Constructs a knowledge‐based simulation model for job shop scheduling simulation techniques to build the initial status of the knowledge base. Uses the simulation experiments to study the effect of technological factors, such as machine loading conditions and criteria of scheduling performance...

Explores the question of how specialist expertise is related to the organizational decision‐making process. This relationship is seen as an important issue in the integration of HRM with corporate strategy, and as having implications for HRM concerns with organizational and career structure,...

In the current global competitive environment, if an organization is to be successful, it has to be a learning organization. Organizations learn from their assertive and adaptive interaction with the environment and from their internal dynamics. Organizational learning needs to be supported as...

Marketing knowledge and expertise are a critical corporate resource for carrying out strategic decision making that supports marketing functions. Intelligent marketing information systems (IMkIS) can offer a way for marketing managers to share knowledge and expertise. Such sharing could help...

Strategic marketing planning is a complex task which involves many expert judgements. Expert systems would have a tremendous impact in this field, but the development of marketing expert systems has proven to be difficult. Describes a hybrid expert system, HYMS, for strategic marketing planning....

Prototype patterns and pattern diagnostic characteristics have been proposed in a previous article. Simulation results based on the prototypes and the diagnostic characteristics have also been presented as a justification for the study. Outlines a methodology, with three major components, which...

Increasing utilization of expert systems in organizations has ecessitated development of large‐scale expert systems that deal with complex problem domains requiring handling of large knowledge bases. Adapts the concepts and structures of open information systems to outline a conceptual...

Investigates the possibility of applying artificial intelligence to solve practical auditing problems faced by the public sector, namely the tax auditor of the Internal Revenue Services, when targeting firms for further investigation. Suggests that organizations which incorporate an operational...

Even for a personnel specialist, the production of a person specification for a specific managerial job is a difficult task. The knowledge requirements for this task are not well structured, nor are the procedures to be followed well defined. Yet such tasks are increasingly being delegated to...