In order to help the knowledge engineer and the expert during knowledge acquisition phase, the ACACIA Group is working on a knowledge acquisition methodology and tool (KATEMES) allowing knowledge acquisition from multiple experts, exploiting the specificities of design problems and preparing the assistance to the end-user and the quality of explanations he will be provided with. This paper desc...

The management of knowledge and know-how becomes more and more important in organizations. Building corporate memories for conserving and sharing knowledge has become a rather common practice. However, we often forget that the efficiency of these activities is strictly connected to the appropriation capacities and learning of the organizational actors. It is through this learning that new skill...

Learning is more than knowledge acquisition; it often involves the active participation of the learner in a variety of knowledgeand skills-based learning and training activities. Interactive multimedia technology can support the variety of interaction channels and languages required to facilitate interactive learning and teaching. A conceptual architecture for interactive educational multimedia...

Successful new product development (NPD) activities need high amounts of new knowledge from a variety of different sources. When the NPD activities are seen as a process of knowledge accumulation, two knowledge processes are identified: knowledge acquisition and knowledge utilization. This study focuses on the process of knowledge acquisition from external knowledge sources in the NPD of SMEs. ...

This paper presents several industrial applications of ML in the context of their effort to solve the "KAML problem", i.e., the problem of merging knowledge acquisition and machine learning techniques. Case-based reasoning is a possible alternative to the problem of acquiring highly compiled expert knowledge, but it raises also many new problems that must be solved before really efficient imple...

For complex perceptual tasks that are characterized by object occlusion and non stationarity recognition systems with adaptive signal processing front ends have been developed These systems rely on hand crafted symbolic object models which constitutes a knowledge acquisition bottleneck We propose an approach to automate object model acquisition that relies on the detection of signal processing ...

i needed to dereference the names and descriptions of equipment referred to n the text, and to infer their causal relations and operational states when e s these are only implicitly expressed by the message writer. Knowing th tructural configuration of the equipment is useful in both tasks, and a s a structural domain model can be extracted readily from equipment manual nd their accompanying pa...

Introduction Hand Therapy is a sub speciality area within the field of orthopaedics rehabilitation that encompasses hand therapists that may have a background as occupational therapist or physiotherapist. It requires advanced continuing graduate education, clinical experience and independent study. Available hand therapy programs are time-consuming, expensive and inaccessible. The authors conce...

Memory organization plays a critical role in knowledge acquisition. An agent must select a small subset of existing knowledge to serve as the basis for new learning; otherwise each problem becomes more complex than the previous. Selecting this subset remains a challenge, however. We propose that existing knowledge be organized in order for a learning agent to achieve its full potential. The SCA...