Managed Forgetting to Support Information Management and Knowledge Work

Trends like digital transformation even intensify the already overwhelming mass of information knowledge workers face in their daily life. To counter this, we have been investigating knowledge work and information management support measures inspired by human forgetting. In this paper, we give an overview of solutions we have found during the last five years as well as challenges that still need to be tackled. Additionally, we share experiences gained with the prototype of a first forgetful information system used 24/7 in our daily work for the last three years. We also address the untapped potential of more explicated user context as well as features inspired by Memory Inhibition, which is our current focus of research.Comment: 10 pages, 2 figures, preprint, final version to appear in KI - K\"unstliche Intelligenz, Special Issue: Intentional Forgettin

Message from the President of the United States to the two Houses of Congress at the commencement of the first session of the Thirty-sixth Congress : Report of Commissioner of Indian Affairs, 1859.

Annual Message to Congress with Documents; Pres. Buchanan. 19 Jan. SED 2, 36-1, v1-4, 2417p. [1023-1026] British control of Indian depredations on Vancouver Island; military posts to control Indian depredations in the Southwest; annual report of the Sec. of War (Serials 1024-1025); annual report of the Sec. of Interior (Serial 1023); annual report of the Gen. Land Office (Serial 1023): annual report of the CIA (Serial 1023), including trust funds and finances, conditions on reservations, civilization, hostilities, and reports of Supts., agents, and schools; etc

An Outlook on Design Technologies for Future Integrated Systems

The economic and social demand for ubiquitous and multifaceted electronic systems-in combination with the unprecedented opportunities provided by the integration of various manufacturing technologies-is paving the way to a new class of heterogeneous integrated systems, with increased performance and connectedness and providing us with gateways to the living world. This paper surveys design requirements and solutions for heterogeneous systems and addresses design technologies for realizing them

Ubiquitous Computing

The aim of this book is to give a treatment of the actively developed domain of Ubiquitous computing. Originally proposed by Mark D. Weiser, the concept of Ubiquitous computing enables a real-time global sensing, context-aware informational retrieval, multi-modal interaction with the user and enhanced visualization capabilities. In effect, Ubiquitous computing environments give extremely new and futuristic abilities to look at and interact with our habitat at any time and from anywhere. In that domain, researchers are confronted with many foundational, technological and engineering issues which were not known before. Detailed cross-disciplinary coverage of these issues is really needed today for further progress and widening of application range. This book collects twelve original works of researchers from eleven countries, which are clustered into four sections: Foundations, Security and Privacy, Integration and Middleware, Practical Applications

