This year it will be held in conjunction with CSCWD 2011, in Lausanne. Travel, venue and accomodation information can be found on the following website:  http://2011.cscwd.org/

For information on paper format for the final versions, please see the instructions at: http://www.unine.ch/cs/events/cscwd11/submissions.html

For registration information and link to online registration, see this page: http://www.unine.ch/cs/events/cscwd11/registration.html

See you in Lausanne!

Please note new dates and location!

In brief:

Important Dates:
Submission of papers: January 14, 2011
Notification of acceptance: February 28, 2011
Final version due: April 5, 2011

ISMICK 2011: June 8-9, 2011 – Lausanne, Switzerland

Please see the complete call for contributions for details. CLICK HERE FOR THE CFP

or here: http://www.ismick.org/cfp/ismick-2010-cfp

CALL FOR CONTRIBUTIONS

13th International Symposium on the Management of Industrial and Corporate Knowledge
KNOWLEDGE & TECHNOLOGY TRANSFERS, COOPERATION AND MULTICULTURAL PROBLEMS

8-9 June 2011

Lausanne, Switzerland

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Over more than 15 years Knowledge Management has been explored and promoted both in private organizations and in public administration. Today, the key role of knowledge in socio-economic development and innovation is universally acknowledged, and knowledge management has gradually matured into a recognized discipline.

Since 1993, ISMICK conference meetings are held yearly as working symposia. In the ISMICK meetings we actively seek to combine and discuss ongoing research, professional practice, and consultancy perspectives aimed at capitalizing on knowledge processes and assets. The meeting attracts and mixes an international group of professional people from academia, business, and consulting firms, engaging in lively discussions confronting theory and practice.  ISMICK has started as a series of conferences that were organized by IIIA (Institut International pour l’Intelligence Artificielle, Compiègne, France).  Since 2009, it is becoming an important activity of the IEEE SMC Technical Committee on Computer Supported Cooperative Work in Design (CSCWD).

The official language is English.

ISMICK 2011 deals with all aspects relating to the management of industrial and corporate knowledge, but will pay special attention to the theme of KNOWLEDGE & TECHNOLOGY TRANSFERS, COOPERATION AND MULTICULTURAL PROBLEM. In our networked society, knowledge workers increasingly cooperate and participate across existing organizational and national boundaries. Monolithic organizations are progressively replaced by more open, adaptive and cooperative structures with stronger capacities for innovation. This raises new issues – for practice as well as research – how knowledge management strategies help organizations to survive and thrive in the networked society, and how collaborative problem solving and innovative knowledge creation is to be shaped across multinational and multicultural organizations.
Papers and contributions are invited on all aspects of industrial and corporate knowledge management (KM), including but not limited to:

• Managing knowledge and technology transfer within and among organizations
• Managing knowledge sharing in multicultural organizations
• KM in international communities of practice and expertise
• Case studies, practical experiences, and lessons learnt in KM
• KM in networked organizations

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Keynote Program

The ISMICK 2011 Symposium will include an interesting program of invited talks related to knowledge and technology transfer in the context of intercultural organizations

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Important Dates:
Submission of papers: January 14, 2011
Notification of acceptance: February 28, 2011
Final version due:  April 5, 2011
ISMICK 2011: 8-9 June, 2011, Lausanne, Switzerland

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Call for papers

ISMICK 2011 invites authors to submit original papers in English on research, practice and experience in the field of knowledge management, and in particular related to knowledge & technology transfers, cooperation and multicultural problems. Academic as well as business practice and consultancy experience papers are welcome. Each paper, written in English, should be no more than 8 pages (IEEE proceedings format), including references and illustrations. Papers must be submitted electronically in PDF format through the ISMICK 2011 EasyChair website. The deadline for submission is January 14, 2011.

All submitted papers will be subject to review by an international committee of peers. All authors of selected papers will receive notification of acceptance by the conference committee by February 28, 2011. Final versions of accepted papers should be submitted electronically and according to the formatting instructions in PDF format by April 5, 2011. Authors of accepted papers will be invited to give an oral presentation followed by a plenary discussion during the conference. Accepted papers will be included in the proceedings of ISMICK 2011.  A selection of papers will considered to be published in the IEEE-SMC Transactions on CSCWD. All individuals participating in the conference will receive a personal copy of the proceedings.
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Organization

ISMICK 2011 is organized by Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne (EPFL), Switzerland, University of Technology of Compiègne, France and the IIIA Institute, France.

The Program Committee is chaired by Dr. Milton Ramos (TECPAR – Paraná Institute of Technology, Brazil), and co-chaired by Dr. Adriana Vivacqua (Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil) and Prof. Dr. Jean-Paul Barthès (University of Technology of Compiègne, France).

Program Committee

Milton Ramos (TECPAR, Brazil, chair)
Adriana Vivacqua (UFRJ, Brazil, co-chair)
Jean-Paul Barthès (UTC, France, co-chair)

Local Organization Committee

Prof. Peter Kropf (Uni Neuchâtel, Switzerland)
Prof. Michel Pouly (Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne – EPFL, Switzerland)

International Program Committee

Prof. Dr. Hans Akkermans (The Network Institute)
Prof. Dr. Ansgar Bernardi (DFKI, Germany)
Prof. Dr. Patrick Brézillon (LIP6, France)
Dr. Filipe Miguel Cassapo (FIEP, Brazil)
Prof. Dr. Tom van Engers (UvA, The Netherlands)
Prof. Dr. Shigeru Fujita (CIT, Japan)
Prof. Dr. Ana Cristina Garcia (UFF, Brazil)
Dr. Michel Grundstein (France)
Prof. Dr. René Jorna (RU Groningen, The Netherlands)
Prof. Dr. Johann Kinghorn (Stellenbosch, South Africa)
Prof. Dr. Peter Kropf (UN, Switzerland)
Prof. Dr. Yue Liu (Shanghai U., China)
Prof. Dr. Xianfeng Luo (Shanghai U., China)
Mr. Christiaan Maasdorp (SU, South Africa)
Prof. Dr. Nada Matta (UTT, France)
Prof. Dr. Qian Jinwu (U. Shanghai, China)
Prof. Dr. Camille Rosenthal-Sabroux (LAMSADE-CNRS, France)
Prof. Dr. Kenji Sugawara (CIT, Japan)
Prof. Dr. Weiming Shen (CNRC, Canada)
Prof. Dr. Faimara Strauhs (UTFPR, Brazil)
Prof. Dr. Cesar Tacla (UTFPR, Brazil)
Prof. Dr. Shoachun Wu (Shanghai U., China)
Prof. Dr. Bofeng Zhang (Shanghai U., China)

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Other Important Information

ISMICK 2011 Conference organization:

Venue: TBA

Homepage:

http://www.ismick.org

Submission page:

https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ismick2011

ISMICK started as a series of conferences that were organised by the IIIA (Institut International pour l’Intelligence Artificielle, Compiègne France) in 1993. IIIA, an industrial program, was created in 1989 by five major European companies (Aérospatiale, today EADS ; Framatome ; Rhône Poulenc ; SGN, a subsidiary of AREVA ; Shell ; Solvay) and the University of Technology of Compiègne. At first the goal of IIIA was to coordinate work and exchange of information on artificial intelligence and knowledge engineering. Progressively IIIA became a center for cooperative work between industry and academia, for mastering industrial and corporate knowledge, which led IIIA to launch the first ISMICK meeting, and progressively open it to other countries and cultures.

After more than a decade ISMICK renewed itself as a networked community of both scientists and practitioners working in the field of knowledge management. The current ISMICK community wants to express its gratitude to these founding fathers