Data mining is the analysis of large volumes of data to find unsuspected relationships and to summarize the data in novel ways, that are both understandable and useful to the data owner. Nowadays, the rapid growth of semi-structured sources raises the need of designing and implementing environments for data mining out of XML data. On the basis of the principles of the inductive database theory,...

In this preliminary report we present ongoing research on intelligent knowledge management (KM) environments supporting communication in a virtual environment. An agent community handles the interaction between knowledge sources of different degrees of formality and knowledge users and creators, based on real user needs and virtual collaboration. Intelligent agents handle knowledge sources and ...

Recent efforts focus on representing human/organizational knowledge in a format suitable for machine processing to enable systematic knowledge sharing among collaborating business organizations. Different types of business rules can be used to capture multi-faceted business policies, strategies, regulations and constraints. A structure of such rules can model business procedures and processes. ...

In the electronics manufacturing industry, soldering plays a key role in the process, whether it is carried out manually, semi-automatically or fully automatically. Even though the basic techniques in manual soldering are comparatively straightforward, to master it at a high level still requires a lot of time and effort. The research presented in this paper aims to identify the motor skills inv...

Knowledge Grid is a platform that enables uniform and effective knowledge sharing and management across the Internet. Based on it, this paper proposes an adaptive e-Learning in China Knowledge Grid environment (CKG-AL for short), which supports the learner-centered, highly interactive and on-demand eLearning with dynamic courseware construction. By incorporating ontology-based metadata for know...

The Aerospace and Defense industry is experiencing an increasing loss of knowledge through workforce reductions associated with business consolidation and retirement of senior personnel. Significant effort is being placed on process definition as part of ISO certification and, more recently, CMMI certification. The process knowledge in these efforts represents the simplest of engineering knowle...

An original approach to support of knowledge management within an organization is presented in this article. This approach has been designed, implemented in form of the KnowWeb system and tested on various pilot applications. Special attention is paid to organizations with distributed environment. For this purpose an experimental system for support of mobile agents that combines the power of hi...