5th Workshop on Information Logistics and Knowledge Supply (ILOG 2012)

The aim and focus of the workshop

For many enterprises, optimized information flow and efficient reuse of existing knowledge is part of the business strategy. In particular in knowledge-intensive industry and service sectors, information is a major factor in production processes, and knowledge reflects an important asset of the enterprise. Similarly, public organizations and governmental bodies are dependent on accurate and timely information supply for efficient and high quality processes and services. Intelligent information supply has become an important issue that is characterized by just-in-time, demand-oriented and context-sensitive information.

Experience shows that successful solutions for intelligent information supply involve several ingredients: a sound business case with clearly defined benefits and returns for the (networked) organization, a clear understanding of the user’s demand including the organizational context, and the right use of "enabling technologies” like semantic technologies, knowledge management or ubiquitous computing.

This workshop aims to bring together people who have strong interest in enterprise information systems, information logistics and knowledge supply. We invite researchers and practitioners from both industry and academia to submit original results of their completed or ongoing projects. We encourage broad understanding of possible approaches and solutions for information logistics and knowledge supply. Specific focus will be on practices of, i.e. we encourage submission of case study and experiences papers, and of contributions bringing together business cases and enabling technologies. Workshop topics

The following topics are of relevance for the workshop:

Challenges in information logistics and knowledge supply
Information logistics and knowledge supply in small and medium sized enterprises
Organisational implementations of information logistics and knowledge supply approaches
Concepts and architectures for intelligent information supply solutions
Modeling of information processes and user demands
Description languages for information demand and information services
Business processes in information and knowledge management
Economic effects and relevance (business cases)
Business models for just-in-time information supply
Metadata in information and knowledge management
Active information systems
Models for location and context
Time based information delivery
Concepts for self-awareness of information distribution
Location transparency
Information handling in process contexts
Infrastructures and approaches for knowledge supply
eMaintenance and Information Logistics
Experience reports about and show cases of information logistical applications
Practices of information logistics and knowledge supply

Paper Submission and Proceedings

Submissions to ILOG 2012 have to be made by using the submission systems EasyChair: ( http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ilog2012). All accepted workshop papers will be published in local proceedings of BIR2012. The best selected workshop papers will be published in Springer LNBIP as postconference BIR2012 workshop proceedings.

Papers submitted need to follow LNBIP formatting guidelines available from: http://www.springer.com/computer+science/lncs?SGWID=0-164-6-791344-0

Papers shall not have more than twelve pages (including figures, tables and appendices). Longer papers will not be included in workshop proceedings.

Important dates

Submission deadline (hard): July 20th
Notification of acceptance – August 12th
Camera ready deadline (hard) – August 24th
Workshop date – September 24

Program committee chairs

Kurt Sandkuhl, University of Rostock (Germany) (chair)
Ulf Seigerroth, Jönköping University (Sweden) (co-chair)

Program committee (to be extended)

Clara Bassano, “Parthenope” University of Naples (Italy)
Andreas Billig, Fraunhofer ISST Berlin (Germany)
Eva Blomqvist, CNR-ISTC (Italy)
Tobias Bucher, PHOENIX group (Germany)
Susanne Busse, FH Brandenburg (Germany)
Albertas Caplinskas Institute of Mathematics and Informatics (Lithuania)
Barbara Dinter, University of St.Gallen (Switzerland)
Henrik Eriksson, Univ. Linköping (Sweden)
Janis Grabis, Riga Technical University (Latvia)
Darek Haftor, Linnæus University (Sweden)
Yanbo Han, Inst. Computing Techn., Chin. Acad. of Science (China)
Tomasz Kaczmarek, Poznan University of Economics (Poland)
Mira Kajko-Mattsson, Stockholm University (Sweden)
Ramin Karim, Luleå University of Technology (Sweden)
Peter Kawalek, University of Manchester (United Kingdom)
Wolfgang Deiters, Fraunhofer ISST (Germany)
Ralf D. Kutsche, TU Berlin (Germany)
Tatiana Levashova, St. Petersburg Institute Inform. & Autom. (Russia)
Paolo Piciocchi, University of Salerno (Italy)
Ulf Seigerroth, Jönköping International Business School (Sweden)
Alexander Smirnov, St. Petersburg Institute Inform. & Autom. (Russia)
Janis Stirna, Stockholm University (Sweden)
Vladimir Tarasov, Jönköping University (Sweden)
Jan Willem, Nashuatec/Ricoh Group (Netherland