Crowdsourcing" is the use of large groups of individuals to perform tasks commonly performed by employees or designated agents. Many organizations are attempting to tap into the crowd's productivity and knowl...
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(纸本)9780615663463
Crowdsourcing" is the use of large groups of individuals to perform tasks commonly performed by employees or designated agents. Many organizations are attempting to tap into the crowd's productivity and knowledge, however, we know little about the strategic use of the crowd to meet specific organizational needs. Based on a review of literature, interviews with practitioners, and exploratory case studies, a framework matching organizational need to key characteristics of the crowd is presented. The theoretical contribution of this study is the development of a framework from which researchers can begin to further define key uses and characteristics associated with the phenomenon of crowdsourcing. Its contribution to practice is the development of preliminary guidelines for matching the right crowd to the right job.
Introduction and objectives: Developing a language screener for Dual Language Learners presents numerous challenges. We discuss possible solutions for theoretical and methodological problems often encountered in the d...
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Service Innovation has become a focal point of attention for managers. Hence, organizations need to implement a convenient innovation strategy to remain competitive in constantly changing market environments. To ident...
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ISBN:
(纸本)9781479925049
Service Innovation has become a focal point of attention for managers. Hence, organizations need to implement a convenient innovation strategy to remain competitive in constantly changing market environments. To identify, design and implement possible service innovation, organizations already successfully cooperate with external partners, suppliers, customers or internally through different functional departments. In so doing, organizational boundaries occur with respect to unequally distributed knowledge. This disparity needs to be overcome by spanning different groups through technology. In this article, we analyze what kind of IT artifact, so called boundary object, can be used within a service innovation. To this end, we conduct an empirical investigation in 500 German SMEs with the aim of identifying suitable boundary objects for each stage of a service innovation process. Drawing from the dynamic capability and boundary spanning theory we identify four boundary object types and reveal an insufficient utilization of them.
Long covid (persistent COVID-19) is a new disease with contested aetiology and variable prognosis. We report a 2-year ethnography of UK long covid clinics. Using a preformative lens, we show that multidisciplinary tea...
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Long covid (persistent COVID-19) is a new disease with contested aetiology and variable prognosis. We report a 2-year ethnography of UK long covid clinics. Using a preformative lens, we show that multidisciplinary teams (MDTs) built working knowledge based on shared practices, mutual trust, distributed cognition (e.g. emails, record entries), relational knowledge of what was at stake for the patient, and harnessing uncertainty to open new discursive spaces. Most long covid MDTs performed the working knowledge of 'rehabilitation', a linked set of practices oriented to ensuring that the patient understood and strove to 'correct' maladaptive physiological responses (e.g. through breathing exercises) and pursued recovery goals, supported by physiotherapists, psychologists and generalist clinicians. Some MDTs with a higher proportion of doctors (e.g. cardiologists, neurologists, immunologists) enacted the working knowledge of 'microscopic damage', seeking to elucidate and rectify long covid's underlying molecular and cellular pathology. They justified non-standard investigations and medication in selected patients by co-constructing an evidentiary narrative based on biological mechanisms. Working knowledge was ontologically concordant within MDTs but sometimes discordant between MDTs. Overt ontological conflict occurred mostly when patients attending 'rehabilitation' clinics invoked the working knowledge of microscopic damage that had been generated and circulated in online support communities.
Nowadays, large amounts of Web contents are being distributed on the Internet. Conventional search engines are not useful for analyzing the relations between related knowledge since a number of Web contents may indica...
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ISBN:
(纸本)9781607504771;9781607500896
Nowadays, large amounts of Web contents are being distributed on the Internet. Conventional search engines are not useful for analyzing the relations between related knowledge since a number of Web contents may indicate a similar concept by different words. Users search Web pages for different purposes, such as for education, for accessing information on current affairs, or for gaining knowledge. We believe that the next-generation Web connects each page with not only conventional hyper links but also knowledge links. The knowledge link has to be created by novel knowledge processing technologies. The technologies consist of knowledge gathering, storage, and delivery technologies. In this study, we discuss novel knowledge modeling, management, distribution, and analysis technologies. All these technologies are essential to build the next-generation Web, named knowledge Web.
The technological singularity is popularly envisioned as a point in time when (a) an explosion of growth in artificial intelligence (AI) leads to machines becoming smarter than humans in every capacity, even gaining c...
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The knowledge extraction is an interactive and iterative process of analyzing a mass of raw data with the aim of extracting distributed knowledge, usable and adaptable to a given situation and profile. In the perspect...
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ISBN:
(纸本)9783319302980;9783319302966
The knowledge extraction is an interactive and iterative process of analyzing a mass of raw data with the aim of extracting distributed knowledge, usable and adaptable to a given situation and profile. In the perspectives of implementing a medical knowledge extraction system, we present in this paper the study, design and development of an incremental knowledge base for medical diagnosis based on decision trees. The knowledge results from shared experiences, by connected users to the system, produce a base of incremental knowledge improved gradually for every new experience of various users. We are interested in the construction process of knowledge allowing the exchange and the adaptation of the shared results according to the user profile. Our solution includes an automatic verification system to the knowledge base in order to validate user experiences. It also helps to promote the most profitable and reliable experiences, giving users more choices and options for a safe operating procedures.
Mainstream analytic epistemology regards knowledge as the property of individuals, rather than groups. Drawing on insights from the reality of knowledge production and dissemination in the sciences, I argue, from with...
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Mainstream analytic epistemology regards knowledge as the property of individuals, rather than groups. Drawing on insights from the reality of knowledge production and dissemination in the sciences, I argue, from within the analytic framework, that this view is wrong. I defend the thesis of 'knowledge-level justification communalism', which states that at least some knowledge, typically knowledge obtained from expert testimony, is the property of a community and possibly none of its individual members, in that only the community or some members of it collectively possess knowledge-level justification for its individual members' beliefs. I address several objections that individuals, qua individuals, have or are able to acquire knowledge-level justification for all the beliefs they obtain from expert testimony. I argue that the problem I identify with individualism is invariant under any specific account of justification, internalist or externalist.
In this paper I present a more refined analysis of the principles of deductive closure and positive introspection. This analysis uses the expressive resources of logics for different types of group knowledge, and disc...
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In this paper I present a more refined analysis of the principles of deductive closure and positive introspection. This analysis uses the expressive resources of logics for different types of group knowledge, and discriminates between aspects of closure and computation that are often conflated. The resulting model also yields a more fine-grained distinction between implicit and explicit knowledge, and places Hintikka's original argument for positive introspection in a new perspective.
We investigate a pure exchange economy under uncertainty with emphasis on the logical point of view;the traders are assumed to have a multi-modal logic with non-partition information structure. We propose a pure excha...
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ISBN:
(纸本)3540220577
We investigate a pure exchange economy under uncertainty with emphasis on the logical point of view;the traders are assumed to have a multi-modal logic with non-partition information structure. We propose a pure exchange economy epsilon(KT) for the multi-modal logic KT, and extend the notion of rational expectations equilibrium for the economy. We characterize welfare under the generalized rational expectations equilibrium, and we show the no trade theorem: If the initial endowment allocation is ex-ante Pareto optimal then there exists no other rational expectations equilibrium for any price in the economy.
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