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-

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…

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…

This study delineates practical knowledge bases that university professors draw upon during exemplary Critical Incidents of teaching. One hundred and eight full-time, tenure track, university professors from departments of Biology, Chemistry, Economics, Engineering, English, History, Math, and Philosophy across the…

En la novela el lector descubre un conjunto
de información, un mundo lleno de ideas y
saberes con distintos valores y culturas. Él al
estar inmerso en ese mundo puede interpretar
conocimientos y a la vez cumplir el rol de…

La estimación de precios es un proceso crítico para la elaboración de presupuestos en compañías que tienen que competir para obtener pedidos ofreciendo precios competitivos. En concreto, las compañías de mecanizado de piezas, dicho proceso es complejo, pues se pueden…

The three essays in the present dissertation build on and expand the notion of generativity in the context of a learning (i.e., knowledge creating) organization, and learning (i.e., knowledge based) economy in sequential progression with increasing levels of analysis. Essay…

Academics believe in a symbiotic relationship between research and teaching, though evidence challenges its existence. Previous studies may have defined these constructs too narrowly to detect the perceived relationships. This study used a qualitative approach to investigate chemistry professors' beliefs…

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…

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…