Customers of electronic shops find more and more support for the search and selection of products in the sales systems. Unfortunately, most of the shops do not provide additional support with parameterizable or configurable products. Such products could be further customized. One of the major problems most customization techniques suffer from is that they require large knowledge acquisition eff...

In this paper, we give a survey on the AI-field Configuration. Because configuration of software-intensive systems is currently seen as a main challenge for knowledge-based configuration, this topic is emphasized. Main challenges related to this topic are next to others: softwareintensive applications, combining of configuration, modeling and evolution of software components, integration of kno...

The aim of this study is to enlighten the use of knowledge management in Finnish companies in HR context. The study is based on a survey conducted in autumn 2002. The target group was the TOP 50 Finnish companies. It was assumed that every Finnish TOP 50 company uses knowledge management in some extent. Earlier there has been only case studies, thus there is need for this study. Contributions o...

We argue for the separation of object and reflective problem solving levels and a selfrepresentation that is distinct from the object-level because it is selective, specialised and knowledge oriented, i.e., it is a knowledge-level model congruent with the KADS conceptual model of the object system. As an example we describe a conceptual model for competence assessment and improvement in Office ...

The management of the integrity of intelligent systems relies on techniques to integrate the components and to manage the integrity of the knowledge-based systems components. A unified methodology integrates knowledge-based systems components with database components. Constraints are used to manage the integrity of knowledge. One class of knowledge constraints protect the integrity of knowledge...

Both knowledge-creation and knowledge-sharing are viewed as very significant for competitiveness of an organization in modern knowledge economy. Contemporary literature usually treats these two processes as either independent or positively related. However, analyzing various organizational conditions for efficient course of these processes, we proposed that in some cases they may contradict eac...

Modern economy is based more and more on knowledge. Terms such as management of knowledge, organisational learning and intelligent organisations are becoming more widespread amongst world leading companies. Over the past few years, intangible resources, based on the exploitation of ideas, have turned progressively into the real motor behind developed economies, giving place to the so-called the...

The present paper lays the foundations for the best practices in knowledge management and investigates the degree of awareness and implementation of KM principles and practices in Indian information technology (IT) companies. A purposive sample of 10 IT companies in North India was chosen for study and a survey was conducted with the objective of investigating the degree of awareness and implem...

one of the popular ways of taking advantage of personnel creativity is through suggestion systems. our main question is how to implement suggestion system in holding with conglomerate structure. the paper presents an innovative model that were named itfsk model with accordance of bonayade taavone (a holding that has many companies and institutions with conglomerate structure). itfsk is a model ...