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Creating and Managing a High Performance Knowledge-Sharing Network: The Toyota Case
Dyer, Jeffrey - Nobeoka, Kentaro

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Enlaces:	This study offers a detailed case study of how Toyota facilitates interorganizational knowledge transfers among within its production network. In particular, we identiify and examine six key institutionalized knowledge sharing routines developed by Toyota and its suppliers. By examining how…
Fecha:	2002-07-10
Recurso:	MIT

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Knowledge Partitioning in the Inter-firm Dividsion of Labor: the case of Automotive product Development
Takeishi, Akira

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Enlaces:	This paper demonstrates the importance of knowledge for effective management of outsourcing. Drawing on an empirical study on automakers? management of supplier involvement in product development in Japan, this paper shows that the level of own knowledge is critical for…
Fecha:	2002-06-26
Recurso:	MIT

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The Influence of Customer Scope on Supplier Learning and Performance in the Japanese Automobile Industry
Nobeoka, Kentaro - Dyer, Jeffrey

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Enlaces:	Most studies on Japanese supplier-automaker relationships have focused on the nature of the dyadic inter-firm relationship and the performance of the assembler. We examine the relationship between a Japanese supplier's "customer scope strategy" (i.e. number of customers) and the supplier's…
Fecha:	2002-07-18
Recurso:	MIT

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Internet Interconnection Economic Model and its Analysis: Peering and Settlement
Shin, Seung-Jae - Weiss, Martin

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Enlaces:	Peering and transit are two types of Internet interconnection among ISPs. Peering has been a core concept to sustain Internet industry. However, for the past several years, many ISPs broke their peering arrangement because of asymmetric traffic pattern and asymmetric…
Fecha:	2002-07-22
Recurso:	MIT

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Toward a Stakeholder Theory of the Firm: The Case of the Saturn Partnership
Kochan, Thomas - Rubinstein, Saul

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Enlaces:	This paper seeks to engage the organization theory community in contemporary debates over the role of the corporation in American society by building a stakeholder theory of the firm. We develop a set of normative premises and positivist propositions derived…
Fecha:	2002-07-11
Recurso:	MIT

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Knowledge Networks, the Internet and, Development
Cukor, Peter - McKnight, Lee

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Enlaces:	Information and Communications Technologies (ICTs) are playing a significant role in economic, political and cultural development. The relationship between technologies supporting information processing and distribution, and the application of that knowledge for development purposes has only recently come into focus.…
Fecha:	2002-07-22
Recurso:	MIT

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Creating Lean Suppliers: Diffusing Lean Production Through the Supply Chain
MacDuffie, John Paul - Helper, Susan

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Enlaces:	Honda of America has developed a comprehensive approach to teaching the principles of lean production to its suppliers. The centerpiece of these efforts is a program called BP (for "Best process", "Best Performance", "Bs Practice"), in which a crossfunctional team…
Fecha:	2002-07-18
Recurso:	MIT

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Does the Regional Myth Still Hold? An Interim Report
Nishiguchi, Toshihiro - Oue, Shingo

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Enlaces:	This paper introduces our ongoing analysis of auto component development data obtained from Nishiguchi's research sponsored by MIT's International Motor Vehicle Program (IMVP). The main results of this paper can be found in the section of Research Results where a…
Fecha:	2002-09-04
Recurso:	MIT

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Qualitative Knowledge, Casual Reasoning and the Localization of Failures
Brown, Allen

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Enlaces:	This report investigates some techinques appropriate to representing the knowledge necessary for understanding a class of electronic machines -- radio receivers. A computational performance model - WATSON - is presented. WATSONs task is to isolate failures in radio receivers whose…
Fecha:	2004-10-20
Recurso:	MIT

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Representing Knowledge of Large-Scale Space
Kuipers, Benjamin J.

