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Andersson, Kent. "Knowledge Technology Applications for Knowledge Management." Doctoral thesis, Uppsala : Institutionen för informationsvetenskap, Univ. [distributör], 2000. http://w3.ub.uu.se/fulltext/91-506-1437-1.pdf.
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Dikow, Peter. "Discussing the supporting role of Information Technology for human and organizational knowledge sharing." Thesis, Växjö University, School of Mathematics and Systems Engineering, 2006. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:vxu:diva-491.
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<p>The history of technology has shown that with the advance of science almost any manual human task could also be done by a machine. This story of success gives hope for the subject area of artificial intelligence and Cognitive simulation. It is easily</p><p>comprehensible that the automation of manual tasks is very successful, since it is of very obvious nature. Exactly this factor is the biggest problem in understanding cognitive processes and other products of our mind, that they are not obvious at all. AIl scientists assume that the human brain conducts tasks comparable to a digital computer and must therefore be reproducible as a computer. This view is supported by psychologists who use basic information processing models adapted from computer science to explain the human thought process (Lindsay et. al., 1977). Unfortunately, psychologists are still not completely sure of the way our mind works. We are well aware of the outcome and can predict some of them, but the working procedure behind our decisions remain a mystery. Hubert Dreyfus (Dreyfus, 1999) critically reviewed the psychological, epistemological and ontological grounded expectations of Artificial Intelligence workers. It is his conclusion that the enduring failure of AI to technologically reproduce the function of the human brain serves as empirical evidence against the Foundations of AI itself. According to the Author, it has also not been scientifically proven by the AI community that “the mind must obey a heuristic program”. In fact, psychology suggests that humans commonly make decisions without even considering the situation or their set of standards (Smith, 2003). Dreyfus proves that “arguments which are supposed to show that formalization must be possible are either incoherent or self-contradictory”. Therefore it seems to me, that the current state of the art in AI and Cognitive simulation is at the very limits of technology. For this reason it seems relevant to explore to what extend the current findings and technological solutions can be used to support the activity of the human brain, since it is not possible to replace the human brain by a computational device.</p>
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Josefsson, Dorn, and Fredrik Tideman. "Strategisk planering av Knowledge Managemen." Thesis, Växjö University, School of Mathematics and Systems Engineering, 2007. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:vxu:diva-1343.
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<p>I dagens allt mer globaliserade företagsklimat är det viktigt att på ett optimalt sätt hantera informations- och kunskapsrelaterade frågor. I takt med den ständiga förändringen som pågår så har begreppet Knowledge Management (KM) blivit ett populärt ämnesområde. KM kan enligt oss vara hur en organisation arbetar och hanterar kunskap för att kunna öka sin konkurrenskraft.</p><p>Vårt syfte med denna kandidatuppsats har varit att undersöka hur den mestadels engelsk-språkiga litteraturen inom ämnesområdet KM går att applicera på svenska organisationer. Detta med avsikt på att kunna mäta en organisations KM-tillstånd. Vårt forskningsarbete har även målsättningen att generera förändrings- och förbättringsförslag åt en global orga-nisation som vårt referensföretag.</p><p>För att uppfylla syftet har vi valt att utföra en surveyundersökning som bygger på Bukowitz och Williams bok, The Knowledge Management Fieldbook (1999). Med hjälp av denna lit-teratur kan läsaren undersöka och mäta hur en vald organisation hanterar kunskap.</p><p>Vår forskning visar att den valda undersökningsformen går att använda på svenska organi-sationer men att den besitter vissa brister. Bland förslagen vi tagit fram för att förbättra surveyundersökningen finns förändringar i språkbruket och möjlighet att dela upp under-sökningen i mindre avsnitt.</p><p>Trots undersökningens brister har vi fått fram ett antal förändrings- och förbättringsförslag åt vårt referensföretag. Surveyundersökningen indikerar bland annat på att respondenterna saknar en helhetssyn och en förståelse för organisationens syn på KM. Vidare tyder resulta-tet på att organisationen hade kunnat bli ännu mer konkurrenskraftig genom att tillsätta specialisttjänster i form av till exempel en Knowledge Manager.</p><br><p>The environment of organisations is today becoming more globalized and it is important to optimize the ways of handling with information and knowledge. In this constant change that is going on has the concept Knowledge Management (KM) become popular. KM can according to us be how an organisation work and handle knowledge in order to strengthen their competitiveness.</p><p>Our purpose with this paper has been to examine how KM is described in the, in most parts, English literature and how it can be applied to Swedish organisations in order to measure the KM-condition. The aim of this research project is also to generate changes and improvement suggestions for a global organisation such as our reference organisation.</p><p>In order to obtain our purpose we have chosen to execute a survey investigation that is built on “The Knowledge Management Fieldbook” (1999) authored by Bukowitz and Wil-liams. With this literature the reader is given an opportunity to investigate and measure how a chosen organisation handles knowledge.</p><p>The research shows that the chosen investigation form is possible to use on Swedish or-ganisations even though there are some shortages. Among our proposals, to improve the survey investigation, are a change of language use and to make it possible for the investiga-tor to divide the investigation into smaller parts.</p><p>Despite the shortages in the investigation have we been able to produce a number of sug-gestions for our reference organisation to work with. These suggestions are for example about changes and improvement in KM handling. The survey investigation indicate among other things that the respondents lack an overall picture and understanding for the organi-sations vision of KM. Furthermore our result indicates that the organisation could be able to become even more competitive through appointing specialist posts like for example a Knowledge Manager.</p>
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Houston, Andrea Lynn 1954. "Knowledge integration for medical informatics: An experiment on a cancer information system." Diss., The University of Arizona, 1998. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/288868.
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This research investigated the question of whether automatic or system-generated information classification methods can help humans better manage information. A series of four experiments were conducted; they investigated the usability (i.e., usefulness) of two automatic approaches to information classification, the concept space approach and a Kohonen-based SOM approach in the context of information retrieval. The concept space approach was evaluated in three different domains: Electronic Brainstorming (EBS) sessions, the Internet, and medical literature (the CancerLit collection). The Kohonen-based SOM approach was evaluated in the Internet and medical literature (CancerLit) domains only. In each case, the approach under investigation was compared with existing systems in order to demonstrate performance viability. The basic premise that information management, in particular information retrieval, can be successfully supported by system-based information classification techniques and that humans would find such techniques viable and useful was supported by the experiments. The concept space approach was more successful than the Kohonen-based SOM approach. After modifications to the algorithms based on user feedback from the EBS experiments had been made, users found the concept space approach results to be comparable (in the Internet study) or superior (in the CancerLit study) to existing information classification systems. The key future enhancement will be incorporation of better ways to identify document descriptors through syntactic and semantic front-end processing. The Kohonen-based SOM approach was considered difficult to use in all but one specialized case (the dynamic SOM created as part of the CancerLit prototype). This can probably be attributed to the fact that its associative organization does not match with the standard mental models (hierarchical and alphabetic) for information classification.
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Saheban, Reza. "Knowledge Map : Do Organizations Take Advantage of Knowledge Map+." Thesis, Jönköping University, JIBS, Business Informatics, 2006. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hj:diva-498.
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Cenusa, Anita. "Knowledge Transfer at Husqvarna AB : The role of leadership, IT and management." Thesis, Jönköping University, JIBS, Business Informatics, 2005. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hj:diva-285.
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Wang, Yuan. "Knowledge management from Theory to Practice : A road map for small and medium sized enterprises." Thesis, Växjö University, School of Mathematics and Systems Engineering, 2007. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:vxu:diva-1608.
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<p>Nowadays, business activities become more and more complex; they entangle numerous aspects of knowledge: legal, financial, management, information technology, and so on. Knowledge Management, a still novel solution for most organization, aims boost and optimize the knowledge transfers in organization. The thesis is about should and how small and middle medium enterprises apply knowledge management. The author argues the content of knowledge management, and how implements those ideas into real business environment.</p>
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Ingvarsson, Nils, Alexander Necovski, and Carl Johnson. "Hinder för kunskapsdelning : Att skapa förutsättningar för mer effektiv kunskapsdelning genom reducering av hinder." Thesis, Jönköping University, JIBS, Business Informatics, 2006. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hj:diva-813.
