INKASS is an ongoing European RTD project that addresses the area at the intersection of Knowledge Management and Electronic Commerce (Apostolou et al., 2002; Inkass, 2002b). This area refers to the trade of explicit and implicit knowledge at an inter-organisational level. It addresses the opportunities and risks found in the purchase and selling of knowledge at the business-to-business (B2B) e...

Norm-enforcement models applied in human societies may serve as an inspiration for the design of multi-agent systems. Models for normenforcement in multi-agent systems often focus either on the intraor interagent level. We propose a combined approach to identify objectives for an architecture for self-regulating agents. In this paper we assess how changes on the inter-agent level affect the int...

The American Heart Association's Committee on Grading Lesions of the Council on Arteriosclerosis has devised a method of grading the severity of atherosclerosis in human coronary arteries and aortas. The method uses two series of color photographs of arteries arranged in increasing severity of atherosclerosis. The Committee tested the method for inter-observer reproducibility by exhibiting the ...

Three-dimensional (3-D) integration is an emerging candidate for implementing high performance multifunctional systems-on-chip. Employing an efficient medium for data communication among different planes is a key factor in achieving a high performance 3-D system. Through Silicon Vias (TSVs) provide high bandwidth, high density inter-plane links while facilitating the flow of heat in 3-D circuit...

This paper addresses the performance of creative firms from the perspective of complex spatial systems. Based on an extensive high-dimensional database on both the attributes of individual creative firms in the Netherlands and a series of detailed regional facilitating and driving factors related, inter alia, to talent, innovation, skills, networks, accessibility and hardware, a new methodology...

Peer review, the process of improving the quality of work done by a peer of approximately equal caliber, is posited to be an effective educational tool and learning process. Unfortunately, many students participating in peer review lack confidence in the value of their feedback or experience difficulty maintaining interest in another student’s work, thus tending to create feedback that is super...