ICWL2013

3rd International Symposium on Knowledge Management &
E-Learning (KMEL 2013)
Workshop Proposal for ICWL2013, Taiwan

Fierce competition, globalization, and dynamic economy have forced organizations to search for new ways to improve competitive advantage. In pursuance of this, knowledge is seen as the core resource and learning is viewed as the important process. It is crucial for organizations to enhance the capabilities for effective learning and knowledge management (KM), especially via using information and communication technologies in the digital economy.

The creation, operation, and evolution of such research and practice raise concerns that range from high-level requirements and policy modeling through to the deployment of specific implementation technologies and paradigms, and involve a wide and ever-growing range of methods, tools, and technologies. They also cover a broad spectrum of vertical domains, industry segments, and even government sectors.

This event intentionally seeks educators, researchers, scientists, engineers, industry people, policy makers, decision makers, and others who have insight, vision, and understanding of the big challenges in Knowledge Management and E-Learning (KM&EL) of interest include but are not limited to the theoretical, technical, or empirical aspects of the following:

Principles, theories, models, challenges, legal, and social issues of KM&EL
Knowledge management and learning strategies
Knowledge management and action research
Knowledge construction in e-learning
Knowledge modeling and visualization
Knowledge-based learning systems
Learning and knowledge portals
Web-based learning and teaching
Strategies for e-learning development
E-learning design, usability, and evaluation
E-learning in the workplace
Web-based training
Electronic performance support systems
Web-based learning and knowledge communities
Computer supported collaborative learning
Human-Computer interaction
Ontologies and Semantic Web for KM&EL
Agent based technologies and emerging Web computing paradigms for KM&EL, e.g., cloud computing
Recommendation, personalization, operation, and monitoring
Web-based knowledge management
Decision models and decision support systems
Intelligent web-based enterprise information systems
Service marketing, data mining, and relationship management issues
Trust, reputation, security, and privacy issues
Location and pervasive intelligence for KM&EL
Business process and workflow management for KM&EL

The organizers of this tentative event have full support from their respective organizations. The workshop co-chairs have been actively involved in the program committees and the organization of many conferences and workshops.

To attract more submissions of high-quality paper, the organizers (who are the respective editor-in-chief) are arranging a special issue in the International Journal on Systems and Service-oriented Engineering (IJSSOE) or Knowledge Management & E-Learning: An International Journal (KM&EL) after the proposal is accepted.

Brief explanation on why the proposed workshop is of interest to the ICWL attendees
This is an active emerging research area, in which most topics of interest of the main conference can be applied.
The length and format of the workshop
Half-day or full day depending on the number of submissions, i.e., 6-12 accepted papers.
We may also want to include a workshop keynote speech.
Expected number of attendees: around 20 (because the conference registration includes that of the workshops)

Tentative Important dates
Workshop paper submission deadline: June 10, 2013
Notification of author acceptance: June 20, 2013.

Submission
Authors are invited to submit full papers (maximum 10 pages) or short papers (maximum 6 pages). Papers should be written according to the Springer LNCS format:
http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-6-793341-0

Paper Submission

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The submission web pages are http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=icwl2013

Important Dates
Paper submission due: June 17, 2013
Author notification: July 8, 2013
Camera Ready due: July 22, 2013
Conference Dates: October 6-9, 2013

Contacts

1. Dr. Dickson K. W. CHIU, Dickson Computer Systems, Hong Kong (primary contact)
email: dicksonchiu@ieee.org, kwchiu@acm.org
Dickson K.W. Chiu received the B.Sc. (Hons.) degree in Computer Studies from the University of Hong Kong in 1987. He received the M.Sc. (1994) and the Ph.D. (2000) degrees in Computer Science from the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST). He started his own computer company while studying part-time. He has also taught at several universities in Hong Kong. His research interest is in service computing with a cross-disciplinary approach, involving workflows, software engineering, information technologies, agents, information system management, security, and databases. The results have been widely published in about 150 papers in international journals and conference proceedings (most of them have been indexed by SCI, SCI-E, EI, and SSCI), including many practical master and undergraduate project results. He received a best paper award in the 37th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences in 2004. He is the founding Editor-in-chief of the International Journal on Systems and Service-Oriented Engineering and the ICST Transaction on e-Business. He also serves in the editorial boards of several international journals. He co-founded several international workshops and co-edited several journal special issues. He also served as a program committee member for over 100 international conferences and workshops. He is a Senior Member of both the ACM and the IEEE, and a life member of the Hong Kong Computer Society.