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<p>In today’s fast changing environment it is important for knowledge intense companies that want to stay competitive to actively work with their knowledge, knowledge sharing and Knowledge Management (KM). Barriers decrease the efficiency of how knowledge is created, stored and shared, and they are therefore important to reduce or preferably remove making the KM activities result in as much value for the organisation as possible. To achieve this, it is important that the KM activities become a natural part of the employees’ daily work. Activities become natural when employees are truly motivated, which can be achieved through for example further education, reward systems and supporting work conditions.</p><p>In this study we have focused on existing barriers for knowledge sharing and we ask ourselves “what barriers exists?”, “how is existing IT being used as a support?” and “how does motivation, reward and punishment affect knowledge sharing?”. By conducting a qualitative case study at a knowledge intense company in Huskvarna, we will answer these questions and also recommend how the company can reduce the barriers we find, thus creating prerequisites for more effective knowledge sharing. We carried out an interview and an observation of how an employee at the company worked with knowledge sharing.</p><p>Through the case study, we found that the company worked with knowledge sharing using both a discussion forum and a CV database located on the company’s intranet. However, we did find barriers and the most important ones were low awareness and realisation amongst staff of the value and benefit of possessed knowledge, lack of an intentional KM strategy and lastly their IT systems were not adjusted to employees’ needs. The foremost consequence of these barriers is that the company can not effectively utilize their knowledge, which is their most important resource making the company competitive. Since motivation and understanding are the two primary factors for employees to work more naturally with knowledge sharing, and to achieve this we recommend that the company implement some sort of reward or incentive system combined with education.</p><p>In working with this thesis, we have learnt that knowledge sharing exists in all companies, with or without an intentional strategy and with or without IT supporting the activities. Thus, barriers also exist in all companies. The cardinal thing to understand is that companies must work to reduce or remove barriers, regardless how many they are. Knowledge has become such an important resource that no knowledge intense company today can afford to ignore this fact.</p><br><p>För kunskapsintensiva företag är det viktigt att arbeta aktivt med kunskap, kunskapsdelning och Knowledge Management (KM) för att vara konkurrenskraftiga på dagens föränderliga marknad. Vi har i denna studie fokuserat på existerande hinder för kunskapsdelning, användning av IT som stöd och hur motivation, belöning och bestraffning påverkar kunskapsdelningen. Hinder inom KM minskar effektiviteten av hur ny kunskap skapas, lagras och delas, vilket därför måste tas hänsyn till och helst minskas eller undanröjas för att uppnå högsta möjliga värde för organisationen. För att företag ska få största möjliga värde av sitt KM-arbete, är det viktigt att det blir en naturlig del av de anställdas vardag. Därför är det viktigt att skapa en inre långsiktig motivation genom till exempel utbildning, belöning och arbetslivsförutsättningar.</p><p>Utifrån problemdiskussionen ovan ställer vi oss frågorna ”vilka hinder finns?”, ”hur används befintlig IT som stöd?” och ”vilken påverkan har motivation, belöning och bestraffning på kunskapsdelning?”. Genom att utföra en kvalitativ fallstudie på ett kunskapsintensivt företag i Huskvarna, ska vi svara på frågorna ovan och även ge rekommendationer för hur företaget kan reducera de hinder vi kartlägger och därmed skapa förutsättningar för mer effektiv kunskapsdelning. Vi genomförde en intervju och observation av hur en anställd på företaget arbetade med kunskapsdelning.</p><p>Genom fallstudien fick vi reda på att företaget arbetade med kunskapsdelning genom ett diskussionsforum och en CV-databas på deras intranät. Dock kunde vi kartlägga hinder och de viktigaste var att personalen hade låg medvetenhet av värdet och fördelarna med den innestående kunskapen för andra anställda, företaget hade inte en medveten KM-strategi samt att de IT-system som företaget använde inte var anpassade efter personalens behov. Den främsta konsekvensen av hindren blir att företaget inte mer effektivt kan nyttja den kunskap som är den främsta resursen för att företaget ska vara konkurrenskraftigt. Eftersom motivation och förståelse för kunskapsdelning är två av de viktigaste faktorerna för att personal naturligt ska vilja arbeta med kunskapsdelning, rekommenderar vi företaget att införa någon form av belöningssystem kombinerat med utbildning för att uppnå detta.</p><p>Vi har genom denna uppsats lärt oss att kunskapsdelning förekommer på alla företag, med en medveten eller omedveten strategi och med eller utan IT som stöd. Således förekommer det också hinder på alla företag. Det viktiga att förstå är att företag aktivt måste arbeta med att reducera eller undanröja hinder, oavsett om det är ett eller flera. Kunskap har idag blivit en så pass viktig resurs att inget kunskapsintensivt företag har råd att ignorera detta faktum.</p>
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Maynard, Diana Gabrielle. "Term recognition using combined knowledge sources." Thesis, Manchester Metropolitan University, 2000. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.311203.
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Jengard, Linus. "Project Knowledge Management : How to evaluate project knowledge, and Project Knowledge Management performance." Thesis, Linnaeus University, School of Computer Science, Physics and Mathematics, 2010. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:lnu:diva-2538.
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<p><em>Project Knowledge Management</em> and more specifically how organisations capture experiences gained in projects, is a critical topic in order to compete in the knowledge economy. Little attention has been given the catchphrase <em>lessons learned practices</em> as a research area. The purpose of the thesis is therefore to analyse the framework for the <em>project closure phase</em> through a <em>Knowledge Management</em> perspective. The purpose is also to evaluate how new knowledge, captured by <em>project closure documents</em>, can be identified and measured.</p><p>To fulfil the purpose, the <em>project closure phase</em> and <em>project closure documents</em> within the project model <em>Practical Project Steering</em> are studied. Through a document study, the framework that the project model gives, and the <em>project closure documents</em> is analysed. The <em>project closure documents</em> are also examined regarding the experiences they capture. This is done by developing an instrument for identifying and measuring new knowledge.</p><p>Through the study, it can be established that the <em>project closure phase</em> provides for a link between <em>Knowledge Management</em> and <em>Project Management</em>. It has an important contribution to <em>Knowledge Management</em> since it mitigates the risk of not transferring knowledge to the organisational memory. The use of predefined knowledge domains supports structure, and systemisation in the production of the documents, as well as in the compilation and dissemination of useful knowledge.</p><p>New knowledge within the <em>project closure phase</em> can be identified and measured by dividing the documents into isolated pieces of information and using developed criteria to identify, and thereby quantify new knowledge. The instrument is highly reliable since it is ensured that the division of information does not result in any decontextualisation, and since the criteria used are very stable, and still acknowledge the dynamics of knowledge as well as the knowledge context.</p><p>By using the measurements on empirical data, problems that are important to acknowledge are identified. There is an uneven distribution of knowledge types acquired by the <em>project closure documents</em>, regardless of their importance; resulting in loss of important knowledge. The difficulty to formalise important knowledge, results in failing to transfer knowledge to an external organisational memory. The difficulty to distribute knowledge sufficiently, results in re-invention of the wheel, and the same mistakes being made twice or more.</p>
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Pusaksrikit, Paween. "How does Knowledge Management improve the Service Industry?" Thesis, Jönköping University, JIBS, Business Informatics, 2006. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hj:diva-590.
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<p>In twenty-first century, the industry competes heavily. Entrepreneurs try to use technology to develop their business. However, using technology generates high costs. So companies need to find a new way to survive by using the existing resources to gain maximum benefit. Knowledge management is one of interesting alternatives as it can deliver competitive advantage such as greater competencies and synergy, more balanced decisions and less errors, more creativity and innovation, broader collaboration and knowledge sharing, and easier links to expertise and deeper understanding.</p><p>This paper deals with various aspects of knowledge management particularly concentrating on knowledge sharing in service industry. Issues in the context of different data sources and the research with qualitative methodology create the in-depth knowledge to understand how to do knowledge work for gaining competitive advantage. The emphasis is placed on analysis and evaluation of problems and barriers of both cases as applied from all data collection.</p><p>In the paper, each chapter has the following set-up. Chapter 2 highlights methodology. The qualitative approach has been used to obtain information and provide data analysis. A complete analysis of knowledge management has been developed by using a case study method with secondary data to analyze how service industry uses knowledge management to manage in its sector. Chapter 3 gives theoretical frame of reference. The definitions of knowledge and culture are explained. Problems and barriers of knowledge sharing are also presented. Chapter 4 gives analysis. Conclusion is presented in the final chapter. The findings show that to improve service and customer satisfaction, the industry has to find out and use knowledge management appropriately. Knowledge management helps reducing time to find information and sharing decision making. For the last part, the discussion and recommendation from culture and knowledge affecting knowledge management in the companies has been reported. Because of the time limitation of the study, the paper focuses only on the section of service industry. An area for further study would be using other research methods such as interview to gain more in-depth understanding and survey to increase reliability and validity of this topic.</p>
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Ong, David C. C. "An intelligent multi-component distributed architecture for knowledge management." Thesis, Kingston University, 2009. http://eprints.kingston.ac.uk/20304/.
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The aim of this thesis is to propose an integrated generic intelligent decision-making framework that can be employed in the design and construction of computing infrastructures where high flexibility and dynamism are essential. In fact, the main problem with many decision making systems is that they are designed for specific purposes which make them unsuitable to be deployed in a complex system, where the level of unknown / uncertainties is high. The proposed framework is generic enough to address this limitation as it could be deployed across different computing architectures or systems, or redeployed to serve a particular purpose. The research study starts with the proposal of two theoretical concepts as part of an intelligent information management approach for a new integrated intelligent decision-making framework. The first concentrates on the thinking and learning processes to achieve the best effort decision via logical reasoning strategies. It determines the best execution path under particular circumstances in a given computing environment. The second concept focuses on data capturing techniques using distributed sensing devices which act as sensors for a decision-making unit (i.e. an input / output (IO) interface for thinking and learning processes). A model to describe perceived sensory perception is proposed, as well as an observation technique to monitor the proposed model. These concepts are then translated into an intelligent decision-making framework, which is capable of interpreting and manipulating available information to offer the best effort solution based on available resources, rather than relying heavily on additional powerful physical resources to provide a precise solution. Therefore, the accuracy and precision of decision-making depends on the applied logic and learning processes. Indirectly, this framework attempts to solve integration problems related to the aspect of "Intelligent" into practical day-to-day problem solving applications. A working prototype based on the proposed framework was developed and presented for an evaluation, to verify the framework competence in operating with computing infrastructure, and whether it is capable of making sensible decisions upon request, and whether it is able to learn from its decisions via the received feedback. To achieve this, the behaviour of the prototype is accessed against the growth in the number of experiences and amount of knowledge collected during the execution process. Finally, it has concluded that proposed concepts and framework operates well in term of decision-making capabilities and reasoning strategies.
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Fleischer, Elizabeth J. "Quality Improvement to Increase Nurse Knowledge on Nursing Informatics Project Management Standards." ScholarWorks, 2015. https://scholarworks.waldenu.edu/dissertations/884.
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When an inexperienced nurse project manager is assigned to serve as a project manager for health information technology (HIT) tools, there is increased risk the project will not be completed on time, within budget, and in scope. An identified business need at a large military treatment facility was an educational tool to bridge the gap between nursing informatics and project management. The scholarly project was a Nursing Informatics Project Management Guidebook, which served as an educational tool to increase nurses' knowledge to serve in the HIT project manager role. With a quality improvement methodology, the outcome and impact sequence logic model was applied as the framework. The target population was the Clinical Informatics Sub-Committee, which was a multidisciplinary working group. The Nursing Informatics Project Management Guidebook included an introduction to nursing informatics, project management standards, 9 current scholarly articles, and links to professional organizations. There was also an overview of the roles and responsibilities of a nursing informatics project manager throughout the 5 acquisition lifecycle processes, which includes initiating, planning, executing, monitoring, and closing. Finally, essential terms were defined to assist in the completion of the assigned project on time, within budget, and in scope. An implication for positive social change was increased knowledge for nurses to serve as a HIT project manager, which advances the nursing profession with informed nurses to serve in the leadership position among multidisciplinary groups.
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Borders, Tammie L. "Knowledge Discovery of Nanotube Mechanical Properties With an Informatics-Molecular Dynamics Approach." Thesis, University of North Texas, 2012. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc115050/.
