Management of expert organizations was one of the leading themes in management literature and research already in the s. What was missing was a holistic approach to knowledgecreating organizations in the framework of a strategic management theory. The paper proposes a conceptual strategy framework for expert organizations, based on the triple time-frame model, which is an important concept ...

This paper deals with a multi-agent-based interval type-2 fuzzy (IT2F) expert systemfor scheduling steel continuous casting. Continuous caster scheduling is a complex and extensiveprocess that needs expert staff. In this study, a distributed multi-agent-based structure is proposed as asolution. The agents used herein can cooperate with each other via various communication protocols.To facilitat...

In many research domains, scientists have to cope with large amounts of data issued from multiple sources, looking for regular patterns in raw data that may suggest models. The extraction of knowledge from data in general is widely used in fields such as biology, economics, etc. For this, they develop models in their respective area of research. The efficiency of the experts depend on their abi...

Expert finding for question answering is a challenging problem in Community-based Question Answering (CQA) systems such as Quora. The success of expert finding is important to many real applications such as question routing and identification of best answers. Currently, many approaches of expert findings rely heavily on the past question-answering activities of the users in order to build user ...

The role of expert witnesses in medical malpractice litigation is often misunderstood. Much maligned, the expert has been the subject of castigation by a range of people, from his professional colleagues to the jurists who preside over his testimony. From an academic perspective, the expert witness is a necessary evil, and his denigration is his own doing; for the expert is a neutral character ...

The last stage of any type of automatic surveillance system is the interpretation of the acquired information from the sensors. This work focuses on the interpretation of motion pictures taken from a surveillance camera, i.e.; image understanding. An expert system is presented which can describe in a natural language like, simple human activity in the field of view of a surveillance camera. The...