Although virtual teams have become increasingly important for managing knowledge work in present organizations, the extant literature suggests that they are faced with significant hurdles to knowledge acquisition and integration. On the other hand, research focusing on knowledge management in virtual teams is yet to be enriched. This dissertation aims to add to the understanding of the mechanis...

Knowledge acquistion is a bottleneck for broadcoverage knowledge-based natural anguage proceasing systems. Statistical techniques can help by providing automatic knowledge acquisition as well as helping to focus manual acquisition effort. In the following paper we discuss how we automatically acquire syntactic and semantic knowledge from a corpus for use in the SOLOMON natural language understa...

This study aims to acquire more knowledge about the meaning of intrinsic values in or­ganised post-work non-formal educational activities for older adults. Observations and focus group interviews were conducted at a senior university Sweden. John Dewey’s concept experi­ence theory value are used facilitate deeper under­standing in­trinsic that identified. The results demonstrate what education ...

This paper describes a discovery system for trigonometric fuctions (DST), which has abilities to acquire new knowledge in the form of theorcins ancl foriiialas ii1 a plant: geometry cloiiiaiil. The systcn1 is composed of two suhystenls: a plaiic: geonhry analysis systeiri ad a niatlicniatical fornda t,ratnsforlllat,ioll system. The former changes the length and angles of a figure and extracts g...

The software development industry spends more than half of its budget on maintenance related activities. Software testing provides a means to reduce errors, cut maintenance and overall software costs. Given the importance of software testing it is surprising that there is very little emphasis on formal software testing education. This suggests that most software testers are then either self-tau...

1.0 Introduction It has become obvious in recent years that design systems need, or at least can benefit from, some type of learning (Duffy 1997). So far the effort to bring learning into design systems has addressed this need in a very specific way. Developers1 have singled out a priori a particular learning target, and have shaped the design system to acquire data for the learning task. Thus,...