Because the lifetime employment system is disappearing in Japan, “knowledge transfer” is becoming a more significant issue in industry. Knowledge-based systems will support the knowledge transference among workers via knowledge base. A job support system and an employee training system are the core of knowledge transfer. It is important to build a knowledge base that can be reused. Ontology mak...

© Pavilion Publishing (Brighton) Ltd I n September 2005 the 13th World Congress of Psychiatry will take place in Cairo under the title Five Thousand Years of Science and Care: Building the Future of Psychiatry (XIII World Congress of Psychiatry, 2005). Following the 12th World Congress in Yokohama in 2002, a more appropriate subtitle for this year’s event might be Building the Future of the Pha...

Accuracy Control System (ACS) in shipbuilding industries is proven to improve quality of product along with reduction in rework, production time and performance of finished product. This concept had been implemented in many shipyards worldwide especially in USA, Japan, and Europe. The present study deals with one of the leading shipyards in India. A Pilot study on the initial implementation of ...

One reason for the interest in performance-based building is that it is commonly advocated as a powerful way of enhancing innovation performance by articulating building performance outcomes, and by offering relevant procurement actors the discretion to innovate to meet these performance requirements more effectively and/or efficiently. The paper argues that the current approach to performance-...

Existing models of industry lifecycle evolution tend to focus on changes in products and processes and largely overlook the importance of services. Sales of services, however, are becoming increasingly significant in the revenues of many industrial and high-technology firms either because of industry evolution or strategic decisions or both. In this paper, we extend lifecycle theory by explicit...

In an age of sustainability focussed on the short term of carbon reduction, it is important that we maintain an understanding of the broader characteristics which make places sustainable over the longevity of time. Adaptability as a design characteristic embodies spatial, structural, and service strategies which allow the physical artefact a level of malleability in response to changing operati...

We are now at a stage in which ICKT techniques allows us to develop knowledge intensive systems, such as intelligent decision support systems, to support collaboration and cooperation. This paper describes a theoretical approach, in which collaborative agents take on the role as a partner during the decision making process, in order to support various actors in the building process. The group-d...