This paper provides the OR practitioner with an introduction and discussion of the areas of knowledge acquisition and knowledge modelling and their utility to OR. To do this, recent knowledge-based approaches to a technique of interest to the OR community, neighbourhood search, will be used as a case study. References for further reading are provided.

This study examines the relationship between firm absorptive capacity and organizational responsiveness in the context of growth-oriented small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). By measuring the different dimensions of absorptive capacity, external knowledge acquisition and intra-firm knowledge dissemination were found to be positively related to organizational responsiveness. In addition, t...

The paper describes an approach to cross-media knowledge acquisition which combines text and raw data. The approach has been applied in a real-world use case concerning wind tunnel reports within the EU-funded project X-Media. The goal is to identify the source of wind noise in a vehicle and find the most suitable solution to reduce it. Information is extracted from the textual parts of the rep...

The study seeks to explore how e-learning is tackled by learners and thus investigate how hypermedia tools help to identify specific learner characteristics. Such characteristics can be detected by means of assessing the manner in which adult learners perform in a number of given e-learning tools. The different navigating and learning strategies of individual learners will be observed. In this ...

In this working session, we will discuss methods which could plausibly be used for combining evidence for assigning semantic tags to words in a text. We will discuss methods that apply at knowledge acquisition time to produce a single static knowledge source to be used by a single, complete, semantic tagger, as well as methods for dynamically combining outputs of a set of independent, possibly ...

The article proposes a trimodal logical system that can express the strategic ability of coalitions to learn from their experience. main technical result is completeness proposed system.

In this paper a new method for knowledge extraction was presented. First, the relational knowledge representation with all crucial definitions was introduced. Second, problem statement for knowledge acquisition using relational knowledge representation was formulated. Then the modified coverage strategy was proposed. At the end a benchmark problem was considered and results were presented.

The management of knowledge is frequently identified as an important antecedent of innovation (Antonelli, 1999; Carneiro, 2000; Dove, 1999; Nonaka & Takeuchi, 1995). However, very little empirical research has specifically addressed antecedents and consequences of effective knowledge management. Using data collected from 443 New Zealand firms, a knowledge management instrument, which comprises ...

This article develops a model of organizational knowledge acquisition in terms of modern psychological, sociological, economic and management theories by deconstructing the terms involved: an organization as a collective agent having goals and capabilities to achieve them; knowledge as the hidden state variables imputed to an agent as the basis of its capabilities; and acquisition as the reprod...

Knowledge Management (KM) has become a critical component for maintaining competitive advantages. Most existing research looks at individual industries or general concepts; few studies have investigated KM use in Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises (SMEs). This research empirically investigates factors affecting the adoption of KM. Results indicate that important factors maturing of Information ...