The processes of generating innovative solutions mostly rely on skilled experts who are usually unavailable and their outcomes have uncertainty. Computer science and information technology are changing the innovation environment and accumulating Big Data from which a lot of knowledge is to be...

This paper reports a basic assessment of the usage of a knowledge repository called "XYZ Knowledge Repository", maintained by a company PQR for its client XYZ. Subsequently, a data mining method for finding sequential patterns in the web usage of the users was used. This captures the level of...

From 1978 to 2004, China's GDP growth rate has been 9.4% annually. In 2005, China's GDP growth rate was 9.9%, which at $2,278 billion currently is ranked number four in the world. This paper discusses the significance of transforming research findings in data mining and knowledge management...

Knowledge management is a newly emerging, interdisciplinary business model dealing with all aspects of knowledge within the context of the firm, including knowledge creation, codification, sharing, and how these activities promote learning and innovation. In practice, knowledge management...

This paper proposes the use of an integrated information retrieval framework (IIRF) to facilitate the collection of critical information of a manufacturer’s supply network. It explores the requirements for a sustainable survival of manufacturers by aligning information among the entities...

Oil and gas industries archive volumes of heterogeneous data. These companies, by virtue of their diverse operations, comprise of complicated organizational structure. The nature of organizational set-up with several operational units, often results with communication barriers among operational...

The wide range of contributing factors and circumstances surrounding crashes on road curves suggest that no single intervention can prevent these crashes. This paper presents a novel methodology, based on data mining techniques, to identify contributing factors and the relationship between them....

In this paper, we report on the development of a short screening tool that deputies in the Los Angeles Sheriff's Department could use in the field to help forecast domestic violence incidents in particular households. The data come from over 500 households to which sheriff's deputies were...

The ability of farmers to acquire knowledge to make decisions is limited by the information quality and applicability. An inconsistency in information delivery and standards for the integration of information also limits the decision making process. Knowledge Discovery in Databases (KDD)...

Among the vast amounts of personal information published on the World Wide Web (“Web”) and indexed by search engines are lists of names of people. Examples include employees at companies, students enrolled in universities, officers in the military, law enforcement personnel, members of...