a strength of agricultural production cooperatives is improving the technical knowledge of their members which is along with their function in large-scale development. one of the main obstacles to the success of cooperatives is their inability in improving the technical knowledge of their members. the current study evaluates the role of production cooperatives of fars province, iranin improving...

• Mining Uncertain Heterogenous Information Networks Scalable and intelligent methods to handle the challenges of uncertainty, heterogeneity, and large volumes and/or low bandwidth, focused on three major data sources in military. network + spatial-temporal data + streams. • Domain Integration for Decision Support Integrate knowledge learned from networks, spatial-temporal data and streams all ...

Reading is recognized as being the most important skill needed by ESP learners in their field of study, and vocabulary knowledge is the most widely discussed component of effective ESP reading per se. However, research on how much the different types of words exert substantial influences over ESP reading comprehension remains scanty. To address this lacuna, the present study aimed to examine th...

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...

F need to balance efficiency gains obtained through exploiting existing knowledge assets with long-term competitive viability achieved through exploring new knowledge resources. Because the use of knowledge management systems (KMSs) continues to expand, understanding how these systems affect exploration and exploitation practices at the individual level is important to advance both knowledge ma...

The IS help desk function plays a central role in boundary spanning knowledge exchanges within organizations. Help desk employees provide technical support to users in an effort to transfer knowledge and enable users to autonomously apply this knowledge in the future. However, despite their importance, little is known about the factors that affect knowledge application within this context. Adop...

This paper proposes a holistic approach to enhance human knowledge in distributed and strictly linked contexts. Current semantic web technologies focus their attention only on the machine side of the interaction process. Our approach considers both the human and the machine working together to accomplish a task, stressing the importance of adapting data, tools and interactions to the different ...