Knowledge has been thought to be the most important asset in a company having a significant impact on company competitiveness. Software development is knowledge-intensive but software development environments lack specific support of knowledge management. In this paper, an approach is presented to give access to specific and valuable knowledge during software development with an Enterprise-Orie...

1 Authoring documents in MKM formats like OMDoc is a very tedious task. After years of working on a semantically annotated corpus of STEX documents (GenCS), we identified a set of common, timeconsuming subtasks, which can be supported in an integrated authoring environment. We have adapted the modular Eclipse IDE into STEXIDE, an authoring solution for enhancing productivity in contributing to ...

In this work informal learning theories and practices and social networking features are taken as starting points to build a reference collaboration model to support collaborative knowledge construction in Distributed Communities of Practices. Sample web 2.0 applications to fit the collaboration model purposes are then described. The provided model can give contribution to the design and to the...

This paper offers a quantitative description of European private equity markets and compares the recent development in these markets with the development of the US venture capital market. European markets for private equity vary considerably with respect to the investments in young high-technology enterprises, as well as with respect to the types of passive investors who invest capital in priva...

In this paper, an approach that attempts to improve conventional quality function deployment (QFD) technique in terms of effective design knowledge handling in product concept development is proposed and described. For this purpose, a QFD-enabled product conceptualisation system was established. It consists of three cohesively interacting modules, namely, design knowledge elicitation module usi...

nowadays, most of the experts believe that organizations should select effective ways for diffusing organizational knowledge among their human resources. bias and his coworkers believe that the principal aspect of each enterprise is creation and transmission of interorganizational knowledge. therefore, the necessity of recognition and use of effective ways for sharing and transmission of knowle...

environmental crisis is one of the most important global problems. dealing with this crisis as a collective effort requires formation of environmentalism attitudes among people. what is considerable in this field is to identify the factors affecting people’s attitudes towards environmentalism especially women. since, based on two main perspectives of ecofeminism; i.e. women's relationship ...