14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 Abstract. This chapter focuses on the challenge of developing a comprehensive model of knowledge value tracking within virtual Communities of Practice (CoPs) outlining the conditions of knowledge value creation, diffusion and storing. Built upon a study of participation and reification processes within virtual CoPs, the model identifies a...

Effective and efficient information sharing for reuse and analysis of scientific data from published research papers is an important challenge for researchers working within the empirical software engineering (EMSE) domain. Currently, there is only limited support for storing empirical research data and results in a way that is easy to access and reuse for other researchers. In this paper, we p...

  Background: Personal Information Management (PIM) refers to the tools and activities to save and retrieve personal information for future uses. This study examined the PIM activities of faculty members of Iran University of Medical Sciences (IUMS) regarding their preferred PIM tools and four aspects of acquiring, organizing, storing and retrieving personal information.   Methods : The qualita...

In recent years there has been a growing interest among product development organizations to capitalize on engineering knowledge as their core competitive advantage for innovation. Capturing, storing, retrieval, sharing and reusing of engineering knowledge from a wide range of enterprise memory systems have become crucial activities of knowledge management practice in competitive organizations....

Applications which use human speech as an input require a speech interface with high recognition accuracy. The words or phrases in the recognized text are annotated with a machineunderstandable meaning and linked to knowledge graphs for further processing by the target application. This type of knowledge representation facilitates to use speech interfaces with any spoken input application, sinc...

This paper reports a phenomenographic study of how introductory students view objects that have been created and stored by an object-oriented program. By analyzing student interviews, we identify five categories of description, each representing a different kind of understanding of the phenomenon. Of these categories, some represent viable understandings that we would like our students to have....

Traditionally, text is stored on computers as a stremn of characters. The goal of this research is to store text in a form that facilitates word manipulation whilst reducing storage space. A word list with syntactic linear ordering is stored and words in a text are given two-byte integer codes that point to their respective positions in this list. The implementation of the encoding scheme is de...

Within the PIPS (Personal Information Platform for life and health Services) project a novel knowledge representation method, called Knowledge Cartography has been developed. It allows for inference and for storing inferred results. Knowledge Cartography aims at storing in a knowledge base as many conclusions about concepts and individuals as possible. The conclusions can be quickly retrieved i...

BACKGROUND Crystal storing histiocytosis (CSH) is a rare disorder characterized by accumulation of histiocytes containing crystalline material inclusions. This entity can be misdiagnosed as infection or tumor. We present a case of idiopathic CSH mimicking metastatic squamous cell carcinoma in a cervical lymph node and review of literature regarding this rare entity. METHODS AND RESULTS The pa...

In this paper we present the AgentComponent (AC) approach under formal aspects. A multi agent system (MAS) is composed of AC instances, where each AC instance consists of a knowledge base, storing the beliefs, of slots, storing the communication partners, of a set of ontologies, and of so-called ProcessComponents (PC) representing the behaviours an AC instance. An AC is a generic component that...