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Dianne
Kennedy
InfoLoom, Inc.
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Wednesday,
March 7
Case Study
- Siemens Automation and Drive Help Desk: A Knowledge Work-Place
with Self-Service
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.
Presentation Materials: Power
Point Slides
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.
Presentation Materials: Power
Point Slides
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.
Presentation Materials: Power
Point Slides
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.
Presentation Materials: Power
Point Slides
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.
Presentation Materials: PDF
Slides
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.
Presentation Materials: Power
Point Slides
11:00am-12:30pm
(two
sessions included in each track)
Management
Track: Case Studies
Track
Chair: Sam Hunting
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.
Presentation Materials: TBA
Case
Study - Portfolio Tracking and Competitive Intelligence
Speaker: Sam
Knox, Director of Analyst Services, Inxight Software (Replaced
by Christopher Cho, 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.
Presentation Materials: Power
Point Slides
Implementer
Track: Knowledge Acquisition
Track
Chair: Dr. Hans Holger Rath, empolis Content Management GmbH
Knowledge
Aggregation Using XML (This
presentation was cancelled)
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.
Presentation Materials: None.
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.
Presentation Materials: MS Word
Paper and Power Point Slides
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.
Presentation Materials: Text
Paper 1 and Text Paper 2
Topic Maps Metrics and Visualization
Speaker: Benedicte
Le Grand, PhD Student, Laboratoire d Informatique de Paris
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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.
Presentation Materials: PDF
Slides
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.
Presentation Materials: No slides were used during this session.
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
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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