User centred evaluation of an automatically constructed hyper-textbook

As hypertext systems become widely available and their popularity increases, attention has turned to converting existing textual documents into hypertextual form. An important issue in this area is the fully automatic production of hypertext for learning, teaching, training, or self-referencing. Although many studies have addressed the problem of producing hyper-books, either manually or semi-automatically, the actual usability of hyper-books tools is still an area of ongoing research. This article presents an effort to investigate the effectiveness of a hyper-textbook for self-referencing produced in a fully automatic way. The hyper-textbook is produced using the Hyper-TextBook methodology. We developed a taskbased evaluation scheme and performed a comparative usercentred evaluation between a hyper-textbook and a conventional, printed form of the same textbook. The results indicate that the hyper-textbook, in most cases, improves speed, accuracy, and user satisfaction in comparison to the printed form of the textbook

Off-lattice hybrid kinetic Monte Carlo/molecular dynamics simulations on iron polyphosphate films from tricresyl phosphate molecules

This dataset contains data from our hybrid off-lattice kinetic Monte Carlo/molecular dynamics simulations on the thermal decomposition of (lubricant additive) tricresyl phosphate molecules on Fe (110). The dataset can be used to obtain growth rates, surface (e.g., Fractal Dimension, Root Mean Squared Roughness) as well as structural/chemical properties (Radial Distribution Function, Phosphate Chain Length, chemical composition) of thin films from TCP. The assumptions, limitations, and methods associated with the kMC/MD model of the present work are provided in our preprint titled "A hybrid off-lattice kinetic Monte Carlo/molecular dynamics method for amorphous thin film growth" (https://doi.org/10.26434/chemrxiv-2023-9fl0k-v2).THIS DATASET IS ARCHIVED AT DANS/EASY, BUT NOT ACCESSIBLE HERE. TO VIEW A LIST OF FILES AND ACCESS THE FILES IN THIS DATASET CLICK ON THE DOI-LINK ABOV

Supporting knowledge-intensive work in public administration processes

Knowledge management efforts focus much on the strategic applications of knowledge-related initiatives and not so much on their implications at the level of concrete business processes. On the other hand, business process management efforts have not concentrated on leveraging knowledge. In this paper we attempt to fill that gap by developing a tool for proactive, context-sensitive delivery of knowledge. We focus on the modelling of knowledge-intensive business processes and we develop a framework for modelling this type of processes that explicitly considers knowledge-related tasks and knowledge objects. We present a tool that is an implementation of our theoretical meta-model and realises proactive, context-sensitive delivery of knowledge, integrated with the workflow enactment. As an example, we sketch one case study, the process for granting full old-age pension as it is performed in the Greek Social Security Institution, discussing the benefits derived from applying our tool. Finally, we draw the main conclusions of our work and discuss further research directions

The Decor Toolbox For Workflow-Embedded Organizational Memory Access

: We shortly motivate the idea of business-process oriented knowledge management (BPOKM) and sketch the basic approaches to achieve this goal. Then we describe the DECOR (Delivery of context-sensitive organisational knowledge) project which develops, tests, and consolidates new methods and tools for BPOKM. DECOR builds upon the KnowMore framework (Abecker et al 1998; Abecker et al 2000) for organizational memories (OM), but tries to overcome some limitations of this approach. In the DECOR project, three end-user environments serve as test-beds for validation and iterative improvement of innovative approaches to build: (1) knowledge archives organised around formal representations of business processes to facilitate navigation and access, (2) active information delivery services which - in collaboration with a workflow tool to support weaklystructured knowledge-intensive work - offer the user in a context-sensitive manner helpful information from the knowledge archive, and (3..