Call for PapersPeer-to-Peer (P2P) computing has received significant attention from the side of research labs and academia, largely due to the popularity of commercialized P2P file sharing applications such as Napster, Morpheus and KaZaa. In the P2P model, peers exchange data and/or services in completely decentralized distributed manner. Peers are autonomous, and are free to choose what other peers to interact with, and, in this point-to-point interaction, peers possess equal functional capabilities. On the other hand, Knowledge Management (KM) is increasingly viewed as a core capacity in order to compete in the modern social and economic environment. Researchers and practitioners agree that those intellectual assets that are embedded in working practices, social relationships, and technological artefacts constitute the only source of value that can sustain long term differentiation, quality of services, innovation, and adaptability. Nonetheless, even due to a debatable success of current KM implementations, still unclear is how such matter should be managed in highly complex, distributed, and heterogeneous settings. In the last couple of years, P2P and KM have followed different but converging paths. In fact, P2P technologies have left their initial “computational”, “anarchoyd”, and spontaneous fashion to embrace more service level domains and business settings. On the other hand, KM is questioning its centralized assumption based on the implicit belief that knowledge is managed successfully when it can be standardized and controlled. In this sense, it seems that while P2P is looking for value added domains to better exploit its technological potential, KM is looking for a technological paradigm more able to fit an emerging distributed organization of knowledge. The convergence of P2P and KM creates new challenges for researchers to address: new methodologies to model, design, and deploy distributed KM solutions; theories and algorithms to represent the social and semantic dimensions of a knowledge network; mechanisms to cope with the dynamic autonomous nature of P2P and to provide means to support emergent network self-organization. New technologies should be provided in order to support full operational functioning of P2P KM systems, ensuring high extensibility of the solutions along several dimensions, such as scalability in the number of peers, size and kind of supported knowledge bases, level of heterogeneity in knowledge representation, robustness, etc. Various technologies can contribute to P2P KM solutions: Semantic Web, with new instruments for knowledge representation, in particular ontologies, as well as with (totally) mechanized means for locating, retrieving and processing of data; database technology, with formal semantics for P2P data sharing; multi agent technology, with innovation solutions of agent-mediated knowledge management; and so on. The P2PKM workshop is intended to serve as an active forum for researchers and practitioners, where they will have the possibility to exchange and discuss research results, novel ideas and experiences, laying in the intersection of the P2P, KM and Semantic Web, database, multi agent, as well as other related technologies. It aims at provoking a discussion around the hypothesis of convergence of P2P and KM areas, and, in particular, at exploring synergies among those that need to provide a distributed technological answer to the distributed management of knowledge, and those that are interested in exploring the substantial implications of the P2P paradigm on important aspects of organizational life such as KM. Topics of interest include but are not restricted to:
Important Dates
Submission InstructionsWe invite the submission of high quality technical papers. The submitted papers should be formatted as close as possible to the Springer LNCS style and must not exceed 12 pages including figures and references. Interested authors should submit their papers at the EDAS site (http://edas.info/) within the submission deadline. PDF format is preferred, but other formats (PS, DOC) are also acceptable. Accepted papers will be published in the CEUR workshop electronic proceedings, and hardcopies of the proceedings will be handed out at the workshop. At least one author of each accepted paper must attend the workshop to present their work. OrganizationWorkshop Co-Chairs Matteo Bonifacio
Accepted Papers
Invited TalksFausto Giunchiglia, University of Trento, Italy Title: "Semantic Matching: Enabling Meaningful Knowledge Management Among Peers" Abstract: TBA
Mark Maybury, the MITRE Corporation, USA Title: "Exploitation of Digital Artifacts and Interactions to Enable Peer-to-Peer Knowledge Management" Abstract: This invited talk will survey the automated analysis of human created digital artifacts and human computer interactions to enable peer-to-peer knowledge management. We first discuss tools to support peer and group knowledge discovery, exemplifying these in the domains of global infectious disease management (TIDES) and global social indicator analysis (SIAM). The presentation will describe automated tools for profiling individual and collective expertise (ExpertFinder) as well as organizational knowledge interactions within a distributed enterprise to detect expert communities (XperNET). We consider tools for facilitating group knowledge annotation (KEAN), learning (OWL) and search (SCOUT). Finally, we discuss our efforts to create and deploy tools for peer-to-peer knowledge communication/exchange (CVW and TrIM). We will describe the efficacy of these tools and illustrate how they collectively enable peer-to-peer knowledge management. We conclude summarizing our lessons learned and remaining challenges.
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Fausto Giunchiglia
is Professor of Computer Science at the University of Trento. Fausto is a
member of the Trustee Committee of International Joint Conference on
Artificial Conference (IJCAI), Trustee of the European Network of Excellence
on Symbolic Algebra and Deductive Systems (CALCULEMUS). Moreover, Fausto is
President of the Advisory Board of International Conference on Knowledge
Representation and Reasoning (KRR), IEEE International Conference on Logic
in Computer Science (LICS), International Interdisciplinary Conference on
Modelling and Using Context (CONTEXT). He is a part of the Editorial Board
of International Journal of Autonomous Agents and MultiAgent Systems, AI
Communications, International Journal of Software Tools for Technology
Transfer and Journal of Applied Non Classical Logics. Finally, he was chair
and/or member of the program committee of about a hundred of conferences,
symposiums and international workshops, among them: Conference Chair of
IJCAI 2005, KRR 2002, COOPIS 2001, FLOC 1999; Program Chair of KRR 2000,
AIMSA 1998, SARA 1998. According to ResearchIndex, Giunchiglia is classified
in the first 2000 authors most cited in the world.
Dr. Mark Maybury is Executive Director of MITRE's
Information Technology Division. Mark also serves as Executive Director of
ARDA's Northeast Regional Research Center. Mark has published over sixty
technical and tutorial articles and is editor of Intelligent Multimedia
Interfaces (AAAI/MIT Press 1993), Intelligent Multimedia Information
Retrieval (AAAI/ MIT Press 1997), New Directions in Question Answering (AAAI/
MIT Press 2004), co-editor of Readings on Intelligent User Interfaces
(Morgan Kaufmann Press 1998), Advances in Text Summarization (MIT Press
1999), Advances in Knowledge Management (MIT Press 2001) and Personalized
Digital Television (Kluwer Academic, 2004), and co-author of Information
Storage and Retrieval (Kluwer Academic 2000). Mark was Program Chair of
ACM's 1999 International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces (IUI).
Mark is a member of the IUI Steering Council, a member of the Board of
Directors of the Object Management Group, and Secretary/Treasurer of ACM
SIGART. He serves on several international conference program committees and
journal editorial boards. Dr. Maybury received his B.A. in Mathematics from
the College of the Holy Cross, an M. Phil. in Computer Speech and Language
Processing from Cambridge University, England, an M.B.A. from Rensselaer
Polytechnic Institute and a Ph.D. in Artificial Intelligence from Cambridge
University.