The health care industry is increasingly becoming a knowledge-based community that is connected to hospitals, clinics, pharmacies, and customers for sharing knowledge, reducing administrative costs and improving the quality of care. Thus, the success of health care depends critically on the collection, analysis and seamless exchange of clinical, billing, and utilization information or knowledge...

Knowledge-based recommender systems comprise one category of user-modeling system that can draw inferences from user models. This brief paper contains a global description of a multi-faceted, educational, knowledge-based recommender system, including a basic set of descriptors that the model contains, a taxonomy of inferences that might be made over such models, and a listing of literature that...

done. In the middle there are a variety of agnostics and partial believers who aren’t sure, or are interested and want to discuss the questions but don’t have a firm view. Then, on the other side you have the TV evangelists who say, “Send in your money and you shall receive miracles.” I think there’s another similarity sometimes, which is that the discussions tend to get couched in terms of wha...

Recommender systems have been around for decades to help people find the best matching item in a pre-defined item set. Knowledge-based recommender systems are used to match users based on information that links the two, but they often focus on a single, specific application, such as movies to watch or music to listen to. In this paper, we present our Interest-Based Recommender System (IBRS). Th...

Increasingly knowledge is acknowledged to be the most important resource in organisations. There is evidence in the literature that suggests that as organisations use knowledge effectively in their day-to-day operations they become more successful and therefore more valuable than their competitors who do not. Knowledge management is important for several reasons. First, knowledge management lit...

This paper describes preliminary work on enhancements to a computer-mediated instructional program entitled LEO: a Learning Environment Organizer. LEO is a nonlinear course presentation program that is based upon the notion of an advance organizer (Ausubel 1968). The Knowledge-based Instructional Assistant described here combines knowledge of the learner’s attainment in the course with knowledg...

While recommender systems are in widespread use, they still experience problems. Many recommender systems produce recommendations which the customers find unsatisfactory. Further, these systems often suffer from problems when there are not enough participants, or when new products enter the system. We perceive an opportunity for knowledge-based recommender systems to gain leverage on recommenda...

This paper presents an integrated knowledge-based system, which combines fuzzy rule-based reasoning with case-based reasoning, for turbomachinery diagnosis. By incorporating a casebased reasoning sub-system in a fuzzy rule-based system, the integrated system allows past experience to be applied in a more direct way. This helps improve the diagnostic accuracy of the rulebased system. This approa...

The research project here described aims to contribute to the issue of sustainability of buildings by improving the architectural design process with the development of a decision support tool for the architect. In particular, the research adopts the improvement of existing designs, namely encouraging energyefficient redesigns while improving indoor environmental quality as its strategy to prom...