Mitja Jermol

• Jožef Stefan Institute

Using the Internet and wealth of data and knowledge available on the Web, so-called web observatories have been developed in the last decade-in very different fields of use. The article discusses the use of such observatories to support the implementation of sustainable development at different scales. The focus is on landslides as risk to society,...

V članku predstavljamo metodo e-izobraževanja odraslih v ožjem smislu, oblikovano posebej za odprto izobraževanje v zdravstvu, ter empirične rezultate pri uporabi v pilotnem projektu v Bolnišnici Topolšica. Metoda vključuje kombinacijo kombiniranega in obrnjenega učenja z uporabo prosto dostopnih izobraževalnih virov, ki so eden od ključnih rezulta...

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to propose an approach for conceptualizing science based on collaboration and competences of researchers. Design/methodology/approach The research is conducted by exploratory analysis of collaboration and competences using case studies from humanistic, engineering, natural sciences and a general topic. Finding...

Freight transport is recognized as a complex system that is affected by globalization effects, integration of different transport modes, geographically distributed operations and extended business models. Such complexity is also amplified by the need for the real-time response on the unexpected situations detected during the transportation phase (e...

Nowadays with the proliferation of a panoply of smartphones and tablets on the market, almost everyone has access to mobile devices, which offers better processing capabilities and access to new information and services. Taking this into account the demand for new and more personalized services which aid users in their daily tasks is increasing. Cu...

MobiS is a European research project funded under the FP7 work programme. The main goal of MobiS is to create a new concept and solution of a federated, customized and intelligent mobility platform by applying novel Future Internet technologies and Artificial Intelligence methods that will monitor, model and manage the urban mobility complex networ...

The main motivation for organizations and individuals to collaborate is to enable knowledge and resource sharing in order to effectively fulfil a joint business opportunity. This correspondence focuses on virtual organizations (VOs) and virtual teams (VTs), whose strengths lie in the range of competencies of their members, offered jointly through c...

The main motivation for organizations to e-collaborate is to enable knowledge and resource sharing in order to effectively solve a business task. Virtual organizations (VOs) can be formed dynamically from a cluster of experts/organizations when a new business opportunity arises. The main strength of a VO lies in the range of competencies the partne...

This paper proposes a selection of knowledge technologies for health care planning and decision support in regional-level management of Slovenian public health care. Data mining and statistical techniques were used to analyze databases collected by a regional Public Heath Institute. Specifically, we addressed the problem of directing patients from...

The main motivation for organizations to e-collaborate is to enable knowledge sharing and learning in order to effectively address a new business opportunity by forming a Virtual Organization (VO) for solving the given task. One of the difficulties in VO creation is appropriate partner selection with mutual trust, as well as the support for the man...

The organization of public health care in Slovenia is hierarchical: the national Institute of Public Health coordinates the activities of a network of regional Public Health Institutes whose functions are public health monitoring, organizing the public health activities and proposing and implementing actions for maintaining and improving public hea...

This paper presents a virtual enterprise model used in networking international expert teams from academia and business in the area of data mining and decision support. The knowledge management aspects of business intelligence as implemented in the virtual enterprise model are analyzed in terms of (a) the appropriate business, organizational and ma...

Optimisation and automation of determination of cutting conditions in operation planning depend significantly on availability of reliable machinability data and knowledge. In order to improve and automate the tool selection and determination of cutting parameters in operation planning we have to re-formulate and generalise the existing machinabilit...

With this paper we will present the approach of analyzing research competencies across European countries as performed within the EC funded SSA project IST World. We will therefore briefly introduce the format used for representing the involved entities and their relationships before providing a thorough insight into the repository by describing th...

This paper is an overview of the web based video educational portal Videolectures.Net (see picture 1.) on http://videolectures.net. Nowadays it is common to say that information and communications technologies are rapidly transforming the world of research. The global dissemination of science and knowledge – the most fundamental and universal of hu...

The paper describes an experience on using Text mining methods for enhancing a customer application in the area of publishing and education. We described the whole process of identifying customers with potentially interesting problems and narrowing down to the one of them followed by the five text mining phases (adopted from CRISP data mining metho...

Creation of virtual organizations (VO) consists of several steps. One of the early steps is finding organizations with an appropriate expertise from a larger pool of organizations, referred to as a VO Breeding Environment (VBE). This requires a good knowledge of each company' competencies and thus emerges the need for a structured representation fa...

Using advanced analysis techniques new useful insight into data can be achieved. This paper addresses a problem of gaining insights in the data on scientific collaboration on a National level, where data can be seen as a graph with researchers and research content. Two existing visualization techniques were applied on data about scientific communit...

This paper describes the state of the art in current research information systems (data models, ontologies, standards), and aims to show how different technologies can be used to get additional value out of RTD information, support the innovation process and enable the discovery of existing and potential networks. We regard research as a network of...

The IST World Web portal (http://www.ist-world.org/) integrates information about RTD actors such as organizations and experts on a local, national and European level and shows the context of their co-operation in joint projects and publications. Although the portal is aimed at promoting RTD competencies in IST in the New Member States (NMS) and As...