How do you make decisions? By thinking about the problem for a little while and then deciding in favor of "what feels right?" Does the way you make a decision depend on how important the decision is? Have you ever overlooked critical information at the time when you originally made the decision and why did you? Do you ever have to go back, re-think, and then decide differently, and if so, how d...

Managing knowledge is crucial in our economy. We derive requirements on personal knowledge management (finding, reminding, collaboration, knowledge re-use and cognitively adequate interfaces) from cognitive psychological research and analyse the limitations of current solutions. We introduce a restful, wiki-based, open architecture for semantic personal knowledge management that fulfills the an...

Structured Abstract Purpose – Designing a model and tools that are (a) capable of representing and handling personal knowledge in different degrees of structuredness and formalisation and (b) usable and extensible by end-users. Design/methodology/approach – This paper presents the result of analysing literature and various data-models and formalism used to structure information on the desktop. ...

In the research project EPOS we build a pro-active, contextsensitive support system to aid the user with his knowledge work, which is mostly about searching, reading, creating, and archiving of documents. In order to avoid distracting the user, the context gathering is realized by installable user observation plugins for standard applications such as Mozilla Firefox and Thunderbird. The main pa...

nowadays, most of the experts believe that organizations should select effective ways for diffusing organizational knowledge among their human resources. bias and his coworkers believe that the principal aspect of each enterprise is creation and transmission of interorganizational knowledge. therefore, the necessity of recognition and use of effective ways for sharing and transmission of knowle...

the study was conducted among the two farmer groups in bhaktapur and kavre districts of nepal. the main objective of the study is to evaluate the effectiveness of ipm ffs on creating awareness and disseminating the knowledge on sustainable pest management to the farmers and to assess the relationships between enhanced ipm knowledge and adoption of ipm strategies by the farmers. the study has be...

In this paper we extend the Semantic Desktop with a novel input modality: handwriting on paper. This extension allows for annotating printed documents with handwritten notes, which are then recognized, interpreted and integrated into the personal knowledge space. Thus it supports personal knowledge work on paper. In particular, the user can mark any text segment and annotate it with his or her ...