This study was conducted to investigate the deficits of organizational strategy and visual memory in obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD). Thirty OCD patients and 30 healthy controls aged 20-35 years participated. The Maudsley Obsessive-Compulsive Inventory, Beck Anxiety Inventory, Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale, and Rey-Osterrieth Complex Figure (ROCF) test were administered to participants....

We describe an approach towards integrating the semantics of semi-structured documents with tasksupport for (weakly-structured) business processes and proactive inferencing capabilities of a desk support agent. The proactive assistance of the intelligent agent is motivated by the requirements posed in (weakly-structured) business processes performed by a typical knowledge worker. First, we intr...

Recent acceptance that obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) represents a heterogeneous phenomenon has underscored the need for dimensional approaches to this disorder. However little is known about the relation between neuropsychological functions and symptom dimensions. The purpose of this study was to identify the cognitive deficits correlated with specific symptom dimensions. Thirteen categor...

This paper addresses the problem of software quality information and the creation of an organizational memory founded on it. We focus on aspects such as how to organize the organizational memory, how to apply a collaborative multiview approach to it, and how to capture and use it in software design and inspection. The presented solution is based on the integrative theories of human knowledge cr...

Mission statements, one component of an organization’s culture, espouse the "official" and fundamental ideologies of the organization. Organizational culture, a component of organizational memory (OM), influences the members' behavior including the production of both functional and dysfunctional outcomes. This research uses a model from cognitive therapy to examine formal mission statements for...

This paper combines ideas from disciplines ranging from physics, epistemology and philosophy of science to military affairs, to sketch a scientific framework for studying organizational learning, knowledge and memory. Threads are woven from this background into a generic analytical framework that reveals the biological nature of knowledge in learning organizations. There are many epistemologica...

Organizational memories play a significant role in knowledge management, but several challenges confront their use. Artifacts of OM are many and varied. Access and use of the stored artifact are influenced by the user’s understanding of these information objects as well as their context. Theories of distributed cognition and the notion of community of practice are used to develop a model of the...

Knowledge has been recognized as one of the most valuable assets of an organization. Advances in information technology play a major role for organizations to manage their knowledge and compete in the quality battlefield. An organizational memory is an artifact that exploits information technology to support the Knowledge Management processes. This paper presents a prototype Knowledge Managemen...

It is argued that diverse complex adaptive systems, such as proteins, cells, organisms, organizations, societies and ecosystems, all together constitute one developing, multiscale continuum-economy composed of interacting and interdependent adaptive organizational forms that co-exist and co-evolve at different spatiotemporal scales, forming a nested set of interdependent organizational hierarch...

We are in an era of knowledge economy [3,4] and knowledge-based competition [2]. In this era, an organization must be able to secure various types of knowledge assets and maximize their strategic value. To do so, many organizations have begun to reexamine and rearrange their business strategies, process, information technologies, and organizational structures from a knowledge perspective [1]. T...