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Aerospace companies and government space agencies are working on a wide variety of methods to capture, store, organize, and distribute key knowledge from space experts and missions to explore space and the Earth around us. These successful methods often involve a set of policies, processes, people, and technologies in order to accomplish the goals of the organization. This conference looks to bring together that distributed group and provide a forum for shared understanding and conversations in how organizations are successfully managing knowledge for space missions and how we can, as a global community, do so in the future. Come meet with your colleagues and share what you are doing!
July 17-19, 2007
California Institute of Technology
Pasadena, California, USA
Workshop Presentations and Papers
Objectives
- Provide a forum for the space community to discuss current activities in mission operations and knowledge management, share best practices, and provide focused discussion on specific topics
- Communicate and bring focus to applied knowledge management activities oriented in the mission operations arena
People working in the following areas should attend:
- Aerospace industry
- Government space agencies
- Academic researchers in applied methods (students are encouraged)
- Knowledge management professionals focused on the aerospace community
Conference Format
- Keynote and all-session lectures
- Exhibitor area and demonstrations (vendors and case studies from organizations)
- Break-out focus topics (half or full day)
- Birds-of-a-feather lunches
- Panel discussions
Key Focus Areas for Discussion and Papers
The following areas will be given priority for selection:
Capturing Knowledge of Humans and Organizations (Track Chair: Tim Howell, Pratt Whitney & Rocketdyne; Charlotte Linde, NASA Ames Research Center)
- Capturing knowledge from (retiring) experts and daily activities
- Capturing knowledge across multiple spirals within the Exploration Systems framework
- Cultural issues for knowledge sharing
Latest Research Trends and Technologies (Track Chair: Douglas Roberts, Northrop Grumman)
- Advancements in KM technologies and techniques
- Understanding and advancing technology readiness levels (TRL) for KM systems
- Semantic Web technologies for knowledge sharing
- Creating and sharing ontologies
- Virtual reality and gaming for collaboration and knowledge modeling
Applied Knowledge Capture and Reuse (Track Chair: Mark Britton, Northrop Grumman)
- Proposal information: how to share across organizations without violating competition sensitive information
- Embracing the use of tools that deal with internal competition
- Ways to capture and reuse knowledge in a business office environment
- Delivery of decision support systems to decision makers
- Using the Web to achieve information management and decision support
Creating Synergistic Systems (Track Chairs: Jan Corbin, NASA Kennedy Space Center; Estelle Dodson, NASA Ames Research Center)
- Assessing overlaps of tools for cost efficiency (including document management)
- Leverage knowledge across the Agency more easily
- Standards based approach to KM technologies-recommendations for standards, definition and clarity of standards
- Coordination of activities between and among Centers and partners
Collaboration in a Global World (Track Chair: Paul Krivonos, California State University, Northridge)
- Technologies used for collaboration
- Processes for sharing with international partners and projects
- Applications and case studies for working on international missions and innovation
Legal and Competitive Issues for International Missions (Track Chair: Joseph Williamson, Electronic Data Systems Corporation)
- Traceability for intellectual property to promote innovation
- Aspects for international collaboration
- Working securely across international boundaries
Architectural Challenges and Solutions (Track Chairs: Mr. Hiroaki Tateshita, Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA); Linda Holmes, Canadian Space Agency)
- Architectural principles needed before funding or promotion of KM systems
- Infrastructure and information architecture for integrating content
- Business rules and processes for Knowledge Management and a Chief Knowledge Officer
- Infrastructure security model and enterprise architecture needs to be integrated
- Simple ways to access classes of knowledge such as Enterprise Architecture
- Futurist views of where we are heading with collaboration Important Dates
SUBMISSION FORMATS
Papers or Presentations
Authors are invited to submit original, unpublished research papers and/or presentations. At least one author will be required to attend
the conference to present the paper. Manuscripts should contain no more than 5000 words and be printed with 10- or 12-point font.
Electronic submission of manuscripts, preferably in PDF format, is required. Submissions should include the paper title, abstract, name
of authors, their affiliation, e-mail address, and postal address. In addition, the author responsible for correspondence should include
their telephone number and complete e-mail address.
Exhibitions and Demonstrations
If you are interested in having an exhibit or demonstration kiosk for your company or KM solution, there will be a limited number of
exhibit areas. Please contact Celeste Merryman, 408.752.9956.
Optional Formats
Options to presentations include panel discussions, workshops, and tutorials. If you are interested in proposing one of these, please
contact the track chair noted for the area of interest to discuss the option and then comply with the submission dates above.
For more information, please contact Celeste Merryman, 408.752.9956.
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