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On the 13th conference of the International Society for Knowledge Organization (ISKO) 2014 in Krakow a panel was held on ‘The Future of Knowledge Organization and ISKO’. Here a synopsis with additional information and more dense presentation is given by a panelist. The main items were: What is knowledge organization (KO)? What will be the most challenging for ISKO and KO in the future? What is your...
It has long been a tradition in the Child Computer Interaction Community to engage with children in the design of their own products and games. The engagement of whole schoolclasses of children, in the design of games and products has been a feature of our work for several years and a suite of methods, including the Bluebells method and Obstructed Theatre have been developed to facilitate this process...
The European VPH-Share project develops an integrated modular and generic framework for understanding physiological processes in the human body in terms of anatomical structure and biophysical mechanisms. One of the major challenges besides managing and sharing a wide variety of heterogeneous bio-medical data sources relevant to the VPH community is facilitating the search and exploration of these...
Access to education has been a growing concern for children in developing economies, namely lack of access to quality customized online content in the classroom and at home; lack of tools that make learning fun and effective in key subject areas; and lack of state resources to meet educational demands. The Rumie Initiative was founded to tackle these concerns. It is a non-profit organization bringing...
Design of a web-based thesaurus for Systems of Systems Engineering (SoSE) discipline is presented in this article. Due to lack of linguistic clarity within this emerging discipline, there is a strong need to represent and interpret SoS concepts and terms to align heterogeneous models, and tools and techniques developed for SoS operations, management and its governance. A Blackboard-based systems approach...
The emergence of Systems of Systems Engineering (SoSE) poses challenges to the consistent use of terminology within and/or across heterogeneous sectors such as transport, energy and defence. In preparation for Horizon 2020, an €80 billion financial instrument running from 2014 to 2020 to implement the Europe 2020 strategy, the European Commission funded T-AREA-SoS project to formulate a strategic...
The knowledge-intensive nature of business innovation paradigms requires advanced method for managing the informative resources in the scope of an enterprise, especially in a virtual enterprise. In this context, a challenging task is to support the participation of workers to elicit/codify their tacit domain knowledge, providing the means to convert it into a more explicit and processable one. To...
The field of Computer-Supported Collaborative Learning (CSCL) explores the design and use of collaboration technologies to support learning systems, such as school classrooms or small groups of people building knowledge together [4]. I hope that CSCL environments can be designed that make possible and encourage groups to think and learn collaboratively [1]. In my research, my colleagues and I look...
Signals of interests can often be thought to come from a low dimensional signal model. The exploitation of this fact has led to many recent interesting advances in signal processing, one notable example being in the field of compressive sensing (CS). The literature on CS has established that many matrices satisfy the Restricted Isometry Property (RIP), which guarantees a stable (i.e., distance-preserving)...
It is observed that clinical decision support (CDS) and electronic health records (EHR) should be integrated so that their contribution to improving the quality of health care is enhanced. In this paper, we present results from a review on the related literature. The aim of this review was to find out to what extent CDS developers have actually considered EHR integration in developing CDS. We have...
This panel presents and discusses effective strategies and practices for improving requirements engineering skills when there is not sufficient budget for formal training.
eGovernment has the aim of developing computer-based solutions to support the interaction of citizens with the public institutions and, more in general, to improve their participation in the public and social life. Semantic technologies, used to develop advanced eGovernment solutions, require eGovernment ontologies. The latter, to be effective, must be built within a participative, social process...
The exploitation of nomenclatures, taxonomies, terminologies and classification of medical diseases, procedures, guidelines has been pivotal to advances in the healthcare domain. Parallel to those have been evolutions in educational technology and medical education where medical educational content is often shared among different educators and institutions. This paper compares the above parallel evolutions...
Knowledge about herbal medicine can be contributed from experts in several cultures. With the conventional techniques, it is hard to find the way which the experts can build a self-sustainable community for exchanging their information. In this paper, the Knowledge Unifying Initiator for Herbal Information (KUIHerb) is used as a platform for building a web community for collecting the intercultural...
We are describe the concept of dedicated multilingual preterminological graphs MPGs, and some automatic approaches for constructing them by analyzing the behavior of online community users. A multilingual preterminological graph is a special lexical resource that contains massive amount of terms related to a special domain, and can be used as raw material to later build a standardized terminological...
Web based applications and tools offer a great potential to increase the effectiveness of information flow and improve communication among disparate agents in support of distributed operations. One of the factors that hinders the integration and interoperability of information models, is a lack of common, shared vocabularies. This paper discusses research aimed at placing shared vocabularies at the...
The SBVR (semantics of business vocabulary and rules) vocabulary and rules can be represented in different ways like structured English, RuleSpeak business rule notation and ORM Notation etc. These are textual notations and they wonpsilat help in understanding the meaning of a business rule at a glance. In this paper we are proposing a visual notation for SBVR which enables easy comprehension of the...
The cancer Biomedical Informatics Grid (caBIGtrade) was initiated by the US National Cancer Institute in 2004 to address the need for interoperable information systems to enable molecular medicine for oncology. With the successful completion of the pilot phase of caBIGtrade in 2007, the NCI is in the process of expanding the program into the broader biomedical research and care delivery arena. To...
Community Coordinated Multimedia (CCM) provides an extended and enhanced human experience by collaboratively consuming electronic and networked content and multimedia-intensive services. Community coordinated multimedia vision raises the challenges of multimedia content creation, interpretation, exchange, and consumption over a large range of heterogeneous services, terminals and networks. The development...
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