Within many industrial segments worldwide, a clear trend can be seen where companies outsource functional areas to specialised outside suppliers to support their internal core business areas. Typically, the companies begin by outsourcing functions of low strategic importance, e.g. cleaning, canteen working and administration. After having learnt from this experience they gradually move towards ...

Ontologies became more and more important for industrial usage one can see in projects like KAON [7] and KnowWork [15]. In this context ontologies will be continuously redesigned because of new market situations, restructuring of companies or because of increasing knowledge. Ontologies are used to represent the knowledge within these systems. For supporting the evolution of ontologies it is imp...

The availability of pharmacogenomic data of individual patients can significantly improve physicians' prescribing behavior, lead to a reduced incidence of adverse drug events and an improvement of effectiveness of treatment. The Medicine Safety Code (MSC) initiative is an effort to improve the ability of clinicians and patients to share pharmacogenomic data and to use it at the point of care. T...

Open Innovation is a phenomenon that has become increasingly important for both practice and theory over the last few years. The reasons are to be found in shorter innovation cycles, industrial research and development’s escalating costs as well as in the dearth of resources. Subsequently, the open source phenomenon has attracted innovation researchers and practitioners. The recent era of open ...

We have developed a method and prototype program, called carter, that assists two experts in agreeing on what knowledge should go into a single, consensus knowledge base, i.e., a knowledge base that reeects the best judgment of each of them. We show that consensus building can be eeectively facilitated by a debugging approach that identiies, explains, and resolves diierences in the knowledge of...

In this paper we address the application of knowledge compilation techniques to product configuration problems. We argument that both the process of generating valid configurations, as well as validation of product configuration knowledge bases, can potentially be accelerated by compiling the instance independent part of the knowledge base. Besides giving transformations of both tasks into logi...

The telecommunications industry was one of the first to adopt data mining technology. This is most likely because telecommunication companies routinely generate and store enormous amounts of high-quality data, have a very large customer base, and operate in a rapidly changing and highly competitive environment. Telecommunication companies utilize data mining to improve their marketing efforts, ...

This paper develops a typology for industrial service offerings, inter-relating service scope (degree of bundling), service focus (level of customer integration), and service process interfaces. Different forms of industrial services and the impact of information and communication technology on the three service dimensions are discussed, and requirements are identified related to the expansion ...

Based on the careful observation and interviews of employees at three companies, and supplemented by cases from the popular business press, a discovery approach is used to derive four management principles that engender creativity and innovation in organizations: (1) manage organizations so that their knowledge base is more diverse than what would occur naturally; (2) encourage employees to emb...

Behaviors of multi-robot system based on task-oriented architecture are intuitional according to the flow of task processing that is obvious to plan and monitor. This paper tables a novel task-oriented architecture for space robot application, which consists of task description, task completion analysis, task compromise. For this architecture, author designed a knowledge interchange mechanism b...