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Enlaces:	This dissertation presents a model of the knowledge a person has about the spatial structure of a large-scale environment: the "cognitive map". The functions of the cognitive map are to assimilate new information about the environment, to represent the current…
Fecha:	2004-10-20
Recurso:	MIT

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Reducing Impediments to Collaboration in a Virtual Design World
Seshasai, Satwik - Gupta, Amar - Sainath, Tara

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Enlaces:	This paper presents a knowledge-based approach to reducing impediments to collaboration in a distributed environment. A major impediment to such collaboration is the issue of communications - clearly and efficiently expressing the desires of every stakeholder in the process, as…
Fecha:	2002-09-25
Recurso:	MIT

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Automated Design Data and Rationale Capture
Gupta, Amar - Seshasai, Satwik - Yeung, Jason - Sainath, Tara

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Enlaces:	This paper presents a knowledge-based approach for capturing data and rationale, so that the experience and insights gained while pursuing a major project or endeavor can be utilized when pursuing future endeavors of a similar nature. The proposed
Fecha:	2002-06-07
Recurso:	MIT

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Knowledge Partitioning in the Inter-firm Division of Labor: the case of Automotive Product Development
Takeishi, Akira

Formato:
Enlaces:	Drawing on an empirical study on automakers? management of supplier involvement in product development in Japan, this paper shows that when the design of a component is outsourced to a supplier, how much and what automakers know about the component…
Fecha:	2002-06-12
Recurso:	MIT

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A Knowledge Based Approach to Facilitate Enginering Design
Seshasai, Satwik - Gupta, Amar

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Enlaces:	This paper presents a knowledge-based approach to facilitate the engineering design process relating to spacecrafts. Because the design evolves over a long time and typically involves individuals working at different locations and frequently for different organizations, the degree of collaboration…
Fecha:	2002-10-23
Recurso:	MIT

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15.

Street science : the fusing of local and professional knowledge in environmental policy
Coburn, Jason

Formato:	Thesis
Enlaces:	his dissertation analyzes how local knowledge improves environmental decisions. The premise is that controlling pollution and addressing public health disparities are not problems that professionals alone can solve. Concerned lay publics, especially low-income populations and people of color that experience…
Fecha:	2005-08-23
Recurso:	MIT

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16.

Recent Progress in Droplet-Based Manufacturing Research
Kim, H.-Y. - Cherng, J.-P. - Chun, Jung-Hoon

Formato:	Article
Enlaces:	This article reports the recent progress of re-search made in the Droplet-Based Manufacturing Laboratory at MIT. The study has been focused on obtaining a fundamental understanding of microdroplet deposition and applying the technology to various practical applications. Specific scientific contributions…
Fecha:	2003-12-23
Recurso:	MIT

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17.

Hypothesis Formation and Evaluation in Medical Diagnosis
Rubin, Ann D.

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Enlaces:	This thesis describes some aspects of a computer system for doing medical diagnosis in the specialized field of kidney disease. Because such a system faces the spectre of combinatorial explosion, this discussion concentrates on heuristics which control the number of…
Fecha:	2004-10-20
Recurso:	MIT

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18.

Artificial Intelligence, Language and the Study of Knowledge
Goldstein, Ira - Papert, Seymour

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Enlaces:	This paper studies the relationship of Artificial Intelligence to the study of language and the representation of the underlying knowledge which supports the comprehension process. It develops the view that intelligence is based on the ability to use large amounts…
Fecha:	2004-10-04
Recurso:	MIT

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19.

Test Generation Guided Design for Testability
Wu, Peng

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Enlaces:	This thesis presents a new approach to building a design for testability (DFT) system. The system takes a digital circuit description, finds out the problems in testing it, and suggests circuit modifications to correct those problems. The key contributions of…
Fecha:	2004-10-20
Recurso:	MIT

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20.

2.5 D Cavity Balancing
Jin, S. - Lam, Yee Cheong

Formato:	Article
Enlaces:	Cavity balancing is the process of altering the flow front within a cavity through thickness and design changes such that the desired fill pattern is achieved. The 2 dimensional (2D) cavity-balancing algorithm, developed by Lam and Seow [1] can only…
Fecha:	2003-12-23
Recurso:	MIT

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21.

