This project presents an investigation into the viability of alternative knowl-
edge acquisition strategies in knowledge management systems. The goal of this
project is to illustrate that alternative means of knowledge acquisition can have
a significant effect on the quality of the knowledge base. To accomplish this
a modification of a wiki system, dubbed Prometheus, is proposed that uses a
threshold based user vote acquisition mechanism.
A simulation approach is used to compare a model of the Prometheus system
against a model of a standard wiki system. A simulation framework is described
that facilitates comparison between models of knowledge systems. The simu-
lation framework is used to compare the knowledge systems in three different
scenarios in an attempt to determine the conditions in which the Prometheus
system may produce a higher quality knowledge base. The results of these ex-
periments are presented along with some discussion and areas for future work.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:LACETR/oai:collectionscanada.gc.ca:OGU.10214/3672 |
| Date | 18 May 2012 |
| Creators | Doan, Adam |
| Contributors | Wineberg, Mark |
| Source Sets | Library and Archives Canada ETDs Repository / Centre d'archives des thèses électroniques de Bibliothèque et Archives Canada |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Thesis |
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