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Research Teams: Fostering Scholarship and Practice

Description: This workshop is presented by members of a University of North Texas research team. First, the team will overview their experience as members of the research team and share experience in areas such as trust formation, team roles, productivity, work-life balance, faculty-students interaction, peer and faculty mentorship, dissertation preparation, and job seeking. Second, the workshop will discuss and brainstorm how this format can be implemented for organizations both with faculty-student teams … more
Date: June 2022
Creator: Allen, Jeff M., 1968-; Khader, Malak; Njeri, Millicent & Rosellini, Amy
Partner: UNT College of Information
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Increasing Information Certainty for Post-Traumatic Growth

Description: Trauma, and its associated effects, can be conceptualized as a period of information uncertainty. The natural psychological response to trauma is a period of post-traumatic stress. Trauma occurs when an existing knowledge base has been challenged. Any event that challenges important components of an individual’s assumptive world is said to be traumatic. This post-traumatic period is akin to many theories and concepts in information science including uncertainty reduction, Everyday Life Informat… more
Date: June 2022
Creator: Bank, Nicole & Allen, Jeff M., 1968-
Partner: UNT College of Information
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Metadata Practices of Academic Libraries in Kuwait, Oman, and Qatar: Current State, Risks, and Perspectives for Knowledge Management

Description: Developing, implementing, and managing metadata is crucial to successful knowledge management, and academic libraries have traditionally played a central role in these activities. The Arabian Gulf countries are underrepresented in the existing research into library metadata practices. This exploratory study used semi-structured interviews of metadata managers at 8 universities with the goal of developing understanding of the current state of metadata practices, including descriptive cataloging,… more
Date: June 2022
Creator: Zavalina, Oksana & Aljalahmah, Saleh
Partner: UNT College of Information
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Using Data Visualization Tools to Mitigate the Influx of Information in Organizations

Description: Considerable research has been conducted on the topic of information overload using different approaches, from marketing and customer demand to information technologies and sciences, and even among mental health professionals. In business the critical question is how does information overload impact processes, operations, and profitability, and how can data visualization help to solve issues with data management and consumption in organizations. The ability to quickly and effectively process in… more
Date: June 2022
Creator: Merlo, Tereza Raquel
Partner: UNT College of Information
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Application of Big Data Analytics in Precision Medicine: Lesson for Ethiopia

Description: Precision medicine is an emerging approach for disease treatment and prevention that considers individual variability in genes, environment, and lifestyle for each person. Big data analytics (BDA) using cutting-edge technologies helps to design models that can diagnose, treat and predict diseases. In Ethiopia, healthcare service delivery faces many challenges specifically in relation to prescribing the right medicine to the right patient at the right time. Thus, patients face challenges ranging… more
Date: June 2022
Creator: Woldemariam, Misganaw Tadesse & Alemneh, Daniel Gelaw
Partner: UNT College of Information
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Stock2Vec: An Embedding to Improve Predictive Models for Companies

Description: Building predictive models for companies often relies on inference using historical data of companies in the same industry sector. However, companies are similar across a variety of dimensions that should be leveraged in relevant prediction problems. This is particularly true for large, complex organizations which may not be well defined by a single industry and have no clear peers. To enable prediction using company information across a variety of dimensions, we create an embedding of company … more
Date: June 2022
Creator: Yi, Ziruo; Xiao, Ting; Kaz-Onyeakazi, Ijeoma; Ratnam, Cheran; Medeiros, Theophilus; Nelson, Phillip et al.
Partner: UNT College of Information
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Prediction of Concrete Bridge Deck Condition Ratting Based on Climate Data in Addition to Bridge Data: Five States as a Case Study

Description: Evaluating the impact of learning from climate data, in addition to bridge data, on the performance of concrete deck condition rating prediction is critical for identifying the right data needed to enhance bridge maintenance decision making. Few studies have considered such an evaluation and utilized a small size of samples that prevent revealing the knowledge hidden within the big size of data. Although, such evaluation over big data seems quite necessary, class imbalance problem makes it chal… more
Date: June 2022
Creator: Fard, Fariba
Partner: UNT College of Information
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Social Media and People Perception of Global Warming During Critical Environmental Events: the Impact of Misinformation through the Lens of Social Noise

Description: Global warming is the term used to describe critical environmental issues and concerns. Social media such as Twitter provides a platform for people to share information, exchange ideas, and express their opinions about current and timely issues. This study utilized contextual analysis to analyze data collected from Twitter for the hashtag "global warming" during the period 2010 & 2011. Using sentiment analysis and topic modeling, the study aimed first at assessing people's perception towards gl… more
Date: June 2022
Creator: Madali, Nayana Pampapura; Alsaid, Manar & Hawamdeh, Suliman M.
Partner: UNT College of Information
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An Interactive Web-Based Dashboard to Examine Trending Topics: Application to Financial Journals

