Purpose

Knowledge representation has a long tradition in logic and cognitive science. Automated reasoning with anthologies and categories had been discussed in philosophy, before it was formalized in artificial intelligence and, e.g., applied information systems. But, most of our knowledge is implicit and unconscious, situated and personalized. It is not formally represented, but embodied knowledge, which is learnt by doing, applied by self-organization, and understood by bodily interacting with social environments. In a complex world, we have to be able to act and to decide with incomplete and fuzzy knowledge under the conditions of bounded rationality. The bounded rationality of embodied minds is a challenge of informatics especially in the complex information world of Internet applications and Web-based services offering access to a vast variety of information sources. Personalized informatics opens a new perspective for innovation coaching in learning organizations and management systems.

The 1st Sino-German Symposium on knowledge Handling: Representation and Personalized Application will be organized by Department of Educational Technology, Peking University, and Institute for Interdisciplinary Informatics, University of Augsburg. The purpose of this symposium is to exhibit the newest researches in the multi-disciplinary field of knowledge handling, make discussion on the hot and frontier topics, and further accelerate the communication and cooperation between scientists on both sides. In this symposium we focus not only on the computer-based representation but also on the management of knowledge for personalization tasks in learning organizations. Starting from the notion that most relevant information for personalization tasks cannot entirely be elicited as expert knowledge, but is embodied in the individual user (which is also consistent with current brain and cognitive research), we propose to use flexible preference-based frameworks to personalize computer systems under the paradigm of bounded rationality. This extends to complex e-learning systems as well as commercially highly relevant personalized applications for search engines, web services and novel approaches to human-computer interaction with mimics, gestures and emotions. In the current trend of cognitive science, informatics, and management theory, we want to support an effective innovation coaching by appropriate computational service systems.

In this symposium, the following topics will be discussed:
- cognitive conditions of human users in complex networks
- foundations of knowledge representation in information systems
- knowledge representation with natural language
- preferences and personalized information systems
- learning organization and innovation coaching
- knowledge representation and management in e-learning
- applications of personalized information systems in learning organizations and e-commerce

Substantive results will be obtained by discussing these above topics which will accelerate the collaborative development of both countries in the fields of knowledge representation, promote the solution in fields such as knowledge management, and keep up with the advanced level in the study of personalized information systems.

Both Chinese and German scientists have proposed the cooperation intention in the following aspects.
1) Representation of implicit and unconscious knowledge
2) Knowledge retrieval from natural language
3) Knowledge representation in e-learning systems
4) Personalization and adaptation of learning system and e-commerce
5) Situated and personalized human-computer interaction