AAAI 1997 Spring Symposium Reports

covery in databases and attempt to formulate the potential role of various AI subdisciplines in KM. Those attending represented a wide range of industries and areas relevant to AI research and application. The symposium began with keynote addresses on industrial requirements for KM by Vince Barabba of General Motors and Rob van der Spek of CIBIT. The remainder of the meeting was devoted to intensive group discussion of the role of AI in KM, including a joint session with the Symposium on Ontological Engineering. The sessions were entitled Organizational Knowledge Management, Work-Flow Management, Knowledge Management through Hypermedia and Text Processing, Cognitive Aspects of Knowledge Management, Agents and Multiactor Systems, Knowledge Representation and Reasoning, and Knowledge Discovery. The accepted papers were made available to participants in advance of the meeting through the World Wide Web and will remain available at ksi.cpsc.ucalgary.ca/AIKM97.