In this position paper we summarize our efforts to design, implement, and deploy the infrastructure for conversationally-based knowledge communities. We believe that managing knowledge or expertise really means providing an on-line workplace within which users can engage socially with one another, and, in the process, discover, develop, evolve, and explicate knowledge relevant to shared project...

life cycle assessment (lca) is one of the decision support systems which can be considered for assessing the different approaches of waste management. however, it only considers environmental effects and ignores other decision making options such as economic and social effects of solid waste management. in this research, we consider a combination of three decision making options including en...

physicians are constantly challenged by their patients themedia, and the rapid pace of technological advance to keep abreast of new diagnostic and therapeutic developments. evidence-based medicine (ebm) is the practice of making updated medical decisions through the judicious identification, evaluation and application of the most relevant published information. rcts are one of the best primary ...

Robots are increasingly tested in socially assistive scenarios. Future applications range from dieting, coaching, tutoring to autism therapy. In order to have a successful interaction with an artificial system, these systems need to have an interactional motivation model of how to assist users and encourage them to keep on with the task. In previous work, we have investigated how to build such ...