Integrating Expert Systems Throughout the Undergraduate Curriculum

Over the years, there has been an increasing movement toward systemic reform in education. An important element of the educational process that seems to have been overlooked is the need to integrate subjects within some context or major issue. One of the essential components of this integration process is the recognition that expert/knowledge based systems technology can play a fundamental role as a strategic supporting science to help with the integration approach. This paper describes one novel attempt to integrate expert/knowledge based systems throughout the four years of the undergraduate curriculum in the new College of Integrated Science and Technology at James Madison University

Teaching an Applied Expert Systems Course: A Content Outline

As expert systems become more commonplace in the business curriculum, it is helpful to learn from others in teaching the expert systems course. Over the past ten years, the author has been teaching an Applied Expert Systems course in the School of Business and Public Management at George Washington University. This paper shares some of the lessons learned from these experiences in terms of administrative-, content-, and project-related issues and considerations associated with teaching the expert systems course

Data Analytics Applications

This exciting, timely new book series focuses on how data analytics are being applied in various domains. Ranging from marketing, healthcare, education, law, to government, some of the leading data analytics practitioners and researchers worldwide are editing the volumes in this important data analytics field

The Business Protocol Expert System: An International Business Manners Advisor

Business applications of expert systems are continuing to increase in number and diversity. International business applications of expert systems, however, are few and far between. This paper describes an international business protocol expert system which is quite novel as an application. This mini-case study could benefit a variety of educators/trainers by: (1) allowing themselves and their students to become more familiar with international customs and cross-cultural differences; (2) presenting an interactive program that could be used in the information systems course as a way to internationalize the course; and (3) helping American students in international business courses to become better aware of their foreign colleagues and their customs

Making Knowledge Management Part of Your Human Capital Strategy: A Look at a Large Government Technical Organization

The U.S. government is facing a human capital crisis in the next five years whereby around half of the federal civil servants will be eligible to retire. Because of this ensuing dilemma, each government agency is developing a human capital strategy. A key pillar underpinning this human capital strategy should be knowledge management . This paper discusses the knowledge management strategy for a large government technical organization, and explains how knowledge management, discovery informatics, and lessons learned systems can become a central component of a human capital strategy

Designing a Web-Based Knowledge Repository in A Virtual Team and Exploring Its Usefulness

By using a computer network, geographically distributed people with common goals can communicate and collaborate their work efforts across time and space barriers. These groups has been called virtual teams (Geber, 1995). The virtual teams are used to support various kinds of collaborative efforts ranging from routine, mundane works to complex, creative works (Geber, 1995; Snizek, 1995). Because the virtual teams can bring together the right mix of people who have the appropriate set of knowledge, skills, information, and authority to solve difficult problems quickly and easily, they are receiving considerable attention from knowledge workers (Boldyreff et al., 1996; McGuire, 1996). These knowledge workers are characterized as highly qualified individuals who need to make decisions under non- routine, unstructured, and uncertain environments (Knight et al., 1993). As the numerous benefits and advantages of the virtual teams in increasing effectiveness and efficiency of knowledge workers becomes widely recognized, organizations face a new challenge in coping with their new organizational structure (Davidow & Malone, 1993). The challenge is to turn the scattered, diverse knowledge of their knowledge workers who are working in a virtual team into a well-structured knowledge repository (Spek & Spijkervet, 1996; Wiig, 1993)

Episode 1: Knowledge Management and Analytics with Dr. Jay Liebowitz

If you are interested in Knowledge Management and Analytics, this podcast will be an enlightening experience for you. Join University Libraries as we interview Dr. Jay Liebowitz, a Visiting Professor of the Stillman School of Business at Seton Hall and one of most highly ranked in knowledge management strategy. The interview covered, among other topics, Dr. Liebowitz’s newest book: A Research Agenda for Knowledge Management and Analytics

Generically Used Expert Scheduling System (GUESS): User's Guide Version 1.0

This user's guide contains instructions explaining how to best operate the program GUESS, a generic expert scheduling system. GUESS incorporates several important features for a generic scheduler, including automatic scheduling routines to generate a 'first' schedule for the user, a user interface that includes Gantt charts and enables the human scheduler to manipulate schedules manually, diagnostic report generators, and a variety of scheduling techniques. The current version of GUESS runs on an IBM PC or compatible in the Windows 3.1 or Windows '95 environment

The Information Warefare Advisor: An Architecture for Interacting with Intelligent Agents Across the Web

The global spread of digital communications and automated information systems, and the ever widening dependence on these systems for critical economic, political and military needs, has made the protection of these systems, as well as the ability to attack an enemy’s systems, an important part of military strategy and tactics. Information warfare (IW) has grown into a military specialty which seeks to use information and information systems to gain military advantages over an opponent. The US Army War College has several IW experts on its faculty, but during its annual Strategic Crisis Exercise (SCE) these experts are generally not available to assist students with questions on IW background or response planning since they have other duties during the exercise. In order to make the expertise of its faculty available to all students during each SCE, as well as preserve and expand this expertise as faculty come and go, a research project was established between the War College’s Knowledge Engineering Branch and George Washington University to design and demonstrate an architecture for an on-line expert advisor in Information Warfare. The objective of the IW Advisor was to provide any SCE student or War College faculty member the ability to access the captured knowledge and expertise of IW experts through the college’s private intranet using standard off-the- shelf web browser technology