Over the Line: Critical Media Technologies of the Trans-American Hyperborder

My project argues that the U.S.-Mexico border is an assemblage of medial forms that are communicated in multiple media without superseding one another. For example, the border is, at once, a graphic design on numerous maps; a symbolic construction in copious literary and legal textual media; a series of fences erected in various terrestrial media; a photographic icon in still and moving pictures; an architectural design; a painted figure; the list goes on. As an assortment of medial forms, The U.S.-Mexico border does not refer to the United States and Mexico as the subjects of its mediation, but rather produces the United States and Mexico as subjects, which thereon depend on the border for their subjectivity, as the border depends on the nations for its continued existence. The United States and Mexico cannot be articulated from or with one another without what media theorist Bernhard Siegert calls “concrete practices and symbolic operations” to process their articulation, operations which are ultimately expressed in medial forms, whether lines on maps, untranslatable proper nouns, legal writ, poetic verses, or fences. In drawing connections between the borders produced in different media, I am examining borders as media systems that correspond to different cultural techniques and produce distinct political subjectivities. To envision this network, I develop the concept of the hyperborder, which I define as a border that extends across media. The hyperborder is a framework that links together different mediated borders, and that proposes and examines epistemological connections between them. The hyperborder is a way of attaining a global and comparative view of borders, while at the same time accounting for their different and irreducible media forms. In this project, I examine border forms primarily in three media: literary media, including poetry and prose; cartographic media, with an attention to different cultural meanings of mapmaking; and infrastructural media, particularly types of fencing. My methodology for researching and comparing these different media forms combines archival and participatory research. In order to study textual borders—those found in literary and cartographic media—I have relied on archival research carried out at UC Berkeley’s Bancroft Library and in the Special Collections of UCSB’s Davidson Library. My desire to account for the location of media has also compelled me to research media forms in the field, so to speak. My analysis of Indigenous mapping in Chapter Two is informed by conversations that I have had with Jim Enote, director of the A:shiwi A:wan Museum and Heritage Center at Zuni Pueblo. My analysis of the U.S.-Mexico border fence in Chapter Three is grounded in physical fieldwork at the site of the fence, particularly with Friends of Friendship Park in San Diego and Tijuana. My combination of archival and participatory research practices allows for a wider view of the border. It also situates my project in numerous academic disciplines and fields, including Comparative Literature, Media Studies, Border Studies, History, Chicana/o Studies, and Indigenous Studies. In developing the comparative framework of the hyperborder, I am making use of the interdisciplinary potential of Comparative Literature, albeit in a way that problematizes the discipline by including what may not be considered “literary” in my comparisons. Although originating in Comparative Literature, my methodology has wandered, through the discipline’s encyclopedic opening, into Media Studies, where I can compare objects like those listed above through concepts like cultural techniques and knowledge systems. I am mainly applying my Media Studies and Comparative Literature approach in order to intervene in the interdisciplinary field of Border Studies. As an academic specialization, Border Studies leans toward political and social sciences, and often leads to bureaucratic professionalization. My project complements and challenges a social sciences-oriented Border Studies with a humanities-based approach that insists on the media specificity of borders. Similarly, my project is engaged with rethinking the paradigmatic borderlands, as conceptualized by historian Herbert Eugene Bolton in the early 20th century. While my dissertation is grounded in borderlands historiography, my sense of History is directed toward a borderlands of media—toward medial differences, and how they determine boundaries in the symbolic and in the real.A major assertion in my project is that cultural differences correlate to media operations. I thus pay critical attention to the disciplinary frameworks of Chicana/o and Latina/o Studies, and to how their disciplinary stances and social frameworks are articulated with those of History and Border Studies. While older center-periphery historiographies relegated Chicana/o cultural production to regional margins, my project marks how Chicana/o texts address these problematics in media-specific ways.Finally, as a white, non-Indigenous scholar who examines how subjects are produced through medial borders in literature, cartography, and infrastructure, I consider it ethically important to foreground Indigenous academic frameworks for evaluating border media. In this project I evaluate Indigenous media using Indigenous intellectual traditions, and I also examine the effects of non-Indigenous theory on Indigenous cultural practice

Dynamics of Japan’s Trade and Industrial Policy in the Post Rapid Growth Era (1980–2000)

This open access book provides an in-depth examination of Japan's policy responses to the economic challenges of the 1980s and '90s. While MITI's earlier role in promoting rapid growth has been addressed in other studies, this volume, based on official records and exhaustive interviews, is the first to examine the aftermath of rapid growth and the evolution of MITI's interpretation of the economy's changing needs. Covering such topics as the oil shocks, trade conflict with the United States, and the rise and collapse of the so-called bubble economy, it presents a detailed analysis and evaluation of how these challenges were interpreted by government officials, the kinds of policies that were enacted, the extent to which policy aims were realized, and lessons for the longer term. This book is recommended especially to officials of countries concerned about the challenges that follow on high economic growth and to readers interested in Japan’s contemporary economic history

Dynamics of Japan’s Trade and Industrial Policy in the Post Rapid Growth Era (1980–2000)

This open access book provides an in-depth examination of Japan's policy responses to the economic challenges of the 1980s and '90s. While MITI's earlier role in promoting rapid growth has been addressed in other studies, this volume, based on official records and exhaustive interviews, is the first to examine the aftermath of rapid growth and the evolution of MITI's interpretation of the economy's changing needs. Covering such topics as the oil shocks, trade conflict with the United States, and the rise and collapse of the so-called bubble economy, it presents a detailed analysis and evaluation of how these challenges were interpreted by government officials, the kinds of policies that were enacted, the extent to which policy aims were realized, and lessons for the longer term. This book is recommended especially to officials of countries concerned about the challenges that follow on high economic growth and to readers interested in Japan’s contemporary economic history

