In this paper we describe how software processes can be supported using knowledge management, concentrating on the creative m a n ual tasks performed by d e v elopers. The main support needed by d e v elopers is the availability of the knowledge about the development processes relevant to their task. As a result, software process modeling can be considered as a knowledge management t a s k. The...

The paper considers the importance of knowledge management in the new economy, and focuses on the concept of knowledge audit and its need for developing and monitoring the knowledge management implementation. A special focus is made on knowledge audit concept and the approaches and processes proposed and used in practice. The paper highlights also some tools utilized in knowledge audit and the ...

introduction: organizational memory (om) is a tool for implementation of knowledge management. the objective of this study was designing an om for medical records (mr) departments. methods: this descriptive study was carried out in 2007. the study population consisted of all employees in five teaching hospitals in tabriz. process and required knowledge identification was performed through quest...

ion and generalisation. Managers in the consultancy companies have indicated that the level of vertical integration in the companyinfluences the choice of functionalities of the levers to implement. It has been discussed how the verticalintegration of the company is related to different strategic priorities (business performances) and different critical issues from the knowledge managem...

We propose a new paradigm for computational knowledge discovery, called VOX (View Oriented eXploration). Recent research has revealed that actual discoveries cannot be achieved using only component technologies such as machine learning theory or data mining algorithms. Recognizing how the computer can assist the actual discovery tasks, we developed a solution to this problem. Our aim is to cons...

Knowledge development in companies relies on knowledge-intensive business processes, which are characterized by a high complexity in their execution, weak structuring, communication-oriented tasks and high decision autonomy, and often the need for creativity and innovation. A foundation of knowledge development is provided, which is based on a new conception of knowledge and knowledge dynamics....

IT support for knowledge workers in their daily work can take many different guises: groupware systems and information access and retrieval tools support knowledge processes, while workflow management covers the support for rigidly structured processes. However, what is missing so far is an environment that integrates the business process and knowledge management aspects of weakly-structured kn...

In this paper we introduce an approach that elicits information from psychologists and transfers this knowledge in knowledge representations for a knowledge-based system. Based on SIMOCOSTS, a psychological model for simulating coping strategies in critical situations, we present a case study on a literary character that exemplifies our approach. We describe the simulation sequences in an abstr...

Markov Decision Processes (MDPs) are an effective way to formulate many problems in Machine Learning. However, learning the optimal policy for an MDP can be a time-consuming process, especially when nothing is known about the policy to begin with. An alternative approach is to find a similar MDP, for which an optimal policy is known, and modify this policy as needed. We present a framework for ...

The acquisition of planning knowledge for industrial processes has been shown to be particularly hard in terms of acquiring robust task knowledge from human experts. Furthermore, this knowledge, when acquired, is rather domain dependent and the acquisition effort is very seldom amortized over other applications. In this paper, we report on our work on flexibly representing a functional model of...