Crucial considerations in launching knowledge acquisitions projects aimed at human-like understanding and reasoning include the choice of semantic / knowledge representation (SR/KR), the types of knowledge required and their use in understanding and inference, and approaches to acquiring that knowledge. This paper argues that the SR/KR needs to resemble language in its expressivity and needs to...

Employee turnover is prevalent in the software engineering industry. When new employees enter into an organization, it is necessary for them to acquire new organizational knowledge so that they can work more effectively. In this paper, we explore how various knowledge acquisition channels can be used to acquire different types of knowledge. Using organizational communication theory and social p...

Our personal knowledge plays a vital role in our daily intellectual work. This paper proposes a method for acquiring and utilizing our personal knowledge in computer systems. We developed a system called MindHeap that helps us to acquire personal knowledge by browsing WWW (World Wide Web) hypertexts. Our approach for acquiring a user's personal knowledge is to use situational context which has ...

In this paper, mergers are an equilibrium outcome in which acquirers “marry” targets so as to gain access to their organization capital. Firms that are good at learning about a new technology are not necessarily those that can manage it well. If the organization capital is tradable, there should exist a market for it as there are gains from trade. The model generates a merger wave after deregul...