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Towards a Dimensional Model for Community Knowledge

Description: Poster paper for the 2017 International Conference on Knowledge Management. This paper proposes a dimensional model with "aspects of a corpus, such as topic or opinion, as derived star schema dimensions." Focusing on a case study on Twitter the paper demonstrates how the derived dimensions, combined with transactional facts and derived facts can uncover "the collective tacit knowledge in Twitter communities."
Date: October 25, 2017
Creator: Shakeri, Shadi & Evangelopoulos, Nicholas
Partner: UNT College of Information
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Facilitating Knowledge Transfer of Data Sharing Practices

Description: Poster paper for the 2017 International Conference on Knowledge Management. This paper discusses data sharing practices and compliance with open data mandates by using the Nonaka and Takeuchi (1995) knowledge transfer spiral model to understand behaviors and create resources for researchers.
Date: October 25, 2017
Creator: Andrews, Pamela
Partner: UNT College of Information
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Complex Adaptive Team Systems (CATS)

Description: Presentation paper for the 2017 International Conference on Knowledge Management. This paper introduces a new theoretical model utilizing Turner and Baker’s (2017) Team Emergence Leadership Development and Evaluation (TELDE) model as a tool to facilitate interactions imbedded in complex adaptive systems.
Date: October 26, 2017
Creator: Turner, John; Romine, Kerry & Baker, Rose M.
Partner: UNT College of Information
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Application of Big Data Analytics in Precision Medicine: Lesson for Ethiopia

Description: Precision medicine is an emerging approach for disease treatment and prevention that considers individual variability in genes, environment, and lifestyle for each person. Big data analytics (BDA) using cutting-edge technologies helps to design models that can diagnose, treat and predict diseases. In Ethiopia, healthcare service delivery faces many challenges specifically in relation to prescribing the right medicine to the right patient at the right time. Thus, patients face challenges ranging… more
Date: June 2022
Creator: Woldemariam, Misganaw Tadesse & Alemneh, Daniel Gelaw
Partner: UNT College of Information
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Increasing Information Certainty for Post-Traumatic Growth

Description: Trauma, and its associated effects, can be conceptualized as a period of information uncertainty. The natural psychological response to trauma is a period of post-traumatic stress. Trauma occurs when an existing knowledge base has been challenged. Any event that challenges important components of an individual’s assumptive world is said to be traumatic. This post-traumatic period is akin to many theories and concepts in information science including uncertainty reduction, Everyday Life Informat… more
Date: June 2022
Creator: Bank, Nicole & Allen, Jeff M., 1968-
Partner: UNT College of Information
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An Interactive Web-Based Dashboard to Examine Trending Topics: Application to Financial Journals

Description: Understanding trends is helpful to identify future behaviors in the field, and the roles of people, places, and institutions in setting those trends. Although traditional clustering strategies can group articles into topics, these techniques do not focus on topics over limited timescales; additionally, even when articles are grouped, the generated results are extensive and difficult to navigate. To address these concerns, we create an interactive dashboard that helps an expert in the field to b… more
Date: June 2022
Creator: Phan, Ngoc; Madali, Nayana Pampapura; Behpour, Sahar & Xiao, Ting
Partner: UNT College of Information
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Metadata Practices of Academic Libraries in Kuwait, Oman, and Qatar: Current State, Risks, and Perspectives for Knowledge Management

Description: Developing, implementing, and managing metadata is crucial to successful knowledge management, and academic libraries have traditionally played a central role in these activities. The Arabian Gulf countries are underrepresented in the existing research into library metadata practices. This exploratory study used semi-structured interviews of metadata managers at 8 universities with the goal of developing understanding of the current state of metadata practices, including descriptive cataloging,… more
Date: June 2022
Creator: Zavalina, Oksana & Aljalahmah, Saleh
Partner: UNT College of Information
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Prediction of Concrete Bridge Deck Condition Ratting Based on Climate Data in Addition to Bridge Data: Five States as a Case Study

Description: Evaluating the impact of learning from climate data, in addition to bridge data, on the performance of concrete deck condition rating prediction is critical for identifying the right data needed to enhance bridge maintenance decision making. Few studies have considered such an evaluation and utilized a small size of samples that prevent revealing the knowledge hidden within the big size of data. Although, such evaluation over big data seems quite necessary, class imbalance problem makes it chal… more
Date: June 2022
Creator: Fard, Fariba
Partner: UNT College of Information
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Research Teams: Fostering Scholarship and Practice

Description: This workshop is presented by members of a University of North Texas research team. First, the team will overview their experience as members of the research team and share experience in areas such as trust formation, team roles, productivity, work-life balance, faculty-students interaction, peer and faculty mentorship, dissertation preparation, and job seeking. Second, the workshop will discuss and brainstorm how this format can be implemented for organizations both with faculty-student teams … more
Date: June 2022
Creator: Allen, Jeff M., 1968-; Khader, Malak; Njeri, Millicent & Rosellini, Amy
Partner: UNT College of Information
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Sense-Making: Panel of Discovery