Collaborative Engine for Distributed Mechanical Design
Ni, Qianfu - Lu, Wen Feng

Formato:	Article
Enlaces:	Effective collaboration is essential for engineers at geographically dispersed locations to accomplish good design with less iteration. Over the last several years, more and more efforts have been put into such research as many industries have distributed their product development…
Fecha:	2003-12-23
Recurso:	MIT

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22.

Towards Man-Machine Interfaces: Combining Top-down Constraints with Bottom-up Learning in Facial Analysis
Kumar, Vinay P.

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Enlaces:	This thesis proposes a methodology for the design of man-machine interfaces by combining top-down and bottom-up processes in vision. From a computational perspective, we propose that the scientific-cognitive question of combining top-down and bottom-up knowledge is similar to the engineering…
Fecha:	2004-10-01
Recurso:	MIT

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Automated Negotiation from Declarative Contract Descriptions
Grosof, Benjamin - Reeves, Daniel - Wellman, Michael

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Enlaces:	Our approach for automating the negotiation of business contracts proceeds in three broad steps. First, determine the structure of the negotiation process by applying general knowledge about auctions and domain-specific knowledge about the contract subject along with preferences from po-
Fecha:	2002-10-23
Recurso:	MIT

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Transferring, Translating and Transforming: An Integrative Framework
Carlile, Paul

Formato:	Working Paper
Enlaces:	Organizations must establish processes for managing knowledge across boundaries because of the specialized and task-dependent forms of knowledge required to deliver products and services. To address this challenge an integrative framework is developed that identifies and integrates the value of…
Fecha:	2003-12-10
Recurso:	MIT

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ONTIC: A Knowledge Representation System for Mathematics
McAllester, David Allen

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Enlaces:	Ontic is an interactive system for developing and verifying mathematics. Ontic's verification mechanism is capable of automatically finding and applying information from a library containing hundreds of mathematical facts. Starting with only the axioms of Zermelo-Fraenkel set theory, the Ontic…
Fecha:	2004-10-20
Recurso:	MIT

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Toward a Requirements Apprentice: On the Boundary Between Informal and Formal Specifications
Rich, Charles - Waters, Richard C.

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Enlaces:	Requirements acquisition is one of the most important and least well supported parts of the software development process. The Requirements Apprentice (RA) will assist a human analyst in the creation and modification of software requirements. Unlike current requirements analysis tools,…
Fecha:	2004-08-31
Recurso:	MIT

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27.

Supporting Organizational Problem Solving with a Workstation
Barber, Gerald

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Enlaces:	This paper describes an approach to supporting work in the office. Using and extending ideas from the field of Artificial Intelligence (AI) we describe office work as a problem solving activity. A knowledge embedding language called Omega is used to…
Fecha:	2004-10-01
Recurso:	MIT

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28.

Transferring, Translating and Transforming: An Integrative Framework
Carlile, Paul

Formato:	Working Paper
Enlaces:	Organizations must establish processes for managing knowledge across boundaries because of the specialized and task-dependent forms of knowledge required to deliver products and services. To address this challenge an integrative framework is developed that identifies and integrates the value of…
Fecha:	2003-12-18
Recurso:	MIT

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29.

Computer System for Visual Recognition Using Active Knowledge
Freuder, Eugene C.

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Enlaces:	A system for visual recognition is described, with implications for the general problem of representation of knowledge to assist control. The immediate objective is a computer system that will recognize objects in a visual scene, specifically hammers. The computer receives…
Fecha:	2004-10-20
Recurso:	MIT

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30.

Flexibility and Efficiency in a Computer Program for Designing Circuits
Mcdermott, Drew Vincent

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Enlaces:	This report is concerned with the problem of achieving flexibility (additivity, modularity) and efficiency (performance, expertise) simultaneously in one AI program. It deals with the domain of elementary electronic circuit design. The proposed solution is to provide a deduction-driven problem…
Fecha:	2004-10-20
Recurso:	MIT

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31.

