An Approach to Bootstrapping Knowledge Management Process in Engineering Projects
Yoshikiyo Kato, Koichi Hori · 2003
This paper presents the knowledge recycling framework for bootstrapping evolutionary knowledge management process in development of complex systems. The framework tackles the capture bottleneck problem by utilizing the large amount of information produced during development process of large complex systems. The hypothesis is that knowledge fragments, which are information that reflects knowledge of developers, are embedded in such pile of information. To illustrate the e#ectiveness of the framework, we describe the case of Mars Climate Orbiter in which available information was not fully utilized. A prototype system IDIMS which serves as a platform to enable the knowledge recycling framework is described through two kinds of knowledge fragments, and possible application of IDIMS to the case of the Mars Climate Orbiter is discussed.