Search for dissertations about: "Knowledge Acquisition"
Showing result 21 - 25 of 238 swedish dissertations containing the words Knowledge Acquisition.
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21. Knowledge acquisition and refinement for a domain-specific expert system
Abstract : Tools for developing expert systems (knowledge-based systems) exist and are being used increasingly. However, many such tools have poor support for knowledge base management. Three aspects are essential in the development of knowledge base management tools, namely knowledge representation, knowledge acquisition and knowledge refinement. READ MORE
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22. The Usefulness of Network Experiential Knowledge in the Internationalization Process
Abstract : This thesis focuses on knowledge as one of the most critical competitive factors and the capability of the internationalizing firm. It contributes to internationalization research by connecting the view of embedded networks as knowledge generators to the view of experiential knowledge acquisition in the internationalization process of firms. READ MORE
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23. Growth through Internationalization : A Knowledge Perspective on SMEs
Abstract : Drawing on Penrose’s theory of the growth of the firm, the international business literature, the literature on the knowledge-based view, organizational learning, and absorptive capacity, this dissertation addresses four research questions: 1) What are the effects of downstream international activities (sales and marketing completed abroad) and upstream international activities (purchasing, production, and R&D completed abroad) on the acquisition of market knowledge and technological knowledge? 2) What is the role of prior knowledge in these relationships? 3) What are the effects of the newly acquired knowledge on different growth outcomes? 4) What is the role of processes of knowledge transformation and exploitation in these relationships?Addressing these issues has practical relevance for the development of small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). On the one hand, international expansion might provide small and medium-sized firms with additional knowledge, enriching their limited resource base. READ MORE
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24. Towards Better Representation Learning in the Absence of Sufficient Supervision
Abstract : We focus on the problem of learning representations from data in the situation where we do not have access to sufficient supervision such as labels or feature values. This situation can be present in many real-world machine learning tasks. We approach this problem from different perspectives summarized as follows. READ MORE
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25. Reading acquisition in pupils with visual impairments in mainstream education
Abstract : This thesis is based on five empirical studies of pupils with visual impairments, their reading ability and processes of reading acquisition within the framework of mainstream education in comprehensive schools. The aim of the thesis is to increase our understanding and knowledge of reading acquisition in pupils with visual impairments in mainstream education. READ MORE
