Capitalizing on knowledge: A novel approach to crucial-knowledge determination

IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics Part A:Systems and Humans

Volumn 35, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 919-931

  Tseng, Tzu Liang ^a   Huang, Chun Che ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT EL PASO   (United States)

^b NATIONAL CHI NAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Decision making; Issues oriented approach; Knowledge capitalization; Knowledge discovery; Knowledge identification

Indexed keywords

DECISION MAKING; DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEMS; KNOWLEDGE ENGINEERING; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; REQUIREMENTS ENGINEERING;

CRUCIAL KNOWLEDGE REQUIREMENT; ISSUES-ORIENTED APPROACH; KNOWLEDGE CAPITALIZATION; KNOWLEDGE DISCOVERY; KNOWLEDGE IDENTIFICATION;

KNOWLEDGE BASED SYSTEMS;

EID: 27744543735     PISSN: 10834427     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TSMCA.2005.851294     Document Type: Article

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