Special Issue on: "Knowledge Management and the Emperor's New Clothes"Call For PapersEditors: Associate Professor Suliman Hawamdeh and Professor Tom WilsonWith the increased interest in Knowledge Management, many vendors are re-badging their existing information management software as 'knowledge management' software. Even information management methodologies are being modified and described as dealing with knowledge transfer, where what really happens is only information transfer which may or may not lead to increased knowledge on the part of the recipient. The editors believed that most of the knowledge management activities taking place today are simply information management and very little has been done on the extent to which 'tacit knowledge' can be recorded as 'explicit knowledge' (a synonym for information). This special issue invites research work in information and knowledge management that highlight the real issues and attempts to clarify the misunderstandings and misconceptions implicit in the concept of 'knowledge management'. Original papers are invited in areas such as (but not restricted to these):
Submit your paper to Dr. Suliman Hawamdeh, School of Computer Engineering, Nanyang Avenue, Singapore 639798, prepared according to the Instructions for Authors by 31st March 2002. If submitting by mail, include a paper copy and the file on a PC-formatted disc. Submission by e-mail to assuliman@ntu.edu.sg is preferred. |