Kecheng Liu

Silvia Leal

Silvia Leal Martin

Jorge Urrea Filgueira

This book provides an effective methodology and an essential tool for entrepreneurs, managers and business leaders to nurture innovative behaviour in the workplace by managing its three essential dimensions: people, the business organisation and motivation. The authors go on to explain innovation as an essentially human process that should be managed via three routes: the creative ecosystem, innovative potential and passion, the biological engine that drives us to act. From another angle, we see how we are conditioned by our environment, our skills, our creative blocks and our motivation for innovation.

The Passion Factor

Ana Fred

Joaquim Filipe

David Aveiro

Jan L.G. Dietz

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed proceedings of the 7th International Joint Conference on Knowledge Discovery, Knowledge Engineering and Knowledge Management, IC3K 2015, held in Lisbon, Portugal, in November 2015. The 25 full papers presented together with 2 invited papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 280 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on knowledge discovery and information retrieval; knowledge engineering and ontology development; and knowledge management and information sharing.

7th International Joint Conference, IC3K 2015, Lisbon, Portugal, November 12-14, 2015, Revised Selected Papers

Knowledge Discovery, Knowledge Engineering and Knowledge Management

Organisational Semiotics offers an effective approach to analysing organisations and modelling organisational behaviour. The methods and techniques derived from Organisational Semiotics enable us to study the organisation by examining how information is created and used for communication, coordination and performance of actions towards organisational objectives. The latest development of the young discipline and its applications have been reported in this book, which provides a useful guide and a valuable reference to anyone working in the areas of organisational study and information systems development.

Studies in Organisational Semiotics

Virtual, Distributed and Flexible Organisations

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed proceedings of the 5th International Joint Conference on Knowledge Discovery, Knowledge Engineering and Knowledge Management, IC3K 2013, held in Vilamoura, Portugal, in September 2013. The 27 full papers presented together with two invited papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 239 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on knowledge discovery and information retrieval; knowledge engineering and ontology development; knowledge management and information sharing.

5th International Joint Conference, IC3K 2013, Vilamoura, Portugal, September 19-22, 2013. Revised Selected Papers

Weizi Li

Keiichi Nakata

Cecilia Baranauskas

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 18th IFIP WG 8.1 International Conference on Informatics and Semiotics in Organisations, ICISO 2018, held in Reading, UK, in July 2018. The 30 full papers and 4 posters presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 38 submissions. The papers are organized in the following topical sections: organisational semiotics: theory and application; digital business ecosystems and value networks; socially aware knowledge engineering; and business intelligence and analytics.

18th IFIP WG 8.1 International Conference on Informatics and Semiotics in Organisations, ICISO 2018, Reading, UK, July 16-18, 2018, Proceedings

Digitalisation, Innovation, and Transformation

Jorge Bernardino

Jan L. G. Dietz

Ana Salgado

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed proceedings of the 9th International Joint Conference on Knowledge Discovery, Knowledge Engineering and Knowledge Management, IC3K 2017, held in Funchal, Madeira, Portugal, in November 2017. The 19 full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 157 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on knowledge discovery and information retrieval; knowledge engineering and ontology development; and knowledge management and information sharing.

9th International Joint Conference, IC3K 2017, Funchal, Madeira, Portugal, November 1-3, 2017, Revised Selected Papers

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed proceedings of the 6th International Joint Conference on Knowledge Discovery, Knowledge Engineering and Knowledge Management, IC3K 2014, held in Rome, Italy, in October 2014. The 37 full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 287 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on knowledge discovery and information retrieval; knowledge engineering and ontology development; knowledge management and information sharing.

6th International Joint Conference, IC3K 2014, Rome, Italy, October 21-24, 2014, Revised Selected Papers

Stephen Richard Gulliver

Changrui Yu

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 15th IFIP WG 8.1 International Conference on Informatics and Semiotics in Organisations, ICISO 2014, held in Shanghai, China, in May 2014. The 39 revised papers presented at the main conference were carefully reviewed and selected from 88 submissions. Additionally, 10 papers were selected for presentation at two workshops held in the framework of ICISO 2014. The papers have been organized in the following topical sections: organizational semiotics: theory and concepts; organizational semiotics and applications; finance and service science; enterprise architecture; modelling and simulation and decision making and knowledge management. The last two sections contain papers from the Workshop on e-Health, the New Frontier of Service Science Innovation and the International Workshop on Information Engineering and Management.

15th IFIP WG 8.1 International Conference on Informatics and Semiotics in Organisations, ICISO 2014, Shanghai, China, May 23-24, 2014, Proceedings

Service Science and Knowledge Innovation

Semiotics, the science of signs, has long been recognised as an important discipline for understanding information and communications. Moreover it has found wide application in other areas of computer science, as it offers an effective insight into organisations and the computer systems that support them. An organisation may be viewed as a system of information and communication in which human actors, with the assistance of information technology, are able to process, represent, store and consume information. Computer systems that fit into an organisation and that support and enhance its performance and competitiveness, can be better delivered if semiotic principles are understood and applied. In this book, first published in 2000, semiotic methods are introduced and illustrated through three major case studies, which demonstrate how information systems can be developed to meet business requirements and support business objectives. It will appeal to academics, systems developers and analysts.

Semiotics in Information Systems Engineering

Runtong Zhang

Zhenji Zhang

Juliang Zhang

Information and communication technology has helped to provide a more effective network infrastructure and development platform for logistics and service operations. In order to meet the needs of consumers and particularly to promote low-carbon development processes, new types of services will also emerge. LISS 2013 is a prime international forum for both researchers and industry practitioners to exchange the latest fundamental advances in the state of the art and practice of logistics, informatics, service operations and service science. Experts and researchers from related fields will discuss current issues and future development opportunities discuss and analyze developing trends and exchange the latest research and academic thought. The theme of the conference is Logistics and Service Science based on the Internet of Things.

Proceedings of 3rd International Conference on Logistics, Informatics and Service Science

LISS 2013

Jan Dietz

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed proceedings of the 8th International Joint Conference on Knowledge Discovery, Knowledge Engineering and Knowledge Management, IC3K 2016, held in Porto, Portugal, in November 2016. The 18 full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 186 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on knowledge discovery and information retrieval; knowledge engineering and ontology development; and knowledge management and information sharing.

8th International Joint Conference, IC3K 2016, Porto, Portugal, November 9–11, 2016, Revised Selected Papers

El-Sayed Abou-Zeid

Peter Bøgh Andersen

Ronald K. Stamper

Rodney J. Clarke

Organizational Semiotics: Evolving a Science of Information Systems covers such issues as: -Fundamental concepts such as 'information', 'data', 'message', 'communication', 'knowledge', 'organization', 'system' and so on; -Properties of signs vital to organizational functioning, such as their meanings, the intentions they express and the valuable social consequences they produce; -'Architecture' of organizations when they are viewed as information systems, based on their semiotics features; -Understanding language in organizational contexts, for example, the limitations on the language used to conduct business affairs; -The empirical study of communications for requirements elicitation; -Applying semiotic categories (e.g. physical, empiric, syntactic, semantic, pragmatic, social) to various problems; -Organizational knowledge representation; -Business process re-engineering methods and the design of e-commerce systems.

Evolving a Science of Information Systems IFIP TC8 / WG8.1 Working Conference on Organizational Semiotics: Evolving a Science of Information Systems July 23–25, 2001, Montreal, Quebec, Canada

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