Projects 2006
Our core competencies are reflected in the conducted projects in the years ('01, '02, '03, '04, '05, '06, '07, '08). In these projects we have covered projects in the field of knowledge management, e-learning, integrating working and learning, and business-process-oriented knowledge infrastructures.
Projects
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APOSDLE |
APOSDLE
Lifelong Learning has become an essential ingredient for success within our knowledge society. The EU project APOSDLE develops a software platform and tools to support you to learn @ work: Learn within the context of your immediate work and within your current work environment. The new Advanced Process-Oriented Self-Directed Learning Environment will provide you with practical guidance, learning content and expert advice when you need it and where you need it.
APOSDLE is a 48 months research and development integrated project partially supported by the European Community under the Information Society Technologies (IST) priority of the 6th framework programme for R&D.
APOSDLE – new ways to work, learn and collaborate! read more... on www.aposdle.org
Dyonipos
The goal of the DYONIPOS project is to optimize and ease the modeling of business processes for organizations by utilizing semantic technologies. In the knowledge management department of the Know-Center a key research area of DYONIPOS is to analyze low-level usage data for identifying the actual task of a knowledge worker and support him with resources and task guides. These analysis and identifications of tasks will serve as a base for automatic process deviation and modeling based on the observed task patterns and information.
In the Call for Proposals 2006 of the FIT-IT Key Research Program Semantic Systems the research proposal DYONIPOS submitted by the Know-Center was honored as the best of the 18 submitted proposals. The DYONIPOS project is carried out in cooperation with the IICM of the Graz University of Technology, HP, and m2n in the next 2 years.
IBC 2006
Customer: Entwicklungsagentur Kärnten EAK
In 2004 the Know-center has started designing and developing the Internet platform IBCe for the EAK’s model project International Business Connections (IBC). This platform’s goal was to enhance the awareness within Carinthia’s economy for the importance of cooperations and exports between companies from Carinthia (Austria) and Friuli Venezia Giulia (Italy).
“IBC 2006” had the goal the broaden the existing IBCe such that the companies from Slovenia also could be included. For doing this, enhanced multilingualism and user profiles were added to the platform.
Customer support (installation, change requests etc.) was provided via the support platform net-support.
See the platform: http://www.ib-center.net
Neurovation
Project Partners: ISN (www.innovation.at), Institut for Psychology of the University of Graz, Know-Center Graz ( www.know-center.at ), FH JOANNEUM GmbH, IBS AUSTRIA GMBH, KWB - Kraft und Wärme aus Biomasse GmbH, Take Off Informationstechnik GmbH
Austria is developing into a knowledge-based economy. As a result, the need for innovation and effectively dealing with knowledge is paramount for Austrian businesses.
Apart from their knowledge and competencies, employees increasingly need to bring creativity to their workplaces, and be ready to deal with continuous change. Innovation activities pose special problems for SMEs because of limited resources.
The goal of the project Neurovation is to analyze existing innovation and creativity methods with regard to their effectiveness and applicability for organizational innovation processes. The project is a highly interdiscipli-nary attempt to create new tools and methods for bringing creativity to the workplace and for implementing them within organizational knowl-edge management activities.
On the basis of measuring neural activities in creative processes, a crea-tivity method was designed and tested. The method was designed as a systematic yet flexible method for supporting creative processes in knowledge work at the workplace. The method was then implemented as a software tool which guides a user through a creative process and offers several kinds of interventions to stimulate creative thinking. Proto-typical implementations in companies were used to gather first hand ex-periences and develop the tools and methods further. Finally, an imple-mentation procedure was developed which enables companies them-selves or consulting firms to implement the tools as part of an innova-tion management process. All project results have been made available to a wider audience by means of an edited volume published with Shaker, and were presented in a large scale event in late April 2007.
The Neurovation project is presented at http://www.neurovation.at
Movie introducing Neurovation (in German):
Neurovation_Film 9,63 MB
Summary (German PDF):
CDS Process-based Productivity Environment
Process oriented Knowledge management deals with analysis, modelling, improvement and implementation of knowledge-bases business-processes within companies. In the 2005 Kooperationsprojektes with CONCEPT Data Systems (CDS) various analysis based on interview data have been carried out.
Based on the thus gained experiences, processes of software engineering and customer relationship management (CRM) have been modelled and documented.
The coarse-grained processed gained this way form the interface to resources within the organisation on the one hand and to customers on the other hand.
The daily confrontation between these fields will be investigated in 2006 and supported by the development respectively the introduction of suitable tools.
Innovation Marketplace
Project Partner: Innovation Service Network isn (www.innovation.at)
This project seeks to research ways to provide e-Consulting services with innovative information and communication technology over an online market place. The purpose is to reduce the granularity of consulting services and find ways to enhance these services with special tools. The marketplace needs to provide information in an accessible format, and provide ways to conduct consulting services over the internet.
The goal of the project is to develop an online market place for innovation services and implement it prototypically.
Due to a request of the project participants, the management summary will be made available in September 2007
TDSP/ I2F Linux
Cooperation partner: TDSP/ I2F
In the past TDSP/I2F and the Know-Center have successfully collaborated in designing learning resources for MOS (Microsoft Office Specialist) and MOSE (Microsoft Office Specialist Expert).
Target of this project is to adapt the results from former projects to the necessities of the Linux operating system. In parallel strategies for TDSP/ I2F are to be developed especially with respect to the future target group for TDSP/ I2F’s offerings. Know-Center’s results from research in the field of “Workplace Learning” shall be considered as well as concepts from the “Trainer Academy”, which has also been developed for TDSP/ I2F under the aegis of the Know-Center in 2004.
Ontology Learning
Strategic cooperation with JR/IIS
Innovative semantic technologies allow new ways of communication between information systems, as communication is not solely based on syntactical elements but also with regard to the semantics of information. Semantic systems support content-based search and allow easy collaboration of complex web-based services. Human-computer interaction as well as completely automated collaboration between information systems will be positively influenced by these advanced systems.
Basis of semantic systems is always a semantic model (or multiple partial models) of the underlying domain. Semantic models are described by dedicated knowledge representation languages like, e.g., OWL. The creation of domain models however, is work-intensive and demands, mainly human, resources. Additionally, models quickly get outdated and become useless. Therefore, the goal of this project is to create a modelling tool that shall automatically extract structural information of the underlying systems (e.g. document base) and integrate this information. These “raw” models shall be presented to a human modeller who adapts the raw models according to his/her understanding.
User Context and Associative Network
Strategic project
For the integration of learning and working two aspects are of special importance: reliable modelling, identification and maintenance of the user’s context and the highly-associative finding of information, being relevant in a special user context.
In the area of highly-associative finding of information two topics are of special importance "associative retrieval" and "associative networks". The aim of this project is to research which associative search algorithms (e.g. Spreading Activation, Constrained Spreading Activation, branch-and-bound Spreading Activation,) currently exist and how they compare to each other for the application of "integrating learning and working".
In the area of use context it can relied on manifold results from the user modelling community. Nevertheless until today no generic model, combining the different aspects of user context (e.g. the work context, the personal context, etc.) exists. Therefore it is the aim of this project to gain an overview over different context modelling approaches to select respectivly extends an appropriate model for the use case "integration of working and learning". Here the challenge lies in investigating which standards and technologies currently exist that can be used to formally describe the a user’s context.
In the final step of this project the approach to associative retrieval is combined with the experiences gained on user contexts.