Program

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Key Note Speaker:

TRIPLE-I cordially welcomes Marc Smith (Microsoft, USA), Peter Reiser (SUN Microsystems) and Prof. Martin Eppler as Key Note Speakers.

Marc Smith	Peter Reiser	Martin Eppler

Marc Smith is a Senior Research Sociologist leading the Community Technologies Group at Microsoft Research in Redmond, WA. His group focuses on computer-mediated collective action. Marc Smith studies and designs enhancements for social cyberspaces, in particular he is interested in the emergence of social organizations like communities in online conversation and annotation environments. With Peter Kollok he co-edited the book Communities in Cyberspace (Routledge). Co-edited with Peter Kollock, the book explores identity, social order and control, community structures, dynamics, and collective action in cyberspace.

Peter H. Reiser is a Principal Engineer at SUN Microsystems. He is currently leading the Web2.0 and social network implementation for the global technical community at Sun. Prior to this he was responsible for the Knowledge & Intellectual Capital Management for Sun's Global Sales Organization. In Sun Europe he established the first community based solution practices and was head of the e-Finance Competency Center, where he was responsible for the architecture and implementation of some of largest Internet Banking and e-Commerce solutions in Europe.

Prof. Martin Eppler is Professor at the University of Lugano, prior vice director of the institute of media and communications management at the University of St. Gallen where he also led the Competence Center Enterprise Knowledge Medium, and 'Privatdozent' at the University of St. Gallen. His research focus is on information quality and knowledge management, his work experiences regard consulting and the media industry. His latest book publication is "Managing Information Quality" (Springer). A lot of his publications concern knowledge visualisation.
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List of accepted papers

Full Papers

Perceived Simultaneous Consumption of Media Content Services among Media Aware University Students
Ester Appelgren (Sweden)

Using Taxonomies to Support the Macro Design Process for the Production of Web Based Trainings
Abdelhak Aqqal, Christoph Rensing, Ralf Steinmetz (Germany)

Social Network Analysis for Innovation and Coordination
Renato Balancieri (Brazil), Roberta Cuel (Italy), Roberto Carlos dos Santos Pacheco (Brazil)

Governing Knowledge Risks – Design and Results of an Empirical Study
Florian Bayer (Germany), Ronald Maier (Austria)

Making Learning Management Systems Work - Usability Engineering as Key Issue for System and Interface Design
Michael Burmester, Frank Thissen, Jörg Westbomke (Germany)

The Need for Formalizing Media Semantics in the Games and Entertainment Industry
Tobias Bürger (Austria)

Accessing RDF Knowledge Bases via LDAP Clients
Sebastian Dietzold, Sören Auer (Germany)

Evaluation of available MPEG-7 Annotation Tools
Mario Döller, Nikolaus Lefin (Germany)

Management, Interchange and reproducible Execution of Sample Preparation Knowledge in Collaborative Research Scenarios.
Christopher H.P. Durst, Frank R. Ihmig, Stephen G. Shirley, Heiko Zimmermann (Germany)

Knowledge Management in the Web 2.0 – Semantic Positioning as an integrated Approach
Patrick Erren (Germany)

DKP-OM: A Semantic Based Ontology Merger
Mohammad Fahad, Muhammad Abdul Qadir, Muhammad Wajahat Noshairwan, Nadeem Iftikhar

Front End Decision Making - How Initiators Decide to Reveal Their Knowledge about Radical Opportunities
Dietfried Globocnik, Stefan Vorbach (Austria)

The NEPOMUK Project - On the way to the Social Semantic Desktop
Tudor Groza, Siegfried Handschuh, Knud Möller, Gunnar Grimnes, Leo Sauermann, Mehdi Jazayeri, Cédric Mesnage, Enrico Minack, Gerald Reif, Rósa Gudjónsdóttir

Applying Media Semantics Mapping in a Non-linear, Interactive Movie Production Environment
Michael Hausenblas (Austria)

Retaining Knowledge Management Maturity Models: An ontology-based Approach
Mark Hefke, Frank Kleiner, Andreas Storkenmaier, Oliver Paulzen (Germany)

