Exploiting the Features of ISO GPS Standards to Enhance a Knowledge-Based Method for Product Redesign and Process Reconfiguration

2008 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ilaria Cristofolini ◽  
Stefano Filippi
Keyword(s):  
Knowledge Structure ◽  
Design Guidelines ◽  
Knowledge Based ◽  
Product Features ◽  
Main Activity

Previous work developed a knowledge-based method named Design GuideLines Collaborative Framework (DGLs-CF), adopted during product redesign and process reconfiguration and aimed at dealing and matching with particular manufacturing and verification technologies, according to ISO GPS concepts. Aim of present work is improving the role of the ISO GPS within the DGLs-CF, not only to raise coherence in terms of concepts, but to gain some important internal and external improvements for the DGLs-CF. The main activity toward achieving this goal is the formalization of DGLs-CF product features by means of the ISO GPS features. The procedure is proposed and the consequences of its application on the elements of the DGLs-CF are evaluated. A case of study as an example of application is also presented. A significant improvement in the DGLs-CF is realized, both in terms of knowledge structure and organization, and in terms of the possibility of interfacing it with other methodologies, tools, and environments.

scholarly journals Abduction for Creative Design

2003 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tetsuo Tomiyama ◽  
Hideaki Takeda ◽  
Masaharu Yoshioka ◽  
Yoshiki Shimomura
Keyword(s):  
Knowledge Structure ◽  
Second Order ◽  
Abductive Reasoning ◽  
Creative Design ◽  
Knowledge Based

While abduction is considered crucial for design in general, this paper focuses on the role of abduction to integrate knowledge assuming that creative design can come from innovative combination of existing knowledge. Based on Schurz’s classification of abductive reasoning, the paper identifies that abduction for integrating theories can be performed by a special type of abduction called second order existential abduction. The paper then analyzes refrigerator design cases to understand how knowledge is used and shows that abduction is indeed central to design. It also discusses that knowledge structure is a key concept in abduction for integration.

scholarly journals New Collaboration through Artefact-Mediated Interaction with a Joint Knowledge Base

2021 ◽  
Vol 19 (2) ◽  
pp. pp180-193
Author(s):  
Marco Bettoni ◽  
Eddie Obeng
Keyword(s):  
Knowledge Base ◽  
Systematic Approach ◽  
Knowledge Structure ◽  
Shared Knowledge ◽  
Knowledge Based ◽  
Social Negotiation ◽  
Individual Knowledge ◽  
Working Together ◽  
The Individual

Collaboration is changing and increasingly emerging as what we call “New Collaboration”, a knowledge-based and community-oriented way of working together (especially digital, online collaboration). Unfortunately, organisations use only a small percentage of the potential of New Collaboration. One main reason for this is that they do not understand that New Collaboration is based on knowledge sharing and requires the individual knowledge of the collaborators to be integrated into a shared knowledge structure, a so-called Joint Knowledge Base (JKB). This concept of a Joint Knowledge Base as the tacit knowledge structure which is constructed, shared and maintained during collaboration, emerged during the course of our previous work and became more and more prominent as a key to collaboration. When a group interacts, the JKB functions as an interaction bridge, and this is why it is a key to collaboration. In this paper, we will revise and elaborate in more detail our concept of a JKB and explain its role in artefact-mediated interaction. First, we will explain the main characteristics of New Collaboration and summarise them based on a concise definition. Secondly, we will introduce the concept of a Joint Knowledge Base, explore the role of social negotiation in constructing it, define the JKB as a distributed knowledge structure, discuss the problem of obstacles which hinder its development and suggest how to solve it by means of gaining deeper insight into the complexity of the involved processes (communication, interaction). And next we will further develop this solution by introducing the concept of boundary artefacts and describing their implementation as tools for artefact-mediated interaction by means of a systematic approach. Finally, we will explain this systematic approach and show how boundary artefacts and artefact-mediated interaction work in practice during meetings performed on a commercially available collaboration platform where they contribute to the construction of a JKB.

“Knowledge-Based Economics” in the Innovative Development of the Construction Sphere

2015 ◽  
Vol 725-726 ◽  
pp. 996-1001
Author(s):  
Galina Tokunova ◽  
Alexander Petrov
Keyword(s):  
Construction Industry ◽  
Competitive Ability ◽  
Scientific Discipline ◽  
Knowledge Based ◽  
Institutional Structures ◽  
The Usa ◽  
Business Structures ◽  
The Government ◽  
Technological Platforms

The increased role of knowledge in the economics, the growth of the role of education and innovations caused the necessity to revise the role of the basic subjects in the market (the government, business structures, universities) and mechanisms of their interaction. The primary importance is now being shifted towards such subjects of innovations as resource centers, innovative businesses, technological platforms, the clusters capable of exerting efficient influence upon the innovations process, which, in its turn, improves the competitive ability of particular spheres of business and entire national economics. This process also influenced the construction industry. The purpose of this research is to analyze the manifestation of the phenomenon of the knowledge-based economics in the construction sphere. The tasks of this research: firstly, to highlight the evolution of the scientific discipline “knowledge-based economics”; secondly, to analyze the efficiency of the phenomenon on the example of the USA, the EC and Russia; thirdly, to analyze the innovative process in the construction sphere; fourthly, to highlight the role of various institutional structures (resource centers, innovative businesses, technological platforms, clusters) for innovative activity in the construction sphere.

