Introduction. The role of library and information science professionals as knowledge facilitators is solidly grounded in the profession's theoretical foundations as much as connected with its social relevance. Knowledge science is presented in this paper as a convenient theoretical framework for this mission, and knowledge engagement services –knowledge brokering, knowledge readiness and knowle...

This paper presents research on how knowledge brokers attempt to translate opaque algorithmic predictions. The is based a 31-month ethnographic study of the implementation learning algorithm by Dutch police predict occurrence crime incidents and offers one first empirical accounts brokers. We studied group intelligence officers, who were tasked with brokering between machine community user tran...

During the COVID-19 pandemic, different countries are showing strengths and weaknesses of both healthcare systems technology access. Until now in Uruguay, has been very much under control. Evidence-based policies, a strong public health care system, scientific innovations believed to be main factors success. Uruguayan evidence-based policies consider several inputs, including scientific, medica...

The CEC Project GOAL (Esprit 6283) aims to develop generic software tools to support a new project management paradigm, in which projects are collaborative, decentralised and inter-organizational. To support inter-organizational interaction, communication and cooperation, we are developing a design framework for formalizing the flow of information between organizations, specifying access to and...

Integrating complex enterprise systems is challenging and reliability and performance of the integrated systems can be problematic when using typical solutions of distributed transactions or on-demand message-based querying. We describe a data-oriented approach for enterprise system integration that uses information brokering. A broker application isolates the interactions between a local enter...

The uptake of Cloud computing is being hindered by the fact that not only are current Cloud SLAs written in natural language, but they also fail to cover security requirements. This paper considers a Cloud brokering model that helps negotiate and establish SLAs between customers and providers. This broker handles security requirements on two different levels; between the customer and the broker...

This contribution presents the ongoing development of a resource manager for use in early production grids. Even though our main focus is to develop a stable brokering facility for current production grids, we also address features needed in further improved resource managers for future enhanced grid infrastructures. The primary target environment is the NorduGrid platform, comprising around 20...

Negotiation is a kind of decision making where two or more parties jointly search a space of solutions with the goal of reaching a consensus. This search usually is a single dimension process where the different agents, involved in the negotiation process, mutually adapt their price offers in order to reach their goals (to sell or to buy a good). However, this process is inflexible and often un...

A Service-Oriented Computing (SoC) architecture consists of a number of collaborating services to achieve one or more goals. Traditionally, the focus of developing services (as components) has been on the static binding of these services within a single context and constrained in an individual manner. As service architectures are designed to more dynamic, where service binding and context chang...