Work Process Oriented Introduction of Knowledge Management: Reconsidering the Guidelines for SME
Thomas Herrmann, Gila Brandt-Herrmann, Isa Jahnke (Germany)

Social and Semantic Web Technologies: Semantic Navigation, Digesting and Summarization
Daniel Hladky, Christian Ehrlich, Vladimir Khoroshevsky

ConTag: A semantic tag recommendation system
Benjamin Horak, Leo Sauermann, Thomas Roth-Berghofer

ExpertFinder: Collaborative Expertise Localization
Willem-Olaf Huijsen, Samuël J. Driessen, Dion Slijp (The Netherlands)

Design of Personalized Knowledge Management in Web 2.0 network
Malinka Ivanova (Bulgaria), Ekaterina Vasilyeva (Finland), Inga Beleviciute (Lithuania)

How We Talk About Knowledge: Metaphor in Knowledge Management
Rachel Jones (New Zealand)

Knowledge Fusion: From Management to Mobilization
Peter Keen (USA), Margaret Tan (China)

WordFlickr: A Solution to the Vocabulary Problem in Social Tagging Systems
Josef Kolbitsch (Austria)

Data Mining is becoming Extremely Powerful but Dangerous
Narayanan Kulathuramaiyer, Hermann Maurer (Austria)

Utilizing Lifecycle Information for Knowledge Document Management and Retrieval
Lasse Lehmann, Tomas Hildebrandt, Christoph Rensing, Ralf Steinmetz (Germany)

A Dynamic Factorial Model of Knowledge Exchange and Sharing – An Exploratory Perspective
Hans Lehmann (New Zealand), Franz Lehner (Germany)

Flexible Office: Assignment of Office Space to Enhance Knowledge Work Productivity
Ronald Maier (Austria), Stefan Thalmann (Austria), Florian Bayer (Germany), Michael Krüger (Germany), Hendrik Nitz (Germany), Alexander Sandow (Germany)

Collaborative Wiki Tagging
Valentina Milicevic, Milorad Tosic

Analyzing Wiki-based networks to improve knowledge processes in organizations
Claudia Mueller, Benedikt Meuthrath (Germany)

From Philosophy and Mental-Models to Semantic Desktop research: Theoretical Overview
Danish Nadeem, Leo Sauermann

Knowledge Discovery Techniques Applied to Knowledge Management in Universities
Mihaela Oprea, Irina Tudor, Ana Tanasescu (Romania)

Practices of Knowledge Management in Companies: A Turkey Survey
Ferit Ölçer (Turkey)

APOSDLE: learn@work with semantic web technology
Viktoria Pammer, Peter Scheir, Stefanie Lindstaedt, Chiara Ghidini, Luciano Serafini

User-Driven Semantic Wiki-based Business Service Description
Heiko Paoli, Andreas Schmidt, Peter Lockemann

A Semantics-aware Platform for Interactive TV Services
Antonis Papadimitriou, Christos Anagnostopoulos, Vassileios Tsetsos, Sarantis Paskalis, Stathes Hadjieftymiades (Greece)

A Theory of Co-Production for User Generated Content – Integrating the User into the Content Value Chain
Tassilo Pellegrini (Austria)

An Orchestration Model for Knowledge Management Tools in SMEs
Christian Ploder, Kerstin Fink (Austria)

Conceptual Data Modelling and Frameworks for ICT Competence Profiles
Roman Povalej, Peter Weiß (Germany)

Increasing the Versatility of Java Documentation with RDF
Axel Rauschmayer, Anita Andonova, Patrick Nepper

Towards an “Enterprise n+1” through the use of Web 2.0 Design Patterns enriched by Semantic Web infrastructure
Peter Reiser (Switzerland), Franz Novak (Austria), Henry Story (France), Andreas Blumauer (Austria)

Towards Semantic based Requirements Engineering
Thomas Riechert, Kim Lauenroth, Jens Lehmann, Sören Auer (Germany)

Knowledge management from an ancient Chinese point of view, or the knowledge flow through an organisation
Werner Riegler (Austria)

