Balancing codification and personalization for knowledge reuse: A Markov decision process approach

Journal of Knowledge Management

Volumn 17, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 755-772

  Liu, Hongmei ^a   Chai, Kah Hin ^a   Nebus, James F ^b  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^b SUFFOLK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Cost benefit analysis; Decision making; Knowledge management; Knowledge reuse; Knowledge sharing; Markov decision process; Modelling

Indexed keywords

EID: 84884514355     PISSN: 13673270     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/JKM-04-2013-0127     Document Type: Article

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