The purpose of the study is to develop an integrated knowledge management system for the domains of genome and nano-technology, in which terminology-based literature mining, knowledge acquisition, knowledge structuring, and knowledge retrieval are combined. The system supports integrating different databases (papers and patents, technologies and innovations) and retrieving different types of kn...

We argue that adding a requirement of evaluation and testing fundamentally changes KBS practice. In particular: (i) a fundamental change to the symbol-level representation in KBS; (ii) a rejection of certain unnecessary knowledge-level distinctions; (iii) a fundamental change to the inference engine of KBS; and (iv) a basic computational limit to the size and internal complexity of the models w...

Different types of cooperative technologies can be used to support the process of collaborative knowledge acquisition in a course. In this paper we report our experience with the creation of a FAQ for a computer science course in parallel by using a web forum and a 3D Collaborative Virtual Environment. The results allow comparing these two types of systems, but also raise some more general cons...

Data from the ALEKS-based placement program at the University of Illinois is presented visually in several ways. The placement exam (an ALEKS assessment) contains precise item-specific information and the data show many interesting properties of the student populations of the placement courses, which include Precalculus, Calculus, and Business Calculus, as well as two courses outside of the pla...

By viewing cooperation and different types of conflicts as “co-opetition” factors in a manufacturer– distributor supply chain, this paper provides a conceptual model for examining the effects of cooperation and conflicts on a manufacturer’s knowledge acquisition process and for exploring the moderating effects of a distributor’s entrepreneurial orientation on the relationships between co-opetit...

Customers of electronic shops find more and more support for the search and selection of products in the sales systems. Unfortunately, most of the shops do not provide additional support with parameterizable or configurable products. Such products could be further customized. One of the major problems most customization techniques suffer from is that they require large knowledge acquisition eff...

A system that acquires knowledge from a user should be able to reflect upon the knowledge that it has—at each moment—and understand what kinds of new knowledge it needs to learn. For the past two decades, research in the area of knowledge acquisition has been moving towards systems that have access to richer representations of knowledge about their task. This paper reviews some well-known knowl...

In this paper we present POEMS a postoperative expert medical system currently under development in Leeds. The knowledge representation scheme using KR, an object oriented system [1], and its relation to this medical domain is described. A diagnostic engine based on KR's constraint propagation mechanism is outlined, and a knowledge acquisition scheme utilizing Active and Passive Learning method...

Intelligent Tutoring Systems require three different kinds of knowledge: the domain to be taught, techniques of teaching, and characteristics of the student. As such it is worth considering the extent to which knowledge acquisition techniques for conventional expert systems can be applied, and in particular those which aim to semi-automate the process. This paper considers some of the special f...

This paper explores the study of conversation agent knowledge bases particularly, its relationship to the related study of information trustworthiness and knowledge acquisition. Some important methods for knowledge extraction from online documents are discussed in this paper. This is done in relation to the purpose of the design and development of domain-specific information for CAs’ knowledge ...