Description: Understanding trends is helpful to identify future behaviors in the field, and the roles of people, places, and institutions in setting those trends. Although traditional clustering strategies can group articles into topics, these techniques do not focus on topics over limited timescales; additionally, even when articles are grouped, the generated results are extensive and difficult to navigate. To address these concerns, we create an interactive dashboard that helps an expert in the field to b… more
Date: June 2022
Creator: Phan, Ngoc; Madali, Nayana Pampapura; Behpour, Sahar & Xiao, Ting
Partner: UNT College of Information
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Changing Landscape of Scholarly Communications: Open Access

Description: The 17th International Conference on Knowledge Management was held in the historic city of Potsdam, Germany. Since the conference was among the first post-pandemic face to face conferences, the overall theme of the 17th edition of the ICKM conference rightly focused on “Knowledge, Uncertainty and Risks: From individual to global scale” at different levels of analysis and agency. This document highlighted one of the panels and the panelists argue that open access to scholarly knowledge productio… more
Date: June 2022
Creator: Alemneh, Daniel Gelaw; Hawamdeh, Suliman M.; Fourie, Ina; Rorissa, Abebe; Ford, Angela & Assefa, Shimelis
Partner: UNT College of Information
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Sense-Making: Panel of Discovery

Description: The 17th International Conference on Knowledge Management was held in the historic city of Potsdam, Germany. Since the conference was among the first post-pandemic face to face conferences, the overall theme of the 17th edition of the ICKM conference rightly focused on “Knowledge, Uncertainty and Risks: From individual to global scale” at different levels of analysis and agency. This document highlighted one of the panels that provide an overview of the different methodologies and theories of s… more
Date: June 2022
Creator: Turner, John; Hawamdeh, Suliman M.; Allen, Jeff M., 1968- & Snowden, Dave
Partner: UNT College of Information
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Speaker Independent, Continuous Speech Recognizer for Kafi Noonoo, Afro-Asiatic Language in Ethiopia

Description: This paper will report on a research to develop Speaker Independent, Continuous Speech Recognizer for Kafi Noonoo (Afro-Asiatic language that belongs to North Omotic sub family in Ethiopia) using Hidden Markov Modeling technique. The portable and open source toolkit called Hidden Markov Model (HMM) Toolkit is used to perform the experiment. The development of HMM based Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) requires both text and speech corpus for training and testing the HMM. In order to have a mo… more
Date: December 2020
Creator: Asfaw, Zelalem & Alemneh, Daniel Gelaw
Partner: UNT College of Information
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An Ontology Approach to Tourism Destinations in Ethiopia

Description: Knowledge is awareness or familiarity gained by experiences of facts, data, and situations. Knowledge management includes techniques and processes to represent, store, search, integrate, and analyze knowledge that is available in digital form. Ontology is a formal explicit specification of a shared conceptualization of a domain of interest and it is a building block of the semantic web and formal description of knowledge. Ontologies capture the structure and knowledge about some domain of inter… more
Date: December 2020
Creator: Hussen, Tijani; Beyene, Melkamu & Alemneh, Daniel Gelaw
Partner: UNT College of Information
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Leveraging Geographical Disparities of Socio-Economic Factors to Predict Vulnerable Teenagers to Teen Birth: Chicago as A Case Study

Description: Teen birth (TB) imposes serious health and economic burdens to both individuals and government. Various attempts have been made to overcome TB such as teen pregnancy prevention evidence-based programs. However, these programs might have declined teen birth rate (TBR), most of which do not address the influencing socio-economic factors linked to areas where teenagers live. This study is aimed at investigating socio-economic factors contributing to TB and identify their geographical disparities.… more
Date: December 2020
Creator: Sadeghinaeenifard, Fariba & Hawamdeh, Suliman M.
Partner: UNT College of Information
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Exploring Knowledge Creation from Project Management Processes using an Analytics Approach: A First Look

Description: Organizations struggle to harness tacit knowledge – the knowledge that resides in the heads of knowledge workers, whereas there are always opportunities to capture knowledge during project management activities. Using a literature review, this paper analyzes how knowledge can be captured during different project management phases. It attempts to bridge frequently ignored areas of project management, knowledge management, and analytics.
Date: December 2020
Creator: Atolagbe-Olaoye, Abidemi
Partner: UNT College of Information
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Knowledge Management in Cybersecurity Education Using Concept Maps

Description: The purpose of this research is to explore concept maps as a viable and effective knowledge management tool for cybersecurity education. Concept maps serve as a visual representation of knowledge. They are commonly utilized to support the teaching and learning process or as a student learning evaluation tool. While the focus of education research is on tools specific to cybersecurity such as learning management systems and cyber ranges, there is little dedicated to understanding how concept map… more
Date: December 2020
Creator: Bernot, Jordan E. F. & Chang, Hsia-Ching
Partner: UNT College of Information
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The Impact of Cyber Addiction on Information Overload and Workplace Performance

