Organizational knowledge resources typically exist in specialized pockets scattered across the firm. As distributed knowledge systems, firms’ capacity to manage their knowledge resources is linked with their ability to integrate these pockets of specialized knowledge. Firms are increasingly depending on teams to strategically consolidate their dispersed knowledge into productive outcomes. Teams...

This paper presents an agent-based model that simulates the dynamics of child maltreatment and child maltreatment prevention. The developed model follows the principles of complex systems science and explicitly models a community and its families with multi-level factors and interconnections across the social ecology. This makes it possible to experiment how different factors and prevention str...

Both the economic practice and education in the decades after the 2nd world war continued the previous trend toward over-specialization resulting from the huge amounts of knowledge piled up. But both the global impact and the local action require linking of specialists in interdisciplinary creative cooperation for their work processes to succeed. ‘Division of work’ was much more stressed than ‘...

We report on a combination of system theoretic simulation modeling methodology with the JavaBeans component model as a basis for a component-based simulation framework. While system theory formalisms can serve as formal, mathematical foundations for modular, hierarchical modeling and simulation, the JavaBeans component model provides the appropriate implementation base. The result of the synerg...

This paper reviews the nature of detailed design process and discusses the implementation of a knowledgebased system founded on a protocol analysis study. The main objective is to discuss the features of a knowledgebased modeling approach, NoDes (kNOwledge based modeling for detailed DESign process). This approach was first used for the development of the WIND, which is an interactive Knowledge...

This paper builds upon the previous research of Beynon-Davies and Williams (2003) and their knowledge-based model of the diffusion of Information Systems Development Methods (ISDMs). Through the lens of the implementation of a UK government IS development project we consider how a Rapid Application Development approach was unbundled and contextualized and highlight the problems experienced. We ...

Research in Artificial Intelligence (AI) and in related areas (e.g. Information Systems) has progressed more or less independently over the years. Individual areas have enjoyed considerable success in the development of technologies for independent AI faculties. Due to the diversity of computational techniques employed in implementing AI systems must considerable effort sometimes be spent on th...

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...

How does someone react when he faces a critical situation in his life? In this paper we present an agent-based model for simulating people’s behaviors in those particular situations. Coping strategies are at the heart of our model and we use some strategies developed in the area of psychology. We show the first step of our implementation architecture. We are currently implementing our model by ...