Open Information Management: Applications of Interconnectivity and Collaboration provides a practical-level reference discussing the impact of emerging trends in information technology towards solutions capable of managing information within open, principally unbounded, operational environments. This book can be utilized in advanced courses in knowledge management, information technology, and business education, and also serve as an excellent addition to library reference sections and research collections.
Jari Yli-Hietanen received an MSc (Tech.) degree in signal processing from the Tampere University of Technology, Tampere, Finland, in 1995. He is currently with the Department of Signal Processing at the Tampere University of Technology. His current research focus is on open information management with an emphasis on natural language methods.
Artur Lugmayr describes himself as a creative thinker and his scientific work is situated between art and science. His vision can be expressed as to create media experiences on future emerging media technology platforms. He is the head and founder of the New AMbient MUltimedia (NAMU) research group at the Tampere University of Technology (Finland) which is part of the Finnish Academy Centre of Excellence of Signal Processing from 2006 to 2011 (http://namu.cs.tut.fi). He is holding a Dr.-Techn. degree from the Tampere University of Technology (TUT, Finland), and is currently engaged in Dr.-Arts studies at the School of Motion Pictures, TV and Production Design (UIAH, Helsinki). He chaired the ISO/IEC ad-hoc group "MPEG-21 in broadcasting"; won the NOKIA Award of 2003 with the text book "Digital interactive TV and Metadata" published by Springer-Verlag in 2004; representative of the Swan Lake Moving Image & Music Award board member of MindTrek, EU project proposal reviewer; invited key-note speaker for conferences; organizer and reviewer of several conferences; and has contributed one book chapter and written over 25 scientific publications. His passion in private life is to be a notorious digital film-maker. He is founder of the production company LugYmedia Inc. [Editor]