The Kuala Selangor mangrove forest are facing massive reclamation for economic development but the conservation aspect and fisheries values of mangroves have been ignored in the decision-making process. The local community support and awareness of the mangrove forest conservation are still doubtful. The aim of the study is to analyse the local community perception on the mangrove forest conserv...

We present a system that integrates speech and image understanding in the domain of a construction task. Knowledge needed to interpret speech and images is stored in one homogeneous knowledge base using the semantic network formalism ERNEST. It provides a means for constraint propagation and therefore – using a uniform representation of the information gained from real input data – the speech a...

Knowledge management continues to be a focus of attention with in recent years considerable public sector interest in developments which initially emerged within the private sector. This paper gives an overview of knowledge management and assesses emerging trends in knowledge management within local government drawing on research conducted in Australia and the United Kingdom. Indications to dat...

In this paper we present POEMS a postoperative expert medical system currently under development in Leeds. The knowledge representation scheme using KR, an object oriented system [1], and its relation to this medical domain is described. A diagnostic engine based on KR's constraint propagation mechanism is outlined, and a knowledge acquisition scheme utilizing Active and Passive Learning method...

introduction traditional knowledge (tk), indigenous knowledge (ik), traditional ecological knowledge (tek) and local knowledge generally refer to knowledge systems embedded in the cultural traditions of regional, indigenous, or local communities. traditional knowledge includes types of knowledge about traditional technologies of subsistence (e.g. tools and techniques for hunting or agriculture)...