Consensus Knowledge Acquisition
Trice, Andrew - Davis, Randall

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Enlaces:	We have developed a method and prototype program for assisting two experts in their attempts to construct a single, consensus knowledge base. We show that consensus building can be effectively facilitated by a debugging approach that identifies, explains, and resolves…
Fecha:	2004-10-04
Recurso:	MIT

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Improving an image annotation and retrieval agent using commonsense and personal knowledge, Improving an image retrieval agent using commonsense and personal knowledge
Waters, Kimberly G. (Kimberly Geneva), 1977-

Formato:	Thesis
Enlaces:	by Kimberly G. Waters., Thesis (S.M.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, 2002., Includes bibliographical references (p. 45-46).
Fecha:	2005-08-24
Recurso:	MIT

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Towards a unified framework for sub-lexical and supra-lexical linguistic modeling
Mou, Xiaolong, 1973-

Formato:	Thesis
Enlaces:	Conversational interfaces have received much attention as a promising natural communication channel between humans and computers. A typical conversational interface consists of three major systems: speech understanding, dialog management and spoken language generation. In such a conversational interface, speech recognition…
Fecha:	2005-10-14
Recurso:	MIT

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34.

Predicting and managing system interactions at early phase of the product development process
Dong, Qi, 1973-

Formato:	Thesis
Enlaces:	The activity of designing and developing large, complex, discrete, physical, and engineered products faces the challenges in the physical product system, the organization of people, and the larger systems in which the product resides-the natural and societal systems. This thesis…
Fecha:	2005-05-19
Recurso:	MIT

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35.

Model-Based Reasoning: Troubleshooting
Davis, Randall - Hamscher, Walter C.

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Enlaces:	To determine why something has stopped working, it is useful to know how it was supposed to work in the first place. That simple observation underlies some of the considerable interest generated in recent years on the topic of model-based…
Fecha:	2004-10-04
Recurso:	MIT

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36.

Knowledge Base Integration: What Can We Learn from Database Integration Research?
Lee, Jintae

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Enlaces:	This paper examines the issues and the solutions that have been studied in database (DB) integration research and tries to draw lessons from them for knowledge base (KB) integration.
Fecha:	2004-10-04
Recurso:	MIT

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37.

D-SCRIPT: A Computational Theory of Descriptions
Moore, Robert C.

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Enlaces:	This paper descries D-SCRIPT, a language for representing knowledge in artificial intelligence programs. D-SCRIPT contains a powerful formalism for descriptions, which permits the representation of statements that are problematical for other systems. Particular attention is paid to problems of opaque…
Fecha:	2004-10-01
Recurso:	MIT

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38.

The Structure of Mathematical Knowledge
Michener, Edwina Rissland

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Enlaces:	This report develops a conceptual framework in which to talk about mathematical knowledge. There are several broad categories of mathematical knowledge: results which contain the traditional logical aspects of mathematics; examples which contain illustrative material; and concepts which include formal…
Fecha:	2004-10-20
Recurso:	MIT

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39.

The FRL Primer
Roberts, R. Bruce - Goldstein, Ira P.

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Enlaces:	The Frame Representation Language (FRL) is an experimental language written to explore the use of frames as a knowledge representation technique. The term 'frame' as used in FRL was inspired by Minsky's [75] development of frame theory. FRL extends the…
Fecha:	2004-10-01
Recurso:	MIT

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40.

Explicit Control of Reasoning
Kleer, Johan de - Doyle, Jon - Steele, Guy L., Jr. - Sussman, Gerald Jay

Formato:
Enlaces:	The construction of expert problem-solving systems requires the development of techniques for using modular representations of knowledge without encountering combinatorial explosions in the solution effort. This report describes an approach to dealing with this problem based on making some knowledge…
Fecha:	2004-10-01
Recurso:	MIT

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41.

