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After a short introduction into the problem area of knowledge management and some basic definitions of key terms a holistic process model - the K2BE® Roadmap - is introduced as apractical guideline for the implementation of knowledge management. The four sections and phases of the K2BE® Roadmap are described shortly. Its actual application in an industrial environment is discussed in more detail....
One of the first question each knowledge management project faces is: Which concrete activities are referred to under the name of knowledge management and how do they relate to each other? To help answer this question and to provide guidance when introducing knowledge management we have developed KMap. KMap is an environment which supports a practitioner in the interactive exploration of a map of...
Companies, Ramp;D-departments or managers are confronted with an increasing amount of information which has to be analysed corresponding to their importance and applicability for the company and the current question. For this purpose information from internal or external sources like internal documents, patent information, literature quotations or internet information has to be identified, surveyed,...
The “Mission des Ressources et Compétences Technologiques” (MRCT), of the “Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique” (CNRS), is a small unit in charge of optimising the technological potential of the institution. One of its main objectives is to provide the CNRS scientific research teams with the best technological conditions that can be hoped for on the basis of the tools, competencies, structures,...
Knowledge Management is an emerging area, which is gaining interest by both enterprises and academics. The effective implementation of a KM strategy is considering as a “must” and as a precondition of success for contemporary enterprises, as they enter the era of the knowledge economy. However, the field of Knowledge Management has been slow in formulating a universally accepted methodology, due to...
We explore the application of Spatial Data Mining, the partially automated search for hidden patterns in georeferenced databases, to the analysis of ecological data. A version of the subgroup mining algorithm is described that searches for deviation patterns directly in a spatial database, automatically incorporating spatial information stored in a GIS into the hypothesis space of a data mining search...
One of the most difficult works in the world of ERP systems is proven to be their installation and customization to fulfil the needs of the customer. With the great development of Knowledge Management in the last decade a new era has begun; the era of capturing, storing and managing effectively ERP Consultants’ knowledge in order to rapidly build customized enterprise systems, which in other times...
This paper addresses the readiness of telecommunication employees in adopting data mining technologies. In addition, the paper highlights the relationship between employee data mining readiness and the clarity of the business strategy, users’ skills and experience, data-driven culture, and data quality. The investigations reveal an encouraging degree of readiness by the employees to embrace data mining...
This paper looks at a business solution that has been designed to improve product knowledge in a company’s supply chain by creating incentivedriven tasks to strengthen knowledge and communication links between members of the sales chain. Nonaka’s theory of organizational knowledge creation is applied to this practical business solution in an effort to create a model for improving knowledge management...
This paper describes the author’s experience in applying the Unified Process (UP) to a mid-sized web-based application in cooperation with a small multi-media agency. The peculiarities of the project, which make it an optimal test-bed for exploration, are the project’s non-time critical nature, its modest size, the curiosity and openness of all collaborators, and the author’s opportunity to accompany...
The indiGo project aims at improving process knowledge by successive consolidation of feedback, ranging from private annotation, through structured communication in communities of practice, to improved process models and lessons learned. It develops a methodology and integrates previously independent software for process modeling, moderated discourses, experience management and text mining. Both will...
Collaborative decision-making in geographic-driven management projects often face problems as: difficulties of manage spatial data as a component of the process, lack of coordination of the different areas involved in the process, difficulties of knowledge access, badly defined decision processes, and absence of an appropriate tool that manages spatial data in a collaborative approach. Decisio-Epistheme...
One approach to developing knowledge management systems is to seed the system in key communities of practice and then encourage its customization and spread throughout the enterprise by local (“grassroots”) initiative. This has the benefit of worker buy-in and adaptation of the local systems to their workflows. The concept is that, in exchange for some loss of control and standardization, the grassroots...
This paper describes a method of multi-agent analysis and design for reactive, real-time information systems, relating to complex and risks applications in medicine. According to specific needs in emergency healthcare units: spatio-temporal deployment of heterogeneous tasks, non-determinism of actors and self-organization in an unpredictable and/or disrupted environment, we propose MAYBE - Multi-Agent...
While knowledge is viewed by many as an asset, it is often difficult to locate particular items within a large electronic corpus. This paper presents an agent based framework for the location of resources to resolve a specific query, and considers the associated design issue. Aspects of the work presented complements current research into both expertise finders and recommender systems. The essential...
Automatic document categorization plays a key role in the development of future interfaces for Web-based search. Clustering algorithms are considered as a technology that is capable of mastering this “ad-hoc” categorization task. This paper presents results of a comprehensive analysis of clustering algorithms in connection with document categorization. The contributions relate to exemplarbased, hierarchical,...
In many organisations people need to locate colleagues with knowledge and information to resolve a problem. Computer based systems that assist users with finding such expertise are increasingly important to organizations and scientific communities. In this paper we discuss the development of an agent based expertise finder (EF) suitable for use within an academic research environment. A key feature...
This paper describes a semantic portal through which knowledge can be gathered, stored, secured and accessed by members of a certain community. In particular, this portal takes into account companies and research institutes participating in the E.U. funded thematic network called OntoWeb. Ontology-based annotation of information is a prerequisite in order to offer the possibility of knowledge retrieval...
Bringing knowledge management to practice one typically has to focus on concrete problems that exist in the daily work of the knowledge worker. We consider the task of tracking relevant information on theWeb as important and time-consuming, thus, as a concrete problem. In this paper we introduce an integrated approach for Web information tracking using ontologies. The overall approach has been implemented...
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