Intention-aware systems are introduced as a system class which enables user support based on intention detection. Thereby, intention-aware systems build on the user-centric support approach of attention-aware systems and the environmentcentric support approach of context-aware systems. A...

Content management systems (CMS) have been established to ease hosting and organizing of large amounts of multimedia content. However, existing systems often have to struggle with heterogeneity and distribution of the content and meta-data over several repositories; Furthermore, these systems...

The desideratum of semantic interoperability has been intensively discussed in medical informatics circles in recent years. Originally it was assumed by many that this issue could be addressed simply by insisting on the application of shared clinical terminologies. More recently however the use...

Motivational aspects in knowledge management have so far largely been considered from the perspective of designing and implementing incentives that influence the extrinsic motivation of employees to participate, contribute, share etc. This is increasingly considered problematic so that this...

Technological change and high competitiveness are essential for organisations in today’s fast-paced society. Information and knowledge assets thus need to be current and easily accessible. With implementing core knowledge processes such as identification and accumulation, msg systems ag - a...

Ontology evaluation is an integral part of the ontology development process. Errors in ontology create serious problems for the information system based on it. To our surprise, the existing systems are unable to identify most of the errors. We evaluate some well known ontologies against the...

The tremendous growth in the size of Web has created a challenge to find contextspecific information. After finding a specific content on the Web, users need to explicitly query search engines for the related information. In many cases, millions of generic hits are returned by general search...