This paper reports a cross-cultural analysis of Wikipedia communities of practice (CoPs). First, this paper argues that Wikipedia communities can be analyzed and understood as CoPs. Second, the similarities and differences in norms of behaviors across three different languages (English, Hebrew, and Japanese) and on three types of discussion spaces (Talk, User Talk, and Wikipedia Talk) are ident...

Based on social network perspective, we developed a model about the knowledge sharing of communities of practice (CoPs), analyzed the knowledge sharing of CoPs from the view of the network density, network centrality, network structure. And we found out that only the above indexes are kept in appropriately level can stimulate the knowledge sharing in CoPs. The strong ties contribute to the tran...

BACKGROUND Patient satisfaction is an important indicator of quality of care in hospitals. Reliable and valid instruments to measure clinical and outpatient satisfaction already exist. Recently hospitals have increasingly provided day care, i.e., admitting patients for one day without an overnight stay. This article describes the adaption of the 'Core questionnaire for the assessment of Patient...

Communities of Practice (CoPs) are groups of people that interact regularly to deepen their knowledge on a specific topic. Thanks to information and communication technologies, CoPs can involve experts distributed across countries and adopt a 'transnational' membership. This has allowed the strategy to be applied to domains of knowledge such as health policy with a global perspective. CoPs repr...

BACKGROUND Since being identified as a concept for understanding knowledge sharing, management, and creation, communities of practice (CoPs) have become increasingly popular within the health sector. The CoP concept has been used in the business sector for over 20 years, but the use of CoPs in the health sector has been limited in comparison. OBJECTIVES First, we examined how CoPs were define...

Dynamic service level negotiation is necessary to flexibly allocate resources according to QoS demands of a host or a domain. We have designed COPS-SLS as a service level negotiation protocol for IP-based networks. In this paper, we analyse a COPS-SLS-based negotiation system from the protocol design and system’s scalability perspectives. This analysis is useful not only to the improvement of t...

We theoretically analyze the Cops and Robber Game for the first time in a multidimensional grid. It is shown that for an ndimensional grid, at least n cops are necessary to ensure capture of the robber. We also present a set of cop strategies for which n cops are provably sufficient to catch the robber. Further, for two-dimensional grid, we provide an efficient cop strategy for which the robber...

Keywords: Communities of practice Large-scale agile software development Scaling agile a b s t r a c t Context: Communities of practice—groups of experts who share a common interest or topic and collectively want to deepen their knowledge—can be an important part of a successful lean and agile adoption in particular in large organizations. Objective: In this paper, we present a study on how a l...

Purpose – This main aim of this article is to explore the relationship between knowledge management (KM) and communities of practice (CoPs) in general and virtual CoPs in particular. A subsidiary aim is to provide some practical guidelines about how virtual CoPs can be facilitated and maintained. Design/methodology/approach – The relationship between KM and CoPs is explored using theoretical co...