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Carbon nanotubes (CNT) have unparalleled mechanical properties, spanning several orders of magnitude over both length and time scales. Computational and experimental results vary greatly, partly due to the multitude of variables. Coupling physics-based molecular dynamics (MD) with informatics methodologies is proposed to navigate the large problem space. The adaptive intermolecular reactive empirical bond order (AIREBO) is used to model short range, long range and torsional interactions. A powerful approach that has not been used to study CNT mechanical properties is the derivation of descriptors and quantitative structure property relationships (QSPRs). For the study of defected single-walled CNTs (SWCNT), two descriptors were identified as critical: the density of non-sp2 hybridized carbons and the density of methyl groups functionalizing the surface. It is believed that both of these descriptors can be experimentally measured, paving the way for closed-loop computational-experimental development. Informatics can facilitate discovery of hidden knowledge. Further evaluation of the critical descriptors selected for Poisson’s ratio lead to the discovery that Poisson’s ratio has strain-varying nonlinear elastic behavior. CNT effectiveness in composites is based both on intrinsic mechanical properties and interfacial load transfer. In double-walled CNTs, inter-wall bonds are surface defects that decrease the intrinsic properties but also improve load transfer. QSPRs can be used to model these inverse effects and pinpoint the optimal amount of inter-wall bonds.
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Persson, Henrik, and Tobias Larsson. "Overview of knowledge in Personal Informatics and Persuasive Design: A literature study." Thesis, Malmö högskola, Fakulteten för teknik och samhälle (TS), 2015. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:mau:diva-20136.
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Vi lever i ett datadrivet samhälle där individer och tjänster ständigt loggar, spårar och behandlar information om sina egna eller andras beteenden. Informationsteknologi för datadriven beteendeförändring är centralt inom områdena Personal Informatics, en klass verktyg som hjälper individer att samla och undersöka personligt relevant information i självreflekterande syfte, samt Persuasive Design, som handlar om att känna till de bakomliggande orsakerna om vad som motiverar användare att agera och designa för att uppnå detta. Trots denna gemensamma huvudfokus bedrivs forskning kring områdena delvis separat. På grund av det stora överlappet mellan de två områdena behövs en översikt över vad som anses särskilt viktigt inom både Personal Informatics och Persuasive Design. Därför har vi genomfört en litteraturstudie för att på ett samlat sätt presentera den forskning som finns samt vilka generella lärdomar som belyses av forskare inom området. Resultatet visar mönster och skillnader i den gemensamma basen av litteratur, vilket möjliggör för djupare insikt i området. Vi diskuterar dessa mönster och möjligheter för vidare forskning av de resultat vi fått in samt vilka aspekter som anses särskilt viktiga.<br>We live in a world where products and services constantly try to affect our behavior. Data driven information technology for achieving behavior change is a central concept in Personal Informatics, a class of tools for assisting individuals in collecting and reviewing personally relevant information in self-reflective purposes, as well as Persuasive Design, which concerns the underlying factors behind motivating users into action and designing to achieve this. Despite these similarities in focus, these areas are partly researched as different fields. Because of the common grounds between the research areas, we believe an overview of the research literature concerning both Personal Informatics and Persuasive Design is important. For this reason we have performed a literature study so that we, in an organized manner, can present the aspects which are studied as well as insights highlighted by scientists in the area. We discuss patterns and possibilities for future research by the results we have collected as well as which aspects are considered especially important.
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Ahlström, Per Berg Martin Winberg Adam. "Learning and knowledge sharing in a networking environment : an ethnographic study of mobile knowledge workers : [master thesis in Informatics] /." Göteborg : Dept. of Informatics, Göteborg Univ. and Chalmers Univ. of Technology, 2003. http://www.ituniv.se/w/index.php?option=com_itu_thesis&Itemid=319.
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Edman, Anneli. "Combining Knowledge Systems and Hypermedia for User Co-operation and Learning." Doctoral thesis, Uppsala : Dept. of Information Science [Institutionen för informationsvetenskap], Univ, 2001. http://publications.uu.se/theses/91-506-1526-2/.
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Grau, Ron. "The acquisition and representation of knowledge about complex multi-dynamic processes." Thesis, University of Sussex, 2009. http://sro.sussex.ac.uk/id/eprint/15370/.
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This thesis is concerned with the acquisition, representation, modelling and discovery of knowledge in ill-structured domains. In the context of this work, these are referred to as domains that involve "complex multi-dynamic (CMD) processes". A CMD process is an abstract concept for thinking about combinations of different processes where any specification and explanation involves large amounts of heterogeneous knowledge. Due to manifold cognitive and representational problems, this particular knowledge is currently hard to acquire from experts and difficult to integrate in process models. The thesis focuses on two problems in the context of modelling, discovery and design of CMD processes, a knowledge representation problem and a knowledge acquisition problem. The thesis outlines a solution by drawing together different theoretical and technological developments related to the fields of Artificial Intelligence, Cognitive Science and Computer Science, including research on computational models of scientific discovery, process modelling, and representation design. An integrative framework of knowledge representations and acquisition methods has been established, underpinning a general paradigm of CMD processes. The framework takes a compositional, collaborative approach to knowledge acquisition by providing methods for the decomposition of complex process combinations into systems of process fragments and the localisation of structural change, process behaviour and function within these systems. Diagrammatic representations play an important role, as they provide a range of representational, cognitive and computational properties that are particularly useful for meeting many of the difficulties that CMD processes pose. The research has been applied to Industrial Bakery Product Manufacturing, a challenging domain that involves a variety of physical, chemical and biochemical process combinations. A software prototype (CMD SUITE) has been implemented that integrates the developed theoretical framework to create novel, interactive knowledge-based tools which are aimed towards ill-structured domains of knowledge. The utility of the software workbench and its underlying CMD Framework has been demonstrated in a case study. The bakery experts collaborating in this project were able to successfully utilise the software tools to express and integrate their knowledge in a new way, while overcoming limits of previously used models and tools.
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Revia, Ilia. "Knowledge Transfer within ERP Implementations : A Phenomenological Investigation." Thesis, Jönköping University, JIBS, Business Informatics, 2007. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hj:diva-864.
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<p>Background</p><p>The importance of Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) systems is that they redesign organizational processes and structure. The new knowledge embedded in the ERP systems induces substantial changes in the businesses which adopt ERP systems. Furthermore, ERP implementations are socially complex and knowledge-intensive activities as several companies may be involved in a single ERP project and intensive knowledge transfer among these companies is vital for the success of the implementation projects.</p><p>Purpose</p><p>To date limited amount of research has been performed in the area of knowledge transfer in ERP implementations. My study answered the following questions:</p><p>1. What is the effect of the transfer of knowledge that is associated with ERP implementations?</p><p>2. What (if any) knowledge transfer barriers have been identified during the ERP implementation process?</p><p>3. What types of activities did the firms initiate to enable the knowledge transfer during the ERP implementation process?</p><p>Method</p><p>My research consisted of theoretical and empirical parts. Theoretical part entailed a thorough review of current literature on the ERP systems and knowledge management. Adopting a phenomenological approach I next collected the primary data through interviews and surveys with experts in the ERP implementation projects.</p><p>Results</p><p>I have described the area of knowledge transfer within ERP implementation projects and identified connections between ERP implementations and organizational learning. I have also uncovered and analyzed the origins of a number of factors that potentially inhibit or enable the knowledge transfer within implementation projects. I was able to connect the theoretical part of the thesis with empirical data and gained a comprehensive understanding of the phenomena at hand. Major barriers to the knowledge transfer stem from the tacit nature of the knowledge itself and the lack of social relationships within the various stakeholders. Activities organizations engage in are ‘knowledge conversion’ and relationships facilitation within the project team.</p>
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Annesley, James Alexander Grove. "An investigation into the generation, encoding and retrieval of CCTV-derived knowledge." Thesis, Kingston University, 2008. http://eprints.kingston.ac.uk/21729/.
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Modern video surveillance systems generate diverse forms of data and to facilitate the effective exchange of these data a methodical approach is required. This thesis proposes the Video Surveillance Content Description Interface (VSCDI), a component of ISO/IEC 23000-10 - Information technology - Multimedia application format (MPEG-A) - Part 10: Video surveillance application format. The interface is designed to describe content associated with and generated by a surveillance system. In particular, a set of descriptors are included for: content-based image retrieval; user-defined Classification Schemes to impose any required description ontology; and to provide consistent descriptions across multiple sources. The VSCDI is evaluated using comparisons with other meta-data frameworks and in terms of the performance of its colour descriptor components. Two new data sets are created of pedestrians in indoor environments with multiple camera views for re-identification experiments. The experiments use a novel application of colour constancy for cross-camera comparisons. Two evaluation measures are used: the Average Normalised Mean Retrieval Rate (ANMRR) for ranked estimates; and the Information Gain metric for probabilistic estimates. Techniques are investigated for using more than one descriptor both to provide the estimate and to represent a person whose image is split into Top and Bottom clothing components. The re-identification of pedestrians is discussed in the context of providing both a coherent description of the overall scene activity and within an embedded system.
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Pretorius, Jaco. "A Work System Theory Approach to the Study of Knowledge Integration : the University of Pretoria." Thesis, University of Pretoria, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/2263/58983.
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Industries, as well as the governments of the world, scrutinise higher education institutions. Although Higher Education is the most stable of all the educational levels, the demand for greater relevance of these institutions in today’s society is a matter of certainty. South Africa’s economy is strongly dependent for its growth on finance, real estate and business services. This fast growing sector demands a knowledge-based economy for sustainable growth. In order to stay relevant and to be sustainable, research is imperative. The new responsibility to produce more research has led to a transition phase that puts universities constantly on the defence. This study considers the effect of producing more and more research and the race to be the top research university in South Africa. Challenges are numerous, including Government’s pressure on universities be more independent of state funds.
