Research centers and universities are knowledge-intensive institutions, where the knowledge creation and distribution are constant – and this knowledge should be managed. In spite of it, scientific work had been known for being solitary work, in which human interaction happened only in small groups within a research domain. Nowadays, due to technology improvements, scientific data from differen...

BACKGROUND Despite the potential population-level impact of a health-promoting schools approach, schools face challenges in implementation, indicating a gap between school health research and practice. Knowledge exchange provides an opportunity to reduce this gap; however, there has been limited evaluation of these initiatives. This research explored researchers' and knowledge users' perception...

In data exchange, one is typically given a source database instance and a mapping between a source schema and a target schema. The goal then is to materialize a target database instance that corresponds to the source instance and the mapping. In this setting source data is explicitly given, that is, every fact that is true in it is explicitly mentioned in the source database instance. Knowledge...

The more domain knowledge individual participants of a group decision process share with each other, the higher the probability of high-quality decision outcomes. In this paper we report the results of an initial empirical study conducted on the basis of a group decision support environment. In this study, groups were confronted with recommendations with a varying degree of diversity. The highe...

We are interested in applying model checking techniques to the verification of communication protocols which require safe communication. Typically, in such scenarios, one desires to demonstrate that one party can reliably communicate information to another party without a third party being able to determine this information. Our approach involves using the modal logic of knowledge, which has on...

Knowledge base exchange can be considered as a generalization of data exchange in which the aim is to exchange between a source and a target connected through mappings, not only explicit knowledge, i.e., data, but also implicit knowledge in the form of axioms. Such problem has been investigated recently using Description Logics (DLs) as representation formalism, thus assuming that the source an...