ECONOM2009

Knowledge-based technologies use machine-understandable formalizations of expert knowledge to realize scalable, robust and economically feasible approaches and to support knowledge management, information integration or intelligent search. In order to encourage the wide industrial uptake of knowledge-based technologies, instruments to assess potential economic benefits of these technologies and to predict the total costs of their development and deployment are a must.

CIOs are starting to acknowledge the technical value of knowledge-based technologies for enterprises. In the last years early adopters have been increasingly using them in various application settings ranging from content management to enterprise integration platforms. Core technological building blocks and development platforms are meanwhile available from established vendors. Despite this promising position, it is still difficult to argue in favor of knowledge-based technologies in front of the CFOs because of the lack of convincing measurable benefits or of proven-and-tested methods to determine and quantify these.

This workshop addresses economic aspects of knowledge-based technologies. This includes the assessment of their potential business value, more precisely the costs and benefits of their application, and qualitative and quantitative methods therefor. We are interested in original research looking into the aforementioned aspects for both knowledge-based systems and knowledge structures (i.e., ontologies, taxonomies, folksonomies) supporting these systems.

The goal of the workshop is to provide a communication platform for researchers to discuss ideas and results and to identify new challenges in the areas of economics and knowledge-based technologies. The workshop is also intended to be a networking event for participants from the industry willing to share their experiences on the adoption of knowledge-based technologies in enterprises.

Topics

 * Methods to estimate costs and/or benefits of introducing knowledge-based technologies into enterprise environments.
 * Methods to estimate return on investment in knowledge-based technologies in terms of their potential business value.
 * Methods to estimate benefits of knowledge-based technologies in enterprise architectures.
 * Methods to measure efficiency gains through knowledge-based technologies.
 * Cost and benefit analysis of knowledge structures such as ontologies, taxonomies or folksonomies.
 * Evaluation criteria and methods to assess the quality and to compare alternative technological solutions.
 * Incentives for knowledge-based content creation.
 * Empirical studies on the usage of knowledge-based technologies.
 * Business strategies for the introduction of knowledge-based technologies.

Submissions

 * Long papers: max. 12 pages
 * Work-in-progress reports: max. 6 pages
 * Demo papers: max. 4 pages

Papers must be submitted in PDF format according to Springer LNBIP template available from http://www.springer.com/east/home/computer/lncs?SGWID=5-164-7-487211-0.

Submission system is available at http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=econom2009.

Papers approved for presentation at ECONOM 2009 will be published in BIS 2009 workshop proceedings, as a volume in Springer's Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing (LNBIP) series.

Important Dates

 * March 8, 2009 - submission deadline for papers
 * March 22, 2009 - notification of acceptance/rejection
 * April 07, 2009 - submission of final papers
 * April 29, 2009 - the workshop

Committees

 * Co-Organizers


 * has general chair::Elena Simperl, STI Innsbruck, Austria
 * has general chair::Tobias Buerger, STI Innsbruck, Austria
 * has general chair::Agata Filipowska, Poznan University of Economics, Poland
 * has general chair::Christoph Tempich, Detecon International GmbH, Germany


 * Program Committee Members
 * has PC member::Nicholas King, British Telecom, UK
 * has PC member::Jose-Manuel Gomez-Perez, ISOCO, Spain
 * has PC member::Robert Tolksdorf, Free University Berlin, Germany
 * has PC member::Maria del Carmen Suarez-Figueroa, UPM, Spain
 * has PC member::Marek Kowalkiewicz, SAP Research, Australia
 * has PC member::Ozelin Lopez, XimetriX Network Thoughts, Spain
 * has PC member::Marco Zapletal, Vienna University of Technology, Austria
 * has PC member::York Sure, SAP, Germany
 * has PC member::Astrid Giernalczyk, Research Institute for Operations Management at RWTH Aachen University, Germany
 * has PC member::Roberta Cuel, University of Trento, Italy
 * has PC member::Ronald Maier, University of Innsbruck, Austria