Information and knowledge are essential resources for businesses to maintain their competitiveness and to constantly develop further. Knowledge Management (KM) enables companies to develop their activities by having the right information at the right time, as well as by offering the tools to manage the skills and knowledge of the personnel. The aim of this paper is to empirically analyze how KM...

Spoken Language Dialogue Systems which allow for spontaneous speech are not very widely spread. You nd a few systems in application domains such as train timee table information or ight ticket reservation (see Bernsen et al. (1998) for an overview). One reason for the lack of good interactive dialogue systems is their complexity. To develop a system which is able to handle more than simple comm...

In light of the present situation researches on learner model in Adaptive Learning System at home and abroad, analyze the design principles and characteristics of Adaptive Learning System. Based on these, this paper summarizes the main problems of learner model from dimension of attention, representation method and acquisition path. It puts forward a new learner model called Advanced Learner Mo...

There has been extensive research on knowledge and knowledge management (KM) in the past two decades. KM has progressed from an emergent concept to an increasingly common function in industrial enterprises. As evidence of its maturity as an area of academic study, an increasing number of journals devoted to KM have been created. This paper presents a review of the literature addressing the KM c...

With the increasing competition and customer demands and new market areas, the need for organizations to innovate and furthermore to ceaselessly innovate is stressed throughout the modern management domain. Innovation is the body of knowledge referred to collectively as knowledge management. Knowledge is considered as a potential key competitive advantage, by helping to increase innovation with...

In the paper at hand a model based approach for managing the knowledge based innovation aspects of an enterprise is presented. Meta modelling techniques are applied to design the organizational Knowledge Space and then the Knowledge Maturing Scorecards approach is applied to define, manage and visualize indicators concerned with innovation potential of established enterprise goals. Paper provid...

There is a growing number of e-Government portals and solutions available today. But what the users lack in particular is a customised assistance – help that meets the individual situation and competence [13]. In this paper, a system called Webocrat will be presented as an attempt to shift e-Government portals toward this direction, providing knowledge management strategy as its basis [11]. The...

Image understanding systems rely heavily on a priori knowledge of their application domain, often exploiting techniques developed in the wider field of knowledge-based systems (KBSs). Despite attempts, typified by the KADS/CommonKADS projects, to develop structured knowledge engineering approaches to KBS development, those working in image understanding continue to employ unstructured 1 generat...