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

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
A Framework for the Knowledge Society Ecosystem: A Tool for Development ....Pages 32-44
The Green and Gold Road: Journal Management and Publishing Workflow Extensions for the DSpace Repository Platform....Pages 45-52
The Biggest Human GRID-s of the Future: Hybridization of Science and Public Education....Pages 53-56
The Grid for Learning....Pages 57-66
Online Social Networks: Why Do “We” Use Facebook?....Pages 67-74
Localization of Educational Software for Deaf Children: Suggestions and Perspectives....Pages 75-82
Bottleneck of Knowledge Society....Pages 83-91
Emerging Approach to E2.0: The Case of Social Enterprise – First Results from a 1-Year Field Research....Pages 92-100
Emergent Innovation and Sustainable Knowledge Co-creation A Socio-epistemological Approach to “Innovation from within”....Pages 101-108
Contribution to the Analysis of Motion Behaviour of People in a Region Using Video Frames....Pages 109-116
The Human Web and the Domestication of the Networked Computer....Pages 117-124
Evaluation of the Energy Efficiency of Renewable Biomass Fuels: An Environmental and Financial Approach....Pages 125-136
Strategic Use of Information Technology in Profit and Non-profit Organizations from Tanzania and Sweden....Pages 137-146
Views on Globalization of Higher Education....Pages 147-152
Learning Objects for eLearning Systems....Pages 153-162
Personalized Video Browsing and Retrieval in a Semantic-Based Learning Environment....Pages 163-171
Intelligent Tutoring in the Semantic Web and Web 2.0 Environments....Pages 172-177
Knowledge Management and eLearning in Professional Development....Pages 178-183
MILCA – A Mobile and Interactive Learning Environment on Campus....Pages 184-191
An Evolutionary Approach for Domain Independent Learning Object Sequencing....Pages 192-197
Semantic Reasoning in Advanced E-Learning Brokerage Systems....Pages 198-203
The Use of Wireless Network in Education....Pages 204-212
Context-Aware Mobile Learning....Pages 213-220
Reliable Personalized Learning Paths: The Contribution of Trust to E-Learning....Pages 221-228
Advanced Tool to Develop the Assessment Process in Collaborative e-Learning Environments....Pages 229-236
Collaborative Work and Multi-criteria Organization of Web Educational Resources: A Theoretical Framework....Pages 237-244
Knowledge, Knowledge Security, and Meta-knowledge....Pages 245-252
Content Requirements Identification towards the Design of an Educational Portal....Pages 253-260
Training Adults on Traditional vs. Web 2.0 IS Topics: The Trainees’ View....Pages 261-266
ERA - E-Learning Readiness Analysis: A eHealth Case Study of E-Learning Readiness ....Pages 267-275
Applications and Exploration of ICT in Teaching History and Foreign Languages: Students and Teachers Attitudes, Perceptions and Evaluation....Pages 276-281
Learning to Invent: Let the New Knowledge Come....Pages 282-290
The New Informatics Technologies in Education Debate....Pages 291-296
King Saud University Drive toward the Knowledge Society: A STOPE View ....Pages 297-307
Metadata and Knowledge Management Driven Web-Based Learning Information System....Pages 308-313
Case-Based Reasoning: A Recent Theory for Problem-Solving and Learning in Computers and People....Pages 314-319
SOLERES-HCI: Modelling a Human-Computer Interaction Framework for Open EMS....Pages 320-327
Improving the Learning Process of Engineering Students by Deployment of Activating ICTs....Pages 328-333
Modeling Student’s Mood during an Online Self-assessment Test....Pages 334-341
Enhancing Motivation, School Competence and Self-perception of Physics in the Environment of the Cognitive Tutor CTAT during Physics Instruction....Pages 342-353
An Examination of Assessment Practices in Colleges of Business at Various Middle East Countries....Pages 354-359
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 360-370
The Organizational Value of Tacit Knowledge Derived from Parenting....Pages 371-379
Assessing Enterprise’s Knowledge Management Maturity Level....Pages 380-387
Grid Technologies to Support B2B Collaboration....Pages 388-397
