Multifunctional Knowledge Research Articles

Implementable Factors for Sustainable Agricultural Policy in Metro City

Conservation of agricultural land for food sovereignty is one of the SDGs' agenda. In Indonesia, this objective is stated in the Sustainable Food Agricultural Land (LP2B) policy outlined in Law No. 41/2009, which followed by regulations below to the level of the Regional Regulation. In the Metro City, this is stated in Regional Regulation No. 21/2016 to be the basis for a policy of protection of 1,567.5 hectares of paddy fields. This regulation aims to support food sovereignty and maintain the ecological balance of the environment. The problem arises because the paddy fields designated by LP2B are private land so that not all owners are willing to implement this policy. This study aims to analyze the factors that affect the level of willingness of landowners with a quantitative approach by analyzing land data with multiple linear regression analysis techniques. A sample of 513 parcels was taken from the Farmers Owning Farmers population of 6,060 HHs based on Agricultural Survey data, BPS Lampung 2018. In general, from the results of the analysis, the highest coefficient on object characteristics was variable land productivity while the characteristics of subjects were multifunctional knowledge of paddy fields.

Методологические аспекты перехода к новой организации образовательного процесса

In this paper we explained the selection of methodological foundations of transition to a new educational process organization based on the understanding of the post-non-classical methodology features of pedagogical research. They do not lead to the elimination of methods and cognitive attitudes of classical and non-classical research methodology, but more clearly define their scope. The selected methodological foundations determined the direction of the scientific search for a solution to the problem as follows: understanding the goals of modern education as contributing to the formation of identity (personal and professional) of a person at different stages of his/her life, considering the growing uncertainty of the modern world, which implies focus on the formation of universal human competences; understanding competence as a multifunctional knowledge “pack”, abilities (skills) and relationships that each person needs for a full personal life and professional activity; recognition of multivariance as an essential feature of modern educational process. We found that the new educational process design reflects the emerging trend of the “anthropological transition” in science, which is associated with the emergence of free access to knowledge and responsible attitude to the knowledge application. It is shown that the content design of university educational (and training) programs should be oriented toward the independent design of personalized learning by a student. This idea involves the appeal to personal experiences of teachers and students as a core of educational content affecting all its components by designing an individual student model of educational content expressed in the formed individual set of key competencies of a particular student. We established that the proposed approach to the design of the new educational process is founded on the content design based on the ideas of humanitarian design, determining the probabilistic nature of dynamic learning models design. The term “probabilistic” reflects the uncertainty of pedagogical systems, the dependence of ongoing pedagogical processes on a specific context, and the term “dynamic modeling” is understood as planning (selection) of active teaching methods allowing students to be creatively involved in the educative process.

The Integration of Financial and Economic Disciplines in the Educational Process of Vocational Education

