Knowledge management is the process of capturing, storing, sharing and using organizational knowledge with the aim of improving organizational performance. A necessary precursor for successful knowledge management initiatives is knowledge exchange between employees. This exchange is voluntary and highly dependent on an individual’s willingness to share his/her knowledge. It thus becomes importa...

In this summary, I describe two topics on the subject of biochemical pathways. Recently, a Japanese research team devised a database for storing biological information at several different layers of abstraction. KEGG is one of the few databases storing current knowledge of biochemical pathways. In the first section, I give an overview of the KEGG database. The second item at study in this summa...

Numerous design decisions are made in model-driven software development which are mostly implicit and not documented properly. Hence, the design knowledge is usually ’in the designers mind’ and maybe propagated orally, if at all. There exist tools which tackle that problem for architectural decisions which refer to the higher level architecture of the system to develop, but these decisions are ...

The work presented in this paper aims to elaborate a model of knowledge evaluation within ICT solutions-supported Communities of Practice (e-CoPs). It is placed in the context of Knowledge Management (KM) services that are developed in the PALETTE project dedicated to enhance learning dynamics within e-CoPs. Building upon a study of participation and reification processes within e-CoPs, we dist...

Getting products to market in a timely manner offers companies the opportunities of competitive advantage. To achieve `timely delivery in a knowledge-based industry requires more than simply capturing knowledge and storing it for re-use. The use of knowledge management systems, it is argued can be use strategically to improve make-span processes and thus enable competitive advantage. This resea...

The process of defining and understanding knowledge is directly concerned with creating, storing and sharing the knowledge at various levels within the organization. With a strong and established theoretical base on the theory of knowledge, this paper presents a model that describes and interconnects knowledge processes to reflect the production and revenue of an organization. The model leads t...