Engineering of Knowledge Structures: Perspectives from Traditional Disciplines and Systems Principles

A human endeavor can be seen as leveraging certain ‘means’ in order to accomplish a given purpose. The means could be several, but inevitably knowledge underlies all of them. The proposed paper attempts to present various perspectives that can aid in order to arrive at the ‘means‘ of a knowledge structure. As per systems methodology, it is the structure and the associated process that when brought together in a given context, give rise to accomplishing a purpose. Accordingly the means could be seen as both the structure and the associated process. Also the concerns that are needed to be taken into consideration while accomplishing a given purpose can be broadly categorized into two, relative to the purpose, in terms of, whether they are in favor of or not in favor of. The representation proposed in the paper serves as a guidance while arriving at knowledge structures.