An important feature of any knowledge-intensive organisations is its ability to learn. This includes the ability to learn external knowledge, but also the ability to learn from others inside the organization. Hence, the knowledge must be shared amongst the organisation members, and it has to be offered in an efficient way. Portalisation is one effective way to transfer the right educational con...

The patients of today are more often than previously said to act as consumers towards healthcare. However, the definition of the concept of consumer is often unclear and not based on theory. The present paper applies a theoretical framework that emphasizes the role of technological devices for the construction of calculating consumers as outlined by Michel Callon. The focus is on to what extent...

Neben der wichtigen Klärung der fachlichen Abstimmung in allen Phasen des Risikound Katastrophenmanagements nimmt die Bereitstellung einer geeigneten Software-Infrastruktur eine zunehmend wichtigere Rolle ein. Der Beitrag betrachtet diese Anforderungen aus der Sicht der Informatik an Hand der Konzeption eines Web-Portals zur Kernreaktor-Fernüberwachung (KFÜ) und des EU-Projekts ORCHESTRA beschr...

We propose a methodology to monitor the quality of the meta-data used to describe content in web portals. It is based on the analysis of the meta-data using statistics, visualization and data mining tools. The methodology enables the site’s editor to detect and correct problems in the description of contents, thus improving the quality of the web portal and the satisfaction of its users. We als...

objectives: the awareness of citizens leads to access to their rights. in addition to natural rights (that are noted in many investigations) people have rights that are called social rights. this survey investigates some rights that are related to the responsibilities and missions of urban management. with revising of the notion of active citizenship, citizens need purposive participation. so a...

ii iii CONTENTS Page LIST OF TABLES v LIST OF FIGURES v ABSTRACT vi ACKNOWLEDGMENTS vii 1. CONTEXT 1 2. INTERNAL MIGRATION AND POPULATION CHANGE REVIEWED 3 2.1 Migration, urbanisation and suburbanisation waves 3 2.1.1 Concentration during the post war period to the 1970s 3 2.1.2 Concentrated dispersion: the 1970s 6 2.1.3 Concentration and dispersion: the 1980s 8 2.2 The interplay of fertility, ...

Community portals such as blogs, wikis and photo sharing sites have become the new channels for information dissemination on the Web. When searching for information, many results end up in some type of community site. However, one cannot make use of the wealth of information that is available through the preferences of one's thematic social network, or through bookmarks or other documents, only...

News websites are one of the most visited destinations on the web. As there are many news portals created on a daily basis, each having its own preference for which news are important, detecting unbiased important news might be useful for users to keep up to date with what is happening in the world. In this work we present a method for identifying top news in the web environment that consists o...

Hospital portals are becoming increasingly popular since they play an important role to provide, acquire and exchange information. Knowledge management (KM) mechanisms will be useful to hospitals that need to manage health related information, and to exchange and share information with their patients and visitors. This paper presents a comprehensive analysis of knowledge management mechanisms u...

With the development of the Internet, professionals in different industries or specialized areas have an increasing need for information exchange and social support. Therefore, industry or specialized web portals present a new opportunity in the Internet business. This paper presents a growth model for industry web portals. The model contains five stages: preparation stage, attraction stage, co...