Online Crowds – Extraordinary mass behavior on the Internet
Christian Russ (Austria)

Quantitative Analysis of Success Factors for User Generated Content
Christian Safran, Frank Kappe (Austria)

PIMO - a Framework for Representing Personal Information Models
Leo Sauermann, Ludger van Elst, Andreas Dengel

Improving Search on the SemanticDesktop using Associative Retrieval Techniques
Peter Scheir, Chiara Ghidini, Stefanie Lindstaedt

Enhancing music learning experience through a dedicated web 2.0 oriented service
Olivier Sebastien, Noël Conruyt, Stéphane Calderoni (France)

X-KIF - New Knowledge Modeling Language
Michal Sevcenko

Imagesemantics: User-Generated Metadata, Content Based Retrieval & Beyond
Marc Spaniol (Germany), Ralf Klamma (Germany), Mathias Lux (Austria)

The three pillars of Corporate Web 2.0: A model for definition
Alexander Stocker, Anwar Us Saaed, Gisela Dösinger (Austria)

Information Exploration via Pen, Brush and Text Marker
Hans L. Trinkaus (Germany)

Personalizing the New Web-based Content using User Perceptual Preference Characteristics
Nikos Tsianos, Panagiotis Germanakos, Zacharias Lekkas, Costas Mourlas (Greece)

Becoming Knowledge Focused (Part 2): Developing a Practice for Managing Knowledge in International Organizations
Ugo Ugbor, Carlos Chanduvi-Suarez (Austria)

A Semantic Web Content Model and Repository
Max Völkel

The Characteristics, Issues and Research Question of Knowledge Coordination
Jiming Wu (USA)

Making Expert Knowledge of Adaptations of E-Learning Material Available with Patterns
Birgit Zimmermann, Christoph Rensing, Ralf Steinmetz (Germany)

Compensation Models for Interactive Advertising
Steffen Zorn (Australia), Astrid Dickinger (Austria), Steve Bellman (Australia)

Short Papers with Posters

Knowledge Management Systems: Towards a failure theory
Bashar Ababneh, John S. Edwards

Barriers to the replacement of knowledge management in Iranian institutions
Mohammad Abdolshah, Aliakbar Amin beidokhti, Ali Naeimi Sadigh, Aghdas Naeimi Sadigh (Iran)

Conception of knowledge management supported by information technologies
Inga Beleviciute (Lithuania)

A semantic-based search engine for professional knowledge
Simona Colucci, Tommaso Di Noia, Eugenio Di Sciascio, Francesco M. Donini, Azzurra Ragone, Michelantonio Trizio (Italy)

Process Based Knowledge Management - Findings from SME
Ina Finke, Ronald Orth, Stefan Voigt (Germany)

Intellectual Capital Report Controlling
Wolfgang Halb, Manfred Kraudinger (Austria)

The implications of Expert Systems in Knowledge Management
Ileana Hauer, Cornelia Muntean (Romania)

Knowledge Management Systems, Language Variety, and Language Ambiguity
Alexander Hoffmann (Germany)

Benefits of an SOA-Implementation for KM - Illustrated by a Case Study
Wilko Krass (Germany)

Spatial Applications as Social Knowledge Provider. An Approach for Regional Virtual Communities
Daniela Kuka, Günther Kolar, Michael Badics, Christa Schneebauer, Eva Kühn, Stefan Eibelwimmer, Fadil Kujundzic, Nicolas Naveau, Clemens Häckel (Austria)

Tacit Knowledge Management - The hidden Agenda of KM
Franz Lehner (Germany)

Knowledge creation and transfer in distributed R&D
David Mayrhofer (Austria), Andrea Back (Switzerland)

Knowledge Management Benchmarking for Business Process Improvement – Evidences from Multiple Case Studies in Professional Services Firms
Reimar Palte, Stefan Smolnik, Gerold Riempp (Germany)

Reconsidering Relationships for Knowledge Representation
Katrin Weller, Isabella Peters (Germany)

