Knowledge management depends on effective methods for capturing knowledge in useful forms and making it available when needed. Electronic concept maps provide a promising representation for knowledge models that can be developed directly by the experts themselves, but the flexibility of concept mapping raises questions of how to support the knowledge modeling process and to standardize its resu...

This article contains a description of knowledge elicitation for institutional memory preservation in the nuclear power industry. Because of the large number of pending retirements in the industry, the preservation of expertise is deemed a critical concern, and efforts to do so are extensive. The work described in this article pertains to knowledge elicitation (KE) based on the creation of Conc...

Due to the increasing amount and complexity of knowledge and information in many domains, students who self-regulate their study in e-learning scenarios often suffer from cognitive overload, as well as conceptual and navigational disorientation. Particularly, when studying in resource-based learning scenarios with complex and ill-structured subject-matter content, there is a need for both effec...

Knowledge management is one of the fastest emerging fields in industry today. Unfortunately, however, most of the knowledge management endeavors do not seem to have rigorous and comprehensive knowledge management methodologies, tools, and techniques. One technique that can greatly aid the knowledge management field can be borrowed from the concept mapping community, namely the use of knowledge ...

Concept map is a graphical technique for representing knowledge, successfully used in different areas, including education, knowledge management, business and intelligence. In this paper, an overview of different approaches to automatic creation of concept maps from textual and non-textual sources is given. Concept map mining process is defined, and one method for creation of concept maps from ...

This article discusses pragmatic ways of classifying knowledge maps to give an overview of their application contexts and formats. In the article, we show where and how the term knowledge map has been previously used and what criteria must be met in a sound and useful knowledge map classification that can support knowledge management processes. Various classification principles are presented an...