The moist temperate Himalayas, as one of the major ecological zone of Pakistan, deserve specific attention to the conservation of environment and the sustainable development of natural resources. During the last hundred years, the area has been subjected to major structural changes leading to a decrease of about fifty per cent of the potential forest area. The decrease in forest cover, combined...

Documents act as a medium to permanently record and communicate concepts, thoughts, procedures and data. Traditional documents of our interest consist of a physical support modified by some physical action performed by an author. Examples are written papers, engraved stones etc. Traditional documentation techniques result from a long evolution: professional communities developed and shaped cust...

Zusammenfassung: Der Beitrag zeigt die Komponenten einer mehrstufigen Referenzarchitektur für Management-Informations-Systeme zur dezentralen Entscheidungsunterstützung am Beispiel einer Implementierung an der Universität Osnabrück. Die Architekturschichten Data Warehouse, elektronisches Berichtswesen und Analyse sowie interaktives Hilfesystem mit Ausbauoptionen in Richtung Knowledge Management...

The role of information technology (IT) in knowledge management has always been a debatable topic in literature and practice. Despite existing documentation regarding the relationship between IT resource and knowledge management, limited information is available on the different types of IT resources describing this relationship. We integrate two research streams emerging in knowledge managemen...

Organizations have realized that effective development and management of their organizational knowledge base is very important for their survival in todays competitive business environment. People, as a special knowledge asset, also attract the interest of many researchers because, only through people communicating with one another, can they really share their tacit knowledge and skills that ca...

Large, complex software systems are hard to learn and navigate. In an ideal environment, documentation can help in this process. However the latter is usually out of date and hard to use. Others have proposed using large knowledge bases to model software systems, however these are very expensive to build and may be as unmaintainable as the code. In this paper, we propose instead to use a highly...

Global software development (GSD) is considered as the coordinated activities of software development that are geographically and temporally distributed. The management of architectural knowledge, specifically, architectural design decisions (ADDs), becomes important in GSD due to the geographical, temporal, and cultural challenges in global environments. Based on our previous work on ADD manag...

Introduction Knowledge Management is defined as “the process of capturing, distributing, and effectively using knowledge.” [1] ISDS members have varying degrees of experience with public health surveillance and syndromic surveillance specifically, and will all benefit from more structured access to documentation on components related to syndromic surveillance, including but not limited to, the ...