The open knowledge society : a computer science and information systems manifesto : First World Summit on the Knowledge Society, WSKS 2008, Athens, Greece, September 24-26, 2008 : proceedings

This book, in conjunction with the volume LNAI 5288, constitutes the refereed proceedings of theFirst World Summit, WSKS 2008, held in Athens, Greece, in September 2008. The 95 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 286 submissions. The topics include applications for the human and the society; information systems and information technology; knowledge management and e-learning; libraries, digital culture and electronic tourism; e-business, egovernment and e-banking; politics and policies for the knowledge society; sustainable development for the knowledge society. Front Matter....Pages - Significant Learning Communities – A Humanistic Approach to Knowledge and Human Resource Development in the Age of the Internet....Pages 1-10 Wisdom Networks: Towards a Wisdom-Based Society....Pages 11-18 Step by Step Framework for Evaluation of In-Formation Technology Benefit in Social Scenarios....Pages 19-23 The Knowledge Society Agenda in Romania: From Experts’ Vision to Public Perception....Pages 24-31 A Framework for the Knowledge Society Ecosystem: A Tool for Development ....Pages 32-44 The Green and Gold Road: Journal Management and Publishing Workflow Extensions for the DSpace Repository Platform....Pages 45-52 The Biggest Human GRID-s of the Future: Hybridization of Science and Public Education....Pages 53-56 The Grid for Learning....Pages 57-66 Online Social Networks: Why Do “We” Use Facebook?....Pages 67-74 Localization of Educational Software for Deaf Children: Suggestions and Perspectives....Pages 75-82 Bottleneck of Knowledge Society....Pages 83-91 Emerging Approach to E2.0: The Case of Social Enterprise – First Results from a 1-Year Field Research....Pages 92-100 Emergent Innovation and Sustainable Knowledge Co-creation A Socio-epistemological Approach to “Innovation from within”....Pages 101-108 Contribution to the Analysis of Motion Behaviour of People in a Region Using Video Frames....Pages 109-116 The Human Web and the Domestication of the Networked Computer....Pages 117-124 Evaluation of the Energy Efficiency of Renewable Biomass Fuels: An Environmental and Financial Approach....Pages 125-136 Strategic Use of Information Technology in Profit and Non-profit Organizations from Tanzania and Sweden....Pages 137-146 Views on Globalization of Higher Education....Pages 147-152 Learning Objects for eLearning Systems....Pages 153-162 Personalized Video Browsing and Retrieval in a Semantic-Based Learning Environment....Pages 163-171 Intelligent Tutoring in the Semantic Web and Web 2.0 Environments....Pages 172-177 Knowledge Management and eLearning in Professional Development....Pages 178-183 MILCA – A Mobile and Interactive Learning Environment on Campus....Pages 184-191 An Evolutionary Approach for Domain Independent Learning Object Sequencing....Pages 192-197 Semantic Reasoning in Advanced E-Learning Brokerage Systems....Pages 198-203 The Use of Wireless Network in Education....Pages 204-212 Context-Aware Mobile Learning....Pages 213-220 Reliable Personalized Learning Paths: The Contribution of Trust to E-Learning....Pages 221-228 Advanced Tool to Develop the Assessment Process in Collaborative e-Learning Environments....Pages 229-236 Collaborative Work and Multi-criteria Organization of Web Educational Resources: A Theoretical Framework....Pages 237-244 Knowledge, Knowledge Security, and Meta-knowledge....Pages 245-252 Content Requirements Identification towards the Design of an Educational Portal....Pages 253-260 Training Adults on Traditional vs. Web 2.0 IS Topics: The Trainees’ View....Pages 261-266 ERA - E-Learning Readiness Analysis: A eHealth Case Study of E-Learning Readiness ....Pages 267-275 Applications and Exploration of ICT in Teaching History and Foreign Languages: Students and Teachers Attitudes, Perceptions and Evaluation....Pages 276-281 Learning to Invent: Let the New Knowledge Come....Pages 282-290 The New Informatics Technologies in Education Debate....Pages 291-296 King Saud University Drive toward the Knowledge Society: A STOPE View ....Pages 297-307 Metadata and Knowledge Management Driven Web-Based Learning Information System....Pages 308-313 Case-Based Reasoning: A Recent Theory for Problem-Solving and Learning in Computers and People....Pages 314-319 SOLERES-HCI: Modelling a Human-Computer Interaction Framework for Open EMS....Pages 320-327 Improving the Learning Process of Engineering Students by Deployment of Activating ICTs....Pages 328-333 Modeling Student’s Mood during an Online Self-assessment Test....Pages 334-341 Enhancing Motivation, School Competence and Self-perception of Physics in the Environment of the Cognitive Tutor CTAT during Physics Instruction....Pages 342-353 An Examination of Assessment Practices in Colleges of Business at Various Middle East Countries....Pages 354-359 A Survey on Learning Profiles