The knowledge economy, globalisation, information technologies have an unquestionable influence on human information behaviour. In the competitive environment, individuals and organizations appreciate the important role of personal knowledge and information. My concept of knowledge and information management by individuals is based on among others two theories: Personal Information Management (...

Personal Information management (PIM) is a research area that receives interest from a variety of disciplines including human-computer interaction, information retrieval, information systems research and psychology to mention but a few. The diversity in approaches and the cross-disciplinary nature of PIM have resulted in a fragmented picture of the problems and challenges designers of PIM tools...

Knowledge and information workers work as individuals within virtual team structures. Those teams may be small, or they may in fact form part of larger groups which continue to share similar objectives. Knowledge workers therefore acquire and manage personal and group information which they may choose to manage themselves using Personal and small-Group Information Management tools and technique...

Personal Information Management (PIM) research has investigated the information trail generated by an individual while performing some information-seeking task on their desktop, with the aim of improving PIM tool-support. Nevertheless, due to the personal nature of the data, this is rarely released for reuse. Furthermore, there exists no tool that allows a PIM researcher to investigate how PIM ...

A field crop irrigation management decision-making system (CropIrri) was developed based on the soil water balance model, crop phenology model, root growth model, crop water production function, and irrigation management model. The irrigation plan is made through predicating of soil water content in root zone and daily crop water requirement using historical and forecasting weather data, measur...

This article presents an unexplored perspective in personal information management (PIM): PIM strategy changes. In the first part of the paper, we introduce a naturalistic study we conducted in order to explore how people manage their information and how their strategies evolve. We propose a model for characterizing PIM strategy changes based on their cause, scope and action. Further, we presen...

In this paper an approach for coupling real-time control and socio-economic issues in participatory river basin planning is presented through a case study. It relies on the use of Bayesian Networks (Bns) to describe in a probabilistic way the behaviour of farmers within an irrigation district in response to some planning actions. Bayesian Networks are coupled with classical stochastic hydrologi...

water user associations (wuas) are one of the water market development models and a way to transfer the irrigation management from government sector to water users which have been increasingly taken into account over the recent years. in iran accordingly, a number of wuas has been developed in downstream dam irrigation and drainage networks on pilot scale. the major goal of wuas is to improve w...

The delta of the River Senegal was modified substantially by the construction of the Diama dam in 1986 and the floodplain and estuarine areas on the Mauritanian bank were affected severely by the absence of floods. In 1994, managed flood releases were initiated in the Bell basin (4000 ha) of the Diawling National Park, as part of a rehabilitation effort. The basin was designated as a joint mana...