Description: The 17th International Conference on Knowledge Management was held in the historic city of Potsdam, Germany. Since the conference was among the first post-pandemic face to face conferences, the overall theme of the 17th edition of the ICKM conference rightly focused on “Knowledge, Uncertainty and Risks: From individual to global scale” at different levels of analysis and agency. This document highlighted one of the panels that provide an overview of the different methodologies and theories of s… more
Date: June 2022
Creator: Turner, John; Hawamdeh, Suliman M.; Allen, Jeff M., 1968- & Snowden, Dave
Partner: UNT College of Information
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Social Media and People Perception of Global Warming During Critical Environmental Events: the Impact of Misinformation through the Lens of Social Noise

Description: Global warming is the term used to describe critical environmental issues and concerns. Social media such as Twitter provides a platform for people to share information, exchange ideas, and express their opinions about current and timely issues. This study utilized contextual analysis to analyze data collected from Twitter for the hashtag "global warming" during the period 2010 & 2011. Using sentiment analysis and topic modeling, the study aimed first at assessing people's perception towards gl… more
Date: June 2022
Creator: Madali, Nayana Pampapura; Alsaid, Manar & Hawamdeh, Suliman M.
Partner: UNT College of Information
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Stock2Vec: An Embedding to Improve Predictive Models for Companies

Description: Building predictive models for companies often relies on inference using historical data of companies in the same industry sector. However, companies are similar across a variety of dimensions that should be leveraged in relevant prediction problems. This is particularly true for large, complex organizations which may not be well defined by a single industry and have no clear peers. To enable prediction using company information across a variety of dimensions, we create an embedding of company … more
Date: June 2022
Creator: Yi, Ziruo; Xiao, Ting; Kaz-Onyeakazi, Ijeoma; Ratnam, Cheran; Medeiros, Theophilus; Nelson, Phillip et al.
Partner: UNT College of Information
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Using Data Visualization Tools to Mitigate the Influx of Information in Organizations

Description: Considerable research has been conducted on the topic of information overload using different approaches, from marketing and customer demand to information technologies and sciences, and even among mental health professionals. In business the critical question is how does information overload impact processes, operations, and profitability, and how can data visualization help to solve issues with data management and consumption in organizations. The ability to quickly and effectively process in… more
Date: June 2022
Creator: Merlo, Tereza Raquel
Partner: UNT College of Information
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Proceedings of the 17th International Conference on Knowledge Management

Description: The 17th International Conference on Knowledge Management was held in the historic city of Potsdam, Germany. The conference was among the first post-pandemic face to face conferences, and the overall theme of the 17th edition of the ICKM conference rightly focused on “Knowledge, Uncertainty and Risks: From individual to global scale” at different levels of analysis and agency.
Date: June 2022
Creator: Heisig, Peter
Partner: UNT College of Information
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Human Knowledge Problems, Knowledge Activities, and the Activities’ Effects

Description: Knowledge is the central component of knowledge management (KM); it comes into existence, is managed, and has effects through the activities performed upon it and the results of those activities. Much of the foundational KM literature identifies and classifies these activities (Baskerville, Dulipovici, 2006; Becerra-Fernandez, 2005; Evans, Ali, 2013; Evans, Dalkir, Bidian, 2014; Girard, Girard, 2015; Pee, Kankanhalli, 2009; Mohajan, 2016; Sajeva, 2010). We propose an extension of these activit… more
Date: December 2020
Creator: Edgar, William B. & Albright, Kendra S.
Partner: UNT College of Information
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Collaborative Governance and Social Innovation as Subsides to Public Governance

Description: It is understood that Social Innovation (SI) is at the service of society, building a positive social value. Collaborative governance favors the government, with characteristics for a better form of applicability of its theories. Therefore, this article aims to identify how collaborative governance and social innovation collaborate for better governance in the public sector.
Date: December 2020
Creator: Aparecida Prim, Márcia; Zschornack, Thiago; Felipe dos Santos, Adriana; Loth, Adriana Falcão; de Sa Freire, Patricia & Artur de Souza, João
Partner: UNT College of Information
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Corporate Governance in Public and Private Institutions - Differences and Similarities

Description: Emerged in the early 1990’s, governance is a construct which enables to broaden the management focus to a more comprehensive view, assessing efficiency capacity from different perspectives, such as social and political. Among its applications, Corporate Governance is the most known. In the private sector, governance has become a mandatory practice for companies aiming at increasing their market value or maintaining it high, due to the credibility earned by companies with good governance practic… more
Date: December 2020
Creator: Loth, Adriana Falcão; Zschornack, Thiago; Espíndola, Ariane & de Sa Freire, Patricia
Partner: UNT College of Information
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COVID-19 and the Risk Management in the Basic Sanitation: Action for Mitigation of the Decurrent Impacts of the Pandemic

Description: The pandemic of the COVID-19 (coronavirus) has presented us a new world-wide reality. In a short time, huge changes had been necessary. In the sanitation it has not been different. For handle with essential services, in the majority through public concessions, the rendering of services has been strongly influenced for the chaotic economic situation, the necessity of cares with the health of the employees and for governmental decisions that restrict some activities. Thus, risk management becomes… more
Date: December 2020
Creator: Zschornack, Thiago; Loth, Adriana Falcão; Pretto, Luana Siewert & de Sa Freire, Patricia
Partner: UNT College of Information
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