0272-1716/04/$20.00 © 2004 IEEE Published by the IEEE Computer Society IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications 13 We now have access to vast digital data resources that include geospatial referencing.This referencing ranges from precise geographic coordinates, through street addresses, to codes for administrative or other types of regions (such as zip codes and drainage basin indices). GPS rece...

This paper presents a new model of intra-organisational knowledge management in terms of motility of knowledge practices. While existing conceptualisations of knowledge, such a tacit and explicit have proved a valuable lens for focusing on knowledge practices within organisations and in relatively well understood or stable contexts, this paper argues that their use may be less effective in cons...

If such an analysis or synthesis question shall be answered automatically, both adequate algorithmic models along with the problem solving expertise of a human problem solver must be operationalized on a computer. Often, the construction of an adequate model turns out to be the key challenge when tackling the engineering task. Model construction—also known as model creation, model formation, mo...

The focus on knowledge has shifted during the last decades. Nowadays, lifelong learning and the ability to work with knowledge belong to the key skills of our society. This is reflected by authors using terms like knowledge society (e.g., Nonaka, 1994) or knowledge age (e.g., Bereiter, 2002). The quantity of information, which is generated and also accessible due to the new information and comm...

This paper attempts to discuss behaviorism and the construction of knowledge. This review investigates whether behaviorism methodology has any advantages in learning a language in our classroom. This assessment also observes the critics of behaviorism and its weaknesses in a learning environment. This inquiry concentrates on the view point of B.F Skinner, one of the most outspoken behaviorism p...

This paper presents and evaluates new methods for extracting perceptual knowledge from collections of annotated images. The proposed methods include automatic techniques for constructing perceptual concepts by clustering the images based on visual and text feature descriptors, and for discovering perceptual relationships among the concepts based on descriptor similarity and statistics between t...

Much of construction work is project-based, short-term and task-oriented; promoting a culture of continuous learning is inhibited. Very often, specialist and technical knowledge is not shared laterally, neither between fellow site personnel nor organisations. This is especially so for tacit knowledge, which site managers gain and use in solving their complex day-to-day problems. A research on k...

Knowledge base construction (KBC) is the process of populating a knowledge base, i.e., a relational database together with inference rules, with information extracted from documents and structured sources. KBC blurs the distinction between two traditional database problems, information extraction and information integration. For the last several years, our group has been building knowledge base...

This study reports preliminary findings from a study that investigated (1) the kind and extent of shared knowledge constructed after collaborative learning and (2) the relationship between the construction of shared knowledge and individual learning. In this study, college dyads collaborated to learn a biology concept. Preliminary findings showed that pairs shared similar mental models and know...

Knowledge Management (KM) is becoming increasingly important for organisations across a wide spectrum of industry sectors, especially for the naturally fragmented construction industry. There has been a growing realisation that it is very important for each project participant to effectively capture, share and utilise strategic knowledge and project knowledge, as well as process knowledge withi...