A Formal Framework for Crisis Management Describing Information Flows and Functional Structure

A Formal Framework for Describing Information Providing Web Services

In this paper, we introduce a formal framework for describing Semantic Web Services using Description Logic. Specifically, for information providing services, the notion of a service description is proposed. From syntactic point of view, it is an extension of the way services are described in OWL-S Service Profile (namely, of its part concerning description of inputs and outputs). However, from...

Knowledge Flows Automation and Designing a Knowledge Management Framework for Educational Organizations

  One of an important factor in the success of organizations is the efficiency of knowledge flow. The knowledge flow is a comprehensive concept and in recent studies of organizational analysis broadly considered in the areas of strategic management, organizational analysis and economics. In this paper, we consider knowledge flows from an Information Technology (IT) viewpoint. We usually have tw...

The Management of Geographic Information Flows in Crisis Situations

This paper studies the management of geographic information and knowledge flows for decision support in crisis situations. The authors compare and contrast a number of concepts that have been forwarded by academics as possible methodologies for the study of this area. The authors believe that they may have found an answer using system models combined with decision-making, information management...

a framework for identifying and prioritizing factors affecting customers’ online shopping behavior in iran

the purpose of this study is identifying effective factors which make customers shop online in iran and investigating the importance of discovered factors in online customers’ decision. in the identifying phase, to discover the factors affecting online shopping behavior of customers in iran, the derived reference model summarizing antecedents of online shopping proposed by change et al. was us...

A Decision Support Framework for Crisis Management