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Analysis of Knowledge Risks Identified in the Brazilian Space Program: A Methodological Framework for Verification and Mitigation of Risks in the Light of Knowledge Governance

Description: Brazilian scientific and technological research in the space area covers a diversity of themes so that its results are applied in several areas, such as earth observation, fire control, climate change, telecommunications, and security, among others. By providing useful products and services for society, economy, and industry, one perceives its relevance and the need to improve Brazil's space research. Thus, given its social and economic importance, this project aims to structure, based on scien… more
Date: June 2022
Creator: De Lima, Joao SéRgio Beserra; Alvares, Lillian Maria Araujo De Rezende & Leonardi, Rodrigo
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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Are We Missing the Importance of Creativity in Knowledge Management?

Description: Creativity is no stranger to knowledge management and has helped drive innovation and break new grounds in the management of knowledge. Organisations in general see creativity as a highly desirable outcome and strive to develop it further. This conceptual paper looks at a number of academic writings to identify the role of creativity in knowledge management. A number of common themes are identified, while highlighting the need for further research into the importance of creativity in knowledge … more
Date: June 2022
Creator: Laughton, Paul
Partner: UNT College of Information
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BOSCH Experts Organization: Experiences & Perspectives

Description: The Bosch Group is a leading global supplier of technology and services. It employs roughly 402,600 associates worldwide (as of December 31, 2021). The company generated sales of 78.7 billion euros in 2021. Its operations are divided into four business sectors: Mobility Solutions, Industrial Technology, Consumer Goods, and Energy and Building Technology. At 128 locations across the globe, Bosch employs some 76,100 associates in research and development, of which more than 38,000 are software en… more
Date: June 2022
Creator: Ebmeyer, Juergen & Maier, Lothar
Partner: UNT College of Information
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Comparing Knowledge Management and Wisdom Management

Description: To provide solutions to the world’s global challenges, there is an urgent demand for wise organizations, wise leadership, wise workers, and most importantly, for wise actions. Since the mid- 1990s, Knowledge Management (KM) as a discipline and practice has emerged internationally and it went through several phases of development. Similarly, in the last four decades, we experience a growth in wisdom research, and in intense discourses about Wisdom Management (WM) as a possible venue for dealing … more
Date: June 2022
Creator: Jakubik, Maria
Partner: UNT College of Information
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Conversation about KM at NASA

Description: Ed Rogers served as Chief Knowledge Officer with NASA Goddard Space Flight Center from 2003 to 2020. He holds a PhD in HRM from Cornell University and teaches a different universities like University of Alabama, George Washington University and Indian School of Business. Since 2020 he is the principal owner of Mayjer Enterprises (Palmyra, Virginia).
Date: June 2022
Creator: Rogers, Ed
Partner: UNT College of Information
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Dialogue Recognition in Online Health Community via Integrating Text Scene Information

Description: WeChat group-based online medical community (WGMC) is increasingly accepted by the public because of its high efficiency, convenience, and shared advantages in seeking medical resources. However, the problem to separate a complete dialogue relationship from the chat records is arising because efficient online community management is based on clear dialogue relationships and clear topics. To solve the problem, we proposed a hybrid three-stages BERT method to recognize the dialogue relationships … more
Date: June 2022
Creator: Tang, Zhanhua; He, Chaocheng; Zhou, Haoyu; Huang, Xiao & Wu, Jiang
Partner: UNT College of Information
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Evaluation of Operational Knowledge Risks in SMEs – Using a Grey-Dematel Technique

Description: Risk management is generally characterized by identification, assessment, and mitigation. In the literature on knowledge risk management (KRM), there appears to be much emphasis on taxonomies - which primarily focus on identification - and mitigation strategies, without particular attention to the evaluation phase of KRM. To address this gap, the present paper aims to systematically evaluate potential knowledge risks common at the operational level of small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). … more
Date: June 2022
Creator: Foli, Ssamuel; Durst, Susanne; Frempong, George & Romero, Elena Dominguez
Partner: UNT College of Information
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Evidence-Driven Strategies for Successful Schooling Outcomes of Learners of African Descent in Nova Scotia

