Knowledge acquisition is a frequent bottleneck in business intelligent systems, and knowledge extraction from trained artificial neural networks (ANNs) provides an excellent way for explaining the functioning of a business connectionist system. This is important for ANNs to gain a wider degree...

Ontologies are essential for a semantic integration of knowledge components which can be seen as superior pieces of intellectual capital. Knowledge structures connect individual or group knowledge elements from organizational knowledge bases that have been developed independently. This can aid...

The economic performance of states depends on the quality of their educational systems, and human capital is the most efficient production factor, expressed through the knowledge, competences, creative abilities and moral traits of the members of society. In educational and training systems,...

The Knowledge Age is in fact much more than a frivol assumption. A simple proof is related to the actual treatment of information. As data creation, production, storage and availability have increased, one's ability to make sense out of that data has obviously decreased. So there is a potential...