Emerging Technologies and Information Systems for the Knowledge Society: First World Summit on the Knowledge Society, WSKS 2008, Athens, Greece, September 24-26, 2008. Proceedings

Front Matter....Pages -
Inclusive Social Tagging: A Paradigm for Tagging-Services in the Knowledge Society....Pages 1-10
A Unifying Framework for Building Social Computing Applications....Pages 11-21
Eye Knowledge Network: A Social Network for the Eye Care Community....Pages 22-30
Human-Centric Design of Percipient Knowledge Distribution Service....Pages 31-40
Towards a Community of Practice Toolkit Based on Semantically Marked Up Artifacts....Pages 41-50
An Annotation-Based Access Control Model and Tools for Collaborative Information Spaces....Pages 51-60
Attributions of Human-Avatar Relationship Closeness in a Virtual Community....Pages 61-69
Modelling an Environmental Knowledge-Representation System....Pages 70-78
Combining OpenEHR Archetype Definitions with SWRL Rules – A Translation Approach....Pages 79-87
Psychology in the ICT Era: Electronic Psychology....Pages 88-95
Towards an Ontology for Describing Emotions....Pages 96-104
Strategic IT Alignment in Swedish Public Healthcare System....Pages 105-113
Understanding Network Mobility in Pervasive Markets: Realistic Human Shopping Behavioral Model....Pages 114-122
User Information Satisfaction with a Knowledge-Based Virtual Community: An Empirical Investigation....Pages 123-130
ICT and Cultural Heritage Education: Which Added Value?....Pages 131-138
A Multi-Agent Model for Mine Detection – MAMMD....Pages 139-148
Proposal of a Tool of Support to the Evaluation of User in Educative Web Sites....Pages 149-157
Time Orientation Device for Special Education....Pages 158-166
Designing Collaborative Learning and Innovation Systems for Education Professionals....Pages 167-176
Personalized Learning Using Ontologies and Semantic Web Technologies....Pages 177-186
LIA: An Intelligent Advisor for e-Learning....Pages 187-196
A Strategy for Achieving Learning Content Repurposing....Pages 197-204
Supporting Effective Monitoring and Knowledge Building in Online Collaborative Learning Systems....Pages 205-214
Educational Games Design Issues: Motivation and Multimodal Interaction....Pages 215-224
A Business Plans Training Tool Based on the Semantic Web Principles....Pages 225-233
Asynchronous Tele-education and Computer-Enhanced Learning Services in the Greek School Network....Pages 234-242
Particle Swarms for Competency-Based Curriculum Sequencing....Pages 243-252
Copyright Management for the LUISA Semantic Learning Content Management System....Pages 253-262
Teaching of English to Hearing Impaired Individuals Whose Mother Language Is the Sign Language....Pages 263-270
The Determinants of the Effectiveness of Online Discussion Board Systems in eLearning: A Case Study....Pages 271-277
Can the Learning Process in a Distance University Be Improved?....Pages 278-285
Approaches to Knowledge Management in Greek Firms....Pages 286-295
Lecomps5: A Framework for the Automatic Building of Personalized Learning Sequences....Pages 296-303
Evolving Mechanisms of Virtual Learning Communities: Lessons Learned from a Case in Higher Education....Pages 304-313
A Recommender System Architecture for Instructional Engineering....Pages 314-321
Programming Robots in Primary Schools Deserves a Renewed Attention....Pages 322-331
The Development of a Self-assessment System for the Learners Answers with the Use of GPNN....Pages 332-340
Development of Online Inquiry Environments to Support Project-Based Learning of Robotics....Pages 341-353
Ontology-Based User Modelling Personalization: Analyzing the Requirements of a Semantic Learning Portal....Pages 354-363
Social Recommendations within the Multimedia Sharing Systems....Pages 364-372
Webstrategy Formulation: Benefiting from Web 2.0 Concepts to Deliver Business Values....Pages 373-384
The Rhizomer Semantic Content Management System....Pages 385-394
Business Metrics Discovery by Business Rules....Pages 395-402
The Origin, Representation, and Use of Collaboration Patterns in a Medical Community of Practice....Pages 403-412
Semantics-Aware Resolution of Multi-part Persistent Indentifiers....Pages 413-422
The Impact of Readability on the Usefulness of Online Product Reviews: A Case Study on an Online Bookstore....Pages 423-432
An on Demand Business Context to Improve Software Development Process Based on Business Knowledge....Pages 433-440
Organizational Knowledge Sources Integration through an Ontology-Based Approach: The Onto-DOM Architecture....Pages 441-450
A Capability Assessment Framework for the Adoption of B2B Integration Systems....Pages 451-459
Inclusion in the Information Society for the “Excluded” Women in Greek Thrace....Pages 460-468
On Significance of Ontology Quality in Ontology-Driven Web Search....Pages 469-478
Biggest Barriers to Effectiveness in CIO Role in Large Portuguese Companies....Pages 479-488
A Computational Experiment to Describe Opinion Formation Using a Master Equation and Monte Carlo Simulations....Pages 489-500
A UML Model of the Client Tracking System at the Learning Enrichment Foundation in Toronto, Canada: A Study of Class, Object, and State Diagrams....Pages 501-512
Searching with Document Space Adapted Ontologies....Pages 513-522
Knowledge-Intensive Interactive Systems Design in Cultural Context....Pages 523-530
Mobile and Accessible ICTs for Museography....Pages 531-539
CallimachusDL: Using Semantics to Enhance Search and Retrieval in a Digital Library....Pages 540-548
Spatial Information Retrieval from Images Using Ontologies and Semantic Maps....Pages 549-556
Pattern Matching Techniques to Identify Syntactic Variations of Tags in Folksonomies....Pages 557-564
Accessible Tourism for the Disabled: Long Tail Theory....Pages 565-572
A Social Networking Exploration of Political Blogging in Greece....Pages 573-582
Implementing an e-Government Observatory for Rural SMEs....Pages 583-592
A Semantic Based Collaborative System for the Interoperability of XBRL Accounting Information....Pages 593-599
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