There is an obvious shift of focus towards the Web, as people spend more of their time and store more of their data online. However, the desktop still handles a large amount of the personal data. The Semantic Desktop brings semantics to the desktop, better interlinking and organization of the data, thus allowing better management. However, in spite of common representation formats, personal and...

This paper aims to use a priority framework based on Decision making trial and evaluation laboratory (DEMATEL) to help organizations build awareness of the critical influential factors affecting successful implementation of KM. To identify critical influential factors, the authors studied and reviewed relevant literature from numerous fields of study associated with the essential issues of ...

In this paper, we introduce ontology-centric knowledge organization approach to realize knowledge base system for sharing and reuse of knowledge. Since ontology is an intermediate level of information representation between the model and media level of information, it can work to bridge multiple models and multiple users. To share personal information among users, they must share their manners ...

This paper reviews current critiques of Kolb’s experiential learning theory. Critiques converge on the belief that the theory places undo emphasis on the role of individual experience at the expense of social, political, and cultural elements of learning. This paper suggests that such critiques are based on a limited, selective, or simplistic reading of the initial theory. The theoretical relat...

Al Buraimi University College (BUC) is one of the well-known private colleges in The Sultanate of Oman, in Al Dhahra region, which is affiliated with California State University Northridge (CSUN), USA. It is well-known that Knowledge management can help in identifying the gaps and weaknesses in organizations and suggesting effective solutions. This paper focuses on the learning process itself. ...

Given the increasing interest in using social software for company-internal communication and collaboration, this paper examines drivers and inhibitors of micro-blogging adoption at the workplace. While nearly one in two companies is currently planning to introduce social software, there is no empirically validated research on employees’ adoption. In this paper, we build on previous focus group...

Wearable computers, such as PDAs and cell phones, are proliferating in organizations. This paper introduces a methodology for leveraging this wearable infrastructure to provide insight to the underlying social dynamics of an organization. The work lays a foundation that will enable a variety of applications, from knowledge management to organizational simulation.

A new approach in control engineering (“Information Processing for Action”) is presented, in which control, computers, communication and cognition play equal rôles in addressing real-life problems from very small-scale devices to very large-scale industrial processes and non-technical applications. Thus, the C2 paradigm of “Computers for Control” is shifting towards the C4 paradigm of “Computer...

We study novel variations of Voronoi games and associated random processes that we call Voronoi choice games. These games provide a rich framework for studying questions regarding the power of small numbers of choices in multi-player, competitive scenarios, and they further lead to many interesting, non-trivial random processes that appear worthy of study. As an example of the type of problem w...