Knowledge

• Knowledge Communication - Presents research on knowledge communication between experts and decision makers in the realm of management and it contains background material and further references.
• Working in Virtual Teams: Overcoming Time and Geography? - Section from a management information systems course on virtual teams as task-based groups that use technology to overcome some of the frictions of time and geography.

• Web Epistemology - The Web as Distributed Knowledge - Discusses the importance of the epistemic impact of the Web. Features bibliography. (July 8, 2003)
• Peer-Mediated Distributed Knowledge Management - Paper propose a peer-to-peer architecture which embodies the KEx principle. By Matteo Bonifacio, Paolo Bouquet, Gianluca Mameli and Michele Nori. [PDF] [PDF] (June 6, 2003)
• Access Algorithms and Data Structures Underlying a Distributed Knowledge Base - Paper presents the algorithms and data structure schemes to be used for knowledge storage and processing by various ICONS components and discusses the algorithms as they appeared through theoretical and experimental studies. By Witold Litwin and Gerard Levy. [PDF] [PDF] (February 1, 2003)
• Infrastructures, Incentives and Institutions: Fostering Distributed Knowledge Bases for the Learning Society - Paper describes a conceptual understanding of the relationship between learning and knowledge accumulation and suggests that diversified systems must be able to cope with the need to produce policies that nurture the learning society. By Pedro Conceicao, Manuel V. Heitor and Francisco Veloso. [PDF] (February 1, 2003)
• Authority in the Context of Distributed Knowledge - Paper discusses the role of authority as a coordination mechanism under conditions of distributed knowledge as well as other issues of economic organization. By Kirsten Foss and Nicolai J. Foss. [PDF] [PDF] (December 3, 2002)