The article presents research results based on the concept of collaborative infrastructure (as the virtual enterprise network PREMINV e-platform from “Politehnica” University of Bucharest, Romania), in order to unify existing standards for supply chain management and to provide support in various decision making processes in manufacturing supply networks. The intent is to facilitate and enhance...

The paper analyzes UML, the well known software engineering tool, from the knowledge engineering perspective. The goal of the paper is to evaluate UML as the possible design tool for knowledge engineering (KE). Some fundamental conceptual differences between UML and classic knowledge engineering methods are outlined. The paper aims to identify possibilities of an effective and normative UML app...

We compare the process of knowledge based system development to the software engineering approach of the more traditional application development. Many similarities can be identiied in the process structures. The most important diierences are in the knowledge acquisition and conceptual modelling of the KBS which have no direct counterpart in the traditional software life cycle. We also study th...

The continuous increase of data volumes available from many sources raises new challenges for their effective understanding. Knowledge discovery in large data repositories involves processes and activities that are computational intensive, collaborative, and distributed in nature. The Grid is a profitable infrastructure that can be effectively exploited for handling distributed data mining and ...

The I-TRIZ knowledge base consists of over 400 operators and several hundred case studies. At its current size, the knowledge base is overwhelming to browse and use effectively without the assistance of some kind of software tool and future plans include greatly expanding the content in the body of the operators and adding several thousand case studies. Currently available software assists prac...

Postoperative pain assessment was reviewed as part of an ongoing update of evidence base behind management protocols at the regional neonatal surgical unit at St Mary’s hospital, Manchester. This article reviews the current knowledge base and demonstrates evidence-based methodology to determine a neonatal postoperative pain assessment tool. The main objective of this review is to establish what...

The aim of th is research is to produce an urban land cover map ready to be used for planning and management. To extract the reliable information from the selected remote sensing (RS) data, a knowledge-based method based on a rule-based approach is constructed. The result of the knowledge-based technique is compared with the result of a standard maximum likelihood classification (MLC) method an...

The formulation of complex planning models, such as linear programming (LP) systems, is a difficult task that enjqs little support by current decision support systems tools. It is aypothesized that current artificial intelligence technology is insufficient to build generalized formulation tools that would be usable by OR-naive end users. As an alternative, this paper presents a domain-specific ...

The purpose of the article is to analyze upgrading by looking at the design of fashion garments. To that end, I use the theoretical concept of contextual knowledge to understand the problems faced by firms, and their staff, that want to upgrade through design. Contextual knowledge combines a general knowledge of fashion with the lifeworld that actors use for interpretation of fashion. Lifeworld...

A MAJOR STRENGTH of frame-based knowledge represent,ation languages is their ability to provide the knowledge base designer with a concise and intuitively appealing means of expression. The claim of intuitive appeal is based on the observation that the object-centered style of description provided by these languages often closely matches a designer’s understanding of the domain being modeled an...