This paper describes a process for constructing situation-specific belief networks from a knowledge base of network fragments. A situation-specific network is a minimal query­ complete network constructed from a knowledge base in response to a query for the probability distribution on a set of target variables given evidence and context variables. We present definitions of query completeness an...

For the last decade, Knowledge Management (KM) (Davenport & Prusak, 1998) has been positioned as a business strategy that advances knowledge as a critical resource and the capacity to integrate pieces of it across the organization as a distinguishing feature for success within the market (Grant, 1996). The strategy promotes the transfer of knowledge within organizations (Alavi & Leidner, 2001, ...

The quality of knowledge in the knowledge repository determines the effects of knowledge reusing and sharing. In knowledge management systems (KMS), knowledge maintenance events are recorded in process logs. In order to take knowledge maintenance process logs to discover process, control, organizational, and social structure and construct a more appropriate knowledge maintenance process model, ...

While the importance of knowledge management in organizations and its benefits as innovative powers and a competitive edge is a widely accepted notion in our field of research, it lacks contributions that focus on how knowledge management can be performed in a sustainable way. If we rely so strongly on knowledge management, we should strive for it that current knowledge practices respect both p...

Effectively managing existing tacit knowledge stocks and transferring knowledge between partners contributes to firm capabilities that allow them to differentiate their goods and services from those of their competitors. Because it also helps them to provide greater value to customers, it contributes to the development of a competitive advantage. In highly competitive industries, firms need to ...

Teleology comes from the Greek term telos, in English purpose. According to Aristotle, each object has a final purpose for its being. Human knowledge is also associated with such a purpose. The teleological analysis of knowledge management processes and knowledge types is a new approach to mapping organizational knowledge, especially in academic environment. In this paper, we show advantages of...

This paper examines the role of knowledge management (KM) in not-for-profit organisations (NFPs) using case study methodology and advances previous KM work. NFPs are essential in developing sustainable communities providing many social, environmental, health and human services required by a vast amount of community stakeholders. With limited research related to KM in an NFP setting, this paper ...

This study aims to understand how characteristics of a labor flow network affect firm productivity using an inter-firm hiring network constructed from individual job histories. We separate IT-labor from non-IT labor and use the network measures constructed from the two types of labor flow to evaluate how they affect firm performance. We find that hiring IT workers from a diverse set of firms ca...

the purpose of this research was analyzing knowledge of women with household jobs agriculture toward innovation management in masjed soliman township, khouzestan province, iran. the population of this study included women with household jobs agriculture in masjed soliman township. the total number of members was 100 people. due to the low number of population, census methods were used to collec...