Success Strategy for Students (Success Plan for Student, #1)
by Pradip N Das
Bio-Intelligence Science
Today, it is considered that intelligence includes at least two skills: the ability to memorize and store knowledge, and the ability to process knowledge. The person (or machine) without any knowledge cannot be considered intelligent. The ability of learning - acquisition of new knowledge, is also one of the aspects of the intelligence, although we can classify it as an ability to solve problems. As an “intelligent feature” we can also consider the ability to communicate with other intelligent b...
Featuring a new foreword by Robin D. G. Kelley, this updated edition of the classic exploration of the economic inequality that fuels systematic racism, from one of the leading Black public intellectuals of the 19th century, is as timely and radical today as it was when it was first published. "The preeminent Black journalist of his age" (Henry Louis Gates, Jr., author of The Black Church) and an early agitator for civil rights, T. Thomas Fortune astutely and compellingly analyzes the relations...
Public or Private Economies of Knowledge?
by M McMeekin Harvey, Mark Harvey, and Andrew McMeekin
The 'great divide' between public and private knowledge in capitalism is an unstable frontier at the core of contemporary economic transformations. Based on research in the USA, Europe and Brazil into the cutting edge of biological science and technology, this book presents a novel framework for understanding this historically shifting fault-line. Over the last quarter of a century, major controversies have accompanied the dramatic developments in biological science and technology. At critical...
Creative Space (Studies in Computational Intelligence, #10)
by Andrzej P Wierzbicki and Yoshiteru Nakamori
Creative Space summarizes and integrates the various up-to-date approaches of computational intelligence to knowledge and technology creation including the specific novel feature of utilizing the creative abilities of the human mind, such as tacit knowledge, emotions and instincts, and intuition. It analyzes several important approaches of this new paradigm such as the Shinayakana Systems Approach, the organizational knowledge creation theory, in particular SECI Spiral, and the Rational Theory o...
The 2nd edition of this book shows how the quality of information can be improved in such knowledge-intensive processes as on-line communication, strategy, product development, or consulting. The text offers proven principles for applying information quality management to a variety of information products. Case studies show how information quality management can increase satisfaction of knowledge workers and information consumers. Includes much new material.
Encyclopaedia of Knowledge Management
Is This All There Is?
by Kerry Tucker, Teresa Siles, and Blake Tucker Nelson
Active Learning Questions for Statistics for Business
by Robert Stine and Dean Foster
What makes information useful? This seemingly simple and yet intriguing and complicated question is discussed in this book. It examines ways in which the quality of information (i.e., its fitness for use) can be improved in knowledge-intensive processes (such as on-line communication, strategy, product development, or consulting). Based on existing information quality literature, the book proposes a conceptual framework to manage information quality for knowledge-based content. It presents four...
Sustainable Solutions: Let Knowledge Serve the City
Portland, Oregon. Sustainability might not seem glamourous, but Portland is making a name for itself as one of the most sustainable cities in the world. Whether you've heard about the farmers' markets, the cycle-friendly streets or the ongoing efforts to balance livability and equity, Portland is leading the way in urban sustainability: this book helps us understand how it achieves this. A critical component of Portland's success is collaboration between different communities and institutions;...
A complete, step-by-step system for developing an idea, thinking through an issue, or reating a revolutionary innovation. Gifted with the unique ability to help people discover and apply their own innate genius, intellectual property consultant Gerald Sindell works with individuals and organizations to maximize returns on their most precious capital: their ideas and innovations. Dubbed the "Genius Machine" by his clients, Sindell's eleven-step process has proven invaluable for countless individu...
Dear delegates,friendsand membersofthe growingKES professionalcommunity,w- come to the proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Knowledge-Based and IntelligentInformationandEngineeringSystemshostedbyLa TrobeUniversityin M- bourne Australia. The KES conference series has been established for almost a decade, and it cont- ues each year to attract participants from all geographical areas of the world, including Europe, the Americas, Australasia and the Paci?c Rim. The KES conferences cove...
Enabling Penetration of Vertical Markets
by Geoffrey Darnton, Jacqui Day, Brian Hollocks, and Martyn Polkinghorne