Service-oriented manufacturing systems need to be supported by formal reference models for effective service description, discovery, and composition. A reference model should evolve continuously throughout its lifecycle to respond to changing requirements. The objective of this work is to propose a formal process for collaborative and community-based reference-model evolution and identify the c...

as libraries at ferdowsi university of mashhad in iran experienced the transition from traditional libraries to modern electronic libraries, knowledge management (km) was employed as an approach in managing these libraries from 1999-2004. this approach is explained under four headings: organizational knowledge, knowledge presentation, knowledge dissemination, and knowledge application and the o...

Background & Aim: Despite the importance of screening for early diagnosis of breast cancer, few women do it. Existence an indigenous educational model to promote health literacy is essential. This study attempted to determine the effect of breast cancer screening education based on SHEP model to Healthy volunteers on women's knowledge covered by Mashhad health centers  Methods & Materials: This...

The increase in routine clinical data collection coupled with an expectation to exploit this in support of evidence based decision making creates the requirement for a system to support clinicians in this analysis. This paper looks at applying argumentation to this problem, by collating all the relevant statistical approaches and their assumptions into a statistical knowledge base and then repr...

Knowledge transfer is critical to successful knowledge management. Based on a sample of 233 physicians, this paper will argue that the mathematical model of knowledge transfer developed by Davenport and Prusak(1998) can provide a framework for knowledge transfer success, and it will explore knowledge transmission and knowledge absorption success factors. The results indicate that source credibi...