On the Integration of a Conventional Content Management System into a Semantic System
Erich Gams, Christoph Wieser, Daniel Mitterdorfer

Enabling Privacy in Social Communities
Mohammad M.r Chowdhury, György Kálmán, Josef Noll

Business Process Knowledge Integration - A Semantic Based Approach
Jorge Cardoso, Janez Hrastnik

Enabling collaborative knowledge modelling by hiding inherent complexity from non-experts Conference
Daniel Doegl, Claire Jessel

Smart Media Archive – An Approach to Open Archives to Communities
Dietmar Glachs

Special Track on Knowledge Organization and Semantic Technologies 2007 (KOST '07)

Conceptual Clustering of Social Bookmark Sites
Miranda Grahl, Andreas Hotho, Gerd Stumme (Germany)

Incremental Approach to Error Explanations in Ontologies
Petr Kremen, Zdenek Kouba (CzechRepublic)

Integration and Semantic Enrichment of Explicit Knowledge through a Multimedia, Multi-source, Metadata-based Knowledge Artefact Repository
Felix Mödritscher, Robert Hoffmann, Werner Klieber (Austria)

O CoP, an Ontology Dedicated to Communities of Practice
Amira Tifous, Adil El Ghali, Alain Giboin, Rose Dieng-Kuntz (France)

AUTOMS-F: A Java Framework for Synthesizing
Alexandros Valarakos, Vassilis Spiliopoulos, Konstantinos Kotis, George Vouros (Greece)

Special Track on Knowledge Sharing using Social Software (KSS’07)

Experiences with introducing and using social software in a distributed project team
Lilia Efimova, Robert Slagter (The Netherlands)

Sharing Digital Resources and Metadata for Open and Flexible Knowledge Management Systems
Martin Memmel, Rafael Schirru (Germany)

Web 2.0 as Platform for Inclusive Universal Access in Cooperative Learning and Knowledge Sharing
Tomas Pitner, Michael Derntl, Thorsten Hampel, Renate Motschnig-Pitrik (Austria)

Special Track on Knowledge Visualization and Knowledge Discovery (KVD’07)

Usability of Diagrams for Group Knowledge Work: Toward an Analytic Description
Sabrina Bresciani, Martin J. Eppler (Switzerland)

Visual tools decipher historic artefacts documentation
Iwona Dudek, Jean-Yves Blaise (France)

Spatiotemporal Knowledge Visualization and Discovery in Dynamic Social Networks
Ralf Klamma, Yiwei Cao, Marc Spaniol, Yan Leng (Germany)

GlobeMash: A Mashup for Accessing GLOBE
Joris Klerkx, Erik Duval (Belgium)

Text Mining for Indication of Changes in Long-Term Market Trends
Petr Kroha, Thomas Reichel, Björn Krellner (Germany)

Sky-Metaphor Visualisation for Self-Organising Maps
Rudolf Mayer, Khalid Latif (Austria)

Printf in 4D user interfaces
Alexander Oberbichler, Laszlo Böszörmenyi (Austria)

An Ontology-independent Visualization Model integrating Individual, Group and Organizational Competence Management
Lena Pareto, Ulrika Lundh Snis (Sweden)

Visualizing Semantic Structures to Support Reading
Yongqiang Qiu (UK)

On the Generalized Box-Drawing of Trees
Benno Stein, Frank Benteler (Germany)

Visualization of Rule Bases - The Overall Structure
Valentin Zacharias (Germany)

Service oriented information supply model for knowledge workers
Bilal Zaka, Hermann Maurer (Austria)

Special track on Integrating Working and Learning (IWL’07)

Wikis as a Technology Fostering Knowledge Maturing: What we can learn from Wikipedia
Simone Braun, Andreas Schmidt (Germany)

A semantic-based integrated solution to personnel and learning needs
Simona Colucci, Tommaso Di Noia, Eugenio Di Sciascio, Francesco M. Donini, Azzurra Ragone (Italy)

Deploying YAWL for Workflows in Workplace-embedded
Eicke Godehardt, Markus Doehring, Andreas Faatz, Manuel Goertz (Germany)

