Practical Aspects of Knowledge Management

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Practical Aspects of Knowledge Management, PAKM 2008, held in Yokohama, Japan, in November 2008.

The 23 revised full papers presented together with 2 invited lectures were carefully reviewed and selected from 62 submissions. All aspects of knowledge management and their role in next-generation business solutions are addressed in perspective to business and organisation sciences, cognitive science, and computer science. The papers are organized in topical sections on knowledge sharing, collaboration platforms, content-oriented retrieval, knowledge acquisition, knowledge management solutions, knowledge mining from data, text and the Web, ontology, and knowledge utilization.