Leadership is known as the major factor that can influence and motivate knowledge workers to contribute and participate actively in creating, sharing and using knowledge effectively. A survey of 180 Multimedia Supercorridor (MSC) status firms was conducted to identify what leadership characteristics (in the form of social power) are needed in a knowledge-based firm. The results showed that know...

Abstract—Healthcare safety has been perceived important. It is essential to prevent troubles in healthcare processes for healthcare safety. Trouble prevention is based on trouble prediction using accumulated knowledge on processes, troubles, and countermeasures. However, information on troubles has not been accumulated in hospitals in the appropriate structure, and it has not been utilized effe...

We develop a new methodology and tool for knowledge acquisition under uncertainty. A new knowledge representation called Bayesian Knowledge Bases provides a powerful key to our approach and is well-grounded in probability theory. In this paper, we demonstrate the ease and flexibility with which knowledge acquisition can be accomplished while ensuring the consistency of the knowledge base as dat...

This paper describes KADD ET, a cognitive diagnostic environment created to assess the conceptual and procedural learning activities of students. It is composed of a diagnostic engine, DETECTive, and a knowledge acquisition tool developed to fulfil its knowledge representation needs, KADI. Both of them share a Model of Learning Tasks (MLT) as a diagnostic basis. One of the main goals of this en...

This experimental study tested the knowledge gap hypothesis at the intersection of audience education levels and news formats (newspaper versus online). The findings reveal a gap in public affairs knowledge acquisition between South Korean citizens (N=123) from different educational backgrounds. Moreover, the high education group comprehended news with the same level of efficiency across online...