2. Dr. Maggie M. Wang, Faculty of Education, University of Hong Kong
email: magwang@hku.hk

Minhong Wang is an Associate Professor in the Faculty of Education, The University of Hong Kong. She received her Ph.D. in Information Systems from City University of Hong Kong in 2005. Her current research interests include e-learning, Web-based training and professional development, knowledge management, complex process management, and information systems. She has published papers in Information & Management, Computers & Education, IEEE Transactions on Education, Educational Technology & Society, Expert Systems with Applications, Knowledge-based Systems, Journal of Knowledge Management, among others. She is the Editor-in-Chief of Knowledge Management & E-Learning: an International Journal (KM&EL), and serves on the Editorial Board of several international journals.

Tentative PC Members (from Review Board of KM&EL and IJSSOE)

Patricia A. Abbott, Johns Hopkins University, United States
Xun Ge, University of Oklahoma, United States
Andre W. Kushniruk, University of Victoria, Canada
Anders Morch, University of Oslo, Norway
Jürgen Moormann, Frankfurt School of Finance & Management, Germany
Siu Cheung Kong, Hong Kong Institute of Education, Hong Kong
Xiaochun Cheng, Middlesex University, United Kingdom
Jianwei Zhang, State University of New York at Albany, United States
Waltraut Ritter, Knowledge Enterprises, Hong Kong
Murali Raman, Multimedia Univeristy, Malaysia
Rajiv Khosla, La Trobe University, Australia
David Guralnick, Kaleidoscope Learning, New York, United States
Alexandra I. Cristea, University of Warwick, United Kingdom
Michael Chau, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
Irene Y.L. Chen, National Changhua University of Education, Taiwan
Sabine Graf, Athabasca University, Canada
Heinz Ulrich Hoppe, University Duisburg-Essen, Germany
Elizabeth Borycki, University of Victoria, Canada
Jiyou Jia, Peking University, China
Qiyun Wang, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
David M. Kennedy, Lingnan University, Hong Kong
Jean H.Y. Lai, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
Chien-Sing Lee, Multimedia University, Malaysia
Xiaojing Liu, Indiana University, United States
Marcelo Milrad, Linnaeus University, Sweden
Kiyoshi Nakabayashi, Chiba Institute of Technology, Japan
Eugenia M.W. NG, Hong Kong Institute of Education, Hong Kong
Mark E. Nissen, Naval Postgraduate School, United States
Ming-Hsiung Ying, Chung-Hua University, Taiwan
Xiaohui Zhao, Unitec Institute of Technology, New Zealand
Mudasser F. Wyne, National University, United States
Kuan-Chung Chen, National University of Tainan, Taiwan
Eleanna Kafeza, Athens University of Economics and Business, Greece
Lei Chen, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong
Chi-hung Chi, Tsing Hua University, China
Liya Ding, Macau University of Science and Technology, China
Haiyang Hu, Zhejiang Gongshang University, China
Wendy W. Y. Hui, University of Nottingham at Ningbo, China
Patrick C.K. Hung, University of Ontario Institute of Technology, Canada
Hiroshi Igaki, Kobe University, Japan
Tsukasa Ishigaki, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology, Japan
Kengo Katayama, Okayama University of Science, Japan
Ichiro Kobayashi, Ochanomizu University, Japan
Mario Koeppen, Kyushu Institute of Technology, Japan
P. Radha Krishna, SET Labs - Infosys Technologies Ltd., India
Carmen Ka Man Lam, Hong Kong Baptist University, Hong Kong
Raymond Y.K. Lau, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
Chei Sian Lee, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
Ho-fung Leung, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
Pierre Levy, The University of Ottawa, Canada
Tieyan Li, Institute for Infocomm Research (I2R), Singapore
Fu-ren Lin, National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan
Wenyin Liu, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
Edwin Lughofer, Fuzzy Logic Laboratorium Linz-Hagenberg, Austria
Zongwei Luo, University of Hong Kong, China
Yinghua Ma, Shanghai JiaoTong University, China
Huiye Ma, Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands
Akira Maeda, Ritsumeikan University, Japan
Mitsunori Matsushita, Kansai University, Japan
Farid Meziane, Salford University, UK
Atsuyuki Morishima, University of Tsukuba, Japan
Koichi Moriyama, Osaka University, Japan
Sanaz Mostaghim, University of Karlsruhe, Germany
Yoichi Motomura, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science