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The importance of semantics has been recognized in different areas of data and information management, including better access, exchange, interoperability, integration, and analysis of data. Semantics of data is about associating meaning to data, understanding what data represents, and improving the value of data. Ubiquitous and Pervasive Knowledge and Learning Management: Semantics, Social Networking and New Media to Their Full Potential presents an alternative view to ubiquitous and pervasive knowledge, architectural frameworks, and methodological issues, and introduces some of the major techniques and tools developed in the domain of ontology building, analysis, and semantic Web. Ubiquitous and Pervasive Knowledge and Learning Management: Semantics, Social Networking and New Media to Their Full Potential contributes to the revolutionary domain of semantic Web and information systems in the following aspects: vision, methodologies, tools, and applications.
About the Author
Dr. Miltiadis D. Lytras earned his Ph.D., MBA, and B.Sc. from Athens University of Economics and Business (AUEB). He is a faculty member in both the Computers Engineering and Informatics Department (CEID) and the Department of Business Administration at the University of Patras. He s also a faculty member in the Technology Education and Digital Systems Department at the University of Piraeus. Since 1998, he has been a research officer in ELTRUN, the research center in the Department of Management Science and Technology at AUEB. His research focuses on Semantic Web, knowledge management and e-learning, with more than 50 publications in these areas. He has co-edited nine special issues in international journals and has authored/edited six books. He is the founder of the Semantic Web and Information Systems Special Interest Group in the Association for Information Systems (http://www.sigsemis.org) as well as the co-founder of AIS SIG on Reusable Learning Objects and Learning Design (http://www.sigrlo.org). He serves as the Editor-in-Chief for three international journals, while acting as an associate editor or editorial board member in seven other journals. Dr. Ambjörn Naeve (www.nada.kth.se/~amb) has a background in mathematics and computer science and received his Ph.D. in computer science from KTH in 1993. He is presently coordinator of research on Interactive Learning Environments and the Semantic Web at the Centre for user-oriented Information technology Design (CID: http://cid.nada.kth.se) at the Royal Institute of Technology (KTH: www.kth.se) in Stockholm, where he heads the Knowledge Management Research group (KMR: http://kmr.nada.kth.se). |
