Knowledge management (KM) is suggested as a method to manage and apply knowledge for business management. In this paper, we suggest a framework based on OPF (Open Process Framework) meta model for the knowledge-based decision-making. Based on the modeling method of OPF, we can translate partial and implicit knowledge resident in an individual's mental model into organized explicit knowledge. Th...

Knowledge science and engineering are an emerging field that studies the nature of human knowledge, and its manipulations such as acquisition, representation, creation, composition, memorization, retrieval, and depository. This paper presents the nature of human knowledge and its mathematical models, internal representations, and formal manipulations. The taxonomy of knowledge and the hierarchi...

Hybrid knowledge representation formalisms consist of two or more diierent subformalisms for representing diierent kinds of knowledge or knowledge in diierent kinds of representation formats. For a semantically well-founded hybrid formalism not only a precise semantics for each of the participating subformalisms has to be given but a semantics for the interrelationship between these subformalis...

Lexical knowledge plays a vital role for systems translating between natural language and structured data, and an important part of such lexical knowledge are adjectives. In this paper we introduce a low-cost method for automatically acquiring adjective lexicalizations of restriction classes from a knowledge base by inspecting the range of properties. The resulting lexicalizations can then, for...

Background and aim: Improving patient health status is the primary goal of healthcare system. and planning to improve the health care services without taking into account the views of care receivers is not possible .In this regard, Donabedian Model as an appropriate framework in assessing the quality of health care, has particular attention to the issue of "outcomes", which are sometimes seen a...

Attention to collaborative approaches to encouraging evidence use in healthcare practice are gaining traction. The inherent complexities in collaborative and networked approaches to knowledge translation (KT) have been embraced by Kitson and colleagues in their complexity network model. In this commentary, the potential of complexity as presented by Kitson et al within their model is considered...

Background: The systematic application of screening helps early diagnosis and effective treatment of breast cancer. This study was conducted to assess the effects of education on health beliefs and practice of women eligible for breast cancer screening using Health Belief Model (HBM). Materials and Methods: This quasi-experimental study was conducted in Tehran, the north of Iran, using before a...

objective: oral health is one of the basic components of preschool children's health. young children completely depend on their parents, specially their mothers, to have an appropriate oral health. health belief model shows the relationship between some structures related to personal perceptions, barriers and perceived self-efficiency, and behavior. this study aims to determine the oral he...