Considerations Regarding Work from Home and Telework

Knowledge work and telework: an exploratory study

Describes a case research study into how knowledge workers adopt telework as an alternative work arrangement. It reports how knowledge workers in two New Zealand organisations organise their workload to take advantage of the information and Internet technology available to them in their work and home environments. The findings of the study indicate that knowledge workers are inclined to use hom...

Eugenics and Ethical Considerations Regarding the Violation of Justice

It is clear that technologies related to medicine and genetics, especially genetic engineering and eugenics, have grown significantly in recent decades. These advances have led to prevention of abnormalities and treatment of diseases. However, it seems the use of genetic engineering and eugenics and the possibility of irresponsible and profitable use of these technologies it's worrying. Hence, ...

Telework in the scenarios for the future of work

Patricia Vendramin is a project manager at the Work & Technology Research Unit of the Fondation Travail-Universite in Namur. She has a background in sociology (1981) and communication sciences (1983); she also completed a master degree in development studies (1983), both at the University of Louvain-la-Neuve, where she started doing research in 1983. She is a researcher at the FTU since 1988 an...

Considerations regarding Ontology Design Patterns

The Worskhop on Ontology and Semantic Web Patterns (WOP2015, 6th edition) was held on October 11, 2015 in conjunction with the 14th International Semantic Web Conference in Bethlehem, PA, USA. At the workshop, the organizers conducted a discussion with the participants regarding the promises and obstacles of ontology design patterns (ODPs for short). This editorial reports on those discussions....

Ethical considerations regarding head transplantation