Available until the second exam at Sept 03. 2010
This page describes the course "Knowledge Management", and provides links to the course material.
Content of the Lecture
In this course the topic knowledge management in companies is discussed from the view of informatics. Therefore, the first part of the lecture focus on the disscusion of different models and terms of knowledge management. The main part of the lecture focuses on methods to support the key steps of knowledge management, like knowledge extraction, organization, and usage of knowledge.
Concrete Technologies, which are treated in this context are:
- Information Search
- Text Mining und Informations Extraction
- Expert Search
- Analyse of Social Networks
Organization
The course is split up in a lecture and an exercise. They are taking place once a week according to the following timetable:
- Lectures: Monday 12:00-13:45 at A 5, 6 Bauteil C - C 013 (weekly, first appointment: 15.02.)
- Exercises:
- German Language: Wednesday 13:45-15:15 at A 5, 6 Bauteil C - C 013 (weekly, first appointment: 03.03.)
- English Language: Wednesday 15:30-17:00 at A 5, 6 Bauteil C - C 013 (weekly, first appointment: 03.03.)
Dates and Topics
Preliminary lecture plan:
- Monday, 15.02. Introduction / Organizational Issues (Slides)
- Monday, 22.02. Foundations of Knowledge Management (Slides)
- Monday, 01.03. Searching for Information (Slides)
- Monday, 08.03. Search Engines (Slides)
- Monday, 15.03. Clustering (Slides)
- Monday, 22.03. Classification (Slides)
- Monday, 12.04. Information Extraction 1 (Slides)
- Monday, 19.04. Information Extraction 2 (Slides)
- Monday, 26.04. Expert Finding (Slides)
- Monday, 03.05. Social Networks 1 (Slides_a,Slides_b)
- Monday, 10.05. Social Networks 2 (Slides)
- Monday, 17.05. Interviews and Questionaires 1
- Wednesday, 19.05. Interviews and Questionaires 2 (Slides for 1 and 2)
- Exam: 17.06.
Exercise Sheets
The exercise sheets must be processed in groups of 2-3 persons. The sheets will be given to you every Wednesday in the exercise. All solutions have to be submitted until the following Monday to Jan Nößner per E-Mail (jan@informatik.uni-mannheim.de
- Exercise Sheet 1
- Exercise Sheet 3
- Exercise Sheet 4
- Exercise Sheet 5
- Exercise Sheet 6
- Exercise Sheet 7
- Exercise Sheet 8
- Exercise Sheet 9
- Exercise Sheet 10 (last)
- Topic: Interviews and Questionnaires 1 and 2
- Download: Exercise Sheet: here
- Download: Exercise Slides: here
- Solution Exercise 1 (Flow Chart) here
- Deadline: Monday, 31.05.2010, 23:59
- We will not have an additional Exercise. Thus, I will send you my corrections per Mail and I will provide a possible solution online.
This year we provide an Exercise Competition. The final ranking is:
- A-Team (won the free evening with drinks)
- Saturn
- VZVZ-Gruppe
Test Exam
Here, we provide a test exam from the year before. Please note, that some exercises are not longer actual since the lecture is reset this year.
Exam
The exam will take place on the 17.06. The exact time and place will be announced at the "Studierendenprotal" (https://portal.uni-mannheim.de/) of the University of Mannheim.
Literatur
The following literature is relevant for the lecture, references that are of special interest for the written exam are listed in italics.
- Jakob Rehäuser, Helmut Krcmar: Wissensmanagement im Unternehmen.
- Mark Stefik, Introduction to Knowledge Systems, Morgan Kauffmann, 2004. Kapitel 3: Knowledge Engineering and Software Engineering.
- Andreas Diekmann: Empirische Sozialforschung. Grundlagen, Methoden, Anwendungen. Rowohlts Enzyklopädien. rororo.
19. Auflage 2008. Kapitel X. (in Lehrbuchsammlung Sozialwissenschaften vorhanden) - Erica Cosijn and Theo Bothma: Contexts of Relevance for Information Retrieval System Design, Springer 2005.
- Birger Hjørland and Frank Sejer Christensen
Work tasks and socio-cognitive relevance: A specific
example. Journal of the American Society for Information Science
and Technology, Vol. 53, No. 11, pp. 960-965, 2002. - Dorothea Jansen: Einführung in die Netzwerkanalyse. Grundlagen, Methoden, Forschungsbeispiele. 3. Überarbeitete Auflage 2006 Kapitel 3-6 (in Lehrbuchsammlung Sozialwissenschaften vorhanden)
Forum and Mailing List
We build up a forum for this exercise, where questions concerning the lecture and the exercise can be discussed (link to Forum).
Students can login with their university rumms name and password (click on "Anmelden" on the top right). There is no need to create a separate forum account. Students of other universities, please write an E-Mail (Name, Uni, Major) to the exercise instructor.
Further, we provide a mailing list at lski-km-stud(at)informatik.uni-mannheim.de. Please use the following website to register https://mailman.uni-mannheim.de/mailman/listinfo/lski-km-stud.