[KAD 09] 2nd Call of paper CIE'39, special Track on Knowledge Management Aided Design

[Davy.Monticolo at utbm.fr]

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         CALL FOR PAPERS - deadline : February 1, 2009
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Special Track on Knowledge Management Aided Design
in conjunction with the International Conference on Computers & industrial
Engineering
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KAD 2009
First edition of the International Track on
Knowledge Management Aided Design (KAD 2009)
In conjunction with the
International Conference on Computers & industrial Engineering
July 6-8, 2009- Troyes, France – http://www.utt.fr/cie39/


Track chairs :
Dr Samuel Gomes, University of Technology UTBM, France
Dr. Davy Monticolo, University of Technology UTBM, France
Dr Louis Rivest, École de technologie supérieure, Canada


Topics include (but are not limited to):
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Submissions on substantial, original and previously unpublished research in all
areas related to the Knowledge Management approaches used in product design
organisations (PDO). Major identified areas are (but not restricted to):

Information Systems in Product Design Organisation (PDO)
Knowledge Management in PDO
Distributed Infrastructures for PDO
Innovation and business strategies for PDO
Tools and techniques for knowledge acquisition, knowledge update and
knowledge validation for PDO
Web-based approaches for knowledge management
CSCW and cooperative approaches for knowledge management aided design
Agent-based approaches for knowledge management aided design
Evaluation of knowledge acquisition techniques for PDO
Knowledge acquisition, machine learning and knowledge discovery
Languages and frameworks for knowledge and knowledge modeling
Ontology-based approaches for knowledge management for PDO
Integration of knowledge acquisition techniques with decision support
systems
Knowledge-based approaches for knowledge management
Corporate Semantic Webs for knowledge management
Peer-to-peer approaches for knowledge management
...

Description
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In  today’s  challenging  global  market,  companies  have  to  innovate  in
order  to  improve competitiveness and business performance. They must bring
innovative products to market more effectively and more quickly to maximize
customer interest and sales. The pressures to reduce time, improve product
quality, and lower costs have not gone away; they are being reaffirmed  and
folded  into  programs  that  focus  on  delivering  the  “right”  product.
Product leadership  companies  must  continue  to  enter  new  markets  with
innovative  products.  This requires  leveraging  and  reusing  the
product-related  intellectual  capital  created  by  partners working
together.   Business   innovation   must   occur   in   several   dimensions:
project
organization,  product  definition,  production  engineering,  ergonomics
design,  environmental impacts, etc.
In  this  context,  knowledge-based  systems  have  received  increased
attention  as  being instrumental  to  strategy  formulation.  The  synergy  of
 these  approaches  with  knowledge management  initiatives  during products
design  projects  is  intuitive  and  their  use  in  a common  framework  is
discussed  in  this  Track  to  show  the  importance  of  methods  and
instruments to mapping and assessing the knowledge assets of an organisation.
This  Track  will  focus  on  the  theoreticians  and  practitioners concerned
with  developing methods and systems that assist the knowledge management
process in mechanical design projects  or  organisations.  Thus,  the  Track
includes  all  aspects  of  acquiring,  modeling  and managing  knowledge,  and
 their  role  in  the  construction  of  knowledge-based  systems.
Knowledge acquisition still remains the bottleneck for building a knowledge
based system. Reuse and sharing of knowledge bases are major issues and no
satisfactory solutions have been agreed upon yet. There is a wide range of
research. Much of the work in this field has been  knowledge  acquisition.  The
 advent  of  the  age  of  digital  information  has  brought  the problem of
knowledge reuse and knowledge evaluation. Our ability to analyze, evaluate and
assist  user  in  reusing  knowledge  present  a  great  challenge  of  the
next  years.  A  new generation of computational techniques and tools is
required to support the acquisition, the reuse  and  the  evaluation  of
useful  knowledge  from  the  rapidly  growing  volume  of information. All of
these are to be discussed in this Track.

Program Committee
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Benoit Eynard, 	          University of Technology UTC,France
Abe Akinori,	          ATR Knowledge Science Lab, Japan
Alain Bernard, 	          Ecole Centrale de Nantes, France
Angelina Tzacheva         University of South Carolina, USA
Ashley Lloyd	          Curtin Business School, Perth, Australia
Asun Gomez Perez          Universidad Politecnica de Madrid, Spain
Balachandran, Bala        University of Canberra, Australia
Carlos Alberto Costa      UCS, Brazil
Chimay J. Anumba          Loughborough University, UK
Damiani, Ernesto          University of Milan, Italy
Edgard Dias Batista Jr    UNESP, Brazil
Enrico Motta	          The Open University, UK
Fatima Farinha	          Algarve University, Portugal
Francis Pahng	          Zionex, Inc. South Korea,
Geilson Loureiro          Brazilian Institute for Space Research (INPE), Brazil
Håkansson, Anne           University of Upsala, Sweden
Hojjat Adeli,	          The Ohio State University,	USA
Jerzy Pokojski	          Warsaw University of Technology, Poland
Jianzhong Cha	          Beijing Jiaotong University, China
Jos P. van Leeuwen        Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands
Laurent Genest	          Ecole Nationale d'Ingénieurs de TARBES, France
Liping Fang	          Ryerson University, Canada
Maciej Pietrzyk	          Akademia Gorniczo-Hutnicza, Poland
Marcelo da Silva          Hounsell UDESC, Santa Catarina, Brazil
Martin Dzbor	          Open University, UK
Martin Hardwick	          RPI, STEP Tools, Inc, USA
Michael W. Sobolewski, 	  Texas Tech University, USA, USA
Mumford, Christine 	  Cardiff University, UK
Nada Matta	          University of Technology UTT, France
Nuernberger, Andreas 	  University of Magdeburg, Germany 
Ong Soh Khim	          National University of Singapore, Singapore
Osiris Canciglieri Junior Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Paraná, brazil
P.M. (Nel) Wognum	  University of Twente, the Nederlands
Pavel Ikonomov	          Western Michigan University, USA
Rajkumar Roy	          SIMS, Cranfield University, UK
Ricky Curran	          Queen's University Belfast, Ireland
Roger Jiao Jianxin	  Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta USA
Roland Maranzana	  University of Quebec, Canada
Sanjay Goel	          University at Albany, USA
Shuichi Fukuda	          Tokyo Metropolitan Institute of Technology, Japan
Suren N. Dwivedi	  University of Louisiana at Lafayette, USA
Turchetti, Claudio	  Uni Politechnica delle Marche, Italy 
Yiping Lu	          Beijing Jiaotong University (BJTU), China
I Wayan I Wayan Simri Wicaksana, Gunadarma University, Indonesia

Important Dates:
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Express your intention of submission and send your full paper to
davy.monticolo at utbm.fr. you will find a template to
http://www.utt.fr/cie39/Submission.htm

January 15, 2009: deadline for abstract submission (1 page)
February 1, 2009 : deadline for paper submission (6 pages)
March 1, 2009: notification of acceptance/reject
April 30, 2009: deadline for final paper and registration.