Ebook: The Open Knowlege Society. A Computer Science and Information Systems Manifesto: First World Summit on the Knowledge Society, WSKS 2008, Athens, Greece, September 24-26, 2008. Proceedings

This book, in conjunction with the volume LNAI 5288, constitutes the refereed proceedings of theFirst World Summit, WSKS 2008, held in Athens, Greece, in September 2008. The 95 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 286 submissions. The topics include applications for the human and the society; information systems and information technology; knowledge management and e-learning; libraries, digital culture and electronic tourism; e-business, egovernment and e-banking; politics and policies for the knowledge society; sustainable development for the knowledge society.

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This book, in conjunction with the volume LNAI 5288, constitutes the refereed proceedings of theFirst World Summit, WSKS 2008, held in Athens, Greece, in September 2008. The 95 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 286 submissions. The topics include applications for the human and the society; information systems and information technology; knowledge management and e-learning; libraries, digital culture and electronic tourism; e-business, egovernment and e-banking; politics and policies for the knowledge society; sustainable development for the knowledge society.

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This book, in conjunction with the volume LNAI 5288, constitutes the refereed proceedings of theFirst World Summit, WSKS 2008, held in Athens, Greece, in September 2008. The 95 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 286 submissions. The topics include applications for the human and the society; information systems and information technology; knowledge management and e-learning; libraries, digital culture and electronic tourism; e-business, egovernment and e-banking; politics and policies for the knowledge society; sustainable development for the knowledge society.

