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

[Alvaro Rocha]

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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Álvaro Rocha
Professor of Information Systems
University of Coimbra, DEI/FCT
Pólo II - Pinhal de Marrocos, 3030-290 Coimbra, Portugal
LinkedIn:http://pt.linkedin.com/in/amrocha
Phone: (+351)961539027
Skype: amrrocha