Description: In Nova Scotia, the marginalization of African Nova Scotian learners in the public education system has led to an achievement gap, where their performance in terms of literacy and numeracy in annual assessments is often below the provincial average. This research aims to use machine learning to analyze student data collected by the Nova Scotia Department of Education and Early Childhood Development to provide evidence-driven insights into the schooling outcomes of African Nova Scotian students.… more
Date: June 2022
Creator: Kadam, Raavee; Makani, Joyline; Frempong, George & Lingras, Pawan
Partner: UNT College of Information
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Exploring Knowledge Graphs

Description: Conference abstracts and project reports can be a valuable source for access to information on possible risks or experiences to build on. However, these collections are often not accessible in a convenient manner. This work explores the usage of knowledge graphs to support document discovery with an automated indexing approach. Therefore, an RDF/SKOS graph is built, consisting of nearly 1400 tagging labels manually extracted from literature on knowledge graphs and organized in a thesaurus struc… more
Date: June 2022
Creator: Hercher, Johannes & Neher, Gunther
Partner: UNT College of Information
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Extractive Automatic Text Summarization Techniques for Afaan Oromoo – Afroasiatic Language in Ethiopia

Description: Text summary has become a vital and more popular domain to preserve and highlight the core purpose of textual information as the amount of online information and resource texts has grown. Text summarization is the task of extracting key information from a text document. Text summarizing research in Afaan Oromoo is still rare and hasn't been thoroughly assessed. This study's primary goal was to evaluate the performance and method of extractive models on automatic extractive text summarization fo… more
Date: June 2022
Creator: Gichila, Ramata Mosissa & Alemneh, Daniel Gelaw
Partner: UNT College of Information
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First Observations from an Analysis of KM Job Adverts from English-Speaking Countries and Germany

Description: This paper presents the first results from an analysis of recent job advertisements from online platforms from English and German-speaking countries. The full texts of about 4100 job adverts carrying the terms “knowledge manager” or “knowledge management” either in in the job title or in the short description have been analyzed. The main research aim was to identify the most common KM job titles, providing a basis for further analysis of tasks and required competencies to compare the data sam… more
Date: June 2022
Creator: Heisig, Peter & Neher, Günther
Partner: UNT College of Information
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Fit to Collaborate in the Otto Group: Experiences and Perspective

Description: Juliane Dieckmann, Head of Knowledge Management in the Otto Group Holding, is responsible in the Digital & Consulting division for the group-wide transfer of knowledge and the development of KM products specifically aimed at collaboration in organisational units. She focuses with continuing enthusiasm on the task of making Knowledge Management in the Otto Group fit for the path to digital transformation and putting people at the centre of this. The Otto Group is a globally active trading and se… more
Date: June 2022
Creator: Dieckmann, Juliane
Partner: UNT College of Information
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From Digital Twins to Digital Selves and Beyond: Perspectives for Social Modeling in a Trans-Humanist World

Description: We discuss the engineering of so-called ‘humanoid’ socio-technical settings mimicking cognitive and social skills. We discuss the influence of Artificial Intelligence (AI) on digital selves. We introduce relevant approaches to awareness and the emergence of consciousness in artificial agents. We define mandatory properties of digital selves so that digital societies can be modeled and we present our thoughts on the role of KM in a trans-humanist world.
Date: June 2022
Creator: Barachini, Franz & Stary, Christian
Partner: UNT College of Information
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ICKM 2017 Program

Description: This is the final program for the 2017 International Conference on Knowledge Management.
Date: October 25, 2017
Creator: Alemneh, Daniel Gelaw; Allen, Jeff M. & Hawamdeh, Suliman M.
Partner: UNT Libraries
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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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Infinity Maps as a Visual Knowledge Management Platform – Concept and Use Cases

