mp30it1

**1. Introduction**
This course offers students a systematic approach to knowledge management and is shaped with respect to current projects - it is indeed a course preparing projects.

The course starts with a review of issues regarding knowledge management in total. The integrated approach on knowledge management according to Ashok Jashapara and others gives the guidelines here.

Then selected models for knowledge representation are discussed. The selection depends on the projects the students are heading for. We focus on concepts like:


 * Semantic Networks
 * Topic Maps
 * Logic based Approaches

Then tools to support such concepts are introduced and applied for case studies.

**2. Course structure**

 * 1. Knowledge Management**

1.1 Introduction 1.2 Strategic Knowledge Management in Organizations and Projects 1.3 Fields for Knowledge Management


 * 2. Knowledge Representation**

2.1 Concepts for Knowledge Representation 2.2 Semantic Networks 2.3 Logic based Approaches


 * 3. Methods and Tools For Knowledge Representation**

3.1 Introduction 3.2 Tools for Semantic Networks, Topic Maps, etc. 3.3 Tools for Logic Based Approaches: PROLOG, PROLOGA, Decision Tables, etc.

3. Case studies
Selected methods and tools will be applied in case studies related to project management.

4. Parameters
ECTS: 6 Hours of study in total:180 Weekly hours per semester: 4 Course characteristics: elective Course frequency: every year - winter semester Maximal capacity: 10 students Course admittance prerequisites: Courses of the first two semesters and additional IT competences Skills trained in this course: professional, methodological, and personal skills Assessment of the course: Teaching staff: Prof. Dr. Peter Reusch
 * Contact hours: 60
 * Self study hours: 120
 * 75% contributions within the course (homework, group work, presentations, case studies)
 * 25% written or oral examination at the end of the course

5. Learning outcomes

 * 5.1 Knowledge**

The students can


 * explain core issues of knowledge management
 * explain and compare models for knowledge representation
 * explain concepts of ontologies and taxonomies
 * explain semantic networks
 * explain logic based concepts (PROLOGA, decision tables, ... )


 * 5.2 Skills**

The students are able to


 * apply knowledge management tools
 * develop models for knowledge representation
 * implement knowledge based systems

in a given context in the course.


 * 5.3 Competence - attitude**

They are able to


 * develop models for knowledge representation
 * implement knowledge based systems

in a new context / project.


 * 5.4 On scaling outcomes**


 * Analysis - assessed according to complexity and completeness
 * Models – assessed according to correctness, complexity and completeness
 * Tools - appropriate application, correctness, complexity and completeness of results

=6. Teaching and training methods:=


 * Lectures introducing concepts, methods and tools
 * Group work to train concepts and methods, to develop skills and to work on case studies
 * Home work to add individual contributions
 * Presentations to communicate results

=7. Course mapping=

All courses of the first 2 semesters contribute to this course. There is a strong link to information and knowledge management.

MP16 gives an introduction - the role of information and knowledge management in projects is discussed. MP30it1 goes much deeper into concepts, methods and tools - and prepares a project.
 * MP16: Information and Knowledge Management:**

=8. References:=

[|Knowledge Management at Open Directory Project] [|Introduction to Knowledge Management] [|Knowledge Management - Emerging Perspectives] [|John Sowa: Semantic Networks] [|Tao of Topic Maps] [|Ontopia Omnigator] Sowa, John: Knowledge Representation: Logical, Philosophical and Computational Foundations, Thomson Learning 1999, ISBN 0534949657. Kern, Isabelle: The Suitability of Topic Maps Tools for Knowledge Creation with Stakeholders, Haupt Verlag 2009, ISBN 3258075158. Yi, Myongho: Topic Maps-based Ontology and Semantic Web, Vdm Verlag Dr. Müller März 2008, ISBN 9783836435192. Jashapara, Ashok: Knowledge Management, An Integrated Approach, Pearson 2004, ISNB 0273682989.