the purpose of research was analyzing educational needs of corn farmer's regarding biological control bracon parasitoid of corn caradrina in dezful township, khouzestan province, iran. the method of research was correlative descriptive. a random sample of dezful township corn farmers of khouzestan province, iran (n=350) were selected for participation in the study. a questionnaire was developed...

There are different approaches to knowledge management. So, a knowledge management system could be analyzed from different viewpoints. Usually the term a “knowledge management system” is used as a synonym for the information and communication tools, and rarely is defined from a social or sociotechnical perspective. This paper acknowledges the socio-technical approach to knowledge management sys...

In technical elds, experts have manually indexed a huge collection of texts. For this purpose, they used thesauri, which structure sets of available keywords. Approaches in automatic indexing have made extensive use of thesauri. However, our belief is that automated systems do not wholly take into account the experts' knowledge. We thus present a method to extract that kind of knowledge from ma...

Traditionally, knowledge actionability has been investigated mainly by developing and improving technical interestingness. Recently, initial work on technical subjective interestingness and business-oriented profit mining presents general potential, while it is a long-term mission to bridge the gap between technical significance and business expectation. In this paper, we propose a two-way sign...

In the world of globalization, it is essential for companies to be able to effectively manage their knowledge capital. Being capable to effectively create, store and retrieve institutional information is a crucial competitive advantage. Readily accessible Knowledge is needed in many business’ aspect and tasks: support decision making, profile work processes, empower in-house knowledge workers (...

On first reading this book, I could not decide if I was delighted with the breadth covered or if I felt I would have preferred more in-depth coverage of fewer issues. On second reading, I still was not sure. In the words of the author herself, ‘this book embraces difference, as evidenced by a wide variety of studies presented in 22 chapters that differ in perspectives on knowledge (explicit and...

Knowledge management professionals are consistently presented with the challenges of socio-technical initiatives when it comes to enhancing, sharing, and utilizing knowledge and information in corporate, scholarly, and professional applications.Socio-Technical Knowledge Management: Studies and Initiatives connects knowledge management theory to knowledge management practice, allowing the empiri...