Knowledge representation issues in ontology-based clinical Knowledge Management systems

Knowledge representation issues in ontology-based clinical Knowledge Management systems

Knowledge Management in healthcare covers a number of diverse practice activity areas that range from admission and accounting to preventive health programmes. From among these areas, clinical knowledge management represents a specific category that poses differentiated problems and requires specific management support. Clinical knowledge as practiced today mixes formally assessed scientific kn...

Knowledge management issues in fast growth SMEs

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to present a study of knowledge management understanding and usage in small and medium knowledge-intensive enterprises. Design/methodology/approach – The study has taken an interpretative approach, using two knowledge-intensive South ISFAHAN (Iran) companies as case studies, both of which are characterized by the need to process and use knowledge on a dail...

Ontology-Based Knowledge Management for Enterprise Systems

Companies face the challenges of expanding their markets, improving products, services and processes, and exploiting intellectual capital in a dynamic network. Therefore, more companies are turning to an Enterprise System (ES). Knowledge management (KM) has also received considerable attention and is continuously gaining the interest of industry, enterprises, and academia. For ES, KM can provid...

Ontology-Based Knowledge Management

Ontology-based Knowledge Management

It is recognized that knowledge has a considerable usefulness in people's daily life and all businesses. The current paper discusses a knowledge description using ontology and its application in Multi Agent Systems (MAS). The presented work proposes to reach a powerful relationship between MAS and Knowledge Management (KM), principally by introducing results achieved in the semantic web domain ...