Method and Instruments for Modeling Integrated Knowledge

MIMIK (Method and Instruments for Modeling Integrated Knowledge) is a set of tools used to formalize and represent knowledge within organizations. It furthermore supports knowledge creation and sharing within communities of interest or communities of practice. In this paper we show that MIMIK is based on a model theory approach and builds on other existing methods and techniques. We also explain how to use the method and its instruments in order to model strategic objectives, processes, knowledge, and roles found within an organization, as well as relations existing between these elements. Indeed MIMIK provides eight types of models in order to describe what is commonly called know-how, know-why and know-what; it uses matrices in order to formally and semantically link strategic objectives, knowledge and actors. We close this paper with a presentation of a prototype we built in order to demonstrate a technical architecture allowing for knowledge creation, formalization and sharing.knowledge modelling; process modelling; public administration; methodology; knowledge sharing; RSS

Method and Instruments for Modeling Integrated Knowledge

International audienceMIMIK (Method and Instruments for Modeling Integrated Knowledge) is a set of tools used to formalize and represent knowledge within organizations. It furthermore supports knowledge creation and sharing within communities of interest or communities of practice. In this paper we show that MIMIK is based on a model theory approach and builds on other existing methods and techniques. We also explain how to use the method and its instruments in order to model strategic objectives, processes, knowledge, and roles found within an organization, as well as relations existing between these elements. Indeed MIMIK provides eight types of models in order to describe what is commonly called know-how, know-why and know-what; it uses matrices in order to formally and semantically link strategic objectives, knowledge and actors. We close this paper with a presentation of a prototype we built in order to demonstrate a technical architecture allowing for knowledge creation, formalization and sharing

Innovative Informatikanwendungen : Informatik 2003 ; 29. September - 2. Oktober 2003 in Frankfurt am Main

Tagungsprogramm INFORMATIK 2003 Innovative Informatikanwendungen. 33. Jahrestagung der Gesellschaft für Informatik e.V. (GI) 29. September bis 2. Oktober 2003 Frankfurt am Mai

An open, scalable and distributed platform for public discourse

Abstract: A proposal for overcoming scalability, motivational and other limitations of using a single server as a participation platform is presented. The proposed solution is a distributed platform that makes use of existing publication channels and aggregates and indexes content using the XML-based RSS protocol. 1. Problem Statement One of the main issues in the field of e-democracy is how to best use information and communications technology to facilitate public consultation, deliberation, participation or “engagement ” in policy-making processes such as urban planning. A variety of discourse systems for the World Wide Web have been developed for this purpose, such as GeoMed [Sch98], Zeno [GR02], and DEMOS [Lü01]. Typically, these are client-server systems with a three-tier architecture. On the server side there is a web application that stores articles and other information in a database. On the client side, participants in the process access the system using a web browser. There are a number of problems with this approach: Scalability. It is difficult to scale up to thousands of participants using replication an