It is very important to work with data, information and knowledge correctly, when a decision model is used as a support … indentifying these terms. The objective of the paper is to identify data, information and knowledge in decision-making process … objective, we need to provide appropriate definitions of data, information and knowledge as well as the specific algorithms of …

In order for an organization to harness the most out of its knowledge fluxes, informational stocks and data bases it … transform gradually their databases and information stocks into competitive knowledge. Organizational knowledge has different … must focus its interest specifically in those areas. Within this paper we point out the idea that understanding knowledge …

(DOE 1996). New operating rules and management goals for GCD that had been specified in the Record of Decision (ROD … occur. The Generation and Transmission Maximization (GTMax) model was the main simulation tool used to dispatch GCD and … other hydropower plants that comprise the Salt Lake City Area Integrated Projects (SLCA/IP). Extensive data sets and …

In the energy arena, the greatest data needs concern the costs and performance of demand-side management (DSM) programs … utilities, and energy-efficiency and load-management programs, the need will increase for comprehensive and accurate information … make to resolving national energy problems because comprehensive and accurate data on such programs do not exist. As …

useful to senior management. This system was developed for a multifunction research organization funded from many sources. It … extracts cost and manpower data from the general cost systems, summarizes it, compares it by program with previous cost periods … effort at the source, that is, the division time-card input. Cost data are taken from the central computer ahead of the print …

limited primarily by the absence of reliable end-use data. In this report we analyze recent end-use metered data collected by …

with analyses conducted as part of the Western Area Power Administration Energy Planning and Management Program … to identify sources and costs of auxiliary power. Secondary information sources were used predominantly to compile one … year of system related information on the Western customers (over 600) included in the database. This information was …