This paper examines the relative importance and significance of the four learning processes introduced by Huber (knowledge acquisition, knowledge distribution, knowledge interpretation and organizational memory) on four different levels of e-business (null, external, relational and internal), through an empirical investigation of 130 SMEs in the Spanish telecommunications sector. This was condu...

To make good decisions, we need to be suitably informed. 'Good' and 'Suitably' in this case depend on the informational needs of the decision and the mechanisms of getting the information to the decision maker in time. The trade-offs in qualities, quantities, timeliness, impacts on other activities, and so on are infamously wickedly complex, and usually buried in a clutter of special circumstan...

In this article we demonstrate how knowledge level learning can be performed within the Soar architecture. That is, we demonstrate how Soar can acquire new knowledge that is not deductively implied by its existing knowledge. This demonstration employs Soar’s chunking mechanism a mechanism which acquires new productions from goal-baaed experience as its only learning mechanism. Chunking has prev...

The ability to learn relational action models from noisy, incomplete observations is essential to support planning and decision-making in real-world environments. While some methods exist to learn models of STRIPS domains in this setting, these approaches do not support learning of actions at the knowledge level. In contrast, planning at the knowledge level has been explored and in some domains...

Background: Concern is growing about the malnutrition, nutrition therapy and its complications. Reduced involvement of nurses in patients’ nutritional care may be one of the contributing factors. The most common cause for insufficient nutritional practice is lack of nutritional knowledge. The purpose of the study was to determine knowledge-based nutrition competencies of nurses. Method and Mate...

Knowledge engineering suffers from a lack of formal tools for understanding domains of interest. Current practice relies on an intuitive, informal approach for collecting expert knowledge and formulating it into a representation scheme adequate for symbolic processing. Implicit in this process, the knowledge engineer formulates a model of the domain, and creates formal data structures (knowledg...

This is the first presidential address of AAAI, the American Association for Artificial Intelligence. In the grand scheme of history, even the history of artificial intelligence (AI), this is surely a minor event. The field this scientific society represents has been thriving for quite some time. No doubt the society itself will make solid contributions to the health of our field But it is too ...

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abstract aims: a few studies concentrate on the level of knowledge of hpv. this study was conducted to evaluate the level of knowledge about hpv, its risk factors, and its relation with cervical cancer in women of kashan city, iran. instrument & methods: this descriptive cross-sectional study was conducted in january 2015 in the population of the women of kashan city, iran, and 200 persons were...