Organizational, Business, and Technological Aspects of the Knowledge Society: Third World Summit on the Knowledge Society, WSKS 2010, Corfu, Greece, September 22-24, 2010. Proceedings, Part II

Front Matter....Pages -
A Study of Emotions in Requirements Engineering....Pages 1-7
Subcultures in Large Companies: An Exploratory Analysis....Pages 8-18
Woodfuels Prosperity towards a More Sustainable Energy Production....Pages 19-25
A European Languages Virtual Network Proposal....Pages 26-33
Financial Constrains for Innovative Firms: The Role of Size, Industry and ICT Uses as Determinants of Firms’ Financial Structure....Pages 34-45
Operational Strategy of Demand Buses, Using Self-Organizing Map....Pages 46-56
Extending TAM to Understand E-Governance Adoption by Teachers in Greece....Pages 57-68
How Do ICT Uses and New Human Resources Practices Affect SMEs’ Efficiency?....Pages 69-78
Building a Web-Based Knowledge Repository on Climate Change to Support Environmental Communities....Pages 79-84
Crucial Barriers of Knowledge Society....Pages 85-93
Sustainable Innovation Strategies in Education: OLPC Case Studies in Ethiopia and Uruguay....Pages 94-104
The Semi-opened Infrastructure Model (SopIM): A Frame to Set Up an Organizational Learning Process....Pages 105-112
Competitive Learning in Electric Circuit Theory Using MOODLE....Pages 113-122
Theory and Practice Meets in Industrial Process Design -Educational Perspective-....Pages 123-135
Support Tool in the Diagnosis of Major Depressive Disorder....Pages 136-145
Business-IT Alignment in Trade Facilitation: A Case Study....Pages 146-154
Analyzing IT Service Delivery in an ISP from Nicaragua....Pages 155-165
An Analysis of the Use of Social Software and Its Impact on Organizational Processes....Pages 166-174
Investigating Student Satisfaction from Environmental and Architectural Design Elements of 3D Educational Facilities within 3D Virtual Worlds....Pages 175-185
Perceived Compatibility and the Adoption of B2C E-Commerce by Non-buyers....Pages 186-192
Support Tool in the Diagnosis of Sales Price of Dental Plans....Pages 193-200
Ontology-Based Gap Analysis for Technology Selection: A Knowledge Management Framework for the Support of Equipment Purchasing Processes....Pages 201-213
Quality Management: Concepts and Approaches for Software Projects....Pages 214-219
’Ethos’ Enabling Organisational Knowledge Creation....Pages 220-232
Barriers to Implement Test Process in Small-Sized Companies....Pages 233-242
Overcoming Interoperability Weaknesses in e-Government Processes: Organizing and Sharing Knowledge in Regional Development Programs Using Ontologies....Pages 243-253
An Adaptive Web-Based Support to e-Education in Robotics and Automation....Pages 254-265
The Knowledge Society: Refounding the Socius ....Pages 266-277
Enhancing Users’ Participation in Business Process Modeling through Ontology-Based Training....Pages 278-288
 Lend Me Your Voice – A Constructivist Approach to Augmentative Communication....Pages 289-294
Information Logistics for Incomplete Knowledge Processing....Pages 295-302
The Strategic Partners Network’s Extraction: The XStrat.Net Project....Pages 303-311
Green Computing: Need of the Hour....Pages 312-318
A Collaborative Network Model for Agrifood Transactions on Regional Base....Pages 319-325
Knowledge-Based Approach in Research Projects and Programs Evaluation....Pages 326-335
System of Indicators in the Innovation Management: Business Intelligence Applied to Tourism....Pages 336-342
An Overview on Transports and ITS....Pages 343-345
Aggregation Procedure Based on Majority Principle for Collective Identification of Firm’s Crucial Knowledge....Pages 346-352
Customer Relationship Management Systems – Why Many Large Companies Do Not Have Them?....Pages 353-358
Is Accessibility an Issue in the Knowledge Society? Modern Web Applications in the Light of Accessibility....Pages 359-364
Structure of the Brazilian Sign Language (Libras) for Computational Tools: Citizenship and Social Inclusion....Pages 365-370
Organizational Knowledge Capitalization Based on Product Patterns and Web 2.0 Technology....Pages 371-380
Applying a Methodological Approach to the Development of a Natural Interaction System....Pages 381-386
A Review of Chief Information Officer’ Main Skills....Pages 387-392
Using Financial Ratios to Select Companies for Tax Auditing: A Preliminary Study....Pages 393-398
Semiotic Analysis of Brazilian E-Commerce Signs....Pages 399-404
Clean Plate Movement and Empowerment of Civil Leadership for Developing Sustainable Life Style....Pages 405-411
Knowledge Base Methods of Obtaining Preference of Dental Patients....Pages 412-417
Managing Research Portfolios in the Knowledge Enterprise: A University Spin-Out Case Study....Pages 418-423
Geogebra for Solving Problems of Physics....Pages 424-428
Simulation – Concepts and Applications....Pages 429-434
Measuring Administrative Burdens of e-Government Services for Rural SMEs....Pages 435-442
Guidelines for Implementing Change: A Case Study....Pages 443-452
Don’t Break the Memory Line: Social Memory, Digital Storytelling and Local Communities....Pages 453-459
Compositional Effects in Italian Primary Schools: An Exploratory Analysis of INVALSI SNV Data and Suggestions for Further Research....Pages 460-470
Engaging Students in Higher Education through Mobile Learning....Pages 471-487
Convergence of Culture and ICTs: E-Culture....Pages 488-496
Accelerated Modular Multiplication Algorithm of Large Word Length Numbers with a Fixed Module....Pages 497-505
An Introduction to Videoconference Video Traffic....Pages 506-513
Teaching a Foreign Language to Deaf People via Vodcasting & Web 2.0 Tools....Pages 514-521
Characterization of Texture in Images by Using a Cellular Automata Approach....Pages 522-533
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