This paper introduces GKB, a repository based on a domain independent meta-model for integrating geographic knowledge collected from multiple sources. We present the architecture, the repository design and the data cleaning and knowledge integration processes. We also describe the rules developed to add new knowledge to GKB. GKB includes tools for generating ontologies, which are being used by ...

This paper describes a web-based system that integrates knowledge management and decision-making features to enable short-term communities of practice develop manufacturing strategy. The system is based on a well-defined model of the problem domain, which builds on organizational activities and resources and their association with the main strategic objectives of the manufacturing function (i.e...

This paper is concerned with two projects in the field of process-oriented knowledge management, InfoAtlas and PROMOTE. In the InfoAtlas project the feasibility of our approach for process-oriented knowledge management was shown, in PROMOTE this approach is currently being extended for building a methodology and a product integrated in the framework of business process management. For both proj...

d: m.a. of business management. university of isfahan . [email protected] e: isfahan university of medical sciences , [email protected] knowledge as one of the greatest factors in creating value and competitive advantage, has led organizations to show great tendency toward programs of knowledge management. understanding the relationship between infrastructural capabilities and process c...

This paper focuses on knowledge management for complex application domains using Collaborative Multi-Expert-Systems. We explain how different knowledge sources can be described and organised in order to be used in collaborative knowledge-based systems. We present the docQuery system and the application domain travel medicine to exemplify the knowledge modularisation and how the distributed know...

This paper presents a practical learning-based methodology and agent shell for building knowledge bases and knowledge-based agents, and their innovative application to the development of a critiquing agent for military courses of action, a challenge problem set by DARPA’s High Performance Knowledge Bases program. The agent shell consists of an integrated set of knowledge acquisition, learning a...

In a variety of applications the most appropriate model of interaction with a knowledge based system is the dialectical discussion, in which a proposition is proposed and argued for. In the course of such a dialogue the tenability of the proposition will be established and the arguments in favour of it adduced and refined. To enable such an interaction it is necessary to formalise the principle...

Researchers agree that it is possible to diagnose student’s learning style and that learners with a dominant preference for certain learning style may have difficulties in knowledge acquisition in conditions where teaching strategy is not compatible with it. This paper presents an experimental work conducted in order to determine if students with different learning styles have different navigat...