ProK 2007 - Productive Knowledge Work: Management and Technological

Call for Papers

ProK 2007 - Productive Knowledge Work: Management and Technological
Challenges

to be held at WM 2007 - 4th Conference Professional Knowledge Management Experiences and Visions 28th of March to 30th of March 2007, Potsdam

Background and Motivation of the Workshop
Knowledge work is one of the main drivers of productivity for the
knowledge society. Knowledge work, on an abstract level, includes a wide
variety of activities that are concerned with information processing,
thinking, and decision-making. Activities such as structuring of
information and knowledge, articulation of new thoughts, and sharing
with colleagues create knowledge and value. With the increasing
importance of knowledge work, we are currently realizing that (1) we
insufficiently understand the anatomy of knowledge work, (2) our current
management approaches cannot deal with knowledge workers adequately and
(3) knowledge work badly needs technology support, but methods and tools
for technology-enhanced knowledge work are only in their infancy.

Topics
Track 1: Management Challenges
Organizing Knowledge Work
* Definition and classification and empirical studies on the extent of
knowledge work
* Integration of knowledge workers into the organization
Managing Knowledge Work
* Human resource management approaches for knowledge workers
(motivation, incentives, enabling conditions)
* Measuring knowledge work performance (productivity, added-value, ...)
Learning and Development in Knowledge Work
* Learning and competency development in knowledge work
* Integrating learning and Knowledge Management interventions

Track 2: Methodical and Technological Challenges
Work Processes for Knowledge Work
* Identification and modelling of tasks, processes and employee context
* Personal task management
* Service-oriented (semantic) desktop and personal information
management tools
Learning and Competence Development Support
* Integrating eLearning and Knowledge Management
* Maturing knowledge artefacts to learning objects
Collaboration Issues in Knowledge Work
* Collaborative knowledge articulation and structuring, including Web
2.0 approaches
* Dynamic composition of groups of interest or groups of learners
* Contextualizing communication artefacts
* Socially-aware collaboration support

Addressed Audience
Researchers (both from industry and academics), practitioners in the
fields of knowledge management, human resources, eLearning, workplace
learning and related fields who are interested in an interdisciplinary
view on how to foster knowledge work.

Important Deadlines
1. October 2006 Submission of workshop papers
15. November 2006 Notification of acceptance/rejection
23. December 2006 Submission of final version

Submission
Papers should not exceed eight (8) pages and have to follow the WM2007
formatting guidelines (http://www.wm-tagung.de). Papers can be
associated with a demo, add a one-page description of the demo titled
"demo" to indicate this. To participate in the demo session only, submit
a three-page abstract of the demo. Presentations in the demo session
should be accompanied with a poster. Contributions should be submitted
in English. Furthermore they must be submitted using the conference
system in the MS Word format.

Contact and Organisation
Main Contact
Tobias Ley (Know-Center Graz, Austria)
Email: prokw2007@know-center.at
Tel: +43 316 873 9273
Web: http://wm-tagung.de/ProKW2007

Paper Chairs
Stefan Güldenberg (Institut für Unternehmensführung,
Wirtschaftsuniversität Wien)
Stefanie Lindstaedt (Know-Center Graz, Austria)
Klaus North (Fachbereich Wirtschaft, Fachhochschule Wiesbaden Thomas Roth-Berghofer (DFKI, Kaiserslautern)

Demo Chairs
Leo Sauermann (DFKI, Kaiserslautern)
Andreas Schmidt (FZI Research Center for Information Technologies,
Karlsruhe)

Program Committee
Stephan Berchtold, choices management consulting, Vienna, Austria Chris Bizer, FU-Berlin, Germany Paul Alexandru Chiarita, L3S, Hannover, Germany John Cook, LTRI, London Metropolitan University, UK Knut Hinkelmann, FH Nordwestschweiz, Switzerland Harald Holz, DFKI, Kaiserslautern, Germany Robert de Hoog, University Twente, The Netherlands Alexander Karapidis, Fraunhofer IAO, Stuttgart, Germany Andrea Kienle, Fraunhofer IPSI, Darmstadt, Germany Barbara Kieslinger, Centre for Social Innovation, Vienna, Austria Andrea Kirschbichler, Wissenschaftszentrum Wien, Plattform
Wissensmanagement, Vienna, Austria
Heiko Maus, DFKI, Kaiserslautern, Germany
Eric Ras, Fraunhofer IESE, Kaiserslautern, Germany
Uwe Riss, SAP Research, Darmstadt, Germany
Giovanni Tummarello, Universitá' Politecnica delle Marche, Italy Martin Wolpers, KU Leuven, Belgium