Agents with incomplete knowledge of their actions can either plan around the incompleteness, ask questions of a domain expert, or learn through trial and error. We present and evaluate several approaches to formulating plans under incomplete information, using the plans to identify relevant (goaldirected) questions, and interleaving acting, planning, and question asking. We show that goal-direc...

In this paper we describe two projects relevant for automating user tasks. The first one, EUROHELP was aimed at tools and methods for developing Intelligent Help Systems (IHS). Experiences and accomplishments in this project shed light on understanding and monitoring task performance of users. The major bottleneck appears the lack of understanding of the content of user tasks, calling for resea...

Researchers attempting to deploy complex planners in practical applications have met with the high cost of maintaining and debugging a planner’s knowledge base. There has been some success in using knowledge acquisition tools and machine learning techniques to assist in development of operator schemas. However, it is often hard for the domain experts who are the users of the program to do their...

The idea of knowledge-creation and knowledge management has become an important area of research in management studies. This preoccupation with the creation and accumulation of knowledge in its written form is underpinned by the epistemological priorities of a literally-based Western culture which takes such prior established knowledge as the only justifiable basis for effective action. Knowled...

This study developed a mobile-memo system that supports the knowledge acquisition and posting-question to assist learners’ learning in a ML (mobile learning) environment. To understand the effectiveness of our proposed system, the data were collected from the system logs, such as the elements of multimedia used in posting-question and a questionnaire regarding the students’ learning attitude as...

This paper discusses the role of knowledge management in healthcare organizations. We utilize the 7C knowledge model to evaluate the knowledge creation of medical staff in the case of managing medication information. A field study was conducted in a Finnish municipality by interviewing physicians and nurses about the acquisition and utilization of medication information. The results suggest tha...

Our work, embodied in the PLANFORM-KA tool, aims to support domain experts in the knowledge acquisition phase. The tool applies the PLANFORM-KA model supporting the encoding of interviews with domain experts or their direct interaction. A skeleton ontology is generated in which we configure the tool of knowledge acquisition. This ontology focuses explicitly on a particular domain and implicitly...

More and more sense a need for the purpose of education to be more than just knowledge acquisition. Values and morality are an integral part of our lives and should for this reason be carefully integrated into educational contexts. For values to become ‘owned’ by students, however, opportunities must be provided for them to actively and critically construct our so-called shared values. Imaginat...