Since the seminal work of Perry Miller about medical critiquing systems in the eighties, there has been remarkable little further research. We present a knowledge level analysis of the types of knowledge and reasoning strategies necessary for an diagnostic critiquing system in vague domains. Instead of building a critiquing system from scratch, we investigate how to enrich a knowledge-based dia...

Users with different amount of domain or topic knowledge tend to find different results, when searching on the same topic. We were interested in finding out how domain or topic knowledge is associated with users’ querying behaviors, which would result in different results. In this study, thirty-five students participated in a user experiment, conducted searches from genomics data set that was u...

Universities are inherently learning communities in the broadest sense. Central to this and generally explicit in university mission statements are their goals in providing quality experiences for students. The scholarship of teaching and learning (SoTL) is a core element in the ongoing improvement of the student experience which embodies a valued scholarly research process. The idea of buildin...

Knowledge management (KM) research lacks a common conceptual core; it is cross-disciplinary, addresses a wide variety of phenomena, and has dif®culty distinguishing itself from many related areas of research. The result is a fragmented ®eld that is itself arti®cially split from the related literature on organizational learning. KM may be progressing through a predictable life-cycle that could e...

Knowledge reuse has long been an issue for organisations. The management, reuse and transfer of knowledge can improve project management capabilities (i.e., learning, memory, cycle time) resulting in continuous learning. Although knowledge management has been recognised as a critical success factor in programme management very little research has been conducted to date (Lycett, Rassau, & Danson...

Recent developments in philosophical studies of belief revision have led to the construction of models that are much closer to actual computing systems than the earlier models. An operation of contraction (revision) on a logically closed belief set can be obtained by assigning to it a finite belief base and an operation of contraction (revision) on that base. Exact characterizations of such bas...

Many researchers and academicians suggested that there is a need to change the way knowledge is being imparted. It is suggested that along with the traditional teaching and learning method there must be few equipments, tools and frameworks that could provide assistance to both learners and the instructors. This paper presents a framework for WBIs for algorithm learning which will be working as ...

Most people don’t know how much energy they are spending for different purposes and also they are unaware of potential electrical consumption reduction level they could make by changing their consumption behaviors or investing in new efficient technology products. Providing electrical consumption information to household and make the consumption information tangible is very effective strategy i...

This paper investigates the potential for simple open learner models for highly motivated, independent learners, using the example of trainee pilots. In particular we consider whether such users access their learner model to help them identify their current knowledge level, areas of difficulty and specific misconceptions, to help them plan their immediate learning activities; and whether they f...

I introduce the notion of knowledge relativity as a proposed conceptual link between different scientific disciplines. Examples from Informatics and Philosophy, particularly Newell’s knowledge level hypothesis and Popper’s world 3 of knowledge, are used to demonstrate the motivation for making this notion ex-