Scientific Instruments: Knowledge, Practice, and Culture [Editor’s Introduction]

Scientific Instruments: Knowledge, Practice, and Culture

Guest Editors Introduction: Special Issue on Scientific Cloud Computing

COMPUTATIONAL and Data-Driven Sciences have become the third and fourth pillar of scientific discovery in addition to experimental and theoretical sciences. Scientific Computing has transformed scientific discovery, enabling scientific breakthroughs through new kinds of experiments and simulations that would have been impossible only a decade ago. It is the key to solving grand challenges in ma...

Guest Editors' Introduction: Knowledge and Data Engineering for E-Learning

WITH the advent of the Internet, we are seeing more sophisticated techniques being developed to support e-learning. The rapid development of Web-based learning and new concepts like virtual classrooms, virtual laboratories, and virtual universities introduces many new issues to be addressed. On the technical side, we need to develop effective e-technologies for supporting distance education. On...

Guest Editors' Introduction: Mining Actionable Knowledge on the Web

T he Web—its resources and users—offers a wealth of information for data mining and knowledge discovery. Up to now, a great deal of work has been done applying data mining and machine learning methods to discover novel and useful knowledge on the Web. However, many techniques aim only at extracting knowledge for human

Editors' introduction special issue on multilingual knowledge management

To compete in today's fast-changing business environment , organizations around the globe have undertaken various initiatives to manage their most valuable yet volatile asset: knowledge. Knowledge originates in the minds of individuals [1] and is usually embedded in organizational repositories as well as routines, processes, practices and, norms [2]. Knowledge management refers to the systemati...