Strategic and Managerial Ties for the New Product Development....Pages 398-405
Semantic Web or Web 2.0? Socialization of the Semantic Web....Pages 406-415
A Critical Review of the Impact of Knowledge Management on Higher Education....Pages 416-421
On Growth of Network and Centrality’s Change Analysis of Co-inventors Network in Enterprise....Pages 422-427
Computer-Supported Interaction for Preparing Logically Organized Documents....Pages 428-434
How Intranet Has Been Evolving in Banking: A Longitudinal Research....Pages 435-442
Is the Digital Generation Ready for Web 2.0-Based Learning?....Pages 443-447
Lean Six Sigma Applied to Supply Chains within a Services Organisation – A Practical Solution....Pages 448-460
The Project Manager as Knowledge Creator and Communicator Analyzed with the Help of the Theatre Metaphor for Conscious Experience....Pages 461-467
Software Engineering 2.0: A Social Global Repository Based on Semantic Annotation and Social Web for Knowledge Management....Pages 468-475
Tools for the Information System Function Management: A Roadmap....Pages 476-483
A Teleological Perspective towards the Definition and Measurement of Intellectual Capital....Pages 484-491
A Decision Analytic Tool for Assessing Decision Making Performance....Pages 492-496
Studying Research on E-Markets during 1995-2005....Pages 497-506
Knowledge Agent Theory and Its Autopoietic Characteristics for Authentic Knowledge Management....Pages 507-512
The Effect of Organizational Learning Tools in Business Results....Pages 513-520
Classification of Satellite Images Using the Cellular Automata Approach....Pages 521-526
Preliminary Study of the Expected Performance of MAUT Collaborative Filtering Algorithms....Pages 527-536
Distributed Dependable Enterprise Business System – DDEBS....Pages 537-542
An Ontology Crystallization Approach to Designing Performance-Based Testing Scenario....Pages 543-548
The Art and Impact of Physical and Virtual Enterprise Incubators: The Greek Paradigm....Pages 549-559
Designing IT Systems for NGOs: Issues and Directions....Pages 560-565
Developing Ontology Based Applications of Semantic Web Using UML to OWL Conversion....Pages 566-577
Studying Students’ Conceptual Grasp of OOP Concepts in Two Interactive Programming Environments....Pages 578-585
Interview-Based Photo Tagging for Expressing Course Concepts in Ubiquitous Chinese Poetry Learning....Pages 586-592
Travel Navigator....Pages 593-597
Moving Assistive Technology on the Web: The Farfalla Experience....Pages 598-602
Evaluation of Mobile Tourist Guides....Pages 603-610
Airlines Websites Evaluation Around the World....Pages 611-617
Framing Knowledge: Global Youth Culture as Knowledge Society (Research in Progress)....Pages 618-623
New Technology in Modern Museum Policy....Pages 624-634
Deploying Thick Mobile Clients Using Thin Client Architecture: A Case in Mobile Tourist Guides....Pages 635-640
An E-Culture Environment for Common Citizens and Visually Impaired Individuals....Pages 641-648
Arguments That Support Decisions in E-Cognocracy: A Quantitative Approach Based on Priorities Intensity....Pages 649-658
The Impact of a Service Oriented Approach as an Enabler for E-Government Educational Services for All Citizens....Pages 659-668
An Adapted Evaluation Method for Rural SMEs Oriented e-Learning Services/Projects....Pages 669-677
A Practical Approach to a Semantic-Based eGovernment Platform: The PLEDGE project....Pages 678-683
Pilot Evaluation of an Online Observatory of Agricultural Electronic Markets....Pages 684-693
On Linking Cultural Spaces and e-Tourism: An Ontology-Based Approach....Pages 694-701
A Co-evolutionary Interaction Design of Digital TV Applications Based on Verbal Decision Analysis of User Experiences....Pages 702-711
Looking at the Knowledge Economy: Some Issues on Theory and Evidence....Pages 712-719
The New Oil Pipeline from Bourgas to Alexandroupoli: Critical Analysis of Simulation Methods for the Protection of the Aegean Sea....Pages 720-726
Resources, Activities and Competitive Advantage: Application to Outsourcing....Pages 727-740
An Empirical Investigation on IT Training Sources....Pages 741-749
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