Purpose – The purpose of this article is to explore the potential of visualization for corporate knowledge management. Design/methodology/approach – The employed methodology consists of a taxonomy of visualization formats that are embedded in a conceptual framework to guide the application of visualization in knowledge management according to the type of knowledge that is visualized, the knowle...

The purpose of this paper is to introduce the novel knowledge acquisition methodology K-Model. We describe the methodology itself and how it was applied within a project for creating a prototype configuration application at J. Schmalz GmbH. K-Model is supporting both the formalism of designing configuration models on a conceptual level as well as the method to actually implement these models. B...

Multiple Classification Ripple Down Rules (MCRDR) is a knowledge acquisition technique that produces representations, or knowledge maps, of a human expert’s knowledge of a particular domain. However, work on gaining an understanding of the knowledge acquired at a deeper meta-level or using the knowledge to derive new information is still in its infancy. This paper will introduce a technique cal...

In this work, the Fuzzy Inference Map approach (also known as Fuzzy Cognitive Map) is investigated to handle with the problem of risk analysis and assessment of pulmonary infections during the patient admission into the hospital. A Fuzzy Inference Mapping is an artificial cognitive structure within which the relations between the elements of a mental landscape can be used to assess the impact o...

The paper argues that existing techniques for retail site evaluation ignore the useful ‘soft’ insights of retail executives. It outlines a technique for constructing a composite map of retail decision makers’ insights into the location in uences affecting store performance. It has two objectives: to show how the method can be used to construct a basic knowledge base by helping to elicit decisi...

This work describes a knowledge-guided clustering approach for mineral potential mapping (MPM), by which the optimum number of clusters is derived form a knowledge-driven methodology through a concentration-area (C-A) multifractal analysis. To implement the proposed approach, a case study at the North Narbaghi region in the Saveh, Markazi province of Iran, was investigated to discover porphyry ...

The behavioral approach to robot navigation, characterized by a representation of the environment that is topological and robot-environmental interactions that are reactive, is preferable to the pure geometrical navigation because it is far more robust to unpredictable changes of the environment. Nevertheless, there is still a need to obtain geometrical maps. This paper considers a geometrical ...

We extend the knowledge compilation map introduced by Darwiche and Marquis with new propositional fragments obtained by applying closure principles to several fragments studied so far. We investigate two closure principles: disjunction and implicit forgetting (i.e., existential quantification). Each introduced fragment is evaluated w.r.t. several criteria, including the complexity of basic quer...