Organizational workforce reductions can negatively affect a company’s ability to preserve its knowledge base. The problem researched in this study was the perceived effect of downsizing on knowledge sharing among surviving employees. The purpose of this study was to determine the perceived effect of downsizing on knowledge sharing. Survivors’ knowledge sharing behavior was examined in relation ...

The basic characteristic of an educational process is knowledge sharing. In this context it is important to have an efficient method for knowledge representation that uses the concepts specific to the educational domain. Ontologies provides a solution for solving the problem of knowledge representation. In the last years it was highlighted the great importance of using ontologies when developpi...

In this paper, we report on our participation in the clinical named entity recognition task of the CLEF eHealth 2015 evaluation initiative i.e. to fully automatically identify clinically relevant entities in medical text in French. We address the task by using several biomedical knowledge organization systems (KOS) containing terms and their variations already in French or that we have partiall...

Spreadsheet systems have changed the way the world perceives and deals with computers. In an attempt at maintaining the positive elements of spreadsheets while overcoming some of their limitations, we have developed FINANZ, a computational environment to develop financial planning systems. FINANZ contains a form-based user interface construction system, which allows the creation of advanced use...

In order to provide a knowledge-enabled infrastructure for the ReSIST1 EU-funded Network of Excellence, a knowledge base, associated utilities and user interface were built and have been delivered. We discuss the RKBExplorer2, which is the interface to the system, as well as the components and utilities that support it. These include the acquisition tools, co-reference analysis tools, co-refere...

This document summarizes a short (3 month) project exploring the use of knowledgebased training tools for Space Station payload experiments, and develop a demonstration prototype (called KB-PHaSE). The purpose of the knowledge-base is to augment existing training material with a ‘dynamic component’, whereby the user can ask questions during a training session and receive customized, situation-s...

Semantic web technologies can support the rapid and transparent validation of scientific claims by interconnecting the assumptions and evidence used to support or challenge assertions. One important application domain is medication safety, where more efficient acquisition, representation, and synthesis of evidence about potential drug-drug interactions is needed. Potential drug-drug interaction...

We are working on a method, called CEPIAH. We propose a web based system used to help teachers to design multimedia documents and to evaluate their prototypes. Our tool integrates two modules such as EMPI (Evaluation of Multimedia Pedagogical and Interactive software), and SP/UL/FC, a method for designing pedagogical hypermedia. The EMPI module is used to evaluate multimedia software used in ed...

By now, standardization in Web Based Learning, Education and Training has only vaguely or indirectly addressed testing, and performance and quality assessment issues. Standardization of web based learning management systems will significantly influence assessment practices: It may result in either benefits or deficits for assessment solutions depending on the way that will be find out to adopt ...

To reuse a problem-solving method, a knowledge engineer must know the assumptions about the structure of the knowledge roles inherent to the method. We construct a method ontology in order to formalize these assumptions. This ontology deenes the roles played by the knowledge in the inference process, and serves as an interface for the knowledge engineer to evaluate if an application domain conf...