Knowledge and information systems

Investigating Challenges of agricultural knowledge and information systems (AKIS) in Iran with Delphi technique

Sustainable agricultural and rural development requires knowledge and information, skills, attitudes and technologies, which run through a network of actors to produce, distribute and use it in a particular place. The model of the Agriculture Knowledge and Information Systems (AKIS) is designed based on this recognition. In Iran, There are about decades of experience in the development of this ...

Knowledge and Information Systems REGULAR

Recently, periodic pattern mining from time series data has been studied extensively. However, an interesting type of periodic pattern, called partial periodic (PP) correlation in this paper, has not been investigated. An example of PP correlation is that power consumption is high either on Monday or Tuesday but not on both days. In general, a PP correlation is a set of offsets within a particu...

The roots of Knowledge and Information science

Knowledge and Information science is rooted in philosophy and its branches are in sociology. This does not impair its interdisciplinary position. In Iran, the name of "LIS" has undergone a little change and called "knowledge & Information Science (KIS)". Through this change, the importance of philosophy in this discipline has reached its highest level. Knowledge science has a great relationship...

Strategic Information Systems Knowledge – SISP

From information systems to knowledge systems

We consider the evolution of information systems towards sophisticated knowledge systems. Investigating the key concepts for information and knowledge systems from a logical point of view, we show that the two most fundamental operations are inference (query answering) and update (`data manipulation'). They have to be available in every system. Advanced information systems may allow for negativ...