Content:
Front Matter....Pages -
Significant Learning Communities – A Humanistic Approach to Knowledge and Human Resource Development in the Age of the Internet....Pages 1-10
Wisdom Networks: Towards a Wisdom-Based Society....Pages 11-18
Step by Step Framework for Evaluation of In-Formation Technology Benefit in Social Scenarios....Pages 19-23
The Knowledge Society Agenda in Romania: From Experts’ Vision to Public Perception....Pages 24-31
The Green and Gold Road: Journal Management and Publishing Workflow Extensions for the DSpace Repository Platform....Pages 32-44
The Biggest Human GRID-s of the Future: Hybridization of Science and Public Education....Pages 45-52
The Grid for Learning....Pages 53-56
Online Social Networks: Why Do “We” Use Facebook?....Pages 57-66
Localization of Educational Software for Deaf Children: Suggestions and Perspectives....Pages 67-74
Bottleneck of Knowledge Society....Pages 75-82
Emerging Approach to E2.0: The Case of Social Enterprise – First Results from a 1-Year Field Research....Pages 83-91
Emergent Innovation and Sustainable Knowledge Co-creation A Socio-epistemological Approach to “Innovation from within”....Pages 92-100
Contribution to the Analysis of Motion Behaviour of People in a Region Using Video Frames....Pages 101-108
The Human Web and the Domestication of the Networked Computer....Pages 109-116
Evaluation of the Energy Efficiency of Renewable Biomass Fuels: An Environmental and Financial Approach....Pages 117-124
Strategic Use of Information Technology in Profit and Non-profit Organizations from Tanzania and Sweden....Pages 125-136
Views on Globalization of Higher Education....Pages 137-146
Learning Objects for eLearning Systems....Pages 147-152
Personalized Video Browsing and Retrieval in a Semantic-Based Learning Environment....Pages 153-162
Intelligent Tutoring in the Semantic Web and Web 2.0 Environments....Pages 163-171
Knowledge Management and eLearning in Professional Development....Pages 172-177
MILCA – A Mobile and Interactive Learning Environment on Campus....Pages 178-183
An Evolutionary Approach for Domain Independent Learning Object Sequencing....Pages 184-191
Semantic Reasoning in Advanced E-Learning Brokerage Systems....Pages 192-197
The Use of Wireless Network in Education....Pages 198-203
Context-Aware Mobile Learning....Pages 204-212
Reliable Personalized Learning Paths: The Contribution of Trust to E-Learning....Pages 213-220
Advanced Tool to Develop the Assessment Process in Collaborative e-Learning Environments....Pages 221-228
Collaborative Work and Multi-criteria Organization of Web Educational Resources: A Theoretical Framework....Pages 229-236
Knowledge, Knowledge Security, and Meta-knowledge....Pages 237-244
Content Requirements Identification towards the Design of an Educational Portal....Pages 245-252
Training Adults on Traditional vs. Web 2.0 IS Topics: The Trainees’ View....Pages 253-260
Applications and Exploration of ICT in Teaching History and Foreign Languages: Students and Teachers Attitudes, Perceptions and Evaluation....Pages 261-266
Learning to Invent: Let the New Knowledge Come....Pages 267-275
The New Informatics Technologies in Education Debate....Pages 276-281
Metadata and Knowledge Management Driven Web-Based Learning Information System....Pages 282-290
Case-Based Reasoning: A Recent Theory for Problem-Solving and Learning in Computers and People....Pages 291-296
SOLERES-HCI: Modelling a Human-Computer Interaction Framework for Open EMS....Pages 297-307
Improving the Learning Process of Engineering Students by Deployment of Activating ICTs....Pages 308-313
Modeling Student’s Mood during an Online Self-assessment Test....Pages 314-319
Enhancing Motivation, School Competence and Self-perception of Physics in the Environment of the Cognitive Tutor CTAT during Physics Instruction....Pages 320-327
An Examination of Assessment Practices in Colleges of Business at Various Middle East Countries....Pages 328-333
A Survey on Learning Profiles of the Educators of Roma in Greece in Order to Develop the Proper E-Learning Environment for Their Training....Pages 334-341
The Organizational Value of Tacit Knowledge Derived from Parenting....Pages 342-353
Assessing Enterprise’s Knowledge Management Maturity Level....Pages 354-359
Grid Technologies to Support B2B Collaboration....Pages 360-370
Strategic and Managerial Ties for the New Product Development....Pages 371-379
Semantic Web or Web 2.0? Socialization of the Semantic Web....Pages 380-387
A Critical Review of the Impact of Knowledge Management on Higher Education....Pages 388-397
On Growth of Network and Centrality’s Change Analysis of Co-inventors Network in Enterprise....Pages 398-405
Computer-Supported Interaction for Preparing Logically Organized Documents....Pages 406-415
How Intranet Has Been Evolving in Banking: A Longitudinal Research....Pages 416-421
Is the Digital Generation Ready for Web 2.0-Based Learning?....Pages 422-427
Lean Six Sigma Applied to Supply Chains within a Services Organisation – A Practical Solution....Pages 428-434
The Project Manager as Knowledge Creator and Communicator Analyzed with the Help of the Theatre Metaphor for Conscious Experience....Pages 435-442
Software Engineering 2.0: A Social Global Repository Based on Semantic Annotation and Social Web for Knowledge Management....Pages 443-447
Tools for the Information System Function Management: A Roadmap....Pages 448-460
A Teleological Perspective towards the Definition and Measurement of Intellectual Capital....Pages 461-467
A Decision Analytic Tool for Assessing Decision Making Performance....Pages 468-475
Studying Research on E-Markets during 1995-2005....Pages 476-483
Knowledge Agent Theory and Its Autopoietic Characteristics for Authentic Knowledge Management....Pages 484-491
The Effect of Organizational Learning Tools in Business Results....Pages 492-496
Classification of Satellite Images Using the Cellular Automata Approach....Pages 497-506
Preliminary Study of the Expected Performance of MAUT Collaborative Filtering Algorithms....Pages 507-512
Distributed Dependable Enterprise Business System – DDEBS....Pages 513-520
An Ontology Crystallization Approach to Designing Performance-Based Testing Scenario....Pages 521-526
The Art and Impact of Physical and Virtual Enterprise Incubators: The Greek Paradigm....Pages 527-536
Designing IT Systems for NGOs: Issues and Directions....Pages 537-542
Developing Ontology Based Applications of Semantic Web Using UML to OWL Conversion....Pages 543-548
Studying Students’ Conceptual Grasp of OOP Concepts in Two Interactive Programming Environments....Pages 549-559
Interview-Based Photo Tagging for Expressing Course Concepts in Ubiquitous Chinese Poetry Learning....Pages 560-565
Travel Navigator....Pages 566-577
Moving Assistive Technology on the Web: The Farfalla Experience....Pages 578-585
Evaluation of Mobile Tourist Guides....Pages 586-592
Airlines Websites Evaluation Around the World....Pages 593-597
Framing Knowledge: Global Youth Culture as Knowledge Society (Research in Progress)....Pages 598-602
New Technology in Modern Museum Policy....Pages 603-610
Deploying Thick Mobile Clients Using Thin Client Architecture: A Case in Mobile Tourist Guides....Pages 611-617
An E-Culture Environment for Common Citizens and Visually Impaired Individuals....Pages 618-623
Arguments That Support Decisions in E-Cognocracy: A Quantitative Approach Based on Priorities Intensity....Pages 624-634
The Impact of a Service Oriented Approach as an Enabler for E-Government Educational Services for All Citizens....Pages 635-640
An Adapted Evaluation Method for Rural SMEs Oriented e-Learning Services/Projects....Pages 641-648
A Practical Approach to a Semantic-Based eGovernment Platform: The PLEDGE project....Pages 649-658
Pilot Evaluation of an Online Observatory of Agricultural Electronic Markets....Pages 659-668
On Linking Cultural Spaces and e-Tourism: An Ontology-Based Approach....Pages 669-677
A Co-evolutionary Interaction Design of Digital TV Applications Based on Verbal Decision Analysis of User Experiences....Pages 678-683
Looking at the Knowledge Economy: Some Issues on Theory and Evidence....Pages 684-693
The New Oil Pipeline from Bourgas to Alexandroupoli: Critical Analysis of Simulation Methods for the Protection of the Aegean Sea....Pages 694-701
Resources, Activities and Competitive Advantage: Application to Outsourcing....Pages 702-711
An Empirical Investigation on IT Training Sources....Pages 712-719
Back Matter....Pages 720-726
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