Transforming User Knowledge into Archival Knowledge

transforming information into knowledge: quick diagnosis and prognosis

Integrating user knowledge into design pattern detection

Design pattern detection is useful for a range of software comprehension and maintenance tasks. Tools that rely on static or dynamic analysis alone can produce inaccurate results, especially for patterns that rely on the run-time information. Some tools provide facilities for the developer to refine the results by adding their own knowledge. Currently, however, the ability of tools to accommoda...

Transforming Existing Knowledge Models

Diverse types of structured domain models are nowadays in use in various contexts. On the one hand there are generic models, especially domain ontologies, which are typically used in applications with artificial intelligence (reasoning) flavor; on the other hand there are more specific models that only come to use in areas like software engineering or business analysis. Furthermore, the discipl...

Transforming Small Businesses into Intelligent Enterprises through Knowledge Management

As small businesses struggle to survive in the face of intense competitive pressures, an emerging strategy to help them involves using knowledge management tactics to harness their intellectual capital and improve their sustainable competitive advantage. This chapter discusses the issues involved with the transformation of small businesses into intelligent enterprises via knowledge management t...

Transforming UML Domain Descriptions into Configuration Knowledge Bases

In this chapter we emphasize how we can integrate Web-based sales systems for highly complex customizable products and services by making use of the descriptive representation formalisms of the Semantic Web. Building on the equivalence between the consistency based definition and the description logic based definition of configuration [1], we are capable of transforming our application domain-i...