Due to increasing professionalization and specialization in the development of computer and video games new challenges regarding the support of knowledge-intensive activities emerge. This paper aims at sensitizing and systematizing the needs and potentials for continuous integration of knowledge...

This paper proposes X-KIF – a new modeling language intended for implementing large, formal knowledge bases. The language originated from the SUO-KIF language, which has been used for implementing a large family of ontologies based on the Suggested Upper Merged Ontology (SUMO).We address some...

Based on an analysis of existing tools and approaches and literature from the areas of design and cognitive science, we identify a set of functional requirements to be met by diagrammatic knowledge mapping techniques and tools in order to be cognitively adequate for extensive personal knowledge...

Knowledge necessary for the creation of business process models is distributed, consists of different types, and expresses different levels of abstraction. Its acquisition and collection into a common knowledge base, which implies integration into a single model, is the goal of the approach we...

Determining fields of excellence in the know-how of knowledge intensive companies is often a crucial decisional process, aimed e.g., at identifying the competence to be strengthened or to invest on in a long term strategy. In this paper we propose a semantic-based approach for automatic...