INTRODUCTION Rural emergency departments (EDs) generally have limited access to continuing education and are typically staffed by clinicians without pediatric emergency specialty training. Emergency care of children is complex and the majority of children receive emergency care in non-pediatric tertiary care centers. In recent decades, there has been a call to action to improve quality and safe...

This article proposes an architecture to support information and knowledge exchange between collaborating business partners. The focus is on knowledge representation and exchange by intelligent agents to support collaborative business functions through agents that exchange problem-specific information in standardized formats. The article then shows the application of the proposed architecture i...

The paper describes an algorithm for discretization (categoriza-tion) of numerical attributes in Knowledge EXpolorer (Kex). The idea is to discretize the numerical attribute(s) in such way, that the resulting categorization ts the way how Knowledge Explorer creates the knowledge base. Experimental results show a comparison of performance of Kex, KnowledgeSeeker and CN4 on an economic data set c...

There is evidence that the highlighting of the same data items in different views will improve the proficiency of knowledge acquisition tasks. Making the connection for the user will reduce the cognitive load of switching from one view to another and allows making observations that would not be possible from the two separate views. However, making the connection between conceptually different v...

Organizations consider more and more the collaborative aspects to exchange information and knowledge, in complete and correct way, among different systems. These organizations involve many specialists from different domains, with wide-ranging knowledge. Consequently, knowledge is now regarded as a strategic asset which must be managed, with an increasing need for representation formalisms and d...

This paper comprises discussion on the research findings of this study into how apps can be used in the classroom to collaboratively promote construction of mathematical knowledge in children in ways that fundamentally transform the instructional environment. The study results identify how children enact viewing skills through digital texts to acquire new knowledge in their addition and subtrac...

This chapter presents a tool for knowledge acquisition for user profiling in electronic commerce. The knowledge acquisition in e-commerce is a challenging task that requires specific tools in order to facilitate the knowledge transfer from the user to the system. The proposed tool is based on a hierarchical user model and is agent-based. The architecture of the tool incorporates four software a...