Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to present a prototype ontology-based application that has been developed for competency management and learning paths. Design/methodology/approach – The paper provides an overview of competency management and related work in this area, a description of the competency ontology, and a functional and architectural analysis. Findings – The paper provides info...

My paper discusses system consequence, which is a central idea in the project to lift the theory of information flow to the general level of universal logic and the theory of institutions. At the same time, it uses ideas from information flow to extend the theory of institutions. ICCS 2009, 26–31 July 2009 System Consequence Table of

It is well acknowledged that Human Resources are one of the most important assets of a company; as a consequence, Competency Management became a well established approach for organizing workforce recruitment, training and development. At the same time, Competency Management is more and more moving towards a tight integration with business and knowledge management frameworks, having a crucial ro...

PURPOSE This study was done to provide fundamental data for the development of competency reinforcement programs to prevent addictive behavior in adolescents through the construction and examination of an addiction prevention core competency model. METHODS In this study core competencies for preventing addictive behavior in adolescents through competency modeling were identified, and the addi...

Welcome to the 12th Annual International conference on Computational Science, to be held in Omaha, USA. This year’s conference will take place in Omaha, the heart of USA, at the Embassy suites – Downtown/Old Market. ICCS 2012 is organized by the University of Nebraska at Omaha, Universiteit van Amsterdam, the University of Tennessee, Nanyang Technological University, and Chinese Academy of Scie...