'lhe Policy, Research, and Exterral Affairs Complex distributes PRE Working Papers to dissemninate the findings of work in progress and to encourage the exchange of ideas among Bank suaff and all others interested in development issues. These papers carry the names of the authors, reflect only their views, and should be used and cited accardingly. The findings, interpretations, and conclusions ...

In a relational setting, the maximum entropy model of a set of probabilistic conditionals can be defined referring to the full set of ground instances of the conditionals. The logic FO-PCL uses the notion of parametric uniformity to ensure that the full grounding of the conditionals can be avoided, thereby greatly simplifying the maximum entropy model computation. In this paper, we describe a s...

This paper examines the utility of a multiple attribute decision making method, the Simple Additive Weighting (SAW), for the purposes of an Intelligent Learning Environment (ILE) that provides adults with personalised e-learning. The ILE is called Web Intelligent Trainer (Web-IT) and is meant to help novice users learn how to manipulate the file store of their personal computer. The generation ...

Behaviour & Information Technology Publication details, including instructions for authors and subscription information: http://www.informaworld.com/smpp/title~content=t713736316 Managing readiness in enterprise systems-driven organizational change Kee-Young Kwahk a; Hee-Woong Kim b a School of Business IT, Kookmin University, Seoul, Korea b Department of Information Systems, National Universit...

The educational community’s demands for e-learning resources are analyzed in the paper. The intentions to individualize the learning material by modelling, developing and renewing the existing e-learning resources are emphasized. A successfully operating environment of e-material collaborative development, designed for knowledge community users with different competences, is examined. Various m...

A prototype system, the Integrated Building Design Environment (IBDE), has been implemented to act as a testbed for a number of issues that arise from the need to integrate computer aids for the design and construction of buildings. The seven programs that comprise IBDE are briefly described. Issues such as knowledge representation, data organization, intercommunication, implementation and cont...

The logistics of knowledge means managing the need for knowledge, as well as the supply and transfer of knowledge. The transfer of knowledge occurs between generations, in a regional innovation system and today, with increasing frequency and importance, across international borders. A company`s balance sheet of knowledge gives important arguments in support of material property, which is import...

This paper discusses the distinction between the transmission of infectious diseases within the domestic domain (the area normally occupied by and under the control of a household) and that in the public domain, which includes public places of work, schooling, commerce and recreation as well as the streets and fields. Whereas transmission in the public domain can allow a single case to cause a ...

Knowledge of top predator foraging adaptability is imperative for predicting their biological response to environmental variability. While seabirds have developed highly specialised techniques to locate prey, little is known about intraspecific variation in foraging strategies with many studies deriving information from uniform oceanic environments. Australasian gannets (Morus serrator) typical...

The work presented focuses not only on the behavioural patterns that influence the outcome of a negotiation, but also on the discovery of ways to predict the type of conflict used in the process and the stress levels of the actors. After setting up an experimental intelligent environment provided with sensors to capture behavioural and contextual information, a set of relevant data was collecte...