1.Theoretical Aspects of Knowledge Management.

• Defining and Understanding Knowledge
• Types of Knowledge
• Philosophical underpinnings
• Ontologies of Knowledge Management
• Historical Underpinnings
• Organizations and the Inquiring Organization
• The People Perspective
• Knowledge Management Models

2.Processes of Knowledge Management.

• Knowledge Creation
• Knowledge Discovery
• Knowledge Acquisition
• Knowledge Classification
• Knowledge Verification and Validation
• Knowledge Codification
• Knowledge Calibration
• Modeling Knowledge
• Knowledge Integration
• Knowledge Sharing
• Knowledge Dissemination
• Knowledge Maintenance

3.Organizational and Social Aspects of Knowledge.

• Management.
• Knowledge Transfer
• Corporate Culture
• Motivation
• Organizational Memory
• Organizational Learning
• Cross-border knowledge
• Innovation Processes
• Social Capital
• Social Network Analysis
• Community-based knowledge
• Organizational Structure

4.Managerial Aspects of Knowledge Management.

• KM Strategies and Practices
• KM Systems Analysis and Design
• KM Systems Management and Lifecycle
• Human Resource Management

5.Legal Aspects of Knowledge Management

• Intellectual Property/Capital
• Privacy Issues
• Digital Rights Management
• Liability and the Reliance upon KM Systems
• Ethics

6.Technological Aspects of Knowledge Management

• Knowledge Representation
• Knowledge Organization and Indexing
• Meta-knowledge and Metadata
• Storage and Retrieval
• Presentation and Application Integration
• Artificial Intelligence in KM
• Computational Experimentation
• Data Mining in KM
• Other specific technologies impacting KM

7.Application-specific Knowledge Management Issues

• Biomedical Knowledge Management
• Commercial and Financial KM
• Industrial Knowledge Management
• Military Knowledge Management
• Mobile Knowledge Management
• Safety-Critical Systems
• Customer Knowledge Management
• Mathematical Knowledge Management
• KM in Counter-terrorism
• Higher Education
• Workflow Systems
• Engineering Design
• Legal Knowledge Management
• Social Welfare Organizations
• Franchise KM
• Software Maintenance Knowledge

8.Noteworthy Knowledge Management Systems and Initiatives