[AISWorld] CFP: Special Issue on Knowledge and Competence Management - Developing Enterprise Solutions

[Maria Lemos]

CFP: Special Issue on Knowledge and Competence Management - Developing
Enterprise Solutions

JOURNAL: Information Systems Frontiers, JCR IF: 0.761

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Scope, Purpose and Themes:

Knowledge Management (KM) initiatives promote the management, i.e. the
creation, storage and sharing, of knowledge assets within an organization.
The practical focus of this special issue is to bring together researchers,
professionals and practitioners to present recent developments on the
knowledge and competence management areas. KM focuses on techniques of
managing a common base of organizational knowledge that allows
organizational groups and functions to coordinate their efforts and share
knowledge across time, function, discipline and business activities. In
addition, knowledge may be geographically distributed and stored in a
variety of different representations, e.g. tacit knowledge in managers’
minds, and structured information in distributed databases.

In the knowledge-based economy companies are facing systematic changes. New
research topics and competencies have been developed in different knowledge
domains. Management trends and web techniques such as knowledge acquisition
and elicitation, competency mapping methods, enterprise web management and
semantic web technologies are shaping the companies of the future, namely
their business expertise, workflow and activities. This special issue aims
to present state-of-art research challenges and corporate practical results
in applying KM principles to information governance, competence management,
and Intranet building and collaboration enhancement.

The main purpose of this special issue is to bring together a coherent set
of research themes and corporate studies designed for the following areas:
knowledge and competence management, knowledge engineering foundations and
trends, including ontologies and semantic web technologies, workflow
management systems, organisational memories, learning systems, KM
initiatives and implementation, intranet modelling, intranet building and
related cloud computing approaches. In this context, we welcome
contributions about, but not limited to, the following themes:

Knowledge Management and Engineering
- KM foundations
- Web-based KM
- Knowledge Intensive Organisations
- Competence and talent management
- Ontology Engineering

Workflow Management Systems
- Information Technology (IT) Governance Model
- Business Process Modelling
- Workflow and KM Systems
- Business Process Management and IT Governance

 Learning Management Systems
- e-Learning and b-Learning technologies
- Social web networking
- Organisational learning
- Learning enterprise solutions

Semantic Web Technologies
- Web 2.0 and Web 3.0
- Semantic web languages
- Knowledge representation paradigms
- Competence Ontologies
- Ontology Web Language (OWL)

Enterprise Knowledge and Competence Management
- Knowledge management enterprise initiatives
- Intelligent web systems
- Intranet models and tools
- Intranet management systems
- Competence modelling and taxonomies
- Competence Management Systems



Forms of Submission:

The areas covered by this special issue have been attractive topics at
conferences such as the WorldCIST’15 – 3rd World Conference on Information
Systems and Technologies. In the case of papers from the conference, the
submission is required to be a substantial revision of the conference
publication and the authors will be required to submit a letter detailing
the difference between their conference paper and the new version. All
submitted papers will go through peer review and if the paper does not
receive a satisfactory review, it will not be considered for the special
issue.



Submission Instruction:

Manuscripts must be submitted to the ISF - Springer online submission
system at: http://www.editorialmanager.com/isfi/ .

Paper submissions must conform to the format guidelines of Information
Systems Frontiers available at:

http://www.springer.com/business/business+information+systems/journal/10796

Submissions should be approximately 32 pages double spaced including
references.



Important Dates:

Deadline for papers: 31 May 2015
Reviews returned: 31 July 2015
Revised papers submitted: 15 September 2015
Final papers due: 30 September 2015
Special issue published: TBA



Guest Editors:

José Braga de Vasconcelos
Universidade Atlântica, Portugal
jose.braga.vasconcelos at uatlantica.pt

Chris Kimble
KEDGE Business School, France
chris.kimble at chris-kimble.com

Álvaro Rocha
University of Coimbra, Portugal
amrocha at dei.uc.pt

Daniel Zeng
University of Arizona, USA
zeng at email.arizona.edu


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Maria Lemos
AISTI
http://www.aisti.eu