Building the Knowledge Society on the Internet: Sharing and Exchanging Knowledge in Networked Environments

Building the Knowledge Society on the Internet: Sharing and Exchanging Knowledge in Networked Environments

Ettore Bolisani
Indexed In: SCOPUS
Release Date: June, 2008|Copyright: © 2008 |Pages: 440
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-59904-816-1
ISBN13: 9781599048161|ISBN10: 1599048167|EISBN13: 9781599048185
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In today's networked societies, a key factor of the social and economic success is the capability to exchange, transfer, and share knowledge. In the wide-ranging area of knowledge management, the issue of knowledge exchange in networked environments emerges in several application fields, and is treated with different approaches.

Building the Knowledge Society on the Internet: Sharing and Exchanging Knowledge in Networked Environments proposes a vast panorama of research on the topic while presenting a variety of viewpoints, approaches, and indications of the shared elements intended as the foundations of an emerging and fascinating multidisciplinary field.

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The many academic areas covered in this publication include, but are not limited to:

  • Architectural alternatives
  • Data Provenance
  • Domain-specific language
  • Enterprise distributed system
  • Grid applications
  • Mobile client-server systems
  • Model-Driven Engineering
  • Modeling Techniques
  • Multi-threaded systems
  • Open source revolution
  • Service orientation
  • Software
  • Software Architectures
  • Software-intensive systems
  • System Integration
  • Traceability
  • Virtual Reality Systems
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This book can help to understand the broad picture of the state-of-the-art of the current research on the topic, and depict the possible trajectories of the future developments.

– Ettore Bolisani, Universita di Padova, Italy

…useful lessons from the knowledge economy, and the motivations to share knowledge in virtual communities.

– Book News Inc. (September 2008)

The editor has successfully managed to select 17 chapters that can stand on their own or, as arranged in this volume, build on one another.

– Online Information Review, Vol. 33 No. 1 (2009)

This collection proposes a vast panorama of research on the topic, while presenting a variety of viewpoints, approaches, and indications of the shared elements intended as the foundation of an emerging and fascinating multidisciplinary field.

– APADE (2008)
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Ettore Bolisani received a degree in Electronic Engineering ("Laurea") and a Ph.D. in Innovation Studies at the University of Padua (Italy). He is Associate Professor at the Faculty of Engineering of the University of Padua. Prior to this position, he was Assistant Professor at the University of Trieste (Italy) and, in 1997, research fellow at PREST (University of Manchester - UK), where he conducted a research project funded by the European Commission on the developments of Electronic Commerce. His research centres on technology assessment and technology management, with an emphasis on Information and Communication Technologies. He has worked in several research projects funded by the European Union, by Italian public institutions, and private organisations as well.. His current research interest focuses on the economic implications of Knowledge Management and Electronic Commerce. On such topic he published various articles in international journals and chapters in books and was editor of Special Issues.
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Editorial Advisory Board
  • Abels, Eileen G. Drexel University, USA
  • An, Jaesoon Indiana University-Bloomington, USA
  • Barbaroux, Pierre Research Center of the French Air Force (CReA), France
  • Bolisani, Ettore University of Padua, USA
  • Chen, Jengchung V. National Cheng Kung University, Taiwan
  • Dalkir, Kimiz McGill University, Canada
  • Echeverri, Margarita University of Maryland, USA
  • Erickson, Scott Ithaca College, USA
  • Faraj, Samer McGill Unversity, USA
  • Georgiadou, Elli University of Middlesex, UK
  • Godé-Sanchez, Cécile Research Center of the French Air Force (CReA), France
  • Harorimana, Deogratias Southampton Solent University, UK
  • Ioannidis, Anthony Athens University of Economics and Business, Greece
  • Jahnke, Isa Institut fuer Arbeitswissenschaft, Germany
  • Liu, Shuhua University of Washington, USA
  • Narayanan, Sheetal Indiana University-Bloomington, USA
  • Ngonga Ngomo, Axel-Cyrille University of Leipzig, Germany
  • Ponis, Stavros National Technical University Athens, Greece
  • Razi, Muhammad A. Haworth College of Business, USA
  • Rothberg, Helen Marist College, USA
  • Scarso, Enrico University of Padua, Italy
  • Shankar, Kalpana Indiana University-Bloomington, USA
  • Shoulders, Sam Indiana University-Bloomington, USA
  • Siachou, Evangelia Athens University of Economics and Business, Greece
  • Siakas, Kerstin Alexander Technological Educational Institution of Thessaloniki, Greece
  • Tarn, J. Michael Western Michigan University, USA
  • Tatsiopoulos, Ilias P. National Technical University Athens, Greece
  • Tolsby, June Ostfold University College, Norway
  • Vagenas, George National Technical University Athens, Greece
  • Wasko, Molly Florida State University, USA
  • Wild, David J. Indiana University-Bloomington, USA