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Introducing
the Next Technology
Revolution
march 4-7 • austin convention
center • austin, tx
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Wednesday,
March 7 •
9:00am-10:30am
(two sessions included in each track)
Management
Track; Case Studies
Track
Chair: Sam Hunting, EComXML
Case Study
- Knowledge Management at Siemens Automation
& Drives
Speaker: Norman
Zimmer, Business Development Manager,
empolis NA Inc.
Description: The presentation will
outline an approach to knowledge management
using case based reasoning (CBR), a discipline
within Artificial Intelligence. The technical
aspects of CBR will be explained and this
will be followed by a case study of an application
developed for Siemens Automation & Drives
in their worldwide after-sales service department.
Creating a Dynamic Knowledge Management
System for Increased Enterprise Performance
and Innovation
Speaker: Dr.
Charles H. Bixler, Director of Knowledge
Management, Keane Federal Systems, Inc.
Description: The purpose of this
presentation will be to present formal research
conducted to identify the value of Knowledge
Management to an enterprise in terms of
its ability to solve enterprise-wide problems,
determine the resources and conditions necessary
for initiating a Knowledge Management System
(KMS), and determine the expected benefits
of a KMS. This will provide a "validated"
foundation for developing a process model
that will be used to design and implement
an enterprise Knowledge Management System.
Implementer
Track; Knowledge Acquisition
Track Chair:
Dr. Hans Holger Rath, empolis Content Management
GmbH
Extracting
Knowledge from XML Documents Using Topic
Maps
Speaker: Eric
Freese, Director of Consulting Services-Midwest
Region, ISOGEN International/DataChannel,
Inc.
Description: Topic Maps provide a
powerful new capability to manage and interchange
knowledge without modifying the source.
This presentation will discuss how knowledge
stored within documents can be captured
and used to build a knowledge base. A demonstration
system will show how the knowledge base
can be used in the management and presentation
of the knowledge base.
Just-in-Time Knowledge Flow for Distributed
Organizations Using Agents Technology Speaker:
Ramon F. Brena,
Professor, Center for Artificial Intelligence,
ITESM, Mexico
Description:
This session will discuss a generic agent-based
tool for disseminating relevant pieces of
information and knowledge in distributed
or large organizations at the right moment;
we call this "Just-in-time'' Information
and Knowledge (JITIK). A substantially better
internal and external communication level
in a given organization could translate
in a more efficient value production and
the capacity of quickly reacting to market
forces.
Technical
Track; Late Breaking News
Track Chair:
Ann Wrightson, Ontopia
Preserving
Process: Hyperlink-Based Workflow Representation
Speaker: W.
Eliot Kimber, Lead Brain, DataChannel,
Inc.
Description:
Explores
the effectiveness of representing implementation-independent
work and process flows as systems of hyperlinks
that define the possible state transitions
for managed objects. Identifies a set of
functional requirements that a link-based
workflow approach must satisfy and identifies
alternative implementation approaches, especially
in the context of generalized content and
information management systems.
The Semantic Network of IKM-I3
Speaker: Ronald
Poell, Consultant Knowledge Management,
Netherlands Organization for Applied Scientific
Research
Description: IKM-I3 (Information & Knowledge
Management - Intelligent Information Infrastructure)
is a TNO program that started in 2001. Within
this program a semantic network, based on
the concepts behind Notion System, is developed.
The multilingual system manages distributed
data and is not domain specific. Information
can be registered at various levels of detail.
There are metadata available for automatic
maintenance, filtering etceteras. Exploitation-
and inference logic are an integrated part
of the network. The Semantic Network will
enable the enhancement of existing techniques
(content analyses, NLP, and others) that
allow automatic extension of the network.
It will also allow new ways of searching
and navigating and will promote new presentation
techniques (probably 3D or 4D) using context
sensitive delivery of information. Agents
shall deploy automatic information maintenance
activities (relevance, validity). Probabilistic
answers can be given to some questions,
other questions will receive clear answers.
The resulting Semantic Network will be the
collaborative work of all users, agents
and systems connected to it. In the near
future, when the nodes themselves will become
"information bearing agents", the Semantic
Network will be enhanced with even more
powerful features (internal and external
evaluations of quality and relevance). Next,
when the various devices, up till that moment
only connected TO the Net, will be integrated
IN the Semantic Network, new openings will
be possible through the use of dynamic situational
information.
