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What is Knowledge Retrieval

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Handbook of Research on Social Dimensions of Semantic Technologies and Web Services
is a process of returning (delivering) information in a structured form, consistent with human cognitive processes as opposed to simple lists of data items. Knowledge capture and recycling (Retrieval) is very important is today’s organizations, improves the conditions for training/tutoring young technical staff and engineers and is a key point on organization development and evolution.
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KC-PLM: Knowledge Collaborative Product Lifecycle Management
João Carlos Amaro Ferreira (ISEL – Instituto Superior de Engenharia de Lisboa, Portugal and GuIAA – Grupo de Investigação em Ambientes Autónomos, Portugal)
Copyright: © 2009 |Pages: 15
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-60566-650-1.ch043
Abstract
This chapter defines a system and a methodology, the Knowledge Collaborative Product Lifecycle Management (KC-PLM) to better support the complete product lifecycle in the industry. The KC-PLM system intends to reduce the lead-time from new product development to production by providing and integrating knowledge platform, based on a semantic information repository, domain ontology, a domain specific language and on the user collaboration. These characteristics differentiate the KC-PLM system from others PLM systems, because it supports an intelligent rules engine, to extrapolate and make inference with historical solutions that allow the generation of new solutions. A real case study in automobile business shows the current proposal application and its benefits in a product concept phase.
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