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Capturing Organisational Knowledge from Documentation for Expert Finding
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Evaluation of an Approach to Expertise Finding
Full text linkThis paper presents an approach to locating an expert through the use of existing organizational information. This approach was realised through an Expert Finder framework developed by the authors. The framework enables the relationships of heterogeneous information sources to experts to be factored in to the modelling of an individuals' expertise. The framework also provides an architecture that can be easily adapted to different organizations. The framework has been applied to a real world application and been evaluated using the notions of precision and recall
An Ironic Truth? Is Simulation a More Realistic Way to Study Real-World Engineering Design Teams?
No full textExploration of agent based modelling as a tool for studying engineering design teams. Benefits and risks of this approach are illustrated through an ongoing model
Open Hypermedia for Product Support
No full textAs industrial systems become increasingly more complex, the maintenance and operating information increases both in volume and complexity. With the current pressures on manufacturing, the management of information resources has become a critical issue. In particular ensuring that personnel can access current information quickly and effectively when undertaking a specific task. This paper discusses some of the issues involved in, and the benefits of using, open hypermedia to manage and deliver a diverse range of information. While the paper concentrates on the problems specifically associated with manufacturing organisations, the problems are generic across other business sectors, such as healthcare, defence and finance. The open hypermedia approach to information management and delivery allows a multimedia resource base to be used for a range of applications, and permits a user to have controlled access to the required information, in an easily accessible and structured manner. Recent advancement in hypermedia also permits just-in-time support in the most appropriate format for all users. Our approach is illustrated by the discussion of a case study in which an open hypermedia system delivers maintenance and process information to factory floor users, to support the maintenance and operation of a very large manufacturing cell
An Agent-based approach to modelling integrated product teams undertaking a design activity.
No full textThe interactions between individual designers, within integrated product teams, and the nature of design tasks, all have a significant impact upon how well a design task can be performed, and hence the quality of the resultant product and the time in which it can be delivered. In this paper we describe an ongoing research project which aims to model integrated product teams through the use of multi-agent systems. We first describe the background and rationale for our work, and then present our initial computational model and results from the simulation of an integrated product team. The paper concludes with a discussion of how the model will evolve to improve the accuracy of the simulation
Can multi-agent systems help us to understand team-working?
No full textThis project aims to use multi-agent systems (MAS) to model and simulate engineering teams operating within two large, UK-based manufacturing organisations. In so doing, it seeks to: 1) Integrate expertise in occupational psychology, engineering and computer science. 2) Enhance links between theory and practice in occupational psychology. 3) Develop long-term capability to understand and explain organisational issues. 4) Produce a model to help organisations make better informed decisions, and reduce the risks associated with organisational change
More than the sum of its parts: An agent-based model of team work
No full textStudies have consistently shown that team behaviours differ from the sum of their parts, additionally reflecting complex interactions between team members and their environments. Computer simulation using agent-based modeling (ABM) explores how ‘micro’ behaviours affect ‘macro’ processes, and should therefore help elucidate such team behaviour. In ABM, behaviours are determined by bottom-up ‘rules’, enabling us to study how the individual parts affect the whole. Furthermore, time elapses during simulations, so relationships between variables feed back into each other, affecting the outputs. Such models therefore permit the incorporation of random elements which, when combined with this dynamism, enable unpredictable, realistic behaviours to emerge. Seemingly complex animal ‘team’ behaviours, such as foraging, have been simulated successfully, but the simulation of human behaviour and cognition remains in its infancy. Our research addresses this omission by using ABM to simulate team working processes within two large engineering organisations. The project seeks to integrate expertise in organisational psychology, engineering and computer science, to develop this capability and better understand organisations
Modelling the Learning Transaction
No full textA model of learning transactions is offered for use in the development of e-learning materials and toolkits. The model identifies the key components required for effective learning, and in doing so helps the development team ensure the provision of these components to the teacher or learner
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