The process of collection development, collection generating and obtaining information is of basic debates in libraries and information centers which a lot of articles have been written about the methods of collection development of information as well as the application of information technology, accordingly, to this day. This article, as opposed to other articles, which are about the prevaili...

The process of collection development, collection generating and obtaining information is of basic debates in libraries and information centers which a lot of articles have been written about the methods of collection development of information as well as the application of information technology, accordingly, to this day. This article, as opposed to other articles, which are about the prevaili...

Self-medication, defined as the act to treat oneself with or without drugs, is a common practice in industrial countries. A study of available computerized solutions in this field highlights that this issue has not been considered with enough attention, although they provide valuable services to both patients and health care organizations. This paper presents XIMSA, a self-medication knowledge-...

This research is focused on the use of knowledge management techniques to develop reusable web-based intellectual assets to leverage the learning process for individual learners. The literature review reveals that corporate solutions of knowledge management are not directly applicable due to the lack of adaptivity needed to provide individualized feedback to the learner, and their localized nat...

The drive to improve the quality and reliability of model based water management has resulted in a number of quality assurance guidelines. Up to now all of these guidelines were available only in the form of handbooks. Within the HarmoniQuA project a software-based modelling Knowledge Base and support tools have been developed, that greatly enhance the way quality assurance guidelines are appli...

a major constraint to the application of any form of knowledge and principles is the awareness, understanding and acceptance of the knowledge and principles. systems thinking (st) is a way of understanding and thinking about the nature of  health systems and how to make and implement decisions within health systems to maximize desired and minimize undesired effects. a major constraint to applyi...

This paper addresses the realization of modularized knowledge models within a heterogeneous application domain using an existing knowledge management tool. The application domain we deal with is travel medicine, which combines medical aspects with geography, climate, holiday activities and associated traveling conditions. In this paper we present the application’s requirements and show how know...