minutes from Funchal city centre and 30 minutes from Madeira International Airport. This award-winning hotel overlooks the beachfront promenade and guests are guaranteed gorgeous views of the sea with direct access from the hotel to the sandy beach.

CONFERENCE CHAIR

Joaquim Filipe, Polytechnic Institute of Setubal / INSTICC, Portugal

PROGRAM CHAIR

Kecheng Liu, University of Reading, U.K.

PROGRAM COMMITTEE

Bernd Amann, LIP6 - Pierre and Marie Curie University, France
Aurelie Aurilla Bechina Arnzten, University of Bruskerud, Norway
Eva Blomqvist, Jönköping University, Sweden
Ettore Bolisani, University of Padua, Italy
Dickson K. W. Chiu, Dickson Computer Systems, Hong Kong
Dominique Decouchant, Laboratoire LIG de Grenoble, France, France
Asuman Dogac, Middle East Technical University, Turkey
Mariagrazia Dotoli, Politecnico di Bari, Italy
Joan-Francesc Fondevila-Gascón, CECABLE (Centre d'Estudis sobre el Cable), Spain
Marcus Fontoura, Yahoo! Inc, United States
Song Han, Curtin University of Technology, Australia
Daqing He, University of Pittsburgh, United States
Jan Hidders, Delft University of Technology, Netherlands
Polly Huang, National Taiwan University, Taiwan
Wendy Hui Wang, Stevens Institute of Technology, United States
Jacky Keung, NICTA, Australia
Brian Kirkegaard, Royal School of Library & Information Science, Denmark
Dan Kirsch, Knowledge Management Professional Society (KMPro), United States
Birger Larsen, Royal School of Library and Information Science, Denmark
Feifei Li, Florida State University, United States
Man Lung Yiu, Aalborg University, Denmark
Mirella M. Moro, Federal University of Minas Gerais (UFMG), Brazil
Mark Manulis, CASED / TU Darmstadt, Germany
Paolo Merialdo, Roma Tre University, Italy
Wolfgang Minker, University of Ulm, Germany
Paolo Missier, University of Manchester, United Kingdom
Jean-Henry Morin, University of Geneve, Switzerland
Fei Nan, Microsoft, United States
Antonella Poggi, Università di Roma "La Sapienza", Italy
Ian Ruthven, University of Strathclyde, United Kingdom
Clement T. Yu, University of Illinois at Chicago, United States
Hiroyuki Tarumi, Kagawa University, Japan
Theodore Trafalis, University of Oklahoma, United States
Rainer Unland, University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany
Andreas Wombacher, University of Twente, Netherlands
Yuqing Melanie Wu, Indiana University, United States