Information and knowledge management conference, Stuttgart

The Fraunhofer institute, in conjunction with the CIB and CSTB have organised a conference entitled, 'Information and Knowledge management - Helping the practitioner in planning and building,' to be held in Stuttgart between 25 and 27 October 2007.

The conference intends to link researchers and management with practitioners in planning and building. Putting online information sources into the workflow of planning and building projects has not been embraced in the same way as in other industrial sectors.

The tools and technologies of the near future will be explored, and the organisers welcome speakers' contributions from all perspectives and backgrounds in this field. Suggested topics include:

- placing information in facilities' design, manufacture, construction and use;
- creating knowledge within construction organisations;
- developing learning organisations in a project environment;
- linking documentation services to practitioners (creating a demand for documentation services);
- information enhancing, processing, mining, retrieval and display in design and construction;
- document classification, indexing, clustering and managing;
- knowledge based intelligent information and engineering systems;
- knowledge acquisition, organisation and representation;
- web-based knowledge management for cooperative design and construction
- communities of practice;
- knowledge in converting, sharing and connecting;
- knowledge bases, ontologies and organisational memories .For further information, go to the event pages where details for the conference and calls can be found:
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