Towards Society Revolution

Towards Knowledge Based Society

Knowledge Propagation is the challenge. Better society requires best knowledge management practices and use of latest tools and technologies. KM is dealing with the problem of different languages in big countries. Also Knowledge is present in different forms. It may be knowledge encoded in laws, decrees, standards, policies, rules, regulations and orders. All these forms of knowledge must be co...

Towards Global Information Society????

2002 Miles Conrad Memorial Lecture Georg F. Schultheiss, FIZ Karlsruhe, Germany This will be another real lecture, only two guiding pictures, the rest for our eyes and for our ears and, after our sensors have fulfilled their function, followed by our brainwork. The idea for this lecture is "Looking at a Complex Puzzle" in n dimensions from different viewpoints including the changes brought abou...

Transitions towards a Knowledge Society

Information and Communication Technology (ICT) is aiding the transition of society into information society and ultimately knowledge society. Embedded within ICT are the cultural and philosophical undercurrents of the society in which the ICT solutions are developed, currently predominantly the Western culture. The proliferation of ICT is therefore inadvertedly leading to more Westernization of...

Towards A Secure Agent Society

We present a general view of what a \secure agent society" should be and how to develop it rather than focus on any speci c details or particular agent-based application. We believe that the main e ort to achieve security in agent societies consists of the following three aspects:1) agent authentication mechanisms that form the secure society's foundation, 2) a security architecture design with...

Towards a Global Civil Society