CSCW '98 Proceedings of the 1998 ACM conference on Computer supported cooperative work
Topic Maps - An Enabling Technology for Knowledge Management
DEXA '01 Proceedings of the 12th International Workshop on Database and Expert Systems Applications
A reusable traceability framework using patterns
TEFSE '05 Proceedings of the 3rd international workshop on Traceability in emerging forms of software engineering
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Most of today's enterprises conduct knowledge management initiatives for achieving competitive advantage. Information technology plays a key role in codifying knowledge and distributing it throughout the organization. However, the utilization of mobile technology for supporting knowledge management has been largely overlooked so far. As mobile devices are becoming increasingly powerful and ubiquitous, new possibilities to realize fully integrated knowledge management processes are created. This paper presents a basic architecture that enables mobile workers to retrieve knowledge contained within topic maps and associated information objects. Topic maps enable knowledge structures to be codified and linked with information resources. The paper comprises Java-based mobile tools that run on PDAs as well as mobile phones and exchange XML data with a topic map server. Our prototypical implementation is evaluated and directions for future work are proposed.