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.

Coverage:

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

Reviews & Statements

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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Editor/Author Biographies

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