This book explores the construction of beneficial e-collaborative knowledge environments from four vital perspectives: educational, psychological, organizational, and technical. It offers several scenarios where the implementation of e-collaborative knowledge construction is necessary and then...

"This book offers academians and practitioners an illustration of the importance of tacit knowledge to an organization, presenting a means to measure and track tacit knowledge in individuals and recommendations on firm attributes and their ideal utilization of the tacit knowledge...

This book reviews innovations and trends in virtual organizations. Topics include knowledge creation and management, virtual customer networks, e-commerce, and virtual communities, offering analysis of the full spectrum of technologies, applications, practices, and outcomes within this field.

"This book contributes to the understanding of how more subtle kinds of knowledge can be managed in a distributed international environment. It describes academic work in the field of Knowledge Management, with a specific focus on the management of knowledge which cannot be managed by the normal...

This book draws on the experience of people who have worked with CoPs and presents their combined wisdom in a form that is accessible to a wide audience. CoPs are examined from a practica view. The book also examines the benefits that CoPs can bring to an organization, provides a number of case...

"This book provides cutting-edge research on reality, its nature and fundamental structure, represented both by human minds and intelligent machines -- striving to describe a world model and ontology; organized human knowledge; powerful reasoning systems; and secure communication interoperability...

"In today's networked societies, a key factor of the social and economic success is the capability to exchange, transfer, and share knowledge. This book provides research on the topic providing a foundation of an emerging and multidisciplinary field"--Provided by publisher.

"This book encompasses a wide variety of research approaches and theoretical stances,that are united in their contributions to the study of the burgeoning field of knowledge intensive organizations"--Provided by publisher.

1. Text mining for niomedicine / Sophia Ananiadou -- 2. Lexical granularity for automatic indexing and means to achieve it : the case of Swedish MeSH® / Dimitrios Kokkinakis -- 3. Expanding terms with medical ontologies to improve a multi-label text categorization system / M. Teresa...