Knowledge Acquisition Focused Cooperative Development of Bio-ontologies – A Case Study with BIO2Me

2008 ◽  
pp. 258-272 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dominic Mainz ◽  
Ingo Paulsen ◽  
Indra Mainz ◽  
Katrin Weller ◽  
Jochen Kohl ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Knowledge Acquisition ◽  
Cooperative Development

Knowledge acquisition via internet-enabled platforms

2019 ◽  
Vol 36 (1) ◽  
pp. 74-107 ◽  
Author(s):  
Charmaine Glavas ◽  
Shane Mathews ◽  
Rebekah Russell-Bennett
Keyword(s):  
Knowledge Acquisition ◽  
International Business ◽  
Evidence Base ◽  
Business Environment ◽  
Case Study Methodology ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Multiple Case ◽  
Study Methodology ◽  
Flow Of Information

Purpose Technology has profoundly transformed the international business environment, particularly regarding the flow of information and the way in which knowledge is acquired and shared. Yet, the extent of this transformation is still underappreciated. The purpose of this paper is to examine how small and medium-sized enterprise (SME) owner/founders acquire and utilize knowledge for internationalization via internet-enabled platforms. Design/methodology/approach The empirical analysis draws on multiple case study methodology to examine 13 Australian SME owner/founders and the knowledge they acquire from utilization of internet-enabled platforms. Findings The analysis reveals four differing types of internet-enabled experiences: “technical internet-enabled experiences,” “operational internet-enabled experiences,” “functional internet-enabled experiences,” and “immersive internet-enabled experiences.” The findings indicate that internet-enabled experiences can generate both explicit and tacit forms of knowledge for the pre, early and later phases of internationalization. Practical implications The findings provide a structured approach by allowing SMEs to “plot” themselves against the classification of internet-enabled experiences to denote their level of technological involvement, and for discerning the types of knowledge that can be acquired. The findings are particularly helpful for owner/founders, highlighting that internet-enabled platforms are affecting the ways in which knowledge can be acquired and applied to international businesses processes. Originality/value The findings extend the conventional notion of knowledge acquisition for international business by highlighting how information and knowledge can be acquired via internet-enabled platforms. The findings lay the necessary groundwork for building an evidence base and theoretically extending the concept of knowledge acquisition via internet-enabled platforms.

Diagnosing Macroergonomic Problems: A Case Study in the Use of Concept Mapping for TQM Initiatives

1993 ◽  
Vol 37 (12) ◽  
pp. 873-876 ◽  
Author(s):  
Brian S. Zaff ◽  
Edward R. Hughes ◽  
Michael D. McNeese ◽  
Clifford E. Brown ◽  
Maryalice Citera
Keyword(s):  
Knowledge Acquisition ◽  
Concept Mapping ◽  
Graphical Representation ◽  
Team Building ◽  
Mapping Technique ◽  
Total Quality ◽  
Group Setting ◽  
Team Members ◽  
Domain Experts

This paper presents the results from a case study involving the use of concept mapping in a Total Quality Management (TQM) program. Concept mapping is a knowledge acquisition technique that has proven successful in a variety of instances when it was necessary to elicit information directly from domain experts and communicate that information to other individuals needing the information. The concept mapping technique produces, during the course of an interview, a graphical representation that becomes a communications medium through which ideas can be easily shared in a group setting. In TQM programs it may be necessary to elicit detailed information from employees about the nature of their work domain and about the various problems they may be encountering. The success of TQM programs often depends on establishing open lines of communications through which employees can articulate their concerns and upon the ability of TQM team members to uncover hard-to-detect problems. Concept mapping proved successful in the TQM setting. The concept mapping technique facilitated the uncovering of insights that were not obvious to the TQM team during their initial brainstorming sessions or from the use of a survey. In addition it appears that the concept mapping technique has other significant TQM advantages over and above its utility as a knowledge elicitation technique. Concept mapping, not only facilitates user-centered knowledge acquisition, but also appears useful as a means of facilitating team-building.

What online machine learning can do for knowledge acquisition—a case study

1994 ◽  
Vol 6 (4) ◽  
pp. 435-460 ◽  
Author(s):  
Edgar Sommer ◽  
Katharina Morik ◽  
Jean-Michel André ◽  
Marc Uszynski
Keyword(s):  
Machine Learning ◽  
Knowledge Acquisition

Process Fault Diagnosis Based on Process Model Knowledge: Part II—Case Study Experiments

1991 ◽  
Vol 113 (4) ◽  
pp. 627-633 ◽  
Author(s):  
R. Isermann ◽  
B. Freyermuth
Keyword(s):  
Fault Diagnosis ◽  
Knowledge Acquisition ◽  
Knowledge Base ◽  
Process Models ◽  
Normal Operation ◽  
Problem Solution ◽  
Inference Mechanism ◽  
Process Knowledge ◽  
Fault Trees

A computer assisted fault diagnosis system (CAFD) is considered which allows the early detection and localization of process faults during normal operation or on request. It is based on an on-line engineering expert system and consists of an analytical problem solution, a process knowledge base, a knowledge acquisition component and an inference mechanism. The analytic problem solution uses a process parameter estimation, and the detection of process coefficient changes, which are symptoms of process faults. The process knowledge base is comprised of analytical knowledge in the form of process models and heuristic knowledge in the form of fault trees and fault statistics. In the phase of knowledge acquisition the process specific knowledge like theoretical process models, the normal behavior and fault trees is compiled. The inference mechanism performs the fault diagnosis, based on the observed symptoms, the fault trees, fault probabilities and the process history. This is described in Part I. In Part II, case study experiments with a d.c. motor, centrifugal pump, a heat exchanger and an industrial robot show practical results of the model based fault diagnosis.

Mass- and Elite-Based Strategies for Cooperative Development in Wartime Nationalist China: Western Views on the ‘Gung Ho’ Industrial Cooperative Experience

2012 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
pp. 305-327 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jenny Clegg
Keyword(s):  
International Development ◽  
Social Transformation ◽  
Developmental Strategy ◽  
Nationalist Party ◽  
Cooperative Movement ◽  
Self Help ◽  
Cooperative Development ◽  
Cooperative Models

This discussion examines wartime debates over the Chinese Industrial Cooperatives’ (CIC) ‘Gung Ho’ movement. The CIC experience provides a distinctive case study of mobilisation in Nationalist China at war, endeavouring to extend the momentum of the ‘great industrial migration’, as a force for social transformation, from the inland cities to the countryside. CIC was also to become a focus for overseas support for China’s resistance against Japanese invasion. The discussion reveals differences over elite- and mass-based strategies for cooperative development as revealed from Western inputs into the CIC debates, at the same time noting different ways in which foreigners sought to strengthen relations with wartime China. While CIC’s promoters reached beyond philanthropism towards a pragmatic solidarity, cooperative experts from the emerging international development community sought universal formulations for overseas assistance, advocating adherence to Western cooperative models, and reinforcing an elitist emphasis on expertise. CIC was to fall far short of its ambitions for a people’s cooperative movement as a permanent force for China’s democratic future. Here it is argued that under combined pressures of Guomindang (Nationalist Party, Kuomintang) statism and Western neocolonialism, CIC’s distinctive developmental strategy, based on the mobilisation of workers in cooperative self-help, was never allowed to fulfil its potential.

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