An experiment of tasks performance forecasting based on the experience in different tasks
Jordi Olivella (Spain)

Workplace Process Integrated Learning and Knowledge Organization
Margareth Stoll (Italy)

An approach for on-demand e-learning to support knowledge work
Stefan Thalmann (Austria), Fredrik Enoksson (Sweden)

CAM in Process Execution
Martin Wolpers (Belgium), Gunnar Martin (Germany), Erik Duval (Belgium)

Special Track on Task and Process Exploration and Modelling (TPEM’07)

A Guideline for Modelling and Supporting Information Access Processes
Jessica Huster, Christoph Hesselmann, Andreas Becks (Germany)

Semantically Integrating Heterogeneous Content: Applying Social Tagging as a Knowledge Management Tool for Process Model Development and Usage
Michael Prilla, Thomas Herrmann (Germany)

Semantic Based Knowledge Flow Syste in European Home Textile: A Process Oriented Approach with PROMOTE Robert Woitsch, Dimitris Karagiannis, Hans-Georg Fill, Vedran Blazevic

Special Track on Semantics in Life Sciences

Semantic Information in Medical Information Systems - from Data and Information to Knowledge
Andreas Holzinger, Regina Geierhofer, Maximilian Errath

Creating an Annotated Set of Medical Reports to Evaluate Information Retrieval Techniques
Regina Geierhofer, Andreas Holzinger

A Semantic Web Framework for the Life Sciences Based on Foundational Ontologies and Metadata Standards
Matthias Samwald, Klaus-Peter Adlassnig

Concepts for an Intelligent Information Portal in Pharmaceutical Research
Alex Kohn, Francois Bry, Stefan Klostermann, Alexander Manta

Clinical Ontologies Interfacing the Real World
Holger Stenzhorn, Stefan Schulz, Barry Smith

Utilizing Text Mining Techniques to Analyze Medical Diagnoses
Felix Mödritscher, Roland Tatzl, Regina Geierhofer, Andreas Holzinger

Connecting User Interfaces and User Impairments For Semantically Optimized Information Flow in Hospital Information Systems
Shuaib Karim, A Min Tjoa

Facilitating Knowledge Management in a Distributed HealthCare System
Bo Hu, David Dupplaw, Srinandan Dasmahapatra, Paul Lewis, Nigel Shadbolt

StemNet: An Evolving Service for Knowledge Networking in the Life Sciences
Udo Hahn, Joachim Wermter, David S. DeLuca, Rainer Blasczyk, Michael Poprat, Asad Bajwa, Peter A. Horn

Special Track on Reasoning and Deduction Systems

List of papers available soon

Multimedia Metadata Applications Workshop

Full papers

An Ontological Approach to Semantic Video Analysis For Violence Identification
Thanassis Perperis, Sofia Tsekeridou, Sergios Theodoridis

A Similarity Approach on Searching for Digital Rights
Walter Allasia, Fabrizio Falchi, Francesco Gallo

Semantics of Temporal Media Content Descriptions
Martin Höffernig, Michael Hausenblas, Werner Bailer

Community-Aware Semantic Multimedia Tagging - From Folksonomies to Commsonomies
Ralf Klamma, Marc Spaniol, Dominik Renzel

Requirements of Fragment Identification
Wolfgang Jochum

Demos

Virtual Campfire - A Mobile Social Software for Cross-Media Communities
Yiwei Cao, Marc Spaniol, Ralf Klamma, Dominik Renzel

MPEG-7 Video Annotation Tool
Helmut Neuschmied

VAMP: Semantic Validation of MPEG-7 Profiles
Martin Höffernig, Michael Hausenblas, Werner Bailer, Raphaël Troncy

MPEG-7 for Video Quality Description and Summarisation
Peter Schallauer, Hermann Fürntratt, Werner Bailer

PrestoSpace Publication Platform: A System for Searching and Retrieving Enriched Audiovisual Materials

Walter Allasia, Massimiliano Porzio, Michele Vigilante, Laurent Boch, Giorgio Dimino, Alberto Messina