The University of Pretoria serves as exemplar to study the effect and consequences of the transition from a knowledge management perspective. The researcher implemented the Work System Theory of Steven Alter to analyse the elements of the research work system. The study has been conducted on two levels: The Research Information Management System (RIMS) database of the Department of Research and Innovation Support (DRIS) was analysed to obtain a broad overview of the research conducted by University of Pretoria researchers between 2006 and 2009. On the second level, the top researchers from faculties on the main campus were identified and interviewed during 2014 and 2015 in order to obtain an individual perspective. The findings and gap analysis showed that although the University of Pretoria is considered one of the top research institutions, many gaps exist that inhibit the dissemination of knowledge throughout organisations and that changes need to be implemented. The fields of Economic Geography and Information Systems were applied to get a better understanding of knowledge integration in the knowledge management field. The study culminated in a research framework derived from strategic, tactical and operational input by top researchers. Aspiring researchers can use the framework to understand the environment in which research needs to take place and to improve their personal strategies to enhance their research output.<br>Thesis (DPhil)--University of Pretoria, 2017.<br>Geography, Geoinformatics and Meteorology<br>DPhil<br>Unrestricted
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Dingsøyr, Torgeir. "Knowledge Management in Medium-Sized Software Consulting Companies." Doctoral thesis, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Faculty of Information Technology, Mathematics and Electrical Engineering, 2002. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:no:ntnu:diva-196.
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Almuhairi, Khamis. "Strategic Ontological Police Force Knowledge Management Framework (SOPFKMf)." Thesis, Kingston University, 2016. http://eprints.kingston.ac.uk/35590/.
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This study proposes the implementation of a Strategic Ontological Police Force Knowledge Management Framework with the Dubai Police Force. Recent research in knowledge management has reiterated the potential benefits of effective knowledge management in both public and private sector organisations. Effective knowledge management allows organisations to accrue rewards such as increased productivity, enhanced performance, and competitive advantage. However, the process of transitioning to new models and frameworks of knowledge management can pose a number of difficulties, particularly within organisations that have entrenched managerial practices. This study posits that the implementation of an effective knowledge management strategy must take into account the cultural and administrative specificity of the organisation, and the wider socio-cultural context in which it operates, in order to ensure that an appropriate framework is devised. The core characteristics of the proposed Knowledge Management framework of the Dubai Police Force must be one where the organisational structure first and foremost permits transparency and an avenue stream for sharing knowledge. This framework must enhance common understanding within the organisation hence ontology is utilised to capture this. New technology must be shared amongst all levels within the organisation and training at all levels is required to be homogenous. The thesis finds that knowledge sharing within the Dubai Police Force to be largely absent with a degree of apathy amongst staff members. Further, the findings show the staff to be unaware of the nature to which knowledge sharing could benefit the police force in the long run. There was also an attitude whereby staff members concentrated on their own particular tasks, goals and achievements and not those of other individuals, which if noted, would be to the benefit of the organisation. The thesis found that the entire infrastructure lacked cooperation at all levels to the detriment of the entire police force. In light of the knowledge framework and contribution, the recommendations serve to consider how people, cultures and technology interact to create a strategy for knowledge transfer within the institution rather than an environment consisting of workers the knowledge management technologies should ensure a process that includes personal development contributing to the overall organisation and training programmes.
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Zurawski, Maciej. "An infrastructure mechanism for dynamic ontology-based knowledge infrastructures." Thesis, University of Edinburgh, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/1842/3291.
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Both semantic web applications and individuals are in need of knowledge infrastructures that can be used in dynamic and distributed environments where autonomous entities create knowledge and build their own view of a domain. The prevailing view today is that the process of ontology evolution is difficult to monitor and control, so few efforts have been made to support such a controlled process formally involving several ontologies. The new paradigm we propose is to use an infrastructure mechanism that processes ontology change proposals from autonomous entities while maintaining user-defined consistency between the ontologies of these entities. This makes so called semantic autonomy possible. A core invention of our approach is to formalise consistency constraints as so called spheres of consistency that define 1) knowledge regions within which consistency is maintained and 2) a variable degree of proof-bounded consistency within these regions. Our infrastructure formalism defines a protocol and its computational semantics, as well as a model theory and proof theory for the reasoning layer of the mechanism. The conclusion of this thesis is that this new paradigm is possible and beneficial, assuming that the knowledge representation is kept simple, the ontology evolution operations are kept simple and one proposal is processed at a time.
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Scarrott, Connie Elizabeth. "Explorations of knowledge management in a defence engineering environment." Thesis, Bournemouth University, 2003. http://eprints.bournemouth.ac.uk/300/.
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This thesis originates from first hand early experiences of the researcher regarding current processes and practices in operation in BAE SYSTEMS Ltd (now referred to hereafter as `the Company'), and recognises the potential for improvement within the realm of knowledge management. The huge volume of internal and external information overwhelms the majority of organisations and knowledge management provides solutions to enable organisations to be effective, efficient, and competitive. The software agent approach and information retrieval technique indicates great potential for effectively managing information. This research seeks to answer the questions of whether software agents can provide the Company with solutions to the knowledge management issues identified in this inquiry and whether they can also be used elsewhere within the organisation to improve other aspects of the business. The research analysis shows that software agents offer a wide applicability across the Company; can be created with relative ease and can provide benefits by improving the effectiveness and efficiency of processes. Findings also provided valuable insight into human-computer-interface design and usability aspects of software agent applications. The research deals with these questions using action research in order to develop a collaborative change mechanism within the Company and a practical applicability of the research findings in situ. Using a pluralistic methodology the findings provide a combination of the subjective and objective views intermittently within the research cycles thereby giving the researchera more holistic view of this research. Little attention has been paid to integrating software agent technologies into the knowledge management processes.This research proposes a software agent application that incorporates: (1) Co-ordination of software agents for information retrieval to manage information gathering, filtering, and dissemination; (2) To promote effective interpretation of information and more efficient processes;(3) Building accurate search profiles weighted on pre-defined criteria; (4) Integrating and organising a Company resource management knowledge-base; (5) Ensuring that the right information gets to the right personnel at the right time; and (6) So the Company can effectively assign the right experts to the right roles within the Company.
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Schumann, Eriksson Viktoria. "Technology enabling project managers’ knowledge sharing: the case of Microsoft Teams." Thesis, Linnéuniversitetet, Institutionen för informatik (IK), 2020. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:lnu:diva-97566.
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Contemporary organizations frequently employ projects to leverage work across organizational units, utilizing specialized knowledge from different niches of the organization to meet specific quality criteria in a defined time period, at a set cost. Project managers are integral to driving the success, often acting as hubs of knowledge both at the core within projects and towards the rest of an organization, as well as over time. To realize this, project managers increasingly make use of technology to aid their knowledge sharing and drive digitalization in daily work, often with aspects of remote work to consider. To date little is known in how far a technology, and especially more recent technology, support this critical aspect of knowledge sharing as part of project management. Thus, an interpretive qualitative approach was used to explore and interpret the ways in which a recent technology supports project managers’ knowledge sharing. Data were collected by means of semi-structured interviews with project managers who already use such a technology in their work, for which the 3 C’s approach of analysis was used to generate 6 concepts based on the data. The concepts were then reviewed in context of the research questions and the selected theoretical framework, including the informatics domain model by Beynon-Davies. Thus, a discussion of the findings in this context revealed that according to the project managers’ perceptions in the chosen research setting, such a technology largely enables knowledge sharing activities in the daily work, both presenting new opportunities to do so more efficiently as well as leading to more challenges. It seems that the introduction of, or increased used of, the technology is changing not only the modus of knowledge sharing but also individuals’ way of working with regards to knowledge sharing: what, when and how knowledge is shared. However, whether such a change is perceived as positive or negative by an individual project manager draws upon a range of factors such as technical proficiency, duration of use to date as well as personal preferences regarding structure and organization of their work. That said, the technology is supporting the daily knowledge sharing activities of project managers in so far that those who have made a full transition to the technology, all employ it on a daily basis and in a range of knowledge sharing activities.
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Zhuang, Chenyi. "Location Knowledge Discovery from User Activities." Kyoto University, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/2433/227660.
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Rudlid, Patrick, and Sandra Johansson. "Knowledge Management : En modell för hur kunskap kan identifieras och överföras." Thesis, Linnaeus University, School of Computer Science, Physics and Mathematics, 2010. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:lnu:diva-6999.
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<p>Att hantera kunskapen inom organisationer blir allt viktigare för att kunna förbättra den organisatoriska konkurrenskraften. Detta kan bland annat uppnås genom ett ökat utnyttjande av kunskapskapitalet. Kunskapskapitalet brukar vanligtvis handla om att utforska tacit kunskap, det vill säga den kunskapen som finns i de anställdas sinnen.</p><p>Från år 2010 och fyra år framåt förväntas en stor utmarsch av 40-talister från den svenska arbetsmarknaden. Detta kommer att få konsekvenser på arbetsplatserna. Konsekvenserna kommer bland annat att bli i form av underskott i kunskapskapitalet.</p><p>Syftet med uppsatsen är ta fram en modell som illustrerar hur kunskap kan identifieras och överföras. För att kunna besvara syftet har en abduktiv ansats och en kvalitativ datainsamlingsmetod använts i studien. Totalt har två observationer och fyra intervjuer genomförts. Studien har genomförts på fallföretaget Electrolux Laundry Systems i Ljungby och datainsamlingen har skett inom enheten Hydraulpressningsgruppen.</p><p>I studien kommer begreppet kunskap och dess olika typer att redas ut. Vidare kommer det beskrivas hur kunskap kan identifieras, konverteras och överföras.</p><p>Vi har utformat en analys som är baserad på den teoretiska referensramen. Analysen är utformad för att spegla syftet och problembakgrunden i studien. Den bygger på tre övergripande delar, kunskapsbegreppet, kunskapsidentifiering och kunskapsöverföring.</p><p>Resultatet av studien är en modell som skapar en förståelse för hur kunskapsidentifiering och kunskapsöverföring kan gå till. Studien har även kommit fram till att det finns hinder som kan försvåra en effektiv kunskapshantering.</p><br><p>Managing knowledge is becoming increasingly important to improve the organizational competitiveness. This can be achieved by a greater use of the knowledge capital. This usually means to explore the tacit knowledge which exists in the minds of the employees. In Sweden, from 2010 and four years onwards, a great walkout is expected among the people being born in the 40s.</p><p>The purpose of this essay is to create a model that illustrates how knowledge can be identified and transferred.</p><p>The methodology used in this study aims to attain the purpose by using a qualitative method in which interviews and observations are combined.</p><p>The study has been carried out at the case company, Electrolux Laundry Systems in Ljungby, Sweden.</p><p>The authors have developed an analysis which is based on the theoretical framework. This analysis consists of three main parts, knowledge identification, knowledge transfer and a model for knowledge management.</p><p>The conclusion in this essay is a model that creates an understanding of how knowledge can be identified and transferred. The study also found that there are obstacles that might constrain an effective knowledge management.</p>
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Abeysinghe, Geetha Kalyani. "Event calculus to support temporal reasoning in a clinical domain." Thesis, University of Southampton, 1993. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.238888.