Description: Cyber addiction refers to the excessive use of internet and cyber application leading to adverse outcomes such as stress, distractions, reduced motivation levels, and challenges in task orientation. Uncontrolled consumption of the internet leads to information overload that impact productivity and workplace performance (Griffiths, 2010). In such cases, the ubiquitous availability of information can lead to IT-related stress where users derive a reduced sense of satisfaction (Diomidous et al. 20… more
Date: December 2020
Creator: Alboulayan, Moneerah & Hawamdeh, Suliman M.
Partner: UNT College of Information
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Information Representation and Knowledge Organization in Cultural Heritage Organizations in Arab Gulf Counties: A case study of Alqabas Archive

Description: The goal of this study is to explore how information is currently organized in digital cultural heritage collections in Arabian Gulf countries. it focused on Alqabas – a Kuwaiti institution with a strong reputation of early adopter of digital archiving and developer of major digital collections in Arab Gulf counties, accumulated experience in knowledge management. The mixed-methods study combined semi-structured interview of the Alqabas archive manager and in-depth content analysis of a sample … more
Date: December 2020
Creator: Aljalahmah, Saleh & Zavalina, Oksana
Partner: UNT College of Information
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Agile Practices in Data Science and Data Analytics Projects: A Research Agenda

Description: The digital age comes with transformational activities (also referred to as digital transformation) triggered by emerging fields and technologies, such as data science and analytics, cybersecurity, cloud computing, blockchain, cryptocurrency, and nanotechnology; helping organizations stay current and competitive. This paper focuses on agile frameworks that support the delivery of data science/analytics projects to ensure organizations rapidly deliver analytics products and services to their cus… more
Date: December 2020
Creator: Atolagbe-Olaoye, Abidemi
Partner: UNT College of Information
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COVID19: Mask Misinformation and Social Noise

Description: Disinformation and misinformation are pervasive in unregulated social-media environments, which are used habitually for obtaining news. Fenn et al in 2019 stated that “Given that people tend to share interesting information to maintain social relationships or to manage their impressions, information that receives more likes may subsequently be shared more often” (Fenn, Ramsay, Kantner, Pezdek, & Abed, 2019, p.133) Recent studies also revealed that misinformation from politicians and celebrities… more
Date: December 2020
Creator: Alsaid, Manar; Madali, Nayana Pampapura; Zimmerman, Tara & Hawamdeh, Suliman M.
Partner: UNT College of Information
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Development of Micro and Pilot Projects, Evaluation of Technologies, and Developing Data/Information Infrastructure

Description: Successful organizations are continuously looking for better ways to improve efficiency. Knowledge management (KM) in institutions is essentially based on an understanding of knowledge creation and knowledge transfer. At Tarrant County College, we are currently developing a District-wide knowledge management (KM) program. This KM process is implemented via micro pilot projects and processes; and an analysis of current technology, structure, and culture. We carefully try to anticipate challenge… more
Date: December 2020
Creator: Helge, Kris & Alemneh, Daniel Gelaw
Partner: UNT College of Information
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Using Operative Data Governance Roadmaps for Business Process Management Success: The Role of Leadership and the Impact of Information Technology Adoption

Description: The unquestionable demand for data generation and consumption in organizations in this century prompt an increasingly notion of data as a valuable asset, provoking the urgency for reliable analysis and reporting of complex data assets towards a critical business decision making process. Computing languages like SQL, Sequential Query Language, Data Mining and Warehouse, and data visualization tools are some examples of how information technology is being applied to the problem solving strategy r… more
Date: December 2020
Creator: Merlo, Tereza Raquel & Makani, Joyline
Partner: UNT College of Information
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Wisdom and Veterans: Enhance the Perspective, Experience, and Resilience of the Workforce

Description: Wisdom is defined as “a uniquely human quality demonstrated through an ability to apply self-insight, experience, and sound judgment in conjunction with applicable data, information, and knowledge to create a course of action leading to beneficial and productive decisions for both individuals and society” (Allen et al., 2020, p. 159). Using this definition as a foundation, this research explores how veterans use wisdom to enhance the workforce through perspective, experience, and resilience.
Date: December 2020
Creator: Allen, Jeff M., 1968-; Eaves, Tresia D.; Zimmerman, Tara; Rosellini, Amy; Njeri, Millicent & Khader, Malak
Partner: UNT College of Information
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How Does Your Knowledge Flow? Exercises in Spatial Syntax

Description: This paper describes a workshop that introduces participants to the practice of spatial syntax and provides a hands-on opportunity for participants to map assess the knowledge flows of their working environments.
Date: November 9, 2018
Creator: Bedford, Denise A. D.; Garcia-Perez, Alexeis & Sappington, Jayne
Partner: UNT College of Information
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