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Towards a Framework for Mobile Knowledge Management

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Practical Aspects of Knowledge Management (PAKM 2002)

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Mobile devices, such as PDAs, evolve rapidly from digital calendars and address books to hosts of more complex functionality. Screen quality, processing power and mobile networks allow for full-blown mobile information systems. However, mobility and scaled-down technology lead to specific limitations in contrast to the usage of desktop computers. It is absolutely crucial to consider these restrictions to ensure the development of usable mobile applications. In this paper, we are going to derive basic requirements for mobile knowledge management and present a first approach to possible solutions within the area of project management work. Underlying technical and human constraints are drawn from a general discussion of mobile information access and processing. We will point out focal components and problems to address. Finally, our main concept of context-aware KM will be sketched, building on the idea of Knowledge Portals and prototyped as the “BuddyAlert” system.

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  1. Computer Graphics Center (ZGDV e.V.), Fraunhoferstr. 5, 64283, Darmstadt, Germany

    Matthias Grimm, Mohammad-Reza Tazari & Dirk Balfanz

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  1. Department of Knowledge Engineering, University of Vienna, Brünner Str. 72, 1210, Vienna, Austria

    Dimitris Karagiannis

  2. Business Operation Systems, Esslenstr. 3, 8280, Kreuzlingen, Switzerland

    Ulrich Reimer

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Grimm, M., Tazari, MR., Balfanz, D. (2002). Towards a Framework for Mobile Knowledge Management. In: Karagiannis, D., Reimer, U. (eds) Practical Aspects of Knowledge Management. PAKM 2002. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 2569. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-36277-0_29

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