Modern enterprises need to be agile and dynamically support decision making processes at several levels. To achieve that, critical information need to be available at the right point in a timely manner, and in the right form. The data stream that flows from the real world devices towards enterprise systems, needs to be integrated, processed within a specific context and be communicated on-deman...

Many river rehabilitation projects have been criticized for failing to meet their goals or being insufficiently monitored. There is, therefore, an urgent need develop robust approaches assessing treatment efficacy and thus guide the increasing investment in rehabilitation. Instream biotopes (formerly called ‘functional habitats’ ‘mesohabitats’ by different authors) macroinvertebrate assemblages...

In the complex and dynamic environment of electronic marketplaces, organisations need to identify the issues that will impact on their identification and realisation of benefits. This research uses a case study of a multinational organisation to further an understanding of the perceived benefits gained in the early stages of participation in an e-marketplace for the purchase of goods and servic...

Although today’s web search engines are very powerful, they still fail to provide intuitively relevant results for many types of queries, especially ones that are vaguely-formed in the user’s own mind. We argue that associations between terms in a search query can reveal the underlying information needs in the users’ mind and should be taken into account in search. We propose a multi-faceted ap...

This paper examines the communication needs of busy parents that can be served by awareness systems: systems supporting a continuous and semi-automated flow of information about the activities of communicating individuals. We report an online survey involving 69 participants. This survey focused on whether the types of information offered by awareness systems as these are introduced in current ...

The current investigation sought to examine the learning and target needs of mechanical engineering (ME) students based on the learners and instructors’ attitudes though an explanatory mixed-method design. To elicit learners’ perceptions of English for Science and Technology (EST), 114 ME undergraduate students and 13 EST instructors from four Iranian state universities took part in a large qua...

Recommender systems can mitigate the information overload problem and help workers retrieve knowledge based on their preferences. In a knowledge-intensive environment, knowledge workers need to access taskrelated codified knowledge (documents) to perform tasks. A worker’s document referencing behavior can be modeled as a knowledge flow (KF) to represent the evolution of his or her information n...