Knowledge Management for Informally Structured Domains: Challenges and Proposals

Abstract

Eliciting requirements of products or solutions in informally structured domains is a highly creative and complex activity due to the inherent characteristics of these domains, such as the great quantities of tacit knowledge used by domain specialists, the dynamic interaction between domain specialists and their environment in order to solve problems, the necessity of these solutions of products to be developed by teams of specialists and the asymmetry of knowledge between domain specialists and requirements engineers. The knowledge management discipline promotes an integrated approach in order to face these challenges; therefore, a strategy for addressing requirements elicitation that incorporates techniques and methods of this discipline has been proposed as a serious approach to deal with those challenges. The valuable results of the application of the strategy in real cases prove empirical insights about its utility.

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“…Such domains are included in what is referred to in [1] as Informal Structure Domains (ISD). The situation to be presented in Section 4 fits the definition of an ISD.…”

“…Therefore, domain knowledge is key to establishing the requirements for the development of these nowadays apps. This is most relevant when the construction of an intelligent solution is linked to an Informal Structured Domains (ISD) [1].…”

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“…Este conocimiento se puede clasificar en explícito, es decir, estructurado y bien definido, y tácito, mayormente informal y no estructurado [4] . De la misma manera, los dominios (áreas del conocimiento), de acuerdo con la cantidad de conocimiento tácito y explícito que contengan, se pueden clasificar en dominios formales y dominios de estructura informal (Informally Structured Domains, ISD) [6] .…”