Description: The iMapping technique is a visual knowledge mapping approach that is based on deep zooming and nesting and that unites the essential benefits of virtual whiteboards, mind maps and concept maps. To achieve that, it breaks the physical page metaphor and introduces an infinitely zoomable, nested canvas, to create large scalable knowledge spaces. It has been originally developed and scientifically evaluated in the context of personal knowledge management only. Infinity Maps is the state-of-the art… more
Date: June 2022
Creator: Haller, Heiko
Partner: UNT College of Information
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An Integrated Workflow for Exploring Graduated Research Landscape Using Co- Occurrence with Focus+Context Visualization

Description: Theses and dissertations, as a means to accumulate concepts, innovations, and implementations, are the main building blocks of the creative learning organization. In this research, we focus on a digital media-oriented graduate program in Architecture, where young researchers often derive their theses from various disciplines and encounter difficulties when exploring unfamiliar research areas. The aim of this paper is to provide a new way to explore the thematic map of knowledge generated in the… more
Date: June 2022
Creator: Hou, Chih-Chien
Partner: UNT College of Information
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Intellectual Capital Management in an Engineering Company

Description: Engineering offices are knowledge companies. Systematically maintaining and developing the existing knowledge in and as a company is therefore an essential task of corporate management. Knowledge management at ZM-I includes a training system (ZM-I Campus), a digital knowledge database (intranet) and workshops. For a systematic analysis and evaluation of the company's intellectual capital, a bi-annual certified intellectual capital report is carried out. For this purpose, employees from all divi… more
Date: June 2022
Creator: Mühlbauer, Christian
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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Intercultural Perspectives on Information Literacy - a Report on a Transnational Project to Foster Information Literacy

Description: In an increasingly interconnected world, there is a need to prepare students to become more knowledgeable of different cultures and global matters. Furthermore, in a time which is characterized by disinformation, information literacy becomes more important than ever before. By taking into account transnational perspectives in learning these topics, e-learning provides us with the opportunity to connect students who otherwise would not have the chance to meet and get into knowledge related disco… more
Date: June 2022
Creator: Griesbaum, Joachim
Partner: UNT College of Information
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KM Practices - Motivational Structures within Tax and Legal Knowledge Management

Description: This presentation deals with motivational ideas and initiatives for knowledge sharing in the field of tax and legal consulting. Sharing knowledge at all levels and in all formats is often difficult or even impossible due to the need to respect confidentiality and data protection laws. However, the example of PwC Switzerland shows how it is still possible to be a knowledge organization, to create a lively and popular exchange between employees and not to reinvent the wheel every day. We will als… more
Date: June 2022
Creator: Otto, Katharina
Partner: UNT College of Information
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Knowledge Externalization in the Process of Building Project Knowledge Management System – a Case Study of a Public Organization

Description: In project-based organizations, knowledge management is becoming a cornerstone of their operation. Of particular importance in acquiring valuable and useful for employees, as well as for the whole organization, is one of the processes of its conversion – externalization. It is important that during the implementation of subsequent projects, valuable resources such as knowledge, skills and experience acquired by employees are not lost, but that employees externalize them. The purpose of this art… more
Date: June 2022
Creator: Brodzińska, Kamila
Partner: UNT College of Information
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Knowledge Management Enables the Transformation from a Global Steel Supplier to a Technology Service Provider

Description: In 2018, voestalpine High Performance Metals decided to significantly invest in Knowledge Management to foster their strategy to expand into new markets. After conducting a thorough global feasibility study involving different stakeholders at multiple locations, a hybrid KM strategy was proposed creating networks of experts and identifying valuable content for re-use supported by a KM Service Portfolio. Members of pilot “communities of Practice” (CoP) were involved in the co-design of KM Servi… more
Date: June 2022
Creator: Fratzl, Hubert & Plenkers, Sven
Partner: UNT College of Information
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