Knowledge management is one of the critical issues for the improvement of enterprise performances. Different methods exist for extracting and formalizing knowledge in order to create knowledge-based applications. Most of integrated design and manufacturing technological processes are more or less based on knowledge that has been translated into models and then into Knowledge-Based Computer-Aide...

Current theories of knowledge management postulate a cycle of knowledge creation, refinement and implementation that hinges on the transformation of tacit, or practical, into explicit, or discursive, knowledge. The modern organisation, because it is characterised by diverse local practices, and by the increasing salience of professional work, is thus a complex mosaic of situated knowledge, grou...

The massive access to the Cloud poses new challenges for the cloud citizens to use services overcoming the risks of a new form of digital divide. What we envision is a socially orchestrated cloud, i.e. an ecosystem where the users put their experience and know-how (their personal knowledge) at the service of the social cloud, where social networks articulate the assistance to users. With his sc...

This paper presents recent research findings on the effects of organizational knowledge management (KM) context on KM practices. Data were collected at a large Canadian law firm via a Web-based survey instrument from over 400 participants comprising professional and support staff working in various office locations. The purpose of the study was to gain insight on the antecedents of knowledge ma...

There is a pattern of personal intelligence seen emerging from the concept of agent-mediated personal knowledge management (PKM) in achieving the organisational collective goals. This paper presents the results of analyses of related surveys implemented to prove this emergence, which include a quantitative analysis supported by a qualitative analysis on surveys across three main industries in M...

Personal Knowledge Management helps users in retrieving, evaluating, organizing, collaborating, analyzing, presenting and securing information and ideas. Social Semantic Desktop seeks to be a comprehensive solution for helping knowledge workers in PKM. In this paper evaluate NEPOMUK, the social semantic desktop against features of a PKM framework. We critically examine its features to identify ...

An interview survey was conducted on respondents from service, manufacturing and education industries in Malaysia, to understand the processes of personal knowledge management (PKM) among knowledge workers. The findings show that personal knowledge network is enhanced when recommendations from associates outside the organisation are relied upon to identify the required knowledge experts. Thus t...

INTRODUCTION Mathematical knowledge is significantly different from other kinds of knowledge. It is abstract, universal, highly structured, extraordinarily interconnected, and of immense size. Managing it is difficult and requires special techniques and tools. Mathematicians have developed (over the last two or three millennia) many techniques for managing mathematical knowledge. For example, t...

Knowledge workers have different applications and resources in heterogeneous environments for doing their knowledge tasks and they often need to solve a problem through combining several resources. Typical personal knowledge management (PKM) systems do not provide effective ways for representing knowledge worker’s unstructured knowledge or idea. In order to provide better knowledge activity for...

In this paper, we present preliminary work on the evaluation of tool extensions we built based on our semantic desktop framework X-COSIM. We discuss different experiments for evaluating tools of a semantic desktop and present our tool extensions COSIMail, COSIFile, and SAM. We explain in detail the setup of a laboratory study designed to gain summative results that enable a comparison of our to...