10:30:am-11:00am
Break
11:00am-12:30pm
(two
sessions included in each track)
Management
Track; Case Studies
Track
Chair: Sam Hunting, EComXML
Personalized
KM for eLearning
Speaker: Nick
Carr, CEO, Allette Systems
Description: Delivering distance education
can provide numerous benefits in terms
of quality and cost, but it can also presents
a number of challenges. Private and public
questions, persistent but growing FAQs,
the maintenance of course curriculum and
messaging are all problems in the delivery
of remote instruction. This presentation
discusses the issue of personalised knowledge
management for distant students from a
knowledge mangement perspective.
Case
Study - Portfolio Tracking and Competitive
Intelligence
Speaker: Sam
Knox, Director of Analyst Services,
Inxight Software
Description: Q: How can a venture
capital compan find new opportunities
within its portfolio and competitive environment?
A: By consulting a next-generation portal
built atop a dynamic industry model, fed
by core information extracted from unstructured
text documents. On behalf of the Deutsche
Bank eVentures group, Inxight Software
built a prototype portfolio tracking and
competitive intelligence tool that uses
Inxight's unique and powerful visualization
technology to generate a highly visual
and interactive view of the industry model.
Entity extraction and categorization are
used to organize documents within that
industry model, while intelligent summarization
brings key information to the surface
for easy absorption. In addition, the
portal employs sophisticated linguistic
processing to extract new facts about
industry structure and participation from
the incoming content stream, thereby automatically
keeping the model up-to-date. The result
is a powerful, easy-to-use, and easy-to-maintain
solution for portfolio monitoring, research
and prospecting by VC analysts.
Implementer
Track; Knowledge Acquisition
Track
Chair: Dr. Hans Holger Rath, empolis Content
Management GmbH
Knowledge
Aggregation Using XML
Speaker: Bryan
Caporlette, Executive VP of Strategic
Technology, Sequoia Software
Description: As more organizations
move to integrate, or aggregate, information
from disparate applications into knowledge
bases they face many challenges in extracting
the data locked within proprietary environments.
This presentation will define a framework
for using the Extensible Markup Language (XML)
to facilitate knowledge aggregation.
Managing Complex Environments with Topic Maps
Speaker: Bernard
Vatant, Knowledge Representation Consultant,
Mondeca
Description: This session will describe
a methodological approach for building Topic
Maps in complex fields of knowledge, based
on the definition of "Objective" and "Conceptual"
levels of Topics. Also described is how this
tool is developed as a tutorial frame for
Mondeca's Topic Navigator users.
Technical
Track; Knowledge Visualization
Track
Chair: Ann Wrightson, Ontopia
Intelligent
Graphics Using Simultaneous RDF and XTM
Metadata
Speaker: David
Dodds, Senior Software Engineer, iKnowMed
Description: This session will describe
why intelligent graphics systems must employ
knowledge not just clever algorithms to
step up to the next level of functionality.
Self knowledge, content knowledge is needed,
and the ability to agilely do inference,
to step beyond the explicit content border.
Topic Maps Metrics
Speaker: Benedicte
Le Grand, PhD Student, Laboratoire d
Informatique de Paris 6
Description: This in depth analysis
of topic maps will make it possible through
the use of metrics. These measures allow
us to characterize a topic map by defining
its "profile". Topics and associations
may be clustered according to their similarity,
thus providing different scales for the
topic map's representation.
12:30pm-2:00pm
Luncheon with Poster Presentations and Table-top
Exhibits
2:00pm-4:30pm Closing Plenary:
Knowledge Communities Panel
Description: KT2001 focuses on the technologies
that enable knowledge. As such, this conference
specifically reaches beyond the Information
Technologies audience. In fact, KT2001 has
been designed as a conference that will
provide a bridge between knowledge communities
that currently have no forum for interaction.
This panel is designed to provide for a
meeting of the minds, so that each knowledge
community can learn from the other for mutual
benefit.
Communities participating in the panel include:
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Knowledge
Organization / Libraries: Eric Miller,
OCLC
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Internet
/ Semantic Web: Dan Connolly, W3C
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Document
/ Asset Management: Steven R. Newcomb,
CoolHeads Consulting
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Knowledge
Management: Joseph Williamson, EDS Federal
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Knowledge
on the Web (KnoW.org): Daniel Rivers-Moore,
RivCom
Closing Keynote
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Edd
Dumbill
Managing Editor, XML.com |
Building
the Semantic Web
Edd
Dumbill is Managing Editor of XML.com, part
of the O'Reilly Network. He writes and speaks
on the subjects of XML and the Web. He is
also the creator of XMLhack.com, the popular
XML developer news site, and WriteTheWeb.com,
a web site focusing on the writeable, two-way,
Web. Edd is also co-founder of Pharmalicensing.com,
an online intellectual property exchange
for the pharmaceutical industry.
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