1. Introduction Efficient information management and the processes therein become more and more important within enterprises or when enterprises are merging together. Most information systems use specific data models and databases for this purpose. This implies that making new data available to the system requires, that the data be transferred, into the system's specific data format. This is a ...

Present kl-one-like knowledge base management systems (KBMS), whilst ooer-ing highly structured description languages aside eecient concepts classiication, have limited capability to manage large amounts of individuals. Data base management systems (DBMS) can, instead, manage large amounts of data eeciently, but give scarce formalism to organize them in a structured way, and to reason with them...

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...

Decision makers thirst for answers to questions. As more data is gathered, more questions are posed: Which customers are most likely to respond positively to a marketing campaign, product price change or new product offering? How will the competition react? Which loan applicants are most likely or least likely to default? The ability to raise questions, even those that currently cannot be answe...

By purposefully utilising sensors, for instance by a data fusion system, the state of some system-relevant environment might be adequately assessed to support decision-making. The ever increasing access to sensors offers great opportunities, but also incurs grave challenges. As a result of managing multiple sensors one can, e.g., expect to achieve a more comprehensive, resolved, certain and mor...

Community Question Answering (CQA) systems, such as Yahoo! Answers or Quora, are mostly perceived and studied from their primary knowledge sharing perspective. In spite of that, CQA systems have also a potential to become an effective means for people to acquire new knowledge. In the present, we can witness initial efforts on taking advance of this secondary perspective as CQA concepts have bee...

Purpose – This paper aims to propose a conceptual model for understanding the influence of change readiness on knowledge management processes and knowledge management effectiveness. It is suggested that change readiness should be assessed as a multidimensional construct consisting of psychological and structural facets. Furthermore, as the process of managing organizational knowledge requires i...

As we celebrate the fiftieth knowledge acquisition conference this year it is appropriate to review progress in knowledge acquisition techniques not only over the quarter century since the conference series began but backwards through the millennia to the beginnings of knowledge capture and forwards through the foreseeable future to speculate on reasonable expectations, appropriate targets and ...

The paper presents methods for instrumentation and measurement of applications’ memory allocation behavior over time. It provides some background about possible performance problems related to memory allocation as well as to memory allocator libraries. Then, different methods for data acquisition and representation are discussed. Finally, memory allocation tracing integrated in VampirTrace is d...