This chapter deals with the part of the library and information science (LIS) curriculum involving knowledge organizational systems and processes, which is an important core of the LIS discipline; arguably together with information seeking & retrieval (IS&R) the central core. Knowledge Organization (KO) contributes to make documents accessible for users whether they browse or search. KO is abou...

The first main thesis of the paper is that an ontology is not a catalogue of the world, a taxonomy, or a terminology. If anything, an ontology is the general framework within which catalogues, taxonomies, and terminologies may be given suitable organization. The second main thesis is that reality is organized into diverse levels and there are sophisticated dependences among these levels and wit...

Knowledge has become the main value driver for organizations nowadays. In particular, knowledge-based organizations (KBOs) allocate resources for intangible assets (e.g., R&D) in the rapidly changing and highly competitive environment in order to gain competitive advantages. Therefore, how to evaluate knowledge-based organizations has become one of the most important issues in knowledge managem...

To support applications, such as efficient browsing in large knowledge bases and cooperative knowledge discovery in large databases, the concept of rule similarity is essential. In this paper we define such a measure, called distance, and then put in the service of various knowledge exploration processes. Rule distances allow us to place all the available knowledge on a “map”, in which proximit...

the present paper aimed at developing an approach based on fuzzy inference system (fis) for measuring of knowledge sharing in the organization. in recent years there has been increasing interest in the knowledge sharing by experts and managers in the world, according to increasing importance of knowledge as the key source of competitive advantage, organizations have made serious effort to find ...