Introduction One of the major vectors of solving pedagogic problems with regard to enhancing and economic of VE students is the choice of teaching methods and techniques as well as educational technologies, which in the long view provide graduates' comprehensive functional training and professional competence. Participation of all teachers, opportunities of all disciplines, their logical interrelation, interpenetration, mutual influence by content, forms and methods of teaching to-be specialists are necessary to build up and develop the intellectual potential of students [5]. A detail analysis of the effective ways of educational process quality improvement in a vocational education institution among state-of-the-art technologies allowed bringing integration, which is designed to form educatees' multifunctional knowledge known for mobility and flexibility, to the forefront. By means of knowledge of the said properties the middle-level specialist will be able to solve ever-occurring and ever-changing new professional tasks at a fairly high level. In this case the basis of knowledge becomes more expansive and allows considering the reached and economic level of the VE graduate at the level of the high-level specialist. The Bondar's experience on the basis of Armavir Legal College is known in the field of the integration of social disciplines and humanities. It allowed authors to conclude that an integration process in teaching is one of the main factors of qualitative development of teaching and educational process [2] when training to-be specialists. Let's consider the notion of integration in the context of vocational education. In this case integration is understood as a process and result of the unification, interrelation, and mutual influence of various components of education content in a unified didactic system corresponding to the integral essence of the student's personality. The general development trend of the modern economic education in the area under study and authors' personal experience helped to distinguish the notion of financial and economic literacy as a core factor of the and economic knowledge integration. This notion unifies different content of economic disciplines, forms students' personal qualities, exercises a developmental function, and forms their general in the professional field [1]. Studying the gained experience of teaching and economic disciplines of Nizhny Novgorod Automotive College allows the authors to conclude that integrative teaching economic disciplines has a specific place in the area of vocational education. The Rationale Recently in the course of the realization of vocational education standards in teaching and educational process when teaching and economic disciplines specific changes have taken place. These changes are caused by the revision of education content, the rethinking of many economic events and phenomena that need to be reflected in training theory and practice, new technologies in the educational process [4]. As a result, integrative technologies and task-oriented teaching widely used in the majority of educational institutions have earned approval and active introduction. The integration of academic subjects will ultimately lead to the more concerned, personally significant, and conscious perception of knowledge what will enhance the student's motivation, allow using study time by a teacher in a more efficient and quality manner at the expense of excluding the doubling and repeating of information units unavoidable when studying potentially integratable material without including the previously learned in the system. The systematic and organic backing of notions and skills on a new subject material can lead to the formation of students' abilities and wish to use previous knowledge, to the increase of their quality in the future. …

The Importance of CAD and Knowledge Management in Concurrent Engineering Project Performance

As a complex method for manufacturing and development, concurrent engineering has been studied and implemented extensively in the manufacturing industry to speed up production schedules and to reduce costs. One of the tools used in concurrent engineering is computer-aided design or CAD in short. CAD applications in multifunctional knowledge distribution refer to the use of CAD to provide information to different groups of employees in their organisation to sustain new product development activities. Similarly, the move towards knowledge-based competition amplifies the importance of bridging actions in addition to tactical coalitions where key role of institutional knowledge, system improvement and knowledge sharing are focussed on. However, very few studies have been conducted on the use of CAD and knowledge management in influencing concurrent engineering project performance in Malaysian manufacturing firms. Hence, this study focusses on determining the nature of the relationship between CAD use and knowledge management with concurrent engineering project performance in a Malaysian manufacturing firm. A survey was conducted within the firm, yielding a total of 226 usable responses that were then analysed using SPSS. The findings indicate that there is a significant positive relationship between CAD use and knowledge management and concurrent engineering project performance. In addition, CAD use for cross-functional information sharing together with the three knowledge management processes — internalisation, combination and externalisation can explain 55.3% of the variance in concurrent engineering project performance. An interesting finding of this study based on the multiple regression analysis conducted is that the use of CAD for engineering design and socialisation are not significant in influencing concurrent engineering project performance. In practice, this finding is relevant because when coupled with CAD use, knowledge management approaches that are more externalisation, combination and internalisation-orientated are often practiced if compared to socialisation-orientated activities.

A task-member assignment model for complex engineering projects

Complex projects with large number of tasks usually require expertise from various functional departments. While the use of teams has become a common way in industry, the assignment of people to teams and tasks is an important step during the planning stage of a project. If a project does not have effective teams to work on it, the lack of communication and cooperation among team members could seriously delay the project completion. The objective of this paper is to develop a task-member assignment model for complex projects using genetic algorithm (GA). Three important team member characteristics (i.e. multifunctional knowledge, teamwork capabilities and working relationship) with quantifiable measures and each member’s workload schedule are used in the model for task-member assignments, so that the right team member will be selected for the right task at the right time. The effectiveness of the research model is demonstrated by a 27- task engineering project.

