Interdisciplinarity to Integrate Knowledge in Engineering

Learning to Integrate Multiple Knowledge

The case-based reasoning process depends on multiple overlapping knowledge sources, each of which provides an opportunity for learning. Exploiting these opportunities requires not only determining the learning mechanisms to use for each individual knowledge source, but also how the diierent learning mechanisms interact and their combined utility. This paper presents a case study examining the r...

Interdisciplinarity in Engineering Research and Learning

Disciplines are distinguished partly for historical reasons and reasons of administrative convenience (such as the organization of teaching and appointments) and partly because the theories which we construct to solve our problems have a tendency to grow into unified systems. But all this classification and distinction is a comparatively unimportant and superficial affair. We are not students o...

Interdisciplinarity: Creativity in collaborative research approaches to enhance knowledge transfer

This paper outlines how collaborative approaches were used to successfully generate research opportunities and enhance knowledge transfer in the development of new products. The researchers were drawn from across four disciplines within the University of Ulster and worked closely with an industrial partner to develop and test new approaches to the design and development of soft body armour. The...

Towards a Systematic Approach to Integrate Usage and Decision Knowledge in Continuous Software Engineering

Continuous software engineering (CSE) employs activities such as continuous integration and continuous delivery to support software evolution. Another aspect of software evolution is knowledge management. There are two important knowledge types: usage knowledge derives from explicit and implicit user feedback and helps to understand how users utilize software. Decision knowledge encompasses dec...

Using Process to Integrate Software Engineering Environments