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A Typology of Online Communities and Community Supporting Platforms

2001-01-03 , Stanoevska-Slabeva, Katarina , Schmid, Beat

There is a broad agreement that the establishment of communities among users of online platforms can contribute significantly to the success of the platform. This provoked the demand for guidelines on how to build an online community. Currently, guidelines available in the literature emphasize social and economic aspects of community building and neglect technical aspects. The main hypothesis of the paper is that online communities have two constitutional elements: the community members and the platform. The platform enables online communities by providing a metaphor of a common meeting place and shapes communication with the provided services. Technical aspects therefore have significant effects on community building and an important question is: "What kind of services should a platform have in order to enable, stimulate and foster community building?". The paper tries to provide an answer by identifying community modules and by proposing a typology of online communities and respective community supporting platforms.

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Structuring and Systemizing Knowledge - Realizing the Encyclopedia concept as a Knowledge Medium

1999-05-16 , Schmid, Beat , Schmid-isler, Salome , Stanoevska-Slabeva, Katarina , Lechner, Ulrike

We reconsider the encyclopedic concept as a knowledge medium for the scientific community in the Internet. Referring to the ancient concept of encyclopedia, we reconstruct the encyclopedia for the new interactive carrier of information as a knowledge medium, representing and organizing knowledge for the scientific community anew on Internet. We envision thoseknowledge media as communication spheres for agents and exemplify them with the performance of the NetAcademy project.

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Supporting Distributed Corporate Planning through New Coordination Technologies

1998-08-24 , Schmid, Beat , Stanoevska-Slabeva, Katarina , Yu, Lei

This paper explores the applications of new coordination technologies in distributed corporate planning. Firstly,new technologies such as Groupware, Workflow Management Systems, Internet and WWW for supporting distributed cooperative work are investigated. Then,GroupFlow, which is a Lotus Notes based workflow management solution, is selected to model and coordinatethe planning processes. Qualitative planning information is exchanged in a Notes Discussion Database. Andquantitative planning facts are processed by WWW-oriented Q-Calculus. Thereafter, a Lotus Notes basedintegrated framework for developing a distributed corporate planning system is given. Moreover, the implemented prototype is demonstrated by a corporatefinancial planning example in a bank. Finally, main experiences are summarized and an agent-based processmanagement perspective is briefly discussed.

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Community Supporting Platforms

2000-01-04 , Stanoevska-Slabeva, Katarina , Schmid, Beat

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Knowledge Media: An Innovative Concept and Technology for Knowledge Management in the Information Age

1998-06-21 , Schmid, Beat , Stanoevska-Slabeva, Katarina

Knowledge has become the most important resource in many organisations. The success of an organisation depends on its ability to transform the personal knowledge of employees, as wellas knowledge stored in handbooks and other documents into organisational knowledge widely available according to special needs. In order to achieve this, innovative knowledge managementconcepts as well as technical platforms are required. Such platforms should provide on the one hand an integrated support for the representation, management and dissemination ofknowledge in changing internal and external structures. On the other hand they should provide support for the dissemination and reproduction of knowledge according to needs of different user groups in enterprises.

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Konzepte zur Bildung von virtuellen Gemeinschaften innerhalb des virtuellen Software Hauses InforamtionObjects

1998-10-01 , Stanoevska-Slabeva, Katarina , Schmid, Beat , Engelien, M. , Bender, K.

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Cross-Supplier Bundling of Tourist Products with Multi-Vendor Catalogs

2000-07-03 , Stanoevska-Slabeva, Katarina , Schmid, Beat , Hansen, Hans Robert

Tourist services are one of the most popular products offered online. This has given rise to all service suppliers to offer their products over the Internet. Currently elementary services as hotels, flights or rental cars and travel packages can be booked online. Despite the high interdependence of tourist products there is no possibility for easy and user friendly online bundling of tourist products. In this paper a solution for online bundling of products will be presented based on multi-vendor Electronic Product Catalogs developed with the Q-Technology.

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Efficient Information Retrieval: Tools for Knowledge Management

1998-09-14 , Schmid, Beat , Stanoevska-Slabeva, Katarina , Handschuh, Siegfried , Hombrecher, Alexis

Knowledge has become an important resource in many organisations. Thesuccess of an organisation depends on its ability to transform personal knowledge of employees into organisational knowledge. This knowledge can then be madewidely available to the entire organisation and be reused when needed.One necessary prerequisite for reusing knowledge, coded and stored indocuments, are appropriate classification and retrieval procedures. Classificationaccompanies the process of knowledge externalisation and retrieval supports the process of knowledge internalisation by enabling the capturing of appropriatecoded knowledge. In this paper we will evaluate currently available retrieval mechanism with respect to their effectiveness in knowledge management. We will then present a comprehensive classification and retrieval technology based on the Q-Technology, which provides support for the automated and intelligent classification and retrieval of knowledge.

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Information Objects - The First Virtual Software House in Switzerland

1998-09-28 , Stanoevska-Slabeva, Katarina , Schmid, Beat , Heartsch, Patrick