The use of acting techniques in career development

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mariya Aleksandrovna Akimenkova
Keyword(s):  
Career Development ◽  
Performing Arts ◽  
Educational Institutions ◽  
Psychotherapeutic Interventions ◽  
The People ◽  
Circle Of Friends ◽  
Main Activity ◽  
The Voice ◽  
And Training

The article shows that in career development, the use of acting techniques opens up new opportunities. The author traces the development of the Russian acting school, created by K.S. Stanislavsky and later revised and supplemented by his students, in the modern socio-economic situation. The article demonstrates that despite the fact that for many years this school was aimed exclusively at educating and training people who want to connect their lives with the theater, it had a significant impact on amateurs as well. Passion for the performing arts was traced among people of a wide variety of professions, which contributed to the creation of numerous amateur theaters. This tendency was especially evident in educational institutions. Pupils and students under the guidance of an experienced director tried to take steps in the stage space, received grateful responses, but continued to be content with the role of an amateur actor, without encroaching on the laurels of a professional. Nevertheless, after that, their main activity, regardless of the direction, moved to a completely different level. Without any psychotherapeutic interventions, the attitude to oneself, to the people around, and to situations changed, the speech apparatus and the timbre of the voice were transformed, phobias and depressive tendencies disappeared. As a result, participants in amateur theaters acquired a new circle of friends and promotions, or they radically changed their field of activity, opening completely new prospects for themselves. The article examines these possibilities in the framework of the modern situation, when the entire range of theater and acting means may be in demand by representatives of other professions.

Design guidelines for thermo-photo-voltaic generator: The critical role of the emitter size

2013 ◽  
Vol 103 ◽  
pp. 618-626 ◽  
Author(s):  
G. Attolini ◽  
M. Bosi ◽  
C. Ferrari ◽  
F. Melino
Keyword(s):  
Critical Role ◽  
Design Guidelines ◽  
Photo Voltaic

TAPPING REGIONAL AND CORPORATE SCIENTIFIC KNOWLEDGE FOR INNOVATION: THE MODERATING ROLE OF SCIENTIFIC KNOWLEDGE DURATION

2015 ◽  
Vol 19 (01) ◽  
pp. 1550001
Author(s):  
OLGA BRUYAKA ◽  
FIONA XIAOYING JI ◽  
LINDA F. TEGARDEN ◽  
DONALD E. HATFIELD ◽  
WILLIAM B. LAMB
Keyword(s):  
Scientific Knowledge ◽  
Moderating Effect ◽  
Knowledge Based ◽  
Business Entities ◽  
Moderating Role

We develop and test how business entities tap regional and corporate scientific knowledge for their innovations in a revolutionary technology. Building on the knowledge-based view of the firm, we argue that while both regional and corporate scientific knowledge may improve a business entity's innovation, it is the business entity's own accumulative research efforts that improve its ability to absorb regional scientific knowledge. In contrast, we expect and find that the longer the entity has been researching the revolutionary technology, the less likely corporate scientific knowledge will impact the focal entity's innovation. Our results support this theory regarding the moderating effect of a business entity's own accumulative research efforts with corporate scientific knowledge but not with regional knowledge. Further, we find different effects between regional scientific knowledge and innovation among single and multi-location firms.

To Design an Effective E-Learning System in the Civil Servants' Job-Training

2010 ◽  
Vol 171-172 ◽  
pp. 523-526
Author(s):  
Fu Lei Zhang
Keyword(s):  
Learning Environment ◽  
Job Training ◽  
Learning System ◽  
Chinese Government ◽  
Educational Training ◽  
Knowledge Based ◽  
E Learning ◽  
Learning Policies ◽  
Uniform Manner

The Chinese government is pursuing e-learning policies which makes job-training with a knowledge-based society. To explain more fully the important role of the e-learning environment, this article undertakes some typical examples of the governments' job-training under e-learning environment. The main problems in servants' job-training in China are the low quantity in the servants' training, short of restriction, the uniform manner in the training and less fairness and availability of opportunities for educational training. In order to develop the e-learning system, the civil servant's job training policies are provided and the measures of the effective e-learning system are designed.

scholarly journals The Nature and Role of User Beliefs Regarding a Website's Design Quality

2020 ◽  
Vol 32 (1) ◽  
pp. 75-96 ◽  
Author(s):  
Camille Grange ◽  
Henri Barki
Keyword(s):  
Information Quality ◽  
Past Research ◽  
Design Guidelines ◽  
Ease Of Use ◽  
Research Model ◽  
System Quality ◽  
Design Quality ◽  
It Acceptance

Researchers and practitioners have long been interested in identifying the criteria that users consider important in assessing whether a system is worth using. However, past research in this domain has not taken into account the characteristics of a system's design and their quality in a systematic and comprehensive manner, which is likely to have limited the development of actionable design guidelines. The article addresses this issue by suggesting a research model that links user beliefs—which have traditionally been used in IT acceptance and success research (i.e., information quality, system quality, usefulness, and ease of use)—to their beliefs regarding the quality of three categories of a system's design (i.e., visual quality, page layout quality, and navigation quality) and testing it in the context of organizational intranets. The analysis of data collected from 159 intranet website users in three organizations supported the model, suggesting that the three categories of design quality beliefs significantly influenced users' assessment of their system's information quality and system quality.

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