This study investigates the process of collaborative knowledge construction when technology and pictorial knowledge representations are used for visualizing individual and groups’ shared ideas. The focus of the study is on how teacher-students contribute to the group’s collaborative knowledge construction and use each other’s ideas and tools as an affordance for their jointly evolving cognitive...

The target of Hall for Workshop of Meta-synthetic Engineering (HWMSE) is to organically combine the human expert systems, machine systems and knowledge systems so as to realize meta-synthesis. It is a human-centered man-machine-net cooperation system for information processing, knowledge creation and wisdom integration. The availability of HWM SE embodies in the capabilities of knowledge using ...

Background : Knowledge is evolving over time, often as a result of new discoveries or changes in the adopted methods reasoning. Also, facts evidence may become available, leading to understandings complex phenomena. This particularly true biomedical field, where scientists and physicians are constantly striving find diagnosis, treatment eventually cure. Graphs (KGs) offer real way organizing re...

Valuable human and knowledge resources will be wasted unless organisations make better use of these prime resources. Construction knowledge workers and their tacit knowledge in particular is still considered to be relatively unexplored and proper understanding and management of this resource is of immense importance for better organisational performance. The paper stresses the importance of kno...

The recognition that knowledge is one of an enterprise’s most important assets, decisively influencing its competitiveness, has attracted interest in comprehensive approaches to the basis activities of Knowledge Management (KM) and corporate memories. During the design, construction and operation of any facility knowledge is gained and lessons are learned. Over time, organisations involved in t...

We propose a conceptual framework for implementing intelligent assistant systems (IASs) that (1) work on experience base instead of knowledge base, and (2) deal with the decision-making process and not the result only. Considering experts' experience instead of the domain knowledge supposes to have a uniform representation of elements of knowledge, reasoning and contexts. We propose Contextual ...