Contracts for Defining QoS Levels -- Action, Interaction and the Role of Ambiguity in the Introduction of Mobile Information Systems in a UK Police Force -- Towards a Service-Oriented Architecture -- A Task-Based Framework for Mobile Applications to Enhance Salespersons’ Performance -- Conceptual Modeling of Styles for Mobile Systems -- A Multimodal Context Aware Mobile Maintenance Terminal f…
Contracts -- Intellectual Property Rights -- Consumer Protection -- Privacy -- Conclusions.The most advanced and ambitious aspect of ecommerce technology is the use of intelligent agent-based computing. Software agents are basically autonomous software entities that can react and interact with their environment, with more advanced intelligent agents being also adaptive, sociable and mobile. Age…
Application domains -- Complexity: An Emergent Organisational Paradigm in the Knowledge Based Economy -- The Epistemology of Knowledge -- The Complexity Paradigm for a Networked Economy -- Knowledge Management and Management Learning: What Computers Can Still Do -- Supporting Technologies for Knowledge Management -- Learning and Interaction via ICT Tools for the Benefit of Knowledge Management …
On Network Industries -- Business Webs: Decomposable, Modular Organisations -- Business Web Growth Cases -- Towards a Theory of Business Web Growth -- Conclusion.Networks of firms have been in the focus of management research for several years. Recently, special attention has been paid to so-called business webs. Business webs are networks of firms which provide complements to a common product …
Foundational Topics in Medical Informatics -- Knowledge Management, Data Mining, and Text Mining in Medical Informatics -- Mapping Medical Informatics Research -- Bioinformatics Challenges and Opportunities -- Managing Information Security and Privacy in Healthcare Data Mining -- Ethical and Social Challenges of Electronic Health Information -- Information and Knowledge Management -- Medical Co…
Enhancing Knowledge and Skill Chains in Manufacturing and Engineering -- Enhancing Knowledge and Skill Chains in Manufacturing and Engineering -- Generic Infrastructure Requirements and Components -- Engineering Information Infrastructure for Product Lifecycle Managment -- Architecting an Ubiquitous & Model Driven Information Infrastructure -- Service Modeling for Service Engineering -- The Ext…
Theories and Paradigms -- Identifying Hypermedia Browsing Strategies -- Simulations as Mental Tools for Network-Based Group Learning -- E-training or E-learning? -- Pedagogical Models in Network-Based Education -- The Effects of IT-Based Training on Employees Uptake of New Technologies in the Work-Place -- Focus Group Report: Mobility and Education -- Programs and Curricula -- ‘Anybody Out Th…
Model Organization Constraints in Multi-Agent System -- A Multi-Agent System for Mobile Environments -- Agent Interaction Management and Application in a Virtual Collaborative Environment -- An Integrated Approach to Battlefield Situation Assessment -- Negotiation Based on Personality -- MIAM: A Robot Oriented Mobile Intelligent Agent Model -- Incorporating Elements from Camle in the Open Repos…
Real-Life Learning: Why, What and How? -- Virtual Corporate Training Systems -- Issues in the Assessment of Real-Life Learning with ICT -- Knowledge Work Management -- Communities of Practice in Higher Education -- Knowledge Acquisition in Small Businesses -- Experiences and Practices in Modeling Distance Learning Curricula for Capillary Approaches and Limited ICT Resource Scenarios -- The Use …
Holistic Approaches to Collaborative Networks -- Breeding Environments Management -- VO Creation and Frameworks -- VO Creation and Partner Selection -- VO Creation and Optimization -- Trust Management -- VO Management -- VO Coordination -- Network Benefit Analysis -- Performance Measurement -- Performance Management -- Modeling and Meta-Modeling -- Process Modeling -- Professional Virtual Commu…