CPE/CSC 581-S05 Computer Support for Knowledge Management
CPE/CSC 581-S05 Computer Support for Knowledge Management Schedule
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Week Date Topic KeywordsDescription Readings Speaker Topic Assignment Lab Activity Project Student Presentation 1 March 29 IntroductionAn overview of the course.
Knowledge and humans: benefits, problems.
Knowledge and computers: knowledge representation, reasoning.
Dealing with large accumulations of knowledge: libraries, other repositories.
Computer support for dealing with knowledge: storage, retrieval, evaluation, visualization.
Assignment 1: KM ToolsTeam formation; brainstorming of ideas;
previous team projects Meike Muckenhaupt: Adaptability in Educational Hypermedia 2 April 5 Knowledge Acquisition, Representation and ManipulationBasic principles and methods to enable computers to deal with knowledge:
Transfer of knowledge from humans to computers,
extraction of knowledge from data collections ("data mining"),
representation of knowledge in computers (rules, frames, scripts, meta-data, RDF),
generating new knowledge from existing knowledge (inference, reasoning).
Presentation and Paper Milestone Week 2: Requirements, Testing and Evaluation Plan Teams established; project definition 3 April 12 Knowledge Organization Establishing relations among knowledge items:
explicit vs. implicit relations; special relations such as similarity,
part-of, contains, ...
Methods for organizing knowledge: hierarchies, categorization schemes, descriptors,
ontologies, metadata, Semantic Web.
Assignment 2: KM Body of Knowledge Requirements definition, tentative schedule 4 April 19 Knowledge Retrieval Finding and retrieving relevant knowledge items from large collections:
Information retrieval, search engines, relevance ranking. Milestone Week 4: Prototype 1 (alpha) 5 April 26 Knowledge Presentation Presentation of identified relevant knowledge items to the human user:
Text, graphics, animation; visualization techniques,
alternative presentation methods (e.g. audio);
Human-Computer Interface (HCI) and usability aspects.
Assignment 3: Knowledge Presentation and Visualization6 May 3 Knowledge Exchange Sharing knowledge between computers and humans:
Knowledge exchange languages,
internal representation of knowledge vs. sharing,
levels of abstraction, details.
Computer-computer vs. computer-human knowledge exchange.
Brett Johnson Knowledge Management from a Verity Perspective Milestone Week 6: Prototype 2 (beta) 7 May 10 Usage of Knowledge Computer support to make the utilization of knowledge easier for humans:
Integration of the aspects discussed earlier into larger systems;
balance of conflicting requirements (e.g. levels of abstraction vs. access to specific details);
usability considerations.
Assignment 4: Knowledge IntegrationNick Burns Knowledge Extraction from Genetic AlgorithmsMark Gabel Extracting Knowledge via NLP8 May 17 Knowledge Management Techniques Processes and methods that help humans utilize
computer-based knowledge more effectively: Delphi method,
process modeling, Semantic Web, RSS, Wiki.
Milestone Week 8: Final Version Sean Perry James Skorupski Mike Fouquette (Thu) Rafael Kaliski (Thu) 9 May 24 Knowledge Management Tools Computer systems and tools that support knowledge management:
Topic map tools, ontology development systems, categorization and classification tools,
XML-based tools.
Peer evaluation of final version Edith Koler Harleigh Chris Marsh Roy Campbell (Thu) Ryan Ernst (Thu) 10 May 31 Knowledge Management in Organizations Case studies and trends of computer-based knowledge management
in different types of organizations: commercial, educational,
informally organized (e.g. Web communities)
Project Presentations, Final Documentation Chris Brigham Joshua Hudson