Over time there has been a shift, at least in the rhetoric, from a pipeline conceptualisation of knowledge implementation, to one that recognises the potential of more collaboration, co-productive approaches to knowledge production and use. In this editorial, which is grounded in our research and collective experience, we highlight both the potential and challenge with collaboration and co-prod...

The management of the integrity of intelligent systems relies on techniques to integrate the components and to manage the integrity of the knowledge-based systems components. A unified methodology integrates knowledge-based systems components with database components. Constraints are used to manage the integrity of knowledge. One class of knowledge constraints protect the integrity of knowledge...

Constraint-based recommender applications provide valuable support in item selection processes related to complex products and services. This type of recommender operates on a knowledge base that contains a deep model of the product assortment as well as constraints representing the company’s marketing and sales rules. Due to changes in the product assortment as well as in marketing and sales r...

This paper provides a methodology aimed at better measuring tacit knowledge in an organisational context. Although codified knowledge and its capture is commonplace, tacit knowledge has up until recent years proved elusive in its inclusion within the organisation's knowledge base. It is hoped that by means of a triangulated methodology utilising psychological, sociological and computational met...

expert systems are computer programs that make the knowledge of experts available when a human expert is not with in easy reach. the systems are to simulate the thinking and inference pattern of human being. the ultimate goal of expert system is to be analogous to human as much as possible. utilizing the intelligent system in commerce is indispensable for establishing a better connection with c...

complicacy, variety and ever-increasing changes, assumed as outstandingly evident organizational environment features, impose a situation where inconsiderate attitude or carelessness could end in loss of competitiveness or even survival among rivals. today, organizations have come to the point that nothing, but knowledge and innovation could make them desirably successful in a competitive world...

Information and knowledge are important prerequisites for innovation activity in firms. One important means of acquiring complementary knowledge are innovation networks. Depending on their absorptive capacity and knowledge base, firms develop different abilities to access and utilise external knowledge. These abilities might also be linked to firm size. Although size as such is not a decisive c...

This research is concerned with the Study and Analysis of Knowledge Acquisition Techniques, detailed study on Product Functionality, comparison of various Knowledge Acquisition Techniques and to select a Knowledge Acquisition Method for Acquiring Knowledge on Product Functionality efficiently. This study investigates the efficiency of the various knowledge acquisition techniques in product func...

Population ageing is a phenomenon that is quite new and irreversible in the history of mankind. Every country, every organisation (public, private, international etc.) is concerned. It is not certain that all the risks and challenges have been clearly identified. Clearly, there is a risk of massive knowledge loss (" Knowledge Crash "), (due, for instance, to massive retirements, but not exclusi...