Knowledge management has recently become the focus of public attention in business and engineering. Because knowledge acquisition is situated in the upstream of knowledge management, capturing knowledge is an important step for enterprises to achieve successful knowledge management. We focus on how engineers solve their design problems under given design contexts and propose a novel model and m...

Problems with constructing knowledge management systems (KMS) are in most cases related to the knowledge elicitation and knowledge structuring processes. We will focus on specific details of methods that can be used to extract descriptions of knowledge that people can comprehend and reuse. We will refer to these specific details as working ingredients in the knowledge structuring process. The p...

Recent evidence from cognitive science and neuroscience indicates that brain-damaged patients and normal subjects can exhibit nonconscious or implicit knowledge of stimuli that they fail to recollect consciously or perceive explicitly. Dissociations between implicit and explicit knowledge, which have been observed across a variety of domains, tasks, and materials, raise fundamental questions ab...

The paper discusses the use of Web 2.0 as a new means for knowledge management for professional organisations in general, and for emergency response in particular. It is argued that there is no clear understanding of how traditional knowledge management and Web 2.0 processes align. Thus, this paper analyses traditional knowledge management processes in the context of Web 2.0 processes and prese...

Introduction Practitioners and researchers in the area of knowledge management have focused almost exclusively on how knowledge is stored, transferred, and used within organizations. However, much knowledge is exchanged in open online forums that cross organizational boundaries. We define an electronic knowledge network (EKN) as a self-organizing, open activity system that focuses on a shared i...

Monitored distribution (MD) is a case-based approach for proactive knowledge distribution. MD allows the dissemination of knowledge artifacts in a just-in-time fashion in the context of its applicable targeted processes. In MD, knowledge artifacts are retrieved when they are applicable to the task in which a user is currently engaged. We define MD’s requirements and argue that it can be applied...

This paper describes the outcomes of a study that the EDMANS(**) group has recently performed in a rubber extrusion process, focusing on the knowledge discovery phase previous to the system modeling. Some of the tools developed to satisfy the special needs of such a process are also presented: the CiTree algorithm for clustering subpopulations in massive databases and the PAELLA algorithm for o...

An agent-based simulation model representing a theory of the dynamic processes involved in innovation in modern knowledge-based industries is described. The agent-based approach allows the representation of heterogeneous agents that have individual and varying stocks of knowledge. The simulation is able to model uncertainty, historical change, effect of failure on the agent population, and agen...

This research focuses on analysing knowledge processes of the design process, especially the early phases of the design process that can be called concept design. It aims at developing a body of knowledge that builds on the relevant issues toward user-centred design in a form of a framework. This is intended to apply, organise and synthesise processes, theories and concepts from the separate bu...

Knowledge processes and business processes are linked together and should be regarded together, too. Business processes can be modeled and analyzed extensively with well known and established methods. The simple signs of static knowledge does not fulfill the requirements of a comprehensive and integrated approach of process-oriented knowledge management. The Knowledge Modeler Description Langua...