Many system developments fail at the integration and qualification (I&Q) phases in the development and acquisition cycle. How can we, as Systems Engineers (SE), navigate the uncertainty and risk of system development to ensure I&Q success? One solution is applying significant influence of the system integrator (SI) member of the SE team at the very beginning of system design. If this is a solut...

since the late 1990s, different web-based submission and peer review systems have emerged, and significant numbers of journals have shifted from their old paper-based systems to the web-based ones. exploring the main features of these online systems might lead to better understand this flow. this study was performed to examine the features and capabilities of online submissions and peer review ...

Computer based learning gets more and more important in higher education. Particularly, in Legal domain, students have little chance to deal with realistic situations. One way to alleviate this problem is to provide Law students with real cases, rules and different viewpoints of which a given body of knowledge is often recognized as important to their successful learning. We propose a novel app...

An ATMS (Assumption-based Truth Maintenance System) has been widely used for maintaining the truth of an information by detecting and solving the contradictions in rule-based systems. However, the ATMS cannot correctly maintain the truth of the information in case that the generated information is satisfied within a time interval or includes data about temporal relations of events in time varyi...

Manufacturers, wholesalers and retailers in the distribution chain can be seen as Community of Core Knowledge Practitioners (CoCKPs) working together towards making profit, satisfying and meeting the needs of consumers of finished goods or products. Retailers through business transactions deal directly with the end users and are seen to better understand consumer behavior particularly in line w...

Knowledge-based knowledge management (KBKM) focuses on applications of knowledge-based systems (KBS) tailored to knowledge management (KM) problems. Although KM is primarily concerned with how people and organizations utilize their knowledge assets, one key to doing so efficiently is to employ technology to facilitate the KM process. One particular kind of technology has shown itself to be extr...

The research work presented in this paper is about the design of a knowledge system architecture applied to oncology and relying on the semantic Web principles. The core of this architecture is a working knowledge system, called KASIMIR, using an object-based representation formalism and classification-based reasoning. The ontology editor PROTÉGÉ is connected with the KASIMIR system, and is ada...