Back to General Framework Theory
Posted: January 8, 2005
The Functional KM Framework is being
used to evaluated ontology mediated knowledge management systems (Saturday,
January 08, 2005)
Figure 1: The
Functional KM Framework
The framework is created by
taking the descriptive enumeration of the questions:
{ what,
how, where, who, when, why },
and “forming a cross product”
with the descriptive enumeration of roles
{ Organizational
Management, Task Management, Risk Management,
Request Management,
Issue Management, Document Management, Knowledge Management} [1].
The measurement output from the Functional
KM Framework has the form of a 42 tuple:
< a(0), a(1), a(2), . . . , a(42) >
where the value of a(0) is set by a pre-process that categorizes the
event that the framework will be used to characterize.
When any of these frameworks are used, one produces a n-tuple where
each element may have a complex form.
By complex form we mean a two level construction having type as one
level, of description, and value as the other level of description. This stratified construction follows the
notion that structure and function exists at two different levels of
organization. The function is
determined by classes of regularities at the level in which emergence is
occurring. Structure is of those
regularities that compose into the thing emerged.
In dynamic complex sets we extend the notion of type to a class and the
notion of value to object.
Note that (type:value) extends to (class:object) when the definition of
class becomes dynamic. In very static
situations the type is fixed and there are no reasons to have an evolution of
the notion of type. However, in dynamic
situations, such as when one does not have sufficient information about
possible types and the profile of types are not precisely understood, then one
needs to have this dynamic evolution of the complex data set.
Using frameworks, the type is derived from the semantic primitive’s
definition. The user, or some other
means, supplies the value. The
framework offers to the human, or algorithmic process, a theory of semantic
primitive. The user, or algorithm, then
supplies specific information into some, but often not all, cells of the
framework thus building a classification profile based on the primitives.
This work suggests the use of the two-level taxonomy as a means to
provide classification profiles.