Existing technical and legal definitions of identification and closely related privacy concepts show a confused and often circular semantics, in particular when applied to a digital environment. We examine the ontology of digital identification in the wider context of privacy. We begin with a formal definition of the ́identical ́ relation between 2 nyms and from this we derive a quantifiable not...

Over the past two decades, Germany experienced several periods of banking system instability rather than full-blown banking system crises. In this paper we introduce a continuous and forward-looking stability indicator for the banking system based on information on all financial institutions in Germany between 1995 and 2010. Explaining this measure by means of panel regression techniques, we id...

Background. Knowledge management in successful sports organizations is associated with their sustainability, continuity, and achievement of long-lasting competitive sports results. Objectives. This study aims to identify athletic knowledge management and its role in achieving a competitive advantage in the sports work environment in Jordan. Methods. The study sample consists of (60) male and ...

Software development involves several people with very different skills: customers, managers, accountants, business analysts, systems analysts, designers, developers, etc. Each one of them tends to focus on his or her specific aspect and to consider it the cornerstone of the whole development process. To involve these people in the software development there are many different views of the same...

The paper aim is to investigate how Customer Knowledge Processes used in practice by Jordanian banks to achieve customer knowledge expansion. The empirical study is based on a sample of the data collected from 165 respondents, drawn randomly from six banks. The results show that the seven selected factors (Customer Knowledge Codification, Customer Knowledge Representation, Customer Knowledge Sh...

X-Media is an integrated Project funded by the European Commission, which addresses the issue of knowledge management in complex distributed environments. It will study, develop and implement large scale methodologies and techniques for knowledge management able to support sharing and reuse of knowledge that is distributed across different media (images, documents and data) and repositories (da...

This research used vicarious-learning procedures in an attempt to increase students’ knowledge of the domain and enhance the quality of their questions in an intelligent tutoringsystem involving computer-controlled animated agents. Students who overheard a dialogue in which a virtual tutee asked a virtual tutor questions during acquisition wrote significantly more in free recall and asked signi...

Constraint-based recommenders support customers in identifying relevant items from complex item assortments. In this paper we present a constraint-based environment already deployed in real-world scenarios that supports knowledge acquisition for recommender applications in a MediaWiki-based context. This technology provides the opportunity do directly integrate informal Wiki content with comple...