Special issue on knowledge mobilization: Pediatric pain

Special Issue on Knowledge Discovery

This Special Issue contains modified and extended versions of nine papers presented at the Fifteenth International Symposium on Methodologies for Intelligent Systems (ISMIS05) which took place in the Inn Hotel at Saratoga Springs, New York on May 25-28, 2005. The goal of ISMIS symposia [1], [2], [3], [4], [5], [6] is to provide a platform for a useful exchange between theoreticians and practiti...

Special Issue on Granular Knowledge Discovery

Granular Computing becomes increasingly popular in modeling of intelligent systems. Granulation of information is inherent in human thinking and reasoning processes. Granular Computing provides an information processing framework where interactive computation and operations are performed on information granules, and is based on the realization that precision is sometimes expensive and/or not mu...

Special issue on agent-mediated knowledge management

The main goal of Knowledge Management (KM) is to provide relevant knowledge to assist users in executing knowledge intensive tasks. That is, KM aims at facilitating an environment where work critical information can be created, structured, shared, distributed and used. To be effective, KM must provide users with relevant knowledge, at the right time and in the right form, that enables users to ...

Special issue on knowledge management for education

Davenport (1994) defines KM as “the process of capturing, distributing, and effectively using knowledge” (p. 119). As knowledge workers use and learn from this knowledge, both individual and organizational performance and productivity are expected to increase. The challenges are not insignificant and are influenced by a variety of human, cultural, and technological factors. Knowledge management...

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