Abstract :
Summary form only given. Rapid growth of international trade and cooperation on the one hand and the global Information and Communication Technology(ICT)-driven communication powered by the Internet have fuelled unprecedented expansion of global collaboration in practically all walks of human activity. Virtual organisations spanning not only diverse countries but also the entire regions become an ubiquitous and dynamic phenomenon. A good example are the European research programmes based on international project consortia, i.e. virtual organisations, characterised by well-defined goals to be attained within a specific time frame. Notwithstanding the ubiquity of such ICT environments as networking, email, social media and content management enhancing the capability of goal-oriented collaborating teams, jointly known as organization 2.0 platforms, much needs to be done to leverage investment in intellectual capital represented and produced by the knowledge workers. A novel architecture of a knowledge management system meeting the end-user software engineering requirements, thus empowering the knowledge worker to eliminate such intermediaries as system analysts and application programmers, will be discussed. Advantages of direct representation of user requirements in executable knowledge management application specification, as well as the resulting system agility and ease of maintenance will be presented. The state-of-the-art in the end-user software engineering area pertaining to the knowledge management systems realm will comprise information about the on-going research and development efforts. The principal features of a knowledge management system toolbox will be presented comprising such functional areas as semantic modelling of knowledge object repositories, adaptive management of knowledge management processes, as well as end-user graphic interface modelling and implementation.
