Recently, literature around the theme of collaborative management research has grown considerably. According to the definition of collaborative management research, two components are connected to each other in this context; managers of organizations and academic researchers. In literature, many authors claim that the relationship between these two components could lead to significant advantage...

The discipline of knowledge management is no longer emerging in large organizations, but also small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) are focusing on finding the right process that will allow them to make advantages of their intellectual capital. Using survey data from 219 small and medium-sized enterprises in Austria and Switzerland, this chapter illustrates the four key knowledge processes ...

The objective of the research is to examine and develop new methods and tools for management of knowledge in Lean Product development. Lean Product development attempts to apply lean philosophy and principles within product development process. Special emphasis is given to the so-called Set Based Lean Design principles. Such product development process requires innovative methodologies and tool...

We describe collaborative efforts between a knowledge representation team, a community of scientists, and scientific information managers in developing knowledge models for ecological and environmental sciences. Formal, structured approaches to knowledge representation used by the team (e.g., ontologies) can be informed by unstructured approaches to knowledge representation and semantic tagging...

We present the problem of notation selection in mathematical computing environments. For various reasons, users may require mathematical software to employ different output notations for the same expression in a variety of settings. How this can be managed in a general way is the subject of this report. We describe a software tool that can be configured extensively to allow mathematical package...

We briefly describe the Hypertopic model created by Tech-CICO lab and the Agoræ software tool based on this model. We focus on how this allpurpose Knowledge Management approach, that we have called “socio semantic Web”, can help communities to formulate, to publish, or to broadcast knowledge, especially scientific knowledge in the field of Human and Social Sciences, where formal “ontology” appr...

As automation of business processes becomes more complex and encompasses less-structured domains, it becomes even more essential that the knowledge used by these processes is verified and accurate. Most application development is facilitated with software tools, but most business rules and expert systems are developed in environments that provide inadequate verification testing. This paper desc...

Educational games display great potential as an active form of knowledge transfer. This research field is young, but some patterns in educational game development can be recognized. In this paper, the authors present a new approach to educational game development that overcomes some downsides of more traditional systems. The paper provides the opportunity to create an educational adventure game...

We present a semi-automatic method and software tool for multi-word term identification. Our approach is hybrid in that it combines numeric computations (N-grams) to linguistic filters. The software tool is different from most other term identification tools in that is it by design semi-automatic: i.e. it is interactive and constantly under the user’s control. The software supports the knowledg...