Review of Evaluation System for Clinical Trial in TCM

Abstract This paper analyzes the present situation of the assessment research on traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) clinical trial; estimates the features of the currently established evaluation system; commentates the characteristics and deficiencies of the evaluation index, the hierarchical structure, and the weight establishment; in the hope that multi-functional information platform, knowledge base, and TCM clinical trial evaluation system will promote each other.

Modeling Team Member Characteristics for the Formation of a Multifunctional Team in Concurrent Engineering

In concurrent engineering, project tasks generally involve the establishment of multifunctional design teams in order to simultaneously consider various activities throughout the entire product life cycle. Team members from different functional departments of the company interact in every phase of development tasks to design the products and processes concurrently. To ensure a successful multifunctional team, it is important to understand the characteristics of team members. Three fundamental descriptors of team members are developed in this research. The first is to represent the multifunctional knowledge of team members due to the need of concurrent engineering. Second, to build a successful project team, teamwork capability of team members is needed by taking their experience, communication skills, and flexibility in job assignment into account. Multifunctional knowledge and teamwork capability ratings are captured from each member using analytic hierarchy process. Third, since the team members work closely, their collegiality directly affects team performance, regardless of their knowledge. Thus, the working relationship model is developed to provide such a metric. Personality profiling using Myers-Briggs type indicator serves as the basis of assessing each team member's abilities to work with others. Finally, we complete this paper by providing a step-by-step procedure with an example for selecting the best multifunctional team using the three ratings. This research helps establish an efficient multifunctional team because every team member will be capable of communicating to each other within the team due to their multifunctional knowledge, teamwork skills, as well as an established good working relationship.

A multi-functional knowledge based system to learn, apply and consult procedures

One of the main challenges facing systems developers is to design systems with the flexibility and adaptability required to satisfy a professional user's needs. This paper presents a novel architecture and a knowledge representation scheme for a multi-functional adaptive system that support professional engineers that work with established procedures. The system achieves its multi-functionality by using a single knowledge representation scheme based on a set of modular networks. The developed representation is exploited by three operators that enable a user to learn, consult different procedures and solve problems. The representation also facilitates the automatic generation of problems and the identification of user errors. The integration of functionalities through a single representation produces a synergy that results in extra-functionality, flexibility and reduces the amount of development effort required. The system adapts to a user by using simple but efficient user modelling techniques that tailor the tutoring information. A rule-based mechanism is used to propose an agenda and a novel rule simplification algorithm is developed to help an expert to develop the rules for proposing the agenda. A prototype was developed and three civil engineering procedures were implemented to evaluate the architecture through scenarios and an empirical evaluation with real engineers.

A multi-functional knowledge management system

We describe a general purpose knowledge management system, discussing its general goals and features, as well as its use in several very different applications. By "multi-functional", we mean having a wide variety of knowledge management functions such as debugging, formatting, and retrieval, and a wide variety of possible applications. The system, called CODE, functions primarily as a "knowledge engineer's rapid prototyper", or as a "spreadsheet for ideas"; one can experiment rapidly with relationships between concepts and obtain quick feedback on the desirability of changes and additions to a knowledge base. CODE's highly graphic interface permits experimentation with descriptions or definitions of concepts, which are arranged in an inheritance network using a very flexible inheritance mechanism. Several associated subsystems, such as a first order logic system and a simple natural language system, allow various types of syntactic and semantic checks to be performed if desired. We illustrate CODE's flexibility by describing three typical applications: in software engineering, terminology, and ontological design for knowledge-based systems.

Developing a tool for knowledge integration: initial results

Knowledge integration is the task of incorporating new information into existing knowledge. The task is difficult because the consequences of an addition to an extensive knowledge base can be numerous and subtle. Current methods for automated knowledge acquisition largely ignore this task, although it is increasingly important with the move toward large scale, multifunctional knowledge bases. To study knowledge integration, we propose to develop and evaluate a knowledge-acquisition tool that helps with extending a knowledge base through interaction with a knowledge engineer. An initial prototype of this tool has been implemented and demonstrated on a complex extension to a large knowledge base.