The expertise of individuals within an organization is often its most valuable resource. However, it is a timeconsuming and difficult task for an individual, a group, or an organization to systematically express, organize, and distribute expertise so it can be accessed and used by the people who need it. Moreover, novices within an organization may not know anything about the resources availabl...

INTRODUCTION Over the past decade, groupware technologies, such as e-mail, electronic bulletin boards, and group support systems, have become an important part of the business computing infrastructure in many organizations. Organizations adopt groupware applications to enhance communication and collaboration among group members and thus improve group performance. While some groupware applicatio...

Our team from the JHU HLTCOE participated in the Entity Linking and Cold Start Knowledge Base tasks in this year’s Text Analysis Conference Knowledge Base Population evaluation. We have previously participated in TAC-KBP entity linking evaluations in 2009, 2010, and 2011. This year we developed two new systems: CALE (Context Aware Linker of Entities) and KELVIN (Knowledge Extraction, Linking, V...

Please insert 1st line of postal address Engstien 1 Please insert 3rd line of postal address Please insert 4th line of postal address Please insert 5th line of postal address DK-6000 KOLDING Abstract This paper want to explore the development of collective competencies in the context of new high-tech ventures. New high-tech ventures face many problems in developing a new technology especially w...

This paper focuses on a framework for supporting knowledge sharing in organizations through computer support. Results from three ethnographic field studies of organizational knowledge in three kinds of settings show that sharing of knowledge, or finding things out, is a highly contingent matter. There is no single solution to support this. Instead, a combination of communication tools, awarenes...

City councils have not yet benefited as much from modern information systems as the other administrations. In the Cuparla project, members of the Stuttgart city councils were each equipped with a networked Notebook and a special information system – the Cuparla software was developed. This paper describes the software design , usage experiences and the organizational implementation process. The...

Knowledge is the most important management elements in business administration besides factors of production such as labor and capital. Challenge faced by high-tech industry in the era of knowledge economy is how to grasp and use knowledge. Only knowledge creates innovative thoughts. Goodness and badness of organizational knowledge is often closely related to organizational learning. Organizati...

This study explores the private theories of four vocational education teachers in Singapore who have engaged in the design of technology-based learning for their own classes. The understanding of teachers' private theories is important in the context of contemporary educational reforms, which emphasise the shift towards student-centred practices and technology integration. As teachers learn to ...

The aim of this study is to develop a model for the measurement of the effectiveness of knowledge management in Taiwanese high-tech enterprises. Following a survey of the relevant literature on the subject, the study describes the construction of the model – including the opinions of specialists, scholars, and practitioners of knowledge management practice among Taiwan’s high-tech firms, the us...