A Churchmanian theory of knowledge management system design

Proceedings of the Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences

Volumn 37, Issue , 2004, Pages 3877-3886

  Richardson, Sandra M ^a   Courtney, James F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COGNITIVE SYSTEMS; DATABASE SYSTEMS; DECISION MAKING; INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY; LEARNING SYSTEMS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; STATISTICAL TESTS;

CHURCHMANIAN KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS (CKMS); EMERGENT KNOWLEDGE PROCESSES (EKP); EPISTEMOLOGY; INFORMATION SYSTEMS;

KNOWLEDGE BASED SYSTEMS;

EID: 12344283640     PISSN: 10603425     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/hicss.2004.1265592     Document Type: Conference Paper

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