Knowledge brokering is a promising strategy to close the "know-do gap" and foster greater use of research findings and evidence in policy-making. It focuses on organizing the interactive process between the producers and users of knowledge so that they can co-produce feasible and research-informed policy options. We describe a recent successful experience with this novel approach in the Netherl...

BACKGROUND Knowledge brokers (KBs) work collaboratively with key stakeholders to facilitate the transfer and exchange of information in a given context. Currently, there is a perceived lack of evidence about the effectiveness of knowledge brokering and the factors that influence its success as a knowledge translation (KT) mechanism. Thus, the goal of this review was to systematically gather evi...

InfoSleuth1 is an agent-based system for information discovery and retrieval in an open and dynamically changing environment. It implements a brokering function which combines reasoning over both the advertised syntax and semantics of agents in the InfoSleuth domain. The brokering function in a distributed or agent-based system matches processes requiring a service (requesters) with processes t...

Although Cloud computing itself has many open problems, researchers in the field have already made the leap to envision Inter-Cloud computing. Their goal is to achieve better overall Quality of Service (QoS), reliability and cost efficiency by utilizing multiple clouds. Inter-Cloud research is still in its infancy, and the body of knowledge in the area has not been well defined yet. In this wor...

This paper presents a multidimensional approach to examining the urban evidence-policy interface in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs), and applies this approach to a case study from Pakistan. Key features of urban health policy and the significance of the evidence-policy interface in rapidly changing LMICs are articulated; characteristics of evidence that has been successfully incorporat...

The challenge of information overload in dealing with ever increasing variety and size of digital data on the Web is now receiving serious attention of the researchers. The information brokering architecture provides one approach to addressing issues at data, information and knowledge levels. While reasonable progress has been made in achieving system interoperability as well as syntax and stru...

OBJECTIVE The objective of the present study was to gain an understanding of the organizational characteristics and processes in two child-care centres that may influence adoption of the Alberta Nutrition Guidelines for Children and Youth (ANGCY). DESIGN In-depth qualitative case studies. Data were collected through direct observations, key informant interviews and field notes. Diffusion of I...

BACKGROUND The purpose of this paper is to describe and reflect on the role of knowledge brokers (KBs) in the Seniors Health Research Transfer Network (SHRTN). The paper reviews the relevant literature on knowledge brokering, and then describes the evolving role of knowledge brokering in this knowledge network. METHODS The description of knowledge brokering provided here is based on a develop...

As agents see more use as entry points to incxeasingly complex distributed information networks, agent communication technologies such as the Knowledge Query and Manipulation Language and the SHADE Matchmaker will play an important role. We describe our experiences with these technologies as applied to two applications: collaborative engineering and satellite image retrieval. Based on these exp...