Combination of prior knowledge and implicit knowledge hidden in the data of system can enhance the quality of information services in Knowledge Grid. Fuzzy Cognitive Maps (FCMs) are constructed by experts using prior knowledge and do not acquire the implicit knowledge from the data of systems directly, which may distort the dynamical behaviour of information services systems in which knowledge ...

The effect of different modes of information provision on spatial knowledge acquisition in a large-scale environmental setting was investigated by comparing two groups of participants, those who had learned the environment from a map and those who had learned it using a mobile map. The experiment was conducted in an external urban environment and consisted of two phases; an initial learning pha...

We present a solution to McCarthy’s Second Telephone Number Problem. This problem requires an agent to: realize that it lacks some knowledge to complete a task; know the external knowledge sources it can use to obtain the knowledge; know how to obtain the missing knowledge from those sources; actually obtain the missing knowledge; and use the obtained knowledge to complete the task. We explain ...

Information and knowledge are important prerequisites for innovation activity in firms. One important means of acquiring complementary knowledge are innovation networks. Depending on their absorptive capacity and knowledge base, firms develop different abilities to access and utilise external knowledge. These abilities might also be linked to firm size. Although size as such is not a decisive c...

the effect of organizational knowledge creation on organizational adaptive capacitycase study: employees of university of tabrizabstractnowadays, organizations success depends on their ability to adapt to the changing environmental factors. in other words change in today’s world is rapid and successful adaptation is an important part of success in today’s era. accordingly, adaptability capacity...

Background: The present study aimed to analyze the situation of knowledge management among the faculty members in the four components, including creation, linking, organization and storage, and application. Methods: This is a survey research and the results are presented descriptively and analytically. The study tool was a questionnaire of knowledge management with 84 questions (creation of kno...

Working on knowledge acquisition requires making a commitment to a particular knowledge representation. This panel will explore the implications of that commitment, focusing on the ways in which choice of a particular representation can facilitate or hinder the knowledge acquisition task. Of particular interest is the role played by the presence or absence of a formal semantics in the represent...

Socratic dialogues has been widely uses as a way of implement an ITS. The idea behind it is that the teaching and learning process should be based upon a personal reflection that can be obtained posing the right question on a guided dialogue. This methodology assumes that the knowledge acquisition is a discovering process in which both the teacher and the student plays an active role. This tuto...

Split Up is a rule / neural hybrid that represents knowledge using frames based on the argument structure proposed by the British philosopher, Toulmin. Split Up makes predictions about marital property following a divorce in Australia; a domain that is considered discretionary in that a judge has considerable flexibility. The end users of Split Up are judges and registrars of the Family Court o...

This research is concerned with the Study and Analysis of Knowledge Acquisition Techniques, detailed study on Product Functionality, comparison of various Knowledge Acquisition Techniques and to select a Knowledge Acquisition Method for Acquiring Knowledge on Product Functionality efficiently. This study investigates the efficiency of the various knowledge acquisition techniques in product func...