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Jadhav, Ashutosh. "Knowledge Driven Search Intent Mining." Wright State University / OhioLINK, 2016. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=wright1464464707.
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Radovanovic, Aleksandar. "Concept Based Knowledge Discovery from Biomedical Literature." Thesis, Online access, 2009. http://etd.uwc.ac.za/usrfiles/modules/etd/docs/etd_gen8Srv25Nme4_9861_1272229462.pdf.
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Barmé, David, and Tor Hammargren. "E-learning inom franchise : Ett verktyg för utbildning och erfarenhetsutbyte." Thesis, Jönköping University, JIBS, Business Informatics, 2007. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hj:diva-799.
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<p>Utbildning och erfarenhetsutbyte inom franchise är ett lagstadgat krav och nyckelfaktorer för en fungerande och framgångsrik franchiseverksamhet. Franchisegivare försöker därför ständigt förbättra utbildningen och erfarenhetsutbytet och frågan är om e-learning kan vara ett lämpligt verktyg för detta. Denna uppsats syfte är att undersöka möjligheten att komplettera utbildningen av franchisetagare och erfarenhetsutbytet mellan franchisegivare och franchisetagare med e-learning. Vidare att presentera en rekommendation för den mest lämpliga e-learningplattformen. För att uppfylla syftet valde vi att kartlägga hur utbildningen och erfarenhetsutbytet går till idag och vilken kunskap som förmedlas, intresset för att komplettera dessa aktiviteter med e-learning samt vilken e-learningplattform som är lämplig för detta. Genom att intervjua sex franchisegivare i detaljhandelsbranschen på ett kvalitativt sätt avser vi besvara dessa frågor. I analysen av intervjuerna har vi använt oss av addiemodellen som är en beprövad modell för att kartlägga typer av kunskap och vilken e-learningplattform som är lämplig.</p><p>Utifrån intervjuerna kom det fram att samtliga franchisegivare var intresserade av att komplettera nuvarande utbildning av nya franchisetagare med hjälp av e-learning. Det framkom även att franchisegivarnas utbildningsförfarande liknande varandra. Vidare visade det sig att en Web based training (WBT) lösning med fokus på att förmedla cognitive skills som är memoriserbar kunskap vore lämpligast för att komplettera nuvarande förfarande. Det framkom även att e-learning endast kan vara ett komplement eftersom praktiska och fysiska moment i utbildningen är nödvändiga för att lära ut övriga kunskapstyper i utbildningsförfarandet. Utifrån intervjuerna framkom det att samtliga franchisegivare var intresserade av att komplettera erfarenhetsutbytet mellan franchise-givaren och franchisetagarna med hjälp av e-learning och förfarandet för detta var väldigt liknande varandra och förmedlade kunskap som är möjlig att förmedla med hjälp av e-learning. Vidare visade det sig att en Web asynchronous classroom (WAC) lösning med fokus på att stödja förmedling av cognitive skills som är analyserande och utvärderande kunskap vore lämpligast för att komplettera nuvarande förfarande. Franchisegivarna nämnde även önskemål om en forum funktion vilket WAC kan tillgodose. Det framkom även att e-learning endast kan vara ett komplement eftersom det endast var en av kunskapstyperna som var aktuell att förmedla med hjälp av e-learning, franchisegivarna påpekade även att det var viktigt att mötas fysiskt och socialisera.</p><p>Vår rekommendation till franchisegivare är att införa en WBT lösning med kompletterande WAC funktioner i form av ett chattrum eller ett forum. Det finns ett behov och ett intresse bland franchisegivare att använda e-learning.</p><br><p>Education and exchange of experience within franchise is a key factor for a successful business and are also legally regulated. Therefore franchisors try to improve their educa-tion and exchange of experience. The question is if education and the exchange if information can be improved by the use of e-learning. The purpose of this thesis is to investigate the possibility to complement education and exchange of experience with e-learning. Further to present an recommendation of the most suitable e-learningplatform. To fulfil the purpose we have chosen to investigate and describe how education and exchange of experience occur today and what type of knowledge that is transferred and if there is any interest of implementing e-learning to complement these activities. By conducting qualitative interviews with six franchisors within the retail trade business we will answer those questions. To analyze the interviews we have used the Addiemodell which is a proved model to investigate which type of knowledge that are teached and which e-learning platform that are most suitable.</p><p>Based on the interviews all franchisors have an interest in complementing their education of new franchisees by e-learning. The education do not differ that much from company to company, their way of conducting education are quite similar. The most suitable solution is Web Based Training (WBT) with a focus on cognitive skills that are memorisable. It is very evident that e-learning just can be a complement since it is very important to meet and to interact directly and it is for that reason some knowledge can not be transferred electronically.</p><p>All franchisors are interested in complementing their exchange of experience by using e-learning. The ways experience is exchanged are quite the same if you compare the compa-nies and all franchisors communicate knowledge that is suitable for e-learning purposes. The most suitable solution is Web Asynchronous Classroom (WAC) that focuses on com-municating cognitive skills which is evaluating and analyzing activities. A WAC solution supports a chat room or forum which is suitable for exchange of experience. All franchi-sors mentioned the importance of meeting face to face when exchanging knowledge and experience, but they also mentioned that e-learning will improve these activities as a complement.</p><p>Our recommendation is to implement a WBT solution combined with WAC functions such as chat rooms and forum. There is a need and interest among franchisors to use e-learning.</p>
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Persson, Slumpi Thomas. "Making the Systemically Desirable Culturally Feasible : Towards the Integration of Gender-Knowledge into Informatics Study Programs." Doctoral thesis, Mittuniversitetet, Institutionen för informationsteknologi och medier, 2011. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:miun:diva-13337.
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This dissertation scrutinizes the problem domain of gender-knowledge integration into Swedish higher education study programs in informatics. This integration has been expressed as desirable by for example the Swedish government, individual universities and university colleges and the student union alike. In Swedish informatics study programs however, gender-knowledge seems to have been integrated to a limited extent and there is a dearth of research in this area as well. This indicates that gender-knowledge has so far only to a limited extent been recognized as important for Swedish informatics study programs. The purposes of this research is to 1) increase the insight of managers and developers of informatics study programs into the potential of gender-knowledge to enrich informatics as a subject; and to 2) inspire commitment and provide a means for the design of informatics study programs in which gender-knowledge is integrated. The overarching research question for this project is: What are the crucial challenges for a successful integration of gender-knowledge into Swedish informatics study programs? To address the overarching research question, several studies have been conducted through scrutinizing documents like articles, reports, evaluations and syllabuses, as well as listening to the accounts of experiences of the gender-knowledge integration process communicated by lecturers, PhD students and study program coordinators following a hermeneutic research approach. The results of these studies indicate that the process of integrating gender-knowledge is challenging and that there is a need of support for getting the process up and running. For this, a guide that identifies different important questions to be addressed related to challenge categories like knowledge, organization, pedagogical, and resistance has been developed. The knowledge challenge seems to be particularly challenging hence special attention is paid to the development of a basic theoretical gender-knowledge base that, along with some concrete examples on how the basic theoretical gender-knowledge base, could be integrated into areas of concern for informatics study programs. The different types of support suggested above should be considered food for thought and perhaps pointers of where to start looking. After all, only the local informatics community can integrate gender-knowledge into a study program in an enriching way thus making the systemically desirable culturally feasible.
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Hagman, Anna. "The Knowledge- and Adoption Level of Standards for Technical Interoperability among Providers of Healthcare Information Systems." Thesis, KTH, Skolan för teknik och hälsa (STH), 2016. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-190021.
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This thesis was one of the deliverables of StandIN. The purpose of StandIN was to propose a common framework including standards for technical interoperability. The goal of this thesis was to structure and analyze information about the knowledge- and adoption level of the standards among providers of healthcare information systems (HIS's). Moreover, it aimed to evaluate different aspect that might affect the adoption. The target group was providers of HIS's used in Swedish county councils and regions. The information was gathered through a survey and semi-structured interviews, and stored in an Excel database. From the database, Pivot tables and charts were created in order to show the knowledge- as well as adoption level of the different standards. The results were thereafter compared to theory about interoperability and standard adoption. It was clear that the knowledge level varied for the different standards. In addition, the adoption level was very low - except from CCOW and HL7 v2. Least adopted were domain-specific standards. The results also indicated a trend for only adopting parts of standards. Moreover, many providers stated that they performed specific integrations rather than followed common standards. This seemed to be due to the choice of standards being too wide, and the actual adoption not being consistent among the different providers. According to the providers, an introduction of a national framework based on uniform and consistent international standards was an awaited solution to the problem. A future extension of this thesis would be to perform a similar study involving the customers. The database could also be used to do clustered analyses of the adoption state in different county councils and regions. Moreover, it could be used to analyze the development of standard adoption over time.<br>Den här uppsatsen var ett utav delresultaten i StandIN, ett initiativ till att ta fram ett gemensamt ramverk med standarder för teknisk interoperabilitet. Den här uppsatsen syftade till att strukturera och analysera information om kunskaps- och tillämpningsnivån för de tilltänkta standarderna. Målgruppen var leverantörer av vårdinformationssystem som används i Sveriges landsting och regioner. Informationen samlades in genom en enkät samt semi-strukturerade intervjuer, och lagrades sedan i en Excel-databas. Pivot-tabeller och -diagram skapades för att visualisera kunskaps- och tillämpningsnivån, och resultaten jämfördes sedan med teori om interoperabilitet och standardtillämpning. Det var tydligt att kunskapsnivån skilde sig för de olika standarderna. Tillämpningsnivån var generellt sett väldigt låg, bortsett från CCOW och HL7 v2. Minst tillämpade var domänspecifika standarder. Det var också tydligt att centrala leverantörer inte tillämpade samma standarder, vilket troligtvis påverkar de kompletterande systemen. Många leverantörer gjorde snarare specifika integrationer, än följde gemensamma standarder. Anledningen var att valet av standarder var för brett, och att den faktiska tillämpningen av standarder inte var konsekvent mellan olika leverantörer. Enligt leverantörerna skulle ett nationellt ramverk med enhetliga och internationella standarder vara en efterlängtad lösning på problemet. En fortsättning på denna uppsats är att använda databasen till att göra klusteranalyser för tillämpningsnivån av standarder hos system i olika landsting och regioner. Databasen skulle också kunna användas till att analysera utvecklingen av kunskap och tillämpning över tid.<br>StandIN
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Řepík, Martin. "Analýza uplatnění absolventů informatiky FIS VŠE." Master's thesis, Vysoká škola ekonomická v Praze, 2011. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-85160.
