Customers of electronic shops find more and more support for the search and selection of products in the sales systems. Unfortunately, most of the shops do not provide additional support with parameterizable or configurable products. Such products could be further customized. One of the major problems most customization techniques suffer from is that they require large knowledge acquisition eff...

In this paper, we give a survey on the AI-field Configuration. Because configuration of software-intensive systems is currently seen as a main challenge for knowledge-based configuration, this topic is emphasized. Main challenges related to this topic are next to others: softwareintensive applications, combining of configuration, modeling and evolution of software components, integration of kno...

The essential difference between small businesses and large corporations is found in their corporate structure. Similarly, the inter-organizational systems (IOSs) formed between small businesses to support strategic alliances and community-like networks have different requirements and functions from those formed between large corporations. This paper discusses the differences between the IOSs c...

We argue for the separation of object and reflective problem solving levels and a selfrepresentation that is distinct from the object-level because it is selective, specialised and knowledge oriented, i.e., it is a knowledge-level model congruent with the KADS conceptual model of the object system. As an example we describe a conceptual model for competence assessment and improvement in Office ...

The management of the integrity of intelligent systems relies on techniques to integrate the components and to manage the integrity of the knowledge-based systems components. A unified methodology integrates knowledge-based systems components with database components. Constraints are used to manage the integrity of knowledge. One class of knowledge constraints protect the integrity of knowledge...

purpose: the aim of this study is to analyze the theoretical foundations, the concept, documentation history, steps and the procedure of documentation of knowledge on the basis of life cycle of organizational knowledge and the introduction of automatic and semi-automatic operational strategies of the extraction of tacit knowledge and coding or the representation of explicit knowledge. methodolo...

This paper makes two contributions to the study of problem solving methods. First, we extend the current theory on how to characterise problem-solving methods. We show that the current theory is not strong enough, and does not allow the characterisation of many natural problem-solving methods. Secondly, we show that characterisations of problem-solving methods should be stated in gradual terms,...

We live in an age in which the value of information and knowledge has far surpassed that of physical goods. Information resources have become a key differentiator of successful businesses. Information technology (IT) and information systems (IS) are now integrated in almost every aspect of business, from planning to analysis and design, operations management and strategic decision making. Even ...

Businesses invest in developing information systems resources to gain competitive advantages. Literature has demonstrated the requirement of strategic alignment in converting these competitive advantages into sustained superior business performance. The knowledge of information systems strategic orientation and its relationship with business performance will enable these businesses to fine tune...

Automatic news categorization systems have produced high accuracy, consistency, and flexibility using some natural language processing techniques. These knowledge-based categorization methods are more powerful and accurate than statistical techniques. However, the phrasal pre-processing and pattern matching methods that seem to work for categorization have the disadvantage of requiring a fair a...