Knowledge Management (KM) concerns innovating, spreading, sharing and using of knowledge assets. Dynamic knowledge flow management consists of cognition-compliant knowledge transferring and propagation for facilitating problem solving, which is a novel research issue in the KM domain. In this paper, the cognition is treated as the reflection-based knowledge Knowledge flow management supporting ...

i Acknowledgments iv Table of contents vi List of illustrations x Preface xiv Chapter 1. ARt&D; the processpatching context 1 1.1. Motivation 7 1.2. Scope 9 1.3. Thesis and research questions 12 1.4. Approach and methodology 14 1.4.1. Instrument for analysing the collaborative process 15 1.5. Contribution to the field 17 1.6. Structure of the thesis 20 Chapter 2. Profiles of disciplines and aRt...

Doing cognitive research in games can give new insights into the processes involved in human problem solving. By studying different games, it is possible to compare similar behavior in different domains. In this paper we present the results of cognitive experiments in shogi, a Japanese game similar to chess. We have conducted two memory tasks and one problem solving task in shogi. In general, w...

In this paper we present a Hashed-Path Traveling Salesperson Problem (HPTSP), a new type of problem which has the interesting property of having no polynomial time solutions. Next we show that HPTSP is in the class NP by demonstrating that local information about subroutes is insufficient to compute the complete value of each route. As a consequence, via Ladner’s theorem, we show that the class...

The productivity growth surge is commonly associated with significant investments in capital, especially in information technology (IT) equipment and software. But, in fact, there is more to the story than just capital investments. Another part of the story is innovations in workplace practices. Over the past decade, more firms have adopted work processes in which non-managerial workers are inv...

Since cognition could be treated as problem-solving issues based on dynamical knowledge transferring and propagation, the meta-learning and group learning are put forward in conformance with meta-cognition and group cognition through New Product Development (NPD) analysis. To meet the globally distributed tendency of problem solving with cognitive intention based on Internet technology, a P2P-b...

Cop New product development (NPD) projects are characterised by task ambiguity, whereby the set of tasks necessary for project completion and the relationships between tasks are initially unknown and only emerge as the development process unfolds. This paper uses interview data from NPD project managers in a large telecom firm to examine the influence of product requirements ambiguity on NPD ta...

Viewing new product development as a problem-solving activity, the focus in the article is on abduction as a problem-solving strategy. We identify the advantages of problem-solving by way of abduction, as compared to induction and deduction, present a rationale of how to decide between the different problem-solving strategies, and finally, draw on a case study of a main European car manufacture...

This paper compares some of the most efficient heuristic methods for the quadratic assignment problem. These methods are known as strict taboo search, robust taboo search, reactive taboo search and genetic hybrids. It is shown that the efficiency of these methods strongly depends on the problem type and that no one method is better than all the others. A fast method for tuning the short term me...