Web Service Based Business Processes Automation Using Semantic Personal Information Management Systems - The Semantic Life Case -- Activation of Knowledge in an Integrated Business Process Support/Knowledge Management System -- Innovation Management in a Multi-national Corporation's Subsidiary of Ireland's Evolving Knowledge Economy -- Ontology-Based Business Knowledge for Simulating Threats to Corporate Assets -- Knowledge Work Productivity: Where to Start -- Taba Workstation: Supporting Technical Solution Through Knowledge Management of Design Rationale -- Extraction and Analysis of Knowledge Worker Activities on Intranet -- Knowledge Sharing to Support Collaborative Engineering at PLM Environment -- Knowledge Management Systems and Organizational Change Management: The Case of Siemens ShareNet -- Measuring Business Feedback Cycles as Enhancement of the Support Knowledge Engineering Process -- DKOMP: A Peer-to-Peer Platform for Distributed Knowledge Management -- From Design Errors to Design Opportunities Using a Machine Learning Approach -- Text Mining Through Semi Automatic Semantic Annotation -- Extended Ontological Model for Distance Learning Purpose -- A Peer-to-Peer Virtual Office for Organizational Knowledge Management -- Mining and Supporting Task-Stage Knowledge: A Hierarchical Clustering Technique -- Towards a Process Model for Identifying Knowledge-Related Structures in Product Data -- Common Knowledge Based Access to Disparate Semantic Spaces: The Ontology Switching Approach -- A Meta-Model for Intellectual Capital Reporting -- Assessment of Effective Utilization of KM Technologies as a Function of Organizational Culture -- Structured Knowledge Transfer in Small and Medium Sized Enterprises -- How to Transfer a Knowledge Management Approach to an Organization - A Setof Patterns and Anti-patterns -- Developing a Model for Linking Knowledge Management Systems and Intellectual Capital Measurement -- Synergizing Standard and Ad-Hoc Processes -- Increasing Search Quality with the Semantic Desktop in Proposal Development -- Managing Many Web Service Compositions by Task Decomposition and Service Quality Evaluation -- Towards an Ontology for Knowledge Management in Communities of Practice -- Designing a Knowledge Management Approach for the CAMRA Community of Science -- Knowledge Management for a Large Service-Oriented Corporation.

The biennial PAKM Conference Series o?ers a communication platform and meeting ground for practitioners and researchers involved in developing and deploying advanced business solutions for the management of knowledge in - ganizations. PAKM is a forum for people to share their views, exchange ideas, develop new insights, and envision completely new kinds of knowledge mana- ment solutions. PAKM 2006, the Sixth International Conference on Practical Aspects of Knowledge Management, was held again in Vienna. It was a milestone for two reasons: First, it marked an anniversary - 10 years of PAKM conferences. The ?rst conference was held in Basel, Switzerland, in 1996, followed by the conf- ences in 1998 and 2000, in Basel as well. After that PAKM moved to Vienna where it was held in 2002, 2004, and 2006. Secondly, from now on PAKM will be "on tour": It will be organized by di?erent people and be hosted at di?erent places all over the world. The PAKM Steering Committee will be responsible for selecting the conference chairs and the conference locations. The Steering Committee will also be responsible for the direction the PAKM conferences will take and will ensure their continuing high quality. For this year's conference we received 123 submissions from 30 countries.