Capacidades dinámicas de las PYME en el mercado de las licitaciones públicas internacionales

Tesis Doctoral: “Capacidades dinámicas de las PYME en el mercado de las licitaciones públicas Internacionales” - Juan Manuel García García La tesis doctoral trata de las capacidades dinámicas que deben tener y desarrollar las PYME para mantener y desarrollar su actividad en entornos dinámicos y complejos en el contexto del mercado de las licitaciones públicas internacionales. En concreto, se busca determinar las barreras que perciben las PYME al abordar el mercado de las licitaciones públicas internacionales y cómo las capacidades dinámicas genéricas y específicas que tiene y que puede generar la empresa permiten superar dichas barreras. El mercado de las licitaciones públicas es un mercado complejo, en especial si estamos hablando de licitaciones internacionales y si los postulantes son pequeñas y medianas empresas. La sub-representación que presentan las PYME con respecto a las grandes empresas en el nivel de participación que tienen en el mercado de licitaciones públicas es muy significativa. Mientras que la participación de las PYME en la contratación pública de la UE es del 33%, su representación sobre el total de empresas es del 99,8% (GHK, 2010). Con respecto a las empresas españolas, la relación existente entre el importe de los contratos adjudicados a empresas españolas, a pesar de estar mejorando ligeramente en los últimos años, sigue siendo una cifra baja en comparación con las licitaciones adjudicadas a países de nuestro entorno económico. El mercado de las licitaciones públicas presenta barreras y obstáculos para el acceso al mismo por parte de las PYME. En este trabajo de investigación las barreras y obstáculos se van a analizar desde dos perspectivas: desde la propia problemática que tienen las empresas cuando inician sus procesos de internacionalización y desde la relacionada concretamente con los procesos de licitación o contratación pública. Consideramos que, para avanzar en el estudio y búsqueda de recomendaciones para las empresas y específicamente las PYME que se internacionalizan a través de licitaciones públicas internacionales, el enfoque de las capacidades dinámicas es adecuado ya que las licitaciones internacionales son una de las modalidades de internacionalización que tiene a su disposición una pequeña empresa. Como contribuciones y aportaciones esperadas, el trabajo de investigación intentará concretar cuáles son las barreras y obstáculos que actualmente las PYME deben superar específicamente en el mercado de las licitaciones públicas internacionales, qué tipo de capacidades dinámicas son las que debería de desarrollar con mayor intensidad para superar estas barreras y que cuestiones debería tener en cuenta la administración para facilitar la participación de este tipo de empresas, tan importantes en la creación de empleo y desarrollo económico de los países. El objetivo general de ese trabajo es, por tanto, el estudio de las capacidades dinámicas necesarias en una pequeña y mediana empresa para obtener éxito en el mercado de las licitaciones internacionales. Este objetivo se desglosa en 4 sub-objetivos específicos: ▪ Identificación de las barreras internas y externas concretas a las que habitualmente se enfrentan las PYME en el mercado de las licitaciones internacionales ▪ Búsqueda y análisis de cada tipo de capacidades dinámicas de internacionalización genéricas existentes en las PYME ▪ Detección y análisis de capacidades dinámicas específicas que deban ser desarrolladas concretamente por este tipo de empresas para tener éxito en el mercado de las licitaciones públicas internacionales ▪ Como estas capacidades dinámicas genéricas y específicas de una PYME ayudan a superar los obstáculos y barreras existentes en los procesos de licitación pública internacional y tener éxito en este tipo de mercados. Para la consecución de estos objetivos se desarrolla una investigación cualitativa exploratoria a través de entrevistas en profundidad a una muestra de ocho PYME con experiencia en este mercado, que nos permitirá identificar las capacidades dinámicas necesarias que sirvan de guía para otras PYME que deseen aventurarse en dicho mercado. Para ello la investigación se ha basado en el software CAQDAS - Atlas.ti versión 7.5.1

Annual report of Smithsonian Institution, 1886, pt. 1

Annual Report of the Smithsonian Institution. 1 July. HMD 170 (pts. 1 and 2), 49-2, v11-12, 1749p. [2498-2499] Year ending 30 June 1886; research related to the American Indian