for dissemination) This deliverable presents a first version of a series of 5 documents, to be delivered each 6 months and whose target is to give guidelines for the application of Knowledge IT to practitioners in the field of in large E-Commerce and Knowledge Management. This series of documents is primarily aimed at anyone who is involved in the process of designing, building and managing Kno...

Web technologies enable the discovery and exchange of knowledge from many different locations using many different channels. This implies that one is able to discover and exchange knowledge while using a PDA when traveling by train for instance. A provisional Web-based application referred to as ‘DEXAR: Discovery and eXchange of Revealed knowledge’ is therefore introduced to illustrate the poss...

Exchange of knowledge is becoming increasingly important to modern organizations. In this chapter is explained what this elementary knowledge exchange consists of and how a virtual workplace can support knowledge exchange between workers. A scenario from the medical domain illustrates how physicians can improve their knowledge exchange by utilizing the virtual workplace models introduced. Bette...

In a Knowledge Discovery in Databases (KDD) process, human capabilities and judgment are still a fundamental ingredient to ensure that useful and valid knowledge is derived from data. Such capabilities assume the form of skills and expertise in different domains such as databases, statistics, machine learning, data mining, as well as the specific business/application domain. Thus, in order to m...

Treatment of severe Immune Thrombocytopenic purpura (ITP) accompanied by life-threatening bleeding events is challenging and a combination of treatment measures should be undertaken to rapidly increase the platelet count. Herein, we report a case of severe ITP in a seven-year-old boy who suffered from massive bleeding which was totally unresponsive to conventional therapeutic interventions. Sin...