Article history: Received 18 September 2008 Accepted 16 August 2009 This manuscript was processed by Associate

& In this paper, we present a competence ontology for domain knowledge dissemination and retrieval services, which has been used in the MDKT project (Management and Dissemination of Knowledge in Telecommunication). The main objective of this project is to set up a computerized knowledge management system related to a specific domain in order to develop the human resources expertise for the need...

Within corporations, opportunities are missed and efforts can be duplicated due to the relevant information not being known by the appropriate individuals. Often, an employee does not even know that relevant information might be uncovered by searching the corporate intranet. In this paper we present a context-sensitive aid to sensemaking by providing relevant information to an individual in an ...

Because the lifetime employment system is disappearing in Japan, “knowledge transfer” is becoming a more significant issue in industry. Knowledge-based systems will support the knowledge transference among workers via knowledge base. A job support system and an employee training system are the core of knowledge transfer. It is important to build a knowledge base that can be reused. Ontology mak...

In this paper we redefine the notion of “scientific journal” to update it to the age of the Web. We explore the historical reasons behind the current journal model, and we show that this model is essentially the same today, even if the Web has made dissemination essentially free. We propose a notion of liquid and personal journals that evolve continuously in time and that are targeted to serve ...

The paper presents CORAAL, a novel solution for life science publication search that exploits knowledge locked within unstructured publication texts (apart of possessing the traditional full text functionalities). In contrast to most related state of the art solutions, CORAAL integrally addresses acquisition (i.e., extraction), processing (i.e., integration and extension) and dissemination (i.e...

Phenomenological assumptions—assumptions about the fundamental qualities of the phenomenon being studied and how it relates to the environment in which it occurs—affect the dissemination of knowledge from subfields to the broader field of study. Micro-process research in organizational studies rests on implicit phenomenological assumptions that vary in the extent to which micro-processes are vi...

Knowledge dissemination among tourism stakeholders is vital to the overall development of tourism. Yet, this topic has been under-investigated in past tourism literature. Taking the courses on tourism marketing as an example, this study examined what and how knowledge is being disseminated in the classroom. Based on the Sender-Message-Channel-Receiver (SMCR) model (Shannon, 1948), the current s...