Learning does not stop when an individual leaves formal education, but becomes increasingly informal, and deeply embedded within other activities such as work. This article describes the challenges of informal learning in knowledge intensive industries, highlighting the important role of personal learning networks. The article argues that knowledge workers must be able to self-regulate their le...

One of the goals of the “Language Technology for LifeLong Learning” project is the creation of an appropriate methodology to support both formal and informal learning. Services are being developed that are based on the interaction between a formal representation of (domain) knowledge in the form of an ontology created by experts and a social component which complements it, that is tags and soci...

Edman, A. (2001). Combining Knowledge Systems and Hypermedia for User Co-operation and Learning. 131 pp. Uppsala. ISBN 91-506-1526-2. Hypermedia systems and knowledge systems can be viewed as flip sides of the same coin. The former are designed to convey information and the latter to solve problems; developments beyond the basic techniques of each system type require techniques from the other t...

Today, with the increase in the elderly population and life expectancy, the need to use care services for this significant part of the population is increasing. Beliefs, cultures, and social norms among different ethnicities and races are vital in the extent and nature of care. Two types of care exist, informal and formal. According to statistics by the Secretariat of the National Council on Ag...

While classifications are heavily used to categorize web content, the evolution of the web foresees a more formal structure – ontology which can serve this purpose. Ontologies are core artifacts of the Semantic Web which enable machines to use inference rules to conduct automated reasoning on data. Lightweight ontologies bridge the gap between classifications and ontologies. A lightweight ontol...

This paper is concerned with the saddle-path stability of monetary growth rules in a two-country two-sector dynamic stochastic general equilibrium model. Alongside standard features of emerging economies, such as a combination of producer and local currency pricing for exports, fiscal dominance and oil exports, this model also incorporates informal labour and production sectors and examines how...