The global trend for production of biofuels and bioproducts from renewable resources is currently steered by three important drivers: 1) increasing demand and prices of petroleumderived fuel; 2) increasing food needs; and 3) increasing greenhouse gas emissions. Biomass is the single renewable resource that has the potential to supplant the use of liquid transportation fuels now and help create ...

Car navigation systems are discussed in this study in terms of knowledge discovery, data mining and data quality. Since data, information and knowledge are inseparable levels of human cognition, integration of these methods aids to understand the real-world patterns for car navigation systems and add value. The car navigation system is multi-purpose, multi-scale, multi-temporal and varying user...

Whereas the use of Enterprise Social Networks (ESN) is a pervasive topic in research and practice, both parties are still struggling to come to a better understanding of the role and impact of ESN in and on knowledge-intensive corporate work. As a part of this phenomenon, employees who communicate their knowledge in ESN helping other users to do their daily work play a decisive role. We need to...