5th International Conference on Knowledge Management and Information Sharing (KMIS 2013) September 18, 2013

Knowledge Management (KM) is a discipline concerned with the analysis and technical support of practices used in an organization to identify, create, represent, distribute and enable the adoption and leveraging of good practices embedded in collaborative settings and, in particular, in organizational processes. Effective knowledge management is an increasingly important source of competitive advantage, and a key to the success of contemporary organizations, bolstering the collective expertise of its employees and partners.
There are several perspectives on KM, but all share the same core components, namely: People, Processes and Technology. Some take a techno-centric focus, in order to enhance knowledge integration and creation; some take an organizational focus, in order to optimize organization design and workflows; some take an ecological focus, where the important aspects are related to people interaction, knowledge and environmental factors as a complex adaptive system similar to a natural ecosystem.
Information Sharing (IS) is a term used for a long time in the information technology (IT) lexicon, related to data exchange, communication protocols and technological infrastructures. Although standardization is indeed an essential element for sharing information, IS effectiveness requires going beyond the syntactic nature of IT and delve into the human functions involved in the semantic, pragmatic and social levels of organizational semiotics.
The two areas are intertwined as information sharing is the foundation for knowledge management. KMIS aims at becoming a major meeting point for researchers and practitioners interested in the study and application of all perspectives of Knowledge Management and Information Sharing.

Conference Topics
E-Learning
Organizational semiotics
e-Government
Digital libraries
Interoperability
Enterprise Information Systems
Metadata and structured documents
Best practices & communities of practice
Business intelligence & CRM
Communication, collaboration and information sharing
Impact measurement of knowledge management
Tools and technology for knowledge management
Knowledge management projects
Organizational memories
Learning organization & organizational learning
Intelligent information systems
Social networks and the psychological dimension
Intellectual capital
Studies, metrics & benchmarks
Innovation facilitation
KM strategies and implementations
Information security
Business Process Management
Requirements Engineering

Conference Chair:
Joaquim Filipe, Polytechnic Institute of Setúbal / INSTICC, Portugal

Program Chair:
Kecheng Liu, University of Reading, United Kingdom

Program Committee:
http://www.kmis.ic3k.org/ProgramCommittee.aspx

Important Dates:
Conference Date: 19 - 22 September, 2013
Regular Papers
Paper Submission: March 12, 2013
Authors Notification: May 13, 2013
Final Paper Submission and Registration: June 4, 2013

KMIS Secretariat
Address: Av. D. Manuel I, 27A, 2º esq.
2910-595 Setúbal - Portugal
Tel.: +351 265 100 033
Fax: +44 203 014 8639
e-mail: [email protected]
Web: http://www.kmis.ic3k.org/