The Role of Knowledge in Visual Shape Representation
Saund, Eric

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Enlaces:	This report shows how knowledge about the visual world can be built into a shape representation in the form of a descriptive vocabulary making explicit the important geometrical relationships comprising objects' shapes. Two computational tools are offered: (1) Shapestokens are…
Fecha:	2004-10-20
Recurso:	MIT

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42.

A Computational Model for the Acquisition and Use of Phonological Knowledge
Yip, Kenneth - Sussman, Gerald Jay

Formato:
Enlaces:	Does knowledge of language consist of symbolic rules? How do children learn and use their linguistic knowledge? To elucidate these questions, we present a computational model that acquires phonological knowledge from a corpus of common English nouns and verbs. In…
Fecha:	2004-10-08
Recurso:	MIT

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43.

Qualitative and Quantitative Knowledge in Classical Mechanics
Kleer, Johan De

Formato:
Enlaces:	This thesis investigates what knowledge is necessary to solve mechanics problems. A program NEWTON is described which understands and solves problems in mechanics mini-world of objects moving on surfaces. Facts and equations such as those given in mechanics text need…
Fecha:	2004-10-20
Recurso:	MIT

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44.

Naval Engineering A National Naval Obligation
Chryssostomidis, Chryssostomos - Bernitsas, Michael - Burke, David

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Enlaces:	As part of its national obligations, ONR must ensure US world leadership in those unique technology areas that insure naval superiority. ONR accomplishes this mission through research, recruitment and education, maintaining an adequate base of talent, and sustaining critical infrastructure…
Fecha:	2002-10-28
Recurso:	MIT

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ITS 1.5 Reference Manual
Eastlake, D. - Greenblatt, R. - Holloway, J. - Knight, T. - Nelson, S.

Formato:
Enlaces:	This reference manual consists of two parts. The first (sections 1 through 6) is intended for those who are either interested in the ITS 1.5 time sharing monitor for its own sake or who wish to write machine language programs…
Fecha:	2004-10-04
Recurso:	MIT

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FROM PLACE TO SPACE: Migrating to Profitable Electronic Commerce Business Models
Vitale, Michael - Ross, Jeanne W. - Weill, Peter

Formato:
Enlaces:	The Internet is a powerful channel that presents new opportunities for touching customers, enriching products and services with information, squeezing out costs through process automation, and redesigning internal business processes through enhanced communication and knowledge sharing. In…
Fecha:	2002-06-07
Recurso:	MIT

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Knowledge management in banking industry : comparative analysis between U.S. and Japan
Yamagata, Kazunori, 1966-

Formato:	Thesis
Enlaces:	by Kazunori Yamagata., Thesis (S.M.M.O.T.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Sloan School of Management, Management of Technology Program, 2002., Includes bibliographical references (leaves 95-99).
Fecha:	2005-08-23
Recurso:	MIT

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48.

A knowledge-network model of scientific communities
Gonzalez Pinto, Jose Maria, 1975-

Formato:	Thesis
Enlaces:	by Jose Maria Gonzalez Pinto., Thesis (S.M.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, School of Architecture and Planning, Program in Media Arts and Sciences, 2002., Includes bibliographical references (p. 68-69).
Fecha:	2005-08-23
Recurso:	MIT

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49.

Service delivery and learning in automated interfaces
Oliveira, Paulo Rocha e, 1974-

Formato:	Thesis
Enlaces:	This dissertation analyzes the strategic implications of customization policies available to companies that must simultaneously provide service and learn about their customers through automated interfaces. The first part of the dissertation lays out the theoretical framework within which the analysis…
Fecha:	2005-10-14
Recurso:	MIT

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Spatial Knowledge
Kuipers, Benjamin

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Enlaces:	This paper introduces a model of spatial cognition to describe the states of partial knowledge that people have about the spatial structure of a large-scale environment. Spatial knowledge has several different representations, each of which captures one aspect of the…
Fecha:	2004-10-01
Recurso:	MIT