第十届知识与系统科学国际研讨会

The 10th International Symposium on Knowledge and Systems Sciences (Hong Kong, December 3-4, 2009)


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KSS'2009 (The 10th International Symposium on Knowledge and Systems Sciences)      
will be jointly held with the 6th Interantional Conference on Knowledge Management (ICKM'2009)      
in Hong Kong during December 3-4, 2009. The theme of KSS'2009 is      
      
"Knowledge Synthesis and Creation for Crisis Management"     

The web site of KSS'2009 is https://https://meta-synthesis.iss.ac.cn/kss2009/      
The web site of ICKM'2009 is https://www.ickm2009.org/      
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Scope      
The presentations and papers at KSS'2009 are expected to cover but not limited to the following areas:      
- Creation of agent-based social systems sciences      
- Cross-cultural learning on systems thinking and knowledge management      
- Complex System Modeling and Analysis      
- Decision support systems      
- Knowledge creation: creativity support, awareness support, etc.      
- Knowledge discovery: data mining, text mining, other statistical methods, etc.      
- Knowledge systems engineering      
- Meta-synthesis and Advanced Modeling      
- Social network analysis      
- Systems methodology for knowledge integration and creation      
- Web intelligence tools      
etc.      

Scholars confirmed for invited keynote speech (till June 20)      

Professor Kijima, Kyoichi (Professor of Decision Systems Sciences,
    Gduate School of Decision Science and Technology, okyo Institute of Technology)



Professor Xi, Youmin (Executive President of Xi'an Jiaotong-Liverpool University.      
    Pro-vice-chancellor of the University of Liverpool.      
    Professor in School of Management of Xi’an Jiaotong University):     

"Network and knowledge: a focus on the management of knowledge organization

   from perspective of practice" with the case of XJTLU"


(ICKM'2009 and KSS'2009 share invited keynote speeches, please check      
https://www.ickm2009.org/snews/ho ... for-the-conference/      
for more topics)      

Papers Submission and Proceedings Publication      

Prospective authors are invited to submit their full paper(s) electronically through a link from      
https://www.ickm2009.org/snews/home/submission-guidelines/. All submissions will be reviewed by      
at least 2 anonymous reviewers. Papers should be no longer than 12 pages and submitted as      
a PDF file, according to the Proceedings Format. For inquiries related to paper submission,      
please contact any one of the Academic Program Chairs: Prof. Patrick Chau (Pchau@business.hku.hk),      
Prof. Eric Tsui (Eric.Tsui@polyu.edu.hk), or  Prof. Christian Wagner (iscw@cityu.edu.hk).      

The proceeding for ICKM'2009 & KSS'2009 will be published by World Scientific as part of the      
Book Series on Innovation and Knowledge Management.      

Selected papers will be recommended to the some journals, e.g.      
International Journal of Knowledge and Systems Sciences (ISKSS official journal), etc.      
Please check https://www.ickm2009.org/snews/ for more latest news.      

Important Dates      
June 30, 2009   Deadline of Submission of full-length paper      
August 15, 2009 Notification of acceptance      
September 30, 2009 Final camera-ready paper      
December 3-4, 2009 Conference   
  
About KSS Symposia
  
Currently, KSS is an annual event of the International Society for Knowledge and Systems
Sciences (ISKSS) founded in December of 2003 during KSS'2003. Professor Yoshiteru Nakamroi
was the first president of ISKSS, which is also a member of  
THE INTERNATIONAL FEDERATION FOR SYSTEMS RESEARCH (IFSR).
  
Basic information of past KSS symposia,

KSS'2000, JAIST, Japan, September 25-27 2000
KSS'2001, Dalian, China, September 25-27, 2001
KSS'2002, Shanghai, China, August 7-8, 2002
KSS'2003, Guangzhou, China, November 29-December 1, 2003
KSS'2004, JAIST, Japan, November 10-12, 2004
KSS'2005, IIASA, Austria, August 29-31, 2005
KSS'2006, Beijing, China, September 23-25, 2006
KSS'2007, JAIST, Japan, November 5-7, 2007
KSS'2008, Guangzhou, China, December 11-12, 2008