of the Educators of Roma in Greece in Order to Develop the Proper E-Learning Environment for Their Training....Pages 360-370 The Organizational Value of Tacit Knowledge Derived from Parenting....Pages 371-379 Assessing Enterprise’s Knowledge Management Maturity Level....Pages 380-387 Grid Technologies to Support B2B Collaboration....Pages 388-397 Strategic and Managerial Ties for the New Product Development....Pages 398-405 Semantic Web or Web 2.0? Socialization of the Semantic Web....Pages 406-415 A Critical Review of the Impact of Knowledge Management on Higher Education....Pages 416-421 On Growth of Network and Centrality’s Change Analysis of Co-inventors Network in Enterprise....Pages 422-427 Computer-Supported Interaction for Preparing Logically Organized Documents....Pages 428-434 How Intranet Has Been Evolving in Banking: A Longitudinal Research....Pages 435-442 Is the Digital Generation Ready for Web 2.0-Based Learning?....Pages 443-447 Lean Six Sigma Applied to Supply Chains within a Services Organisation – A Practical Solution....Pages 448-460 The Project Manager as Knowledge Creator and Communicator Analyzed with the Help of the Theatre Metaphor for Conscious Experience....Pages 461-467 Software Engineering 2.0: A Social Global Repository Based on Semantic Annotation and Social Web for Knowledge Management....Pages 468-475 Tools for the Information System Function Management: A Roadmap....Pages 476-483 A Teleological Perspective towards the Definition and Measurement of Intellectual Capital....Pages 484-491 A Decision Analytic Tool for Assessing Decision Making Performance....Pages 492-496 Studying Research on E-Markets during 1995-2005....Pages 497-506 Knowledge Agent Theory and Its Autopoietic Characteristics for Authentic Knowledge Management....Pages 507-512 The Effect of Organizational Learning Tools in Business Results....Pages 513-520 Classification of Satellite Images Using the Cellular Automata Approach....Pages 521-526 Preliminary Study of the Expected Performance of MAUT Collaborative Filtering Algorithms....Pages 527-536 Distributed Dependable Enterprise Business System – DDEBS....Pages 537-542 An Ontology Crystallization Approach to Designing Performance-Based Testing Scenario....Pages 543-548 The Art and Impact of Physical and Virtual Enterprise Incubators: The Greek Paradigm....Pages 549-559 Designing IT Systems for NGOs: Issues and Directions....Pages 560-565 Developing Ontology Based Applications of Semantic Web Using UML to OWL Conversion....Pages 566-577 Studying Students’ Conceptual Grasp of OOP Concepts in Two Interactive Programming Environments....Pages 578-585 Interview-Based Photo Tagging for Expressing Course Concepts in Ubiquitous Chinese Poetry Learning....Pages 586-592 Travel Navigator....Pages 593-597 Moving Assistive Technology on the Web: The Farfalla Experience....Pages 598-602 Evaluation of Mobile Tourist Guides....Pages 603-610 Airlines Websites Evaluation Around the World....Pages 611-617 Framing Knowledge: Global Youth Culture as Knowledge Society (Research in Progress)....Pages 618-623 New Technology in Modern Museum Policy....Pages 624-634 Deploying Thick Mobile Clients Using Thin Client Architecture: A Case in Mobile Tourist Guides....Pages 635-640 An E-Culture Environment for Common Citizens and Visually Impaired Individuals....Pages 641-648 Arguments That Support Decisions in E-Cognocracy: A Quantitative Approach Based on Priorities Intensity....Pages 649-658 The Impact of a Service Oriented Approach as an Enabler for E-Government Educational Services for All Citizens....Pages 659-668 An Adapted Evaluation Method for Rural SMEs Oriented e-Learning Services/Projects....Pages 669-677 A Practical Approach to a Semantic-Based eGovernment Platform: The PLEDGE project....Pages 678-683 Pilot Evaluation of an Online Observatory of Agricultural Electronic Markets....Pages 684-693 On Linking Cultural Spaces and e-Tourism: An Ontology-Based Approach....Pages 694-701 A Co-evolutionary Interaction Design of Digital TV Applications Based on Verbal Decision Analysis of User Experiences....Pages 702-711 Looking at the Knowledge Economy: Some Issues on Theory and Evidence....Pages 712-719 The New Oil Pipeline from Bourgas to Alexandroupoli: Critical Analysis of Simulation Methods for the Protection of the Aegean Sea....Pages 720-726 Resources, Activities and Competitive Advantage: Application to Outsourcing....Pages 727-740 An Empirical Investigation on IT Training Sources....Pages 741-749 Back Matter....Pages - It is a great pleasure to share with you the Springer CCIS 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 hosted by 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- Constitutes the proceedings of the First World Summit, WSKS 2008, held in Athens, Greece, in September 2008. This book covers topics that include applications for the human and the society; information systems and information technology; knowledge management and e-learning; and, libraries, digital culture and electronic tourism.