with development of technology and science and continuous increase in productivity, product life cycles are shortened and customer demands are more personalized and diversified, which makes companies face with ever changing and unpredictable competitive environment. therefore, rapid response to market competition has become one of the main focuses and the competitive advantages. today, one of t...

despite the development of appropriate academic and experiential background knowledge management and its manifestation as a competitive advantage, many organizations have failed in its effective utilization. among the reasons for this failure are some deficiencies in terms of methodology in inappropriate recognition and translation of km dimensions and lack of systematic approach in establishme...

The purpose of this study is to apply an integrated algorithm for knowledge structure analysis. The integrated algorithm includes Item Response Theory (IRT) and Fuzzy Structural Modeling (FSM). The authors use the psychometric model IRT for calculation the ability of task-takers. Based on original response data and item-concept matrix, the individualized fuzzy subordinate matrix is acquired. FS...