Facilitating knowledge sharing in organizations: Semiautonomous agents that learn to gather, classify, and distribute environmental scanning knowledge.

Evaluating patterns of indicators is often the first step an organization takes in scanning the environment. Not surprisingly, the experts that evaluate these patterns are not equally adept across all disciplines. While one expert is particularly skilled at recognizing the potential for political tu...

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Main Author: Elofson, Gregg Steven.
Other Authors: Nunamaker, J. F.
Language:en
Published: The University of Arizona. 1989
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10150/184743
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spelling ndltd-arizona.edu-oai-arizona.openrepository.com-10150-1847432015-10-23T04:30:10Z Facilitating knowledge sharing in organizations: Semiautonomous agents that learn to gather, classify, and distribute environmental scanning knowledge. Elofson, Gregg Steven. Nunamaker, J. F. Sheng, Olivia Chang, Yih-Long Daniel, Terry Garrett, Miller Marketing research. Expert systems (Computer science) Information storage and retrieval systems. Evaluating patterns of indicators is often the first step an organization takes in scanning the environment. Not surprisingly, the experts that evaluate these patterns are not equally adept across all disciplines. While one expert is particularly skilled at recognizing the potential for political turmoil in a foreign nation, another is best at recognizing how Japanese government de-regulation is meant to complement the development of some new product. Moreover, the experts often benefit from one another's skills and knowledge in assessing activity in the environment external to the organization. One problem in this process occurs when the expert is unavailable and can't share his knowledge. And, addressing the problem of knowledge sharing, of distributing expertise, is the focus of this dissertation. A technical approach is adapted in this effort--an architecture and a prototype are described that provide the capability of capturing, organizing, and delivering the knowledge used by experts in classifying patterns of qualitative indicators about the business environment. Using a combination of artificial intelligence and machine learning techniques, a collection of objects termed "Apprentices" are employed to do the work of gathering, classifying, and distributing the expertise of knowledge workers in environmental scanning. Furthermore, an archival case study is provided to illustrate the operations of an Apprentice using "real world" data. 1989 text Dissertation-Reproduction (electronic) http://hdl.handle.net/10150/184743 702670165 9000123 en Copyright © is held by the author. Digital access to this material is made possible by the University Libraries, University of Arizona. Further transmission, reproduction or presentation (such as public display or performance) of protected items is prohibited except with permission of the author. The University of Arizona.
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topic Marketing research.
Expert systems (Computer science)
Information storage and retrieval systems.
spellingShingle Marketing research.
Expert systems (Computer science)
Information storage and retrieval systems.
Elofson, Gregg Steven.
Facilitating knowledge sharing in organizations: Semiautonomous agents that learn to gather, classify, and distribute environmental scanning knowledge.
description Evaluating patterns of indicators is often the first step an organization takes in scanning the environment. Not surprisingly, the experts that evaluate these patterns are not equally adept across all disciplines. While one expert is particularly skilled at recognizing the potential for political turmoil in a foreign nation, another is best at recognizing how Japanese government de-regulation is meant to complement the development of some new product. Moreover, the experts often benefit from one another's skills and knowledge in assessing activity in the environment external to the organization. One problem in this process occurs when the expert is unavailable and can't share his knowledge. And, addressing the problem of knowledge sharing, of distributing expertise, is the focus of this dissertation. A technical approach is adapted in this effort--an architecture and a prototype are described that provide the capability of capturing, organizing, and delivering the knowledge used by experts in classifying patterns of qualitative indicators about the business environment. Using a combination of artificial intelligence and machine learning techniques, a collection of objects termed "Apprentices" are employed to do the work of gathering, classifying, and distributing the expertise of knowledge workers in environmental scanning. Furthermore, an archival case study is provided to illustrate the operations of an Apprentice using "real world" data.
author2 Nunamaker, J. F.
author_facet Nunamaker, J. F.
Elofson, Gregg Steven.
author Elofson, Gregg Steven.
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title Facilitating knowledge sharing in organizations: Semiautonomous agents that learn to gather, classify, and distribute environmental scanning knowledge.
title_short Facilitating knowledge sharing in organizations: Semiautonomous agents that learn to gather, classify, and distribute environmental scanning knowledge.
title_full Facilitating knowledge sharing in organizations: Semiautonomous agents that learn to gather, classify, and distribute environmental scanning knowledge.
title_fullStr Facilitating knowledge sharing in organizations: Semiautonomous agents that learn to gather, classify, and distribute environmental scanning knowledge.
title_full_unstemmed Facilitating knowledge sharing in organizations: Semiautonomous agents that learn to gather, classify, and distribute environmental scanning knowledge.
title_sort facilitating knowledge sharing in organizations: semiautonomous agents that learn to gather, classify, and distribute environmental scanning knowledge.
publisher The University of Arizona.
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