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Emerging Technologies and Information Systems for the Knowledge Society

First World Summit on the Knowledge Society, WSKS 2008, Athens, Greece, September 24-26, 2008. Proceedings

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  1. Miltiadis D. Lytras
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Part of the book series: Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS, volume 5288)

Part of the book sub series: Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence (LNAI)

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Table of contents (64 papers)

  1. Front Matter

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  2. Track I: Social and Humanistic Computing for the Knowledge Society: Emerging Technologies and Systems for the Society and the Humanity

    1. Inclusive Social Tagging: A Paradigm for Tagging-Services in the Knowledge Society

      • Michael Derntl, Thorsten Hampel, Renate Motschnig-Pitrik, Tomáš Pitner
      Pages 1-10

    2. A Unifying Framework for Building Social Computing Applications

      • Renato A. C. Capuruço, Luiz F. Capretz
      Pages 11-21

    3. Eye Knowledge Network: A Social Network for the Eye Care Community

      • Rudi Verago, Fabian Chatwin Cedrati, Fabio d’Alessi, Arrigo Zanette
      Pages 22-30

    4. Human-Centric Design of Percipient Knowledge Distribution Service

      • Peter Géczy, Noriaki Izumi, Shotaro Akaho, Kôiti Hasida
      Pages 31-40

    5. Towards a Community of Practice Toolkit Based on Semantically Marked Up Artifacts

      • Christine Müller, Michael Kohlhase
      Pages 41-50

    6. An Annotation-Based Access Control Model and Tools for Collaborative Information Spaces

      • Peyman Nasirifard, Vassilios Peristeras, Stefan Decker
      Pages 51-60

    7. Attributions of Human-Avatar Relationship Closeness in a Virtual Community

      • Yi Zhao, Weiquan Wang
      Pages 61-69

    8. Modelling an Environmental Knowledge-Representation System

      • Nicolas Padilla, Luis Iribarne, Jose A. Asensio, Francisco J. Muñoz, Rosa Ayala
      Pages 70-78

    9. Combining OpenEHR Archetype Definitions with SWRL Rules – A Translation Approach

      • Leonardo Lezcano, Miguel-Angel Sicilia, Pablo Serrano-Balazote
      Pages 79-87

    10. Psychology in the ICT Era: Electronic Psychology

      • Athanasios Drigas, Leyteris Koukianakis, Yannis Papagerasimou
      Pages 88-95

    11. Towards an Ontology for Describing Emotions

      • Juan Miguel López, Rosa Gil, Roberto García, Idoia Cearreta, Nestor Garay
      Pages 96-104

    12. Strategic IT Alignment in Swedish Public Healthcare System

      • Lazar Rusu, Yu Huang, Ali Turab Rizvi
      Pages 105-113

    13. Understanding Network Mobility in Pervasive Markets: Realistic Human Shopping Behavioral Model

      • Lu Yan
      Pages 114-122

    14. User Information Satisfaction with a Knowledge-Based Virtual Community: An Empirical Investigation

      • Xiao-Ling Jin, Christy M. K. Cheung, Matthew K. O. Lee, Huaping Chen
      Pages 123-130

    15. ICT and Cultural Heritage Education: Which Added Value?

      • Michela Ott, Francesca Pozzi
      Pages 131-138

    16. A Multi-Agent Model for Mine Detection – MAMMD

      • Umar Manzoor, Samia Nefti, Haris Hasan, Majid Mehmood, Bassam Aslam, Osama Shaukat
      Pages 139-148

    17. Proposal of a Tool of Support to the Evaluation of User in Educative Web Sites

      • Maria Elena Alva, Ana Belén Martínez, José Emilio Labra Gayo, Maria del Carmen Suárez, Juan Manuel Cueva, Hernán Sagástegui
      Pages 149-157

    18. Time Orientation Device for Special Education

      • José M. Falcó, Álvaro Marco, Ángel Asensio, Rubén Blasco, Roberto Casas, Joaquín Ezpeleta
      Pages 158-166

  3. Track II: Knowledge, Learning, Education, Learning Technologies and E-learning for the Knowledge Society

    1. Designing Collaborative Learning and Innovation Systems for Education Professionals

      • Albert A. Angehrn, Katrina Maxwell, A. Marco Luccini, Federico Rajola
      Pages 167-176
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It is a great pleasure to share with you the Springer LNCS proceedings of the First World Summit on the Knowledge Society - WSKS 2008 that was organized by the Open Research Society, NGO, http://www.open-knowledge-society.org, and took place in the American College of Greece, http://www.acg.gr, during September 24–27, 2008, in Athens, Greece. The World Summit on the Knowledge Society Series is an international attempt to promote a dialogue on the main aspects of a knowledge society toward a better world for all based on knowledge and learning. The WSKS Series brings together academics, people from industry, policy makers, politicians, government officers and active citizens to look at the impact of infor- tion technology, and the knowledge-based era it is creating, on key facets of today’s world: the state, business, society and culture. Six general pillars provide the constitutional elements of the WSKS series: • Social and Humanistic Computing for the Knowledge Society––Emerging Te- nologies and Systems for the Society and Humanity • Knowledge, Learning, Education, Learning Technologies and E-learning for the Knowledge Society • Information Technologies––Knowledge Management Systems––E-business and Enterprise Information Systems for the Knowledge Society • Culture and Cultural Heritage––Technology for Culture Management––Management of Tourism and Entertainment––Tourism Networks in the Knowledge Society • Government and Democracy for the Knowledge Society • Research and Sustainable Development in the Knowledge Society The summit provides a distinct, unique forum for cross-disciplinary fertilization of research, favoring the dissemination of research that is relevant to international re-

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