Situating Knowledge Management on the Interpretation Continuum

Bringing Knowledge to Business Processes

Volume

Papers from the 2000 AAAI Spring Symposium

Contents

Knowledge Management (KM) is an emerging discipline which seeks to assemble, codify, and manage a repository of human knowledge specific to an organization. KM necessarily involves organizational science and structure (sociology, industrial psychology and engineering), management strategies and practices (business management, business process re/engineering, economics, decision science), and information technologies (including knowledge representation and knowledge engineering). This paper attempts to situate the notion of knowledge management on the interpretation continuum, by gauging knowledge as "interpretation."