Paper Info
Title
Knowledge warehouse: an architectural integration of knowledge management, decision support, artificial intelligence and data warehousing
Abstract
Decision support systems (DSS) are becoming increasingly more critical to the daily operation of organizations. Data warehousing, an integral part of this, provides an infrastructure that enables businesses to extract, cleanse, and store vast amounts of data. The basic purpose of a data warehouse is to empower the knowledge workers with information that allows them to make decisions based on a solid foundation of fact. However, only a fraction of the needed information exists on computers; the vast majority of a firm's intellectual assets exist as knowledge in the minds of its employees. What is needed is a new generation of knowledge-enabled systems that provides the infrastructure needed to capture, cleanse, store, organize, leverage, and disseminate not only data and information but also the knowledge of the firm. The purpose of this paper is to propose, as an extension to the data warehouse model, a knowledge warehouse (KW) architecture that will not only facilitate the capturing and coding of knowledge but also enhance the retrieval and sharing of knowledge across the organization. The knowledge warehouse proposed here suggests a different direction for DSS in the next decade. This new direction is based on an expanded purpose of DSS. That is, the purpose of DSS in knowledge improvement. This expanded purpose of DSS also suggests that the effectiveness of a DSS will, in the future, be measured based on how well it promotes and enhances knowledge, how well it improves the mental model(s) and understanding of the decision maker(s) and thereby how well it improves his/her decision making.
Year
DOI
Venue
2002
10.1016/S0167-9236(01)00141-5
Decision Support Systems
Keywords
Field
DocType
model analysis,knowledge worker,data warehouse model,data mining,decision support system,architectural integration,knowledge warehouse,intelligent analysis,decision support systems,data warehousing,knowledge management,expanded purpose,decision maker,knowledge improvement,data warehouse,artificial intelligence,basic purpose,decision support,artificial intelligent,intelligence analysis
Data warehouse,Data mining,Architecture,Intelligent decision support system,Personal knowledge management,Computer science,Decision support system,Knowledge management,Knowledge value chain,Dissemination,Knowledge extraction
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
33
2
Decision Support Systems
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
100
4.37
29
Authors
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Hamid R. Nemati11107.60
David M. Steiger215310.47
Lakshmi S. Iyer330730.08
Richard T. Herschel416610.16