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Introduction
Knowledge Networking research aims to build the scientific bases for attaining
new levels of interactivity and flow of information and knowledge among people,
organizations, and communities. Thus, it will enable scientists, engineers, and
other members of society to act in concert to address ever more complex
scientific and societal problems.
The goals of Knowledge Networking
The goals of Knowledge Networking (KN) are:
to understand the fundamental processes through which knowledge is created,
communicated, validated, and valued in distributed systems of information, both
natural and engineered, and
to improve the technical, social, educational, and economic performance of
knowledge generation and use, collaborative computation, and remote interaction.
KN will support multidisciplinary research on developing and employing the next
generation of communication networks, associated information repositories,
collaborative technologies, and knowledge management techniques to gather,
create, distribute, use, and evaluate knowledge in new and secure ways. This
explicitly includes research on the human, behavioral, social, and ethical
dimensions of knowledge networking.
The objectives of Knowledge Networking are:
To enhance communication across disciplines, languages, and cultures
To improve the processing and integration of knowledge from different sources,
domains, and non-text media types
To increase the effectiveness of teams, organizations, classrooms, or
communities that work together across distances or over time
To deepen understanding of the ethical, legal, and social implications of new
developments in connectivity
Proposals should address one or more of these objectives.
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