This talk takes the Experience Factory concept, which was originally developed as organizational support for software development and generalizes it to organizational support for any aspect of a business, e.g., business practices. The Experience Factory supports the evolution of processes and other forms of knowledge, based upon experiences within the organization, and related knowledge gathere...

The ICONS (Intelligent CONtent management System) project objectives and contribution to the current state of the knowledge management field is presented. The project represents an ongoing international research effort funded by the European IST research programme. An important aspect of the project is the fact that its inception and the technological platform are based on the industrial softwa...

Background The Supply Chain Management System (SCMS) program has worked in Ethiopia since 2006 to strengthen the public health supply chain. Increasing the performance and retention of personnel within the organization, and its governmental partners, has been, and continues to be, a priority. Five building blocks that are crucial for achieving these objectives, namely: engaging stakeholders, op...

Building semantics concepts into the learning tools and utilities will open the road for the next generation of the Learning Content Management System (LCMS). We propose here to name this new learning environment the Semantic LCMS. This paper presents some reflections about how the semantic kernel of an SLCMS could be viewed. This semantic kernel is in close relation with a set of primitive rul...

this paper is about role’s main functions in the content management system. We respectively discuss the following five points: relationship between role and party; the category of the role within CMS; the influence of roles to the design of Virtual File System; the influence of roles to the design of content category; the role′s function in workflow.

To meet the need of modernization of agricultural machines management in Heilongjiang Reclamation Area, further boost the level of large-scale modernized agricultural production, and improve agricultural machines management, agricultural machines management and assignment network system has been established. The system has realized agricultural machines management by network and management depa...

Academic publishing faces major challenges such as increasing costs and a reduced subscription base. Electronic publishing promises benefits and solutions to these and other challenges. This study examines six cases of academic electronic journals and the management practices used by their editorial boards. The cases indicate that many of the anticipated benefits of e-journals can be achieved g...

Veränderte produktionslogistische Rahmenbedingungen und neue Ziele im Supply Chain Management (SCM) erfordern ein Redesign aktueller Supply Chain Planning (SCP)-Systeme. In-Memory-basierte betriebliche Informationssysteme bieten viele Vorteile und können bei der Definition neuer SCM-Systeme zugrunde gelegt werden. Allerdings sind noch Defizite in der Datenorganisation und den User Interfaces zu...

The interpretation of complex discourse, such as arguments, is a difficult task that often requires validation, i.e., a system may need to present its interpretation of a user’s discourse for confirmation. In this paper, we consider the presentation of discourse interpretations in the context of a probabilistic argumentation system. We first describe our initial approach to the presentation of ...

This paper presents a systems approach to facilitate effective learning object acquisition through the use of communications, modeling, and the agent metaphor. By changing the emphasis that is usually placed on metadata creation and interpretation (which can be problematic) we instead focus on the pragmatics of end use data facilitated through agent negotiation.