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The predominant mechanisms for helping users find products in electronic catalogs are hierarchical navigation and text-based searches. Advanced electronic product catalogs also offer support for feature-based search or interactive product configuration. However, these search mechanisms are only appropriate if the space of products to be presented conforms to a number of simplifying restrictions...

The paper analyzes management practices as reflexive practices based on transactive knowledge (Brauner, 2002). It relates the concept of transactive knowledge systems to central concepts of structuration theory (Giddens, 1984), namely structuration and the duality of structure. Structuration theory provides a practice-based foundation of the concept of transactive knowledge systems. It sheds li...

Increasing market demands concerning customer requirements and market pressure from competitors force several enterprises to diversify their product range. Offering more and more product variants has the implicit impact of growing development process complexity. Although many configuration problems can be solved with knowledge-based configuration, the usage of configuration tools is very often ...

The aim of this paper is to contribute to a better understanding of knowledge in food tourism in agricultural and/or fishery areas. The presence and role of different types of knowledge are investigated adopting a multiple case study strategy in the regions Lofoten (Norway) and Maremma Toscana (Italy). The following types of knowledge are investigated: local and scientific food knowledge, touri...

Knowledge has become the main value driver for organizations nowadays. In particular, knowledge-based organizations (KBOs) allocate resources for intangible assets (e.g., R&D) in the rapidly changing and highly competitive environment in order to gain competitive advantages. Therefore, how to evaluate knowledge-based organizations has become one of the most important issues in knowledge managem...

plying financial and news information to its more than 40,000 subscribers around the world. To enhance the quality and consistency of its customer-support organization, Reuters embarked on a global knowledge development and reuse project. The resulting system is in operational use in North America, Europe, and Asia. The system supports 38 Reuter products worldwide. This article presents a case ...

Our research on knowledge management is rooted in the community perspective. We believe that knowledge systems should serve primarily to help people create and share new knowledge. But we also acknowledge the role of stable, structured and reliable information, both as a component of our systems and as a component of the organizations within which we work. The contribution of the paper is a fra...

Yesha Y. Sivan is the CEO of the K2K Knowledge Infrastructure Laboratory. He received a B.A. from Tel Aviv University and the M.A. and Ed.D from Harvard. His current research is in knowledge management and the creation of knowledge systems for corporate, hi-tech, and military environments. His publications include From the MTV Age to the LLL Age: The Story of a Knowledge Infrastructure for the ...

In knowledge engineering, ontology creation, and especially in knowledge-based configuration often used relations are: aggregate relations (has-parts, here called structural relations), specialization relation (is-a), and instantiation (instance-of). A combination of the later is called metaization, which denotes the use of multiple instantiation layers. Structural and specialization relations ...