In this paper, we describle a model that relies on the following assumption; ontology negotiation and creation is necessary to make knowledge sharing and KM successful through communication. We mostly focus on the modifying process, i.e. dialogue, and we show a dynamic modification of agents knowledge bases could occur through messages exchanges, messages being knowledge chunks to be mapped wit...

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In the information era, social software recently emerges as an effective tool for knowledge workers to collaborate and share knowledge. This article presents an analytical model in which a social software strategy is applied to complement an extant knowledge base to improve an organizational culture fit and achieve maximal profit. Capturing the mutual effects among social software, knowledge ba...

To move beyond the technology focus and adequately embrace knowledge, organisations need a working conceptualisation of knowledge. Within the literature, the dominant conceptualisation converges around the acknowledgement of tacit and explicit types distinctly. This paper argues that a more fundamental approach is necessary. The functional view is a theory on the nature of knowledge that serves...

The objective of this paper is to determine symptoms of organizational hubris in entrepreneurial ICT settings and to examine whether the environmental conditions of the ICT sector particularly trigger these symptoms. For this purpose, a theoretical framework is developed to transfer existing findings related to organizational hubris in large and established organizations to entrepreneurial ICT ...

In a conceptual model for knowledge bases the data and knowledge are represented formally as “items”. The foundation of this model is a “basis” consisting of data items. “Objects” are “item building” operators that are applied to the basis to build the information items and knowledge items in the conceptual model. Objects may be decomposed. In this way the knowledge in the resulting conceptual ...

The first years in a teacher’s career are known to be very hard. In fact, know-how, resulting from experience, is rather poor. And at the same time, there are seeds of know-how distributed in each experienced teacher and constituting a real gold mine. Finding the means of transferring this know-how constitutes a challenge for the knowledge society. We propose here a solution based on a know-how...

Configuration systems often use large and complex knowledge bases that need to be maintained and extended over time. The explicit representation of problem-solving knowledge and factual knowledge can greatly enhance the role of a knowledge acquisition tool by deriving from the current knowledge base, the knowledge gaps that must be resolved. This paper details EXPECT’s approach to knowledge acq...

Knowledge integration is the process of incorporating new information into a body of existing knowledge (Murray and Porter, 1989). This process is a cycle of knowledge acquisition, formulation, recognition, elaboration, and adaptation. Knowledge acquisition is the act of gathering facts. These facts must be formulated into the language of the underlying representation of some knowledge base. Re...