Brokers play a critical role in the evolution of innovation systems by accessing and diffusing external knowledge. However, while brokers’ activity allows benefits for entire system, it entails...

In this paper we address the problem of knowledge management and interoperability in virtual enterprise environments where knowledge is often fragmented and heterogeneous. We propose a knowledge repository and management infrastructure, called Production and Innovation Knowledge Repository (PIKR), to support open innovation in virtual enterprises. The PIKR provides a set of reference ontologies...

We describe in this paper the data management principles on which data processing is based in an embedded navigation system. We study this management in the framework of a Web-based navigation and spatial data visualization system. We use an Internet-based connection to download the data located on a distant data server and a Web browser interface to process and to visualize them locally. All d...

this paper aims to investigate the current status of coping with information resources: identifying, searching, accessing, evaluating and using information in academic libraries. in order to fulfill the aim of the study, 241 graduate students from 7 academic schools of islamic azad university, shiraz unit: faculty of humanities , economics and management , science , engineering , art and archit...

BACKGROUND Eight regional public health observatories were launched in England in February 2000, to strengthen the availability and use of health information and to support efforts to tackle health inequalities at local level. This qualitative study was carried out by the Merseyside and Cheshire Zone of the North West Public Health Observatory to assess the needs of local users and producers of...

Users of search systems are often reluctant to explicitly build profiles to indicate their search interests. Thus automatically building user profiles is an important research area for personalized search. One difficult component of doing this is accessing a knowledge system which provides broad coverage of user search interests. In this work, we describe a method to build category id based use...

Beirat • Comité consultatif Prof Dr. Boi Faltings (EPFL Lausanne), Prof. Dr. Stefan Klein (Universität Münster), Dr. Ernst Lebsanft (Synlogic AG, Binningen), Prof. Dr. Rudolf Marty (IFA Informatik, Zürich), Prof. Dr. Moira C. Norrie (ETH Zürich), Prof. Dr. Hans-Jörg Schek (ETH Zürich), Dr. Hans Stienen (Synscape, Binningen), Helmut Thoma (ITpro AG Basel), Dr. Reinhold Thurner (Herrliberg), Rudo...