The use of ontologies to represent knowledge provides us with organization, communication
and reusability. The concepts and relations managed by any scientific community need to be …

This book aims to synthesize different directions in knowledge studies into a unified theory of
knowledge and knowledge processes. It explicates important relations between knowledge …

Firms are increasingly adopting blockchains as a form of knowledge engineering to align
their internal processes, share information, and improve oversight. We study …

Nowadays, along with the rapid development of information technologies, very often solving
a common problem is entrusted to many autonomous units (people, systems). With such an …

Is the intelligence of a collective larger than the intelligence of its members? How does one
determine the knowledge of a collective on the basis of the knowledge of its members? In …

This paper is based on the concept of dissonance, that is, gaps or conflicts existing in a
specific knowledge base or among different knowledge bases. It presents a rule-based …

Techniques for processing knowledge in collectives are more and more needed because of
rapidly increasing number of autonomous sources of knowledge in the world. Collective …

Twitter has become a popular microblogging service that allows millions of active users
share news, emergent social events, personal opinions, etc. That leads to a large amount of …

This paper proposes a new approach to collaborative profile recommendation using a
hierarchical structure for user modeling. In an information retrieval system a hierarchical …

Performance projections of high performance computing (HPC) applications onto various
hardware platforms are important for hardware vendors and HPC users. The projections aid …