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This thesis deals with the analysis of informatics fields of study taught at public universities in the Czech Republic. The aim is to describe degree courses and their comparison with the teaching of informatics at the Faculty of Informatics and Statistics of the University of Economics in Prague. At the end the courses taught at FIS University of Economics in Prague are confronted with the statistics of graduates based on information from a database of personal agency Grafton Recruitment. Based on this are defined recommendations for further improvement of teaching of informatics at FIS University of Economics in Prague.
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Raje, Satyajeet. "ResearchIQ: An End-To-End Semantic Knowledge Platform For Resource Discovery in Biomedical Research." The Ohio State University, 2012. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1354657305.
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Leydesdorff, Loet. "A Sociological Theory of Communication The Self-Organization of the Knowledge-Based Society, pp. 1-25." Universal Publishers, Parkland, Florida, 2003. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/105836.
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Networks of communication evolve in terms of reflexive exchanges. The codification of these reflections in language, that is, at the social level, can be considered as the operating system of society. Under sociologically specifiable conditions, the discursive reconstructions can be expected to make the systems under reflection increasingly knowledge-intensive.
This sociological theory of communication is founded in a tradition that includes Giddens' (1979) structuration theory, Habermas' (1981) theory of communicative action, and Luhmann's (1984) proposal to consider social systems as self-organizing. The study also elaborates on Shannon's (1948) mathematical theory of communication for the formalization and operationalization of the non-linear dynamics.
The development of scientific communications can be studied using citation analysis. The exchange media at the interfaces of knowledge production provide us with the evolutionary model of a Triple Helix of university-industry-government relations. The construction of the European Information Society can then be analyzed in terms of interacting networks of communication. The issues of sustainable development and the expectation of social change are discussed in relation to the possibility of a general theory of communication.
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Dedovic, Melina. "Ett kunskapsöverförande arbetssätt med engagemang som nyckelroll : En studie av hur medarbetare upplever arbetssättet i en utvald process på en fallorganisation." Thesis, Linnéuniversitetet, Institutionen för informatik (IK), 2019. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:lnu:diva-88974.
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Rapporten har undersökt hur tyst och explicit kunskap kan samspela, för att skapa effektiv kunskapsöverföring mellan medarbetare. Fallföretaget som har undersökts, har under lång tid varit medvetna om att arbetssättet i en utvald process på företaget inte fungerar effektivt. Under studien har det bland annat framkommit att det tar olika lång tid att tillämpa proces-sen i olika projekt samt att medarbetare levererar resultat som inte håller samma kvalitet. En kvalitativ studie har genomförts på fallföretaget genom medarbetarintervjuer, i syfte att ta reda på upplevelsen av en enhets arbetssätt, processdokumentation och kommunikation i en process. Det har varit av vikt att undersöka ett medarbetarperspektiv, då detta saknas i tidigare forskning. Tidigare vetenskapliga studier framhäver bland annat undersökningar på hur processer och arbetssätt ska fungera för hela organisationer samt även hur detta påverkar chefer och överordnade, men stipulerar egentligen inget om medarbetarens perspektiv i kun-skapsprocesser. Studiens resultat visar att medarbetare känner sig missnöjda över arbetssättet i processen, då medarbetarnas egna tillvägagångsätt används för att skapa tillfälliga lösningar till upp-komna problem i processen. Det har också visat sig att instruktioner som är tillsatta för processen inte används i det avseendet som de är tilltänkta. De upplevs otydliga och inne-håller för mycket text. Ett annat stort problem som har identifierats är den informella kom-munikationen i processen. Brister i informationsöverföring mellan chefer och medarbetare har resulterat i missförstånd. Medarbetare blir i dagsläget inte involverade i utvecklingsar-bete och upplever också att de tappar engagemang och motivation till att arbeta effektivt i processen. I rapporten återfinns förslag på åtgärder för att skapa effektiv kommunikationsöverföring inom utvald enhet och process och därav bli en mer lärande organisation. Framgången i studien har varit att visa att ett standardiserat Lean-baserat arbetssätt där medarbetarna job-bar likartat, höjer motivation och engagemang. Detta leder till jämnare kvalité i processen och dessutom möjliggör ett arbete med ständiga förbättringar.<br>The report has examined how silent and explicit knowledge can interact, in order to create efficient knowledge transfer between employees. The case company that has been investi-gated has for a long time been aware that the working method in a selected process at the company does not work efficiently. During the study, it has emerged, among other things, that it takes a long time to apply the process to different projects and that employees deliver results that do not meet the same quality. A qualitative study has been carried out on the case company through employee interviews, in order to find out the experience of a unit's working method, process documentation and communication in a process. It has been important to examine an employee perspective, as this is lacking in previous research. Previous scientific studies highlight, among other things, studies on how processes and working methods should work for entire organizations, as well as how this affects managers and superiors, but does not really stipulate anything about the employee's perspective in knowledge processes. The study's results show that employees feel dissatisfied with the way in which the process works, as the employees' own approaches are used to create temporary solutions to problems that arise in the process. It has also been found that instructions added to the process are not used for this purpose as they are intended. They are unclear and contain too much text. Another major problem that has been identified is the informal communication in the pro-cess. Shortcomings in information transfer between managers and co-workers have resulted in misunderstandings. Employees are currently not involved in development work and also feel that they lose commitment and motivation to work effectively in the process. The report contains suggestions for measures to create effective communication transfer within selected unit and process and hence become a more learning organization. The suc-cess of the study has been to show that a standardized Lean-based working method in which employees work similarly increases motivation and consensus. This leads to a more con-sistent quality in the process and enables a work with continuous improvements.
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Giedra, Haroldas. "Proof system for logic of correlated knowledge." Doctoral thesis, Lithuanian Academic Libraries Network (LABT), 2014. http://vddb.library.lt/obj/LT-eLABa-0001:E.02~2014~D_20141230_152734-55494.
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Automated proof system for logic of correlated knowledge is presented in the dissertation. The system consists of the sequent calculus GS-LCK and the proof search procedure GS-LCK-PROC. Sequent calculus is sound, complete and satisfy the properties of invertibility of rules, admissibility of weakening, contraction and cut. The procedure GS-LCK-PROC is terminating and allows to check if the sequent is provable. Also decidability of logic of correlated knowledge has been proved. Using the terminating procedure GS-LCK-PROC the validity of all formulas of logic of correlated knowledge can be checked.<br>Automatinė įrodymų sistema koreliatyvių žinių logikai yra pristatoma disertacijoje. Sistemą sudaro sekvencinis skaičiavimas GS-LCK ir įrodymo paieškos procedūra GS-LCK-PROC. Sekvencinis skaičiavimas yra pagrįstas, pilnas ir tenkina taisyklių apverčiamumo, silpninimo, prastinimo ir pjūvio leistinumo savybes. Procedūra GS-LCK-PROC yra baigtinė ir leidžia patikrinti, ar sekvencija yra išvedama. Taip pat buvo įrodytas koreliatyvių žinių logikos išsprendžiamumas. Naudojant baigtinę procedūra GS-LCK-PROC, visų koreliatyvių žinių logikos formulių tapatus teisingumas gali būti patikrintas.
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Budrevičius, Kęstutis. "CASE veiklos žinių bazės tvarkymo sistema." Master's thesis, Lithuanian Academic Libraries Network (LABT), 2004. http://vddb.library.lt/obj/LT-eLABa-0001:E.02~2004~D_20040531_185528-86298.
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Now in most CASE tools the information collected during the stage of IS cycle analysis is not used to generate the models of the designing stage. Improving CASE systems it is offered to enlarge them with an activity knowledge basis, what becomes an additional source of information to generate project model.
Activity knowledge model created in the department of data systems has been specified and activity setting system has been designed and realized during the work. System design has been conducted using programming appliances: Rational Rose Enterprise Edition 2002, Microsoft Visio Professional 2002.
Use Case model generating algorithms has been created on the grounds of the activity basis.
UCM models storage and software needed for its functioning have been worked out. CASE activity knowledge basis ordering system has been created on the grounds of the activity meta-model worked out in the department of data systems. Realized activity knowledge ordering system is used to extend traditional CASE systems functional possibilities.
Realized CASE activity knowledge basis ordering system (Visual FoxPro 7.0) lets:
To input and adjust activity knowledge – activity elements described on the grounds of work model sequences activity procedures, activity functions, information flow, material flow and users;
To relate activity processes, activity functions, simulate their hierarchy structure;
To make accounts about the content of knowledge basis;
To generate users case... [to full text]
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Nováček, Jiří. "Konkurenceschopnost studijního oboru Informatika." Master's thesis, Vysoká škola ekonomická v Praze, 2011. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-72590.
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The work deals with the competitiveness of degree courses in Informatics. The first part approaches the situation on the market and conditions for graduates of these courses. It follows the latest market trends and shows how this development could affect the study. The work focuses on Informatics at universities in the Czech Republic. The aim is to characterize degree courses and the comparative analysis of the structure of taught knowledge. Individual degree courses are compared with teaching at the University of Economics in Prague and from the analysis comes out strengths and weaknesses of teaching at this school. The analysis results are then confronted with the study of informatics at leading European universities. On the basis of all the comparisons and the differences observed are designed changes to improve the competitiveness of degree courses in Informatics at the University of Economics in Prague.
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Belevičiūtė, Inga, and Inga Belevičiūte. "A system architecture centred on knowledge management processes." Doctoral thesis, Lithuanian Academic Libraries Network (LABT), 2008. http://vddb.library.lt/obj/LT-eLABa-0001:E.02~2008~D_20081121_133824-88348.
