With the large amount of data stored by many organizations, capitalists have observed that this information is an intangible asset. Unfortunately, handling large databases is a very complex process and traditional learning techniques are expensive to use. Heuristic techniques provide much help...

While the area of Intelligent Support Systems has experienced significant progress in the recent past, the advent of Internet and World Wide Web has sparked a renewed interest in this area. There is a growing interest in developing intelligent systems that would enable users to accomplish...

The Concept of Knowledge Media / Katarina Stanoevska-Slabeva -- Experience with a Functional-Logic Multi-Agent Architecture for Medical Problem Solving / Giordano Lanzola, Harold Boley -- Cross-Fertilizing Logic Programming and XML for Knowledge Representation / Harold Boley -- Four Different...

This book focuses on current cutting-edge research concerning the increasing strategic importance of subsidiary networks to the multinational firm. It combines contributions from three major related areas of inquiry: the changing theoretical conception of networks and the structure of the...

Knowledge management has become oneof the important topics of management(Yen et al., 2001). Knowledge management is aprocess that deals with the creation andutilization of high-level information withinan organization to improve its businessperformance (Gupta et al.

It is a pleasure to introduce this special issueon knowledge-based development. I wouldlike to congratulate the Guest Editor -Professor Francisco Javier Carrillo, Directorfor Knowledge Systems, ITESM, Mexico -for suggesting the topic, commissioning thepapers, and seeing the project through...

This book outlines a number of different tools for mapping strategic knowledge, and thus making knowledge more accessible. Anne Huff and Mark Jenkins have brought leading academics together to: * illustrate the contribution of knowledge mapping to central issues in strategy and organization...

The challenge of management is to create and supply knowledge to sustain organizational performance. This volume adopts a knowledge-based approach that includes the experience of individuals, the routine and processes that define the way of doing things in the organization, as well as the...

This book traces the theoretical explanation for clusters back to the work of classical economists and their more modern disciples who saw economic development as a process involving serious imbalances in the exploitation of resources