Domain and user knowledge in a web-based courseware engineering course, knowlegde-based software engineering.

AIMS is a knowledge-based system for learning and teaching support within the context of distance education. It is aimed not only at enhancing learner's conceptual knowledge in a specific subject area but also at providing knowledge verification tools for the teacher. The system can be used to aid learning and teaching in different subject areas and to provide user-oriented support in searching courserelated information, concept teaching and learning, and conceptual and task-oriented domain structuring

Theorie und Praxis der evidenzbasierten Medizin in der Antibiotikaverordnung : unkomplizierte Harnwegsinfektionen bei Frauen

The aim of this PhD thesis is to analyze the medical care of adult women in Germany suf-fering from uncomplicated urinary tract infections, as these are the most common bacterial infections encountered in ambulatory care settings. Acute uncomplicated cystitis is one of the most common indications for prescribing of an-timicrobials to otherwise healthy community-dwelling women. Antimicrobial use, whether appropriate or inappropriate, leads to a continuing increase in antimicrobial resistance. The use of administrative data from statutory health insurance funds offers great opportu-nities to assess information about the antibiotic prescribing and it may allow concordance with prescribing guidelines to be assessed. First, computerized literature searches and a review of international MEDLINE-published literature concerning uncomplicated urinary tract infections and antimicrobial resistance in uropathogens have been conducted. Second, epidemiological data were collected as a basis for the following analyses. Based on diagnosis claims data 7,3 % of the BARMER GEK women population, aged 12 years and older, had at least once an urinary tract infection in the year 2013, 1,7 % had at least once cystitis and 0,16 % had at least once pyelonephritis. Despite published national and international guidelines for the optimal selection of an an-timicrobial agent and the duration of therapy, this study demonstrated a wide variation in prescribing practices. Most patients with urinary tract infection were not treated according to the current guidelines. A broad regional variability in antimicrobial prescribing among the German federal states has been manifested, particularly in the prescribing rates of fluoroquinolones. The prescribing rates of fluoroquinolones for cystitis varied 2013 among the different age groups between 27 and 40 %. An optimal approach to therapy must include consideration of antimicrobial resistance and collateral damage such as the selection of drug-resistant organisms and colonization or infection with multidrug-resistant organisms. This could be achieved by evidence based guidelines and a constant monitoring of the antimicrobial prescribing. Informational pro-grams should be initiated to raise the physiciansa awareness of the problem of antimicrobial resistance and improve their guideline adherence

Authors Support in the TM4L Environment

The TM4L environment enables the development and use of ontology-aware courseware based on the Semantic Web technology Topic Maps. In this paper we discuss its features in the light of authoring support, giving illustrative examples to highlight its use

SmartBook – the future E-book and educatonal hypermedia

Доклад по покана, поместен в сборника на Националната конференция "Образованието в информационното общество", Пловдив, май, 2009This paper presents a vision for the future of the e-books as part of the growing collective intelligence. The vision entails further development of technologies that will facilitate the creation and use of a new generation of ‘smart’ books: e-books that are evolving, highly interactive, customisable, adaptable, intelligent, and furnished with a rich set of collaborative authoring and reading support services. The proposed set of tools will be integrated into an intelligent framework for collaborative book authoring and experiencing called SmartBook. The paper also discusses the opportunities to use SmartBook as a educational hypermedia.Асоциация "Развитие на информационното общество", Институт по математика и информатика при БАН, Пловдивски университе

Smartbook: Semantics Inside

This paper presents a vision for the future of the e-books which entails further development of technologies that will facilitate the creation and use of a new generation of "smart" books: e-books that are evolving, highly interactive, customisable, adaptable, intelligent, and furnished with a rich set of collaborative authoring and reading support services. The proposed set of tools will be integrated into an intelligent framework for collaborative book authoring and experiencing called SmartBook. The paper promotes the idea that the semantic technologies, intensively developed recently in connection with the Semantic Web initiative, can be incorporated in the book and become the key factor of making it "smarter"

Stimulating Personal Development and Knowledge Sharing

Koper, R., Stefanov, K., & Dicheva, D. (Eds.) (2009). Proceedings of the 5th International TENCompetence Open Workshop "Stimulating Personal Development and Knowledge Sharing". October, 30-31, 2008, Sofia, Bulgaria: TENCompetence Workshop.The fifth open workshop of the TENCompetence project took place in Sofia, Bulgaria, from 30th to 31st October 2008. These proceedings contain the papers that were accepted for publication by the Program Committee.The work on this publication has been sponsored by the TENCompetence Integrated Project that is funded by the European Commission's 6th Framework Programme, priority IST/Technology Enhanced Learning. Contract 027087 [http://www.tencompetence.org

SmartBook: The New Generation e-Book Meets University 2.0

This paper presents a vision for the future of the e-books as part of the growing collective intelligence. The vision entails further development of technologies that will facilitate the creation and use of a new generation of ‘smart’ books: e-books that are evolving, highly interactive, customisable, adaptable, intelligent, and furnished with a rich set of collaborative authoring and reading support services. The proposed set of tools will be integrated into an intelligent framework for collaborative book authoring and experiencing called SmartBook. The paper also discusses the opportunities to use SmartBook as a vehicle for building professional virtual communities of practice in the framework of a University 2.0 organization dedicated to industry-university cooperation

A Digital Repository Supporting Collaboration

Today’s digital learning repositories are focused on the process of sharing materials created elsewhere. We propose a new type of digital learning repository which is focused on on-line collaboration. This new type of repository will foster an active community which creates and shares resources. It will use a mix of existing and new technologies to encourage users to communicate, contribute, and collaborate. It will be focused on the needs of instructors and be tolerant of differences of opinion