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The thesis “A system architecture centred on knowledge management processes” consists of these chapters:
1. Introduction.
2. Knowledge management and knowledge management tools.
3. Analysis of knowledge management systems, their architectures and solutions.
4. A system architecture centred on knowledge management processes.
5. Knowledge management implementations in organizations.
6. General conclusions.
The introduction chapter covers relevance, tasks, object, scientific novelty and practical value of the research, and work approbation in international conferences.
The first chapter presents knowledge management definitions discussed by many authors in academia and industry. To enter into this subject, knowledge determinations and interpretations widely discussed in literature are analysed. Later, tasks which knowledge management solves in organizations and tools which help to put it into practice are discussed.
In the second chapter architectures of knowledge management systems suggested by other researchers in literature are investigated. Thereafter, a classification of them and an investigation of examples of such systems or solutions are made.
After the analysis of knowledge management discipline and existing knowledge management system architectures, an architecture for knowledge management systems which is knowledge management processes centred is suggested in the third chapter. Then, specifications of information and communication technologies which could be used... [to full text]<br>Disertaciją Sistemos architektūra, grindžiamos žinių valdymo procesais sudaro šie skyriai:
1. Įvadas.
2. Žinių valdymas bei žinių valdymo technologijos.
3. Žinių valdymo sistemų ir jų architektūrų analizė.
4. Sistemos architektūra, grindžiamos žinių valdymo procesais.
5. Žinių valdymo sistemos taikymas organizacijose.
6. Bendrosios išvados.
Įvadas apima tyrimo aktualumą, mokslinį naujumą, darbo tikslus ir uždavinius, praktinę tyrimo vertę bei aprobavimą tarptautinėse konferencijose ir seminaruose.
Pirmame skyriuje „Žinių valdymas ir žinių valdymo technologijos“ pateikiamas žinių valdymo sąvokos apibrėžimas, apie kurį diskutuoja daugelis autorių, dirbančių mokslo ir pramonės srityse. Žinių valdymas pradedamas nagrinėti nuo žinių apibrėžimo ir jo interpretavimo, plačiai aptariamo literatūroje. Tuomet pereinama prie priemonių, padedančių įdiegti žinių valdymą praktikoje.
Antrame skyriuje „Žinių valdymo sistemų ir jų architektūrų analizė“ analizuojamos kitų tyrėjų veikaluose siūlomos žinių valdymo sistemų architektūros. Klasifikuojami ir tiriami tokių sistemų arba sprendimų pavyzdžiai, suskirstant juos į komercinius ir atvirojo kodo šaltinius.
Išanalizavus egzistuojančias žinių valdymo sistemų architektūras, trečiame skyriuje „Sistemos architektūra, grindžiamos žinių valdymo procesais“ siūloma žinių valdymo sistemos architektūra, sutelkta į žinių valdymo procesus. Tuomet apibūdinamos informacinės ir komunikacinės technologijos, kurias galima taikyti kiekvienam žinių valdymo... [toliau žr. visą tekstą]
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Nwavulu, Anthony. "Knowledge (Technical Instructions)transfer process: : A Case on Fogmaker AB Sweden." Thesis, Växjö University, School of Mathematics and Systems Engineering, 2009. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:vxu:diva-6230.
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<p>The essence of an effective knowledge transfer process for a technical organization cannot be overemphasized. It does not only translate to its advancement but also improves the learning capacity of the staff in the organization.</p><p>The purpose of this work is to analyze and diagnose the current process of technical knowledge transfer</p><p>It goes further to proffer a suitable model of design process for the technical instructions (which is one form of knowledge that is present in the organization) so as to improve not only the instructional manual but also the processes involved.</p><p>The instructional model is a model gotten from the field of instructional technology (a sub-sect of educational technology) which is used to achieve this feat.</p>
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Björnstad, Pedersen Rune. "Content Management System i intranät : Open Source CMS som intranät." Thesis, Karlstad University, Faculty of Economic Sciences, Communication and IT, 2008. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kau:diva-1451.
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<p>Idag har de flesta företag och organisationer någon form för intranät-lösning. Dessa lösningar kan vara både mer och mindre sofistikerade, men har oftast det samma syfte; att distribuera organisationens information till dess medlemmar.</p><p>Denna uppsats ägnar sig åt intranät och fördjupar sig i ett begrepp som vuxit starkt de senaste åren, nämligen Content Management System (CMS). Jag fokuserar särskilt på val av Open Source CMS, för implementation i mindre organisationers intranät.</p><p>Uppsatsen är ett resultat av omfattande litteraturstudier inom sitt område och bygger främst på vetenskapliga artiklar av ledande experter. Ytterligare en källa är resultatet av en enkätundersökning, som också redovisas i uppsatsen. Denna enkät hade som ändamål, att kartlägga användares attityder till deras CMS-intranät.</p><p>Uppsatsens kanske viktigaste resultat är en redogörelse för hur ett moduliserad CMS-intranät skulle kunna utformas, baserad på bl.a. Knowledge Management-teori, där tyngdpunkten ligger på de personliga referensernas betydelse för en människas tolkning av sin omgivning, och logisk kategorisering av information.</p><br><p>Today, most companies and organizations have some kind of intranet solution. These system solutions vary and tend to be either more or less sophisticated, but the overall purpose remains the same; distributing the organizations information to its members.</p><p>This essay is about intranet-development, and mainly devoted to explore a concept which has grown rapidly in recent years; Content Management System (CMS). I’m particular focusing on how to choose a suitable Open Source CMS, for implementation in a small organizations intranet.</p><p>The essay is the result of vast literature studies, mainly based on scientific articles from leading experts within their field. In addition I have also carried out a survey in a company intranet, in order to investigate the users’ attitude towards their CMS-intranet.</p><p>One of the most important results of the essay is my model of a modularized CMS-intranet, partially based on Knowledge Management-theory and the importance of appropriate references in order to interpret our surroundings, and logical categorization of information.</p>
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Bohada, Jaime John Alexander. "Automatic production and integration of knowledge to the support of the decision and planning activities in medical-clinical diagnosis, treatment and prognosis." Doctoral thesis, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/10803/83519.
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El concepto de procedimiento médico se refiere al conjunto de actividades seguidas por los profesionales de la salud para solucionar o mitigar el problema de salud que afecta a un paciente. La toma de decisiones dentro del procedimiento médico ha sido, por largo tiempo, uno de las áreas más interesantes de investigación en la informática médica y el contexto de investigación de esta tesis. La motivación para desarrollar este trabajo de investigación se basa en tres aspectos fundamentales: no hay modelos de conocimiento para todas las actividades médico-clínicas que puedan ser inducidas a partir de datos médicos, no hay soluciones de aprendizaje inductivo para todas las actividades de la asistencia médica y no hay un modelo integral que formalice el concepto de procedimiento médico. Por tanto, nuestro objetivo principal es desarrollar un modelo computable basado en conocimiento que integre todas las actividades de decisión y planificación para el diagnóstico, tratamiento y pronóstico médico-clínicos.
Para alcanzar el objetivo principal, en primer lugar, explicamos el problema de investigación. En segundo lugar, describimos los antecedentes del problema de investigación desde los contextos médico e informático. En tercer lugar, explicamos el desarrollo de la propuesta de investigación, basada en cuatro contribuciones principales: un nuevo modelo, basado en datos y conocimiento, para la actividad de planificación en el diagnóstico y tratamiento médico-clínicos; una novedosa metodología de aprendizaje inductivo para la actividad de planificación en el diagnóstico y tratamiento médico-clínico; una novedosa metodología de aprendizaje inductivo para la actividad de decisión en el pronóstico médico-clínico, y finalmente, un nuevo modelo computable, basado en datos y conocimiento, que integra las actividades de decisión y planificación para el diagnóstico, tratamiento y pronóstico médico-clínicos.<br>The concept of medical procedure refers to the set of activities carried out by the health care professionals to solve or mitigate the health problems that affect a patient. Decisions making within a medical procedure has been, for a long time, one of the most interesting research areas in medical informatics and the research context of this thesis. The motivation to develop this research work is based on three main aspects: Nowadays there are not knowledge models for all the medical-clinical activities that can be induced from medical data, there are not inductive learning solutions for all the medical-clinical activities, and there is not an integral model that formalizes the concept of medical procedure. Therefore, our main objective is to develop a computable model based in knowledge that integrates all the decision and planning activities for the medical-clinical diagnosis, treatment and prognosis.
To achieve this main objective: first, we explain the research problem. Second, we describe the background of the work from both the medical and the informatics contexts. Third, we explain the development of the research proposal based on four main contributions: a novel knowledge representation model, based in data, to the planning activity in medical-clinical diagnosis and treatment; a novel inductive learning methodology to the planning activity in diagnosis and medical-clinical treatment; a novel inductive learning methodology to the decision activity in medical-clinical prognosis, and finally, a novel computable model, based on data and knowledge, which integrates the
decision and planning activities of medical-clinical diagnosis, treatment and prognosis.
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Nguyen, Tuan, and Olof Bengtsson. "Kunskapsfrämjande systemutveckling : En fallstudie i Bodafors Trä AB." Thesis, Växjö University, School of Mathematics and Systems Engineering, 2007. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:vxu:diva-1078.
