This paper describes a model of the goal-driven learning process by which novice UNIX users acquire UNIX expertise. Transcripts indicate that one way users acquire knowledge about UNIX commands is by planning to achieve UNIXrelated goals, having these plans fail, and then trying to explain and repair these failures. This process gives rise to numerous questions, or knowledge goals, which themse...

The knowledge economy, globalisation, information technologies have an unquestionable influence on human information behaviour. In the competitive environment, individuals and organizations appreciate the important role of personal knowledge and information. My concept of knowledge and information management by individuals is based on among others two theories: Personal Information Management (...

Because much of what children learn extends beyond their first-hand experience, they are reliant upon the testimony of others to acquire information about aspects of the world they have not experienced directly. Here we asked whether testimony alone would be sufficient to induce cognitive biases in knowledge attribution that have been observed when children acquire information through direct ob...

This paper discusses the competitive factor in knowledge sharing networks. Organisations are dependent on other, often even competing organisations for their knowledge. When competing organisations co-operate in alliances to be able to learn from and with each other it becomes likely that they meet an interorganisational learning dilemma (Larsson, Bengtsson, Henriksson & Sparks, 1998); will eac...

A patient with selective bilateral damage to the amygdala did not acquire conditioned autonomic responses to visual or auditory stimuli but did acquire the declarative facts about which visual or auditory stimuli were paired with the unconditioned stimulus. By contrast, a patient with selective bilateral damage to the hippocampus failed to acquire the facts but did acquire the conditioning. Fin...

Much work in AI is devoted to the problem of how computers can acquire beliefs about the world through perception, but little effort is devoted to the problem of how computers can acquire beliefs through testimony. This paper is part of a continuing project whose ultimate goal is that of constructing an implementable model of how agents acquire knowledge through testimony. In particular, it loo...