Data mining is at the core of the knowledge discovery process. However, an initial preprocessing step is crucial for assuring reliable results within this process. Preprocessing of data is a time-consuming and non-trivial task since data quality issues should be…

Knowledge acquisition for systems based on knowledge can be called knowledge engineering, according to Feigenbaum (1980) who used the term to describe the reduction of a wide context of knowledge for a set of facts and rules. The term Knowledge…

Network-based modeling of complex systems with emergent behavior is increasingly being employed across different disciplines. Much of the focus in such efforts has been on detailed, "microscopic" modeling, in which the dynamics is described in terms of the individual nodes…

Knowledge has become one of the most important intangible assets for the company in the current competitive environment (Nonaka, 1994; Hunt, 1995; Grant, 1996; Hunt & Morgan, 1996; Teece, 1998; Lee & Sukoco, 2007; Li et al., 2009), being of…

My dissertation centers on the meaning of dreams as interpreted by literati in the late Ming (1368-1644), viewed through the lens of the 1636 encyclopedia Forest of Dreams. This thirty-four-juan tome is the largest extant Chinese dream encyclopedia and includes…

There have been books both erudite and popular on knowledge economy and learning challenges. About two decades ago, The Fifth Discipline by Peter Senge (1990, 1994) popularised the concept of learning organisations and brought his seeming idealisms into the realm…

Cancer and Malaria are the common diseases affecting the citizens of both developed and poor countries. An ethno-botanical survey was conducted at Sardar Bahudar Khan Women’s university campus, From March to November,2010. Ethno-botanical information was collected from faculty and students…

High Performance Computing (HPC) clusters have enabled Molecular Dynamics (MD) simulations of biological systems for a sufficiently large complexity and long simulation period. VMD and NAMD are two major MD simulations software packages, which can work together for mining structural…

Technology education in Irish post-primary schools is undergoing significant change. In recent years the syllabi of all technology-related subjects have been revised. A new subject, Design and Communication Graphics, has replaced the traditional Technical Drawing subject. This new subject aims…

Current reasoning systems attempt to model an agent's knowledge and interaction with its environment in a symbolic manner. This environment, its world is generally dynamic and changing due to natural evolution or the actions of other agents that are a…