Concept mapping has been used in multiple research domains for a variety of purposes such as brainstorming, knowledge elicitation, student testing and evaluation. Our work has applied the technique with pilots, emergency managers, emergency responders, and image analysts. Indeed, concept mapping has proven to be valuable both as an end state to represent and in turn understand knowledge, as wel...

since we cannot manage what we cannot control, and we cannot control what we do not measure, the measurement of knowledge management (km) effectiveness is a very important issue. this study aims at developing a methodology to evaluate the km effectiveness under fuzziness in research organizations. in order to develop such a methodology and to define measures of km effectiveness, first the relev...

The main objective of the LKC approach (Learning by Knowledge Construction [Rouane, Frasson and Kaltenbach 2002]) is to provide an effective support for a student’s reading activity in a learning context while promoting and facilitating his understanding and knowledge acquisition. This paper shows how active reading can be supported and sustained with the use of advance annotation approach of t...

The attribute reduction is one of key processes for knowledge acquisition. This paper deals with approximate approach to attribute reduction. The concept of minimal discernible attributes set is introduced and a calculation method for it is investigated. And then, the judgment theorem with respect to keeping positive region invariability is obtained, from which an approximate approach to attrib...

This research uses Huber’s (1991) conceptualization of organizational learning to analyze knowledge acquisition by management teams in emerging firms. Involvement in ongoing knowledge acquisition activities is positively and significantly related to new venture performance. In addition, task environment dynamism is a positive moderator of the relationship between involvement in knowledge acquis...

This paper examines the impacts of the knowledge transfer capacity of multinational enterprises (MNEs) on the extent to which international joint ventures (IJVs) acquire technology. Although MNEs’ capability to transfer knowledge is a key catalyst for IJVs to learn new information, extant literature currently sheds light on only student’s absorptive capacity and neglects teacher’s fundamental a...

The development of knowledge-based systems (KBS) enables accumulated experience and knowledge to be applied to the intelligent monitoring in the field of large-scale belt conveyor systems. The first step of building knowledge bases in a KBS is referred to the knowledge acquisition (KA). KA from domain experts and field experiments has often been considered as the most difficult task and time-co...

A knowledge service-oriented business has not been highly progressed because most of potential users do not expect much on it by chronic feeling of disappointment about conventional strategy of knowledge management. Since the approaches to manage and utilize knowledge within an organization were identically split into one of knowledge acquisition and distribution, few practical ways providing k...

This paper discusses a general framework called FLARE, that integrates inductive learning using prior knowledge together with reasoning in a non-recursive, propositional setting. FLARE learns incrementally by continually revising its knowledge base in the light of new evidence. Prior knowledge is generally given by a teacher and takes the form of pre-encoded rules. Simple defaults, combined wit...