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| The Java Data Processing Framework (JDPF) helps you in the definition, generation and execution of standard and custom data processing. JDPF has been designed to be modular and estendable. For these reasons, we decided to implement it in Java™ through OSGi technology which provides a service-oriented, component-based environment for developers and offers standardized ways to manage the software lifecycle.
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Knowledge Management
It is common to think at the current post-industrial global economy as an
information-intensive environment. More remarkable is the high number of assertions
that knowledge is the key of effective competition, marketplace distinction
and profitability. Knowledge can be defined as the "awareness and understanding
of facts, truths or information gained in the form of experience or learning.
Knowledge is an appreciation of the possession of interconnected details which,
in isolation, are of lesser value".
Knowledge is considered an enterprise asset that, unlike material assets,
which decrease as they are used, increase with use: ideas breed new ideas,
and shared knowledge stays with the giver while it enriches the receiver.
Knowledge has been broadly recognized as the key to effective competition
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Knowledge and Social Networks
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Knowledge is social as produced and shared among a network of human and non-human actors within the organization. The mere existence of knowledge somewhere in the organization is of little benefit; it becomes useful only if it is accessible/sharable, and its value increases with the level of accessibility. This leads to the importance of communication/interaction (between humans and between humans and non-humans) as key factor for the success for a knowledge-intensive environment. |
Knowledge and Health Care Organizations
Knowledge has been recognized as the key to success for Health Care Organizations (HCOs). Knowledge includes both the experience and the understanding of the people in the HCO, and the information artefacts, such as documents, guidelines, protocols, reports and emails archives, available within the organization. In particular, the increasing pressure on HCOs to ensure efficiency and cost-effectiveness, balancing quality of care and cost containment, drives them towards a more effective management of medical knowledge derived from research findings. Fostering HCOs knowledge management in general, and evidence-based best practice in particular, requires effective exploitation of new information and communication technology (ICT).
