The paper provides a critical review of the development of information center through different phases, transformation of the information center in response to the inter-disciplinary imperatives of information and knowledge management, IT imperatives, trends in the areas of content, services, management, and personnel, and future possibilities and prospects. An extensive review of literature wa...

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This paper describes progress in a development of the human-human dialogue corpus for machine translation of spoken language. We have chosen a semantically annotated corpus of phone calls to a train timetable information center. The phone calls consist of inquiries regarding their train traveler plans. Corpus dialogue act tags incorporate abstract semantic meaning. We have enriched a part of th...

EuPathDB is a public resource of protozoan parasite genomic and functional genomic data. To address community needs, information on isolate specimens, and on genetic manipulation and phenotype data will be collected directly from scientists. In order to facilitate data exploration, exchange, sharing and reuse, such data needs to be well-structured with standardized annotation. However, data col...

In this paper, we discuss an approach to an operator scheduling problem in a large organization over time with the aim of maintaining service quality and reducing total labor costs. We propose a genetic algorithm (GA) with a parameterized fitness function inspired by homotopy methods and with null mutation to handle a variable number of operators. The proposed method is applied to the practical...

This paper explores the role of transactive memory in enabling knowledge transfer between globally distributed teams. While the information systems literature has recently acknowledged the role transactive memory plays in improving knowledge processes and performance in colocated teams, little is known about its contribution to distributed teams. To contribute to filling this gap, knowledge-tra...

Studies have claimed that smartphone has generated both positive and negative consequences associated with its use by executives, who are most of the time unaware of them. Moreover, the influence of gender on the emergence of paradoxes accrued from smartphone use is something new in the Information Systems realm. Thus, this article aims at probing the role of gender in the emergence of paradoxe...

There are millions of web sites, thousands of them deal with music. The project European Music Navigator (EMN) aims to build a destination site covering information on the European musical life. The EMN is implemented by the international umbrella organization IAMIC (International Association of Music Information Centres), under the project leadership of mica – music information center austria ...

In this paper we present an Ambient Intelligent System, the iGenda, and the integration of a wearable device. The aim is to detect emotional states through the wearable device and ultimately represent and manage the social emotion of a group of entities. The advantage of this action is that its usability is in line with retirement homes and similar places, where the community is extended and an...

This paper examines the design and development of a discrete-event (visual) simulation model of a physician clinic environment within a physician network. Biological & Popular Culture, Inc. (Biopop) sought to partner with healthcare professionals to provide high-quality, cost-e!ective medical care within a physician network setting. Towards this end, a discrete-event (visual) simulation model t...