Knowledge Management Nurturing Culture, Innovation and Technology : Proceedings of the 2005 International Conference on Knowledge Management, 27-28 October 2005, North Carolina, USA

Pt. I. Knowledge sharing and utilization. Knowledge sharing : linking formal and informal learning / Betty Collis. The interface between knowledgc sharing process on business and corporate culture : perspective from Small and Medium Sized Enterprises (SMEs) / Soumit Sain and Julia Ihlenfeld. Measuring changes in information sharing among life science researchers / Sanda Erdelez and Tawnya Means. Explicating tacit experiences in organizations : evidence from online Interns' discourse / Mark Aakhus, William Voon and Ying-Hsang Liu. Tacit knowledge transfer in dynamic global organizations : a case study at a multinational company / Ambrose Corray and Shankar Sankaran. The role of social networks in organizational knowledge sharing / Laila Marouf. Cooperation or competition : knowledge sharing processes in inter-organizational networks / Ray Hackney, Kevin Desouza and Claudia Loebbecke. Culture, people, codification - an empirical study on knowledge transfer in internationally expanding companies / Christian Stadler ... [et al.]. Information quality in a community-based encyclopedia / Besiki Stvilia ... [et al.]. The effect of HRM practices in knowledge transfer in MNC's network : a conceptual framework / Surapong Boonyarith -- pt. II. Communities and collaboration. Collaborative process in knowledge management practices between non-profit organizations / Miguel A. Morales-Arroyo, Yun-Ke Chang and Samantha K. Hastings. Communities of practice : increasing social capital through the integration of digital libraries, filtering, ontologies and social networking / Luz M. Quiroga and Jennifer Campbell-Meier. Chinese culture and knowledge sharing through online communities of practice / Wei Li ... [et al.]. Video-story making : a focus for collaborative learning / Janet McDonnell. The organization of the public sector's information services in a network society / IR. J. P. Van Wamelen. Adapting knowledge management systems for collaborative technical problem solving / Dinesh Rathi, Michael Twidale and Vandana Sing -- pt. III. Knowledge discovery. An algorithm for market intelligence data collection from heterogeneous sources with similarity-based selection clustering technique using knowledge maps / Tapati Bandopadhyay, Pradeep Kumar and Arjya Chakravarty. Automatic unsupervised keyphrase-based query expansion for biomedical domain / Min Song, Il-Yeol Song and Ki Jung Lee. Predicting rare events in time series / Junjie Hou and Chunping Li. A concurrent neural network - genetic programming model for decision support systems / Ajith Abraham ... [et al.]. Discovering clinical evidence for evidence-based medicine / Yunan Chen and Chaomei Chen -- pt. IV. Knowledge organization. Managing private ontologies with a Bayesian approach, for time critical scenarios / Dennis Hooijmaijers and Markus Stumptner. Tools for complex information retrieval task management / Manpreet Kaur ... [et al.]. Citation classification and its applications / Selcuk Aya, Carl Lagoze and Thorsten Joachims. Automatic learning object categorization for instruction using an enhanced linear text classifier / Thomas George Kannampallil and Robert G. Farrell. Integrating consumer taxonomies within the enterprise metadata environment / R. Todd Stephens. Affordances and constraints in knowledge organization / Isto Vatanen. In search of meaning : complexities and implications of basic definitions in knowledge management / Adekunle Okunoye and Abiodun Bada -- pt. V. Organization issues and knowledge management. Organizational trust and the choice of a dominant KM approach : two critical factors of the KM success equation / Vincent Ribière and Michael Stankosky. The role of HRM in organizational learning : a perspective from Thai corporations' employees / Decha Dechawatanapaisal. Learning organization through knowledge management : a practical approach (case study) / Gunmala Suri. Listserv as boundary object : implications for personal information management and organizational learning / Deborah Barreau. To integrate employees individual knowledge processes with the organizations learning process : construction of 'The affect based learning matrix' / Theresia Olsson Neve -- pt. VI. Knowledge management strategies and implementations. On to action : building a digital ecosystem for knowledge diffusion in rural India / Jayanta Chatterjee and T. V. Prabhakar. Strategic knowledge management : s vonceptual gramework / Roberto Campos da Rocha Miranda and Sely Maria de Soma Costa. What makes storytelling work? Abstracting knowledge from stories and formalizing them into best practices / Kathleen Y. Terry-Guy and Jay E. Aronson -- pt. VII. Knowledge management processes. Incentive mechanisms for knowledge management - case study in a Brazilian company / José Renato Sátiro Santiago Junior and Mauro de Mesquita Spinola. Creating knowledge together with your customers - the case of Early Customer Integration (ECI) into the innovation process / Christoph H. Wecht. Knowledge reuse in automated supply chain configuration - from a 4PL's perspective / Zichao Li. E-business and knowledge management process : the role of information technology / Adriana Romaniello and Montserrat Jimenez. Managing knowledge across the boundaries of a virtual organization / Susan Gasson and Edwin Elrod. Information systems and organizational knowledge / Michael J. Cuellar and Roy D. Johnson. Sequencing three models for knowledge mapping, architecture and management / Bor-sheng Tsai. Information systems in developing countries reasons for failure : Jordan - case study / Maha El-Mahied and Evon Abu-Taieh. Social cognition theory and discourse analysis as frameworks in accessing implicit knowledge : the case of Swedish organizations in Singapore / Cheyrl Marie Cordeiro and Suliman Al-Hawamdeh -- pt. VIII. Knowledge management education. Design, development and delivery of an innovative blended MSc in knowledge management systems at Cranfield / Simon J. Shurville ... [et al.]. Nurturing innovation in knowledge management education : an integrated curriculum development process for a knowledge management master's degree / Paul D. Krivonos, Evan Scheffel and Henrik Minassians. The changing roles of teachers in managing information and knowledge / Intan Azura Mokhtar -- pt. IX. Innovation, measurements and intelligence. Tracking and managing field experiences in a teacher development program / Tawnya Means, Wu He and Guan Yu Lin. Knowledge potential measurement - theoretical framework and case studies / Kerstin Fink and Friedrich Roithmayr. Preparation and validation of KM measurement instrument : an empirical study in educational and IT sectors / Lewlyn L.R. Rodrigues and Raghuvir B. Pai. Knowledge management and organizational effectiveness measurements through leadership styles of middle level managers - a study of select private organizations / G. P. Mishra. Knowledge management and competitive intelligence : eExamination of similarities, differences and intersections / France Bouthillier and Kimiz Dalkir. Web knowledge extraction for visual business intelligence approach using Lixto / José Aldo Díaz-Prado. Using a spreadsheet framework in knowledge management for software engineering teams / Deborah E. Swain. An empirical-based taxonomy of collaborative technologies supporting intelligence analysis / Ying-Hsang Liu and William Voon. Need assessment of knowledge management for the Council of Indigenous Peoples of Taiwan / Hsueh-hua Chen and Tzu-heng Chiu -- pt. X. Abstracts of poster presentations. Ontology as an alternative approach for representation of tacit knowledge / Myongho Yi and Jihwan Park. Professional capital : an informational approach to nursing / Carol Chau. From network to community of practice : a case study in managing complexity / Bruce Cronin. "Natural streams of information" : the information ecology of an interdisciplinary organization / Abe Crystal