Information and knowledge are essential resources for businesses to maintain their competitiveness and to constantly develop further. Knowledge Management (KM) enables companies to develop their activities by having the right information at the right time, as well as by offering the tools to manage the skills and knowledge of the personnel. The aim of this paper is to empirically analyze how KM...

ABSTRACT In this arti le, we present a method whi h aims at using ontologies to perform di erent types of reasoning. This method, alled operationalization, proposes to automati ally adapt the representation of the axioms to the type of reasoning the KBS in whi h the ontology is integrated is dedi ated to. This pro ess is based on the des ription of the operational goal of the KBS through a s en...

1 The EU project Galatea (TM-LD-1995-1-FR89) and the Spanish Committee of Science and Technology (TIC97 2009-CE,TIC98-0733 and TIC2000-0737-C03-01) have partially supported this work. Abstract: This paper describes the operationalization process (i.e. the step from application descriptions to executable applications) followed in DTC (structured Documents, document Transformations and software C...

This paper proposes a document oriented paradigm to the development of contentintensive, document-based applications (e.g. educational and hypermedia applications, and knowledge based systems). According to this paradigm, the main aspects of this kind of applications can be described by means of documents. Afterwards, these documents are marked up using descriptive domain-specific markup langua...