The paper describes the results of an e-learning experimental project for Continuous Medical Education (CME) in Occupational Medicine in terms of: extent of the e-learning courses usage by the healthcare personnel, knowledge acquisition and satisfaction. 11 courses have been available for 11 months during which 2,034 users all over Italy enrolled in 5,183 courses with a success percentage of 72...

This chapter examines themost common technologies usedforteaching oncollege campuses and the mostcommon barriers toadvanced uses of technology tools. Survey results consistently show thatthemajor barriers toincorporating technology into higher education are lack offaculty time, faculty doubts about therelevancy oftechnology todisciplinary learning, andinadequate technical supportfor facultyproj...

This paper provides the OR practitioner with an introduction and discussion of the areas of knowledge acquisition and knowledge modelling and their utility to OR. To do this, recent knowledge-based approaches to a technique of interest to the OR community, neighbourhood search, will be used as a case study. References for further reading are provided.

This study examines the relationship between firm absorptive capacity and organizational responsiveness in the context of growth-oriented small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). By measuring the different dimensions of absorptive capacity, external knowledge acquisition and intra-firm knowledge dissemination were found to be positively related to organizational responsiveness. In addition, t...

The paper describes an approach to cross-media knowledge acquisition which combines text and raw data. The approach has been applied in a real-world use case concerning wind tunnel reports within the EU-funded project X-Media. The goal is to identify the source of wind noise in a vehicle and find the most suitable solution to reduce it. Information is extracted from the textual parts of the rep...

The study seeks to explore how e-learning is tackled by learners and thus investigate how hypermedia tools help to identify specific learner characteristics. Such characteristics can be detected by means of assessing the manner in which adult learners perform in a number of given e-learning tools. The different navigating and learning strategies of individual learners will be observed. In this ...

In this working session, we will discuss methods which could plausibly be used for combining evidence for assigning semantic tags to words in a text. We will discuss methods that apply at knowledge acquisition time to produce a single static knowledge source to be used by a single, complete, semantic tagger, as well as methods for dynamically combining outputs of a set of independent, possibly ...

Constraint acquisition systems assist the non-expert user in modelling her problem as a constraint network. QUACQ is sequential algorithm that generates queries (partial) examples to be classified positive or negative. The drawbacks are may need answer great number of such examples, within significant waiting time between two learn all constraints. In this paper, we propose PACQ, portfolio-base...