corresponding to the division of the scientific knowledge to demonstrable and indemonstrable knowledge in aristotle’s philosophy, the concept of nous has two interwoven senses. besides nous as the demonstrable scientific knowledge, it is also regarded as the hexis of the soul. there are three specific functions of this latter sense: i) acquiring principles on which the scientific knowledge is b...

We develop and test the hypothesis that foreign direct investment promotes corporate governance spillovers in the host country. Using firm-level data on cross-border mergers and acquisitions (M&A) and corporate governance in 22 countries, we find that crossborder M&A activity is associated with subsequent improvements in the governance of the target firms’ local rivals. This positive spillover ...

We present a methodology for building validation models the knowledge structure used during the retrieval phase of our case based reasoning systems This methodology allows a knowledge engineer to start with a textual database of previously solved cases and quickly produce an e ective case based reasoning system Using our methodology we have built two such systems one of these systems operates o...

Introduction Plan synthesis often requires complete domain models and initial states as input. In many real world applications, it is difficult to build domain models and provide complete initial state beforehand. In this paper we propose to turn to the crowd for help before planning. We assume there are annotators available to provide information needed for building domain models and initial s...

Research states that knowledge-intensive companies must realize the importance of technologies and tools to acquire, access and reuse knowledge within the organization. Allocating enough time and resources to knowledge management is an important element of staying competitive. In this report I try to find out how different professions handle the concepts of knowledge management with focus on th...