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<p>Vad kan man idag begära av ett informationssystem?</p><p>Det står klart att informationssystem ska stödja och ersätta arbetsuppgifter inom företag för att öka effektiviteten eller minska kostnaderna. Men vilka arbetsuppgifter ska ett system klara av att göra lika bra som en människa och hur ska det lyckas göra lika bra bedömningar om vad som bör göras när man möter en svår uppgift, där det kanske verkligen behövs ett bra IT-stöd för att enklare ska klara av situationen?</p><p>Bakgrunden till vårt arbete grundades på en tidigare undersökning en av oss gjort på sågverket där man hade problem med lagerstyrningen. Det rekommenderades då att Bodafors skulle implementera truckdatorer och en grafisk truckmodul för effektivare lagerhantering med hjälp av RFID. Det beslutades då att ett första steg skulle genomföras under hösten med truckdatorer i två av truckarna och en utbyggnad av det befintliga systemet för att truckförarna ska få se en aktuell bild över lagret och utlastningarna som ska ske under veckan.</p><p>Vi kom fram till att SYSteams arbetssätt grundade sig på vattenfallsmodellen som kanske är den mest klassiska modellen för systemutveckling, med sina rötter på 60-talet. Vi konstaterade också att man har mycket att lära av modern Knowledge Management-teori som försöker fånga kompetenser och kunskap hos individer i system för att uppmuntra en företagsmiljö där kunskap delas mellan individerna. Vi sammanställde en serie konkreta råd för systemutvecklare för att bli bättre på att fånga kunskap i en systemutvecklingsmodell med en iterativ utvecklingsprocess som vi kallar för kunskapsfrämjande systemutveckling.</p><br><p>What can be expected of an information system today?</p><p>It stands clear that information systems should support and replace tasks within companies to enhance efficiency and/or reduce costs. But which tasks should we rely on that a system could manage as well as a human being can today? Especially in difficult situations where human experience is put to the test and where we really could use the help of an information system to make the right judgements.</p><p>The background of our essay was based on a former investigation one of us made during the spring of 2006 in the company due to logistic problems in the warehouse. It was then recommended that Bodafors should get truck computers and a graphic truck module for more efficient warehousing alongside with RFID. It was decided that a first step was to be taken during the autumn with computers in two of the trucks and the implementation of a system for trucks for an outline of the actual supply in the warehouse and the current orders to be loaded during the week.</p><p>We reached the conclusion that SYSteams development of TruckSaw was founded on the classic waterfall model, with its roots in the 1960’s. We also learned that developers has alot to learn from modern Knowledge Management theory, with its focus on catching key competence and knowledge within an organisation and the creation of an environment encouraging the sharing of competence and knowledge. With a Knowledge Management driven approach we put together a series of advice for developers to become better at catching knowledge by using a different, iterative approach to developing a system, knowledge promoting system development.</p>
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Bernatavičienė, Jolita. "Methodology of visual knowledge discovery and its investigation." Doctoral thesis, Lithuanian Academic Libraries Network (LABT), 2008. http://vddb.library.lt/obj/LT-eLABa-0001:E.02~2008~D_20080723_095906-47060.
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The research area of the thesis is the process of knowledge discovery from multidimensional data and the ways of improving the perception of the data investigated. Data perception is rather a complex problem, especially when the data refer to complicated object described by many parameters. In order to obtain exhaustive information on the analysed data, their all-round analysis is indispensable the stages of which are defined by the process of knowledge discovery. The object of dissertation research is the process of visual knowledge discovery. The following subjects are directly associated with this subject: formation of a primary set of multidimensional data; algorithms for clusterization, visualization, and classification; evaluation of the results obtained by data mining methods; mapping of a new multidimensional data; decision making and generalization of the knowledge obtained referring to the analysis results. The key target of the thesis is to develop and explore the methodology of knowledge discovery by visual methods that would allow us to increase the efficiency of data analysis. The research results of the work revealed new opportunities of medical (physiological) data analysis.
The dissertation is written in Lithuanian. It consists of 5 chapters, and the list of references. There are 116 pages of the text, 44 figures, 12 tables and
156 bibliographical sources.
The main results of this dissertation were published in 9 scientific papers:
1 article in a journal... [to full text]<br>Disertacijos tyrimų sritis yra žinių gavybos iš daugiamačių duomenų procesas ir tiriamų duomenų suvokimo gerinimo būdai. Duomenų suvokimas yra sudėtingas uždavinys, ypač kai duomenys nurodo sudėtingą objektą, kuris aprašytas daugeliu parametrų. Norint gauti išsamią informaciją apie analizuojamus duomenis būtina kompleksinė jų analizė, kurios etapus apibrėžia žinių gavybos procesas. Disertacijos tyrimų objektas – vizualios žinių gavybos procesas. Su šiuo objektu betarpiškai susiję dalykai: daugiamačių duomenų pirminės aibės suformavimas; klasterizavimo, vizualizavimo ir klasifikavimo algoritmai; duomenų gavybos metodais gautų rezultatų įvertinimas; naujų daugiamačių duomenų atvaizdavimas; sprendimų priėmimas ir gautų žinių apibendrinimas, atsižvelgiant į analizės rezultatus. Pagrindinis disertacijos tikslas yra sukurti ir ištirti žinių gavybos vizualiais metodais metodologiją, kuri leistų padidinti duomenų analizės efektyvumą. Darbe atliktų tyrimų rezultatai atskleidė naujas medicininių (fiziologinių) duomenų analizės galimybes.
Disertaciją sudaro penki skyriai ir literatūros sąrašas. Bendra disertacijos apimtis 116 puslapių, 44 paveikslai ir 12 lentelių.
Tyrimų rezultatai publikuoti 9 moksliniuose leidiniuose: 1 straipsnis leidinyje, įtrauktame į Mokslinės informacijos instituto pagrindinį (Thomson ISI Web of Science) sąrašą; 2 straipsniai leidiniuose, įtrauktuose į Mokslinės informacijos instituto konferencijos darbų (Thomson ISI Proceedings) duomenų bazę; 2 straipsniai... [toliau žr. visą tekstą]
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Beheshti, Mohammad, and Azadeh Bagheri. "Exploitation of Customer Relationship Management (CRM) for Strategic Marketing in Higher Education : Creating a Knowledge-based CRM Framework for Swedish Universities." Thesis, Jönköping University, JIBS, Business Informatics, 2010. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hj:diva-13277.
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<p><strong>Abstract</strong></p><p>Swedish universities have always received greater attention from international students thanks to their well-quality and tuition-free programs. However, due to the introduction of tuition fee for non-EU/EEA students from fall 2011, it is predictable that by raising the threat of losing a rather large portion of international students, Swedish universities may experience a critical period over the early years after this change. This is occurring in an environment in which universities attempt to leverage their tangible and intangible resources for maintaining their competitive niche in the worldwide market. Besides, many universities have moved towards establishing student-centric strategies as a means to achieve a high level of students’ satisfaction and long-lasting relationships. The issue has become so substantial in the recent years that, as Pausits (2007) has also suggested, universities need to transform into “relation-based organizations”.</p><p>To solve this possible problem and in order to help Swedish universities to pass this critical situation safely, this study has conducted a qualitative research on the basis of analysis of the empirical data gathered from a series of semi-structured phone and personal interviews with five Swedish universities that have the most number of international students (Lund, Uppsala, Linköping, Jönköping and Blekinge Universities) with the intense support of previous literature and the theoretical body of the study under investigation which has lead to the creation of a knowledge-based CRM model.</p><p>The main aim of this conceptual CRM model is to systematically organize the operations of building, managing and retaining relationships between Swedish universities and international students. This model has been formed by combination of two theories of CRM, as a business strategy which has been proved to be one the most efficient customer-oriented business approaches within the past decades, and Knowledge Management (KM) as the pivot for effective operation of the proposed CRM framework by providing a constant learning environment.</p>
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Alkahtani, Munahi. "Business organisation knowledge management integrated social ontology (BOKMISO) framework for the telecommunication industry in Saudi Arabia and the Gulf States." Thesis, Kingston University, 2014. http://eprints.kingston.ac.uk/28755/.
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Understanding knowledge management is critical for organisations because the persons concerned are not trained adequately to access, use and benefit from this knowledge effectively. The main problem is that the workers themselves do not understand how to organize and manage a huge amount of knowledge capital has, and the importance of this to improve organizational performance. This research is based on understanding the importance of knowledge management practices and policies within an organisation. This is based on research to understand the importance of knowledge management practices and policies within the organization. This research focuses on building a framework based on the knowledge of social issues within the organization and its impact on business. This research will explore strategies that can be used for organizations in order to integrate this knowledge into their business social benefit from social ontology. To enable this framework, a business organization knowledge management integrated social ontology framework (BOKMISOf) was built with a focus on telecommunications industry in Saudi Arabia and the Gulf states. In order to understand the social aspects of an organisation, a social ontology was developed which was incorporated into the knowledge management framework. The BOKMISO framework was evaluated with case studies, within telecommunication companies, in Saudi Arabia and the Gulf states. The employees of these companies contributed in data collection activity via questionnaire, whereas the managers of these companies contributed via semi-structured interview. Results that were gathered from data collection showed that BOKMISO framework was valid, appropriate, useful and added value to an organisation. Further work can be done to apply the BOKMISOf within other telecommunications companies in Saudi Arabia.
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Larsson, Sara, and Ann-Sofie Nordling. "Kunskapsdelning med en wiki : Undersökning på en IT-avdelning." Thesis, Örebro University, Department of Business, Economics, Statistics and Informatics, 2008. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:oru:diva-6053.
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<p>Bevarande av kunskap är viktig på företag. På olika sätt dokumenteras denna kunskap, ofta med hjälp av olika IT-systemslösningar. Mycket kunskap finns också lagrade inom de människor som finns på ett företag. Ett problem är att få denna kunskap tillgänglig för andra människor.Hur denna lagrade kunskap delas mellan människor har vi undersökt. Vi har i vår undersökning tagit reda på hur kunskapsdelning går till mellan människor på företag. Vi har genomfört en intervju och delat ut enkäter på ett företag som använder en wiki. Till vår hjälp för att utforma frågorna i undersökningen har vi använt oss av Nonaka och Takeuchis SECI- modell som förklarar hur kunskapsdelning sker.Ett sätt att samla kunskap inom företag är att använda sig av en wiki. En wiki är en webbsida där flera personer kan vara delaktiga i att forma dess innehåll. Fördelar med att samla kunskap med en wiki är att de anställdas kunskaper blir tillgänglig för alla, wikin är lätt att uppdatera och sökfunktioner finns. Nackdelar med en wiki är att informationen inte säkert är korrekt eftersom informationen inte kontrolleras. Det kan också vara svårt att veta om det som söks finns på wikin och hur informationen hittas. Ett problem med en wiki är att människor inte alltid bidrar med sin kunskap till den. I resultatet av undersökningen visade det sig att det finns flera olika anledningar för om en person bidrar/ej bidrar med information till wikin. En anledning till att personer bidrar med information till en wiki är att de vill hjälpa sina kollegor. De känner att wikin hjälper dem i deras arbete och vill därför bidra till den. En anledning till att personer inte bidrar är att de inte tycker sig ha någon kunskap att dela med sig av. Andra anledningar är att användarna anser att de inte har tid och tycker det är krångligt att bidra till wikin.</p>