Web content management (WCM) systems, as a branch of content management (CM) gained importance during the Web explosion in the mid 1990s. More and more Web administrators came to the same conclusion: the Web content needs to be managed all over the content life cycle, static HTML pages are time...

Intelligent Tutoring Systems (ITSs) might improve learning and teaching in two distinct ways. Just as they have made teachers and students more productive, they could reduce teaching costs or increase the speed with which learners acquire knowledge/of knowledge acquirement. Alternatively, such...

Most of the universities, nowadays, are struggling to enhance the professional experience and skills of their personnel in order to efficiently utilize the new technologies in their teaching activities. The pressure for this comes from many sources, including employers who are demanding...

The scientific community has demonstrated that for the bankruptcy prediction, different techniques have different advantages on different data sets and different feature selection approaches. This subject has attracted a lot of research interests as it is one of the major preoccupation of...

Whereas knowledge management systems (KMS) continue to gain popularity as most advanced corporate information systems, the acceptance of standardized KMS assessment approaches has lagged. Developing metrics to assess a corporate KMS is inherently problematic due to the intangible nature of...

Knowledge acquisition is a frequent bottleneck in business intelligent systems, and knowledge extraction from trained artificial neural networks (ANNs) provides an excellent way for explaining the functioning of a business connectionist system. This is important for ANNs to gain a wider degree...

Web application usability is not just about good interface design. While the visual appeal of a web application is important, the fundamental structure and programming can contribute to "good usability". Usability doesn't begin and end with the user. A usable website that's built inadequately...

Ontologies are essential for a semantic integration of knowledge components which can be seen as superior pieces of intellectual capital. Knowledge structures connect individual or group knowledge elements from organizational knowledge bases that have been developed independently. This can aid...

The economic performance of states depends on the quality of their educational systems, and human capital is the most efficient production factor, expressed through the knowledge, competences, creative abilities and moral traits of the members of society. In educational and training systems,...