The idea that knowledge management can be carried out explicitly is often challenged by many in the knowledge management discipline. Some even challenge the value of the term ‘knowledge’ in this domain and have instead widened the definition of knowledge management to include almost anything that improves the business. Although it is accepted that many of the methods and the systems described w...

Hedging academic claims has been recognized as one of integral pragmatic features of academic writing in which most EFL academic writers seem to face substantial problems. Explicit instruction has been proposed by some scholars as an effective approach to make EFL writers aware of the importance, different forms, and pragmatic functions of hedging devices some of which are polysemous and polypr...

Objective There is a growing interest in the customers’ innovation in the realm of tourism studies. In the new global business ecosystem where individuals, organizations, governments and economy work together as an integrated network, we need a new innovation model. The model should be set at a level in which internal, external, cooperative and co-creative ideas can converge to create organiza...

A large number of publicly available documents, including patent documents and journal articles, can provide designers with creative stimuli, which could facilitate product innovation collaborative design. As an important tacit knowledge, the acquisition, sharing, reuse design rationale (DR) is great value to designers, help better understand intentions ideas, support automation, promote Howeve...

This research is about making knowledge about the domain of software applications explicit and separating it from other concerns of the software, thus enhancing software understandability, software maintenance, and software reuse. To achieve this we use existing knowledge representation technologies from AI in state-of-the-art software engineering. Our approach is not unlike the principles Aspe...

Artemov’s logic of proofs LP is a complete calculus of propositions and proofs, which is now becoming a foundation for the evidence-based approach to reasoning about knowledge. Additional atoms in LP have form t : F , read as “t is a proof of F” (or, more generally, as “t is an evidence for F”) for an appropriate system of terms t called proof polynomials. In this paper, we answer two well-know...

Knowledge management as a field continues to receive resounding interest from scholars. While we have made progress in many areas of knowledge management, we are yet to understand what factors contribute to employee usage of knowledge artifacts. A field study of 175 employees in a software engineering organization was conducted to understand factors that govern consumption of explicit knowledge...

A dialogical version of (modal) epistemic logic is outlined, with an intuitionistic variant. Another version of dialogical epistemic logic is then provided by means of the S4 mapping of intuitionistic logic. Both systems cast new light on the relationship between intuitionism, modal logic and dialogical games.

The literature on learning in new product development (NPD) documents the processes globally but is short on specifics. Knowledge levels are not clearly conceptualized, nor are there clear devices for documenting knowledge transfers in terms of knowledge levels. This paper presents the methods of a qualitative research approach for measuring knowledge transfer directly in terms of knowledge. Th...