Active Knowledge Modeling of Enterprises

✍ Scribed by Frank Lillehagen, John Krogstie (auth.)

• Publisher: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg
• Year: 2008
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 447
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Enterprise Modeling has been defined as the art of externalizing enterprise knowledge, i.e., representing the core knowledge of the enterprise. Although useful in product design and systems development, for modeling and model-based approaches to have a more profound effect, a shift in modeling approaches and methodologies is necessary. Modeling should become as natural as drawing, sketching and scribbling, and should provide powerful services for capturing work-centric, work-supporting and generative knowledge, for preserving context and ensuring reuse. A solution is the application of Active Knowledge Modeling (AKM).

The AKM technology is about discovering, externalizing, expressing, representing, sharing, exploring, configuring, activating, growing and managing enterprise knowledge. An AKM solution is about exploiting the Web as a knowledge engineering medium, and developing knowledge-model-based families of platforms, model-configured workplaces and services.

This book was written by the inventors of AKM arising out of their cooperation with both scientists and industrial practitioners over a long period of time, and the authors give examples, directions, methods and services to enable new ways of working, exploiting the AKM approach to enable effective c-business, enterprise design and development, and lifecycle management. Industry managers and design engineers will become aware of the manifold possibilities of, and added values in, IT-supported distributed design processes, and researchers for collaborative design environments will find lots of stimulation and many examples for future developments.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-xx
What is Active Knowledge Modeling Technology?....Pages 1-25
Customer Challenges and Demands....Pages 27-64
Industrial Evolutions....Pages 65-90
State of the Art of Enterprise Modeling....Pages 91-127
Enterprise Knowledge Architecture (EKA)....Pages 129-151
Approaches to Enterprise Solutions....Pages 153-192
Introducing Active Knowledge Modeling in Industry....Pages 193-226
Families of Platforms and Architectures....Pages 227-257
Enterprise Design and Development....Pages 259-300
Realizing the Knowledge Economy....Pages 301-331
Toward Enterprise Visual Scenes....Pages 333-358
Scientific Foundations of AKM Technology....Pages 359-386
Enterprise Knowledge Spaces....Pages 387-398
Summary and Directions....Pages 399-410
Back Matter....Pages 411-436

✦ Subjects

Software Engineering; Business Information Systems; Information Systems Applications (incl.Internet); Management of Computing and Information Systems