Purpose – The paper's purpose is to review the growth of computer supported valuation models and the increased access via information technology to property data in the world of property taxation. The paper aims to stimulate debate on what the short/medium term future may hold. Is there room...

Purpose – Enterprise application integration (EAI) aims to integrate various enterprise applications, such as legacy systems, enterprise resource planning systems, and best‐of‐breed business applications, to aid in promoting organizational goals. EAI is a relatively new area of concern for...

Purpose – This paper examines application lifecycle management (ALM) and how it can benefit the outsourcing of application development. Design/methodology/approach – This is a viewpoint paper. Findings – ALM products address the critical development needs of developers, IT managers, and...

Purpose – The paper examines how e‐HR has improved human‐resource (HR) management at telecommunications company KPN. Design/methodology/approach – The paper presents the views of the company's manager of HR systems and information provision on the benefits HR Charter software has...

Purpose – This research intends to establish a model integrating the related theories in strategy management and competency in the HRM field, and to develop a systematic tool that can help a company quickly and precisely identify its core competency. Design/methodology/approach – An internal...

Purpose – Aims to develop a robotic platform to autonomously track a moving object Design/methodology/approach – This robotic platform, based on a modular system known as SafeBot, uses two sensors: a visual CCD camera and a laser‐based range sensor. The rigidly mounted camera tracks an...

Purpose – To present the state of the arts application of semantic web technologies in web portals and corresponding achievable improvements for identifying the potential improvement made by semantic web technology. Design/methodology/approach – An evaluation scheme is proposed to...

Purpose – The paper introduces methods for the evaluation of new software applications that build on semantic knowledge technology for use in information‐ and knowledge‐intensive application domains. Design/methodology/approach – While user‐centred design is a mature and proven field,...

Purpose – Aims to present the ontology engineering methodology DILIGENT, a methodology focussing on the evolution of ontologies instead of the initial design, thus recognizing that knowledge is a tangible and moving target. Design/methodology/approach – First describes the methodology as a...

Purpose – To resent approaches and some research results of various research areas contributing to knowledge discovery from different sources, different data forms, on different scale, and for different purpose. Design/methodology/approach – Contribute to knowledge management by applying...