Knowledge Management is a broad field that covers the elicitation/extraction, sharing and application of knowledge within organisations. Each of these areas has received focussed attention in separation to each other; this workshop is intended to bring together academic researchers with developers and users from the industry and public administration to share their expertise on KM aspects that is of interest to other areas. Both researchers and practitioners are encouraged to submit papers to the TAKMA 2006 workshop addressing aspects of the TAKMA theme.

Topics of TAKMA workshops include (but are not limited to) the following aspects:

* Extracting Knowledge from Documents
* Knowledge Dissemination using Intranets/Extranets
* Knowledge Integration
* Support Tools for Developing New Knowledge
* Methods and techniques supporting Knowledge Management
* Organisational Learning
* Building Organisational Memories
* Interaction between Workflow and Knowledge Management
* Collaborative and Co-operative Knowledge Management
* Knowledge Management Technology Environments
* HCI in Knowledge Management
* Usability Evaluation of KM Systems
* Knowledge Visualisation
* Case studies and good practices
* Measuring the benefits of KM
* Eliciting and building ontologies
* Ontology-supported applications
* The dark side of KM: knowledge manipulation
* Ethics of Knowledge Management

Important Dates
Submission of papers: 3 March 2007
Notification of acceptance: 14 April 2007
Camera-ready copies: 15 May 2007

Submission Details
Authors are invited to submit research contributions or practical experience reports in English (not more than 5 pages in IEEE format).

Accepted are postscript, pdf or word format via email to Nicole Koenderink (nicole.koenderink@wur.nl). The papers accepted for TAKMA 2007 will be published in the IEEE workshop proceedings of DEXA 2007.

Workshop Co-Chairs:

• Nicole Koenderink, Wageningen UR, The Netherlands
• Lena Aggestam, University of Skövde, Sweden
• Wolfgang Kienreich, Know-Center, Austria

Program Committee:

• Vincenza Carchiolo, University of Catania, Italy
• Kemal A. Delic, Hewlet Packard Corporation, France
• Simone Heftberger, University of Linz, Austria
• Remko Helms, Utrecht University, The Netherlands
• Peter H. Jones, REDESIGN RESEARCH, USA
• Dimitris Karagiannis, Universität Wien, Austria
• Alessandro Longheu, University of Catania, Italy
• Janet McDonnell, University of Greenwich, United Kingdom
• Paul Mulholland, The Open University, United Kingdom
• Werner Klieber, Know-Center, Austria
• Oscar Pastor Lopez, Valencia University of Technology, Spain
• Ulrich Reimer, Swiss Life Rentenanstalt, Switzerland
• Erwin Schaumlechner, Tiscover AG, Austria
• A Min Tjoa, TU Wien, Austria
• Jan Top, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, The Netherlands
• Roland Traunmüller, University of Linz, Austria
• Charalampos Vassiliou, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece
• Roland Wagner, Universität Linz, Austria
• Maria Wimmer, University of Linz, Austria
• Simone Stumpf, Oregon State University, USA
• Vedran Sabol, Know-Center, Austria

Information on the workshop location and the DEXA conference clusters is available at the DEXA main page (www.dexa.org).