While online systems are an essential component of distance learning, they can also play a critical role in improving the delivery of activities in a traditional laboratory setting. The quality and effectiveness of online course delivery is often compared to equivalent face-to-face alternatives. In our approach, we have harnessed what we feel to be the best of both delivery methods. We have dev...

The purpose of this paper is to explore the application of knowledge management concepts to an information systems (IS) knowledge base, as opposed to a clinical one. The field of Medical Informatics is committed to helping others manage medical information and knowledge through the application of information technology. At Partners HealthCare, a wide variety of clinical information management s...

In recent years, many security threats have entered into the organizations’ information and changed the  organizational performance resulting in their exorbitant costs. This question is of particular importanceabout government agencies that use information and Internet systems. This issue enabled the top managers of organizations to implement a security system and minimize these costs. Using In...

Amicalola workshop on DB-IS Research for Semantic Web and Enterprises was held in April 2002 (http://lsdis.cs.uga.edu/SemNSF/). Secluded and cozy retreat in Georgia mountains provided an excellent environment for high quality discussions between a set of invited senior researchers from within and outside of database and information systems community. We are delighted to present the final report...

In this paper, an integrated architecture of objects, agents, and problem solving adapters to model information systems is presented. The approach employs task-based problem solving adapters as a means for mapping stakeholder tasks and for integrating software artifacts like objects and agents in an information system. The integrated approach is applicable for developing database systems, manag...

today, the shortage of information about the different sections of organization is not the main challenges of managers and organizations. but, the ways to handle the huge amount of generated information for solving different problems of organization and decision making are main difficulties. information technology (it) can provide effective tools that help organizations to address such problem....

Knowledge Management (KM) is one of the hottest topics in both of the industrialized world and information research world. In our daily life, we deal with the most related systems, which were Financial Information Systems (FIS). These systems have closely linked with all aspects of administrative organizations. As a result of this link, the KM has contributed in developing FIS as attempts to ha...